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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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    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...
    14-08-2017
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Computers Made of Genetic Material Will Revolutionize Our World

    Computers Made of Genetic Material Will Revolutionize Our World

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    • Researchers have been able to create tiny structures for conducting electricity by using DNA and gold plating.
    • This new nanostructure could be the foundation of future electronics as soon as improvements are made on this breakthrough development.

    GOLD AND DNA

    Nanostructures made using DNA origami are fascinating. The ability to use DNA as a construction material, capable of holding scaffolds of molecules and atoms was one huge step in developing modern nanostrutures. Most recent of these developments are gold-plated nanowires constructed by scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and from Paderborn University, which independently assembled themselves from single DNA strands, as published in the journal Langmuir.

    These nanowires, due to their gold-plating, were able to conduct electricity. “Our measurements have shown that an electrical current is conducted through these tiny wires,” explains Artur Erbe of the Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research. The nano-sized structures were connected by two electrical contacts.

    Even more fascinating is how these were made using modified DNA strands — stable double strands combined through their base pairs, from long single strands of genetic material and DNA segments. These allowed for the structures to independently take on their desired forms, complex structures developed by molecules through a self-assembling processes.

    FROM THE BOTTOM-UP

    “With the help of this approach, which resembles the Japanese paper folding technique origami and is therefore referred to as DNA-origami, we can create tiny patterns. Extremely small circuits made of molecules and atoms are also conceivable here,” says Erbe.

    Usually, developing nano circuits use what is known as the “top-down” method, where the base material is chiseled until the desired structure is formed. This will become increasingly difficult as electronics continue miniaturization. The new “bottom-up” method changes how these electronic components are usually made.

    Credits: B. Teschome, A. Erbe, et al.
    Credits: B. Teschome, A. Erbe, et al.

    There is one problem, though. “Genetic matter doesn’t conduct a current particularly well,” Erbe points out, which explains why the nanowires were gold-plated. But even with this, there was still difficulty with conducting current at room temperatures. Better melding of conductive materials need to be further developed, plus the option of using cheaper, more standard wire coating than gold.

    Still, the research is promising. This nanowire that’s made partially out of genetic material could be the future of electronics. Smaller wires allow for more compact designs, which together with smaller transistors, can be used to make more powerful computers.

    14-08-2017 om 23:01 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Passagiers van vlucht richting Spanje beweren een UFO gezien te hebben en de beelden ga je niet geloven!

    Passagiers van vlucht richting Spanje beweren een UFO gezien te hebben en de beelden ga je niet geloven!

    Deze video gaat sinds gisteren ineens als een raket over het internet. De beelden zouden gefilmd zijn vanuit een vliegtuig dat zich in Spaans luchtruim bevindt. Mocht dit echt zijn dan is het natuurlijk de vraag wat daaronder het vliegtuig doorschiet. Maar de vraag is of deze video wel helemaal echt is.

    Wat denk jij? Zien we hier inderdaad een ‘Unidentified flying object’ of is dit gewoon grote bullshit en simpel door iemand in elkaar geknutseld?

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    14-08-2017 om 01:36 geschreven door peter  

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    Have scientists discovered real alien 'Death Star' in far-flung corner of our galaxy?

    GALACTIC researchers who discovered a strange star they cannot seem to explain have speculated it could have been hidden by a "mega structure" created by aliens.

    CGI image of a Dyson Sphere and a fleet of space craft


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    CGI image of a Dyson Sphere and a fleet of space craft

    The star - called KIC 8462852 - is 1,480 light years from Earth, and was observed by the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009.

    But they were unable to explain why there were unpredictable fluctuations in the amount oflight it emits.

    Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale University in the US said: "We'd never seen anything like this star."

    Some of the team have suggested there could be an alien-made structure obscuring the star.

    The Empire's sinister Death Star from the Star Wars films

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    The Empire's sinister Death Star from the Star Wars films

    In the original Star Wars films the evil Empire created two massive spherical space stations that were as big as a moon.

    And, in our real universe, one theoretical method of harnessing the power from a whole star is called a Dyson sphere.

    Theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson proposed the concept in 1960 of a cluster of satellites, shell or spacecraft around a star to drain its energy.

    After the team ruled out all possible causes they could deduce, some moved to the alien Dyson sphere theory.

    Darth Vader (second from left) and cronies who were on the two Death Stars before their destruction

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    Darth Vader (second from left) and cronies who were on the two Death Stars before their destruction

    Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider. But this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build.

    Jason Wright, Penn State astronomer

    Jason Wright, a Penn State astronomer, said: "Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider.

    "But this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build."

    Although if a Dyson Sphere did exist, scientists would expect it to emit large amounts of infrared radiation, we would be able to detect at Earth, and this has not been the case.

    The star dipped its light to as low as 20% of its brightest for between five and 80 days.

    One explanation ruled out was a recent asteroid or comet collision.

    The star has produced a series of bizarre light emissions over four years

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    The star has produced a series of bizarre light emissions over four years

    Ms Boyajian added: "It was really weird. 

    "We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out."

    But her conclusion is a comet probably was involved.

    She said: "By considering the observational constraints on dust clumps orbiting a normal main-sequence star, we conclude that the scenario most consistent with the data in hand is the passage of a family of exocomet fragments, all of which are associated with a single previous breakup event."

    Mr Wright prefers the more interesting theory and plans working with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life (SETI) Institute in Berkeley to investigate further.

    14-08-2017 om 01:24 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.GIGANTIC 62-MILE UFO SPACE STATION DISCOVERED IN ESA PHOTO

    GIGANTIC 62-MILE UFO SPACE STATION DISCOVERED IN ESA PHOTO

    A UFO hunter claims to have caught the European Space Agency (ESA) attempting to cover-up the presence of a gigantic 62-mile alien UFO space station lurking in deep space near Lutetia, a large asteroid located in our solar system’s asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. 

    Lutetia was discovered on November 15, 1852 by Hermann Goldschmidt, during observations made from the balcony of his apartment in Paris. On July 10, 2010, the European space probe Rosetta passed 3 160 km from 21 Lutetia, at a speed of 15 km / s, on its way to comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it landed in 2014. 21 Lutetia was the First M-type asteroid to be visited by a space probe.

    Lutetia is an ancient object, "a vestige of the primordial planetesimals" that formed, some more than 4 billion years ago, all the planets of the solar system, according to conclusions published in the American scientific journal Science.

    The Rosetta spacecraft passed last year 3,142 km from the surface of Lutetia, which is positioned on the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

     

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    14-08-2017 om 01:01 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Was the Legend of Utsuro-bune a Close Encounter of the Third Kind?

    Was the Legend of Utsuro-bune a Close Encounter of the Third Kind?

    What is it about Asian culture that intrigues the western world so?  The romance, the mystery, the enchantment…all of it seems to come together to form something ready made for western consumption.

    The ancient Japanese legend of Tanabata comes to mind:

    In the night sky, there are two stars, Vega and Altair.  Legend says that these two stars are the immortal lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi.   The lovers, as they are referred to, have been separated by the Milky Way for eternity and though they gaze across the cosmos at each other, their love remains unfulfilled.  Except, on the 7th day of the 7th month of every year, when all of the magpies on Earth, fly up to the heavens and, with their wings, form a bridge across the galaxy, allowing these star crossed lovers one night of passion among the darkness of space.

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    That legend is part of an ancient sky festival that originates from the even older Chinese Qixi Festival, but most western readers would be more interested in the story of the lovers than the story of its origin.  Perhaps therein lays the difference.  Perhaps it is the inherently one-dimensional thinking of western culture that attracts us to these legends whilst simultaneously impairing our ability to fully understand their meaning, but in the case of the above, it’s quite easy to see the allegorical nature of the story.

    This contrast is amply demonstrated in the common interpretation of Utsuro-bune.  Depending on who you ask, Utsuro-bune (also Utsuro-fune or Urobune) is either a modern version of a very old legend, or it’s a story of out-of-place-artefacts and even a close-encounter of the third kind.

    The story, which in western circles is also called The White Princess, goes like this:

    In 1803 a group of Japanese fishers, in the Hitachi province of central Japan, had a chance encounter with an utsuro-bune – which means, simply, hollow ship – on the beaches of Haratono-hama.  They were intrigued by the ship, which appeared to them as an ornately decorated and covered log boat.  Such a thing would have been highly unusual to their eyes.  It was described as almost 6 meters wide and almost 4 meters high.  Apparently made of redwood, it was adorned with brazen plates on its lower half and had several transparent windows around its top half.  The utsuro-bune was said to resemble a large incense burner, and after dragging it further ashore, the fishers were astonished to find what lay inside.

    incense

    Peering through the windows, the fishers saw that the walls were covered in strange texts written in an unknown language.  It contained items of food and clothing, and to their great surprise, it also contained a beautiful foreign woman.

    She was described as 18-20 years old, with a very pale complexion and strikingly red hair that had been artificially extended with strands of white fur or fine fabric.  She was dressed in elegant, flowing cloth of unknown origin, and her language was unknown so the fishers were unable to communicate with her, but despite this she remained friendly and courteous.  She carried with her a quadratic box, which she protected from the fishers, no matter how pressingly they inquired about its contents.

    Their encounter was brief, as the fishers, once their curiosity had been sated, thought it best not to meddle in the affairs of foreigners, and they ushered the woman back into the utsuro-bune, meticulously reassembling it, and set it again afloat on the sea.  They knew not who the woman was or from where she had come.  They knew not why she was on her lonely journey, nor where she was headed, but the story speculates, as narrated by an old man of the fisher’s village, that she was a princess of a foreign land, whom had betrayed her powerful husband by consorting with other townsmen.  The old man suggested that, due to her beauty, she was loved by the people, and though her husband could have executed her for this wrong, he mercifully banished her and set her to the fates of the ocean, adding that perhaps her precious quadratic box contained the head of her deceased lover.

    Ink drawing of the Utsuro-bune by Kyokutei Bakin (1825).

    Ink drawing of the Utsuro-bune by Kyokutei Bakin (1825).

    That is the story, or at least that’s one version of it.  Even among ancient texts there are different versions.  The three best known versions are contained in three books: Toen shōsetsu (‘tales from the rabbit garden’), composed in 1825 by Kyokutei Bakin, Hyōryū kishū (‘diary and stories of the castaways’), composed during the Edo period in 1835 by an unknown author, and Ume-no-chiri (‘dust of the apricot’), composed in 1844 by Nagahashi Matajirō.  Toen shōsetsu is the most detailed, most often cited version of the story, even though there is striking similarity between each.

    The relatively modern origin of the tale, coupled with the high level of detail suggests to some that this event really happened.  Certainly, on its face there is no reason to assume that it didn’t happen.  Such boats were common of the era, though the one described in the story was certainly more ornate and robust than would be considered normal.  But this might be explained away by both its apparently foreign origin and it having been designed to survive a journey on the high seas rather than inland rivers and lakes where such a vessel would normally be seen.

    Now, if we do take it on its face, the Utsuro-bune legend seems to talk of an encounter between peoples of distant lands, on Earth.  From the detail given, it’s difficult to decide whether this speaks of a real event or is an allegorical morality tale.  Some, however, prefer to take the story as a slight bit more literal, and suggest that the description of the vessel and of the woman are not only based on a real encounter, but some go so far as to claim that they actually describe an encounter with alien technology and a face-to-face meeting with an actual extraterrestrial.

    Comparison of the Utsuro-bune symbols to those from RAF Bentwaters and Roswell

    Comparison of the Utsuro-bune symbols to those from RAF Bentwaters and Roswell

    Much of the UFO theory regarding this story comes from the associated drawings and symbols that are/were recorded with the story in the books mentioned above.  It has been suggested, based on drawings of the vessel, that it could have been a USO (Unidentified Submerged Object), and it’s claimed that the woman’s strange appearance and dress are explainable as that of an alien.  Others claim that there is a similarity between the unidentified symbols that adorned the inside of the ship to those that were reportedly observed on the hull of the craft involved in the Rendlesham Forest Incident.

    If you take the above to be true, then it does seem somewhat reasonable to draw these comparisons, however, there is much about this that suggests the above is not true.

    The story of Utsuro-bune appears, to many scholars, to be an amalgamation of several much earlier cultural legends from both Japan and China.  They claim that the elements of the story can be found in any number of other unrelated legends, which doesn’t automatically rule out Utsuro-bune as a truthful telling of a real event, but it casts doubt.

    In 1997 a professor from Gifu University in Tokyo, Dr. Kazuo Tanaka, studied the legend of Utsuro-bune, and built upon work done earlier by Japanese historian Yanagida Kunio in 1925 and 1962.  Tanaka concludes that the story is nothing more than a (relatively) modern retelling of an ancient allegory.  He claims that the cited locations, Haratono-hama and Harayadori, are entirely fictitious, and that certain elements of the story are almost archetypal to Japanese attitudes toward foreigners in antiquity.

    Doesn’t it seem though, that a deep analysis of these legends somehow cheapens their value as stories of romance and adventure and morality?  Is there not something lost when we try to assign modern cultural values to the tales of our ancestors?  Shouldn’t we simply see them, much as we see paintings and sculpture from ages past, as an artistic representation of what life was in those early days of human expression?

    Is Utsuro-bune a tale of alien encounters and advanced technology?  Is it a description of a real event, an event that carries with it the intrigue and mystery of foreign lands and strange cultures?  We don’t really know, and perhaps that’s the way it should stay.

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    New Shocking Claim: 33 Flying Saucers Appeared Over Waco Air Force Base in 1954

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    14-08-2017 om 00:34 geschreven door peter  

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    The Shadow People – ‘Interdimensional Beings’ Being Seen By Many

    Have you ever spotted a dark figure in the corner of your eye, but when you have looked over to see who it was, the figure has suddenly vanished? This is being experienced by many people around the world (including myself) – more people are talking about seeing shadow people and are wondering who they are and what their purpose is on planet earth!

    The Shadow people are commonly reported as being seen through peripheral vision and while you may feel something was there, the shadow person is either gone or quickly moving away from you by the time you turn your head – As mentioned above, many people have explained that they could see a dark person stood in the corner of their eye, but as soon as they look over there’s nothing there!

    Interdimensional Beings

    Art Bell from the Coast to Coast AM radio series once interviewed Harley SwiftDeer Reagan, also referred to as “Thunder Strikes” in this particular interview session. Thunder had made a rather controversial claim that the shadow people are actually parallel dimensional beings who were first recorded by indigenous people way back in 1153 BC!

    It was mentioned in the interview by ‘Thunder’ that there was some kind of an awakening between 1980 through 2000 and beginning in 2001, there began “The Quickening” in which events and time seemed to speed up dramatically. At the same all this was occurring, shadow people were becoming visible as frequencies raise, entering into our dimension.

    Thunder made a rather remarkable claim at the time and said that these shadow people, of whom he calls, “inorganic beings” live in a parallel dimension and are known to feed off of our emotional discharge of energy along with chaos. It has been noted that in essence, these shadow people are kind of like energy vampires.

    Many people around the world (including myself) have stated that these shadow people appear to wear some kind of a cloak like apparel. Some have reported these figures as tall in height and others have said that they have seen small shadowy figures with piercing red eyes!

    Please check out a video below of a reported ‘dark shadow’ figure caught on camera accidentally – us guys at U.I.P cannot confirm what or who this is on camera, but if real then we managed to work out that this figure would have been huge in height!

    Post/video – http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/sighting-reports/huge-dark-cloaked-figure-with-an-orb-caught-on-camera/

    Mental State?

    It has been stated before that these shadow figures are purely caused by an individuals state of mind and that anxiety and stress could have caused an overactive mind, which created these ‘shadow figures’. Other areas that have been blamed for these sightings are; sleep paralysis, illusions, or hallucinations brought on by physiological or psychological circumstances, drug use or side effects of medication, and the interaction of external agents on the human body. Another reason that could be behind the illusion is sleep deprivation, which may lead to hallucinations – it would be interesting to speak to other individuals who have encountered these shadow people, to see if they have had any of these ‘issues’ mentioned, I bet the vast majority don’t!

    Talking To The Shadows

    It can make you feel very lonely and worried once you have seen a shadow figure appear in your vision, as it is not something that you can freely talk about in public, unfortunately! This bizarre yet creepy brief encounter can make a person feel like they are going mad, but you are not and one of MANY who are having these encounters (myself included).

    The big question is, “can you talk to these shadow people and see what they want” well unfortunately at the moment it appears not as they do not tend to stick around once they have been seen. Also if these beings are from another dimension then at this moment in time it will be impossible to interact with them – this can soon change if we ever decipher out exactly what is going on around the world and who these shadow people are.

    It is important that you talk to others around you about your encounter, perhaps in group forums etc or check us out on FB and get involved with the conversations going on. Trust us, you are not alone.

    Why me?

    When I personally went through a long phase of about 6 months seeing these strange shadowy figures, apart from feeling a little crazy I also kept asking myself “why me” and I know this is something that many people feel after they have seen the same thing. One of the main explanations is that it could be found somewhere between metaphysics and quantum physics. It is possible that as our third dimensional veil lifts, we are becoming more perceptive to beings on different dimensions or who have different vibrations. As dimensions merge and overlap, it is quite possible that many more strange, unexplainable phenomena will appear. With all this being a possibility it could be that those who are more ‘open-minded’ could actually be more sensitive to seeing these interdimensional visitors!

    Another interesting factor about these sightings is that animals are apparently able to see and sense these possible interdimensional visitors also – so if you ever see your pet looking up against a wall anxiously, it could mean that your shadowy friends are back again but perhaps just not visible to you this time!

    U.I.P SUMMARY – I personally enjoyed writing this article as I have personally experienced seeing Shadow people before, and still occasionally do! When I first started witnessing these strange figures it freaked me out and as mentioned above I also felt like I was going crazy! However once I discovered that MANY people around the world were also experiencing the same thing, this is when I decided to do some more research.

    They say that If you feel you have been visited by shadow people, there are ways to protect yourself from them! Most importantly, you will need to overcome your fear because until you do this, they will continue to feed off of it. Not that they are intentionally trying to scare anybody, perhaps they are trying to reach out to a person or maybe they don’t even know that they are appearing in another world. In the meanwhile, what you can do is stay calm, and date the time and place you saw the shadow figure and discuss it with other like minded people who have experienced the same thing – let us know please report it as a sighting on our website!

    It has been said that perhaps these shadow figures are Ghosts, lost souls wandering around the planet stuck in a place they cannot get out of (you have seen the film Sixth Sense right). It has also been stated before by researchers that these figures could be time travellers visiting us from the future – perhaps us, the human race have discovered ways of going back in time!? Anything is possible.

    Just the other day I saw a tall man stood there at the corner of my road when I was leaving my house, but guess what? Yes when I looked properly nobody was there. I think once you have seen them, you never stop seeing them.

    One thing is for sure, the Shadow people are VERY real! Let us know your stories please?

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    Everyone's Favourite Alien System Is a Cranky Old Grump

    By Rae Paoletta 

    TRAPPIST-1 would like to remind you that it was drinkin’ beer while you were still rompin’ around in your nappies — or whatever old people say. The ultra cool dwarf star system, which first was announced back in February, has garnered a lot of interest because it harbours seven Earth-size planets. At least three of those planets are within the habitable zone that can support liquid water and potentially, life. As we’re all clamouring to get off this planet understand this alien system, a duo of researchers has figured out some pretty salient information about its star’s age.

    The team of astronomers used information gathered from various telescopes to determine TRAPPIST-1's age, which they estimate is between 5.4 and 9.8 billion years old. Our Sun is a whippersnapper by comparison: it’s only about 4.5 billion years old.

    “We don’t get the birth certificates of stars when we find them, we just see how they are today,” University of California, San Diego astronomer Adam Burgasser, a co-author on the research, which is set to be published on The Astrophysical Journal, told Gizmodo. “So we had to look for clues that might change on the star over time.”

    Artist’s rendering of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system.

    (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

    Burgasser and his colleague, NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program deputy program scientist Eric Mamajek, used various lines of known data about TRAPPIST-1 to piece together a statistical constraint, which is basically a damn good educated guess about the star’s age. For clues, the team looked at factors like the speed of TRAPPIST-1's orbit around the Milky Way, its atmosphere’s composition, and more.

    Understanding more about this foreign star system just for the sake of it is pretty cool — after all, TRAPPIST-1 is so delightfully weird. But understanding the system’s age could have some pretty big implications for life on the planets, if there is any.

    “Understanding age is pretty important important when you think about the development of planets themselves, and potentially life on these planets,” Burgasser said. “It took about four billion years for complex life to form on Earth, so if we’re thinking about if there’s any life on these planets, how long has it been there to evolve and develop.”

    Obviously, the question of whether or not the TRAPPIST-1 planets can support life is up for debate. Some astronomers think that life probably couldn’t sustain itself on these planets, due to their close proximity to their host star. M dwarf stars like TRAPPIST-1 are known for spitting off large solar flares, and some researchers think this could have eroded the planets’ atmospheres. Also, after being so close to their star for billions of years, it’s possible that any water on these planets has boiled away, due to eons of bombardment with high-energy radiation. Of course, other researchers think there’s a shot life on these planets could exist in certain places, so at this point we’re still left with more questions than answers.

    Hopefully, the launch of big telescopes like James Webb will aid in our understanding of alien systems like TRAPPIST-1. Now that we know it’s old, it seems there are even more mysteries out there waiting to be solved.

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    Raunchy replicants and amorous aliens: How real is sci-fi sex?

    As part of our report exploring the future of sex, we get hot and sweaty with science fiction from "Blade Runner" to "Her." Not all of it is so far-fetched.

    Warning: This story contains descriptions of racy onscreen sex -- and seductive aliens.  

    In Woody Allen's 1973 comic caper "Sleeper," 22nd-century citizens hop into a machine called the Orgasmatron for instant sexual gratification. Sounds pretty fantastical if your idea of high-tech sex is Netflix and chill, but as we slip into wearables that measure pelvic thrusts and have sex with increasingly lifelike robots, it seems the steamiest moments in sci-fi movies and TV shows might be coming sooner than you think.

    As part of our CNET special report Turned On exploring the intersection of technology and sex, we take a romp with onscreen science fiction to see what's already made its way into our beds and what still awaits our touch. 

    Now let's lie back and think of the future.

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    Sci-fi often looks to tech to provide an alternative to all that icky, sticky physical fumbling. The 1968 sexploitation classic "Barbarella" sees lovers of the far future taking "exaltation-transference pills" and pressing together their palms instead of their mucky bits. And in 1993's "Demolition Man," defrosted man-out-of-time Sylvester Stallone looks forward to a night of passion with Sandra Bullock -- until she places brain-scanning helmets on their heads and kicks off a colorful sensory overload that proves too much for the Italian stallion.

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    At the climax of "Barbarella," a villainous scientist puts Jane Fonda's titular bed-hopping space adventurer into an orgasm-inducing device called the Excessive Machine. You probably don't have to worry about a deadly climax if a bad guy takes control of your favorite vibrator, but you do have to worry about today's smart sex toys being vulnerable to hacks

    Not all onscreen sci-fi gadgets provide happy endings. One of the most chilling, desolate moments in British TV series "Black Mirror" comes in "The Entire History of You." A couple's fractious bickering leads to an energetic bout of passionate lovemaking -- until we realize they're dispassionately reliving an earlier, better time in their relationship thanks to their tiny, memory-replaying camera implants. 

    Randy robots

    Many sci-fi stories warn that replacing real love and sex with undemanding technology could lead to an austere, dysfunctional society -- and real-life academics have expressed similar concerns. In the 2013 movie "Her," Joaquin Phoenix plays a man in an idealized relationship with an AI. That scenario doesn't seem so far off considering we can already hang out with customizable sex chatbots.

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    Sci-fi also shows us the ultimate sex toy: fully functional robots. Increasingly lifelike RealDolls with programmable personalities are just months away, though it may be awhile before they're bed-hopping with the masses. In the sci-fi future, however, people are having it away with androids left, right and center.

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    Daryl Hannah as a doll-like "basic pleasure model" in "Blade Runner."

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    "Star Trek: The Next Generation" sees Data getting his robotic rocks off more often than some of his fleshy human shipmates. In the polluted future of "Blade Runner," meanwhile, lifelike androids known as replicants colonize the galaxy, fight wars and generally do the jobs no one else wants. That includes entertaining the troops: Pris, played by Daryl Hannah in a straw wig and racoon makeup, is "a basic pleasure model." The scenario brings up uncomfortable questions of consent around sentient beings created solely for the gratification of others, an issue we're already beginning to confront with sex robots that can be programmed to resist your advances.

    Recently, we've learned artificial intelligence can pick up our prejudices, but it's already happened on film. The robot in 1980 horror movie "Saturn 3," written by novelist Martin Amis, picks up the worst proclivities of Harvey Keitel's villain, including a murderous lust for Farrah Fawcet

    If we ever do find ourselves in conflict with artificial intelligence, our biological urges could prove our undoing. In the 2003 "Battlestar Galactica" series, the Cylons spot this weakness and infiltrate the human race through the clever tactic of being really, really hot.

    X-rated extra-terrestrials

    In real life, alien life will probably take the form of bacteria, which isn't anyone's idea of a hot date. In sci-fi, however, many aliens not only know English, but speak the language of love. Good news for Star Trek's Captain Kirk and Commander Riker, who are forever going on stardates, seeking out new life forms and new uncivilized things to do to them.

    While Kirk and other sexual spacefarers have a girl in every galaxy, plenty of aliens have made the return trip with a twinkle of stardust in their eyes. David BowieJeff Bridges and Jeff Goldblum make the earth move for the human women they encounter in "The Man Who Fell To Earth" (1976), "Starman" (1984) and "Earth Girls Are Easy" (1988). And in 1988's "My Stepmother is an Alien," Kim Basinger's race gave up sex 3,000 years ago, but that doesn't stop her getting it on with Dan Aykroyd to the strains of "Pump Up The Volume."

    William Shatner as Star Trek's Captain James T. Kirk, doing his bit for interplanetary relations.

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    Another otherworldly being who learns about humanity on screen is the orange-haired Leeloo of 1997's "The Fifth Element," played by Milla Jovovich. She's designed to be the ultimate weapon in the battle with a vast and ancient evil. But once that's out of the way, what better way to celebrate than bumping multipasses with Bruce Willis? Big badaboom indeed.

    Interestingly, alien beings taking on female form are often treated as horrifying or predatory. "Lifeforce" (1985), "Species" (1995) and "Under the Skin" (2014) all feature beautiful but deadly aliens taking the form of seductive human women to seduce and kill hapless horny men.

    Cultural theorists like Barbara Creed have had a field day with these portrayals of female sexuality, referring to the Freudian concept of the archaic mother and the monstrous feminine.

    That brings us to the "Alien" series, which inspired a vast mythology and endless scholarly articles around its phallic and vaginal imagery of violent penetration, impregnation and birth.

    The series is rammed full of terrifying moments of reproductive body horror -- from the moment a monstrous egg gloopily peeled open and a facehugger leapt out in 1979's "Alien," through the egg-laying of the towering queen creature in 1986 sequel "Aliens" to the visceral gore of this year's "Alien: Covenant," in which an alien curls its spiked tail between two lovers and skewers them mid-coitus.

    Fortunately, plenty of celluloid aliens have sex without all that blood and screaming, like the Antareans who join with Steve Guttenberg for a cerebral coupling in a swimming pool in 1985 heartwarmer "Cocoon."

    The creatures of the "Alien" series mix phallic and vaginal imagery to horrifying effect.

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    Lonely clones

    Historically, sex has been important to, y'know, continue this whole human race thing. In the future, however, technology could come up with new ways of propagating the species -- and the impact on society might not be much fun. George Lucas' first film "THX-1138" in 1971 and the 2015 film "Equals," starring Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart, depict austere societies in which emotions and sexual relationships are banned in favor of dispassionate reproduction. While we're moving toward gene therapy and debating the merits of editing the DNA of our children, no one's yet suggesting we give up entirely on making the babies the old-fashioned way.

    Fertility is at stake in Hulu's recent hit series "The Handmaid's Tale," based on the horrifying novel by Margaret Atwood. In the near future, it's not technological change at issue but social change, as women are subjugated under a totalitarian religious system in which the few fertile "Handmaids" are repeatedly raped and brutalized. Most chilling is that this sci-fi parable parallels some women's real-life experiences.

    In the bleak, near-future parable "Code 46," released in 2003, cloning comes with its own new problems. The state monitors relationships to ensure no one with similar DNA gets together. That's enforced with smart viruses, including one that makes the people in relationships feel physically sick at the sight of each other, which kind of ruins the moment.

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    With all those amorous androids and ardent aliens awaiting us, no wonder we're so keen to explore the stars. No one's had sex in space yet (as far as we know), but with commercial spaceflights nearly ready to blast off, it's surely a matter of time before someone joins the 62-mile-high club. 

    2000 movie "Supernova" and 2015 TV series "The Expanse" are among the sci-fi stories giving us a preview of zero-gravity groping and grinding, but perhaps the best example of getting wet and wild while weightless comes in "Moonraker." The late Roger Moore's James Bond celebrates saving the day by (what else?) "attempting re-entry."

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    Is Dark Matter Less 'Lumpy' Than Predicted?

    Composite picture of stars over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
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    Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab, the country's largest Large Hadron Collider research institution. He also writes about science for the public, including his recent "The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Things That Will Blow Your Mind" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014). You can follow him on Facebook. Lincoln contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

    For as long as we have kept records, humanity has marveled at the night sky. We have looked at the heavens to determine the will of the gods and to wonder about the meaning of it all. The mere 5,000 stars we can see with the unaided eye have been humanity’s companions for millennia.

    Modern astronomical facilities have shown us that the universe doesn't consist of just thousands of stars — it consists of hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone, with trillions of galaxies. Observatories have taught us about the birth and evolution of the universe. And, on Aug. 3, a new facility made its first substantive announcement and added to our understanding of the cosmos. It allows us to see the unseeable, and it showed that the distribution of matter in the universe differed a bit from expectations.

    The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a collaboration of about 400 scientists who have embarked on a five-year mission to study distant galaxies to answer questions about the history of the universe. It uses the Dark Energy Camera (DEC) attached to the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatoryin the Chilean Andes. DEC was assembled in the U.S. at Fermilab near Batavia, Illinois, and is a 570-megapixel camera able to image galaxies so far away that their light is a millionth as bright as the dimmest visible stars.

    DES is hunting for dark energy, which is a proposed energy field in the universe that is a repulsive form of gravity. While gravity exerts an irresistible attraction, dark energy pushes the universe to expand at an ever-increasing rate. Its effect was first observed in 1998, and we still have many questions about its nature.

    However, by measuring the location and distance of 300 million galaxies in the southern night sky, the survey will be able to make important statements about another astronomical mystery, called dark matter. Dark matter is thought to be five times more prevalent in the universe than ordinary matter. Yet it doesn’t interact with light, radio waves or any form of electromagnetic energy. And it doesn’t appear to congregate to form large bodies like planets and stars.

    Map of dark matter made from gravitational lensing measurements of 26 million galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey.
    Credit: Chihway Chang of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago and the DES collaboration

    There is no way to directly see dark matter (hence the name). However, its effects can be seen indirectly by analyzing how fast galaxies rotate. If you calculate the rotational speeds supported by the galaxies’ visible mass, you will discover that they rotate more quickly than they should. By all rights, these galaxies should be torn apart. After decades of research, astronomers have concluded that each galaxy contains dark matter, which generates the additional gravity that holds the galaxies together. [6 Weird Facts About Gravity]

    However, on the much larger scale of the universe, studying individual galaxies is not sufficient. Another approach is needed. For that, astronomers must employ a technique called gravitational lensing.

    Gravitational lensing was predicted in 1916 by Albert Einstein and was first observed by Sir Arthur Eddington in 1919. Einstein’s theory of general relativity says that the gravity that we experience is really caused by the curvature of space-time. Since light travels in a straight line through space, if space-time is curved, it will look to an observer as if light were travelling a curved path through space. [8 Ways You Can See Einstein's Theory of Relativity in Real Life]

    This phenomenon can be harnessed to study the amount and distribution of dark matter in the universe. Scientists who peer at a distant galaxy (called the lensing galaxy), which has another galaxy even farther away behind it (called the observed galaxy), can see a distorted image of the observed galaxy. The distortion is related to the mass of the lensing galaxy. Because the mass of the lensing galaxy is a combination of visible matter and dark matter, gravitational lensing allows scientists to directly observe the existence and distribution of dark matter on scales as large as the universe itself.  This technique also works when a large cluster of foreground galaxies distorts the images of clusters of even more distant galaxies, which is the technique employed for this measurement.

    The DES collaboration recently released an analysis using exactly this technique. The team looked at a sample of 26 million galaxies at four different distances from Earth. The closer galaxies lensed ones that were farther away. By using this technique and looking carefully at the distortion of the images of all of the galaxies, they were able to map out the distribution of invisible dark matter and how it moved and clumped over the past 7 billion years, or half the lifespan of the universe.

    As expected, they found that the dark matter of the universe was "lumpy." However, there was a surprise — it was a little less lumpy than previous measurements had predicted.

    One of these contradictory measurements comes from the remnant radio signal from the earliest time after the Big Bang, called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The CMB contains within it the distribution of energy in the cosmos when it was 380,000 years old. In 1998, the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) collaboration announced that the CMB was not perfectly uniform, but rather had hot and cold spots that differed from uniform by 1 part in 100,000. The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and Planck satellites confirmed and refined the COBE measurements.

    Over the 7 billion years between when the CMB was emitted and the time period studied by DES, those hotter regions of the universe seeded the formation of structure of the cosmos. Nonuniform energy distribution captured in the CMB, combined with the amplifying force of gravity, caused some spots in the universe to become denser and others less so. The result is the universe we see around us.

    The CMB predicts the distribution of dark matter for a simple reason: The distribution of matter in our universe in the present depends on its distribution in the past. After all, if there were a clump of matter in the past, that matter would attract nearby matter and the clump would grow. Similarly, if we were to project into the distant future, the distribution of matter today would affect tomorrow's for the same reason.

    So, scientists have used measurements of the CMB at 380,000 years after the Big Bang to calculate what the universe should look like 7 billion years later. When they compared the predictions to the measurements from DES, they found that the DES measurements were a little less lumpy than the predictions.

    Is that a big deal? Maybe. The uncertainty, or error, in the two measurements is big enough that it means they don’t disagree in a statistically significant way. What that simply means is that no one can be sure that the two measurements really disagree. It could be that the discrepancies arise by chance from statistical fluctuations in the data or small instrumental effects that were not considered.

    Even the study’s authors would suggest caution here. The DES measurements have not yet been peer-reviewed. The papers were submitted for publication and the results were presented at conferences, but firm conclusions should wait until the referee reports come in.

    So, what is the future? DES has a five-year mission, of which four years of data have been recorded. The recently announced result uses only the first year’s worth of data. More recent data is still being analyzed. Further, the full data set will cover 5,000 square degrees of the sky, while the recent result only covers 1,500 square degrees and peers only half of the way back in time. Thus, the story is clearly not complete. An analysis of the full data set won’t be expected until perhaps 2020.

    Yet, the data taken today already could mean that there is a possible tension in our understanding of the evolution of the universe. And, even if that tension disappears as more data is analyzed, the DES collaboration is continuing to make other measurements. Remember that the letters "DE" in the name stand for dark energy. This group will eventually be able to tell us something about the behavior of dark energy in the past and what we can expect to see in the future. This recent measurement is just the very beginning of what is expected to be a scientifically fascinating time.

    Follow all of the Expert Voices issues and debates — and become part of the discussion — on FacebookTwitter and Google+. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher.

    This version of the article was originally published on Live Science.

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    13-08-2017 om 23:17 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

    The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

    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.

    Marijuana's popularity among American adults is on the rise — and use of the recreational drug is expected to continue to increase, according to several surveys.

    The top four reasons people give for using marijuana are to relax, to relieve pain, to have fun and to help them be social, according to a survey by Yahoo News/Marist College done in March. [Read more about the rise.]

    A gigantic mushroom cloud billowed over Nagasaki, Japan, when an atomic bomb was dropped on the city in 1945.
    Credit: U.S. National Archives

    North Korea has successfully miniaturized a nuclear warhead that could be fitted onto an intercontinental ballistic missile, and has now threatened to attack Guam, a U.S. territory, according to several news reports.

    The saber rattling has raised concerns about the possibility of a nuclear attack on U.S. soil and heightened fears of doomsday. But is a global nuclear winter just around the corner? [Learn how to survive.]

    A bone from the right forearm of an adult human unearthed in Gough's Cave bears more than signs of cannibalism; researchers found zigzagging cuts that were likely intentionally engraved into the bone.
    Credit: Bello et al (2017)

    More than 17,000 years ago in what is now England, people may have performed cannibalistic rituals that involved engraving symbols on human bones, new research finds.

    In the new study, Bello and her colleagues examined ancient human remains from the so-called Magdalenian culture, which existed across Europe during the later part of the Paleolithic about 12,000 to 17,000 years ago. The human bones from these sites often bear signs of cannibalism. [Read more about the cannibals.]

    A Google employee recently published an anti-diversity manifesto on an internal discussion board that has gone viral and stirred furious debate both inside and outside the company.

    In the essay, James Damore claimed that differences in the number of women and men in tech companies such as Google can be largely explained by biological differences, rather than sexism. [Read more about the manifesto.]

    This oval impression is all that remains of a jellyfish that washed up on a beach 540 million years ago, part of a mass stranding in what is now Death Valley.
    This oval impression is all that remains of a jellyfish that washed up on a beach 540 million years ago, part of a mass stranding in what is now Death Valley.
    Credit: Aaron Sappenfield/University of California, Riverside

    540 million years ago, seaside sand contained densely packed microbial communities, which created a gooey glue that was excellent for preserving impressions of ocean creatures left high and dry by retreating waves.

    The ancient jellyfish were preserved in a slab of sandstone found in southeastern California. Scientists identified 13 of these oval specimens on the rocky surface, ranging from 1.2 to 8.3 inches (3 to 21 centimeters) in diameter. The fossils were lighter than the rock surrounding them, and they varied not only in size but also their style of preservation. [Read more about the graveyard.]

    An illustration of the quark-gluon plasma created in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory
    An illustration of the quark-gluon plasma created in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory

    Faster than a tornado, speedier than the giant storm swirling on Jupiter — it's the world's fastest-swirling vortex, which scientists have created in a primordial soup of gluey particles meant to re-create the Big Bang.

    To understand exactly what happened in those moments after the Big Bang, scientists have re-created this primordial particle soup in an atom smasher at the RHIC, at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. [Read more about the vortex.]

    Do you know how much alcohol is in your drink? If you're making a judgment based on taste and smell alone, you may miss the mark, a new study from England finds.

    To see how well young adults could determine how much alcohol was in a drink, the researchers did two experiment with college students. [Read more about the bad judgement.]

    Researchers have created a tissue paper-like material out of ground-up organs.
    Credit: Northwestern University

    Scientists have created paper-like biomaterials from organs such as the ovaries, uterus, heart, liver and muscle that are thin and flexible enough to fold into origami birds and other structures. [Read more about the origami organs.]

    Though small, amphipods such as <i>Lepidepecreum longicornis</i> can pack quite a bite.
    Though small, amphipods such as Lepidepecreum longicornis can pack quite a bite.
    Credit: Copyright Hans Hillewaert

    Tiny marine creatures — each measuring a fraction of an inch in length — gnawed a teenager's legs bloody during a seaside dip in Melbourne, Australia, and experts identified a type of scavenging crustacean as the culprit in this exceedingly rare encounter. [Read more about terrifying attack.]

    The Mars rover Curiosity took these images of an annular, or ring, eclipse as Mars' largest moon, Phobos, passed directly in front of the sun on Aug. 20, 2013. The photos were taken 3 seconds apart.
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M University

    As Earthlings, we have the privilege of ooohing and aaahing at total solar eclipses, those dazzling celestial events in which the moon blocks the sun's light from hitting our planet. But is Earth the only world in our solar system that experiences this spectacular phenomenon? [Read more about eclipses across the Universe.]

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    13-08-2017 om 22:53 geschreven door peter  

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    What Causes Spooky Out-of-Body Experiences? It Could Be Your Ears

    About 10 percent of the general population has had an out-of-body experience at some point in their lives.
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    While driving and accelerating in his car, a man in France suddenly had a bizarre sensation: He felt like he was outside his car, looking in at his physical self, which was still at the wheel.

    The man was part of a new study that links problems of the inner ear with eerie "out-of-body" experiences. These experiences are curious, usually brief sensations in which a person's consciousness seems to exit the body and then view the body from the outside.

    The study analyzed 210 patients who had visited their doctors with so-called vestibular disorders. The vestibular system, which is made up of several structures in the inner ear, provides the body with a sense of balance and spatial orientation. Problems with this system can cause dizziness or a floating sensation, among other symptoms. [7 Weird Facts About Balance]

    Maya Elzière, an ear, nose and throat specialist at Hôpital Européen in Marseille, France, and co-author of the study, enlisted patients who had experienced a range of issues, from recurrent vertigo and tinnitus to infections in the ear. Among these patients, 14 percent reported out-of-body experiences, compared with only 5 percent of healthy people without vestibular disorders who said the same.

    "Out-of-body experiences were about three times more frequent" in patients with vestibular disorders, versus those without these disorders, said Christophe Lopez, lead author of the study and a neuroscientist at Aix-Marseille Université in France.

    Lopez said the example of the patient who felt like he was outside his body while accelerating in his car makes sense. The scientist explained that since the vestibular system would be responsible for orienting the driver and giving him the sensation of moving forward as he accelerated in a car, a faulty vestibular system could send crossed signals to the brain during the motion.

    "If you are sending the wrong signals to your brain about your motion, it creates confusion — your brain has to make sense of conflicting information," Lopez told Live Science. "We think the conflicting signals create a kind of central incoherence, and that creates distortions in the sense of your body and the environment around you." [Top 10 Unexplained Phenomena]

    Among the 29 patients in the study who reported experiencing out-of-body sensations, one described it as a "sensation of entering my body, like in an envelope, from the top." Another said, "I saw myself, smaller, from the top."

    The research also found that most patients reported they had out-of-body sensations only after they had experienced dizziness for the first time. This suggests, Lopez said, that problems with the vestibular system were a factor in creating the odd sensations.

    Out-of-body experiences have been documented for centuries, at least since the late 1800s. One case, recorded by French otologist Pierre Bonnier in 1905, describes a patient who felt "divided into two persons, one who had not changed posture and another new person on his right, looking somewhat outwardly. Then, the two somatic individuals approached each other, merged, and the vertigo disappeared."

    Lopez said that doctors have commonly ascribed the sensation to a kind of psychosis. But the new study builds on other recent research that links the feeling, at least in some cases, to faulty wiring in the vestibular system, he said.

    "What the authors of [this study] did is carefully quantify the incidence of vestibular sensations and their relation to symptoms traditionally labeled 'psychiatric,'" Peter Brugger, a psychologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, told Live Science. Brugger has studied similarly bizarre sensations of people seeing themselves, or their doppelgängers, before them.

    Lopez said he was inspired to conduct his research after working in the lab of Olaf Blanke, a neuroscientist at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.

    In 2002, Blanke showed that he could induce out-of-body sensations in a patient by electrically stimulating the brain area that integrates vestibular and visual input.

    Terence Hines, a professor of psychology at Pace University in New York and author of the book "Pseudoscience and the Paranormal" (Prometheus Books, 2003), told Live Science that the new study makes sense given the role of the vestibular system in the human body.

    "I don't think it's the only explanation for out-of-body experiences," Hines said. "But we know that this part of the inner ear plays a role in how we orient ourselves in our bodies, so if something is wrong there, things can go kind of haywire. It's one reasonable explanation."

    Other factors have indeed been linked to out-of-body sensations. A personal history of migraines, anxiety and depression have also been associated with more frequent reports of the sensation, according to the recent study. Other research, led by psychologist Andra Smith at the University of Ottawa in Canada, describes the case of a woman who could deliberately trigger an out-of-body sensation, suggesting that it may be possible to do so through meditation.

    Also, Lopez said it is common to experience "floating" or "sinking" sensations while falling asleep, dreaming or waking.

    "In terms of neurophysiology, it's unclear why that happens," Lopez said. He excluded occurrences around sleep from his study, because they're not necessarily associated with a faulty vestibular system. He also excluded any sensations associated with drug or alcohol use.

    Lopez said that while a faulty vestibular system is "not the only explanation for out-of-body experiences," it might be reassuring to some to know that a mechanical explanation could be at play.

    "Having an out-of-body experience may happen because one of the main sensory systems is not processing correctly," he said. "It doesn't mean you're crazy."

    The study was published online June 8 in the journal Cortex.

    Originally published on Live Science.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.'Het leven is mogelijk meerdere keren op aarde ontstaan'

    13-08-2017 om 22:10 geschreven door peter  

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    13-08-2017 om 21:25 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Hawking Says Time Running Out – “Colonize Or Die”

    Hawking Says Time Running Out – “Colonize Or Die

    Hawking Says Time Running Out – “Colonize Or Die”

    Humans need to colonize another planet within 100 years or face the threat of extinction, Stephen Hawking has warned. At the beginning of 2016, Hawing warned about the dangers of nuclear war, global warming, genetically-engineered viruses, and the danger of artificial intelligence. In the new BBC documentary “Stephen Hawking: Expedition New Earth,” the professor warns that “the human race only has 100 years before we need to colonize another planet.”

    “With climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, our own planet is increasingly precarious,” Hawking adds in the film.
    Hawking used to believe we had about 1,000 years left, but that timeline appears to have shortened.

    “Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next thousand or ten thousand years,” Hawking told the BBC in an interview last year. “By that time we should have spread out into space, and to other stars, so a disaster on Earth would not mean the end of the human race. However, we will not establish self-sustaining colonies in space for at least the next hundred years, so we have to be very careful in this period.”

    Though Hawking’s timeline is more extreme than most, he is not the only visionary to warn about the threat to human existence. Earlier this year, Elon Musk said humans must merge with machines to avoid becoming irrelevant.

    Alibaba founder Jack Ma, meanwhile, also recently warned that society could face decades of “pain” because of the disruption caused by new technology and the internet, CNBC notes.

    What do you think of Hawking’s daunting prediction?

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    13-08-2017 om 21:07 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Astrophysicists Say Our Solar System Long Ago Had An Advanced Civilization…That Vanished Without a Trace!

    Astrophysicists Say Our Solar System Long Ago Had An Advanced Civilization…That Vanished Without a Trace!

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    Was our solar system once home to an advanced civilization that predated humanity by hundreds of millions of years? And we don’t mean humans! While there is no evidence for a pre-human indigenous technological species, people have been speculating about it since ancient times. Now, one space scientist is pointing out that the existence of intelligent space aliens on Earth hasn’t been ruled out either. One so thoroughly wiped out by a comet strike that nearly all evidence of its existence vanished, never to be found again?

    If a race of smart aliens did make their home in our solar system, there could be traces of evidence we simply haven’t discovered yet, Penn State astrophysicist Dr. Jason T. Wright notes in his paper “Prior Indigenous Technological Species.” Of course, Wright is not suggesting we’ll find any alien fossils. Instead, he’s talking about “techno-signatures,” a term encompassing a broad range of possible artifacts.

    Wright argues that if a prior indigenous technological species did exist, it might have developed on Earth of pre-greenhouse Venus—or even Mars. With surface erosion and shifting tectonic plates on Earth, any evidence on our planet would have been lost long ago. And any artifacts left on Venus probably would have been destroyed by the planet’s atmosphere.

    If the beings did make it to Mars, however, Wright believes they might still exist. Though he argues “it is unlikely that artifacts might be obvious from space imagery, or even from the sort of shallow probing performed by the various Martian rovers.” Any signatures would be buried deep under the surface.

    Other places to look for techno-signatures would be our moon and the rocky moons and asteroids of the outer solar system. There might even be “large structures flee-floating in space.”

    Not all experts are as enthusiastic about this proposal as Wright.

    “If I had to guess, I’d say it’s highly unlikely, but not impossible, that an ancient civilization existed—probably even more unlikely we’ll ever find evidence,” Dr. Paul Horowitz, a research professor of physics at Harvard University commented.

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    13-08-2017 om 20:52 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.When Aliens Come…They Will Come As Machines!

    When Aliens Come…They Will Come As Machines!

    Why would aliens bother coming here in the flesh? Whatever their ‘flesh’ may be – that is! Afterall we sent Rover to Mars! Therefore, a SETI senior astronomer believes that humanity ought to alter its search parameters to incorporate — if not totally concentrate on — clever alien machines. And in the POSTBIOLOGICAL UNIVERSE: Aliens Are Machined Based, Not Meat Based so says NASA’s Chief Historian Steven J. Dick. He believes that the dominant form of life in the cosmos is probably post-biological. Advanced alien civilizations, either through their own trans-biological evolution or through the rise of their artificially intelligent progeny, are more likely to be machine-based than meat-based. We ourselves may be heading in this direction, as witnessed by current and pending advances in genetics, cybernetics, molecular nanotechnology, cognitive science, and information technology. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) institute, one of the globe’s leading alien hunting group, believes that the rise of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) is inevitable on any life-harbouring planet, including Earth.

    Steven J. Dick is the second chairholder of the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology at the Kluge Center. A well-known astronomer and historian of science, he previously served as the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the National Air and Space Museum and as the NASA Chief Historian and Director of the NASA History Office.

    As Dick noted in his paper, “The Postbiological Universe”: Because of the limits of biology and flesh-and-blood brains…cultural evolution will eventually result in methods for improving intelligence beyond those biological limits. If the strong Artificial Intelligence concept is correct, that is, if it is possible to construct AI with more intelligence than biologicals, postbiological intelligence may take the form of AI. It has been argued that humans themselves may become postbiological in this sense within a few generations.

    Dr. Steven Dick THE POSTBIOLOGICAL UNIVERSE National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Headquarters (United States) steven.j.dick@nasa.gov Abstract

    Throughout history scientists and the general public have debated whether intelligent life exists beyond Earth. Some, including most SETI scientists, have concluded that such life is likely, and that cosmic evolution has resulted in a biological universe (Dick, 1996; Dick, 1998), defined as characterized by abundant life beyond the mere physical universe of planets, stars and galaxies. However, another possibility exists: that cultural evolution over the long time scales of the universe has resulted in something beyond biology, namely, artificial intelligence (AI). Such a postbiological universe cannot mean a universe devoid of biological intelligence, since humans are an obvious counterexample.

    Nor does it mean a universe devoid of lower forms of life, what I have termed the ’weak biological universe’ (Dick, 2000a), as advocated by Ward and Brownlee (2000). Rather, the postbiological universe is one in which the majority of intelligent life has evolved beyond flesh and blood intelligence, in proportion to its longevity. This argument has been broached by MacGowan and Ordway (1966), Davies (1995), and Shostak 1 (1998), and advanced in more detail by Dick (2003). But the possible role of artificial intelligence in the universe was completely overshadowed by the publication of Shklovskii and Sagan (1966). Although the last chapter of their book Intelligent Life in the Universe included a chapter on Artificial Intelligence and Galactic Civilizations the

    However, another possibility exists: that cultural evolution over the long time scales of the universe has resulted in something beyond biology, namely, artificial intelligence (AI). Such a postbiological universe cannot mean a universe devoid of biological intelligence, since humans are an obvious counterexample.

    Nor does it mean a universe devoid of lower forms of life, what I have termed the ’weak biological universe’ (Dick, 2000a), as advocated by Ward and Brownlee (2000). Rather, the postbiological universe is one in which the majority of intelligent life has evolved beyond flesh and blood intelligence, in proportion to its longevity. This argument has been broached by MacGowan and Ordway (1966), Davies (1995), and Shostak 1 (1998), and advanced in more detail by Dick (2003).

    But the possible role of artificial intelligence in the universe was completely overshadowed by the publication of Shklovskii and Sagan (1966). Although the last chapter of their book Intelligent Life in the Universe included a chapter on Artificial Intelligence and Galactic Civilizations the AI thesis was very general and lost in the midst of the exciting – and at the time more verifiable and realistic – implications of the other chapters, which assumed biological beings.

    Over the last 40 years SETI has focused almost exclusively on the biological paradigm, especially the radio SETI technique, as opposed the postbiological paradigm. THE GENERAL ARGUMENT My argument in this paper is simple, but firmly founded in the naturalistic evolutionary worldview. The overarching argument may be stated as follows: Advanced intelligence – defined as at least at the level of homo sapiens – implies culture; indeed some consider culture part of the very definition of advanced intelligence. Moreover, wherever culture exists there will be cultural evolution.

    Therefore, if extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) exists, it must have undergone cultural evolution, most likely in direct proportion to its longevity. Because nothing is more important in cultural evolution than intelligence itself, any society will tend to increase its knowledge and intelligence. Because of the limits of biology and flesh-and-blood brains, notwithstanding advances in biotechnology, cultural evolution will eventually result in methods for improving intelligence beyond those biological limits. If the strong Artificial Intelligence concept is correct, that is, if it is possible to construct AI with more intelligence than biologicals, postbiological intelligence may take the form of AI.

    It has been argued that humans themselves may become postbiological in this sense within a few generations (Moravec, 1988; Moravec, 1999). This may be optimistic (or pessimistic depending on your outlook). But if ETI exists, and, as seems likely, it exceeds the age of terrestrial technological civilization, we may already live in a postbiological universe. This overarching argument harbors many assumptions: 1) that evolution by natural selection results in intelligence beyond the Earth; 2) That ETI is older than human intelligence 3) that intelligence results in culture; 4) that culture evolves; and 5) that increasing intelligence is a central goal of cultural evolution. Each of these assumptions can be addressed by subsidiary arguments. EXISTENCE AND AGE OF INTELLIGENCE BEYOND THE EARTH The existence of ETI has been debated for millennia (Dick, 1982; Dick, 1996; Crowe, 1986; Guthke, 1990) and the debate need not be recounted here. Suffice it to say that the Drake Equation, which estimates the number of technological civilizations in the Galaxy, has in the past yielded answers ranging from 1 (ourselves) to a billion or more. Never in the history of science has an equation given answers differing by 9 orders of magnitude, an indication of the uncertainties involved. But with the discovery of nearly 200 extrasolar planets over the last decade, one of the Drake Equation parameters, the fraction of stars forming planets, has been increasingly informed by empirical data. While these new discoveries are believed to be mainly gas giant planets, new instruments such as NASA’s Kepler spacecraft will soon yield numbers on Earth-size planets. That will still be only the beginning in determining whether they have life, much less intelligence. But for this part of the argument we make no more assumptions than standard SETI science arguments. The age and longevity of ETI is important for the overarching postbiological universe argument, since ETI somewhat older than humans is a necessity for more advanced cultural evolution. SETI scientists have had much to say about this too, and there is general consensus that ETI would indeed be much older than us (e.g. Tarter, 2000).

    Cosmic evolution is our guide to the maximum age of extraterrestrial civilizations. Recent results from the WMAP spacecraft place the age of the universe at 13.7 billion years, with one percent uncertainty, and confirm that the first stars formed at about 200 million years after the Big Bang. The first Sun-like stars probably formed within about a billion years, or 12.5 billion years ago. By that time enough heavy element generation and interstellar seeding had taken place for the first rocky planets to form (Delsemme, 1998, p. 71; Larson and Bromm, 2001). Then, if Earth’s history is any guide, it may have taken another 5 billion years for intelligence to evolve.

    Some 6 billion years after the Big Bang, therefore, some 7.5 billion years 2 ago, the first intelligence could have emerged. By the same reasoning, intelligence could have evolved in our Galaxy 4-5 billion years ago, since the oldest stars in our galaxy formed about 10-11 billion years ago (Rees, 1997). These conclusions are in line with those of a number of other astronomers using various methods. Norris (2000) argued that the median age of ETI is 1.7 billion years. Livio (1999) concluded that the first civilizations would emerge when the universe was about 10 billion years old, or 3.7 billion years ago. Kardashev (1997) concluded that cosmological models yield an age for civilizations of 6-8 billion years. Thus, several lines of evidence agree that extraterrestrial intelligence could have emerged several billion years ago. Even uncertainties of billions of years would not affect the argument for taking cultural evolution seriously

    But civilizations do not necessarily reach this age. The maximum age of ETI is mitigated by L, the lifetime of a technological civilization (typically de- fined as radio-communicative). Sagan, Drake and others generally assigned L values in the neighborhood of a million years, and even some pessimists admitted 10,000 years was not unlikely (Dick, 1996, p. 441). L is thus hardly an objective parameter, though studies by social scientists might contribute to the debate. That a man-made disaster would totally wipe out civilization seems unduly pessimistic, though natural phenomena such as mass extinctions, supernovae and gamma ray bursters are more problematic (Norris, 2000; Scalo and Wheeler, 2002; Chapman and Morrison, 1989, 1994). But the important point is that, even at our low current value of L on Earth, biological evolution by natural selection is already being overtaken by cultural evolution, which is proceeding at a vastly faster pace than biological evolution. Technological civilizations do not remain static. Therefore cultural evolution must be taken into account in the Drake Equation no less than astronomical and biological evolution. Unlike biological evolution, L need only be thousands of years for cultural evolution to have drastic effects on civilization.

    Read the full paper here: Dr. Steven Dick THE POSTBIOLOGICAL UNIVERSE

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    13-08-2017 om 20:46 geschreven door peter  

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    Astronomers Discover A Galaxy Made of 99.99% Dark Matter

    NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford
    IN BRIEF
    After decades of being ignored, Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) are finally being given the attention they deserve. These galaxies have very few stars and it is believed that dark matter holds these galaxies together. Astronomers turned their sights on Dragonfly 44, a recently discovered UDG, and found that it's comprised of only 0.01% normal matter, and 99.99% dark matter.

    THE INVISIBLE GLUE BEHIND ULTRA DIFFUSE GALAXIES

    For years, a galaxy named Dragonfly 44 remained unnoticed despite its relative proximity to us here in the Milky Way. This wasn’t surprising, seeing as this galaxy is very dim. Last year, astronomers finally gave it the attention it deserves—and rightly so.
     
    The reason why Dragonfly 44 was dim was because it had very few stars, making it very easy to miss. An observation of the Coma Cluster by the Dragonfly Telephoto Array led to astronomers finally seeing that there was, in fact, a galaxy hiding out there in the expanse.
    Dark galaxy Dragonfly 44 taken using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS). Dragonfly 44. The image on the left is a wide view of the galaxy taken with the Gemini North telescope using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS). Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
    Image credit: Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Gemini Observatory/AURA
     
    At first, the lack of stars did strike astronomers as odd. But upon contemplation, its ability to even keep these stars at all was far more strange and interesting than the former mystery.
    Why? Sparse galaxies like Dragonfly 44, called Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs), have so few stars that normal assumption would dictate these galaxies easily losing the stars they have. Without enough mass in the galaxy to generate the gravitational attraction to keep the galaxy together, these stars could easily spin out of place (and maybe even be kidnapped by neighboring gravitational forces).

    The galaxy being able to keep these stars in place despite the lack of visible mass implies one thing: dark matter is the missing link keeping them together.

    The two Keck Telescopes on top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

    DRAGONFLY 44: 99.99% DARK MATTER

    Dragonfly 44 was particularly astonishing: it stretches 60,000 light years across, and only .01% of it comes in the form of stars and normal matter, which would mean the remaining 99.99% is dark matter.

    For this study, the astronomers calculated the galaxy’s mass and monitored how fast the stars spin in a 33.5-hour period over six nights. “Motions of the stars tell you how much matter there is,” says lead author Pieter van Dokkum. “They don’t care what form the matter is, they just tell you that it’s there. In the Dragonfly galaxy stars move very fast. So there was a huge discrepancy: using Keck Observatory, we found many times more mass indicated by the motions of the stars, then there is mass in the stars themselves.”
    A galaxy made up almost entirely of dark matter was unexpected, and astronomers do not have an explanation on how they form yet. But this finding is a significant aid in the quest to unmask what dark matter actually is.
    The Sombrero galaxy—an ultradiffuse galaxy also located in the Coma Cluser. 

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    13-08-2017 om 20:32 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.New Breakthrough Material: Graphene Elastomer is More Sensitive Than Human Skin

    New Breakthrough Material: Graphene Elastomer is More Sensitive Than Human Skin

    IN BRIEF
    This new material is remarkably soft, and it could revolutionize robotics and prosthetics.

    Researchers from the Monash University have discovered a new sponge-like material called graphene elastomer. This revolutionary material is expected to be used for robots designed to help take care of elderly people.

    The graphene-based elastomer is exteremely sensitive to pressure and vibrations. Also called G-elastomer, the material has the ability to bounce back despite the pressure given to it. It is described to be very soft and elastic compared to other substances such as rubber or foam.

    THE POTENTIAL OF G-ELASTOMER

    Revolutionary new graphene elastomer exceeds sensitivity of human skin

    Professor Dan Li and Dr. Ling Qiu from the Monash Center for Atomically Thin Materials (MCATN) were excited the discovery and potential of this material.

    “This graphene elastomer is a flexible, ultra-light material which can detect pressures and vibrations across a broad bandwidth of frequencies. It far exceeds the response range of our skin, and it also has a very fast response time, much faster than conventional polymer elastomer.,” explained Dr. Qiu in the press release.

    “Although we often take it for granted, the pressure sensors in our skin allow us to do things like hold a cup without dropping it, crushing it, or spilling the contents. The sensitivity and response time of G-elastomer could allow a prosthetic hand or a robot to be even more dexterous than a human, while the flexibility could allow us to create next generation flexible electronic devices,” he added.

    Professor Li, the director at MCATN, admitted that they are still in the early stages of studying the full potential of the G-elastomer.

    However, he is positive that “this research is an excellent breakthrough. What we do know is that graphene could have a huge impact on Australia’s economy, both from a resources and innovation perspective, and we’re aiming to be at the forefront of that research and development.”

    The research can be found in the latest edition of the journal “Advanced Materials”. It is protected by a suite of patents.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The Allagash Abduction

    The Allagash Abduction


    This incident passed off a few years in the past, four men (two of them brothers) would experience something that might change their lives forever. Known as “The Allagash Abduction”, those men might find out something otherworldly might shape the rest in their lives. This tale turned into featured on both the Unsolved Mysteries tv series and The History Channel amongst others.
    To date, this story nonetheless resonates with many as being both plausible and worrying. Where this occurred is positioned within the kingdom of Maine. The date turned into August of 1976, 4 guys decided to holiday together to get away the hustle and pollution of the metropolis. All of them are avid fishermen, they heard approximately a gap which become perfect for night fishing. Known as Eagle Lake, this spot is packed with extremely good panoramic scenery stretching as some distance as the eye can see.
    They were getting low on substances specially meals, so that they decided to strive once more to trap a few fish in the lake for the duration of the night time. The simplest thing they caught later became a glimpse of some thing alternatively exquisite. Thinking beforehand, they built a as a substitute large campfire to mark their way lower back less complicated. It labored as they could quite without problems see their way lower back. They had been on a small length boat, worn-out and getting ready to surrender, when all of sudden they observed a vivid mild inside the sky.
    The depth of this mild become overwhelming, it became brighter than a midnight star. Whatever this turned into, they expected it being nicely over eighty feet in diameter. This item quick approached them after Charlie Foltz decided to use his flashlight to sign it. This object made no noise which turned into alternatively puzzling to them. Whatever this thing became, it had a few shape of intelligence capable of flow so fast closer to them.

    They began to fell uncomfortable so started frantically paddling lower back to their campsite. This bizarre brilliant mild engulfed the men at the boat. The subsequent aspect they knew, they have been all status rather confused lower back close to the camp. It didn’t strike them as odd till later. An quantity of time had passed, the campfire became nearly burned absolutely out.

    It wasn’t till years later when the guys commenced communicating to one another approximately abnormal goals every of them had. All of them eerily similar, they each defined in element the setting they were at. It changed into some sort of flying saucers with what are called “The Grey” extraterrestrial beings. There had been large sized alien creatures which stood taller than the rest and people regarded to be in fee. These things had massive steel glowing eyes, insect-like hands with four larger palms.



    Jack Weiner changed into the first of the men to start having nightmares. Later Chuck Rak, Jim Weiner and Charlie Foltz. All of them sought psychiatric treatment for what they were experiencing. All in their sketches matched up, they were experiencing ordinary dreams for pretty a while. They also met with a hypnotist named Anthony Constantino and the hypnotist stated it turned into the maximum extreme collection of classes that they had ever achieved earlier than. Whatever happened to them turned into rather first rate and similarly documents extra terrestrial encounters.

    http://www.aliensblog.tk/ }

    13-08-2017 om 20:12 geschreven door peter  

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    Categorie:ALIEN LIFE, UFO- CRASHES, ABDUCTIONS, MEN IN BLACK, ed ( FR. , NL; E )


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