“All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist.”

Are you reading this? Good. That means the world’s greatest scientists using the world’s greatest scientific instruments are wrong. Or are they? Researchers at CERN in Switzerland recently made the most precise measurements ever of the magnetic force of protons and antiprotons and found them to be exactly the same … except for an opposite sign. The means the idea that scientists have danced around for centuries is still making them waltz – the Big Bang created equal amounts of matter and antimatter which should have annihilated each other and left nothing behind … including the universe and us. So, why are we still here?

Image: CERN, Maximilien Brice and Julien Ordan

A better question might be: “How did the CERN Physicists manage to experiment with the magnetism of matter and antimatter without annihilating the universe for real?” In a word … slowly. In 2014, they were able to measure the magnetic moment – how much a proton resists magnetic force – by trapping an individual proton in a magnetic field, then spinning it with another magnetic field.

That part was easy – at least protons don’t annihilate when they come in contact with any matter. Antiprotons are – no pun intended – another matter. After creating antiprotons in 2015, they had to create an antimatter chamber to store them in. They started with a Penning trap – a cylindrical container that traps charged particles between a magnetic field and a quadrupole electric field (apologies to physicists for this overly simple explanation). These Penning traps are imperfect and the antimatter can leak out (not a good thing – if you’ve been paying attention), so the CERN physicist used two and kept the antimatter extremely cold. This allowed them to store the antimatter for 405 days, more than enough time to do the magnetic moment measurements.

BASE Penning trap system to measure magnetic moment of the antiproton. Credit: Stefan Sellner, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan

And the answer is … −2.7928473441 μN. (μN is a nuclear magneton). Not only was this exactly the same – except for the minus sign – as the magnetic moment of a proton, it’s accurate to nine digits or nearly perfect. Would you expect any less from CERN?

Christian Smorra, the physicist at CERN’s Baryon–Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) collaboration who observed that the universe should not actually exist, was excited at the results, published this week in Nature, but still puzzled.

“An asymmetry must exist here somewhere but we simply do not understand where the difference is.”

Are we really sure these are the people we want experimenting with antimatter? As Chief Engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott once said to Mr. Spock:

“Those few seconds will not make any difference, Mr. Spock, because you and I and the rest of the crew will no longer be here to bandy it back and forth. This thing is going to blow up, and there’s nothing in the universe can stop it.”

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25-10-2017 om 17:43 geschreven door peter  

Within the domain of the alien abduction phenomenon, there are a number of accounts of people reportedly taken on-board UFOs and submerged into mysterious liquids, or gels – as in completely submerged. Very oddly, and as the abductees state, the liquid does not prevent them from breathing normally. Researcher Helmut Lammer – in an article titled “New Evidence of Military Involvement in Abductions” – tells the story of a woman who he refers to as “Lisa,” and who found herself in just this precise situation. Lisa was an alien abductee, but she was also someone who was subjected to what have become known as Milabs – or “military abductions.” It was in this latter context that Lisa had a very traumatic experience, as Lammer shows.

Lammer says Lisa was taken against her will to what turned out to be a below-surface facility, in which she “…saw naked humans floating in tubes. Lisa claims that she was forced by humans into some type of pool filled with a golden yellow bubbly fluid, while other humans looked at her. Lisa has traumatic recollections that her kidnappers tried to make her and other victims able to breathe in the liquid. In two of the before mentioned cases the abductee was forced to breathe the liquid like Lisa. The hypnosis transcripts reveal that the liquid breathing experiences were traumatic for the abductees. Both abductees where totally immersed in the liquid and both reported that they could breathe the fluid.”

Then, there is this from another abductee: “I found myself inside a clear glass cylinder, totally submerged in some kind of warm fluid, thicker than water, thinner than oil. To my surprise, I was able to breathe this warm fluid without discomfort. I could also open my eyes without a problem. The solution was clear, of a greenish color and the container was softly lit. I remember, still fully submerged in this solution, that I slowly began to recall the abduction that had taken me away from my bedroom, minutes, maybe hours before.”

There is also this one: “…I woke up again, this timer naked in a funnel shaped pool filled with a greenish black gel type liquid. The pool had to be 20 yards wide all around. And pretty deep. The pool was made of some kind of shiny metal. With the gel it made the surface very slippery and you would slip under the gel if you tried to get out. I then realized something very odd at that time. I wasn’t alone. There were at least 15 other humans with me. All of them screaming and panicking…”

There is a good reason why I mention all of this now. Just a few days ago I received a Facebook message from a woman who I’ll call “Andrea” and who lives in Minneapolis. Andrea’s main reason for contacting me was because on several occasions, back in the 1980s, and after experiencing classic abduction phenomena – missing time, nightmares, and a sense of being subjected to stressful and terrifying medical experimentation – she was visited by a Man in Black. And, yes, it was the same MIB over and over again, which is intriguing, since such repeat visits by the very same MIB are not too common. The MIB was of the typically weird kind: tall, skinny, pale-faced, and with slightly larger than normal, staring eyes. And, of course, he was dressed in a black suit and an old style fedora. On each occasion Andrea was warned not to talk about her experiences.

It was only after recently reading my 2015 book, Men in Black, that Andrea decided to share her experiences, chiefly because one of the MIB described in the book sounded eerily like her very own Man in Black. But, there was more: I asked Andrea if we could chat via Skype and she agreed. During the course of talking with Andrea, something interesting came out: Andrea told me that on every occasion she was abducted by the familiar, dwarfish, black-eyed entities of UFO lore, she was immersed into a “bathtub”-like environment of what looked like water, but which was slightly thicker. It had an overwhelming odor that was not unlike that of nail polish.

On the first occasion, Andrea was terrified that she would drown. In seconds, though, she found she could “breathe the liquid” with no problem at all. During subsequent abductions, Andrea felt that her abductors were testing how long she was able to comfortably remain immersed. On one occasion, she felt a pressure on her body, which led her to suspect that the craft she was in had suddenly taken to the skies and that what she was experiencing were the effects of G-Forces.

Phys.org stated in March 2017: “Liquid ventilation – breathing a liquid instead of air – has long been the stuff of science fiction, and despite experimental clinical use, its potential for treating severe pulmonary or cardiac trauma, and use in deep diving and space travel, it is still not widely used or understood.” They note too that research into this area is moving ahead and in notable fashion, as you will see from this link.

Maybe unearthly creatures have developed the kinds of technology that we are still working to perfect…

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25-10-2017 om 17:33 geschreven door peter  

You’ll never see a more touching film about a 72-year-old alien experiencer

Love & Saucers: David Huggins has an unremarkable life—well, minus lifelong alien affairs.

25-10-2017 om 17:21 geschreven door peter  

25-10-2017 om 17:02 geschreven door peter  

Huge unknown object takes off outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico

While driving on the highway 15 miles outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico on October 23, 2017 the witness noticed a huge strange object standing in a field.

Surprised by what he witnessed he tried to capture the object on his camera but as soon as he started recording it took off.

According to the witness, he has no idea what he has recorded and wonders whether it was a so-called ‘dust-devil’ or something that cannot be explained?

  

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25-10-2017 om 16:48 geschreven door peter  

SCIENCE

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Scientist proposes wild explanation for why we haven’t discovered aliens yet

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25-10-2017 om 01:46 geschreven door peter  

'NOT A HOAX' Nazca 'mummified aliens are not fake,' claims scientist

ALLEGED mummified remains of "non-human beings" said to have been found in Peru are not a hoax, according to a scientist who has investigated the bodies.

25-10-2017 om 01:32 geschreven door peter  

Exoplanets With Alien Life: Solar Storms May Kill Off Habitable 'Water Worlds'

25-10-2017 om 01:13 geschreven door peter  

 The Alien Observatory --"Strange, Saturn-Sized Alien Moon May Be a Harbinger of Habitable Worlds"

In a series of papers published in 2013, Heller and his colleague Rory Barnes from the University of Washington and the NASA Astrobiology Institute tackled some of the big-picture problems to habitability posed by the relationship between exomoons and their host planets. Heller and Barnes have proposed a circumplanetary "habitable edge," similar to the well-established circumstellar "habitable zone." This zone is the temperature band around a star within which water neither boils off or freezes away on a planet's surface – not too hot, not too cold, thus earning it the nickname "the Goldilocks zone.

 

This past July, 2017 reports New Scientist, evidence emerged of the first discovery of a moon around a planet beyond our solar system that might prove Heller's 2013 prediction above correct. Although the exomoon’s existence has yet to be confirmed, new results from Kepler Data show that the world may look stranger than anyone thought and may also have been created through some unknown mechanism.

David Kipping at Columbia University, New York, has spearheaded an effort to comb through Kepler spacecraft data in search of hidden moons since 2012 sifting through data from the Kepler space telescope on more than a thousand planets and their moons orbiting distant stars. Back in July, he and his graduate student Alex Teachey announced they had found signs of the colossal exomoon that might orbit a gas giant roughly 4000 light years away. A moon, says Kipping, could also make its host planet more likely to harbor life. Some models suggest that the presence of our moon might have helped make Earth a nice place to live. The same could be true for other moon-planet partnerships.

So Kipping’s search, dubbed the "Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler," gets at the fundamental nature of our place in the universe: Are we alone? By early next spring, astronomer David Kipping hopes to know if the object he’s spent his early career searching for is really there.

In late October, 2017, Kipping and colleagues will use the Hubble Space Telescope to find out if they’ve caught their first quarry. The possible candidate is a Neptune-sized object orbiting the planet Kepler 1625b. If the candidate turns out to be a genuine exomoon (Kipping is quick to point out that similar hints have fizzled before) he will no doubt solidify his reputation as “the moon guy.”

“His signature projects are quite risky, but with obvious large payback,” says Dimitar Sasselov, director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative, who worked with Kipping in his postdoc research at Harvard University.

There’s a reason Kipping’s team has found only one exomoon candidate so far: There aren’t many out there big enough for Kepler to see, according to his statistical work. “Because he’s doing such a careful job, it probably means something,” Sasselov adds. The systems the team has checked that show no moons most likely aren’t hiding any.

Although the moon is still hypothetical – and Kipping has watched many previous candidates vanish into thin air – the discovery would mark a new chapter in our search for life in the cosmos, causing many to wonder what that world would look like.

Heller, still at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, speculates that based on calculations from the Kepler data, that the moon could be anything from a small gaseous body the size of Earth to an ocean-covered rocky world as big as Saturn, but most likely scenario, is a Neptune-like world larger than any moon that exists in our solar system, which means that its formation mechanism would be A mysterY.

WORLDS AROUND WORLDS Exomoons — satellites of planets that orbit other stars — could be one of the best places to look for life outside the solar system. But first, astronomers have to find the moons.

Heller argues that it's size can’t be explained by what we currently know about how moons form in our solar system, where Earth's moon was created when a giant impact carved the satellite from our planet, and Jupiter’s moons formed around the developing planet from the thick debris of gas and dust that once persisted throughout the solar system. Neptune’s moon was actually captured by the planet’s gravity.

If Kipping's exomoon is validated, it would pose “an exquisite riddle for formation theorists to solve”, Heller says. “It is not clear to me from the Kepler data and from what we know in the solar system, which channel it would have formed through.”

“If it’s there, awesome, have at it,” Teachey says. “But if not, well, we’d feel badly about other people having spent time studying a phantom.”

“I think the conclusion is, ‘this is a strange system,’ and we agree,” Teachey says. Both he and Kipping have argued that the unusual size of the moon is reason to be agnostic about it, but that doesn’t necessarily mean astronomers should rule out its existence. “The universe is very good at surprising us,” Teachey says.

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25-10-2017 om 00:53 geschreven door peter  

A CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE

Photo: M. Kornmesser Observatory in southern Europe / Agence France-Presse

In August 2016, european researchers have announced the discovery of an exoplanet the size of Earth located in the habitable zone of the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.

Sara Seager has promised to devote the rest of his life to the search for a new Earth among the billions of stars in the cosmos.

“This is our goal : to find life up there,” said the astrophysicist in toronto a tone of commonplace, as if it described a single shipment up at the corner store.

The scientist of international fame believes that this goal is finally at hand — and it is well-placed to know.

“40 years ago, those who sought exoplanets were the object of ridicule, she says in reference to the planets which are outside of our solar system. It was felt that it was very marginal, so it was difficult […] But the line that demarcates what is crazy is moving ever. “

Ms. Seager teaches at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of technology and one of the world’s leading experts in the field of exoplanets. It has been the subject of reports by the New York Times, CNN and Cosmopolitan magazine, and she received a scholarship MacArthur ” genius.” In the world of astronomy, it is a feature.

Ultimately, his work could answer some of the most pressing issues of humanity. His mission to find life elsewhere in the universe, like something from a science fiction, but recent advances in astrophysics give reason for optimism in this astrophysicist.

Before the 1990s, only two planets – Uranus and Neptune – had been discovered since that the Babylonians had observed the comings and goings of the celestial bodies, there are 4400 years old. Pluto was identified in 1930, but she was demoted to the rank of dwarf planet in 2006.

A monumental breakthrough occurred in 1995, when two astronomers in switzerland have announced the discovery, outside of our solar system, a first planet in orbit around a star. The existence of 51 Pegasus B was demonstrated by its severity, which was maintained its star.

Then in 2014, the Kepler space telescope, the us space agency (NASA), has discovered Kepler-186f, the first exoplanet of a similar size to that of the Earth, inside the box, goldilocks (Goldilocks zone).

“It is when a planet is neither too hot, nor too cold, just right for life,” said Seager.

The improvement of technology has led to the discovery of more than 3600 exoplanets for the past 30 years. Only 52 of them, however, are in the habitable zone, where liquid water could exist. But an exoplanet the size of Earth that is located within this zone hosts not automatically the life.

“As long as we are not able to examine the atmosphere of the planet [ … ], we will not know really anything about it,” said Ms. Seager. It does really say nothing as we can’t take a better look. “

This is not as easy as one might think : most exoplanets are too far from Earth to be observed directly. But in August 2016, european researchers have announced the discovery of an exoplanet the size of Earth located in the habitable zone of the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, our next door neighbor in heaven more close at only 4.2 light years from here.

This is some 40 000 billion kilometers, but it is still 480 times closer than Kepler-186f.

“IT was really the next door, but very difficult to find, said Ms. Seager. In astronomy, the proximity is very important. “

But to observe a planet relatively small pasted on a star that is very large, it is necessary first of all to block the intense light given off by that star. This is why Ms. Seager collaborated on the project Starshade NASA : the top of 15 floors, the device would be deployed in space and its “petals” would block the light that aveuglerait otherwise the telescope that came with it.

“This is my favorite project, she said. One of my goals in life would be to contribute to the realization of the Starshade. “

With Starshade, Ms. Seager wants to look at the atmosphere of exoplanets in search of gas, such as oxygen, that could be evidence of the presence of life.

“When I help to find these planets, the goal is to […] look for signs of life through the use of gas [like oxygen] which should not be there,” she says. We will not be certain 100% that they are produced by the life… And if this is the case, we won’t know if these are intelligent beings or simply a deposit sticky. “

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25-10-2017 om 00:42 geschreven door peter  

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25-10-2017 om 00:16 geschreven door peter  

Former US Intelligence officer claims UFOs are REAL and we are not ALONE

Is this another step towards disclosure? A former US Senior Intelligence officer who worked for the DoD has gone on record claiming that UFO’s are real, and we may not be alone in the universe.

A man called Luis Elizondo claims to have also worked fro the US army, the National Counter-intelligence Executive, and the Director of National Intelligence, as well as carrying out extremity sensitive espionage and terrorism investigations around the globe.

Elizondo was revealed as a key member of a brand new organization—To The Stars Academy—founded by former Blink 182 front-man Tom DeLonge.

According to statements made from Mr. Elizondo, before he retired, he was in charge of a “sensitive aerospace threat identification” program that focuses on “unidentified aerial technologies”, aka UATs, another name for unidentified flying objects.

“By far the most exciting effort I was concerned with was the topic of advanced aerial threats. For nearly the last decade, I ran a sensitive aerospace threat classification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies. It was in this position I learned that the events are indeed real,” said Mr. Elizondo.

According to Mr. Elizondo’s profile on dpo.tothestarsacademy.com, Mr. Elizondo “is a career intelligence officer whose experience includes working with the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, the National Counterintelligence Executive, and the Director of National Intelligence. As a former Special Agent-In-Charge, Luis conducted and supervised highly sensitive espionage and terrorism investigations around the world. As an intelligence Case Officer, he ran clandestine source operations throughout Latin America and the Middle East. Most recently, Luis managed the security for certain sensitive portfolios for the US Government as the Director of the National Programs Special Management Staff. For nearly the last decade, Luis also ran a sensitive aerospace threat identification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies. Luis’ academic background includes Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, with research experience in tropical diseases. Luis is also an inventor who holds several patents.”

What do you think this object is? It was photographed by the Gemini X mission.

To The Stars Academy—the leading organization perusing disclosure?

According to Mr. Elizondo, the organization will soon release never-before-seen footage of Unidentified Flying Objects recorded by the government.

Mr. Elizondo added: “We are also preparing to present never before released footage from real US government systems, not blurry amateur photos but real data and real videos.”

In the last 10 years, we’ve come a long way in our understanding of our place here in this cosmos. There are physics that we don’t quite yet understand, but that does not mean that they’re not real, it just simply means that we don’t have the ability to understand those physics. I think it’s in our nature to go out and explore and report back what we see,” added Mr. Elizondo.

But as with everyone who comes forward claiming to know something society does not, skeptics pop-up by the minute.

This also happened with Mr. Elizondo as it didn’t take long for his name and his story to appear on theparacast.com.

Luckily, Mr. Elizondo decided to join the debate and responded to those who doubt by saying:

“The fact that there are things in this universe that are beyond our understanding is indeed real.

“We have the physics and we have the scientific observations to prove the phenomena.”

I guess that after all, the truth IS out there.

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24-10-2017 om 23:41 geschreven door peter  

US Navy filmed UFO that DEFIED Physics claims former senior US national security chief 

US Navy filmed UFO that DEFIED Physics claims former senior US national security chief

Another shocking claim has been made about UFO’s after a former US national security chief—who worked at Area 51—said that the US Navy had filmed a UFO that ‘defied the laws pf physics’ and outmaneuvered various F-18 fighter jets during a ‘terrifying’ encounter.

According to former senior US national security chief Chris Mellon, UFOs are real, and the government has evidence to support their existence.

Mr., Mellon has sensationally claimed that US Navy personnel aboard the USS Nimitz even filmed the UDO during a terrifying encounter that lasted four a couple of hours.

The statement made by Mr. Mellon is just one of the many that have been made in the last couple of years after a great number of former military personnel, astronauts, and government officials who have come forward openly speaking about the existence of otherworldly beings and technology, not from Earth.

Mr. Mellon, who served nearly 20 years in the US federal government in various highly ranged positions had access to information others did not.,

The ex-national security chief served during the mandates of Bill Clinton and George W Bush.

Mr. Mellon had access to high-level clearance while working in the committee with oversight of all Department of Defense special access programs and spent a decade on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Mr. Melons is also one of the many who persons of interests who joined the UFO truth-seeking organization “To The Stars Academy,” founded by former Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge.

Mr. Mellon is believed to have worked on a number of classified projects at controversial military facility ‘Area 51’.

Mr. Mellon claims that an astonishing incident was witnessed by a number of military personnel off the coast of San Diego when a UFO was seen in broad daylight.

The encounter occurred as the USS Nimitz was escorted by the USS Princeton, an Aegis-class cruiser.

“Imagine these ships engaging in a routine training exercise when an unidentified aircraft with a small radar cross-section appears on the radar heading directly towards the battlegroup,” said Mr. Mellon.

“The aircraft has no transponder does not respond to radio calls. The Princeton contacts two F-18s already aloft to intercept the target as the two F-18s approach the four aviators see that the object has no wings or exhaust.

“It is white, oblong, some 40 feet long and perhaps 12 feet thick.”

The pilots chased the UFO.

Mr. Mellon explains the incredible sighting:

“The pilots are astonished to see the object suddenly reorient itself toward the approaching F-18.

“In a series of discreet tumbling maneuvers that seem to defy the laws of physics.

“The object takes a position directly behind the approaching F-18.

“The pilot’s capture gun camera footage and infrared imagery of the object.

“They are outmatched by a technology they’ve never seen.”

After the UFO chase, the pilots eventually returned to the Nimitz, but the object remained visible to radar for a couple of hours.

Are UFO’s real?

Mr. Mellon added:

“At one point the object soars to 80,000 feet, hovers then drops at supersonic speeds coming to a full stop a mere 50 feet above the ocean where it resumes hovering. More F-18s are dispatched but with similar results.”

“As before the engagement occurs in broad daylight in the secret machine easily evades the F-18s. Dozens of military personnel aboard the various planes and ships involved are privy to these interactions. Clearly, this is not an experimental US aircraft, but whose is it?”

“How did it accomplish these feats?”, asks Mr. Mellon.

Mr. Mellon considered the event of extreme importance and even suggested that the United States Congress should further investigate the occurred.

The chairman of the Armed Services Committee and his counterparts and other congressional oversight committees can easily request a briefing to confirm the veracity of this story and the existence of other events of a similar nature.

“Congress has every right to review the documents generated by this event and request briefings by the military personnel involved. If the oversight committees have not already been briefed on this event and others like it, they clearly should be. How else can they adequately assess threats to our forces and our military requirements?” concluded Mr. Mellon.

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24-10-2017 om 23:23 geschreven door peter  

First 2 Taurid fireball photos we’ve seen this year, but we’re expecting more. These 2 photographers, 100 miles apart, likely saw the same bright meteor.

Taurid fireball on the evening of October 21, 2017 – 10:27 p.m. – from Joanne West at Gold Canyon, Arizona.

As the Orionids were peaking this past weekend, at least two members of the EarthSky community caught bright meteors in the long-lasting Taurid shower. The two meteor photos on this page appear to show the same bright meteor, although these photographers were separated by about 100 miles. Joanne West, whose image is above, said she caught her fireball at 10:27 p.m. on October 21 and wrote:

Had camera aimed at eastern sky in dark desert area near Superstition Mountains in Gold Canyon. I had been making 20-second exposures continually for about 30 minutes. Grace was with me as my camera shutter happened to be open when this fireball came out of the sky from the Taurus constellation.

Nikon D750, 20mm Nikon lens. Processed the raw file to adjust the foreground brightness and darken the highlights of the meteor.

Thanks, Joanne! Meanwhile, some 100 miles (about 150 km) to the south, Eliot Herman in Tucson, Arizona also caught a bright Taurid fireball at 10:27 p.m. on the evening of October 21 …

Taurid fireball caught on the evening of October 21 – 10:27 p.m. – by Eliot Herman in Tucson, Arizona.

It appears he and Joanne saw the same fireball. As reports from the American Meteor Society often show, a bright fireball can be seen across several states nearly simultaneously.

Eliot wrote on his Flickr page:

Captured in Tucson, Arizona foothills using a Nikon D810 and Sigma 8mm lens at iso 2500 for 15 secs on a stationary tripod. Surprisingly, no smoke trail followed for this fireball.

Quite a night three bright meteors and more than a dozen others captured.

Here’s an all-sky movie of the entire night: this meteor is at edge of image frame 467.

The Taurids – known for producing a significant number of fireballs, or very bright meteors – are a long-lasting shower that will continue throughout November. Eliot – who follows meteor showers carefully and records many thousands of images of them with his automatic camera set-up – told us he’s heard the Taurids may produce a good display in 2017.

The Taurid meteors consist of two streams, the South Taurid and North Taurid meteors. Both streams appear to originate from the constellation Taurus the Bull. Read more: Watch for Taurid fireballs

Bottom line: At least two members of the EarthSky community caught bright Taurid meteors last weekend. In fact, they likely caught the same bright meteor, although they were separated by about 100 miles.

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24-10-2017 om 23:11 geschreven door peter  

By: Nidhi Goyal 

Image courtesy: University of Sydney

If you are afraid of getting stitches or staples, there is some good news for you. Scientists have developed a new type of highly elastic surgical glue that can seal wounds within a minute.

The glue is called MeTro (methacryloyl-substituted tropoelastin), and it’s tailored to be used on both internal and external wounds to seal them up and encourage healing.

Researchers behind this innovation say that this squirtable substance could prove to be a lifesaver in emergency situations and could eventually be used in surgeries.

Image courtesy: University of Sydney.

Science behind it: 

Natural elastic proteins based on the human protein tropoelastin were intermixed with a light-sensitive sealant material to develop this elastic surgical glue. Once the glue is applied to a wound, ultraviolet light is required to set the material.

MeTro has worked well in sealing incisions in the arteries and lungs of rodents and pigs.  However, it has yet to be tested on humans.

Study author Anthony Weiss, from the University of Sydney, said, “When you watch MeTro, you can see it act like a liquid, filling the gaps and conforming to the shape of the wound. It responds well biologically and interfaces closely with human tissue to promote healing. The gel is easily stored and can be squirted directly onto a wound or cavity.

“We have shown MeTro works in a range of different settings and solves problems other available sealants can’t,” he added. “We’re now ready to transfer our research into testing on people. I hope MeTro will soon be used in the clinic, saving human lives.”

Nidhi Goyal

Nidhi is a gold medalist Post Graduate in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. You can also find Nidhi on Google+.

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24-10-2017 om 22:53 geschreven door peter  

By: Nidhi Goyal 

Image courtesy Lockheed Martin

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24-10-2017 om 22:33 geschreven door peter  

By: Nidhi Goyal 

Image by The Wheel Network on Youtube

Renault and a group of students from the Central Saint Martins art and design college in London have teamed up to create the “Car of the Future.”

The French car manufacturer recently held a contest for designing a futuristic car that focused on the company’s points for its future fleet: electric power, autonomous driving, and connected technologies.

A design for a levitating bubble-shaped vehicle was announced as the winner of the competition. The winning designer was Yunchen Cai, who created a vehicle called “The Float.” The Float looks like a bubble in transit.

Cai developed the model, along with designers from Renault, during the two weeks of her internship at the company’s Technocentre.

The winning model was recently displayed at The London Design Festival’s designjunction2017. Here are some of the features of the futuristic-looking concept car:

• Instead of using wheels, The Float employs Maglev tech (magnetic levitation).
• The Float has transparent exterior glass and silver bucket seats.
• The car can move in any direction without turning around.
• The Float is made to seat either one or two persons. However, it is designed in a way that allows a greater number of people to travel together via a magnetic belt around the exterior that can be used to connect multiple pods.
• The Float has sliding doors making it easy to get in and out.
• The Float is designed to work with an app allowing it to function in the same way as car-sharing vehicles such as Uber.

Nidhi Goyal

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24-10-2017 om 22:28 geschreven door peter  

Hoe ruikt een ruimtestation? Naar nieuwe auto en afval - HLN.be

Gerben van 't Hof 

Bron: AD.nl

WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Als enige astronaut verbleef Scott Kelly (53) een jaar onafgebroken in het internationale ruimtestation ISS. Het sloopte de Amerikaan, vertelt hij bij het verschijnen van zijn boek ‘Een jaar in de ruimte’. “Het heeft veel weg van een gevangenis.”

“Zelfs iets simpels als tandenpoetsen bleek een rotklus”, klinkt het. “De borstel en de tube zweefden weg als ik vergat ze met klittenband aan de muur of aan mijn broek te plakken. Ik moest de tandpasta doorslikken en naspoelen met water dat ik met een rietje uit een zak slurpte. Een goede manier om te spoelen in de ruimte is er niet. Ook de spuug vliegt overal naartoe en blijft door de oppervlaktespanning aan de huid plakken, in plaats van eraf te druipen.”

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Beleef een ruimtewandeling aan het ISS-ruimtestation in deze 360 graden-video

Superman-houding

“De ruimtereis was een aanslag op mijn lichaam. De eerste paar weken plaste ik veel overtollig vocht uit. Daarna voelde het alsof ik 24 uur per dag op mijn hoofd stond: druk op de oren, een opgezet gezicht, rode huid. We aten de hele dag tortilla’s omdat die lang houdbaar waren en niet kruimelden. De grote boodschap doen was een uitdaging zonder zwaartekracht. Douchen kon niet. Verder duurde het lang voordat ik min of meer rechtop zweefde. Nieuwelingen vlogen in een ‘Superman-houding’. Ze botsen overal tegenop en stootten voortdurend spullen van de wanden.”

“De herrie in het ruimtestation went nooit. Het geluid van de ventilatoren en het gezoem van de elektronica was onontkoombaar. Ik moest telkens boven het lawaai uitschreeuwen en gaf mijn oren wat rust met oordoppen. Ik luisterde naar opnames van zingende vogels en de wind door de bomen. Het is moeilijk uit te leggen hoezeer een astronaut daarboven de natuur gaat missen.’”

Vuilniswagen

“Het ruimtestation rook als een nieuwe auto, vanwege de gassen die vrijkwamen uit de apparatuur. Verder hing er een zweem van lichaamsgeur en afval. Hoewel we afvalzakken altijd zo goed mogelijk afsloten, konden we ze maar eens in de zoveel maanden wegdoen, als er een bevoorradingsschip kwam dat op de terugweg dienstdeed als vuilniswagen.”

“Ik voelde een lichte huivering toen het tot me doordrong dat ik een jaar in het ISS zou blijven. Het had veel weg van een gevangenis. Het was er donker en koud. Ik kon niet naar buiten. Waar begon ik aan? Dat jaar voelde als een eeuwigheid. Ik miste mijn vriendin en mijn twee dochters. Ik was bang dat er thuis iets vreselijks zou gebeuren, ik er niet bij kon zijn. Of andersom. De dood lag voortdurend op de loer. Apparatuur die ons in leven moest houden, ging aan de lopende band kapot. Er kon een stuk ruimteschroot door de wand komen. De concentraties CO2 in ISS waren ongezond hoog en er kon een ammoniaklek ontstaan. Ik sliep altijd met één oog open.”

“Ondanks alle gevaren en moeilijkheden ben ik in totaal drie keer in de ruimte geweest, twee keer met de spaceshuttle en de laatste keer met de Sojoez naar het ISS. Voor mij waren de ruimtereizen een bewijs dat je iets kan bereiken als je dat wilt. Als kind van een alcoholist en met een gedrag dat ze nu ADHD noemen, kon ik moeilijk mee op school. Maar na het lezen van het boek ‘The Right Stuff’, over de eerste piloten in de ruimte, meldde ik me aan bij de Amerikaanse luchtmacht. Ik werd testpiloot. Destijds gold de spaceshuttle als het moeilijkste luchtvaartuig om te besturen. Ik wilde met dat ding vliegen en klopte aan bij NASA.”

“Elke lancering was ik weer verbaasd hoe krachtig de motoren waren. Ik was verbaasd over de schoonheid van de aarde. Ik nam het overweldigende blauw in me op, de wolken, het gevarieerde landschap en de dampkring. Verder was er alleen het zwarte vacuüm van de kosmos.”

Magie

“Mensen vragen me vaak naar de relevantie van ruimtemissies en de hoge kosten die ermee waren gemoeid. Ik antwoord dan: Hoeveel is het waard als twee voormalige aartsvijanden samen op ontdekkingsreis gaan en wetenschappelijke kennis vergaren? Hoeveel is het waard als Amerikanen en Russen teamgenoten en vrienden voor het leven worden?”

“Terug op aarde had ik koorts, mijn huid voelde alsof ik in brand stond, mijn benen waren zo gezwollen als waterballonnen. Maar ik mis de magie van de ruimtereis. Ik mis de astronauten daarboven. Ik mis het uitdagende werk in het heelal. Misschien vlieg ik ooit naar Mars. Tot die tijd spoor ik anderen aan om de ruimte in te gaan. Ik vertel over dat jongetje dat op zijn kop kreeg omdat hij zijn huiswerk niet deed. Tot hij de motivatie en de gelegenheid kreeg om zijn droom na te jagen.”

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24-10-2017 om 21:38 geschreven door peter  

“Het universum bestaat helemaal niet”: wetenschappers leggen vreemde paradox bloot - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Op zoek naar het kleinste onderscheid tussen materie en anti-materie hebben natuurkundigen een nieuw wereldrecord in precisiemeting bereikt, maar daarbij nog meer een paradox blootgelegd. Het magnetisch moment van protonen en anti-protonen, dat bepaalt hoe het op een externe magnetische kracht reageert, verschilt nauwelijks, wat kan doen veronderstellen dat het universum niet bestaat. 

Natuurkundigen zijn er volgens een publicatie in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature met de gigantische deeltjesversneller van het Europees Centrum voor Nucleair Onderzoek (CERN) in geslaagd de precisie bij het meten van het magnetisch moment van anti-protonen met factor 350 te verbeteren. Daardoor is dit moment beter bekend voor anti-materie dan voor materie.

Probeert u even mee te volgen. Voor het anti-proton bedraagt dat 2.792 847 344 1 (uitgedrukt in eenheid van nucleair magneton), tegen 2.792 847 350 voor een proton, vastgesteld in 2014, zo staat op de website van het CERN. Er is dus nauwelijks onderscheid. Wat ook zo goed als de gangbare theorie bevestigt dat anti-materie het precieze spiegelbeeld van materie is.

Maar dan zitten we met een probleem, citeert zmescience.com natuurkundige Christian Smorra die aan het experiment heeft deelgenomen. Want als er complete symmetrie tussen materie en anti-materie is, zou de kosmos niet mogen bestaan. “Er moet dus ergens een asymmetrie bestaan maar we zien gewoonweg niet in waar het verschil zit”.

Mogelijk zit het in andere fundamentele eigenschappen van het deeltje, zoals bijvoorbeeld de massa, oppert Stefan Ulmer van het CERN. “Er s zeker een onderscheid”.

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24-10-2017 om 21:20 geschreven door peter  

Stad in Brazilië in de ban van UFO-landing. Wat is hier gebeurd?

In Brazilië heeft zich eerder deze maand een vreemd incident voorgedaan dat heeft geleid tot speculatie over een UFO-landing.

Het begon allemaal op 7 oktober toen meerdere inwoners van de stad Peruibe in de staat Sao Paulo een onverklaarbaar licht zagen in de lucht.

Nu worden er wel vaker UFO’s gesignaleerd in Brazilië, maar het vreemde is dat er tegelijkertijd in iemands achtertuin platgedrukt gras werd ontdekt. Het gaat om een stuk grond van 13 bij 2 meter.

Niet door mensen

De gebeurtenis leidde tot een sensatie omdat overheidsfunctionarissen het gebied hebben afgesloten en een ufoloog, Saga Susseliton Souza, de zaak onderzoekt.

Platgedrukt gras (Edilson Almeida)

Hoewel het onderzoek zich nog in een vroeg stadium bevindt, heeft de ufoloog naar eigen zeggen al enkele opmerkelijke ontdekkingen gedaan.

Tegen nieuwsportaal Globo.com zei hij: “We hebben vastgesteld dat het iets is geweest wat niet door mensen is gemaakt. Het was een UFO.”

Lichtstraal

Inwoners hebben gezegd dat ze op het moment van de waarneming zonder stroom zaten. “Een stel zag een lichtstraal op de grond die hun huis naderde,” zei de ufoloog.

De bewoner van het huis naast de vermeende landingsplek voelde zich in de dagen na het incident misselijk.

Vaker

Volgens de ufoloog, die al 35 jaar onderzoek doet naar buitenaards leven, komt dat vaker voor in dit soort situaties.

De autoriteiten hebben voor zover bekend nog geen uitlatingen gedaan over het incident. Souza en zijn collega’s zeggen dat ze hun onderzoek naar de potentiële UFO-landing voortzetten.

[Globo] 

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24-10-2017 om 21:02 geschreven door peter