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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17-10-2017
ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source
ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source
Merging neutron stars scatter gold and platinum into space
ESO’s fleet of telescopes in Chile have detected the first visible counterpart to a gravitational wave source. These historic observations suggest that this unique object is the result of the merger of two neutron stars. The cataclysmic aftermaths of this kind of merger — long-predicted events called kilonovae — disperse heavy elements such as gold and platinum throughout the Universe. This discovery, published in several papers in the journal Nature and elsewhere, also provides the strongest evidence yet that short-duration gamma-ray bursts are caused by mergers of neutron stars.
For the first time ever, astronomers have observed both gravitational waves and light (electromagnetic radiation) from the same event, thanks to a global collaborative effort and the quick reactions of both ESO’s facilities and others around the world.
The LIGO–Virgo observatory network positioned the source within a large region of the southern sky, the size of several hundred full Moons and containing millions of stars [1]. As night fell in Chile many telescopes peered at this patch of sky, searching for new sources. These included ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) and VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at the Paranal Observatory, the Italian Rapid Eye Mount (REM) telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, the LCO 0.4-meter telescope at Las Cumbres Observatory, and the American DECam at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The Swope 1-metre telescope was the first to announce a new point of light. It appeared very close to NGC 4993, a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Hydra, and VISTA observations pinpointed this source at infrared wavelengths almost at the same time. As night marched west across the globe, the Hawaiian island telescopes Pan-STARRS and Subaru also picked it up and watched it evolve rapidly.
“There are rare occasions when a scientist has the chance to witness a new era at its beginning,” said Elena Pian, astronomer with INAF, Italy, and lead author of one of the Nature papers. “This is one such time!”
Distance estimates from both the gravitational wave data and other observations agree that GW170817 was at the same distance as NGC 4993, about 130 million light-years from Earth. This makes the source both the closest gravitational wave event detected so far and also one of the closest gamma-ray burst sources ever seen [4].
The ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves are created by moving masses, but only the most intense, created by rapid changes in the speed of very massive objects, can currently be detected. One such event is the merging of neutron stars, the extremely dense, collapsed cores of high-mass stars left behind after supernovae [5]. These mergers have so far been the leading hypothesis to explain short gamma-ray bursts. An explosive event 1000 times brighter than a typical nova — known as a kilonova — is expected to follow this type of event.
The almost simultaneous detections of both gravitational waves and gamma rays from GW170817 raised hopes that this object was indeed a long-sought kilonova and observations with ESO facilities have revealed properties remarkably close to theoretical predictions. Kilonovae were suggested more than 30 years ago but this marks the first confirmed observation.
Following the merger of the two neutron stars, a burst of rapidly expanding radioactive heavy chemical elements left the kilonova, moving as fast as one-fifth of the speed of light. The colour of the kilonova shifted from very blue to very red over the next few days, a faster change than that seen in any other observed stellar explosion.
“When the spectrum appeared on our screens I realised that this was the most unusual transient event I’d ever seen,” remarked Stephen Smartt, who led observations with ESO’s NTT as part of the extended Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects (ePESSTO) observing programme. “I had never seen anything like it. Our data, along with data from other groups, proved to everyone that this was not a supernova or a foreground variable star, but was something quite remarkable.”
Spectra from ePESSTO and the VLT’s X-shooter instrument suggest the presence of caesium and tellurium ejected from the merging neutron stars. These and other heavy elements, produced during the neutron star merger, would be blown into space by the subsequent kilonova. These observations pin down the formation of elements heavier than iron through nuclear reactions within high-density stellar objects, known as r-process nucleosynthesis, something which was only theorised before.
“The data we have so far are an amazingly close match to theory. It is a triumph for the theorists, a confirmation that the LIGO–VIRGO events are absolutely real, and an achievement for ESO to have gathered such an astonishing data set on the kilonova,” adds Stefano Covino, lead author of one of the Nature Astronomy papers.
“ESO’s great strength is that it has a wide range of telescopes and instruments to tackle big and complex astronomical projects, and at short notice. We have entered a new era of multi-messenger astronomy!” concludes Andrew Levan, lead author of one of the papers.
Notes
[1] The LIGO–Virgo detection localised the source to an area on the sky of about 35 square degrees.
[2 The galaxy was only observable in the evening in August and then was too close to the Sun in the sky to be observed by September.
[4] The comparatively small distance between Earth and the neutron star merger, 130 million light-years, made the observations possible, since merging neutron stars create weaker gravitational waves than merging black holes, which were the likely case of the first four gravitational wave detections.
[5] When neutron stars orbit one another in a binary system, they lose energy by emitting gravitational waves. They get closer together until, when they finally meet, some of the mass of the stellar remnants is converted into energy in a violent burst of gravitational waves, as described by Einstein’s famous equation E=mc2.
More information
This research was presented in a series of papers to appear in Nature, Nature Astronomy and Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The extensive list of team members is available in this PDF file
ESO is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the world’s most productive ground-based astronomical observatory by far. It is supported by 16 countries: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, along with the host state of Chile and by Australia as a strategic partner. ESO carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design, construction and operation of powerful ground-based observing facilities enabling astronomers to make important scientific discoveries. ESO also plays a leading role in promoting and organising cooperation in astronomical research. ESO operates three unique world-class observing sites in Chile: La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor. At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope and its world-leading Very Large Telescope Interferometer as well as two survey telescopes, VISTA working in the infrared and the visible-light VLT Survey Telescope. ESO is also a major partner in two facilities on Chajnantor, APEX and ALMA, the largest astronomical project in existence. And on Cerro Armazones, close to Paranal, ESO is building the 39-metre Extremely Large Telescope, the ELT, which will become “the world’s biggest eye on the sky”.
LIGO is funded by the NSF, and operated by Caltech and MIT, which conceived of LIGO and led the Initial and Advanced LIGO projects. Financial support for the Advanced LIGO project was led by the NSF with Germany (Max Planck Society), the U.K. (Science and Technology Facilities Council) and Australia (Australian Research Council) making significant commitments and contributions to the project. More than 1,200 scientists from around the world participate in the effort through the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which includes the GEO Collaboration. Additional partners are listed at http://ligo.org/partners.php.
The Virgo collaboration consists of more than 280 physicists and engineers belonging to 20 different European research groups: six from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France; eight from the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Italy; two in the Netherlands with Nikhef; the MTA Wigner RCP in Hungary; the POLGRAW group in Poland; Spain with the University of Valencia; and the European Gravitational Observatory, EGO, the laboratory hosting the Virgo detector near Pisa in Italy, funded by CNRS, INFN, and Nikhef.
Science Paper 1: “Spectroscopic identification of r-process nucleosynthesis in a double neutron star merger”, by E. Pian et al. in Nature. (PDF file, 196 KB)
Science Paper 2: “The emergence of a lanthanide-rich kilonova following the merger of two neutron stars”, by N. R. Tanvir et al. in Astrophysical Journal Letters (PDF file, 843 KB)
Science Paper 3: “The electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave source unveils a kilonova”, by S. J. Smartt et al. in Nature (PDF file, 9 MB)
Science Paper 4: “The unpolarized macronova associated with the gravitational wave event GW170817”, by S. Covino et al. in Nature Astronomy (PDF file, 230 KB)
Science Paper 5: “The Distance to NGC 4993 — The host galaxy of the gravitational wave event GW17017”, by J. Hjorth et al. in Astrophysical Journal Letters (PDF file, 2.4 MB)
Science Paper 6: “The environment of the binary neutron star merger GW170817”, by A. J. Levan et al. in Astrophysical Journal Letters (PDF file, 2.6 MB)
Last week, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) teased news of an “unprecedented discovery.” Now, the organization has revealed that, for the first time ever, astronomers have observed both gravitational waves and light produced by the same event.
“This discovery is significant because it gives us two completely different ways to view the same thing,” Brian Koberlein, astrophysicist and Senior Lecturer at Rochester Institute of Technology, explained to Futurism. “Imagine trying to follow a detective show if you could just hear the show without video, or just see the show without hearing it. When you combine the two you get the whole picture.”
VIMOS image of galaxy NGC 4993 showing the visible-light counterpart to a merging neutron star pair. Image Credit: ESO/A.J. Levan, N.R. Tanvir
Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime that were first theorized by Albert Einstein about a century ago. Last year marked the first time we’ve been able to observe the phenomena, and so far, all the gravitational waves we’ve observed have been caused by particularly intense events, such as the merging of neutron stars. This type of merger has also been considered the most likely cause of short gamma ray bursts, cosmic explosions that emit massive amounts of light.
Scientists have long suspected that the merger of two neutron stars would be followed by a kilonova, an explosive occurrence some 1,000 times brighter than a standard nova. They speculated that the near-simultaneous observations of gravitational waves and a gamma ray burst could indicate that such an event was taking place, and subsequent study by ESO facilities indicates that this was the case: a kilonova had finally been observed.
“I had never seen anything like it,” Stephen Smartt, who led observations with the ESO’s New Technology Telescope, said in an ESO press release. “Our data, along with data from other groups, proved to everyone that this was not a supernova or a foreground variable star, but was something quite remarkable.”
Rare Occasion
No single facility was responsible for this breakthrough discovery — it was truly a collaborative effort. A large swathe of sky containing millions of stars needed to be monitored after the initial detection of the gravitational waves and light, so a host of different facilities were called into action.
Paranal Observatory’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope and VLT Survey Telescope, La Silla Observatory’s Rapid Eye Mount telescope, Las Cumbres Observatory’s LCO 0.4-meter telescope, and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory’s Dark Energy Camera were all used to observe further developments.
The Swope 1-meter telescope at Cerro Las Campanas was the first to spot a new point of light appearing close to the lenticular galaxy designated NGC 4993. This point of light was monitored by the Pan-STARRS telescope and the Subaru telescope in Hawaii overnight. Even more observatories and telescopes would study the event over the following couple of weeks.
“ESO’s great strength is that it has a wide range of telescopes and instruments to tackle big and complex astronomical projects, and at short notice,” said Andrew Levan, lead author of one of the papers. “We have entered a new era of multi-messenger astronomy!”
This interview has been slightly edited for clarity and brevity.
Are we about to get proof of aliens? Clinton campaign chief tweets #TheTruthIsOutThere
Are we about to get proof of aliens? Clinton campaign chief tweets #TheTruthIsOutThere
UFOLOGISTS believe we are on the "threshold" of learning the truth about aliens after a former lawyer to US President Barack Obama hinted a big announcement about extraterrestrial life was coming.
John Podesta, who ran the unsuccessful election campaign for Hillary Clinton tweeted: "Stay tuned for big announcement tomorrow #TheTruthIsOutThere."
He was referring to the launch of a new project by former Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge, involving a series of former senior CIA and military officials, as reported by Express.co.uk yesterday.
Steve Bassett, head of the Paradigm Research Group (PRG) which campaigns for the end of an alleged "truth embargo", could not contain his excitement.
He retweeted Mr Podesta, saying: "Is the circle about to close tomorrow? From this to this: #disclosure."
He later added: "I do not think the truth embargo can withstand this manoeuvre. We are on the threshold."
PRG believes the US Government prevents anyone releasing official statements on the existence of aliens visiting earth.
The group later released a statement saying: "The announcement today from Tom DeLonge and his group is a major step forward in the disclosure process.
"It is now clear the Pentagon, CIA and other intel agencies have decided to move toward closing the constitutional breach that has prevented disclosure from taking place since the end of the Cold War.
"We are perhaps on the threshold of the most profound event in human history."
Mr Podesta has previously expressed interest in the UFO phenomena and during the US election campaign Wikileaks released confidential emails between him and Mr DeLonge about the subject.
Mrs Clinton also pledged during her campaign that she would find out the truth about aliens and the mysterious Area 51 USAF base in Nevada if she made it to the White House.
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ALIEN ANNOUNCEMENT? John Podesta tweeted 'the truth is out there.'
In one e-mail sent in October 2015, the singer, who sang about extraterrestrials in the band's 1999 song Aliens Exist, used the title "Important Things".
Inside this email Mr DeLonge claimed he had two important contacts Mr Podesta should meet over the "sensitive topic" of UFOs and a film, novel and documentary he was working on, which involved an interview with Mr Podesta.
He wrote: "Tom DeLonge here, The one who interviewed you for that special documentary not too long ago.
"Things are moving with the project. The Novels, Films and NonFiction works are blooming and finishing.
A Republican congressional candidate in Florida claimed in a 2009 interview she was abducted by aliens who revealed to her stunning secrets about Earth and still communicate with her telepathically.
The candidate, Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, is aiming to follow Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who is retiring, in representing Florida’s 27th congressional district. As has been the case with other politicians, some of her past words and actions are coming under scrutiny.
In 2009, Rodriguez Aguilera told Spanish-language television station America TeVe the aliens took her up into their spaceship when she was 7 years old, The Miami Herald reported Monday.
Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, a former Doral city council member and the city's first economic director, will run to replace retiring Rep.
“I went in. There were some round seats that were there and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship—not like airplanes,” Rodriguez Aguilera said during the interview.
She said she encountered three aliens who resembled the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. They told her that a cave in the country of Malta contained 30,000 skulls that were not human and that the world’s “energy center” lies in Africa.
Rodriguez Aguilera is now attempting to dispel potential damage to her campaign by saying former leaders and highly intelligent people have made similar claims.
“For years, people, including presidents like Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter and astronauts, have publicly claimed to have seen unidentified flying objects, and scientists like Stephen Hawking and institutions like the Vatican have stated that there are billions of galaxies in the universe and we are probably not alone,” Rodriguez Aguilera said in a statement to the Herald.
The statement continued, “I personally am a Christian and have a strong belief in God. I join the majority of Americans who believe that there must be intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in the universe.”
Rodriguez Aguilera started her campaign in August and does have some deep ties to the Republican establishment, including the White House. Her daughter, Bettina Inclán Agen, previously ran Hispanic outreach for the Republican National Committee, and her son-in-law, Jarrod Agen, serves as the deputy chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence.
A YouTube channel set up by a Cardigan man concentrating on the weird and wonderful has reached its first million views.
The Wonderful World of Weirdness is a platform for all things paranormal, including ghosts, UFOs and all things weird and is the brainchild of John Clarke, from Blaenporth.
The channel had its humble origins back in May 2016 and is now a worldwide success. It was originally set up as a platform to share videos that were shared by people on Facebook.
However it was only in June 2016 when 52-year-old John made his first video and since then has never looked back and has partnered up with long-time childhood friend Julian Murphy, who lives in Carmarthen.
Julian is a musician and author and has now started writing the music for all the videos on the channel.
“I cannot believe how quickly it has all grown and never expected it to be such a success,” said John, who hit upon the idea while caring for his two-year-old child while his partner went back to work.
“I could not bear the idea of just sitting around all day so decided I had to do something. I had a bit of an interest in the paranormal but nothing other than that. I am not one of these paranormal investigators.
“I am self taught and just seem to have a knack of putting together videos that other people seem to like and to get to a million views so quickly is amazing.”
Following on the success of the You Tube channel, John and Julian have also now set up a website www.thewonderfulworldofweirdness.com which you can check out if you are a fan of anything weird and paranormal.
A free download of their single " I'm Weird and I Know It" is available.
Columnist Cheryl Costa discusses Tom DeLonge’s UFO research endeavor, To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.
TOM DELONGE IN 2012. PHOTO BY A.SAVIN VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.
For decades the UFO community and beyond has wanted to see a good-faith and honest effort to research everything to do with Unidentified Flying Objects. We’ve all wanted to see the topic talked about in a factual way with the specter of mockery and the societal boundaries removed. We’ve all wanted the scientific community to get past the shadow of ridicule, receive funding and get to the theoretical bottom of the unknown physics that UFOs represented — no matter how fantastic.
In 1940, if you were an American high technology student in some of the nation’s best engineering schools and you mentioned to your professor that you were interested in rockets, you were frequently made fun of and dismissed as a crackpot. A MIT professor of the era said, “I don’t understand how a serious scientist or engineer can play around with rockets.”
Of course, that wasn’t the feeling in Nazi Germany. They saw great promise in rockets for their own objectives.
A few years after World War II, Dr. Werner Von Braun and his band of German rocket scientists were working for our government and military community. Von Braun wanted to put a satellite in orbit around the planet by September 1956 or by early-1957. Regrettably, nobody in the U.S. government understood the potential or had the vision to give Von Braun the green light to do it. Why? Well, there were certain touchy Cold War-policy considerations but beyond the politics, there was still the nagging notion that putting mechanisms in orbit still seemed to be the stuff of science fiction and fantasy.
On Oct. 4, 1957, the Russians showed they had the vision and political will to launch Earth’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit. This event woke everybody up in both the science and arts communities. Suddenly, rocket research and outer space came out of the realm of science fiction and became very real, and the possibilities were evident in a few short years.
What we as a society needed at that time were two things: the arts community to dare to imagine the future and share the stories of the possible and the sciences to do rational inquiry and the research to make it all real.
In September 1962, five years after Sputnik was launched, President John F. Kennedy had the vision to challenge the country to go to the moon. Nine years after Sputnik, DesiLu Studios and Gene Rodenberry launched a science fiction television series that has helped several generations to imagine the possibilities of exploring the galaxy; that series was Star Trek.
On Oct. 11, rocker Tom DeLonge presented his much-anticipated, long-promised disclosure announcement. Was it disclosure? This question has caused great ambivalence within the UFO community. Many say yes, and many say no. So let me quote independent investigative journalist Leslie Kean, who put it most clearly:
“Folks, I’m concerned that some of you are missing the point. The head of a secret UFO program at the DOD has just come forward to confirm the existence of that program. Based on the work of this official program, he has stated for the world to hear that UFOs are unquestionably real. He left that program less than two weeks ago. This is as close to official ‘disclosure’ as we have come since the close of Project Blue Book.”
The former DOD official to whom she is referring is Luis Elizondo. So we didn’t get everything, but we did get some disclosure, or as some would say another splash of drip-drip disclosure. It certainly wasn’t the drink from the fire hose that many in the UFO community really wanted.
The principal focus of DeLonge’s presentation was his challenge to take the next step with the launch of “To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.”
What DeLonge and his team of experts did was form a public benefit corporation with a charter to encourage scientific research efforts related to Unidentified Flying Objects. In addition, this corporate charter has a strong artistic element to this effort, intended to stimulate the cultural imagination to a new level of contemplation of future of possibilities. The objective is to challenge the boundaries of our thinking by inspiring exploration, and imagining and manifesting a bold and prosperous future. DeLonge and his prestigious colleagues are asking people to invest in the project with a stock offering.
This is a new and different approach to the issue of disclosure. They are challenging the UFO community to put their money where their mouths are, so to speak. It will be interesting to watch and follow their progress.
Note: Neither New York Skies or Syracuse New Times has any connection to the DeLonge project, and this is not an endorsement.
Cheryl Costa will be speaking at the following events in October:
Oct. 23, 7 p.m.:Connetquot Public Library, 760 Ocean Avenue, Bohemia, N.Y. Presenting via Skype, library will be giving data handouts.
Oct. 26, 7 p.m.: Center for the Arts, 72 S. Main St., Homer, N.Y. Speaking in person.
If you have a UFO sighting to report, you can use either one of the two national database services:nuforc.org or mufon.com. Both services respect confidentiality. Follow me on Twitter @American_Skies.
Attention, Central New York residents: Join a monthly MUFON-sponsored speakers presentation and discussion group in Syracuse. Regularly held the last Saturday of the month, it runs from April 29 through October 28, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m, May Memorial, 3800 E. Genesee St. Plenty of off-street parking is available
Miami politician says aliens took her on a spaceship. Now she’s running for Congress.
Miami politician says aliens took her on a spaceship. Now she’s running for Congress.
Miami congressional candidate, Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, speaks in 2009 about her relationships with extraterrestrial beings in an Américan Tevé program. Courtesy of América Tevé
WASHINGTON - Florida has a U.S. senator who once flew aboard the Space Shuttle.
A congressional candidate from Miami can go one better: Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera says she’s been aboard a spaceship too. But this one was crewed by aliens. As in extraterrestrials.
Three blond, big-bodied beings — two females, one male — visited her when she was 7 years old and have communicated telepathically with her several times in her life, she says. (Sen. Bill Nelson served as payload officer aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1986. All seven people aboard were from Earth. As far as is known.)
Rodriguez Aguilera, 59, a Republican who is running to replace retiring Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, recounted her experience with the ETs during a 2009 television interview.
She described “going up” inside the spaceship — though whether it went into space or just hovered around town was left unclear.
“I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes,” Rodriguez Aguilera said.
In two separate videos posted to YouTube years ago, one by local Spanish-language station America TeVe and another by a political critic with the user name DoralGirl26, Rodriguez Aguilera spoke on television in detail about her extraterrestrial experiences. She said the alien beings reminded her of the famous statue in Rio de Janeiro, Christ the Redeemer, with arms outstretched.
Among the things she said she found out from the aliens:
▪ There are 30,000 skulls — “different from humans” — in a cave in the Mediterranean island of Malta.
▪ The world’s “energy center” is in Africa.
▪ The Coral Castle, a limestone tourist attraction South Miami-Dade, is actually an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
▪ “God is a universal energy.”
She also said that the aliens had mentioned Isis, though she didn’t clarify if they meant the terrorist organization or the ancient Egyptian goddess.
What are the politics of U.F.O.s? Hillary Clinton said she believed in giving wider access to government records related to U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial life. Listen to what other presidents had to say about aliens and Area 51.
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The Miami Herald asked Rodriguez Aguilera about her experiences Friday. She responded with a statement that waxed astronomical, but sadly failed to mention close encounters of any kind.
“For years people, including Presidents like Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter and astronauts have publicly claimed to have seen unidentified flying objects and scientists like Stephen Hawking and institutions like the Vatican have stated that there are billions of galaxies in the universe and we are probably not alone,” she said. “I personally am a Christian and have a strong belief in God, I join the majority of Americans who believe that there must be intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in the universe.”
Rodriguez Aguilera was a Doral councilwoman from 2012-14 and served as the city's first economic developer. She works as an entrepreneur and has taught leadership seminars at local universities.
She declared her candidacy in late August and raised about $10,000 during the most recent fundraising quarter, she said — a paltry amount she attributed to halting her campaign during Hurricane Irma.
Rodriguez Aguilera’s daughter is former Republican National Committee Hispanic outreach director Bettina Inclán Agen. Her son-in-law, Jarrod Agen, is Vice President Mike Pence’s deputy chief of staff.
Miami attorney Rick Yabor, a frequent political commentator in Spanish-language media, said Friday that Rodriguez Aguilera’s account could hurt her congressional campaign. Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro andformer school board member and Miami-Dade County mayoral candidate Raquel Regalado, both far better known than Rodriguez Aguilera, are also running in the Republican primary.
“Being a politician, to come out and say that, it’s odd,” Yabor said. “She got into details that are not very mainstream. Someone who’s running for Congress — you’ve got to raise a lot of money. A donor might have second thoughts.
“Miami politics are unusual,” Yabor said. “This one takes it to a new level.”
Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, a former Doral city council member and the city’s first economic director, will run to replace retiring Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Congress in 2018. Rodriguez Aguilera said during a 2008 TV appearance that she has seen aliens extraterrestrials throughout her life. Roberto Koltunrkoltun@elnuevoherald.com
A witness in Tarpon Springs, Florida, observed a rectangular UFO during the day, according to a report submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) earlier today.
Tarpon Springs (red marker) in relation to Tampa Bay.
(Credit: Google Maps)
According to the witness, he had gone outside to smoke a cigarette when he noticed a flat rectangular object under the clouds. He says the area has a lot of air traffic, and at first he thought it might be a helicopter, but soon realized it was not. After a few seconds of watching it, the object zipped off.
The witness estimated the object to be about 100 miles away, over the Gulf of Mexico. He said it was headed south, towards the coast of Tampa. The witness drew a map (seen below) showing the path of the object.
Witness provided map of path of object.
(Credit: MUFON)
Another strange aspect to his sighting, is that the witness claims he saw spots when he closed his eyes. Apparently like those when you look at a bright object, like the sun. However, the witness says he was not looking in the sun direction.
Came outside for a smoke facing west on a clear sunny day with a few clouds at 11:27 am on 10/16/17. We have a lot of air traffic in the Tampa bay area. I noticed a dark rectangular object at 33 degrees to the NW over a mile away. I thought it was a bird gliding at first. Dark with no reflection from sun. Sun was still in the east and object was west so it should have been bright if it were a plane. We are subject to military aircraft such as black hawk helo’s. Object appeared a thin rectangular object and moved south in front of clouds for several seconds. In less than a mile and aprox. 100 mph it just vanished. No cloud cover when this happened. I tracked it’s known path for a while to see if it would reemerge. It did not. Then I noticed my eyes were full of spots every time I blinked. Similar to a photo flash but in a 20 X 20 grid of dots. This is not unusual looking up in the sky in Florida but not when looking away from the sun and not in a grid pattern. Not sure what I saw due to it’s distance. I know I was fully awake and conscious and saw this event clearly. The object would have been over the Gulf of Mexico at least a mile out.
Alleged rectangular UFO photo taken in Federal Heights, Colorado. Photo info: “On an unrecorded day in August, 1987, Joe Clower was out driving with his camera in his car when he spotted a most unusual flying object in the twilight sky. It was a dark flying rectangle having lights in all four corners. It flew over silently as he prepared his camera and got this one picture of it above. When that film was finally developed and he saw the image, he could no longer accurately remember the date. A friend was with him during this photographic event.” (Credit: OpenMinds.tv Photo Archives)
The vast majority of UFO sightings turn out to be mundane objects, but once in awhile there are sightings that are much more difficult to explain. MUFON conducts investigations on sightings submitted to their website, and if they share their conclusions, we will let you all know. Meanwhile, others will likely chime in and we will try to keep you up to date with any discoveries. Please feel free to share your thoughts on this sighting in the comments below.
Aliens CREATED GOD… and now they want him back – shock claim of how religion began
Aliens CREATED GOD… and now they want him back – shock claim of how religion began
A new conspiracy theory says, before religious texts like the Bible were written, alien lifeforms visited Earth and were seen as “gods” by the more primitive humans.
In an article entitled “Aliens Are Coming Back To Retrieve ‘Their’ Religion,” the website ufointernationalproject.com tried to explain the theory.
It claims either aliens created the religious texts for the benefit of mankind, or they were written by humans based on the “alien gods” who visited at that time.
It went onto say much more advanced extraterrestrial species were angry that humans had used religions as a reason for waging countless wars across the globe over hundreds of years.
The article said: “Religion was not designed for terrorism
“The aliens quite knew that man is so destructive in nature, that’s the more reason why Religion was bestowed to us, to serve with faith and fear of the unknown, but man has completely failed the experiment.”
It went on to list a series of wars carried out in the name of religion, including the bitter conflicts in the Middle East against Islamic State.
The unnamed author of the piece said: “I have studied all religions for over 20 years, and it has led me to nothing more than one vast conclusion.
“Man was not smart enough to write any of the religions, and I mean the eastern spiritualism (the self), western religions (God – which I always have referred to as the extraterrestrial) or American Creationism (Nature itself, including man).
“One of the oldest religious text ‘The Egyptian Book of the Dead’ dates back more than 3000 BC.
“When writing was invented and the scribes and artists first wrote down what the priests had used in their prayers and litanies, they were very perplexed and hardly understood the text.
“What I am getting at is that all religions were not composed by humans at the time they were created.
“These Aliens would truly be gods to us humans.
“Their civilisations could be millions of years old, they know exactly how this macrocosm works.
“They might have seen other worlds come and go, and destroy themselves.
“They know the evolutionary steps cognition has to go through, and that is the crucial point for the aliens, they want to protect our beautiful Universe from harm.
“After all, when you have become God, you don’t want to see your world being destroyed. And that brings us to the crux of religion.”
It went on to say that aliens would want their religions returned, and will quarantine us here on Earth to prevent any cosmic disasters.
It added: “Now be ready to give it back, since humans have no respect for life, ideas, other races and cultures.
“That brings me to my final point – with us humans pointing a cannon at anything different from ourselves, the aliens will not allow us to transverse the Universe.
“We have an idea of how the atom works, and if we ever develop spaceships using antigravity, they do not want us to explore space pointing a cannon at everything alien to us, especially since we failed to master our emotions.”
Alien conspiracy theorists have been saying for years that extraterrestrials have already visited Earth, and world leaders know this, but it is kept from us under an alleged “truth embargo” amid fears over the impact the truth would have on religion and the rule of law.
Several people are campaigning for the “embargo” to be lifted and the “disclosure” of all facts about aliens on Earth.
The article finished saying that the only thing that would stop wars on Earth was so-called disclosure.
It added: “Truly the only thing that can put a stop to the wars on earth both religious and others which have killed thousands of innocent people including children and animals, is only one thing – DISCLOSURE!”
Nigel Watson, author of The UFO Investigations Manual, told Express.co.uk: “These ideas are very much like those of the alleged alien contactees of the 1950s, who said they had meetings with space people and had rides in their flying saucers.
“Ironically, it is a bit like the view of some religious groups that say we should not venture into space because that is the domain of God.
“I don’t think we will be producing spacecraft capable of visiting nearby alien civilisations for a very long time, and it is still a matter of debate whether they will
welcome us or attack us.
“Certainly, Professor Stephen Hawking says we should be wary of making any type of contact with aliens.
“As for disclosure as a means of uniting humanity, I don’t think that will ever happen.”
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Sporen van onbekende beschaving ontdekt hoog in Himalaya. Deze archeologen staan voor een raadsel
Sporen van onbekende beschaving ontdekt hoog in Himalaya. Deze archeologen staan voor een raadsel
Russische archeologen hebben hoog in de Himalaya twee archeologische complexen met unieke stenen figuren gevonden.
De complexen blijken te zijn gebouwd door een nog onbekende beschaving. Ze dateren uit de middeleeuwen, zegt het onderzoeksteam onder leiding van archeologe Natalia Polosmak.
“Er zijn twee rituele complexen ver en hoog in de bergen ontdekt op plekken die allesbehalve makkelijk te bereiken zijn,” zei Vyacheslav Molodin van de Russische Academie van Wetenschappen.
Uniek
De beelden, waaronder zo’n 200 stenen ruiters, zijn in dezelfde stijl gemaakt en rijkelijk versierd. Toch is ieder beeld uniek.
In de buurt van de heiligdommen hebben archeologen ook waterbronnen en andere stenen bouwwerken ontdekt, die gerelateerd zouden zijn aan religieuze complexen.
Onduidelijk
“Het is onduidelijk welke beschaving hierachter zit,” zei Molodin. “Het moet een bevolking zijn geweest die plotseling is verschenen in de Himalaya, zich heeft gevestigd in afgelegen gebieden en deze sporen heeft achtergelaten.”
Molodin sprak van een verrassende en fantastische vondst. “Je zou denken dat we alles al weten over India, maar dit is voor het eerst dat de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap hier kennis van neemt.”
“De vondst laat zien dat we nog niet alles weten over de planeet,” zei hij tegen persbureau RIA Novosti. Het team van Polosmak is al drie jaar in India.
Supervulkaan Yellowstone kan sneller uitbarsten dan gedacht. Deze wetenschappers vertellen wat er dan gebeurt
Supervulkaan Yellowstone kan sneller uitbarsten dan gedacht. Deze wetenschappers vertellen wat er dan gebeurt
De supervulkaan onder het Yellowstone National Park zou weleens sneller tot uitbarsting kunnen komen dan gedacht.
In het geval van een uitbarsting zou heel de VS onder as bedekt kunnen worden en zou er zelfs een vulkanische winter over de hele planeet in gang kunnen worden gezet, zeggen wetenschappers van de Arizona State University.
In één uitbarsting kan de supervulkaan liefst 1000 kubieke kilometer rots en as verspreiden. Een vulkanische winter zou de planeet sterk afkoelen.
Niet de enige
De laatste uitbarsting van de supervulkaan onder Yellowstone dateert van 631.000 jaar geleden, schrijft National Geographic. Gemiddeld barst de vulkaan eens in de 600.000 jaar uit.
Yellowstone is niet de enige supervulkaan op aarde. De wetenschappers zeggen dat de aarde elke 100.000 jaar getroffen kan worden door een uitbarsting van een supervulkaan.
Zij kwamen tot de ontdekking dat de factoren die bepalen of er al dan niet een uitbarsting komt, veel sneller veranderen dan gedacht.
Schokkend
“Het is schokkend hoe weinig tijd er nodig is om een slapend, vulkanisch systeem te wekken en tot op de rand van een uitbarsting te brengen,” zei onderzoeker Hannah Shamloo tegen de New York Times.
Wetenschappers maakten zich tot voor kort geen zorgen, omdat ze dachten dat de eerste tekenen van een eventuele uitbarsting duizenden jaren van tevoren zichtbaar zullen zijn. Maar het blijkt volgens de laatste metingen te gaan om enkele decennia.
“I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes.”
Attention Tom DeLonge … THAT is how you announce that you’ve had personal contact with aliens and rode in a flying saucer. A politician running for US Congress from Miami, Florida, has admitted in the past that she has had contacts with extraterrestrials and was a passenger on their spaceship. However, now that she’s a candidate for higher office, she’s suddenly evasive. Isn’t this the time to stand up and be proud that you have first-hand information about contacts with a species from another planet? Or does she have something more to hide?
According to McClatchy DC, Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, a longtime public servant for the city of Doral and Miami-Dade county, admitted in 2009 in a televised interview that she had an extraterrestrial encounter at age 7 with “three blond, big-bodied beings — two females, one male” – and that the beings looked like the giant Christ the Redeemer statue on the top of a mountain in Rio de Janeiro (those must have been some BIG bodies). She also admitted in this and in a second interview in 2011 that the beings continued to communicate with her telepathically at various times later in her life, although it doesn’t appear she said when the last time was.
Aguilera says the aliens also shared some interesting information with her:
There are 30,000 skulls — “different from humans” — in a cave in the Mediterranean island of Malta.
The world’s “energy center” is in Africa.
The Coral Castle, a mysterious limestone tourist attraction South Miami-Dade (sometimes called Florida’s Stonehenge) is actually an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
“God is a universal energy.”
Those are interesting ideas – especially since the Coral Castle is generally believed to have been built by Latvian American Edward Leedskalnin in the first half of the 20th century – and the Miami Herald decided last week to ask her for more details about her encounters. This time, Rodriguez Aguilera was very evasive, admitting nothing. Has she been visited by the Men in Black? Possibly, but more likely she’s been visited by Republican Party officials (her party) and members of the White House staff. The White House?
Yep. Turns out her daughter is former Republican National Committee Hispanic outreach director Bettina Inclán Agen and her son-in-law, Jarrod Agen, is Vice President Mike Pence’s deputy chief of staff. Pence is no Tom DeLonge or John Podesta and is probably quite wary of anyone who believes in space aliens.
Rodriguez Aguilera tried to dance around the question about her alien encounters. After invoking Ronald Reagan by pointing out that he claimed to have seen a UFO, she said:
“I personally am a Christian and have a strong belief in God, I join the majority of Americans who believe that there must be intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in the universe.”
Of course there must be … you met them! Or did you?
What will Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera do now? Will she go back to her original statements to woo voters who believe in ETs? Will she toe the party line and deny saying it? If she loses the election, will she head for Malta to look for the skulls? Has Tom DeLonge talked to her yet?
Once again, politics and religion get in the way of disclosure.
We survived the September 23rd apocalypse. In fact, if you’re reading this, it means we’ve survived EVERY apocalyptic prediction. So those who are warning us about the upcoming crash of an abandoned Chinese space station aren’t predicting the end of the world – even though the ‘thing’ about to plunge back to Earth is eerily named “Heavenly Palace” — but they actually have scientific evidence tat it will indeed happen and it ‘could’ cause some problems. Who is going to need to duck … and when?
Tiangong-1 or “Heavenly Palace 1” is an 8.5 ton prototype space station – China’s first – that was launched unmanned on September 29, 2011. It has been visited by both unmanned and manned missions but has never functioned as an operational space station like the International Space Station, Skylab or Mir. Its mission was scheduled to end in 2014 but was extended for two years until March 21, 2016, when the Space Engineering Office officially announced its termination. A few months later, after amateur astronomers noticed it was acting erratically, Chinese officials confirmed that the Heavenly Palace was leaving the heavens at some point but they didn’t know when because the telemetry link with it was lost. Uh-oh.
Tiangong-1 (source: The Guardian)
At that time, the estimated time of departure from the heavens was between October 2017 and April 2018. Now, Harvard University astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell has revised and narrowed the window. In an interview with The Guardian, he said this:
“Now that [its] perigee is below 300 kilometers [186 miles] and it is in denser atmosphere, the rate of decay is getting higher, I expect it will come down a few months from now—late 2017 or early 2018.”
That’s a little better, but how about something more specific, like who should duck and when? Unfortunately, neither McDowell nor Chinese space officials can get any more accurate that “soon.” Even worse, they expect some of the pieces of Tiangong-1 – which was small in comparison to 77.5 ton Skylab – to be up to 100 kg (220 pounds), which could cause some serious damage if they make it through Earth’s atmosphere and crash in a populated area.
“You really can’t steer these things. Even a couple of days before it re-enters we probably won’t know better than six or seven hours, plus or minus, when it’s going to come down. Not knowing when it’s going to come down translates as not knowing where it’s going to come down.”
“Not knowing when it’s going to come down translates as not knowing where it’s going to come down.”
Is McDowell an astronomer or a politician? China doesn’t have to take responsibility as long as it informs the United Nations “Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space” when the Heavenly Palace is being demolished (hopefully) by the atmospheric wrecking crew, which may not get the pieces small enough for safety.
Well, at least there’s the comfort in knowing that over 3/4 of the planet is water, right? Leave it to McDowell – and climate change – to ruin that little bit of hope. McDowell noted that even a slight change in atmospheric conditions could translate into Tiangong-1 skipping from a predicted continent to another one.
With this lack of accurate information, it looks like everyone needs to be ready at a moment’s notice to perform a Peking duck. (You knew there would be a Peking duck joke eventually).
IS ALIEN TRUTH COMING? Tom DeLonge's Area 51 and military insiders will 'lift lid on UFOs
IS ALIEN TRUTH COMING? Tom DeLonge's Area 51 and military insiders will 'lift lid on UFOs'
ROCK star Tom DeLonge has sensationally revealed a team of US government insiders he has been secretly working with to try to prove aliens have visited earth.
The Former Blink-182 frontman, aged 41, says he has convinced a string of former senior US Department of Defense (DoD), CIA and other intelligence officials to break rank and speak out about UFOs and aliens.
Ufology truth seekers have been stunned by the news which has been branded "unprecedented" by leading UFO researchers.
Alejandro Rojas, host of Open Minds Radio, wrote on Openminds.tv: "A team like this getting together to pursue answers to the UFO question is unprecedented, and their comments show they are serious."
Investigative journalist and UFO author Leslie Kean broke the news on Huffington Post.
She wrote: “Something extraordinary is about to be revealed.
"Former high-level officials and scientists with deep black experience who have always remained in the shadows are now stepping into the light.
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ALIEN TRUTH? Tom DeLonge has assembled a team of former insiders to lift lid on UFOs.
“The team includes a 25-year veteran of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations; a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at ‘Skunk Works’; a former deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; a Department of Defence senior intelligence officer who, among other sensitive responsibilities, ran a Pentagon aerospace ‘threat identification’ program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies.”
Mr DeLonge revealed the team at a filmed live event to launch his new organisation they are all part of called the Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
One of the former insiders claims the group will blow open a government conspiracy to hide evidence of aliens.
The team says it will "advance research into unexplained phenomena".
DeLonge told the launch: “This is why I am here, this is why they are here, we are going to bring it to the world.
“We have a plan to bring the unimaginable, the stuff of dreams, to the world.”
The organisation is crowd funding for its research and has already amassed more than $300,000 from supporters, according to its website.
There are certain things that should never have been secret; two their secrets that were justifiable at the time which should now be disclosed.
Tom DeLonge
Chris Mellon, who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for two administrations, said he came out because "figuring out the UFO phenomenon is going to take an effort outside of the government".
He added: "This is another case in which the system will not repair itself and people outside of government need to take action for breakthroughs to occur.”
“This team has the skill set to process information others avert their eyes to and turn it to the advantage of the nation and the world.”
Jim Semivan is said to have served for 25 years in the CIA, and was a part of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service.
He is the Stars Academy Vice President of Operations.
He said: "At the age of 65, I feel it is time I do what I can to find out what is behind this mystery. This is the big question. What does it all mean, and what is real? What is behind the veil?
"I have maybe 15 years of life left, and this is what I want to do, and when I got connect with Tom I found out he feels the same.
“Nature is incredibly big and this sort of exploration allows us to reach out and touch the divine. I want to get close to it and understand it. It is a quest.”
DeLonge told the launch: "I had the rare opportunity to present my ideas to an executive with the Department of Defense who worked in the special access programs in an area called Watertown also known as Area 51.
"That meeting led to multiple clandestine encounters across the United States from desert airports to vacant buildings deep with Washington DC from these exchanges I learned three things: one, there are certain things that should never have been secret; two their secrets that were justifiable at the time which should now be disclosed."
43 FREAKY FACTS ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES - PART I
43 FREAKY FACTS ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES - PARTI
A “Conspiracy Theory” is the belief that an organization is secretly responsible for an event. Sometimes, these theories end up being true, but the vast majority of the time, they’re totally fictional. Here at Factinate, we aren’t claiming to believe in any of these. We’re just bringing you the good gossip. Here is a list of 50 top conspiracy theories.
43. Poisoned by the CIA
Bob marley, the famous reggae musician, died of cancer. It started in his foot, and spread all the way up to his brain. However, despite the fact that he was already dying, there was an assassination against his life one year before he died. A group of men broke into his house, and tried to shoot him. That’s not even the conspiracy–that’s a real fact. However, the conspiracy starts with the fact that one of his attempted killers was a CIA agent. Was this agent just a crazy guy gone rogue? Or was he working on a mission directed from his bosses at the CIA? Some people believe that the US government was afraid of Marley’s political power over the African-American community, and that cancer was simply taking too long to kill him. So they poisoned him.
42. Flat Earth Theory
There are people out there who still believe the world is flat. They believe that everything else is one big conspiracy–space images are fake, zero gravity astronaut footage is filmed in a plane doing loops in the air, and astronomy teachers all over the world are lying to students. They believe that Antarctica is at the ends of the flat earth- like the crust on a pizza, and that’s why no one ever “falls off” the edge of the Earth, because it’s too cold to cross it.
41. The Royal Family Killed Princess Diana
The much-beloved Princess Diana of Wales tragically died in a car accident in 1997. Some people believe that this was done on purpose. Diana died sitting next to a man named Dodi Fayed, who was an Egyptian millionaire. This was not unusual, since princess went on many diplomatic meetings. However, some believe she was having an affair with him, and was planning on leaving Wales to marry Dodi. There are many different theories on “how” and “why”, but there is no evidence to support these conspiracy theories.
40. Jesus and Mary Magdalene Got Married
Some people believe that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were more than just friends. This conspiracy theory has been around for a long time, but it’s featured in the fictional movie The DaVinci Code. People who believe this theory think that Jesus’ family moved all the way from Israel to Southern France to raise their children.
39. Lorde is Lying About Her Age
When Lorde’s music started playing on the radio, nobody could believe that “Royals” was sung by a 15-year old girl. Her voice is so deep, and her lyrics are very mature for someone her age. You can call her a genius, but some people find it easier to believe that she is actually much older than she claims, and that lying about her age was part of what made her stand out and become famous. People were so skeptical that they demanded to see her birth certificate. After a while, it was finally released, just to get people to stop. The creators of SouthPark thought this conspiracy theory was hilarious, so they decided to take it to the next level, and make Stan’s Dad the secret identity of Lorde.
38. The Super Humans of MK-ULTRA
This is another conspiracy that has roots in the truth. From the 1950’s to the 1970’s, the US Government was conducting experiments on human beings. Their goal was to use mind control to create “sleeper agents,” or assassins who had no idea they were killing people. They were given LSD, and essentially tortured. When they were found out, they began to destroy all of their documents on their experiments. This is where the rumors began. The CIA was also known for studying people with alleged psychic powers. The experiments conducted on the young girl, Eleven, from TV show Stranger Things seems to be inspired by MK-ULTRA, since the truth of what happened behind closed doors leaves so much to the imagination.
37. The Megan Fox Clone Army
Over the years, Megan Fox has looked a little bit different. It could be because of aging, plastic surgery, makeup style, weight loss…Or she could be a CLONE?! One conspiracy theory believes that there is no real Megan Fox. She is just a series of perfect-looking clones that end up slightly different each time.
36. Operation Northwoods
This is a conspiracy that actually turned out to be true. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Joint Chief of Staff plotted a fake Cuban bombing, in order to get America’s support in a war against Cuba. President Kennedy stopped it from happening. This lead to the rumors that the CIA planned to kill JFK, and it also gives some weight to the next rumor on the list.
35. Terrorist Attacks on 9/11 Were an Inside Job
Some people believe that the US government knew about the 9/11 attacks ahead of time, and yet chose to let it happen. Others believe that it was completely orchestrated by the government, and that bombs went off inside the building in order to make it fall, and they blamed it on the plane. So, why would any President do this? Some believe that Bush wanted an excuse to go to war with the Middle East, because his family profits a huge amount of money from oil. But would this get the support of the government? Unlikely.
34. Hollywood Actors are Immortal
In 2011, an antique photograph emerged of a man that looked a heck of a lot like Nicholas Cage. Over time, more and more old photos have emerged that look a lot like celebrities. There is a conspiracy rumor that they can either time travel, or that actors are actually vampires. However, there are apparently 7 people who look like any single person currently living in the world. So it’s not surprising if there are old photographs of anyone’s “twin.”
33. The Moon Landing
During the Cold War, the United States and Russia were in a race to see who could get to the moon first. Russia was winning by a long shot in the space race, and yet, somehow, the US got to there first, and Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon. This has caused some people to believe that the US Government filmed the whole thing in a studio, and that it was all fake. Many of them are not denying that space exploration is real today. They just think that particular moon landing was orchestrated simply to beat the Russians.
32. William Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare lived during the 1600’s, so not many records have been found about the man’s actual life. There is a grave in England where he is buried, but it still leaves doubts in some people’s minds. Since theater was seen as being disgraceful at the time, some theorists believe that Shakespeare was a pseudonym created by members of the aristocracy who wanted to write plays. For eye-witness accounts of the playwright, conspiracy theorists say that he must have been an actor hired to be “William Shakespeare,” and that any man outside of the nobility could not have possibly written such groundbreaking plays. There are multiple theories of the “true identity” of William Shakespeare, including Sir Francis Bacon, and the Earl of Oxford.
31. Hollow Moon Theory
This is the idea that the moon is actually hollow, and an ancient alien civilization lives inside of it, like one giant space station. While this may sound extremely far-fetched, there are actually a lot of people out there who believe they have “evidence” of this being true.
30. Katy Perry and Jonbenet Ramsey
The unsolved murder mystery of child beauty pageant star Jonbenet Ramsey has been a topic of conspiracy for years. One of the newest ideas was that she never actually died, and she grew up to be Katy Perry. Why, exactly, would parents do this? Theorists believe that the motive would be to get their beautiful daughter thrust into the spotlight, which would capture the public’s attention, and help her get into show business. The two look very much alike, but that’s pretty much the only “evidence” supporting this conspiracy theory.
29. A Door to Another Dimension
The children’s book series and TV show of the Berenstain Bears was a big favorite for kids who grew up in the 90’s. However, for those of us who have grown up and gone back to Google search for the show, we noticed something a little weird…Was it always spelled with an “a” in “Berenstain”? This may seem sort of small and innocuous, but thousands of people have come forward, swearing on their life that they remember it being spelled “BerenstEin” with an “e”. This is a product of what’s called “The Mandela Effect”, which got its name when a large group of people can vividly remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison…But in reality, he survived. Conspiracy theorists believe events like this are a door into another dimension, and some people remember their parallel-life experiences, while others don’t.
28. “Paul is Dead”
Can you imagine how different the world of music would have been if one of the Beatles died in the 60’s? Well, lots of people do, actually. There is a conspiracy theory that Paul McCartney died in 1966, and a look-alike replaced him. Theorists see “signs” of “proof” everywhere–like how on the Abbey Road cover, Paul is the only one out of step from the others.
Specially the ear !
27. Water Fluoride and Mind Control
In the United States, fluoride is added to the drinking water, because it was thought to reduce tooth decay. Some people aren’t buying that excuse, because fluoride has been known to have medicinal side effects of “dumbing people down,” which could make them more complacent and less likely to revolt.
26. Plastic Coffins Are Ready For You
In Atlanta, Georgia, FEMA is an organization that gets prepared for natural disasters. During the Obama Administration, the group ordered 500,000 “plastic coffins.” There are so many that it creates a gigantic wall that is visible from the highway. FEMA claims that they’re not coffins, they’re actually liners to go around a coffin to prevent seepage from the dead going into the ground, and possibly getting into drinking water. Conspiracy theorists aren’t buying it. They think the government knows something we don’t know–and they’re going to need those coffins for thousands of dead Americans.
25. Bigfoot, Can You Hear Me?
Thousands of people go missing from National Parks, and some of their disappearances defy explanation. The CANAM Missing Project is lead by David Paulides, who is the author of the Missing 411 books. His organization is dedicated to figuring out what is going on to make this people simply vanish. While Paulides refuses to give his own theories, many fans of the Missing 411 stories believe that theanswer is Bigfoot. If it was, in fact, Bigfoot, then the National Parks and the government would know about it by now, and keep it a secret.
24. HAARP Makes it Rain
In Alaska, they are housing what is called the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. The government claims that they are using radio waves to generate heat, and they are also studying the atmosphere. It’s true that they are studying a lot of stuff–but conspiracy theorists go one step further, because they believe that HAARP is a project attempting to control the weather.
23. “You’re a wizard, Harry.”
Jo Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, is very beautiful. She is so pretty, in fact, that some people find it hard to believe that she could be nerdy enough to write a story like Harry Potter. Some people believe that the woman we have seen in interviews is actually an actress paid to pretend that she is JK Rowling, and that the true author is hidden from the public eye. So pretty much their entire line of reasoning is “pretty girls can’t write about wizards.”
22. The CIA and AIDS
Since the disease didn’t really seem to be an issue until the 1980’s, some people believe that the CIA created AIDS in a lab in order to get rid of “undesirable” people. Even a Nobel-Prize winning ecologist named Wangari Maathai used her newfound fame to try to let the public know what the CIA was doing. In reality, many scientists think that it used to be a disease that was only found in monkeys, and around the 1930’s, people somehow started to catch it too? This theory is not confirmed, but it’s true that scientists have accidently let diseases free, even without evil intent.
43 FREAKY FACTS ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES - PART II
43 FREAKY FACTS ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES - PART II
A “Conspiracy Theory” is the belief that an organization is secretly responsible for an event. Sometimes, these theories end up being true, but the vast majority of the time, they’re totally fictional. Here at Factinate, we aren’t claiming to believe in any of these. We’re just bringing you the good gossip. Here is a list of 50 top conspiracy theories.
21. Chemtrails Are Poisoning Everyone
When planes fly, they leave behind “contrails” from the exhaust of their engines. The moisture crystallizes, and form clouds that are long and thin. Conspiracy theorists believe that these clouds are not “contrails.” They believe they’re “chemtrails”–toxic chemicals trying to poison people through the tailpipes of airplanes.
20. Junkie Jesus
Throughout history, Biblical imagery is riddled with mushroom-like images. Some people believe that Jesus was on ‘shrooms, and that’s part of what gave him so many visions where he apparently spoke to God. While this is a conspiracy theory, it’s actually true that many cultures use drugs as part of their meditation rituals. Since they grow on the Earth, these ‘shrooms could have been seen as like a gift from God to seek a higher truth…In theory.
19. Where’s the Proof? Shut Up, Irma.
There are so many right-wing politicians publicly denouncing the existence of global warming that some people actually consider this to be a true fact, rather than a conspiracy theory. They think that it’s a big lie to raise taxes, or distract people from other issues.
18.Hitler Lives On?
Adolf Hitler killed his wife, and then committed suicide. However, a few people believe that he actually escaped to Argentina, and body doubles were put in the place of him and his wife. There are many eye-witnesses who claim to have met Hitler when he lived in Argentina. Considering how conniving he was with the Nazi party, it’s actually not too difficult to believe that he had some kind of escape plan when he knew it was all coming to an end.
17. Tupac Forever
In 1996, the famous rapper Tupac Shakur was shot while in his BMW. However, many theorists believe that he never actually died. They believe it was an elaborate way for his record sales to go up, and get him out of the public eye. Some people say he started a new life in Cuba.
16. George Bush Hired Britney Spears to Distract People?
We all remember when Britney Spears went a little bit crazy shaving her head. Everyone was talking about it. Some people believe that the Bush Administration paid Britney to cause such a ruckus to distract people from the shady things they were doing.
15. We’re all in The Matrix
Elon Musk publically said that it’s totally possible that we are all living in a simulated reality, like The Matrix. Conspiracy Theorists go wild with this, and find “evidence” everywhere. It’s pretty tough to prove or disprove anything when your theory discredits the laws of reality.
14. The Government and Pearl Harbor
For years, the United States did not join World War II. People didn’t want to get involved…Until Pearl Harbor happened. Theorists believe that the military actually knew that the Japanese were on their way, because the US technology should have been more advanced than theirs, and they should have had the capacity to see them coming. If this is true, the government allowed the attacks to happen so that the US would have an excuse to join WWII. One of the key pieces of evidence pointed to is that several US aircraft carriers were assigned to Pearl Harbour, but they were stationed elsewhere on the day of the attacks.
13. JFK Assassination
We all know that President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed, but the motivation behind his death is a huge topic of speculation. There are multiple conspiracy theories out there, and no one really knows which one (if any) is true.
12. The Reptilian Elite
The “Reptilian Elite” is a conspiracy theory that all of the biggest leaders in the world are secretly a race of Reptilians who are planning to control humans and take over the world. Some people even claim to have seen it happen for a split second, where a person turns into a giant humanoid lizard, and suddenly turns back again. If these people are truly seeing this, it sounds like a terrifying experience, at the very least.
11. The Government is Hiding Aliens in Area 51
Roswell, New Mexico is home of the Area 51 secret government base. If you search for video footage on YouTube, you will see footage of security patrols stopping citizens venturing near the area, and even an incident of stopping them at gunpoint. Whatever is in there, the government sure doesn’t want you to find out. Many people believe that they are keeping an alien spacecraft, and trying to reverse engineer it for the US military. Thousands of tourists visit Area 51 each year. Of course, others are quick to point out that it’s pretty reasonable for a secure military base to be, well, secure.
10. The Men in Black Are Real
Everyone loves “Men in Black,” but many theorists take it much more seriously. Apparently, people have seen these “Men in Black” shortly after claiming that they witnessed a UFO. Anyone who believes that the government is hiding aliens would also find it easy to believe this conspiracy theory.
9. Holocaust Denial
“Holocaust Revisionists” believe that the Nazis imprisoned people, but they have a hard time believing the gruesome stories of the gas chambers and the millions of Jewish people who died. There would be no logical motivation for all of the Holocaust survivors to lie about these facts, or for Germany to publically acknowledge and apologize, if it hadn’t happened. For whatever reason, people still deny it, and believe it’s some big conspiracy.
8. The Global Elite…They’re Takin’ Our Jobs!
Many of the US Presidents and other people in power are said to have been apart of the “Skull and Bones Society,” or the Freemasons. Apparently, they are just puppeteering the whole world to do whatever they want in order to keep themselves rich.
7. The American Prohibition Poison
In the 1920’s, the US government made alcohol illegal. People who believed that the government put poison into barrels of alcohol were once called conspiracy theorists, but this one holds water. The Federal Poisoning Program was real, and it targeted industrial alcohol, which was commonly stolen by bootleggers for recreational drinking. Some estimates states that 10,000 may have died as a result of this lethal law enforcement.
6. The Vril Society
There is a conspiracy theory that the Nazis were a part of this secret society of higher beings called the “Vril,” who had access to deeper knowledge and understanding of the Universe. For some people, this was justification for why the Aryans were so much “better” than everybody else. To most people, it just sounds like a thin veil to justify racism and horrific brutality.
5. Ancient Aliens Created Humanity
In many ancient stone drawings and etchings, people look a little weird–maybe they have wings, or animal heads. Their eyes may be huge, and their bodies may be disproportionate compared to real people. Rather than attributing this to symbolism or an artistic style, some people believe that theseweird humanoid creatures were actually aliens who are the origin of humanity.
4. The Nazi Bell
Apparently, the Nazis were planning a “wonder weapon” that has been nicknamed “The Nazi Bell.” There is no physical evidence that this weapon ever actually existed, but it has theorists running wild with their imaginations.
3. Monsanto Conspiracy
Monsanto is a company that is responsible for genetically modified food. Many people hate the corporation, and believe that they are responsible for a lot of issues going on in the world, including pollution that has contributed to global warming, and illnesses spreading. The conspiracies on Monsanto run so deep that it’s impossible to list them all.
2. The Philosopher’s Stone is Real
The Philosopher’s Stone is a fictional object that was what alchemists were aspiring to make for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. If an alchemist figured out how to create the stone, they could make gold, and live forever. There are rumors that a few alchemists actually succeeded, and lived forever. They include (reportedly, of course–we’re talking about conspiracy theories here!) Nicholas Flamel and The Comte de Saint-Germain. Chinese alchemists have also claimed to find the “elixir of life.”
1. The Illuminati: Confirmed
The Illuminati is apparently a secret group that controls everything on the planet. Some of the rumored members are celebrities. Some believe they’re a bunch of Satanists trying to do bad things to everyone, which makes them an easy group to blame whenever something bad happens. Others claim they’re dedicated to the survival of the human species, which doesn’t sound so horrible at face value, but the truth is that no one really know much about them… which is perhaps the strangest thing about them.
“I would have thought these would be once-a-millennium events, if even that,” said a researcher. Instead, the storms on Titan happen about once a Saturn-year, creating massive floods in an otherwise-desert terrain.
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, behind the planet’s rings. The much smaller moon Epimetheus is visible in the foreground.
Image via NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/UCLANewsroom.
Scientists with UCLA’s Titan climate modeling research group said on October 12, 2017 that they were surprised by the intensity of the rainstorms on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Their new computer models – based on Cassini spacecraft data – show that the most intense storms dump at least a foot (0.3 meters) of rain a day, which “comes close to what we saw in Houston from Hurricane Harvey this summer,” these scientists said. They said these storms can be expected less than once in a Saturn-year (29-and-a-half Earth-years). But, said Jonathan Mitchell, UCLA associate professor of planetary science and a senior author of the research:
I would have thought these would be once-a-millennium events, if even that. So this is quite a surprise.
On Earth, intense storms can trigger large flows of sediment that spread into low lands and form cone-shaped features called alluvial fans. The work of the UCLA researchers is based on recent detections of alluvial fans on Titan, which, these scientists found in their computer model, may have been formed by regional patterns of extreme rainfall. The was published October 9 in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Geoscience.
A 60-km-long alluvial fan across a desolate landscape in the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, China. The left side appears blue from water flowing in the many small streams. If the structures on Titan are alluvial fans, they’re formed not by flowing water, but by liquid methane.
The storms create massive floods in terrain that are otherwise deserts, these scientists said. They pointed out that, in many ways, Titan’s surface is strikingly similar to Earth’s, with flowing rivers that spill into great lakes and seas. They said the moon has storm clouds that bring seasonal, monsoon-like downpours.
But these rivers, lakes, seas and storms aren’t related to water. Instead, on Titan, the precipitation is liquid methane.
A large alluvial fan in the southern floor of Holden crater, showing inverted (positive-relief) distributary channels that were preserved while wind stripped away fine-grained sediment between them. THEMIS visible imaging, 17 m/pixel. Image via PlanetaryGeomorphology.
Possible alluvial fans on Titan. giant wedge-shaped sedimentary structures on Saturn’s moon Titan. Read more about this image.
Bottom line: UCLA climate modelers said they were surprised by the intensity of the rainstorms on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Their new work shows the most intense storms dump at least a foot (0.3 meters) of rain a day and can be expected about once in a Saturn-year (29-and-a-half Earth-years).
‘We’re not ready to meet aliens’: Humans are too stupid and religious to cope with extra-terrestrial life, claims expert
‘We’re not ready to meet aliens’: Humans are too stupid and religious to cope with extra-terrestrial life, claims expert
A professor from Spain says we’re not ready to meet extraterrestrial life
Gabriel De la Torre surveyed 116 students from the US, Italy and Spain
He found that many had a lack of knowledge in a number of areas
They also had religious beliefs that would make finding ET a ‘big shock’
We also focus too much on daily problems than bigger things like Earth
He concludes we need to improve our ‘global consciousness’
Finding extraterrestrial signals has been dreamed about for decades.
But a researcher from the University of Cádiz in Spain says we shouldn’t be looking – because we’re not ready to meet aliens.
Gabriel De la Torre revealed to MailOnline how his survey of students showed the general level of ignorance and influence of religion would leave us shocked if we made first contact.
A study by Professor Gabriel De la Torre from the University of Cádiz in Spain claims that we’re not ready to make first contact. He claims we’re not prepared mentally or ethically to meet beings unlike ourselves and we should try to improve our ‘global consciousness’
Since 1984 the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) Institute has been looking for signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
To date nothing has been found, although the search continues unabated.
Members of the project are now going further by sending out messages from Earth (Active Seti) to try and contact other lifeforms.
But De la Torre, a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cádiz and participant in previous projects such as Esa’s Mars 500 (a simulated mission to Mars on Earth), has carried out a study that he claims indicates we are not ready to make contact.
In the study he sent a questionnaire to 116 students in Spain, the US and Italy.
De la Torre tells MailOnline he used students because they ‘will be the future politicians, scientists, the people in charge, so I wanted to know what their knowledge was.’
THE RESULTS AT A GLANCE
Of the 116 students…
72.8% believe that demons and angels exist.
33.7% don’t think humans are the origin of global warming.
82.1% think it is important to have a space agency.
71.4% think the military should have the main role in the event of contact with an alien civilisation.
80% believe if we find aliens more advanced than us they will try to conquer us.
78% believe there is a chance we’ve been visited by aliens in the past.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) Institute was established in 1984. Since then it has used a number of observatories around the world, like the Allen Telescope Array (pictured), to try and find alien signals from another world, but so far nothing has been found
The questions were split into five sections: religious beliefs, the environment, space-related knowledge, their daily activities and their opinions on life issues.
‘In all those areas I defined a different type of question based on other studies that I think related to Seti research,’ De la Torre says.
These included questions such as how likely they thought life was to exist on other planets, what year man first walked on the moon and what the largest planet in the solar system is.
The results were somewhat disconcerting for De la Torre. For example only 82 per cent of the students knew the first moon landing was in 1969.
‘The conclusions were that scientific knowledge, especially the knowledge related to space among college students, is not good,’ he continues.
‘So I think space agencies should increase education efforts.’
Another conclusion by De la Torre was that religious beliefs seem to be very strong in general.
While not necessarily a problem, he says this may influence the opinions of people facing major events in future such as making first contact.
On 16 November 1974 the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico (pictured) was used to send out a signal called the Arecibo message, a ‘calling card’ from Earth to potential alien races. However De la Torre says we shouldn’t perform ‘Active Seti’ like this as we aren’t ready to make contact
But ultimately it is our lack of appreciation for our own planet and our place in the universe that would be our downfall, he says.
‘We’re not ready to talk to extraterrestrials because global consciousness is not developed enough in the population,’ he concludes.
‘People have daily life problems and the government doesn’t pay attention to global issues like the planet and the environment.
‘That makes us a species too focused on daily life problems, we don’t have an awareness of our surroundings.
‘It’s like when a meteor falls in some place on the planet, it’s big news. But that’s a regular real possibility.
‘If we have a more global consciousness about our situation on the planet, how fragile the planet is, maybe that’s a step in the evolution of our consciousness as a species.
‘There could be other intelligent life out there and it could be really different from us physically, mentally, socially and even morally.
‘They could maybe not even be biological, they could be robots.
‘Right now I don’t think as a species we are ready.
‘Of course some people are ready, but as a species I think it would be a big shock.’
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Titan and Enceladus: Saturn's moons are two of the most likely locations for extraterrestrial life
Titan and Enceladus: Saturn's moons are two of the most likely locations for extraterrestrial life
Following Cassini, Nasa needs a new mission to look for life on Saturn's mysterious moons.
By Monica Grady
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NASA's Cassini mission has made its "death plunge" into the swirling clouds of Saturn after 20 years of exploring the planet and its moons. It's been amazingly successful, making headlines with groundbreaking discoveries throughout its journey. But today the headlines are more like obituary notices, looking back at the mission's spectacular achievements.
Cassini discovered new moons around Saturn, found evidence for an ocean below the surface of the moon Enceladus and even managed to land a probe on the satellite Titan (the Huygens probe). It also observed unusual features in the rings of the planet and recorded an enormous, hurricane-like storm whirling around its north pole. Surely, we must now know everything about Saturn and its moons?
Fortunately, scientists are never satisfied, and the answer to one question usually leads to at least three new questions. The discoveries from Cassini and Huygens have resulted in a whole series of issues that require further investigation. Two of the main targets for future exploration are Titan and Enceladus.
Signs of life
Before Huygens parachuted down onto Titan's surfacein January 2005, all we knew about the moon was that it was cold (about 100K or -173.15°C) and had a thick atmosphere (mostly of nitrogen, but with traces of methane), which prevented us from seeing the surface. Huygens revealed networks of valleys and rivers cutting through hills to the shoreline of an inland sea. Subsequent observations by instruments on-board Cassini have given us a greatly expanded understanding of Titan's landscape – with an entire gazetteer of named features, from mountains to plains and oceans to ponds.
We must now try to understand what they are, how they formed and how they change with the seasons. We need to learn about tides and ocean icebergs, to define a climate cycle and to determine the composition of the land masses – are they derived from basalt, the most common rock type in the solar system, or are they frozen ice and mud? Does Titan have a rocky core overlain directly by an icy mantle, or does it have an ocean below the surface? If so, is it made up of water?
This all matters because what we have learnt about Titan from Cassini and Huygens has confirmed that it has an active chemistry, based on methane and ammonia. We know that these substances, when irradiated by the sun, result in interesting mixes of chemicals that are precursors to amino acids and other biologically important molecules. The freezing temperature of Titan's surface precludes anything being alive – but how far below the surface do you have to go before the environment becomes sufficiently balmy for a cryophile to be comfortable? Without a dedicated mission to Titan, we will not find out.
Titan
Cassini's exploration of Titan was always one of the main goals of the mission, with a few larger moons also scheduled for observation. But early in the mission, it became clear that Enceladus should be a prime target too. Anomalies in data observed as the spacecraft flew past Enceladus were subsequently verified as resulting from a large plume of gas and dust venting from the surface close to the south pole.
This was further investigated by Cassini, flying past Enceladus at different altitudes – the closest of which was at 25km. The data it collected helped scientists resolve the plume into a series of vents through cracks in the surface. It became clear that, like Jupiter's icy moon Europa, Enceladus was home to an ocean below the icy crust.
Scientists also managed to identify grains of dust, water-rich ice and gases including methane, ammonia and carbon dioxide – plus traces of other organic molecules – in the plume. This lead to to much speculation about the possibility of life in the ocean.
Like Titan, Enceladus is now recognised as one of the solar system's most likely locations for extraterrestrial life. A recent report of hydrogen in Enceladus' plume has given that recognition even greater prominence. That's because hydrogen is expected to be released as a byproduct of reactions between water and rock. Scientists believe that ocean water on Enceladus collides with rock, becomes heated, reacts chemically and rises up in the ocean via "hydrothermal vents". That happens in the Earth's oceans, too. And here, the chemically charged water around these vents supports a rich ecology of microbes and other life forms.
EnceladusNASA
A single mission?
Follow-up missions to Saturn, Titan and Enceladus have all been proposed to both the European Space Agency and NASA, but none has yet been accepted and taken forward to the planning stage.
There might be a case for combining a mission to Titan with a mission to Enceladus to investigate the opportunities for life close to Saturn. I am not sure what such a mission would look like. Certainly there should be a spacecraft orbiting Titan and Enceladus, to gather additional information prior to launching vessels to the surface of both moons. Would these vessels be "penetrators" so they could pierce the ice of Enceladus? Or should they be balloons to float down through the atmosphere of Titan? I don't know, but a possible name for the mission could be EnTiRE – Enceladus and Titan Research and Exploration. You heard it here first…
Of course, one should not forget the "Lord of the Rings" itself. There are still many unknown aspects of the giant planet that would be worth going back to investigate, such as the composition and formation of its unusual rings. And what about that huge, hexagonal-shaped hurricane at the north pole? Is there something comparable at the south pole? How do such weather systems form – and, more to the point, given the current catastrophic hurricanes experienced recently on Earth, can we learn anything from Saturn about our own atmospheric disturbances?
Given the timescale for mission planning, alongside the time it takes to get to the Saturnian system, it will realistically be at least another 20 years before Cassini's successor arrives. Until then, we will have to rely on the next generation of Earth-based telescopes to help us explore Saturn and its fascinating satellites.
Ruimtestation stort binnenkort neer: “Brokstukken van 100 kilo zullen op Aarde vallen”
Ruimtestation stort binnenkort neer: “Brokstukken van 100 kilo zullen op Aarde vallen”
FOTO: RR
Een Chinees ruimtestation van maar liefst 8,5 ton zwaar zal binnenkort neerstorten op Aarde. Het station is al meer dan een jaar op drift en beweegt steeds sneller richting onze planeet. Dat hebben experts gezegd inThe Guardian.
Ruimtestation Tiangong-1, oftewel Hemels Paleis, werd gelanceerd in 2011. Sindsdien werd het gebruikt voor zowel bemande als onbemande missies. Maar vorig jaar - na maanden van speculatie - raakte bekend dat de Chinese autoriteiten de controle over het ruimtestation verloren hadden.
Het nationale ruimteagentschap meldde al snel dat een neerstorting onvermijdelijk was. Ze kondigden aan dat dat waarschijnlijk tussen oktober 2017 en april 2018 zou gebeuren.
Snelheid neemt toe
Nu hebben ze gezien dat Tiangong-1 zich steeds sneller richting onze planeet begeeft. Jonathan McDowell van Harvard University vermoedt dat het station binnen enkele maanden zal neerstorten.
Verwacht wordt dat een groot deel van het ruimtestation al opgebrand zal zijn in de atmosfeer, maar experts waarschuwen dat er nog steeds brokstukken van 100 kilogram op Aarde kunnen terechtkomen. Waar die delen zullen vallen, weet niemand.
“Je kan die dingen natuurlijk niet sturen”, zegt McDowell. “We zullen waarschijnlijk pas zes à zeven uur op voorhand weten wanneer en waar ze precies zullen terechtkomen.”
China heeft inmiddels beloofd om de oncontroleerbare koers van het ruimtestation nauwlettend in het oog te houden. De kans dat er effectief iemand gewond zal geraken, wordt nu nog vrij klein geschat.
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