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...
13-09-2017
Physicist Confirms Bob Lazar Worked At Los Alamos
Physicist Confirms Bob Lazar Worked At Los Alamos
Bob Lazar is popularly known for his claims of working on top secret engineering related to extraterrestrial spacecraft at Area 51, which made the mysterious facility famous. Government and military officials have denied Lazar’s claims. In a recent interview, however, a documentary filmmaker shared statements from a physicist who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratories, saying he has met the UFO whistleblower at Los Alamos, and can provide proof he was employed as a physicist.
Lazar first started providing information to the public through the media about his alleged job on alien spacecraft engineering in the late 1980s. According to him, he worked at an underground lab known as S-4, located south of the main Area 51 facility.
He first came out in interviews with investigative journalist George Knapp on the Las Vegas CBS affiliate, KLAS News, under a pseudonym with his face in the dark. Lazar eventually allowed himself to be filmed with his real identity. Adding to the mystery was the reality that the U.S. government denied the very existence of Area 51 at that time.
Lazar claims he was axed from his job for sharing information about his top secret work, and his employment records as a scientist, as well as his education details, were erased. Researchers couldn’t find any records supporting the claims of Lazar about his degrees at Caltech and MIT. They also couldn’t find anyone who remembered going to school with Lazar.
This was one of the issues discussed on Sunday night on the famous Coast to Coast AM syndicated paranormal show, hosted by Knapp with documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell as a guest.
Knapp says that he can look past the education issue, and the most important to him is to know whether or not Lazar did work at Los Alamos National Lab. Knapp explains that if Lazar worked there in a technical or scientific position, and he had security clearances, then that could justify the idea that he would be hired at Area 51.
Knapp says that he confirmed in his investigations that Lazar did work at Los Alamos. He states that he found Lazar’s name in a Los Alamos phone book. Moreover, Knapp says that he further recovered a newspaper article with Lazar on the front page and saw a picture of him saying he is a physicist out there.
Meanwhile, many remains skeptical as the phone book doesn’t list Lazar’s capacity at Los Alamos, and newspapers are deemed to be easily fooled.
However, Corbell claims he was able to find a witness who is willing to go on the record. Corbell says he used a “bot” that could run automated tasks over the internet in researching Lazar’s claims. He used this software to search Facebook for keywords and found a comment on a group from someone who said his neighbor claimed to have worked with Lazar.
Corbell says he got in contact with the man, who eventually helped him to get in touch with the neighbor. Corbell confirmed this neighbor did work at Los Alamos and asked this man if he would be willing to go public and he said yes.
Corbell shared some audio clips of an interview with Dr. Robert Krangle, where the physicist says that he was employed on and off as a contractor for Los Alamos in the 80s and still does occasionally. Krangle explains he was part of a design project or ancillary engineering. He claims to have graduated from MIT in 1973 with a degree in semiconductor physics.
Corbell says he has discovered an article that listed credentials of Krangle, who also showed IDs as evidence he worked at other facilities, performing high-tech work, including Kirtland Air Force Base, China Lake, Los Alamos, Manzano weapons storage facility, and Sandia.
When Corbell asked Krangle if he knew Lazar as a physicist at Los Alamos, Krangle answers he was certain. He says they recognize each other as they both worked as a scientist. Krangle goes on to say that he attended security meetings with Lazar, where they were brief not to talk about what they are doing or seeing.
Krangle says Lazar committed professional suicide, and he understood the reason Lazar’s employers were so upset with him because he broke from the fold and talked about it.
Knapp asked Corbell the reason Krangle shared this information if he knew he could get into a big trouble. Corbell answers that Krangle no longer makes a living off of his Los Alamos contracts.
Secret Artist Immortalises UFO Sightings In Wiltshire With A Mural
Secret Artist Immortalises UFO Sightings In Wiltshire With A Mural
A mural immortalises the sightings of a mysterious object in the skies of Wiltshire 50 years ago. Known as “The Warminster Thing,” the UFO sighting reports came from several people who heard strange sounds and spotted objects in the dark sky in 1965.
Warminster Information Centre organised the unique and memorable event, highlighted by the mural made by a “secret” artist. The information centre placed the artwork on the old police station wall.
George Rich of Warminster Information Centre said the mural has been getting a lot of attention where people are already taking several pictures.
Rich said that they’re happy with the development with photos of the painting now all over Facebook.
Leslie Blain, who is also connected with the information centre, said that it took them eight months to plan and organise the mural.
Blain said that it’s a secret as to who did the painting but it’s not done yet, so it is possible to catch him in action.
Blain revealed that the unknown artist will add some other elements, including the glow-in-the-dark paint. So, the wall will heat up over the day when it’s sunny and the picture will glow at night time, Blain explained.
National and local newspapers have featured photographs of flying saucers in Warminster, providing the town much publicity.
This UFO sighting report was just submitted to us. This happened on 30th August 2017 over Liskeard in Cornwall, UK.
Witness report:
THIS IS A MESSAGE THAT I SENT IN TO RADIO CORNWALL YESTERDAY MORNING . I WILL BE AT AN ART EXHIBITION ALL DAY TODAY AND TOMORROW BUT IF YOU NEED TO RING MY MOBILE IS 07790893175 CHEERS , ALAN I would love to know if anyone else in Cornwall saw something strange in the sky yesterday evening 30 th August around 5 to 6pm ? We were eating tea outside and the sky was so dramatic I decided to do a time lapse film of the clouds . I filmed for over a hour of the same bit of sky on full zoom as I just wanted the clouds in the film and not the trees in the foreground . On playback I noticed two dark shapes which were not moving , this was even more noticeable as the clouds were moving fast in time lapse. At first I assumed it was something on the lens or a fault with the camera. But it only happened on a certain part of the sky and at one point they dissapeared behind a small cloud . The clip unfortunately is only very brief and is of very poor quality as I had it on full zoom . As soon as I saw the footage ( which is not the best in the world I may add) I went back out with binoculars and filmed the same area of sky again, but cloud had covered the area of sky where I filmed before , but at one point the sky cleared for a few seconds and I could see something there through the binoculars, this unfortunately was only very brief , and not wanting to lose the area of sky in my view I quickly phoned my good lady Mags to bring out my other camera which has a better zoom . By this time it had clouded in again and there was no sky to see. Here is a very poor image of what was hovering dead still for well over 25 mins ( may have been much longer) the view is from liskeard looking towards the polperro coast . I would love to know if anyone else was looking at the clouds and spotted something . You can see the one on the left looks a reddish colour and the dark one on the right has the sun reflected on the right side . These were totally dead still with no move that all.
Veteran British UFO Investigator Recounts The Best UFO Account He Has Come Across
Veteran British UFO Investigator Recounts The Best UFO Account He Has Come Across
Three very tall men in silver suits were reportedly standing beside a flying saucer on the ground. A mother and six children provided the same account of the incident when UFO investigators interviewed them. Veteran British UFO researcher Philip Mantle did his most memorable investigation before calling it a journey from the UFO conference scene. Mr Mantle investigated such rare account with his colleague Mark Birdsall of Yorkshire UFO Society.
The UFO researcher said he was told that the mother’s eight-year-old daughter ran into the house shouting, crying and telling her to come and look an aeroplane that has just landed in the field. The child apparently saw an object on the ground in the areas adjacent to her house.
According to the accounts, the object was dull grey colour and looked like a Mexican hat. Strange enough, three very tall men stood around the object, and all of them appeared to be in silver suits, the report said. Mr Mantled added that these men seemed to be pointing to a dark instrument on the ground. The witnesses described it as a torch-like thing without light.
Mr Mantle stated that the suits were metallic silver, which would crease when the tall men moved.
The witnesses said that the men went to the rear of the mysterious thing, which then rose vertically, stopped in mid-air before it shot off at an angle at an incredible speed. They reportedly never heard a sound coming from the object the entire time.
All six children of Joyce Westerman related similar accounts to them, Mr Mantle stated. The events took place in early summer 1979.
Mr Mantle considered this one as the best UFO case he has come across down the years. He will also recount other UFO cases on September 9 at the Outer Limits Magazine UFO Conference in Hull.
The Mysterious and Bizarre Zanfretta Abductions in Italy
The Mysterious and Bizarre Zanfretta Abductions in Italy
Many of the “classic” cases of UFO and entity encounters come from the United States, leading debunkers to dismiss the UFO phenomenon as a creation of the American media. But some of the most fantastic and puzzling abductions occurred in Italy, to a security guard named Piero Fortunato Zanfretta.
The Remarkable Knowles Family UFO Encounter Incident in Mundrabilla, Australia
The Remarkable Knowles Family UFO Encounter Incident in Mundrabilla, Australia
In 1988 the Knowles family claimed they encountered and were actively chased in their car by a UFO on the Australian Nullarbor Plain.
The Knowles family and their two pet dogs had a UFO encounter on whilst travelling across the Nullarbor Plain in the early hours of the morning. The family described how a UFO shot over their car and lifted it from the road below them.
They described how their voices changed in pitch, the family dog in the car went crazy, and the car started shaking. Australian news outlets declared the bizarre incident a UFO encounter and reported that the car was covered by strange dust.
This video footage of news outlets discussing and interviewing the family contains amazing testimony on a bizarre and rarely talked about UFO encounter.
The Remarkable Kelly Cahill UFO Encounter with Extraterrestrial Beings in 1993
The Remarkable Kelly Cahill UFO Encounter with Extraterrestrial Beings in 1993
In August 1993, 27-year-old Kelly Cahill, her husband and three children were driving home after a visit to a friend’s house. Their routine journey would soon become a harrowing trip into an unknown world of strange beings that occupied space but were void of color as we know it.
The Dandenong foothills, near Belgrave, Victoria, Australia would have its location forever linked to the sighting of one of the most unusual humanoid creatures in Ufology archives.
Air Force Commander Speaks About His UFO Experience
Air Force Commander Speaks About His UFO Experience
Yugoslavian Air Force and Air Defence former commander has come forward candidly speaking about an alleged encounter with a space ship.
General Zvonimir Jurjevic was the head of the 172 Aviation Regiment in Titograd, now Podgorica – Montenegro capital. It was in 1975 when the General noticed the brightly-coloured UFO came into the vicinity of the Air Force. He was on a routine flight in January of that year when he first spotted the UFO.
General Jurjevic described the strange flying object as having the ability to change colours as if it was deliberately trying to be observed.
The commander further revealed that the UFO was a glowing orb, ten times lighter than the brightest star at that point. The colour regularly changed to white, yellow, light red, and orange, the General said.
The UFO reportedly appeared from nowhere and seemed to attract attention on purpose. Interestingly, the mysterious flying object appeared exactly 50 minutes into a flight every single time without a miss.
General Jurjevic tried to intercept the UFO on January 25, 1975, wherein the bizarre thing once again appeared 50 minutes into his flight above the city of Cetinje. He went after it, but it mysteriously vanished once he got close.
Several other pilots in his regiment also saw the craft, the General claimed.
The commander made a plan wherein two jets were to take off, and two others were to follow a little later from a different airfield to circle the UFO. All pilots were also told to have radio silence to prevent from the ship to intercept messages.
General Jurjevic only just stabilised the flight somewhere above Cetinje when the strange object flashed over Budva. Lieutenant Machec saw the UFO above Niksic.
The commander ordered Machec to stay in place and take a course parallel to the Adriatic coast, where the commander attempted to establish at what distance the object was. He found out that it was around 10 kilometres.
However, it did not allow General Jurjevic to come closer. Oddly, when he reduced the speed, the distance was the same, and when he increased the speed, the distance was the same ten kilometres.
What took place in the skies above Yugoslavia stays a mystery until today, and General Jurjevic thinks the case will never be explained.
Unidentified flying objects have been reported to have recorded on video crossing the lunar surface through a high-zoom telescope.
An array of objects passing the lunar surface is not new to YouTuber Crrow777 after spending years of observing a high-definition camera through a telescope on the moon.
These objects include a boomerang that is made up of a strange unevenly-shaped object, three interconnected discs, and regular discs.
Crrow777, who has been narrating his videos, claims he knows the UFOs are not birds, insects, or satellites flying closer to Earth and creating an optical illusion as to their size after years of filming the moon using a telescopic lens.
In a video, Crrow777 says that it is a compilation of UFOs transiting the moon. He explains that these were shot over the past years and only represent a small part of his captures. Crrow777 believes that the moon is a hologram and the International Space Station is a hoax.
Several conspiracy theorists believe the American government has developed a craft secretly that can go into space. It is also believed that aliens occupied the moon, the reason NASA has never returned. One of the most popular conspiracy theories is that the moon is a hollow extraterrestrial space station.
claimed to be an ex-government geologist and structural engineer who was involved in building underground military bases around the United States (possessing a level 3 security clearance, “Rhyolite 38″), and to be one of only three people to have survived a deadly battle in which 66 American and NATO “Delta Force” soldiers were killed. This battle allegedly occurred in 1979 between Grey aliens and U.S. military and NATO forces at an underground base at Dulce, NM (c.f.: “The Dulce Wars: Underground Alien Bases & the Battle for Planet Earth” By Branton, “Underground Alien Bases” by Commander X and “Reality of the Serpent Race & The Subterranean Origin of the UFOs” by both).
Footage Shows A UFO Flashing Over The Skies Of A Remote Town In Britain
Footage Shows A UFO Flashing Over The Skies Of A Remote Town In Britain
The UFO online community got abuzz after a video that shows mysterious three orange balls moving in the sky and repeatedly changing direction was uploaded online. What makes the scene more interesting is that a trail of sparkling white light follows the strange balls.
Jeremy Le Fevre noticed the bizarre happening in the sky near his home in Frome, Somerset on Saturday evening. He referred the three orange balls and the white light behind as one single UFO. Jeremy saw the unusual object moving erratically with green lights. He then recorded its unusual manoeuvres on video.
According to Jeremy, it was the first time he saw such thing, which went on for several minutes before it flew off into the distance towards Longleat.
Jeremy saw the UFO emitting green and red colours.
Some UFO enthusiasts regarded the nearby town of Warminster as Britain’s UFO capital. The most notable account is the encounter in the mid-1960s that is now known as the Warminster Thing.
In the skies above the town, unexplained noises were heard, and a strange shimmering light was observed.
SPRING ON MARS: SNOWY DUNES ON NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
SPRING ON MARS: SNOWY DUNES ON NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
Below is a photograph that was taken in the Northern hemisphere in the spring at 13.21 Mars time and it was captured by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera that is located on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from NASA.
Over the winter ice and snow have covered the dunes on Mars, but the snow and ice on Mars are not like that of Earth as it is known as dry ice.
SUN REVEALS ICE AND SNOW ON SMALL RIDGES
Once the sun begins to shine when spring comes around, the ice, begins to crack on the smooth surface and dark sand is carried out by the gas that escapes, and this creates patterns that are stunning. On the surface between the dunes, the surface is rough, and frost gets trapped behind some of the small ridges that are sheltered.
The manager of the Science Mission Directorate in Washington is the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and they manage the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The HiRISE camera is from Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation, and it is operated by the University of Arizona.
THE NASA MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of NASA was launched on 12 August 2005, and the aim of the technology was for it to search for any evidence that there was water on the surface of the Red Planet for any long period of time. Missions to Mars that had occurred before the launch of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter revealed that water had flowed over the surface of Mars throughout history; however, it has remained unknown whether the water had been around for a period of time that was long enough to Mars to have been habitable.
The cameras of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are able to survey spots very close up, and one of the cameras is said to be the biggest that has ever flown on a planetary mission. On other orbiters of Mars, cameras have only been able to identify objects around the size of a school bus. However, the new camera can see something that is about the size of an average dinner table.
Thanks to the high-resolution camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter these superb images of snowy dunes on Mars have been captured.
ANTARES, ASTRONOMERS CAPTURE THE BEST EVER IMAGE OF A STAR OTHER THAN THE SUN
ANTARES, ASTRONOMERS CAPTURE THE BEST EVER IMAGE OF A STAR OTHER THAN THE SUN
Astronomers have managed to capture some of the best ever and most detailed photographs of Antares surface and atmosphere and they have shared the photos online.
ANTARES IS CALLED THE RED SUPERGIANT THANKS TO ITS ROSY GLOW
Antares is the red supergiant and it is at the very heart of the Scorpius constellation. It is named the red supergiant due to the fact that it has a rosy hue which is discernible by the naked eye. The new photos have been taken in Chile with the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory and they have revealed a detailed look at the atmosphere and surface of the star that is well beyond the solar system.
Antares is located around 550 light years from Earth, and the mass of the star is about 15 times the mass of the sun. However, it is expanding out and is in in the last part of its life and will become a supernova and due to this, it is losing material. Astronomers have said that if Antares were sitting in the middle of our solar system, the outer layers would be able to reach Mars. Up until now the exact process at which the giant stars lose their mass from the upper atmosphere hasn’t really been known.
LATEST PHOTOS MAP THE SURFACE OF ANTARES THANKS TO THE VLTI
The latest photos from the astronomers hope to answer this question as they map the motions of the material surface in very intricate details thanks to the VLTI, the Very Large Telescope Interferometer. This is an instrument that is able to combine the light from as many as four telescopes so that it can create a virtual telescope which has a resolution that is the same of a single mirror that is about 200 meters wide.
Keiichi Ohnaka from the Universidad Catolica del Norte in Chile said how stars such as the Antare lose their mass so fast in the final part of their evolution is something that has been an issue for more than half a century. The author of the paper went on to say that the VLTI is the only place capable of measuring correctly the gas motions in the extended Antares atmosphere and this is something that is critical in clarifying the problem. It is said that the next challenge researchers and astronomers have is to identify just what drives the turbulent motions.
From the observations made researchers have found some unexpected turbulence in the outer atmosphere of the star and these have been big clumps of receding and up-welling gas. They are movements that cannot be fully explained by the convection currents, where the gas flow transfers any heat from the core and to the outer limits of the star, which points to a new and at the moment, unknown process.
PROJECT AURORA: LOCKHEED MARTIN JUST CONFIRMED THEY'RE BUILDING THE SR-72
PROJECT AURORA: LOCKHEED MARTIN JUST CONFIRMED THEY'RE BUILDING THE SR-72
Government contractor and multinational corporation Lockheed Martin has finally publicly confirmed that they are building the SR-72. The SR-72, based on newly available information, would be the first hypersonic plane. In order to build support for this new design, NASA has released video footage of its predecessor: the SR-71 "Blackbird".
The SR-71 "Blackbird" itself was first built back in the 1960s based on secret government designs from the 1950s. To this day, it is the fastest manned aircraft to have ever been built, as shown in the video. Remarkably, a faster plane was never built in the nearly half a century since the SR-71's construction.
The SR-71 was able to reach speeds up to Mach 3 (2,200 mph) at a maximum altitude of almost 26,000 meters (85,000 feet) The two-seater SR-71 Blackbird was designed as a reconnaissance craft, and it was used in this roll from 1964 to 1998. However, during this period, Lockheed built only 32 of these super-fast planes. They are now working on the SR-72 to upstage the SR-71 by making it even faster. This would allow the SR-72 to function as a strike and recon aircraft.
The project is being developed under Lockheed’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP) or Skunk Works. The company wants to develop a plane capable of hypersonic flight, which means it would have to be able to attain speeds of Mach 5 (3,836 mph) and higher. Lockheed has aimed to surpass this mark, claiming that they expect to SR-72 to reach a Mach 6 (4,600 mph) top speed.
The main question now is why the government believes it needs this plane, and how it will be used. Of course, there is a great deal of secrecy surrounding the project, but it is certain to be expensive. It could be related to tensions between the U.S. And Russia; however, the plane could also function as a spy plane elsewhere. Even over American soil. It would be extremely hard to detect with any civilian, or even military, technology due to its remarkable speed and altitude capabilities.
De mooiste foto's (en video's) van de zonsverduistering
De mooiste foto's (en video's) van de zonsverduistering
Tim Kraaijvanger
Miljoenen Amerikanen genoten gisteren van het moment dat de maan tussen de aarde en de zon schoof. Voor de tijd was al duidelijk dat dit de meest gefotografeerde zonsverduistering ooit zou worden. Vrijwel iedereen stak zijn smartphone of spiegelreflexcamera in de lucht. Dit zijn de mooiste kiekjes!
De zonsverduistering werd tijdens een vlucht vastgelegd. Prachtige beelden, want het wordt plotseling donker en vervolgens weer licht. De lichtkrans om de zon – de corona – is op het hoogtepunt duidelijk te zien.
Nog een foto van astronaut Paolo Nespoli, waarop ook het internationale ruimtestation te zien is.
De zon achter Jack Mountain, net boven Seattle bij de Canadese-Amerikaanse grens. Een klein deel van de zonneschijf is bedekt. Ook is er een zonnevlek zichtbaar.
De maan schuift bijna volledig voor de zonneschijf. De afstand van de aarde tot de zon is 400 keer groter dan de afstand van de aarde tot de maan, maar omdat de diameter van de maan in werkelijkheid zo’n 400 keer kleiner is dan de zon, lijken beide objecten ongeveer even groot vanaf het aardoppervlak.
Op het randje van totale verduistering. Langs de rand zijn enkele protuberansen zichtbaar, namelijk grillige materiebruggen in de atmosfeer van de zon. Ook is een glimp van de corona te zien.
Wow! De krans rondom de zon heeft een temperatuur van één miljoen graden Celsius. Dat is veel warmer dan het oppervlak van de zon, dat ongeveer 6.000 graden Celsius warm is.
Over ruwweg 600 miljoen jaar is de laatste zonsverduistering te zien. De afstand tussen de aarde en de maan wordt namelijk steeds groter, waardoor de maan op een bepaald moment niet in staat is om de volledige zonneschijf te bedekken.
In Nederland is de komende honderd jaar geen zonsverduistering te zien. Wil je getuige zijn van een volledige zonsverduistering? Zorg dan dat je op 12 augustus 2026 in Spanje bent. Het is dan de eerste keer sinds 1999 dat de kernschaduw van de maan het vasteland van Europa bereikt.
When we get home after an exhausting day at the office, most of the time we don’t feel like cooking a proper meal. Instead of cooking something healthy, most of us just fall down on the couch and order a pizza. Or maybe we opt for the quicker and easier option of ready-made meals that are usually unhealthy and lacking in nutrition.
But that may change soon. Your dream of getting home-cooked food at the end of a long working day could become a reality.
Credit goes to Moley Robotics, a company headquartered in London. Moley will soon be launching the world’s first fully automated and integrated intelligent cooking robot. With this robot chef, making dinner will become as easy as sitting back and watching a pair of robotic arms do all the work.
Moley claims that this cooking robot will have access to the recipes and knowledge of renowned chefs. Furthermore, this wonder robot will not only be cooking for you, but it will clean up the mess afterward.
This robotic chef’s work space will be much like a standard kitchen. It will have an oven, a fridge, a dishwasher and a host of small appliances, but will offer one incredible new feature: It will also have two remarkably dexterous robotic arms installed atop a cooking area.
The robot chef is programmed to cook a variety of recipes exactly the way they were demonstrated by a human chef. The best part is that the kitchen can be operated by a touch screen or a remotely via a smartphone.
Nidhi Goyal
Nidhi is a gold medalist Post Graduate in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. You can also find Nidhi on Google+.
NASA has detailed a plan to prevent the Yellowstone supervolcano from ever erupting. By drilling into the volcano and pumping water into and out of it at high speeds, they believe they could cool the volcano and use the emerging hot water to generate electricity.
FROM THREAT TO ALLY
When people think of Yellowstone, it’s usually in relation to the national park, a massive 8,983 square kilometer (3,468.4 square mile) area comprising mountains, rivers, and forests. Less commonly considered is the Yellowstone Caldera, a supervolcano whose eruption could be devastating for our planet.
Thankfully, such an explosion is highly unlikely, and now, NASA has come up with a way to not only ensure that the volcano remains inactive, but also use it to provide the surrounding area with electricity.
Following their release of a story on supervolcanoes, the BBC was contacted by a few NASA members who wanted to share details on a previously unreleased plan to deal with Yellowstone. Even NASA admits their incredibly ambitious plan is risky, but the potential benefits resulting from its success can’t be completely ignored.
First, they would drill into the volcano from the lower sides, outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park. Coming from this direction would prevent the intense heat from making its way to the top of the chamber, where it would cause further problems.
Once drilling is complete, water would be pumped into and back out of the supervolcano at high pressures, with the exiting water heated to a temperature of around 350 degrees Celsius (662 degrees Fahrenheit). The water going in would slowly cool the volcano, while the hot water coming out of it could be used to generate electricity.
“Yellowstone currently leaks around 6GW in heat,” Brian Wilcox, a researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), explained to the BBC. “Through drilling in this way, it could be used to create a geothermal plant, which generates electric power at extremely competitive prices of around $0.10/kWh.”
UNSEEN SUCCESS
Aside from the dangers inherent in any plan to drill into a volcano, the NASA proposal is also largely theoretical — no one knows for sure that it would work, and the cost of finding out would be an estimated $3.46 billion. Wilcox doesn’t think this cost is insurmountable, however.
“You would have to give the geothermal companies incentives to drill somewhat deeper and use hotter water than they usually would, but you would pay back your initial investment and get electricity which can power the surrounding area for a period of potentially tens of thousands of years,” he noted. “And the long-term benefit is that you prevent a future supervolcano eruption which would devastate humanity.”
Even if the system can effectively cool Yellowstone at NASA’s estimated rate of 1 meter (3.2 feet) per year, it would take thousands of years before only cool rock was left and longer than that to actually confirm that the process had permanently eliminated the threat of an eruption.
Despite all of these variables, the plan is worth consideration, especially given that Yellowstone is just one of about 20 supervolcanoes on the planet. NASA hopes that their proposal will encourage more practical discussions and debates on what to do about these massive structures prior to an eruption, at which point the Earth could be thrust into a volcanic winter.
Built by Lockheed Martin in the 1960s and decommissioned in 1998 due to high operational costs, the SR-71 Blackbird remains the fastest aircraft to have ever been flown. Now, Lockheed Martin wants to build an even faster plane: the SR-72.
Built in the 1960s by Lockheed using designs that were kept secret in the 1950s, the SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest manned aircraft to have ever flown the skies. To get an idea of how fast, watch the below video of the plane taking off.
Capable of reaching speeds up to Mach 3 (2,200 mph) with a maximum altitude of almost 26,000 meters (85,000 feet), the two-seater SR-71 Blackbird was used as a reconnaissance plane from 1964 to 1998. Lockheed built only 32 of these super-fast planes, and now, they want to build an even faster one that will act as a strike and recon aircraft.
The SR-72, the leading project under Lockheed’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP) or Skunk Works, promises to be even faster than the Blackbird. The company wants to develop a plane capable of hypersonic flight — speeds of Mach 5 (3,836 mph) and higher — and the SR-72 is expected to reach a Mach 6 (4,600 mph) top speed.
The inspiration for this hypersonic plane may come from the past, but it is poised to take military aircraft well into the future.
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