Strange Sound from the sky in Slovakia caused by cloaked UFO?

It is not a new phenomenon, strange eerie sounds heard from the sky, and it has been reported all over the world in recent years.

While some scientists have analyzed records of these sounds and said that they are acoustic gravity waves and formed in the upper atmosphere, what people hear is only a small fraction of the actual power of these low frequency acoustic emissions, a physics professor at the University of Saskatchewan theorized that it's more likely electromagnetic noise emitted from auroras and radiation belts.

Then there are some theorists who claim that there is a fundamental relation between the UFO phenomenon and magnetic-vortex-gravity anomalies in the Grid.

At all, it seems that no one knows exactly the source of these sounds.

Maybe it is just a natural phenomenon that sometimes occurs in the upper atmosphere but what if huge cloaked UFOs are responsible for these sounds?

The latest strange sound from the sky has been recorded in Slovakia on September 24, 2017 and once again what might be causing the eerie sound?

  

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25-09-2017 om 17:42 geschreven door peter  

Armed Military Ordered Bait Diggers To Stay Off British Beach After Seeing Mysterious Triangle UFOs

The appearance of two triangular UFOs created a buzz not only to bait diggers working on a beach, but also the military. The two workers said they had seen the mysterious objects that seemed to enter the sea at Wilsthorpe Beach in East Yorkshire.

Paul Sinclair, a paranormal investigator, talks about the Wilsthorpe incident in a new book. The event has been dubbed as the Britain’s new Roswell because of the strange military activity apparently connected to UFO sightings.

The two workers were employed in a bait shop at nearby Bridlington Harbour. They were working when the incident took place.

Mr Sinclair said the two men were at Wilsthorpe digging in the mass tides when they saw triangles going into the sea. Then soldiers with guns asked the two workers what they were doing and where they were going. The soldiers reportedly told them to stay away from the beach to avoid arrest.

The bait diggers claimed that they hung around looking the military men from the cliffs. They saw the military men had what appeared to be metal detectors while going up and down the beach.
Mr Sinclair also shared how a married couple in their 80s spotted around 30 to 40 UFOs hovering above the same beach in the night. The next day, the military operation took place. The incident happened on September 14, 2009, at 11 pm. The pair lived in a flat that overlooked the sea at Wilsthorpe.

When the couple decided to go to bed, the woman saw a glow outside. Something told the woman to go outside. She opened the front door and looked towards the sea where she saw several glowing UFOs over the coast. She described the mysterious things as 15 feet long and 8 feet wide. She claimed that they left after about half an hour.

The next day, the couple saw two Chinook helicopters landed at the beach by the remote hamlet. These helicopters were full of RAF personnel, according to the couple.

A man working on a boat at Blythe Park confirmed the presence of the military personnel.

Mr Sinclair tried to find out the reason of the military operation on September 15 through submitting a Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The office responded saying that it was just a routine military exercise and no live ammunition was used. It added that explosions were controlled detonations of simulated ammunition. It also revealed that when they conducted regular exercises such as the one in question, they would seek landowner’s consent.

Nevertheless, Mr Sinclair still believes it is connected to a high level of reported UFO activity between May and September 2009 in the East and North Yorkshire coast. He stated that the case did not yet prove to be UFO-related. However, after investigating the case and obtaining historical coastguard reports from the period, he thinks the military arrived due to the presence of the unidentified flying objects.

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25-09-2017 om 17:35 geschreven door peter  

Welcome to Octlantis: Scientists discover incredible underwater city built entirely by octopuses where they flirt, mate and fight over the best homes

• 'Gloomy octopuses' may not be loners as once thought, as scientists discovered a 'city' where they dwell
• The new site off the Australian coast, dubbed 'Octlantis,' is the second settlement found in the area
• Newfound settlement composed of rock and discarded shells suggests they socialise under right conditions

By Phoebe Weston For Mailonline

It was long thought the gloomy octopus was a solitary creature, only interested in meeting others to mate once a year.

But new research shows these creatures are not the loners previously thought and like to hang out in a small city off the Australian coast which scientists have dubbed 'Octlantis'.

In the comforts of their underwater commune these creatures display complex social behaviours - either directly in den evictions or indirectly through posturing, chasing or colour changes.

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It was long thought the gloomy octopus was a solitary creature, only interested in meeting others to mate once a year. But, international researchers found a site in the waters off the east coast of Australia that is home to up to 15 gloomy octopuses (pictured)

International researchers led by the University of Illinois-Chicago and Alaska Pacific University studied the site in Jervis Bay off the east coast of Australia that is home to up to 15 gloomy octopuses (Octopus tetricus).  

While little is known about the solitary lives of octopuses, a few octopus settlements have been found in recent years.

The new site is the second gloomy octopus settlement found in the area, and the discovery lends credence to the idea octopuses are not necessarily loners and socialise under the right conditions.

'At both sites there were features that we think may have made the congregation possible — namely several seafloor rock outcroppings dotting an otherwise flat and featureless area,' said Stephanie Chancellor, a Ph.D. student in biological sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an author on the paper.

'In addition to the rock outcroppings, octopuses who had been inhabiting the area had built up piles of shells left over from creatures they ate, most notably clams and scallops.

'These shell piles, or middens, were further sculpted to create dens, making these octopuses true environmental engineers.'

The first gloomy octopus site was observed and described in 2009 by Matthew Lawrence, an independent scholar and an author on the paper.

Named Octopolis, up to 16 animals were observed interacting there. It contained several dens as well as a human-made flat object around 30cm (12 inches) long.

It was thought at the time that perhaps these octopuses required an artificial object around which to form their settlement.

The second site is located just a few hundred meters away off Eastern Australia, and has been dubbed Octlantis.

(A) Two octopuses partly buried in scallop shells on the shell bed; (B) map of the site; (C) three octopuses in the cellular cement block; (D) probing by a male octopus with a non-mating arm; (E) a 'tent' mating by a large male with a smaller female and (F) two octopuses in a 'face-to-face' position

Complex social behaviours evolve over generations. The new site is the second gloomy octopus settlement found in the area, and the discovery lends credence to the idea that octopuses are not necessarily loners

The site is about 10 to 15 meters (33 - 49 feet) under the water's surface and is about 18 meters (59 feet) in length and four meters (13 feet) wide.

It is composed of a few patches of exposed rock and beds of discarded shells from prey animals.

A total of 13 occupied and 10 unoccupied octopus dens — holes excavated into sand or shell piles — were found at the site.

The researchers dove to place four GoPro cameras at the new site to film for a day, recording 10 hours of footage that showed numerous social interactions among the inhabitants. 

The newly-discovered settlement of gloomy octopuses supports the idea that octopuses can congregate and socialise under the right conditions. Pictured is a visitor to Octlantis

A total of 13 occupied and 10 unoccupied octopus dens — holes excavated into sand or shell piles — were found at the site. Pictured is a resident octopus 

The first gloomy octopus site was observed in Jervis Bay off the east coast of Australia and described in 2009 by Matthew Lawrence, an independent scholar and an author on the paper. The second site is a few hundred metres away 

The number of octopuses observed at the site ranged from 10 to a high of 15.

'Animals were often pretty close to each other, often within arm's reach,' Ms Chancellor said.

Mating, signs of aggression, chasing, and other signalling behaviours were observed. 

Researchers believe that it is not that the octopus behaviour has changed but that human's ability to observe their behaviour has.

'Some of the octopuses were seen evicting other animals from their dens. There were some apparent threat displays where an animal would stretch itself out lengthwise in an 'upright' posture and its mantle would darken', she said.

In the comforts of their underwater city these creatures display complex behaviours - either directly in den evictions (pictured) or indirectly through posturing, chasing or colour changes

researchers believe that it is not that the octopus behaviour has changed but that human's ability to observe their behaviour has. Pictured is an evicted octopus  

'Often another animal observing this behaviour would quickly swim away.

'This behaviour could be territorial but we still don't really know much about octopus behaviour. More research will be needed to determine what these actions might mean', she said.

A great deal of energy is exerted during antagonistic behaviour, and it could lead to a potential risk of injury to the octopus, according to the study which is published in Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology.

'We still don't know what the benefits are of this kind of behaviour, which is linked closely to living in densely populated settlements, compared to the life of a solitary octopus', said Ms Chancellor

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25-09-2017 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

Today, UFO’s and ET’s are much easier to talk about than ever before. In the mid 1900’s, bringing up the topic would be like directly asking others to publicly call you crazy. But over the years it has become a very popular subject and many appear to be lifting the veil on what is a very elaborate government coverup regarding the existence of UFO’s & Extraterrestrials

Disclosure has happened, it starts with former presidents Truman, Carter, Regan and (the Soviet Unions Gorbachev). I’ve got stacks of generals, including Soviet generals who’ve come out and said UFOs are real. My point is, how many times do senior officials need to come forward and say this is real? – Army Col John Alexander

The phenomenon being reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious –  US General Nathan Twining

All Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin, flying saucers – or UFOs if you want to call them by that name – Maurice Chatelain, Fomer Chief  of NASA communication systems

Humanity has been progressing in it’s understanding that it is not the only intelligent life form in our universe. Extraterrestrial life has been confirmed through a variety of different sources as we continue to contemplate the reality behind our space brothers and sisters. High ranking military and political figures have come forth over the past few years sharing their experiences, previously classified files by dozens of governments from all over the world have now made their way into the public domain. Government files indicate objects travelling at high rates of speed that are (sometimes) tracked on military radar performing maneuvers that defy our understanding of physics. When military jets are scrambled, hundreds of air force pilots have described the same thing.

I was thinking that firing at this thing may not be the best idea, I didn’t know what it was but I knew it was not of this Earth. It was not a man made object, they could stop, they could absolutely stand still and they could go mock 10 or more and any time. It was something that we humans know nothing about – Dr. Milton Torres, rtd. jetfighter pilot us air force

We or at least some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. It is ironic that the US should be fighting monstrously expensive wars, illegibly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on  black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have been kept deliberately in the dark

– Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defence Minister

Department of Defense personnel recently shared their experiences at the national press club in September 2010. UFOs spotted at nuclear missile sights and tampering with equipment is nothing new. This is a global phenomenon, more evidence presenting itself for us to see that we are not alone.

Apart from released government files, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have also collectively released some of their UFO files in 2011. We now have admittance from the military, governments, and three letter agencies that UFOs are real.

Officers of G2 (Army Intelligence) have discussed the matters of Unidentified Ariel  Objects otherwise known as flying discs, flying saucers, and balls of fire. This matter is considered top secret by the and the air force – 1949 FBI Memo

Several eye-witness, as well as military and government cases have suggested that many different species of extraterrestrials exist in our universe, other universes and other dimensions. All are made up of the same life force that we are made up of, all of us are infinite consciousness, all of us are the same playing out different existences and experiences.

On planet earth, humanity is rapidly waking up to the presence of extraterrestrials and that is why we have seen statements, files and other documentation manifest into our reality. Collectively, as we become more aware of our entire earth experience and what has been occurring, we express our hearts desire for change. As we express our hearts desire for change openly and just be ourselves and come from a place of love, we attract those that have gone through the same process.

Many extraterrestrials are here assisting with our collective desired direction, they help in many ways beyond our understanding. Others have been involved with our governments in technological exchange programs, and some have been involved with the manipulation that has occurred on this planet by the illuminati. It is important to realize that we are one on this planet, the human beings of earth are responsible for changing it, the human beings of earth are responsible for the direction of it. Souls on the planet that have the courage to be themselves and shine their light through their thoughts, actions and reactions, you are having a tremendous effect in raising the earths vibration into a whole new plane of existence.

When it comes down to it, we are all vibrating energy, some vibrate at a higher rate than us and others at a lower rate. Inner peace, love, understanding and acceptance are returning to the planet. Harmony and balance with nature and the realization that we are all interconnected with everything is directly related to the extraterrestrial phenomenon, among other things.

We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an Act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity…Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do

– Ben Rich, Former Head of Lockheed Skunkworks

The entities that we did catalogue, were in fact humanoid.

– Sgt Clifford Stone

At no time when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs

–  Astronaut Scott Carpenter

Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered

– Astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell

We have contact with Alien Cultures

– Astronaut Dr Brian O’leary

Thanks for reading, much love!

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24-09-2017 om 23:26 geschreven door peter  

We’re used to the idea of searching for space aliens by scanning the heavens for their radio signals — after all, that’s what Jodie Foster’s character does in the 1997 movie Contact and the way alien hunters commonly go about their work.

But some scientists think the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) shouldn’t be limited to far-flung star systems. Rather, they argue, we should consider the possibility that evidence of intelligent aliens might exist here on Earth, or on one or more of our nearest neighbors in the solar system.

These scientists aren’t saying aliens might be living among us now. They’re raising the possibility that another intelligent species lived or visited our cosmic neck of the woods millions or billions of years ago and left behind so-called “technosignatures” — things like radios, rockets, or other examples of advanced technology — that might yet exist deep underground or out in space. – Should We Be Looking for Space Aliens a Bit Closer to Home?

“It occurred to me that the idea has all but vanished from the professional literature, and I wanted to point this out and ask to what degree it is gone because we have ruled it out,” Penn State astrophysicist Dr. Jason Wright told NBC News MACH in an email. “We need experts in a variety of fields across – Should We Be Looking for Space Aliens a Bit Closer to Home? 

astrobiology, geology, and anthropology to look at all the data to make concrete statements” about whether there’s a chance that advanced space aliens once lived or visited here.

WHERE TECHNOSIGNATURES MIGHT EXIST

Wright, who outlined his provocative argument in a paper published June 1 in the “International Journal of Astrobiology,” said he doubted that intelligent aliens ever lived on Earth. Even if they did, he said, we’re unlikely to find their technosignatures because they’d likely have been destroyed long ago by erosion and Earth’s ever-shifting land masses.

Similarly, it’s unlikely that technosignatures might yet exist on Venus, given its extreme heat and volcanic activity. But “the subsurface of Mars or the moon would be a good place for something to survive, say, billions of years, because there are no plate tectonics to destroy things there, and beneath the surface things would not be badly eroded by wind, dust, and meteorite impacts,” Wright said.

If alien technosignatures do exist on Mars or the moon, it’s conceivable that we could use Earth- or space-based telescopes to detect them. Or it could take a little digging, by a future moon or Mars rover — or even an astronaut’s hands. Given the pace of space exploration, of course, these possibilities are decades away from realization.

What do other experts make of Wright’s musings? – Should We Be Looking for Space Aliens a Bit Closer to Home? 

Dr. Avi Loeb, professor of astronomy at Harvard University, thinks it’s highly unlikely that Earth was once home to advanced beings other than humans. “First of all,” he said, “we don’t find any computer terminals in archaeological digs,” giving another example of a technosignature we might we might find in a dig if technologically advanced beings arose on Earth before us.

But, Loeb said, “There could have been a visit by another alien civilization” from another solar system. The aliens might have visited us in person, he said, or via some form of space probe.

LOOKING TO THE SKIES

If Wright is curious about what might lie below the surface of Mars and the moon, Loeb seems more interested the possibility that technosignatures could be found in space.

Telescopes could be used to look for strange objects left behind by some advanced spacefaring civilization — for instance, a craft that might have been used to ferry beings or space probes our way. One way to mount this effort — what has been called the Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts — would be via a sky survey. That’s a set of repeated telescopic viewings of the night sky that is often used to identify objects relatively close to Earth. 

Stars over Yushu county, in the mountains of Qinghai province as the Milkyway rises in the night sky. AFP/Getty Images / This Content Is Subject To Copyright. – Should We Be Looking for Space Aliens a Bit Closer to Home? 

Stars and galaxies remain fixed in these observations because they are so far away. Anything that changes its position from night to night is closer to us and thus likely to be an asteroid, dwarf planet, a spacecraft launched by NASA or another space agency — or, theoretically, an alien rocket abandoned long ago.

“You’re looking for the needle in the haystack here, something unusual,” Loeb said.

Sky surveys have been mounted by many organizations, including the Planetary Society and the SETI Institute. But most have been aimed at distant star systems. The few that have looked for objects in our own solar system are nearly 40 years old, and they came up empty.

None of the legitimate scientists who have wondered about the possibility of alien life right here on Earth expects that someday we will find a “smoking gun” proving that aliens once visited us or that Earth was once home to advanced beings that predated humans. But they think those possibilities may be worthy of scientific inquiry. As Loeb said, “There is no special reason they would have visited, but it’s worth checking.”

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24-09-2017 om 23:12 geschreven door peter  

SETI scientist lists seven places microbial life could be found in space

By Paul Hill 

If you go back around a hundred years in time you’ll find that speculation about extraterrestrial life was rampant, much like today. However, in 2017, our expectations of finding life in the solar system are much more measured than they were for our ancestors. No more theories of lakes on Mars dug by the Martian race or Dinosaurs walking on a balmy Venus.

Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, which is currently on the lookout for alien signals coming from the depths of space, has run through the most likely places we will find simple microbial life in our solar system; the list includes places we’re already exploring but also other places we’ve only taken photos of, on flyby missions.

First on the list, is Mars. The red planet is the most extensively searched place that features on the list, we’ve sent crafts to orbit the planet, we’ve landed rovers to learn more about the terrain of the planet and now we are preparing to land people on the surface. Shostak believes there could be life forms hidden under the dusty surface of Mars, about 30 meters down or below, where some liquid water may also be present.

Next up we have three of the four Galilean moons that orbit around Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. Io is a fiery volcano planet so it’s not considered to be particularly hospitable to life, however, the remaining three, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede have potential. According to Shostak, Europa’s subsurface oceans could host life which might survive using the hotspots at the bottom of the oceans which are like “little mini volcanoes and that would give you energy for life.” Both Ganymede and Callisto also host oceans but Europa remains the most likely place for life.

The next location is Saturn, where two of its moons, Titan and Enceladus, could potentially harbor life. Although less well known than Europa, Enceladus is one of the most likely places where life could be found and it turns out that it’s not so hard to find out either. Shostak said “it’s shooting geysers into space. So you don’t have to land. You don’t have to drill. You just go grab some of [that] geyser gunk and bring it back to Earth and maybe you’ll find aliens.” Titan, on the other hand, has liquid lakes of natural gas, so it could also sustain life.

The final candidate that Shostak put forward was Pluto. We’ve only just got decent pictures of the dwarf planet thanks to a flyby. Shostak hypothesizes that there are pockets of liquid water underneath the surface of Pluto which means it could also host microbial life.

When asked whether we’ll find extraterrestrial intelligent life, Shostak replied that it might be found in the next two decades. “There’s a lot of real estate out there, right? There are a trillion planets in the Milky Way. We can see a trillion other galaxies, each with a trillion planets. If they’re not out there, then all these people behind us are really special.”

It may seem impossible to discover extraterrestrial intelligent life in the next 20 years, but considering the leaps that human technology has made over just the past two decades, it could be possible, or perhaps it's just a hopeful bias.

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24-09-2017 om 21:23 geschreven door peter  

NIBIRU SIGHTING? Does this video show Planet X UFOs arrive for end of the world?

NIBIRU did not arrive in the skies on September 23 for the apocalypse, but new video evidence has come to light, suggesting that Planet X UFO’s may have come to Earth instead.

24-09-2017 om 21:02 geschreven door peter  

Bizarre UFOs Spotted Crossing Surface of Moon through a Telescope

The reports represent what people have reported to the world as UFO sightings and encounters. This is in no way, shape or forms a release of information that allows the authorities and enthusiasts to examine all that they know about the phenomenon. Although the investigations have obviously been handled more competently and professionally, still those encounters were debunked as a hoax. According to YouTuber Crrow777, he has spent many years of trailing using a high-definition camera via telescope on the moon. The user admitted that he captured a wide array of objects that are passing to the lunar surface. They even included a “boomerang” object.

According to the witness, it is made up of 3 interconnected discs, regular discs, and a strange unevenly-shaped object. Crrow777, who has been narrating in his videos, claims to film the moon through a telescopic lens, for many years. So, he knows well that the UFOs are not insects, birds, or satellites that were soaring much closer to the Earth and had been made an optical illusion as to their shape, size, and dimension. In a promotional blurb for the footage, he added that the footage is a compilation of unidentified objects transiting the moon. But bear in mind that he was a major conspiracy theorist that firmly believes that the moon does not exist, and is a hologram. He even claims that the International Space Station is simply a hoax.

Many conspiracy theorists still believe that the US Government has created secret space craft that can go into space that the people are not told about. So many conspiracy theorists claim the moon is occupied by the aliens, which is why NASA never returned. As you can see, the world of Ufology is quickly garnering an incredible amount of evidence to back up the theory that UFO’s are real and visiting the earth. If pretty much everything information seems a bit far-fetched, don’t doubt an excessive amount. For the non-believers with the UFO concept, it is a good idea that they do watch some real video clippings in the UFO sightings.

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24-09-2017 om 20:10 geschreven door peter  

Swimmers and Beachgoers Transfixed With Black Ringed UFO

Every time UFO Researchers and enthusiasts as from their space agency about astronaut unusual phenomenon and encounters, NASA sends out the debunkers. Even though many Astronauts have been coming and has been very honest about what they have witnessed in space, every space agency continually slams the door. More than a few have been lucky enough to hit right between the senses by NASA which claims that the statements brought by the Astronauts were the results of fatigue, depression, and space sickness. But would this recent strange video make any difference?

A new video that has emerged online about an object soaring in the sky over the city’s Jinshitan beach. It shows that the object was floating among the clouds before it disappeared. Swimmers and beachgoers have witnessed the ring as it flew above them. One onlooker Jing Qi said that the strange object has an oval shape and it is expanding and coming towards them closer and closer. Before it disappeared, the ring transformed its shape into a parallelogram. However, users of social media began speculating on the website’s credibility since they were able to trace the possible origin of the object from Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. As per ET Today, several eyewitnesses have suggested that the ring could have been formed through a group of insects that are moving together. Web users, however, were wise to point out a justifiable explanation in connection of being strange due to its sudden appearance.

Despite the reasonable explanations of swimmers, the residents still believe that the ring had been caused by the visual effects of decorations or lights that had just taken place on the beach. Later on, a spokesperson from a local playground has confirmed that the ring was a consequence of a flame from a show organized for the public. They added that the smoke from the special effects has manifested as a strange floating ring in the sky.

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24-09-2017 om 20:00 geschreven door peter  

7 Lessons 'Star Trek' Taught Us About Life, Leadership and Diversity

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2. Embrace Diversity

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3. Questions the Status Quo

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4. Lead Boldly, but Also Listen

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Every "Star Trek" series has a captain with his or her own distinctive personality; while hard to capture a person in a word, some adjectives to describe each captain could be bravado (Kirk), strategy (Picard), skepticism (Sisko), sarcasm (Janeway) and dutifulness (Archer). Whatever their personality, however, each of these captains certainly occupied the chair with dignity and class — but still willing to admit they needed the help of others to do the job correctly.

For example: In the episode "Detained," 2002 ("Enterprise"), Archer is held captive in a prison and although he has an escape plan, it requires the efforts of the entire crew to get him out of there. "Deep Space Nine" episode "The Visitor," (1995) sees Sisko have a new appreciation of his son after, in an alternate timeline, his son makes a moving sacrifice to help Sisko.

5. In Every Decision, Use Logic and Emotion

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6. Learn from Entities That are Better Than You

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7. Life Lessons

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24-09-2017 om 16:00 geschreven door peter  

Stephen Hawking Has Flawed Ideas About Alien Life, According to Former SETI Scientist

by Christianna Reedy

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24-09-2017 om 15:23 geschreven door peter  

SETI lists seven places in our Solar System that could harbour microbial life

We are more likely to find microbial life 'sooner than' intelligent extraterrestrials.

By Immanuel Jotham

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute believes that our Solar System could possibly harbour life forms in the microbial level and have listed seven places that are the likely candidates.

Seth Shostak, senior astronomer with SETI, in an interview with Futurism has said that there are "at least seven other places in our own solar system, so kind of next door places you could get to with a rocket, that could have microbial life," adding that it is likely that microbial life is found before intelligent life.

1. Mars

The red planet is one of the first candidates for finding life, notes the report. With more and more information coming out about the planet's chemical and environmental makeup, it might not be too unrealistic to expect to find life there. Nasa recently uncovered a "key ingredient for life" in a fascinating chemical discovery on Mars as they found Boron.

2. Jupiter's moons

Europa is a prime candidate for finding a life within its sub-surface oceans. There are hot spots at the bottom where "little mini volcanoes and that would give you energy for life," said Shostak.

Ganymede is the largest moon in the entire Solar System, notes the report and could support life in its ocean beneath the thick ice sheets on the surface.

Callisto is another moon that even has an atmosphere apart from its ocean, says the report.

3. Saturn's moons

Recently it was reported that chemical "precursors" to life was confirmed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan as Nasa found the right chemical setup that can support cell membranes on that moon. According to the Futurism report, there are large liquid lakes that are filled with natural gas and these could be good places to start looking for life.

Another satellite of Saturn– Enceladus is another prime candidate in the search for life and according to Shostak, an even more favourable place for life to form. The report points out that it might be even easier to study life in Enceladus as it shoots plumes of ice into space. "You don't have to land. You don't have to drill," explained Shostak. "You just go grab some of those geyser gunk and bring it back to Earth and maybe you'll find aliens."

One of the reasons why Cassini spacecraft had to plunge into Saturn was because scientists believed that if there happens to be life on any of its moons, there is a possibility of contamination from Cassini that they needed to avoid.

4. Pluto

Pluto is believed to have pockets of liquid water under its surface and according to Shostak "any place [where] you have liquid water — liquid of any kind — maybe have microbes." It was reported that the New Horizons probe discovered blue skies and red "water ice" on Pluto as well as numerous small, exposed regions of water ice.

The report surmises that these seven places in the solar system have the right conditions –not just water– to support life. Shostak said: "You have something that gives you food, fundamentally, and the opportunity to create life, which after all is just organic chemistry."

In a previous report by Futurism, it was noted that there being life on alien planets and actually finding life on those planets are different aspects as humans might not even recognise life that is completely different in form. Earth's atmosphere allows for life that is carbon-based, but planets with atmospheres that have biosignatures made of different other gasses could possibly hold life that is completely unrecognisable to humans.

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24-09-2017 om 15:10 geschreven door peter  

How to Predict a Hostile Alien Invasion

It's hardly the most pressing concern for Earth, but there might be a way to forewarn ourselves

By Caleb A. Scharf 

Given the current state of our home planet, and indeed our species, it can seem a bit surplus to needs to speculate on whether extraterrestrials are going to one day come and eat us (or, well, you know, do anything equally unpleasant).

Nonetheless, the question of whether there's anyone or anything 'out there' that might ever show up to cause trouble does seem to come around again, and again, and again. For example, it's become a bit of a perennial topic for Stephen Hawking to mention, and he's not alone among serious scientists in speculating on the outcome of any such encounter.

As with any effort to decode the likely thought processes or intents of entirely hypothetical lifeforms, the options are - shall we say - fairly loosely constrained. 

I do agree with Hawking's general thinking that if a species goes to all the trouble of undertaking interstellar travel itself (rather than sending robotic scientific probes) the chances are that it wants more than a few nice anecdotes for the next edition of the Really Lonely Planet Guide to the Galaxy. 

But contrary to many Hollywood-style sci-fi tales, I doubt that what an alien species needs are most of the usual tropes: water (what, one of the most abundant compounds in the cosmos?), human slaves (seriously, you can traverse interstellar space and you need slaves?), or some mystical 'life-force' to be drained from us all (no, just no). 

A semi-plausible motivation would actually be the need for a functional biosphere, because an alien home-world has gone belly-up. Although here too, if you can sustain life on a mothership (for the sake of argument) for what would be at least decades, if not centuries of travel, would the need for a planet be quite so desperate? Maybe it would be. As anyone with half a cup of grey-cells in their head is painfully aware, a planetary ecosystem, replete with chemical recycling, photosynthesis, and moderately stable climate regimes, is actually pretty useful, hard to replicate, and possibly the very best life-support system money can buy.

Of course it's easier to set up a colony if the indigenous lifeforms don't include anything particularly intelligent, so the cost-benefit analysis has to include the effort of handling the locals who might get in your way. Option A is to try to be nice and hope you get asked to co-exist, Option B is to follow the template of what humans have successfully, and desplorably done to each other over the millennia: "I know you were here first, but now it's ours and we're going to make it GREAT (again)".

Which brings me to the real point of this post. If the single greatest motivation for a species to go interstellar, and to show up in a hostile fashion, is because their home system can no longer support them, we should be trying to find those nearby exoplanets where it looks like life is on its way out.

Being able to actually do this is a way off, so bear with me. Suppose though, in the not-so-distant-future, we do have the capability to confirm the presence of a biosphere on an exoplanet, and we have refined our techniques so that we can measure stuff like industrial pollution, climate change, and perhaps even the infra-red excess of active technology. In this case we might be able to gauge the odds that life has messed things up good and proper. 

With this information in hand we could go as far as assigning a probability that a technological species on one of these dismal worlds will pack up and come looking for a new home. And, given that this would tell us the best directions to be looking in, we might conceivably be able to pick up signs of an interstellar launch, or deceleration, or other activity.  

There you have it. The best way to avoid hostile alien invasion, or at least be forewarned, is to continue funding all that wonderful exoplanetary science; research that will answer a bunch of other critically interesting questions along the way.

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Mysterious Glowing Orb follows his own flight trajectory over London

The Orb phenomenon is still a mystery. While, some researchers have agreed that some orbs are the result from natural phenomena such as insects, dust, pollen, or water vapor there is no doubt that some orbs may well be representing something supernatural, a reality that is not yet understood by UFO and paranormal investigators.

Is such an Orb evidence of spirit presences representing the essence or soul of a departed person or is such a luminous sphere something that is under intelligent control of an extraterrestrial race?

While there is a lot that has yet to be explored about this phenomenon, it has been proven that authentic orbs have their own flight trajectory and they emit their own light and that is exactly what Gary Lowe has filmed when he was in his car through Dagenham, Greater London on September 23, 2017.

When Mr. Lowe noticed the object in the sky he then pulled his car over and started to film the glowing object, which erratically darting across the sky and was moving ‘too fast to be explained' without making a sound, reports dailymail.

  

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24-09-2017 om 12:59 geschreven door peter  

The Gurdon Light

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Gurdon, Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect. 

24-09-2017 om 01:17 geschreven door peter  

Apocalypse Now? Doomsday Predictions Are Just Recycled Bogus Theories

24-09-2017 om 00:28 geschreven door peter  

THE DOMINANT LIFE FORM IN THE COSMOS IS PROBABLY SUPERINTELLIGENT ROBOTS

If and when we finally encounter aliens, they probably won’t look like little green men, or spiny insectoids. It’s likely they won’t be biological creatures at all, but rather, advanced robots that outstrip our intelligence in every conceivable way. While scores of philosophers, scientists and futurists have prophesied the rise of artificial intelligence and the impending singularity, most have restricted their predictions to Earth. Fewer thinkers—outside the realm of science fiction, that is—have considered the notion that artificial intelligence is already out there, and has been for eons.

Susan Schneider, a professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, is one who has. She joins a handful of astronomers, including Seth Shostak, director of NASA’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, program, NASA Astrobiologist Paul Davies, and Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology Stephen Dick in espousing the view that the dominant intelligence in the cosmos is probably artificial. In her paper “Alien Minds,” written for a forthcoming NASA publication, Schneider describes why alien life forms are likely to be synthetic, and how such creatures might think.

“Most people have an iconic idea of aliens as these biological creatures, but that doesn’t make any sense from a timescale argument,” Shostak told me. “I’ve bet dozens of astronomers coffee that if we pick up an alien signal, it’ll be artificial life.”

With the latest updates from NASA’s Kepler mission showing potentially habitable worlds strewn across the galaxy, it’s becoming harder and harder to assert that we’re alone in the universe. And if and when we do encounter intelligent life forms, we’ll want to communicate with them, which means we’ll need some basis for understanding their cognition. But for the vast majority of astrobiologists who study single-celled life, alien intelligence isn’t on the radar.

“If you asked me to bring together a panel of folks who have given the subject much thought, I would be hard pressed,” said Shostak. “Some think about communication strategies, of course. But few consider the nature of alien intelligence.”

Schneider’s paper is among the first to tackle the subject.

I’m not saying that we’re going to be running into IBM processors in outer space. In all likelihood, this intelligence will be way more sophisticated than anything humans can understand.

“Everything about their cognition—how their brains receive and process information, what their goals and incentives are—could be vastly different from our own,” Schneider told me. “Astrobiologists need to start thinking about the possibility of very different modes of cognition.”

To wit, the case of artificial superintelligence.

“There’s an important distinction here from just ‘artificial intelligence’,” Schneider told me. “I’m not saying that we’re going to be running into IBM processors in outer space. In all likelihood, this intelligence will be way more sophisticated than anything humans can understand.”

The reason for all this has to do, primarily, with timescales. For starters, when it comes to alien intelligence, there’s what Schneider calls the “short window observation”—the notion that, by the time any society learns to transmit radio signals, they’re probably a hop-skip away from upgrading their own biology. It’s a twist on the belief popularized by Ray Kurzweil that humanity’s own post-biological future is near at hand.

“As soon as a civilization invents radio, they’re within fifty years of computers, then, probably, only another fifty to a hundred years from inventing AI,” Shostak said. “At that point, soft, squishy brains become an outdated model.”

Schneider points to the nascent but rapidly expanding world of brain computer interface technology, including DARPA’s latest ElectRX neural implant program, as evidence that our own singularity is close. Eventually, Schneider predicts, we’ll not only upgrade our minds with technology, we’ll make a wholesale switch to synthetic hardware.

“It could be that by the time we actually encounter other intelligences, most humans will have substantially enhanced their brains,” Schneider said.

Which speaks to Schneider’s second line of reasoning for superintelligent AI: Most of the radio-hot civilizations out there are probably thousands to millions of years older than us. That’s according to the astronomers who ruminate on such matters.

“The way you reach this conclusion is very straightforward,” said Shostak. “Consider the fact that any signal we pick up has to come from a civilization at least as advanced as we are. Now, let’s say, conservatively, the average civilization will use radio for 10,000 years. From a purely probabilistic point of view, the chance of encountering a society far older than ourselves is quite high.”

It’s certainly humbling to consider that we may be galactic infants of beetle-like intelligence compared with our cosmic brethren. But despite their superior processing power, there’s a fundamental aspect of cognition our interstellar neighbors may lack: Consciousness.

It sounds bizarre, but, Schneider writes, the jury’s still out on whether any artificial intelligence is capable of self-awareness. Simply put, we know so little about the neurological basis for consciousness; it’s almost impossible to predict what ingredients might go into replicating it artificially.

“I don’t see any good reason to believe an artificial superintelligence couldn’t possess consciousness, but it’s important to identify the possibility,” said Schneider.

Still, Schneider feels the assertion that artificial life simply can’t possess consciousness is losing ground.

“I believe the brain is inherently computational—we already have computational theories that describe aspects of consciousness, including working memory and attention,” Schneider said. “Given a computational brain, I don’t see any good argument that silicon, instead of carbon, can’t be a excellent medium for experience.”

You don’t spend a whole lot of time hanging out reading books with your goldfish. On the other hand, you don’t really want to kill the goldfish, either.”

I hope she’s right. Somehow, the notion of a galaxy teeming with soulless supercomputers is way creepier than introspective, WALL-E-like beings, or dry, sardonic Qs.

“It’s super creepy,” Schneider agrees. Indeed, Schneider, who has written extensively on the subject of brain uploading, urges that humans should reflect deeply on this potential consequence of cognitive enhancement.

The concept of superintelligent alien AI still sounds very speculative. And it is. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth consideration. Indeed, expanding our purview of alien intelligence may help us identify life’s fingerprints in the cosmos. “So far, we’ve pointed antennas at stars that might have planets that might have breathable atmospheres and oceans and so forth,” Shostak told me. “But if we’re correct that the dominant intelligence in the cosmos is artificial, then does it have to live on a planet with an ocean?”

It’s a bit of a mind-bender to think that habitable worlds may hold false promise when it comes to advanced alien life, but that seems to be Shostak’s conclusion.

“All artificial life forms would need is raw materials,” he said. “They might be in deep space, hovering around a star, or feeding off a black hole’s energy at the center of the galaxy.” (That last idea has seen its way into a number of science fiction novels, including works by Greg Bear and Gregory Benford).

Which is to say, they could be, essentially, anywhere.

Begging a final question: How might superintelligent aliens view us? Will our cosmic cousins see us as nothing more than convenient biofuel, a la the Matrix? Or do they study us quietly from afar, abiding by a Star Trek-esque maxim of non-interference? Schneider doubts either. In fact, she reckons superintelligent aliens couldn’t really care less about us.

“If they were interested in us, we probably wouldn’t be here,” said Schneider. “My gut feeling is their goals and incentives are so different from ours, they’re not going to want to contact us.”

That’s a welcome divergence from Steven Hawking’s claim that advanced aliens might be nomads, looking to strip resources from whatever planets they can, and that all efforts to contact said aliens may end in our own demise.

“I’d have to agree with Susan on them not being interested in us at all,” Shostak said. We’re just too simplistic, too irrelevant. “You don’t spend a whole lot of time hanging out reading books with your goldfish. On the other hand, you don’t really want to kill the goldfish, either.”

So, if we want to meet our galactic peers, it looks like we’ll probably have to keep seeking them out. That may take thousands or millions of years, but in the meanwhile, perhaps we’ll upgrade our own intelligence enough to level the playing field. And as an early Christmas present, it seems we can all tick alien robots juicing us for energy off the list of likely apocalypses.

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23-09-2017 om 23:55 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious Deep Space Radio Bursts May be Surprisingly Common

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