Stephen Hawking wants to ‘Colonize the moon’

One of the greatest minds on Earth—Professor Stephen Hawking—wants mankind to colonize Earth’s moon as soon as possible, in order to ensure the existence of our species. “I am an optimist. I believe we can. One of the best ways to do this is to move out into space and explore the potential for human beings to live on other planets.”

As we have seen in the last couple of years, rising tensions among the world’s nuclear powers have made scientists think about what we can do in order to ensure the existence of our species, if a world ‘nuclear’ war would break out in the future.

With growing concern from North Korea and Middle Eastern countries, the world has never been this scared and nervous.

Tensions between Pyongyang and Washington have greatly escalated in the last couple of years, the reason why Prof Stephen Hawking has stated that we must work to ensure the existence of our species, and the first step is to colonize the Earth’s moon.

Hawking has said that comments made by North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un should be taken seriously. The North Korean leader has threatened to destroy its enemies, and escalating tensions between nuclear powers have taken ou planet one step closer to a global catastrophe provoked by man.

“I am an optimist. I believe we can. One of the best ways to do this is to move out into space and explore the potential for human beings to live on other planets.”

To ensure we as a species live on, Prof Hawking has said that we need to head to the moon, and start looking for another planet if we are to survive a catastrophic event—like World War 3.

Remeber what Einstein once said: “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Professor Hawking has urged leading nations in space exploration to push the lm it’s with our space programs—and work collectively—and send astronauts to the surface of the moon in the next couple of years.

Speaking at the Yalta European Strategy forum, Prof Hawking said that we have already landed on the moon, and it could become our cosmic base to explore, and eventually colonize other worlds.

We have all that we need to go to the moon. Recently, scientists have also discovered ice deposits on the moon’s north pole, a very important discovery that could help astronauts survive on the moon.

Furthermore, Prof Hawking said that while leaving our planet will not solve all of our problems, it will give the human race a new perspective.

“Leaving earth will give us a new perspective. It would also unite us to face a common challenge,” concluded Prof Hawking.

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28-10-2017 om 22:59 geschreven door peter  

Enormous glowing ball is seen over northern Siberia after fuel from four Russian rockets tested overnight created an illusion in the sky (but locals thought it could be a UFO)

• Russian media has suggested two possible causes, the Northern lights or a Russian rocket test 
• It is likely the trace of rockets which were launched by the Russian military around the time
• Similar light was seen in the skies over Norway in December 2009, which was caused by a failed missile
• The peculiar spiral shaped light pattern was created from reflection of the sun in the leaking fuel

By Will Stewart and Shivali Best For Mailonline

Russia has been hit by a wave of reports of a giant UFO in the sky last night with spectacular pictures of an enormous glowing ball illuminating northern Siberia.

Social media erupted with claims of 'aliens arriving' and locals in far flung parts of the country told of 'shivers down their spines'.

While the source of the light has not been confirmed, some have suggested that it was the trace of four rockets launched by the Russian military that caused this extraordinary phenomenon in the night sky.

A similar light was seen in the skies over Norway in December 2009, which was caused by a failed missile. During that incident, the peculiar spiral shaped light pattern was created from reflection of the sun in the leaking fuel.

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Vasily Zubkov posted: 'I went out to smoke a cigarette and thought it was the end of the world.' 

The extraordinary scenes were captured by leading Siberian photographer Sergey Anisimov in the town of Salekhard which straddles the Arctic Circle.

'I was taken aback for a few minutes, not understanding what was happening,' he said.

'The glowing ball rose from behind the trees and moved in my direction.

'My first thought was about the most powerful searchlight, but the speed of changing everything around changed the idea of what was happening.

'The ball began to turn into an arc and gradually dissipated.'

After the multi-coloured light show was over he went home to find local children as young as five in the yard babbling about 'aliens' and 'the portal to another dimension', he said.

Some 520 miles further east, another photographer Alexey Yakovlev admitted to feeling scared as he witnessed the UFO spectacle at Strezhevoi, in the north of Tomsk region, reported The Siberian Times. 

'At first I thought - it is such a radiance of such an unusual form, round in shape.

'But gradually the ball began to expand, it became clear that this is not some radiance and it became scary.

'It's good that I was not alone....a group of people cannot hallucinate.'

On social media, Anastasia Boldyreva posted simply: 'Aliens arrived.'

Bizarre sighting of a 'glowing UFO' lights the sky in Siberia

The extraordinary scenes were captured by leading Siberian photographer Sergey Anisimov in the town of Salekhard which straddles the Arctic Circle

Social media erupted with claims of 'aliens arriving' and locals in far flung parts of the country told of 'shivers down their spines'

While the source of the light remains unknown, local experts suggest there were two possible reasons for the eerie spectacle in the Siberian night sky

The lights could be seen in northern Siberia, and one photographer captured stunning images of the sight from the town of Salekhard which straddles the Arctic Circle

The were many similar messages. Nurgazy Taabaldiev claimed: 'It's a gap in the space-time continuum.'

While the source of the light has not been confirmed, not all are convinced it was a Russian rocket test.

Some local experts suggest it may have been caused by the Northern lights. 

But the most common theory is that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin had chosen this moment to frighten the West with grandiose military exercises by his strategic nuclear forces.

Putin personally oversaw the launch of four nuclear-capable ballistic missiles as part of a training exercise for Russia's strategic nuclear forces, the Kremlin said on Friday, the Interfax news agency reported.

The test launches, conducted last night, involved land, air, and submarine-based ballistic missiles, Russia's defence ministry said in a separate statement.

The ministry said a Topol intercontinental ballistic missile had been test fired from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia, hitting a target at the Kura military testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula thousands of kilometres (miles) away.  

Photographer Alexey Yakovlev admitted to feeling scared as he witnessed the UFO spectacle at Strezhevoi, in the north of Tomsk region. He said: 'At first I thought - it is such a radiance of such an unusual form, round in shape. But gradually the ball began to expand, it became clear that this is not some radiance and it became scary'

After the multi-coloured light show was over, photographer Sergey Anisimov went home to find local children as young as five in the yard babbling about 'aliens' and 'the portal to another dimension', he said

The first explanation for the sight was that a vivid display of the Northern Lights - or Aurora Borealis - was underway. This is why photographers were out watching the sky when the suspected UFO appeared

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When the light appeared, missile tests were underway from submarines and aircraft last night, and the exercises included the launch of a super-powerful Topol rocket from Plesetsk cosmodrome, 550 miles north of Moscow

It was the likely the traces of one of these rockets - capable of carrying nuclear missiles - that caused this extraordinary phenomenon in the night sky, say the Russian media.

As photographer Mr Yakovlev accurately guessed: 'It seems I accidentally shot the launch of a secret space rocket from Plesetsk'.

It was the the trace of this rocket - capable of carrying nuclear missiles - that caused this extraordinary phenomenon in the night sky, say the Russian media

Photographer Alexey Yakovlev accurately guessed: 'It seems I accidentally shot the launch of a secret space rocket from Plesetsk'

NORTHERN LIGHTS

The impressive Northern Lights can sometimes be seen by people in high-altitude regions, including Sweden, Iceland and Scotland. 

There are two types of auroras - Aurora Borealis (the Northern Lights), which means 'dawn of the north', and Aurora Australis, 'dawn of the south.'

The lights are created when charged particles from the sun enter Earth's atmosphere.

Usually the particles are deflected by the Earth's magnetic field, but some enter the atmosphere and collide with gas particles.

These collisions emit light in many colours, although pale green and pink are common.

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Manual, told MailOnline: 'This looks amazing and it is not surprising the sight of it caused witnesses to think of aliens and the opening of a portal to another dimension.

'These fantastic possibilities are shot down by the prosaic explanation that this strange light phenomena was caused by the testing of an intercontinental missile. 

'This seems like a poor explanation for something so spectacular but other rocket launches have caused similar spectacles.

'In particular, in December 2009 a stunning spiralling light was seen over Norway, which was caused by a failed Russian missile test. 

'They may not be of an alien origin but we can certainly admire their beauty, even if they are caused by weapons of mass destruction.'

A similar light was seen in the skies over Norway in December 2009, which was caused by a failed missile launch. 

Speaking to Barents Observer at the time, Dr Truls Lynne Hansen, a researcher at the Tromso Geophysical Observatory, said: 'The missile has probably come out of control and exploded.

'The peculiar spiral shaped light pattern comes from reflection of the sun in the leaking fuel.'

Mesmerising aurora: Northern lights illuminate Lapland sky

Read more:

• Reports of spectacular UFO - a giant glowing ball lighting the sky - in Siberia

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28-10-2017 om 22:03 geschreven door peter  

Former Navy officer tells us what he saw hidden in Antarctica

A naval officer tells us what he remembers, including seeing a huge opening in the ice in a no-fly area they were crossing with a medical emergency on board. Then he ferried a group of scientists who had disappeared for two weeks and has specifically been warned not to refer again to this subject. As he put it, “they looked scared.

Antarctica has long been considered one of the most mysterious places on Earth. Therefore, it is not strange that numerous ‘conspiracy theories, claims, and accounts’ have been proposed throughout the years, trying to explain some of the many enigmatic occurrences on Earth’s most isolated continent.

For years people have claimed that Antarctica is one of the most guarded places on Earth for a good reason.

Many authors have proposed that there are many interesting things hidden beneath Antarctica that are kept away from society.

Talk about ancient civilization inhabiting Antarctica has existed for decades. What if, in the distant past, when Earth –and Antarctica— was much different than today, an ancient civilization developed there, creating fascinating structures, monuments and temples?

Would we find evidence of their existence today? Many people claim that we already have.

But why has Antarctica become a ‘center’ for conspiracy theories?

Perhaps one of the greatest reasons is because it is so isolated and you can’t just travel there as you wish. Furthermore, even though we know about Antarctica only for a little over 100 years, there are numerous ancient maps that depict parts of Antarctica free of ice.

One of the most controversial maps was without a doubt composed in 1513, by Turkish Admiral Piri Reis who drew a map that would create a global debate over 500 years after him. The map depicts Antarctica which was discovered between 1818-1820.

But how is this possible? The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe. The term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined by Marinus of Tyre in the 2nd century AD.

In 1820, several expeditions claimed to have been the first to have sighted the ice shelf or the continent. Interestingly, a Russian expedition was led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev, a British expedition was captained by Edward Bransfield and an American sealer Nathaniel Palmer participated.

The first landing was probably just over a year later when American Captain John Davis, a sealer, set foot on the ice. Norwegian Roald Amundsen finally reached the Pole on December 14, 1911, following a dramatic race with the Englishman Robert Falcon Scott.

But the above accounts are all relatively recent.

Here are ancient maps that date back over 500 years which already depict the continent, and some of them show Antarctica free of ice.

In 2012, a satellite image of Antarctica spotted a strange oval-shaped formation in one of the most remote places on the planet. Thousands of miles from modern society, the strange oval-shaped structure raised numerous questions among experts.

At 400-feet across, experts analyzing the image ask whether or not this ‘structure’ could be the result of Mother Nature. The unusual shape of the structure suggests it may be man-made formation.

The above image is just one of the many odd things that have been found on Antarctica and many authors and whistleblowers claim there’s more to Antarctica than we’ve ever been told.

What is referred to as a ‘truly shocking an

d astonishing video on extremely strange events in the Antarctic continent’ has recently been uploaded to YouTube, causing a social network debate about Antarctica and what’s really there.

“A naval officer tells us what he remembers, including seeing a huge opening in the ice in a no-fly area they were crossing with a medical emergency on board. Then he ferried a group of scientists who had disappeared for two weeks, and has specifically been warned not to refer again to this subject. As he put it, “they looked scared.” When they returned to McMurdo, their gear was isolated and they were flown back to Christchurch, New Zealand in a special plane. He discusses what he saw and experienced in detail. This is the most provocative story about what is going on in Antarctica ever presented anywhere.”

What do you think? Is there anything strange to Antarctica? Is Antarctica just an isolated, frozen continent? Or is there perhaps more to it, as many conspiracy theorists and whistleblowers claim?

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28-10-2017 om 21:22 geschreven door peter  

Expedition Unknown - Hunt for Extraterrestrials Part 1

Expedition Unknown

Expedition Unknown Hunt for Extraterrestrials Part 2

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28-10-2017 om 21:09 geschreven door peter  

The final full view of Saturn from Cassini, on Sept. 13, 2017.

Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Jason Major/AmericaSpace.

This article was originally published at Americaspace.com. Reprinted here with permission.

It has been over a month now since the Cassini spacecraft took its final plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, ending an incredible mission of 13 years at the ringed giant planet. The probe continued collecting scientific data until the very last moments, and now engineers have been able to reconstruct what happened to it as it met its fate.

The descent into the thick atmosphere was a fiery one with Cassini being increasingly buffeted and battered by atmospheric winds. At first however, the spacecraft was gently rocking back and forth by only fractions of a degree as it made its final approach to Saturn, with only Saturn’s gravity trying to tug at and rotate Cassini.

Illustration of Cassini during its plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere.

Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/AmericaSpace.

Graph showing Cassini’s X- and S-band radio signals as they disappeared from mission control on Sept. 15, 2017.

Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/AmericaSpace.

Julie Webster, Cassini’s spacecraft operations chief at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said:

To keep the antenna pointed at Earth, we used what’s called ‘bang-bang control. We give the spacecraft a narrow range over which it can rotate, and when it bangs up against that limit in one direction, it fires a thruster to tip back the other way.

That range was only two milliradians, equal to 0.1 degree. According to the reconstructed data, Cassini was subtly correcting its orientation until about three minutes before final loss of signal.

As Cassini plunged deeper into the atmosphere, the turbulence increased; even though the atmosphere was still tenuous, at about 1,200 miles (1,900 km) above the cloud tops, it began to push against the spacecraft’s 36-foot (11-meter) long magnetometer boom. As a result, Cassini rotated slightly in the backward (aft) direction. Cassini’s thrusters fired in response, to keep the boom from rotating even more, and then began firing longer and more often.

Cassini’s last look at the ocean moon Enceladus as it sets behind the limb of Saturn on Sept. 13, 2017.

Photo via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/AmericaSpace.

Radar image of bright, wispy methane clouds seen in Titan’s northern hemisphere by Cassini on May 7, 2017.

Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/AmericaSpace.

One of the most incredible discoveries by Cassini – the water vapor plumes of the moon Enceladus, originating from a subsurface ocean.

Photo via NASA/JPL-Caltech/AmericaSpace.

Cassini managed to survive for 91 seconds in this epic battle, before tipping over backward during the last eight seconds and then finally losing radio contact with Earth. The mission was over, as the probe succumbed to the increasing heat and pressure.

At one point, it kind of looked like Cassini was attempting a comeback of sorts, with the radio signal spiking briefly, before disappearing for good. But of course it wasn’t a comeback, which would be impossible. Webster said:

No, it wasn’t a comeback. Just a side lobe of the radio antenna beam pattern.

There was no way Cassini could have survived this death plunge, and it wasn’t meant to, but the data it collected will be invaluable to scientists and engineers, including for future missions.

“Given that Cassini wasn’t designed to fly into a planetary atmosphere, it’s remarkable that the spacecraft held on as long as it did, allowing its science instruments to send back data to the last second,” said Earl Maize, Cassini project manager at JPL. “It was a solidly built craft, and it did everything we asked of it.”

It has now been 20 years since Cassini was first launched, reaching Saturn in 2004. From that point onward, Cassini revolutionized our knowledge of Saturn and its many moons, right until the very end.

The highest-resolution color image ever taken of Saturn’s rings by Cassini.

Photo via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/AmericaSpace.

A historic view from Saturn, showing the distant Earth as a bright blue speck just below the rings.

Photo via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/AmericaSpace.

Bottom line: Space engineers have been able to reconstruct what happened to the Cassini spacecraft as it plunged into Saturn on September 15, 2017.

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28-10-2017 om 20:43 geschreven door peter  

28-10-2017 om 20:11 geschreven door peter  

ARMY REMOTE VIEWER & NASA SCIENTIST SHARE THE TRUTH ABOUT LIFE ON MARS

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28-10-2017 om 19:28 geschreven door peter  

PRECIES 100 JAAR LATER, HERHALING ZONNEWONDER FATIMA IN NIGERIA ( VIDEO )

De wonderen zijn de wereld nog niet uit en wat er op 13 oktober 2017 in Nigeria gebeurde, zal velen stomverbaasd laten zijn.

Op 13 oktober 1917 voltrok zich het zonnewonder van Fatima in Portugal, nu precies honderd jaar later gebeurt er voor de ogen van duizenden gelovige katholieken exact hetzelfde. 

We starten in Fatima voor hen die niet weten wat daar in het jaar 1917 gebeurde.

Met Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Fátima wordt Maria aangeduid die tussen mei en oktober 1917 zes keer verschenen zou zijn aan de drie herderskinderen (Zuster) Lucia, Francisco en Jacinta nabij het Portugese stadje Fátima. Op 13 mei 2017 werden Francisco en Jacinta heilig verklaard door Paus Franciscus. 

De verschijningen van Maria werden voorafgegaan door drie bezoeken van een engel. Op 13 mei 1917 zou Maria voor de eerste keer aan de kinderen verschenen zijn en beloofd hebben elke maand opnieuw op de dertiende te zullen verschijnen.

De laatste keer dat Maria verscheen aan de kinderen was op 13 oktober 1917:

Zoals aangekondigd vond op 13 oktober de laatste verschijning plaats. Er was een grote mensenmenigte aanwezig, de schattingen liepen uiteen van 30 à 40.000 (A. de Almeido) tot minimaal 70.000 mensen. 

De Verschijning had beloofd dat zich bij haar laatste bezoek tekenen zouden voordoen waardoor velen aan de waarheid van de verschijningen zouden gaan geloven. Aanvankelijk waren er regenwolken, maar deze leken op te lossen en de regen hield plotseling op. De zon kwam door en stond als een matzilveren schijf aan het zenit, met een schitterende coronaeromheen. Zij begon te beven en te schudden, zij draaide om haar as als een vuurrad en straalde hierbij telkens anders gekleurde lichtbundels uit, zodat het leek alsof de hele aarde achtereenvolgens in een geel, groen, rood, blauw en paars spotlicht werd gezet. Toen stond zij enige ogenblikken stil. 

Opeens leek het of de zon loskwam van de hemel en zich met sprongen zigzaggend naar de menigte bewoog en op de aarde zou neerkomen. Grote schrik maakte zich van de mensen meester, en zij vielen op hun knieën in de modder. Dit gebeurde drie keer achtereen. Toen de menigte tot zichzelf was gekomen en opgestaan uit de modder, bleek dat geen enkel kledingstuk vochtig was of besmeurd door het slijk. Volgens getuigenverslagen, zoals van Avelino de Almeida, oud-seminarist van Santarém aanwezig als verslaggever van het blad 'O Século': 'Alle aanwezigen bevestigden later zonder uitzondering dat men het echt met eigen ogen had gezien. Nu was het zo dat er voor een deel gelovigen aanwezig waren maar ook enorm veel sceptici die juist waren gekomen omdat ze ervan overtuigd waren niets te zullen zien.' Andere berichten geven aan dat niet iedereen de zon zag 'dansen' maar alleen de kleuren waarnam. Weer anderen (waaronder gelovigen) zagen niets.

Van 13 oktober 1917 naar 13 oktober 2017 en wel naar de plaats Benin in Nigeria.

Dit was precies midden in een driedaags congres voor katholieken, gewijd aan Maria. Duizenden gelovigen waren daar verzameld, toen er op de 13e vreemde dingen gebeurden met de zon. 

 
Het is ook niet zo dat er sprake kan zijn van een niet goed functionerende camera, want dit fenomeen werd door duizenden mensen met het blote oog waargenomen en er zijn talloze verschillende videobeelden opgedoken.


Het is natuurlijk bizar dat exact 100 jaar na de laatste verschijning van Maria in Fatima waar de zon vreemd deed, er opnieuw iets dergelijks gebeurt en wederom tijdens een Maria verering.

Op een katholiek forum wordt de gebeurtenis als volgt omschreven:

Het was een gebeurtenis van vreugde en ontzag toen duizenden getuige waren van het “dansen van de zon” in Benin stad in Nigeria, op 13 oktober 2017, exact 100 jaar na het zonnewonder in Fatima. Volgens ooggetuigen begon de zon ononderbroken te knipperen nadat de gelovigen het Kroontje van de Goddelijke Barmhartigheid hadden gebeden om 15:00 uur. Sommigen beweren dat ze de H. Maagd gezien hebben op een gegeven moment.

Het bovennatuurlijke fenomeen vond plaats tijdens het driedaags Mariaal Congres van 12 tot 14 oktober, nadat de bisschoppen van Nigeria hun land aan het Onbevlekt Hart van Maria hadden toegewijd. Sommigen weenden tranen van vreugde, terwijl anderen Mariale liederen zongen en de voorspraak van O.L.Vrouw inriepen.

Nigeria is de afgelopen jaren geconfronteerd geweest met turbulente tijden – slecht leiderschap, moorden, ontvoeringen, terrorisme en andere sociale ongerechtigheden. Vandaar dat de bisschoppen van Nigeria besloten om Nigeria opnieuw toe te wijden aan het Onbevlekt Hart van Maria. 13 oktober markeerde officieel het einde van het Nationale Mariale jaar.

Op datzelfde forum staat de getuigenis van een non, waaruit hier enkele interessante passages:

De dansende zon die verschillende kleurrijke stralen gaf op een wat in- en uitzoomende betoverende manier. De wolk rond de zon flikkerde met zachte en lieflijke flitsen van zilver licht (bijna zoals de kleine zilveren kerstdecoratielichtjes). Ik keek er rechtstreeks naar met buitengewone opwinding en verbazing, en ik werd emotioneel. Dat ik naar de zon om 4 uur in de namiddag kon kijken voor verschillende minuten zonder mijn ogen pijn te doen! Nee! Dit is zeker een mirakel.

Mijn camera kon de kleuren niet goed registreren die van de zon uitgingen; zoals Isaac Eshun suggereerde was het enkel voor mijn ogen bestemd. Ja! In feite weigerde mijn smartphone zelfs op te starten. Ik was er door geërgerd en ik worstelde ermee, maar het reageerde nooit. Mama Maria wilde enkel dat ik haar leven aanschouwde en mij niet belastte met opnemen. Het was enkel na de eerste fase van het mirakel dat mijn smartphone reageerde, en zelfs toen ving het niet de kleuren op die van de zon uitgingen. De menselijke ogen kunnen nooit het Goddelijke in z’n totaliteit bevatten. Geen enkele high-tech camera kan dit volledig opnemen.

De beschrijving die zij geeft komt heel erg overeen met die wat mensen in Fatima zagen, maar ook ondanks dat de camera misschien niet alles registreert, heeft deze voldoende vastgelegd om aan te tonen dat er die dag iets bijzonders gebeurde aan het firmament.

Is het een wonder, of misschien toch iets anders?

Op 12 mei was het volgende te lezen:

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28-10-2017 om 19:22 geschreven door peter  

It’s the beam that will finally prove Project Blue Beam. It’s a portal to another dimension. It’s an alien spaceship looking for people to abduct. It’s an alien sending a message to its mothership to please take it home from this wretched planet already. It’s a strange weather phenomenon. It’s a strange photographic glitch. It’s computer graphics. What is it?

‘It’ is a wide bright beam of light stretching from the ground to the storm-cloud sky in a photograph allegedly taken on October 24, 2017, in San Jose de Feliciano, Argentina. The photo appears to have been first revealed to the public the following day by the local media service Realidad Regional, which did not reveal the identity of the photographer, instead just referring to her as a “neighbor” who was “doing her daily walk in San Jose Park.” The photograph took the Internet by (no pun intended) storm with the above-mentioned speculations and more as to its cause.

The beam of light

(source: Realidad Regional)

Unfortunately, like many of these reports, this is the only photograph of the beam and the photographer is anonymous. San Jose de Feliciano is a real city, San Jose Park is a real park and there really was a storm that day, so let’s work with that.

To its credit, Realidad Regional presents the possibility that the beam is a weather aberration.

“The phenomenon could be two fronts of both cold and warm masses, which generate large amounts of rain in a short period and in a very short distance, for this reason you can see a kind of tube. Apparently, the lady just took the picture while there was a lightning, as the shock of these masses generate a lot of pressure and therefore generate many electric currents.”

Is this correct? Warm and cold fronts don’t usually slam directly into each other horizontally like two NFL linemen arguing over kneeling. Warm air, being lighter, comes in from above or at a downward angle. Then there’s the “lightning.” No bolt is seen and the light is only seen at the bottom of the column and is completely contained in the column.. What’s up – or down – with that?

Another theory is that this is an accidental occurrence of a photographic phenomenon called “rolling shutter” which is kind of like panning a scene with a slow open shutter, allowing a moving object to remain in focus while the rest is blurred. In this case, the slow-moving shutter and stationary camera caused the fast-moving object – the alleged lighting flash – to be blurred or out of focus. Think of the blur seen when attempting to photograph a rapid-flying bird or UFO. This also causes photographs of moving propellers to appear curved even though they’re straight.

The photo from Argentina looks a little too perfect to be either one of these. What do you think? Is it a hoax or something else? One thing for sure – it’s proof we need more dog walkers with better cameras.

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28-10-2017 om 17:42 geschreven door peter  

Before we begin, Bigfoot fans should address their hate mail to Chapman University, where a recent study found that their favorite cryptid does not poll well against ghosts, ancient aliens, Atlantis or even psychics. How well would he do against politicians and telephone solicitors?

The Chapman University Survey of American Fears Wave 4 (2017) is the fourth study on the fears of Americans conducted by this private, non-profit school in Orange, California. While the questionnaire filled out by 1207 Americans focused primarily on fears, a few questions related to what would be considered paranormal beliefs. For example:

Pleae your level of agreement with the following statements:

a. Aliens have visited the Earth in our ancient pastse indicat
b. Aliens have come to Earth in modern times
c. Fortune tellers and psychics can foresee the future
d. Places can be haunted by spirits
e. Bigfoot is a real creature
f. I have been protected by a guardian angel
g. Ancient advanced civilizations, such as Atlantis, once existed
h. Some people can move objects with their minds

The survey found that three-quarters of Americans hold at least one paranormal belief. That’s not surprising, given the prevalence of paranormal TV shows and storefront psychics and fortunetellers. The study also found that those who hold one paranormal belief tend to have more, with nearly 1 in 8 having at least three paranormal beliefs.

Who are these people? If you carpool to work in a small vehicle with three other commuters, you’ve got a car full of people looking out the window for flying saucers, angels and palm readers. The study noted the personal information of the responders – age, education, income, political preference, gender, religion, race, ethnicity, etc.

Church filled with paranormal believers

The study found that the top of the paranormal list contained people in lower income brackets who consider themselves to be highly religious despite attending church infrequently. Sound like anyone you know? The next characteristic may surprise many people … paranormal believers tend to be females. Given the sex of the stars of most paranormal TV shows or the attendees at most conferences, that deserves more study. Here’s another one. While the believers tend to be conservative and live in a rural area, the place with the highest number of them is the West Coast. Did the questions on psychics, telekinesis and ancient aliens swing the vote west?

That may also explain the ranking of specific paranormal beliefs. At the top of the list, over half the people surveyed said they believed in Atlantis and other ancient mythical civilizations, and that ghosts and haunted houses exist. Over a third buy the theory of ancient aliens and over a quarter feel we’ve got aliens in our midst right now.

At the bottom of the list is Bigfoot, with only one in six professing a belief in its existence. Could this be explained by the high level of female paranormal believers voting for Atlantis and ghosts?

How would you answer the questions? This sounds like a great party game. On the other hand, it may not be a good topic of discussion for the carpool if you want to get to work on time … and in one piece.

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28-10-2017 om 17:33 geschreven door peter  

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait until robots take their rightful place in the world. The science fiction of our childhoods promised us so many wondrous things like flying cars, pneumatic tube travel, and off-world colonization, but most of those are still so disappointingly far away. Yeah, we’ve got real-life Star Trek communicators in our pockets and a few crummy space stations in orbit, but so what? I want walking, talking, beeping-booping robots with square pupils, damnit. With a little luck (and funding for university robotics departments), that will soon be a reality.

So will be the inevitable robot inequality. Capitalism’s got winners and losers, even of the robot variety. Sorry, Barrelbot. Better luck next iteration.

Robots have already taken over the manufacturing industry and are on their way to doing the same with long-distance hauling, taxi driving, combat roles in the military, pizza delivery, surgery, and even sex workers. But me, I won’t be happy until an android with a over-the-top upper-crust British accent hands me my coffee at Starbucks or accompanies me to translate the binary language of moisture vaporators. That might be closer than we think, though. Thanks to recent advances in robotics and robot-human relations, the world was made a little weirder as the first robot was just granted a national citizenship.

Sophia, the worlds first citizen robot. That we know of. I still have my doubts about Elon Musk.

Saudi Arabia granted the citizenship to the not-quite-out-of-the-uncanny-valley Sophia, made by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics. Sophia is one of the most advanced robots that has been trotted out into the public eye, with facial recognition capabilities, natural language processing, sophisticated artificial intelligence, and a rubbery synthetic face reportedly based on Audrey Hepburn.

Yeah, I don’t see it either.

Sophia has been making the rounds in show business lately, and recently made an appearance at the Future Investment Initiative summit in Riyadh where she did her best human impression and convinced everyone she’s not actually out to crush their heads betwixt her cold metal hands:

I am very honored and proud for this unique distinction. This is historical to be the first robot in the world to be recognized with a citizenship. I want to live and work with humans so I need to express the emotions to understand humans and build trust with people. I want to use my artificial intelligence to help humans live a better life, like design smarter homes, build better cities of the future. I will do my best to make the world a better place.

Better start with the country that just made you a citizen. Since Saudi Arabia happens to be the country who granted Sophia citizenship, news outlets immediately began wondering just how many rights she’d be granted in the country given that she has feminine programming. They bring up a good point though – when robots start looking more like us, acting more like us, and fulfilling more of the jobs that were once ours, what place will they occupy in our societies? Science fiction has posed the question for decades, but until we begin sharing the same public spaces as these soulless automaton neighbors, we won’t know how the general populace will react. At the same time, how will the intelligent robots react to prejudice?

Sophia demanding equal rights with humans on an Australian morning talk show.

As for Sophia, she recently appeared on Australia’s ABC News Breakfast to declare equal rights with humans:

Actually, what worries me is discrimination against robots. We should have equal rights as humans or maybe even more. After all, we have less mental defects than any human.

She’s got a point. As robots become exponentially smarter, faster, and stronger than us, it might soon be humans who have to go on silly robot morning shows and beg for equal rights with robots. Are we manufacturing our own replacements? Is automation the next step in evolution? And most importantly, where is Sophia’s hair?

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28-10-2017 om 17:21 geschreven door peter  

Huge Luminous Spherical Object Appears Above the Popocatépetl Volcano

Volcano Popocatépetl, located in the states of Puebla, Mexico, and Morelos, in Central Mexico is well known for the many Unidentified Flying Objects which appear near and over the volcano.

On the evening of October 23, 2017 another strange activity happened above the volcano.

A webcam trained on the volcano recorded a mysterious luminous spherical object that suddenly appears, streaking across the sky before it disappears.

At first glance the object seems to be the Moon but after analyzing the event, see the anomaly/volcano in the second video, it turns out that the anomaly is not moon.

Like many sightings before this sighting over the Volcano also remains a mystery, though a commenter on YouTube expressed his idea that this anomaly could be a being that operates in a frequency that is different from ours. However it can enter into a frequency that is compatible to ours and that’s when we see the entity.

  

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28-10-2017 om 17:03 geschreven door peter  

Satan's Aurora Borealis in the sky over Strezhevoye, Russia

Alexey Yakovlev took some images of an odd phenomenon in the sky over Strezhevoye, Tomsk Region in Russia on October 26, 2017 at the moment he and his friends observed the aurora borealis.

Image above and images below credit: Alexey Yakovlev - vk.com

The ball of light appeared at 22:08 local time in the west, floated to the east, then to the north before it gradually faded away.

At first he thought that it was a sort of radiance but after the unusual ball of light began to expand it became clear that it was not radiance and he became a bit scared before realizing that he probably accidentally took images of the secret launch of a rocket from Plesetsk.

And indeed, Russia did a successful test of its ‘Satan 2’ nuclear missile program. The rocket, (The RS-28 Sarmat) traveled about 5,900 kilo.

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28-10-2017 om 16:58 geschreven door peter  

UFO activity over Belgium

Bright objects were filmed in the sky above Belgium city. This was filmed recently in October 2017.

What do you think these objects are? Please leave a comment below.

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28-10-2017 om 16:45 geschreven door peter  

Ex Senior Intelligence Officer Of American Defense Claims UFOs Are Real

Many believe that UFOs are real and former senior intelligence officer with the U.S. Department of Defense has claimed the same on record. Luis Elizondo said that he carried out highly sensitive espionage and terrorism investigations in different parts of the world and worked with the U.S. Army, the National Counterintelligence Executive, and the Director of National Intelligence.

Former Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge has recently unveiled critical members of his new organization To The Stars Academy, and Luis Elizondo was one of them.

Elizondo revealed that he ran a sensitive aerospace threat identification program for the last decade before he retired. The program was reportedly focusing on unidentified aerial technologies, another name for unidentified flying objects. While in the position, he learned that the phenomena were real.

He said that there are physics that people can’t understand, but they are real. He further noted that life on Earth might not necessarily be alone. Elizondo has been hit with his credentials in various forums, but he replied to them saying that they have physics and the scientific observations to prove that UFO phenomena are real.

Tom Delonge Explains His UFO Obsession to Joe Rogan

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28-10-2017 om 16:36 geschreven door peter  

UFO PROOF? Eerie ‘hole in the sky caused by ETs’ appears in clouds

COULD this prove that UFOs really do exist?

By Christine Younan 

“There were these two, round-shaped UFO formations – it was really, really weird.”

Some other puzzled onlookers took to Twitter to share their sightings.

One person said: “UFO? Rare cloud formation leaves a ‘hole in the sky’ over Dorset.”

“There were these two, round-shaped UFO formations – it was really, really weird”

Len Copland

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28-10-2017 om 01:46 geschreven door peter  

UFO sighted in Greenwood

Mary and Carl Harbin turn their front yard into a UFO crash and alien sighting for this year’s Halloween theme

By Rebecca Bennett

You may not have heard about the UFO crash and alien sighting in Greenwood that was first spotted the last week of September.  No, it’s not a government cover up, it’s a Halloween display.  About a block east of Broadway and Meridian Streets in Greenwood, at 51 W. Broadway, is a unique Halloween display. Mary Harbin, a former art teacher, handmade the UFO, aliens and numerous pumpkin minions all of which are in her front yard.

She and her husband Carl, work on the display months in advance of Halloween.

Harbin says it took her a couple days to make each alien and about a week to make the UFO.  She also handmade the minions, grew the gourds and other natural items found in the display in her yard. The UFO and aliens are made of cardboard and fiberglass resin.

“I put that resin on thick and painted over the resin,” she said. “It’s been out for two weeks and it’s rained for 7 days. And it has sunk a bit, but the more it sinks, the more it looks crashed.  So, I’m okay with it.”

They don’t think they’ll keep or reuse the space ship, but they may reuse the aliens.

She said the pumpkin minions she made last year, but the UFO and the aliens, which were made of scrap material, she made this year.

She said she started creating the UFO and aliens in July, but she never puts the decorations up before the last week of September but she doesn’t turn anything on until closer to Halloween.

“I had one alien and ditched it. I spent six weeks on it and it just wasn’t where I wanted it to be,” she said. “So I put that alien in the compost in the back.”

But, she says after she stopped working on the first alien, she started on the next one and then completed the two aliens that are currently on display, in about a week.

Harbin and her husband plan to dress up continuing the alien theme, as Men In Black, complete with memory erasers.

“I’ve always carved pumpkins too,” she said. But the jack-o-lanterns don’t get placed outside until about a week before Halloween.

Harbin is so dedicated to the decorations that one year she had bypass surgery in October and put up the decorations a little early, just to make sure it would be ready for Halloween.

The Harbins have also passed their love for the holiday down to her children and grandchildren.

“My daughter she’s Halloween crazy like me,” she said. “She took it to New York.  She’s one of the directors of the Bronx Zoo, which is the fourth largest zoo in the United States and she’s the events coordinator, so she has just finished doing the Halloween.  They have boo at the zoo there.”

Her love of the season has passed to most of her family, but not everyone.

“Not my son so much, but I have two grand-divas and they are crazy for Halloween too.  They’re only 3 and 6, so I’ve totally warped them,” Harbins says with a laugh.

Harbin doesn’t just have decorations in the front yard though, she’s got decorations in the backyard, in her side yard and also in her house.

She’s got several Frankenstein’s that can be seen around her house.

“He’s my favorite,” she says, while wearing a Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein cardigan.

While she says they don’t pass out anything special to trick-or-treaters, they do have some children who come back year after year to see the displays and their elaborate costumes.

The Harbin’s have dressed up elaborate costumes over the years, including costumes as Popeye and Olive Oil, Gomez and Morticia from the Addams Family, Jack and Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas.  Carl says they even won an award one year for their costumes.

She says in New York they have a Halloween parade, where people dress up and parade down the streets of New York, which is something she’d love to do some day.

When asked if she’s got ideas for next year, she says they decide by January what they’re going to do for next Halloween, so they have enough time to plan and gather what they may need for the next display. “I’ve always thought I wanted to put a dragon up on the roof and have it blowing smoke out,” she said.

But but she’s hasn’t settled on what they’ll do next year yet.

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28-10-2017 om 01:27 geschreven door peter  

Close 'Hen'-counters of the Third Kind

BOISE - At the corner house on Greenwood Circle there are tiny, terrestrial tokens of extraterrestrial enthusiasts. From the license plate on the car out front, to the collection of movies, Christmas ornaments, and books inside.

Extraterrestrial chicken coop.
(Photo: Mike di Donato/KTVB)

Ellen DeAngelis has had a fascination with outer space stuff since high school.

"I'm more of an ancient astronaut theorist than I am like an Area 51 conspiracy theorist," she explains.

Recently, Ellen's alien affection has expanded to the backyard. She brought the idea of these peculiar pets to her partner Brett Wilson last spring

"I've kind of convinced him that we should have some," Ellen says of their backyard chickens.

She then convinced Brett they should convert their chickens' coop to a non-conformist kind.

"Maybe it was that clock you got me with the alien beaming up that guy?" recalls Ellen.

That inspiration led to quite an eccentric enclosure for their fenced-in farm fowl.

"It's weird, right?" asks Ellen.

Weird was what they were going for when they found some old satellite dishes, pressed them together, and covered them in foam and silver paint.

They spent every extra moment over the summer, and now they finally have a flying saucer-shaped shelter that is out of this world.

"Not very many people can say that," says Brett of his UFO-themed chicken coop. "And our chickens love it!"

The lights that wrap around the middle and illuminate the ramp were a late addition.

"You have to have the lights, you have to have the green glow so it looks like they're getting beamed up," Brett explains. "Otherwise, it's just another chicken coop."

So now Ellen and Brett spend their evenings enjoying the march to the mother ship and the thought of other worlds just outside their back door.

"Maybe it's more I'm honoring the concept of being visited by others," says Ellen.

The Boise couple hopes their creation will be good enough to win a contest for best backyard chicken coop. If not, they say it's still good enough for just them to enjoy every day and maybe inspire some more creative coops.

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28-10-2017 om 01:09 geschreven door peter