Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
27-06-2017
No, NASA Hasn't Found Alien Life
No, NASA Hasn't Found Alien Life
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Recent studies suggest that the ocean that's sloshing beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus, seen here in a photo by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, may be a potentially habitable environment.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
NASA is not preparing to drop an alien-life bombshell, despite what you may have heard.
Last week, the hacking group Anonymous posted a video on YouTube suggesting that the space agency is about to announce the discovery of life beyond Earth. The video has made a big splash online — so big that NASA science chief Thomas Zurbuchen addressed the rumor today (June 26).
"Contrary to some reports, there's no pending announcement from NASA regarding extraterrestrial life," Zurbuchen said via Twitter, where he posts as @Dr_ThomasZ.
"Are we alone in the universe? While we do not know yet, we have missions moving forward that may help answer that fundamental question," he added in another tweet today.
Anonymous' video focuses not on hacked documents but rather on testimony Zurbuchen gave back in April during a hearing of the House of Representatives' Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. (The 12-minute video also touches on some other topics, including the seven Earth-size planets circling the star TRAPPIST-1 and several supposed UFO sightings.)
During the April 26 hearing, which was called "Advances in the Search for Life," Zurbuchen laid out the progress NASA has been making in the hunt for life in the cosmos. He cited, among other things, the thousands of exoplanets spotted by the agency's Kepler space telescope, the recent discovery of hydrogen in the geysers blasting from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus, and the possible detection of water-vapor plumes emanating from the Jovian satellite Europa.
"Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are specifically searching for evidence of alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history," Zurbuchen said during the hearing.
Anonymous: NASA Is About to Announce the Discovery of Intelligent Alien Life
In the recent video, Anonymous takes the second half of this sentence and runs with it.
"NASA: 'Mankind is about to discover extraterrestrial life,'" an Anonymous spokesman wearing the group's famous Guy Fawkes mask intones, with a digitally altered voice, at the beginning of the video.
This interpretation isn't strictly wrong. But "on the verge" is a far cry from "has found evidence," and anyone expecting an Earth-shattering announcement from NASA in the next few weeks or months is bound to be disappointed.
The south pole of Jupiter is seen from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers) in this enhanced color mosaic of images from NASA's JunoCam. Cyclones up to 600 miles wide (1,000 km) are visible.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles SCOTT BOLTON - 3
Juno gets a first look at Jupiter's marvelous poles, the world's largest (current) aircraft goes for a spin, Earth science loses on the proposed NASA budget and two astronauts perform an urgent spacewalk — it's Space.com's top news stories of the week.
Jupiter whirls
The first science results from NASA's Juno probe reveal huge cyclones raging near Jupiter's north and south poles and the workings of is spectacular auroras. Juno is the first spacecraft to get a close look the planet's beautiful and bizarre poles. [Full Story: Mysteries at Jupiter: NASA's Juno Probe Reveals Cyclones, Auroras & Surprises]
Astronauts kept freeze-dried mouse sperm on the International Space Station for nine months — and when brought back to Earth it gave rise to healthy pups. [Full Story: Freeze-Dried Space Sperm Gives Rise to Healthy Baby Mice]
After a computer relay box malfunctioned, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer went out for a quickly-planned spacewalk to replace the failed part. (Don't worry, a backup took over in the meantime.) Whitson built the replacement from spare parts aboard the International Space Station. [Full Story: Astronauts Restore Space Station to Full Health in Quick Repair Spacewalk]
Clash of the dwarfs
New research suggests that most of the Milky Way's antimatter could come from the collision of two special kinds of white dwarfs — the Earth-size cores of dead stars. [Full Story: Supernova Face-Off May Solve 40-Year-Old Antimatter Mystery]
Mammoth flier success
A massive blimp-like aircraft called the Airlander 10 successfully flew for 180 minutes and landed, testing its improved landing technology and handling. It's the third test flight for the world's largest aircraft currently flying, which is designed to stay in the air for up to 5 days at a time with people on board. [World's Largest Aircraft Completes Successful Test Flight]
Earth science nix
The White House's official 2018 budget request curtails five NASA Earth-science missions, including the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem satellite; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 experiment; the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Pathfinder; the Earth-viewing instruments aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft and, now, the Radiation Budget Experiment. [Full Story: Trump's 2018 Budget Request Axes 5 NASA Earth-Science Missions]
The Cassini spacecraft has seen Saturn through the seasons as the planet has orbited the sun, watching its dramatic changes. Now, it's finally the planet's solstice and the end of the spacecraft's second extended mission — just in time for its Sept. 15 Grand Finale dive into the planet's atmosphere. [Full Story: Saturn Solstice: Cassini Gets 'Ringside Seat' to Dramatic Seasonal Changes]
Listening in
The world's most sensitive dark matter detector, XENON1T, has gone online deep beneath a mountain in Italy, completing a 30-day science run hunting for the minuscule fireworks that could be caused by a certain type of dark matter ramming into a xenon atom inside the detector. [Full Story: The World's Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Is Now Up and Running]
It's a Phantom
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Boeing to build the U.S. military's new XS-1 space plane. The plane, called the Phantom Express, is designed to launch to the edge of space to deploy a second stage rocket, which would deposit a satellite in orbit. [Full Story: US Military's XS-1 Space Plane Will Be Built by Boeing (Video)]
Is ons universum een reusachtig bewust wezen? Deze natuurkundige komt met een bizarre, spraakmakende theorie
Is ons universum een reusachtig bewust wezen? Deze natuurkundige komt met een bizarre, spraakmakende theorie
Natuurkundige Gregory Matloff van het New York City College of Technology publiceerde onlangs een paper waarin hij stelt dat het universum mogelijk net als mensen een bewust wezen is.
Sterren zijn mogelijk denkende entiteiten die zelf hun pad bepalen. Met andere woorden: de gehele kosmos is wellicht zelfbewust.
Er is zelfs een term voor dit fenomeen: panpsychisme. Het gaat ervan uit dat de kosmos als organisme bezield is.
Nagaan
En er zijn behoorlijk wat wetenschappers die deze theorie aanhangen. Onder hen filosoof David Chalmers van de New York University, neurowetenschapper Christof Koch van het Allen Institute for Brain Science en de Britse natuurkundige Sir Roger Penrose.
Panpsychisme is te belangrijk om te negeren, aldus Matloff. “Het is allemaal heel speculatief, maar wel iets wat we kunnen nagaan en bevestigen of weerleggen.”
Sterren
In 2006 stelde de Duitse natuurkundige Bernard Haisch voor dat de kwantumvelden in de lege ruimte bewustzijn overbrengen.
En niet alleen naar een brein, maar naar iedere fysieke structuur. Gegevens van sterren lijken er volgens Matloff op te wijzen dat het universum zelfbewust is.
Kosmisch brein
“Moeten we dit niet op zijn minst onderzoeken?” vraagt hij. “Misschien kunnen we panpsychisme overplaatsen van de filosofie naar astrofysica.”
Mensen als Matloff worden vaak afgedaan als randwetenschapper, maar wat als straks inderdaad blijkt dat onze menselijke geest een piepklein onderdeel is van een veel groter kosmisch brein?
NASA staat op punt van disclosure. Hackerscollectief Anonymous weet meer en maakte deze video
NASA staat op punt van disclosure. Hackerscollectief Anonymous weet meer en maakte deze video
Hackerscollectief Anonymous heeft een video gemaakt waarin wordt gesteld dat NASA op het punt staat te onthullen dat er sprake is van contact met buitenaards leven.
In het filmpje, dat al bijna een miljoen keer is bekeken, wordt verwezen naar drie artikelen van de website Ancient Code.
Recentelijk zijn veelbelovende ontdekkingen gedaan in ons zonnestelsel. In april kondigden wetenschappers aan dat ruimtesonde Cassini waterstof had ontdekt op Saturnusmaan Enceladus.
Bewoonbare zone
Deze maand nog publiceerde het Ames Research Center van de NASA een lijst van 4034 potentiële planeten in onze Melkweg.
Er zijn meer dan 30 aardachtige planeten ontdekt die zich in de bewoonbare zone bevinden, het gebied rond een ster waarin leven mogelijk wordt geacht.
“Pas in de afgelopen decennia konden we andere werelden ontdekken,” zei voorzitter van de Amerikaanse Senaatscommissie voor wetenschap, ruimte en technologie Lamar Smith tijdens een hoorzitting op 26 april.
Fascineert
“De zoektocht naar bewijs voor buitenaards leven fascineert het Amerikaanse volk,” voegde hij toe.
In de video van Anonymous wordt de tekst voorgelezen van een artikel over die hoorzitting en wordt voorspeld dat de aankondiging over buitenaards leven aanstaande is.
De andere twee artikelen verschenen tussen januari en april dit jaar op Ancient Code, aldus de Daily Mail.
UNITED KINGDOM MOD DECLASSIFIED UFO FILES | BRITISH X-FILES
UNITED KINGDOM MOD DECLASSIFIED UFO FILES | BRITISH X-FILES
The British Government is within the method of declassifying and releasing its entire archive of unidentified flying object files. Nick Pope worked on these files, wrote several of the documents in them, and – through his many media interviews – has been the general public face of the release method. the subsequent Q&A with Nick Pope is drawn from previous interviews. It provides an summary of the release of the files and is additionally designed to be a quotable resource for journalists covering the story.
UFO and alien truth seekers are awaiting the release of eighteen MoD reports into unidentified flying object cases, after a series of hold ups in obtaining them made public via the National Archives.
But, there ar claims the reality still is not out there when 3 of them were still not released, and officials seemed to build it terribly tough for anyone to view the fifteen others.
Instead of being placed on-line as several National Archives documents currently are, the papers will be seen by creating a rendezvous with the govt archive service in London.
Or copies may be ordered for a fee on-line with many days wait before they they arrive.
Nick Pope, who worked within the department of the MoD that investigated UFOs till 2009 and currently speaks at alien-related conferences across the world, aforementioned there would be claims they'd been "snuck out"
But, he said he didn't believe there was a evidence of proof for alien life within the files as had been hoped. Those hoping the files might solve the mystery of the December 1980 Rendlesham unidentified flying object case can also be disappointed, he said.
UFO near miss with Boeing 737, Churchill and Eisenhower cover up
UFO encounter, Calvine UFO Photo Cover – Up, Berwyn Mountain UFO incident are some from the declassified UFO Files.
Whatever the case, over breadcrumbs ar expected to come back out from the most recent release of UFO files. There won’t in all probability be a right away confirmation of intelligent alien life, however a lot of dots can be part of which will provide individuals food for thought for the years to come.
Find out more from the video posted below. For more insight follow the source link below.
FOO FIGHTERS UFOS BUZZED PLANES DURING WORLD WAR II
FOO FIGHTERS UFOS BUZZED PLANES DURING WORLD WAR II
UFOs Known As Foo Fighters Seen In World War II
A long time before pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed to have seen a strange craft flying through the air in 1947 people had claimed that they had seen strange objects in the sky. There is no one that is in a better position to have seen a UFO than a pilot and when pilots during World War II reported seeing mysterious lights there was a new phenomenon born, the Foo Fighters.
RED LUMINOUS BALL SPOTTED IN SKIES OVER GERMAN BORDER
A pilot was flying at night close to the border of Germany when without any warning a luminous red ball zoomed close, but it was moving far too fast for the pilot to be able to identify what it was, never mind gives chase to it.
There have been many pilots in World War II that have seen zooming orbs high up in the sky and for a long time they thought that what they were seeing was a new weapon by the Nazis. The strange orbs very rarely varied in appearance; most were multi-colored and round, often fiery red. In mission reports, the sighting of them became close to routine.
One mission report stated that the pilot saw a red light that was brilliant in color and which traveled at about 2000 feet heading to the east at around 200 miles per hour close to Erstein. However, to artificial intelligence failure, it could not be picked up contact but managed to follow it until it went out but not getting close enough to it to be able to identify the object.
Investigations had revealed many sightings that were similar which had been made by pilots in Japan and China. This meant that the allies found themselves relieved to have not had a new weapon to have to deal with. The Foo Fighters were said to not be aggressive and they never threatened to attack and it seemed that they were almost like taunting the pilot's thanks to the superior speed along with being able to maneuver fast which allowed them to dart out of sight.
LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS, PILOTS TOLD TO KEEP QUIET
During World War II there were spies everywhere and soldiers had been told to keep quiet about their missions and plans or there would be consequences that would be dire. One poster that was commonly used at that time had the words Loose Lips Sink Ships.
It, therefore, comes as a big surprise that military censors seemed not to have an issue with the newspapers who reported about the Foo Fighters. Many of the stories said that orbs were transparent or silver in color, instead of them being balls of multi-colored light or red. The newspapers often talked about the Foo Fighters being a new weapon of the Nazis instead of being the mysterious UFOs.
FOO FIGHTERS GET NAME FROM SMOKEY STOVER COMIC
The media propagated the name Foo Fighters, with the name having originally come from inspiration from the comic Smokey Stover. In the comic strip, Smokey was a fireman, and he called fire “foo” and called himself a foo fighter. It is thought that Donald Meiers, a fan of Smokey Stover, was first credited for giving the UFOs the name of Foo Fighters. Of course, this was many years before the term UFO, unidentified flying object and flying saucer were used.
It remains a total mystery just what the Foo Fighters actually were. There has always been a pattern that is the same with sightings of UFOs. First, they are reported and recorded and then the skeptics come up with excuses as to what they are. Following this, the sightings are dismissed, with everyone believing that perhaps it was just a weather balloon. Later on, UFO sightings have been said to be explained as just swamp gas or that people have mistaken the planet, Venus, however, skeptics had other excuses when accounting for the Foo Fighters.
FOO FIGHTERS SAID TO BE ICE CRYSTALS, ST. ELMO`S FIRE AND MORE
Among the many invented explanations was something given the name of St. Elmo`s Fire. This is said to be a phenomenon with weather that usually occurs following a thunderstorm.
It did not matter that the majority of sightings of the so-called Foo Fighters took place when there were no thunderstorms. Skeptics also tried to pawn off the Foo Fighters as being nothing more than reflections from ice crystals. This is an explanation that comes with many issues with ice crystals not being able to go zooming off at 200 miles per hour. There were numerous sightings of Foo Fighters in the South Pacific, and this is a place where the chances of ice crystals forming were remote.
The Foo Fighters would also be seen on the radar on occasion and this is when they would be flying at speeds that were said to be almost impossible. Weather phenomena and ice crystals are two things that do not form on radar screens.
'NATION AT RISK' ‘Britain’s X-Files’ reveal how a UFO was spotted on RAF radar for HOURS but military were told to do nothing about it
'NATION AT RISK'‘Britain’s X-Files’ reveal how a UFO was spotted on RAF radar for HOURS but military were told to do nothing about it
Ministry of Defence UFO files reveal ALL about 1996 UFO sighting that was written off as a 'celestial phenomena'
EXCLUSIVE
By Margi Murphy
“BRITAIN’S X-Files” reveal how a UFO was spotted on military radar for seven hours – but the RAF were “overruled at the highest level” and told to do nothing about it.
An investigation into the phenomenon was only opened after several witnesses spotted a rotating UFO in the sky over the Skegness coast.
It is not clear who sent the letter to the then Defence Secretary as the Ministry of Defence have redacted their name
By then, several radars had detected the object in the early hours of 5 October 1996, over the Wash.
Police statements describing the bright lights, along with several civilian reports, were splashed across newspapers and became the subject of several TV shows at the time.
Secret UFO files reveal how the former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo appears to have been slammed by an unnamed government official over the military’s “absolute shambles” of a reaction, which they suggest could have put the nation at risk.
The Wash area where the UFO was spotted on 5 October 1996
In a letter typed on House of Commons headed paper, the then Tory minister was grilled by a government official for the lax reaction during what became one of Britain’s most mysterious UFO sightings.
It reads: “I am very concerned about an incident that occurred off the Anglian Coast recently, involving a visual unidentified flying craft sighting which was correlated by various different military radar systems.”
They add that it struck them as “incredible” that “no aircraft were scrambled when an uncorrelated target was picked up so close to the coast” and that “this raises serious issues about the way in which we police the UK’s Air Defence Region”.
They ask why RAF Coningsby, just a few miles from the Wash and who wanted to scramble aircraft were “overruled at the highest level” and why a video taken by police had “disappeared into the bowels of your ministry’s main building” – a detail certain sure to be of interest to conspiracy theorists and UFO hunters.
The letter continues: “The RAF is supposed to, or so I believed, to be keeping a watchful eye on activity in the UK, but seem to have no idea what is going on.
“Do they have standard procedure for these incidents? They had enough time to think about it, because the object was on our radar for upwards of seven hours!”
A rotating UFO with blue and red lights was spotted in the early hours of 5 October 1996 from the Skegness coast
Former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo was sent a stern letter regarding the UFO sighting
“While I am interested in finding out what was seen, my primary concern stems from the absolute shambles that such events seem to cause,” they wrote.
The author, whose name has been wiped from the official files, attaches various newspaper reports including one titled: “UFOS expose 9-5 defence danger”.
The dossier includes eyewitness statements from several police officers who claim to have seen flashing red, blue and white lights and also reveals how civil servants were briefed about what caused the mysterious sightings.
It also tells how civil servants were briefed about what caused the mysterious sightings.
Documents following an official probe conclude that several “phenomena” might be to blame.
A drawing following the Wash UFO sighting was stored by the Ministry of Defence
It suggests the lights were observed from “three different locations” high above the horizon and in the same general direction, indicating a “celestial source”.
Radar signals could be explained by a nearby church spire, which was known for distorting communication systems, according to the memo.
Closing the case, the official file states: “The prolonged sighting of stationary coloured flashing lights reported by the Skegness police on 5 October 1996 had no significance for the integrity of UK airspace and no associated air vehicle was detected by civil or military radars.”
This newspaper report appeared to have ruffled feathers among the UK defence bods
One of the newspaper clippings attached to the Wash sighting letter
The documents are just some of many included in the fascinating UFO dossier quietly released last week.
They have not been digitised, so enthusiasts must join a queue to inspect the paper records at the National Archive’s reading room in Kew, West London.
There are an additional three files which are yet to be released, according to Nick Pope, a former civil servant who worked for the MoD.
Pope, who ran the government’s UFO project from 1991 to 1994 said: “The lack of a smoking gun and the fact that these files seem to have been slipped out without a formal media announcement is bound to start some conspiracy theories and I know that many people believe the ‘good stuff’ is being held back.”
A UFO was visible on military radar for seven hours above the Wash in Skegness in 1996 but officials were ordered to do nothing about it, according to a shocking document from 'Britain's X-Files'.
The RAF was 'overruled at the highest level' and told to ignore the strange bright lights - which flashed red, blue and white - despite the fact several witnesses also spotted it.
The Ministry of Defence was criticised for a shambolic reaction which some believed could have put the nation at serious risk in one of the country's most mysterious UFO sightings.
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The RAF were 'overruled at the highest level' and told to ignore the strange lights - which flashed red, blue and white - despite the fact several witnesses also spotted it
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WHAT ARE 'BRITAIN'S X-FILES'?
The cache of 15 files, which have been published by the National Archives, contain details of sightings of UFOs over almost five decades.
They contain information about a number of high profile incidents that are believed to be related to extra-terrestrials, including in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dubbed 'Britain's Roswell.'
The papers were originally meant to be released in 2013 alongside thousands of others which did see the light of day, but 18 specific documents were withheld. No one knows exactly why.
Fifteen have now been published with the remaining three still withheld.
The release marks the final stages of what's been a nine-year long project to declassify and release the MoD's entire archive of UFO files.
Mysteriously, the files have not yet been digitised so enthusiasts must go to the National Archives in Kew, West London if they want to have access to them.
The UFO files have revealed that on the morning of 5 October 1996 bright lights were reported by several civilians but the Defence Secretary at the time, Michael Portillo, did nothing, according to a report from The Sun.
An unnamed government official wrote to the Ministry of Defence voicing concerns.
'The RAF is supposed to, or so I believed, to be keeping a watchful eye on activity in the UK, but seem to have no idea what is going on', the minister wrote.
'Do they have standard procedure for these incidents? They had enough time to think about it, because the object was on our radar for upwards of seven hours!' he said.
'While I am interested in finding out what was seen, my primary concern stems from the absolute shambles that such events seem to cause'.
Reports of the strange lights made front pages and were serialised in various TV shows at the time.
'I remember this well. It was a bizarre case', Nick Pope who was part of the Ministry of Defence's UFO project from 1991 to 1994 told MailOnline.
'The official verdict was that the anomalous radar return might have been caused by a nearby church spire (an effect that can happen in certain meteorological conditions) but, in parallel, there were visual sightings from witnesses including police officers, and these were more difficult to explain.
'Furthermore, the events took place in the middle of a 'UFO flap' where there had been numerous sightings from locals.'
The late Martin Redmond - an MP who had taken a close, personal interest in the UFO phenomenon - raised the question with the MoD Mr Pope explained.
'He was concerned that whatever the cause of the radar return, it seemed the RAF had done nothing, perhaps because of the MoD's notorious defensiveness when it came to the anything to do with UFOs.
'He felt that, at the very least, further enquiries should have been made and maybe a jet scrambled - which would have cleared up the mystery in minutes.
'The bottom line was that Martin Redmond felt these events highlighted a fundamental weakness in the UK's air defence system', he said.
The letter also suggests a police video of the lights mysteriously disappeared.
The cache of 15 files, which have been published by the National Archives, contain details of sightings of UFOs seen all over the country stock image)
'It sounds like an important UFO incident, as it has the relatively rare element of simultaneous visual and radar sightings', Nigel Watson author of the UFO Investigations Manual told MailOnline.
'In the cold light of day the nation was not at risk, but it does show that when people are looking out for UFOs, an innocent star or planet will fill their imaginations', he said.
This document is just one of many that was released last week as part of a series of files that were released by the government having been kept secret for almost 50 years.
The cache of 15 files, which have been published by the National Archives, contain details of UFO sightings seen all over the country.
A UFO was visible on military radar for seven hours above The Wash in Skegness in 1996 but officials were ordered to do nothing about it, according to a shocking document from 'Britain's X-Files'
They contain information about a number of high profile incidents that are believed to be related to extra-terrestrials, including in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dubbed 'Britain's Roswell.'
Mysteriously, the files have not yet been digitised so enthusiasts must go to London's National Archives in Kew if they want to have access to them.
The papers were originally meant to be released in 2013 alongside thousands of others which did see the light of day, but 18 specific documents were withheld.
The files are believed to date from 1971-76, 1996-2000 and 2004.
The release marks the final stages of what's been a nine-year long project to declassify and release the MoD's entire archive of UFO files.
Three of these documents have still not been released.
This prompted claims of a conspiracy to cover-up the existence of alien life among some theorists and another delay in publication last year added to this speculation.
Conspiracy theorists are hoping the files may shed light on the notorious Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980, dubbed Britain's Roswell
'I think these files perfectly capture the wonder and fascination of the UFO mystery and show how MoD officials - myself included - struggled to make sense of one of the great mysteries of the modern era', said Nick Pope, who was part of the Ministry of Defence's UFO project from 1991 to 1994.
'Sadly, there's no 'smoking gun' in these files that will prove we've been visited by extraterrestrials, but there are plenty of intriguing UFO reports, as well as policy papers explaining how the MoD handled this subject.'
'The lack of a smoking gun and the fact that these files seem to have been slipped out without a formal media announcement is bound to start some conspiracy theories, and I know that many people believe the 'good stuff' is being held back', he said.
Conspiracy theorists are hoping the files may shed light on the notorious Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980, dubbed Britain's Roswell.
Strange lights were reported by servicemen in the forest near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge.
RENDLESHAM FOREST INCIDENT
Strange lights were reported by servicemen in the forest near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge.
The incident came to be known as 'Britain's Roswell' after the UFO sightings in New Mexico.
Soldiers investigated what the lights were, including Staff Sgt Jim Burroughs, Airman First Class Edward Cabansag and Airman First Class Larry Warren.
The disputed sightings, over three nights between December 26-28, occurred when Britain and the West were on high alert during the Cold War.
Retired US Air Force officer Steve Longero broke a 36 year silence, in December 2016, to reveal he also saw something in the night sky.
Mr Longero said the UFOs looked like red and green fluorescent lights hovering over treetops.
He also dismissed one theory that the lights had been caused by a lighthouse.
The incident became a topic of fascination in the UK after a group of servicemen went into Rendlesham Forest to investigate the mysterious lights and came out convinced they had seen seen an alien spacecraft.
The Suffolk sightings resurfaced claims from those living in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 when an unexpected crash was alleged to have been the remains of a spacecraft and alien bodies.
But this was rejected by the U.S. military following a close investigation into the wreckage.
The British Ministry of Defence has also dismissed the claims regarding Rendlesham.
It said there was no threat to national security and the UFOs were likely to be caused by a series of nocturnal lights.
The disputed sightings, over three nights between December 26-28, occurred when Britain and the West were on high alert during the Cold War.
'What's readily apparent from a detailed study of all this is that the MoD was telling Parliament, the media and the public that the UFO phenomenon was of 'no defence significance' and of limited interest to the MoD', said Mr Pope.
'However, the files show that behind the scenes, the subject was obviously taken more seriously than we let on, with many of the cases self-evidently being of great defence significance – e.g. when UFOs were seen in close proximity to military bases, were encountered by RAF pilots, or were tracked on radar by fighter controllers or air traffic controllers.'
The remaining three files are due to be released later this year.
'This is a good day for open government and for freedom of information', Mr Pope said.
The last batch of files that was released contained some papers relating to anti-gravity and gravity modification research expressed by MoD scientists.
'I wasn't joking when I referred to MoD's UFO project as being 'the real-life X-Files'', said Mr Pope.
The Frome resident thinks the streak of light could have been created by a drone
UFO: A 'craft' was sighted hovering over The Wash near Skegness according to MoD files
Britain's X-files – the declassified government documents covering UFO encounters – reveal the shocking incident just off Skegness.
Ministry of Defence documents detail how a UFO was spotted hovering over the Wash near the Lincolnshire town – but the RAF were told to do nothing about it.
The dossier reveals how an unnamed government official warned the nation could have been put at risk as he slammed the "shambles" of an operation dealing with the craft.
“This raises serious issues about the way in which we police the UK’s Air Defence Region”
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Several radars detected the object off the east coast of Britain in the early hours of October 5, 1996.
Police statements described "bright lights" seen over The Wash National Reserve.
Redacted letters typed on House of Commons headed paper reveal Defence Secretary Michael Portillo was grilled over the handling of the incident, reports The Sun
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The unidentified official questioned why "no aircraft were scrambled when an uncorrelated target was picked up so close to the coast” and that “this raises serious issues about the way in which we police the UK’s Air Defence Region”.
Aircraft at RAF Coningsby wanted to scramble but were "overruled at the highest level", according to the letter.
It also questions why video taken of the UFO "disappeared into the bowels of your ministry’s main building".
The official file on the report claims the UFO was actually a nearby church spire – known for distorting communications.
It also claims the lights spotted by onlookers were of a "celestial" source.
Spooks concluded: "The prolonged sighting of stationary coloured flashing lights reported by the Skegness police on 5 October 1996 had no significance for the integrity of UK airspace and no associated air vehicle was detected by civil or military radars.”
The Skegness incident is just one of many covered in the declassified documents which were finally released last week.
UFO hunters and alien conspiracy theorists accused the Government of trying to cover up the files after a delayed realease.
The cache of 15 files is available for view at The National Archives – but three documents remain sealed, sparking rumours of the alien "smoking gun”.
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Ex-US Air Force Captain Says A UFO Destroyed Ten Nukes
Ex-US Air Force Captain Says A UFO Destroyed Ten Nukes
Conspiracy theorists believe high-profile witnesses were pledging to remain quiet about extraterrestrial-related events. However, a former U.S. Air Force captain has broken that promise. Captain David D Schindele was the Minot Air Force Base missile field’s Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile launch crew commander in North Dakota.
Schindele was at a launch control facility, close to Mohall, North Dakota in December 1966 when a bizarre event took place.
Schindele claimed that a UFO destroyed ten nuclear-tipped missiles in which he was in charge.
UFOs had been reported in the local area, according to the Minot Daily News front page story on December 6, 1966.
Schindele claimed air force officials ordered him to keep quiet about it. However, he has now claimed that he tells the real story of the event in the new book titled “It Never Happened, Volume 1.” Schindele revealed that many of them witnessed unworldly events at Minuteman facilities, but they were all instructed to shut their mouth up about them. He said that they never realised at the time that many others among them were also witnessing incidents.
He explained that he heard some years ago of a similar incident experienced by a missiler named Captain Robert Salas who was connected to Malmstrom AFB in Montana with the same general timeframe as his own incident. Schindele then decided to conduct research on Air Force cover-up to find out the reason why the Air Force told them to keep silent.
Schindele said that he spent six and a half years for the first volume and also realised that a second volume would be necessary to make it complete.
UFO sighting videos usually involve shaky, grainy captures from sensationalist claims and low-resolution cameras. It is the reason many reported alien encounters with such videos as evidence have been debunked or criticised by sceptics.
Interestingly, those negative factors are not present in the seemingly legitimate UFO sighting that was reported on Sunday in New York. The video was shot using a high-resolution device, and the witness has not made any claims about the possible identity of the mysterious craft.
The footage, which was uploaded to YouTube, shows strange lights over the trees in a New York suburb. It was captured at around 4:30 am from a driveway, according to the video description. The uploader of the video has not made any claims that the strange object was of extraterrestrial origin.
The uploader only says that the object appears distinctly like a UFO. After the video was made available online via the video sharing site, it has also been shared on Reddit. It has captured the interest among alien enthusiasts online.
The details of the object in the video could be easily seen. The object looks huge and larger than any consumer drone in the market.
Some online commenters suggest that the possible explanation could be the scheduled NASA lunch in the area. However, NASA’s official web page says that the mission involving a rocket carrying tracer chemicals to be sprayed in the upper atmosphere would be launched on Sunday night while the video was reportedly shot on Sunday morning.
De vliegende auto: het transportmiddel van de toekomst? Nee!
De vliegende auto: het transportmiddel van de toekomst? Nee!
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Mensen zien er al decennia reikhalzend naar uit en dit jaar kun je ‘m pre-orderen: de vliegende auto. Maar waarschijnlijk is ‘ie een stuk onhandiger dan je denkt.
In 1940 voorspelde Henry Ford al dat ‘ie zou gaan komen. En nu – bijna 80 jaar later – lijkt het zover te zijn. Nog dit jaar kun je de vliegende auto pre-orderen. Wie dat wel ziet zitten en zijn auto direct wil inruilen, moet er rekening mee houden dat er – een beetje afhankelijk van de auto die je nu rijdt – nog een beetje geld bij gelegd moet worden. Naar verwachting staat op het prijskaartje van de eerste vliegende auto namelijk een bedrag met vijf nullen. Maar goed: beter duur dan niet te koop, nietwaar?
De vliegende auto spreekt al lang tot de verbeelding. Hier zie je Jess Dixon in zijn zelfgebouwde vliegende auto. Het kiekje werd omstreeks 1940 gemaakt.
Verenigen Dat de vliegende auto zo duur is – en dat we er zo lang op hebben moeten wachten – is goed te verklaren, zo vertelt Hans Heerkens, als luchtvaartspecialist verbonden aan de Universiteit Twente. “Er moeten heel veel dingen ingestopt worden die eigenlijk niet in een auto of vliegtuig passen. Zo moet de auto wielaandrijving hebben, terwijl het vliegtuig weer een propeller of vleugels met een flinke spanwijdte nodig heeft. En terwijl een vliegtuig zo licht mogelijk moet zijn, is het met het oog op de veiligheid weer prettig als de auto wat robuuster en zwaarder is. Ook heb je in een vliegtuig heel andere instrumenten nodig dan in een auto. Daarnaast zijn de veiligheidseisen anders.” Om dat allemaal met elkaar te rijmen en uiteindelijk vliegtuig en auto in één transportmiddel te verenigen: dat valt niet mee en is dus duur.
Waarom zou je? Verschillende fabrikanten hebben er desalniettemin de afgelopen decennia tijd, geld en energie ingestoken. Heerkens snapt daar eerlijk gezegd weinig van. “Waarom zou je met een vliegtuig over de weg willen rijden? Het is toch veel handiger om dan een auto én een vliegtuig te bezitten?” Dat geldt zeker als we kijken naar de vliegende auto’s die niet verticaal op kunnen stijgen en kunnen landen. “Dan kun je niet vanaf huis vliegen en moet je dus met je vliegende auto eerst naar een startbaan rijden. Ik zou dan zeggen: rijd naar die startbaan, parkeer je auto en pak het vliegtuig.” Ook technisch gezien is dat veel praktischer. “Een vliegende auto kun je heel moeilijk optimaliseren,” vertelt Heerkens. Want de eigenschappen van een optimale auto staan vaak haaks op die van een optimaal vliegtuig. Zo is een auto fijn stabiel met vier wielen. Maar diezelfde vier wielen zitten het vliegtuig weer in de weg. “Ze zitten redelijk ver van het zwaartepunt, waardoor je heel veel kracht moet zetten op het roer om de neus van het vliegtuig tijdens het opstijgen omhoog te krijgen.”
“DE VLIEGENDE AUTO KAN EIGENLIJK ALLEEN EEN SUCCES WORDEN ALS ELITE-SPEELTJE”
Elite-speeltje Wie de vliegende auto aanschaft, moet dus niet verwachten dat hij een optimaal presterende auto en optimaal presterend vliegtuig in één koopt. Ook moet je niet verwachten dat je er zomaar eventjes mee naar je werk kunt vliegen. Want aan piloten worden strenge eisen gesteld. Je zult regelmatig medisch gekeurd moeten worden. Je moet je vliegbrevet halen, op jaarbasis voldoende vlieguren maken en zo af en toe in het gezelschap van een instructeur aantonen dat je het allemaal nog in de vingers hebt. Dat kost allemaal tijd en – wederom – geld. Met al die haken en ogen kun je jezelf serieus afvragen of de vliegende auto wel een toekomst heeft. Voor nu ziet Heerkens deze naar eigen zeggen vooral als “een elite-speeltje”. Leuk om tijdens verjaardagen of op de miljonairsfair over op te scheppen en zo af en toe eens met over je landgoed te vliegen.
Autonoom En zelfs als de prijs scherp zou dalen, lijkt de vliegende auto in zijn huidige vorm niet het ideale transportmiddel voor Jan Modaal. “Als iedereen er één heeft, raakt het luchtruim hartstikke vol.” En dan komt de veiligheid weer in het geding. De veiligheid kan in zo’n situatie in de ogen van Heerkens maar op één manier gehandhaafd worden. “Als we de vliegende auto volledig automatiseren.” Daarnaast is het noodzakelijk dat de vliegende auto verticaal kan landen en opstijgen, want anders sta je alsnog in de file bij de start- en landingsbaan. Zodra een vliegende auto echter in staat is om verticaal te landen en op te stijgen, graaft het tweezijdige transportmiddel echter zijn eigen graf. “Want als je verticaal kunt opstijgen en landen heb je toch eigenlijk geen auto meer nodig?” merkt Heerkens fijntjes op. En zo lijkt niet de vliegende auto, maar het autonome vliegtuig dat verticaal kan landen en opstijgen de toekomst te hebben.
De AeroMobil, een vliegende auto die je nog dit jaar kunt pre-orderen. Verkoopprijs is nog onbekend, maar zal zeker een bedrag met vijf nullen zijn.
Afbeelding: Aeromobil.com
Opportunistisch Aangezien de acceptatie van de zelfrijdende auto al wat voeten in de aarde heeft, lijkt het omarmen van de vliegende equivalent daarvan bijna ondenkbaar. “Dat zal inderdaad niet vandaag of morgen gebeuren,” denkt Heerkens. “Tegelijkertijd zijn mensen ook heel opportunistisch.” Als ze op een gegeven moment de voordelen van het autonome vliegtuig inzien, met schrik in de benen instappen en het een paar keer goed gaat, kan hun mening zomaar veranderen. Heerkens heeft dat eerder zien gebeuren. “Lang stak men de Atlantische Oceaan alleen over met vliegtuigen die drie of vier motoren hadden.” Als er dan eentje uitviel, was er geen vuiltje aan de lucht. “Maar op een gegeven moment gingen fabrikanten tweemotorige vliegtuigen ontwikkelen. Je hoorde de deskundigen roepen dat dat veel te gevaarlijk was en dat ze daar nooit in zouden stappen. Inmiddels kijken we alleen nog maar naar wat het goedkoopste ticket is.” En vliegen we dus allemaal met tweemotorige vliegtuigen naar de andere kant van de Atlantische Oceaan. “Je hoort niemand meer over veiligheid.” En zo kan het ook gaan met het autonome vliegtuigje “als mensen inzien dat het goedkoper en gemakkelijker is en zich de eerste paar jaar geen ongelukken voordoen.” Wat dat laatste betreft, is Heerkens optimistisch. “Ik denk dat een autonoom vliegtuigje veiliger kan zijn dan een vliegtuig dat door mensen bestuurd wordt.”
Dubai De vliegende auto lijkt het dus af te leggen tegen het autonome privé-vliegtuig. Maar wanneer kunnen we dat pre-orderen? “Dat kan nog wel dertig tot veertig jaar duren,” denkt Heerkens. Op korte termijn ziet hij meer in onbemande luchttaxi’s, waar momenteel in Dubai (zie het filmpje hieronder) al druk mee geëxperimenteerd wordt. “Dat kan veel sneller gaan. Misschien vliegen ze binnen tien jaar al wel rond.” Dat die luchttaxi’s hun doorbraak sneller kunnen beleven, heeft natuurlijk te maken met de aanschafkosten. Maar weinigen zullen zich een autonoom rondvliegend privé-vliegtuigje kunnen permitteren. “En waarom zou je ook een privé-luchttaxi willen als je zoiets met één appje kunt laten komen wanneer je het nodig hebt?”
Het staat eenieder die nog ergens een bedrag met vijf nullen in een oude sok heeft zitten natuurlijk vrij om later dit jaar de vliegende auto te pre-orderen. Maar wie verstandig is, wacht nog even. Met een beetje geluk word je geduld beloond en stap je over een jaar of tien in een volledig autonome luchttaxi. Heerkens kan niet wachten. “Heerlijk, met een leesboek instappen en het boek pas dichtklappen als je op je bestemming landt. Ik teken ervoor.”
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Maak kennis met Planeet Y: ons zonnestelsel telt misschien tien planeten
Maak kennis met Planeet Y: ons zonnestelsel telt misschien tien planeten
Tim Kraaijvanger
Naast Planeet X schuilt er mogelijk nog een tiende planeet in de Kuipergordel, namelijk Planeet Y. Deze planeet is ongeveer even groot als Mars of de aarde.
In het wetenschappelijke vakblad Astronomical Journal schrijven wetenschappers Kat Volk en Renu Malhotra van de universiteit van Arizona dat er bewijs is gevonden dat er niet acht of negen, maar tien planeten om de zon draaien. De astronomen keken naar de omloopbanen van ruim 600 Kuipergordelobjecten. Deze objecten zijn brokstukken, die overgebleven zijn na de vorming van het zonnestelsel. Inmiddels draaien deze kleine en grote ruimtestenen al zo’n 4,5 miljard jaar om de zon.
Toch merkten de astronomen een afwijking op in de oriëntatie van de banen van de meeste verre Kuipergordelobjecten. Het baanvlak wijkt acht procent af ten opzichte van het gemiddelde baanvlak. “Uit onze berekeningen blijkt dat er maar één logische verklaring is: er zweeft ergens een planeet ter grootte van Mars”, aldus Volk.
Een schematische weergave van de positie van Planeet Y. De onderzoekers hebben de planeet afgebeeld als een soort tweede aarde, maar de kans is extreem klein dat er leven mogelijk is op deze verre, ijskoude planeet.
Je kunt het baanvlak van het zonnestelsel het beste zien als een A4’tje. Vrijwel alle objecten in het zonnestelsel draaien op dit platte vel om de zon. Er zijn afwijkingen – bijvoorbeeld Pluto – maar gemiddeld gezien lijken de meeste planeten, asteroïden en kometen op dit A4’tje te rusten. “Zeker in de Kuipergordel moet het baanvlak nauwelijks afwijken, omdat de banen van deze objecten worden bepaald door de zon en de grotere planeten”, zegt Malhotra. “Toch zien we een afwijking bij Kuipergordelobjecten op 50 AE tot 80 AE van de zon.” In vergelijking: 1 AE is de afstand van de aarde tot de zon. “De kans is kleiner dan twee procent dat het gaat om een statistische afwijking.”
De ijskoude planeet ter grootte van Mars draait op een afstand van ruwweg 60 AE (negen miljard kilometer) om de zon. Dat is ruim twee keer de afstand van de zon naar Neptunus. Op dit moment is Neptunus de laatste planeet van ons zonnestelsel.
En Planeet X dan? Er blijft één vraag over: worden de banen van deze Kuipergordelobjecten niet gewoon beïnvloed door Planeet X? Planeet X bestaat mogelijk echt en is een object op een afstand van 500 tot 700 AE van de zon. Deze planeet is ongeveer tien keer groter dan de aarde.
“Nee, Planeet X is te ver verwijderd om invloed uit te oefenen op deze Kuipergordelobjecten”, zegt Volk. “De afstand tot de zon moet kleiner zijn dan 100 AE om zulke baanafwijkingen te veroorzaken.”
De zoektocht naar Planeet Y Een object ter grootte van Mars zou makkelijk gespot moeten worden, toch? De onderzoekers beweren dat de kans dertig procent is dat het object nog nooit is gevonden omdat we nog niet goed genoeg keken. Als Planeet X en Planeet Y echt bestaan, dan is de kans groot dat we deze objecten de komende jaren gaan vinden. De komende jaren verschijnen er allerlei nieuwe telescopen.
ALS PLANEET X EN PLANEET Y ECHT BESTAAN, DAN IS DE KANS GROOT DAT WE DEZE OBJECTEN DE KOMENDE JAREN GAAN VINDEN
Alternatieve verklaring Als de afwijking van de Kuipergordelobjecten niet is veroorzaakt door Planeet Y, wat is dan de meest waarschijnlijke verklaring voor dit verschijnsel? Wellicht dat de afwijking dan is veroorzaakt door een passerende ster. “Dit zou betekenen dat de ster ergens in de afgelopen tien miljoen jaar rakelings langs het zonnestelsel scheerde”, beweert Malhotra. Als het langer dan tien miljoen jaar geleden is gebeurd, dan zouden de Kuipergordelobjecten langzaam teruggaan naar het oude baanvlak. “Dat lijkt ons een onwaarschijnlijk scenario.”
De landing van Philae op komeet 67P was geen succes. De lander stuiterde op het oppervlak en eindigde ergens in een ravijn. Hadden we niet beter een robotslang kunnen sturen?
Een robotslang. Het klinkt misschien als een absurd idee, maar laat het eens op je inwerken. Zo’n slang heeft een flexibel lichaam en kruipt gemakkelijk over het oppervlak van een komeet, planeet of maan. Een Marsrover valt uit wanneer een wieltje kapot gaat, maar dat geldt niet voor een robotslang. Die heeft immers geen wielen.
Zo’n robotslang kan op plekken komen waar een normale rover niet komt. Er zijn plannen om in de toekomst een maanbasis onder het oppervlak te bouwen, bijvoorbeeld in een lavabuis. Op die manier worden astronauten beschermd tegen kosmische straling en meteorieten. Zulke tunnels moeten echter geïnspecteerd worden of ze geschikt zijn voor mensen om in te wonen en te werken. Perfect werk voor een robotslang, want die kruipt gemakkelijk door de gangen.
Robotslang naar het ISS Leuke toekomstplannen, maar gebeurt er op korte termijn nog iets? Ja, Noorse wetenschappers van SINTEF onderzoeken momenteel of het mogelijk is om een robotslang naar het internationale ruimtestation te sturen. Omdat dit ruimtestation continu in een vrije val verkeert, is er sprake van gewichtloosheid aan boord van het ISS. Dit vraagt om een slimme oplossing, want hoe kruipt een robotslang van de ene kant van het ruimtestation naar de andere kant?
Slimme voortbeweging De SINTEF-onderzoekers hebben wel een idee. Wanneer de robotslang vast zit aan de wand van het ruimtestation, kan hij zichzelf van achteren intrekken. Vervolgens strekt hij zich aan de voorkant uit, waardoor de slang opschuift. Eigenlijk lijkt dit op hoe slangen in het wild bewegen. Op dit moment onderzoeken SINTEF-wetenschappers welke sensoren de robot nodig heeft om zich bewust te zijn van de omgeving.
Artistieke impressie van Astrobee aan boord van het internationale ruimtestation. Drie Astrobee’s worden ergens tussen juli 2017 en juni 2018 gelanceerd.
Astrobee Er wordt reikhalzend uitgekeken naar Astrobee. Astrobee is een robot die binnenkort in het internationale ruimtestation vliegt. Deze drone kan bijvoorbeeld zelfstandig op zoek naar gereedschap, zodat astronauten dit niet zelf hoeven te doen. Even voor jouw beeldvorming: in het internationale ruimtestation liggen tienduizenden verschillende onderdelen. Het juiste gereedschap of het perfecte moertje vinden is dus wel iets lastiger dan op aarde. SINTEF-onderzoekers schrijven dat ze veel hopen te leren van Astrobee, waardoor ze hun eigen robotslang nog beter kunnen maken.
The world of science creates mysteries as fast as it solves them — and sometimes even faster. Here are just a few of those mysteries that are waiting to be solved.
1. The impossible EM drive…works?
Since first hearing rumors about NASA’s physics-breaking propulsion system late last year, a paper describing their device has passed peer-review, and China claims to be testing their own version in space right now.
And yet, no one can explain how this fuel-less drive is able to violate Newton’s Third Law: everything must have an equal and opposite reaction. If we learn anything this year or next, let’s hope we can get to the bottom of this confounding machine.
2. Humpback whales have been forming mysterious “super-groups,”
and we still don’t know why. Back in March, never-before-seen groups of up to 200 whales were appearing off the coast of South Africa, which is weird, because seven is usually the upper limit for these solitary animals.
The behavior could be due to changes in prey availability, or because the species has been making a surprising comeback in recent years, but the jury’s still out on this one.
Findlay et. al. 2017
3. Astronomers have found evidence of ahuge ninth planeton the edge of our Solar System
— but we still can’t find it, even after NASA recruited thousands of people to search for clues.
But earlier this year, we finally got an official candidate for the mysterious presence, so hopefully we don’t have to wait too much longer to discover what’s truly out there.
4. Archaeologists made a stunning discovery inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza
— evidence of a strange void behind the pyramid’s north face, and an unknown cavity high up in its northeastern edge.
It’s suspected that these could represent secret chambers that have eluded researchers and looters alike for thousands of years, and archaeologists are now hoping to non-invasively scan the insides of the giant tomb to figure it out.
5. Can we please figure out the nonsense that is the Tully Monster?
The 300-million-year-old creature had fins like a cuttlefish, eyestalks like a crab, and a rather intimidating “jaw-on-stick,” and this jumble of body parts has seen it compared to everything from molluscs, arthropods, and worms, to more complex vertebrates like lampreys.
Here’s what it might have looked like:
6. We still don’t know what’s causingfast radio bursts — arguably the weirdest phenomena in the known Universe.
They’re some of the most explosive signals ever detected in space, but they’re so confounding, some scientists have even resorted to “Aliens?”
But with the exact location for one of these signals being finally pinned down last month, we might be on the brink of figuring out what’s causing them.
have found signs of a phenomenon that goes beyond the standard model of physics, and together they’ve hit a certainty level of 4 standard deviations, indicating a 99.95 percent chance this isn’t a mistake.
If this result can be supported by further experiments, it would have profound implications for our understanding of particle physics, and force scientists to draw up a whole new branch of physics to explain it.
8. The “Alien Megastructure” star
that just won’t quit. Located 1,500 light-years away, KIC 8462852 (or Tabby’s star), has been experiencing unprecedented dips in brightness — while most stars experience periodic dimming of about 1 percent, this star has clocked dips of a whopping 22 percent.
Tabby’s star is so weird, one astronomer famously suggested aliens could be involved. With the latest bout of strange light patterns giving researchers more data to work with, let’s hope they can finally figure this one out.
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9. The US Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane
just landed after a record-breaking 718 days in orbit, but we still have no idea what it was doing up there.
As officials remain tight-lipped about what the unmanned drone was doing up there for so long, rumors have been circulating that the military might be testing NASA’s EM Drive in space. Can we solve two mysteries in one?
You’d think its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen everything there is to see on the Martian surface during its 11-year orbit, but a snapshot taken over the planet’s South Pole has revealed something we can’t explain.
At 19.7 inches (50 centimeters) per pixel, we’re looking at a feature hundreds of meters across, so did something punch its way through, or is it the result of a massive collapse? Until we get further evidence, your guess is as good as mine.
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.
Losing protections
Grizzly bear populations are on the rebound in Yellowstone.
Credit: Georgia Evans/Shutterstock
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem from the Endangered Species List yesterday (June 22).
Grizzly bears "have long warranted delisting," as they have met or exceeded recovery objectives since 2003, Wyoming governor Matt Mead said in a statement published online by the governor's office. [Read more about the grizzly bears.]
Note about the universe
Hieroglyphics found at El-Khawy in Egypt show two storks, back to back, with an ibis between them (left), as well as a bull's head (right).
Credit: Courtesy of Yale University
Archaeologists have discovered a "billboard" of hieroglyphs carved into the rocks near the Egyptian village of El-Khawy. The symbols, which show a message related to the cosmos, are the earliest monumental (large) hieroglyphs known, dating back around 5,200 years.
Only a few similar scenes are known from Egypt. For example, a vase previously found at the site of Abydos depicts a pregnant hippopotamus, Darnell told Live Science. [Read more about the cosmic message.]
Lizard parts?
Dried monitor lizard penises are being illegally traded as "Hatha Jodi," an Indian plant root used in religious ceremonies and thought to be a good-luck charm.
Credit: World Animal Protection
Poachers have been caught trying to illegally sell dried lizard penises online to unwitting customers looking to purchase a rare Indian root called "Hatha Jodi." The root looks like two praying hands and is thought to bring good luck.
Investigation into the illegal trade determined that along with dried specimens from monitor lizards, plastic molds of the animal's genitalia were also being peddled as Hatha Jodi. [Read more about good-luck root.]
Passing down the genes
People who have insomnia may have been told that their sleeping troubles are "all in their head," but a new study shows that this condition is driven not only by psychological factors, but biological ones as well.
The researchers found that seven genes were more common in people who had insomnia, meaning that these seven genes could indicate that a person has an increased risk for the sleep disorder. [Read more about insomnia and your genes.]
How to look for life
This artist’s impression shows an imagined view from the surface of a planet that was part of a star system found recently using the TRAPPIST telescope at the European Space Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile. These worlds' sizes and temperatures are similar to those of Venus and Earth, and are the best targets found so far in the search for life outside our solar system.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
From the lovable, candy-munching E.T. to the deadly Xenomorphs from the "Alien" movies, science-fiction stories are bursting with all kinds of alien encounters. But in reality, we've yet to achieve contact — though not for lack of trying.
Stephen Hawking has a long list of warnings about threats to humanity.
Credit: Flickr/NASA HQ PHOTO.
Humanity should focus its efforts on exploring other worlds that we might inhabit, and to get there, Earthlings may need to ride on a beam of light, famed physicist Stephen Hawking says.
To bring these seeming pipe dreams closer to reality, Hawking, along with physicist and billionaire Yuri Milner, has founded a company called Breakthrough Starshot, which aims to make interstellar travel a reality. [Read more about the strange idea.]
A volcano or a pyramid?
El Volcán in the Nepeña Valley of coastal Peru has archaeologists stumped as to when and why this mound was built, though it may have served as a place for a ceremony related to a total solar eclipse.
Credit: Courtesy of Robert Benfer
From far away, El Volcán in the Nepeña Valley of coastal Peru might look like a natural feature in the landscape.
But this volcano is artificial, a mound or pyramid built by human hands with a crater dug out of the top. And some archaeologists are trying to figure out what it was used for. [Read more about the strange pyramid.]
Wine run
The boozy order found on the back of the pottery shard
Credit: American Friends of Tel Aviv University (AFTAU)
A previously overlooked inky inscription on a pottery shard found in Israel calls for the delivery of more wine, according to a new study, showing that not much has changed in 2,600 years for humanity, at least when it comes to wetting our whistles.
"While its front side has been thoroughly studied, its back was considered blank," study co-principal investigator Arie Shaus, a doctoral student of applied mathematics and archaeology at Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel, said in a statement. [Read more about the shopping list.]
Domesticating cats
The Egyptian tomb-chapel of Nebamun, dating to about 1250 B.C., is on display at the British Museum. Notice the cat's stripes, which are reminiscent of a wildcat's markings.
Credit: Copyright Thierry Grange
Modern cat lovers can thank the farmers of ancient Anatolia in the Near East for domesticating their fluffy friends about 10,000 years ago, a new study finds.
However, it wasn't until the Middle Ages, after thousands of years of living alongside humans, that some cats (Felis silvestris) developed fur with patch-like patterns, and not until the 19th century that they were bred to have fancy coats, the researchers found. [Read more about kitty genealogy.]
Hiding multiverse?
Stop the worlds, I want to get off.
Credit: Victor Habbick/Shutterstock
By some estimates, the known universe may contain as many as 2 trillion galaxies, with the average galaxy holding approximately 100 million stars and untold numbers of planets. But could there be multiple copies of the entire universe as we understand it?
Multiple universes might also exist within contained bubbles of space-time, a concept explored in the video game "Bioshock Infinite." By this reckoning, inhabitants of two universes could theoretically interact should their "bubbles" connect to each other directly, according to Macdonald. [Read more about the missing worlds.]
Hacker group Anonymous claims Nasa is on the verge of announcing alien life
Hacker group Anonymous claims Nasa is on the verge of announcing alien life
Hacker collective Anonymous has released a video repeating others' claims that Nasa is on the verge of announcing contact with alien life.
The video, released on an unofficial YouTube channel claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous, repeats the text of three articles from the conspiracy website Ancient-Code.com, according to the Daily Mail.
The video, which runs with advertising, has garnered over half a million views.
Anonymous claims head of Nasa Science Mission Directorate Professor Thomas Zurbuchen said at the meeting: "Our civilisation is on the verge of discovering evidence of alien life in the cosmos.
"Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are searching for alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history."
Recent discoveries in our solar system and beyond have boosted the hopes of those who long for first contact with alien life.
In April, scientists announced that the Cassini space probe had discovered hydrogen on the Saturn moon of Enceladus, the "missing ingredient" that could support microbial life on the seafloor of the icebound moon.
And just this month, scientists at Nasa's Ames Research Centre revealed the "most reliable" catalogue yet of potential planets in our galaxy, bringing the total to 4034.
According to the scientists, more than 2300 planets spotted during the Kepler missions have been confirmed so far, including more than 30 terrestrial-sized planets that lie in the "Goldilocks Zone" of their star considered conducive to life.
The new findings represent an explosion in knowledge about potential havens for alien life on other planets.
"Only in the last few decades have we been able to detect the existence of other worlds," said House Committee on Science Space and Technology chairman Lamar Smithin at an April 26 hearing. "The pursuit of evidence of life beyond our planet fascinates the American people."
Anonymous' video opens by reading the text of an article responding to that Congressional hearing and predicting the imminent announcement of the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
That article, and two other read aloud in the video, appeared on the website Ancient Code between January and April of this year, DailyMail.com can confirm.
The articles ran without bylines. The Ancient Code website appears to be registered in Croatia.
Hacker group Anonymous claims Nasa is on the verge of announcing alien life
Hacker group Anonymous claims Nasa is on the verge of announcing alien life
Hacker collective Anonymous has released a video repeating others' claims that Nasa is on the verge of announcing contact with alien life.
The video, released on an unofficial YouTube channel claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous, repeats the text of three articles from the conspiracy website Ancient-Code.com, according to the Daily Mail.
The video, which runs with advertising, has garnered over half a million views.
Anonymous claims head of Nasa Science Mission Directorate Professor Thomas Zurbuchen said at the meeting: "Our civilisation is on the verge of discovering evidence of alien life in the cosmos.
"Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are searching for alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history."
Recent discoveries in our solar system and beyond have boosted the hopes of those who long for first contact with alien life.
In April, scientists announced that the Cassini space probe had discovered hydrogen on the Saturn moon of Enceladus, the "missing ingredient" that could support microbial life on the seafloor of the icebound moon.
And just this month, scientists at Nasa's Ames Research Centre revealed the "most reliable" catalogue yet of potential planets in our galaxy, bringing the total to 4034.
According to the scientists, more than 2300 planets spotted during the Kepler missions have been confirmed so far, including more than 30 terrestrial-sized planets that lie in the "Goldilocks Zone" of their star considered conducive to life.
The new findings represent an explosion in knowledge about potential havens for alien life on other planets.
"Only in the last few decades have we been able to detect the existence of other worlds," said House Committee on Science Space and Technology chairman Lamar Smithin at an April 26 hearing. "The pursuit of evidence of life beyond our planet fascinates the American people."
Anonymous' video opens by reading the text of an article responding to that Congressional hearing and predicting the imminent announcement of the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
That article, and two other read aloud in the video, appeared on the website Ancient Code between January and April of this year, DailyMail.com can confirm.
The articles ran without bylines. The Ancient Code website appears to be registered in Croatia.
The hacker collective Anonymous has released a video repeating others' claims that NASA is on the verge of announcing contact with alien life.
The video, released Tuesday on an unofficial YouTube channel claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous, repeats the text of three articles from the conspiracy website Ancient-Code.com.
The video, which runs with advertising, has garnered over half a million views.
Recent discoveries both in our solar system and beyond have in fact boosted the hopes of those who long for first contact with alien life.
Recent discoveries both in our solar system and beyond have in fact boosted the hopes of those who long for first contact with alien life
In April, scientists announced that the Cassini space probe had discovered hydrogen on the Saturn moon of Enceladus, the 'missing ingredient' that could support microbial life on the seafloor of the icebound moon.
And just this month, scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center revealed the 'most reliable' catalog yet of potential planets in our galaxy, bringing the total to 4,034.
According to the scientists, over 2,300 planets spotted during the Kepler missions have been confirmed so far, including over 30 terrestrial-sized planets that lie in the 'Goldilocks Zone' of their star considered conducive to life.
The new findings represent an explosion in knowledge about potential havens for alien life on other planets.
'Only in the last few decades have we been able to detect the existence of other worlds,' said House Committee on Science Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smithin an April 26 hearing. 'The pursuit of evidence of life beyond our planet fascinates the American people.'
Science: Hydrogen gas, discovered in high-powered jets of water during Cassini’s deepest plunge, is now said to be 'a potential source of chemical energy that could support microbes on the seafloor of Enceladus,' researchers revealed during a NASA press conference
Facts: Of the 4,034 exoplanet candidates identified so far, 2,335 have now been verified. Researchers say the findings could ultimately help guide the search for alien life, offering ‘the most complete and reliable accounting of distant worlds to date’
The Anonymous video opens by reading the text of an article responding to that Congressional hearing and predicting the imminent announcement of the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
That article, and two other read aloud in the video, appeared on the website Ancient Code between January and April of this year, DailyMail.com can confirm.
The articles ran without bylines. The Ancient Code website appears to be registered in Croatia.
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Roswell, New Mexico festival celebrates 70th anniversary of UFO incident
Roswell, New Mexico festival celebrates 70th anniversary of UFO incident
By OLLIE REED JR. | Albuquerque Journal, N.M. (TNS)
ROSWELL, N.M. (Tribune News Service) — Suddenly, the silver saucer that has been suspended, stationary and silent above and behind four sallow-skinned, somber-faced, spaced-out aliens, starts to spin and spew smoke.
Caught by surprise, visitors to the International UFO Museum and Research Center – kids and adults – stand wide-eyed and transfixed, traces of smiles creasing their faces as they watch and wonder what’s next.
Well, actually, that’s about all. This saucer in the museum display does not crash as many people believe – or would like to believe – an actual alien craft did 70 years ago and about 75 miles northwest of here.
The so-called Roswell Incident of 1947 is the reason the city of Roswell started a UFO Festival in 1995 and will host the 2017 festival Thursday, June 29, through Sunday, July 2.
It’s the reason stores along Main Street sell T-shirts embossed with little green men and slogans such as “Roswell – Green since 1947.”
It’s the reason why this museum was opened in 1992. And it’s the reason Dana Lenko, 35, alien-visaged antennae growing out of her long, dark hair, is among the museum visitors delighting in the spinning, smoking saucer.
Lenko is a native of Melbourne, Australia, but she has lived in this country for three years and makes her home in Austin, where she is a fashion designer. Earlier this month, she was traveling with friends in New Mexico.
“I have never been in New Mexico before,” she said. “We want to see Santa Fe and Taos. But I’ve always been very keen on the stars and the vastness of space. My dad was an amateur astronomer. He gave me a love for that and for science fiction and the films. So I wanted to see Roswell for sure. You’ve got the chance to come here where it all started.”
Strange debris
There were reports of Unidentified Flying Objects before whatever happened in New Mexico in the summer of 1947 happened. But the Roswell Incident planted the seed out of which today’s fascination with extraterrestrial visitation sprouted.
A publicity poster for the 2017 Roswell, N.M. UFO festival. UFOFESTIVALROSWELL.COM
It started when W.W. “Mac” Brazel, who was running a sheep operation on a ranch 30 miles southeast of Corona, in Lincoln County, found debris scattered in his pasture in the summer of 1947. It was described as lightweight wood, tinfoil, tape, paper and strips of rubber, which sounds mundane enough. Except that some of it has also been described as impervious to fire, knife and hammer and unnaturally resilient.
When Brazel told neighbors about it during the first week of July, they said he might have found wreckage from one of those flying saucers that had been in newspaper stories recently. So Brazel drove down to Roswell Army Air Field and reported his find.
The Army collected the debris and on July 8 the Roswell air field public relations officer released information saying the Army had recovered a flying disc. It made newspaper headlines, but the story was retracted by the Army almost immediately. The debris was actually from a weather balloon, the Army said. So sorry for the goof up.
That could have been that. Mac Brazel died in 1963 and the years rolled along until 1980, when, in “The Roswell Incident,” Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore wrote that the weather balloon story was a cover-up, that not only was the stuff Brazel found from a flying saucer but that the Army had discovered the crashed saucer itself and the bodies of its alien crew.
It exploded from there. There were more books with varying body counts and crash-site locations. There was a 1999 TV movie; a 1999-2002 TV series; countless TV documentaries, including one in 1995 that claimed to depict an autopsy of an alien crash victims (it wasn’t); and a 1999 episode on “The X-Files” TV series.
Wall-to-wall people
Roswell, a city of 50,000 about 200 miles southeast of Albuquerque, was not about to miss out on the action or the opportunity. Today, the “Welcome to Roswell” sign sports a tilted saucer on one corner. Through 2016, the UFO Museum had attracted 3,569,826 visitors, 13 percent of whom come from other countries. This year’s UFO festival is expected to draw 30,000 people, a boon to hotels, restaurants, service stations and stores with names such as Alien Zone, Alien Invasion, 3RD Rock From the Sun and Roswell Landing.
“The festival is our Black Friday,” said Robert Marshall, 53, a Roswell native and an employee of Roswell Landing, which sells alien-themed merchandise such as T-shirts, coffee cups, shot glasses, key chains, magnets and so on. “We’ve been back stocking a lot of merchandise (for the festival). Upstairs is all T-shirts.”
Jessie Payne, 32, manager of Alien Zone, remembers the 1997 festival, which marked the Roswell Incident’s 50th anniversary, as being the landmark celebration to date.
“That was wall-to-wall people,” she said. “People were walking up and down Main Street for miles. You couldn’t (drive) anywhere for stopping for pedestrians.”
To boost its everyday traffic, Alien Zone features Area 51, a special section where, for a $2 to $3 admission fee, patrons can see displays depicting aliens adapting to earthly avocations such as lounging on couches and drinking beer.
On a recent day, Kevin Childers, 33, a medical doctor from Hendersonville, Tenn., and his wife, Danielle, 30, checked out Area 51. The Childers said their interest in Roswell had been piqued by “Unacknowledged,” a recent documentary about the suppression of alien-encounter incidents, a recurring theme in the UFO books, articles and films.
The Childers said they were having a good time in Roswell.
“We are here purely for the entertainment,” Kevin Childers said. “No tinfoil hats for us.”
Something happened
Roswell Landing’s Marshall said 95 percent of the people who come into the store are from somewhere else. He said those are the people who want alien T-shirts and coffee mugs.
He said it’s different for people, such as himself, who were born in Roswell.
“You hear about it so much you don’t pay attention to it anymore,” he said. “But something happened. When the Army tells the Roswell Record (newspaper) they have found a flying saucer, and then the next day they have to come back and say it was a weather balloon.”
One explanation, and it sounds reasonable, is that the Army was not covering up for a flying saucer find but for Project Mogul, an operation, top secret at the time, aimed at discovering whether or not the Soviet Union was testing atomic bombs. The project employed high-altitude balloons equipped with sensitive microphones that could detect sound waves generated by atomic testing. Maybe it was a Project Mogul balloon that crashed into Brazel’s sheep pasture.
Frank Kimbler, 61, one of the guest speakers at this year’s UFO Festival, thinks the Project Mogul theory is just so much gas.
“A craft of unknown origin crashed in the New Mexico desert and scared the hell out of the American military and out of people (witnesses) to the point they won’t talk about it today,” Kimbler said.
An assistant professor of earth sciences at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, Kimbler will be giving a festival lecture titled “Roswell Crash Site: The Quest for Physical Evidence.” Over the last seven years he has been scouring the Brazel debris field, using metal detectors, remote sensing and radiation-detecting devices to search for pieces of debris overlooked by the Army, artifacts that may shed some light on what happened there in 1947.
“All we have is handed-down stories,” he said. “I need to take some of my science and see if I can find some physical evidence. I’ve found some aluminum-type alloys. For good science, you need to have samples tested at three independent laboratories. But as soon as I start to get an answer, things disappear – in the mail or somehow.”
Nazi UFOs
Guy Malone, 48, of Roswell has organized a series of UFO Festival lectures that challenge the extraterrestrial hypothesis. He himself is doing presentations titled “Are Aliens Demons? Evidences That Suggest ‘Yes'” and “Roswell 1947: What Really Happened?”
Malone’s theory is that the Roswell Incident is about something more devious and sinister than an alien crash and subsequent government cover-up. He thinks it might have involved the crash of an experimental aircraft being developed for the United States by German scientists.
Malone said that following World War II, a secret effort, known as Operation Paperclip, smuggled hundreds of German scientists, engineers and technicians – many of them former members of the Nazi party – into this country.
“Hitler was notorious for developing flying craft of different shapes and propulsion devices,” Malone said. “The U.S. wanted the technology because the Russians were trying to scoop up these (Germans), as well as other countries.” He said some of the Germans were sent to Fort Bliss in Texas and New Mexico and White Sands in New Mexico.
Malone believes the cover-up was an attempt to keep new technology under wraps and conceal from the public the fact that Nazis were working for the U.S. government.
Don Schmitt, 62, the co-author of five books about the Roswell Incident, said he was a skeptic when he started investigating the case in 1989.
“But the moment we started talking to people who actually handled the material (debris found by Brazel), we started thinking ‘What if we are wrong?’,” Schmitt said during a phone interview from his Wisconsin home. He said the first 10 witnesses all said the same thing about the debris, that it was like metal but it wasn’t, it was like plastic but it wasn’t, that it couldn’t be cut or burned or creased. Now, he says, he is 99 percent sure the crash involved something from another world.
Schmitt and his writing partner, Thomas J. Carey, will give several lectures at the UFO festival, one titled “The Misadventures of Two Roswell Investigators.”
“The investigation is still fluid,” he said. “We are planning our sixth archaeological dig (at the Brazel debris field). We may come away with nothing, but we can say we did it.”
Mysterious universe
Back at the UFO Museum, Pamela Cortez, 46, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, is checking out the exhibits. She has come to New Mexico to visit her daughter and two grandkids, all of whom live in Carlsbad.
Cortez’s favorite museum display features statements by persons involved directly or indirectly with the Roswell incident. She thinks an alien spacecraft did slam into a New Mexico pasture 70 years ago.
“I believe it’s true. I believe the government hides a lot of stuff from us.”
Fashion designer Lenko, she of the alien antennae, is more cautious.
“I believe – in a more scientific way – that there might be other inhabitable planets out there,” she said. “It would be a bit arrogant of us to think that in this whole wide universe there is no other life. There’s a big universe out there, a lot of mysteries. It is very exciting.”
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