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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
03-11-2017
Crop circles blur science, paranormal in X-Files culture
An intricate crop circle spans a diameter of more than 45 metres in a barley field close to Barbury Castle near Wroughton, England, about 130 kilometres west of London, in 2008. The circle is noteworthy for its complexity, representing the first 10 digits of the mathematical constant pi, or 3.141592654. Lucy Pringle, CC BY-SA
Crop circles blur science, paranormal in X-Files culture
Crop circles are some of the most beautiful, mysterious and controversial landscape phenomena in the contemporary world. They are found around the globe, appearing in countries with large areas of agricultural land. They are also central to a shift in culture with investigative approaches that mimic science and increasingly make the paranormal mainstream.
Unlike UFOs, ghosts and sasquatches, crop circles are tangible — people can touch and walk into them. At least 30 appeared in England last summer. In British Columbia, crop circle formations appeared in Vanderhoof, about 100 kilometres west of Prince George, in 1998 and 2001.
Crop circles and what people do with them represent one aspect of my ongoing four-year research project, which explores the recent growth of beliefs, practices and experiences related to the paranormal. My fieldwork studies investigative paranormal groups in the Vancouver area and paranormal conferences across North America and England.
Recent literature in the social sciences on paranormal cultures argues that despite the rise of a secular, post-religious society, paranormal discourses are becoming increasingly significant in people’s lives in the West.
Because the paranormal refers to “events or phenomena… that are beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding,” researchers have long acknowledged that the paranormal intersects with “normal” everyday life.
Recently, however, as a result of a paranormal influence in popular culture, the rise of new spiritualities and commodities associated with them — such as cauldrons, healing crystals and online psychic services — researchers have begun to question describing interest in the paranormal as subcultural or countercultural, rather than mainstream.
Paranormal goes mainstream and scientific
Investigative organizations and international conferences that mobilize paranormal feelings, knowledge and practices are central to the merger between the paranormal and the mainstream.
Drawing on the models and techniques that mimic conventional science, these conferences and organizations are open to the public and have led to the democratization of paranormal investigation and availability of paranormal experiences.
The 1990s TV series, The X-Files, which followed FBI agents investigating strange phenomena, has regained popularity and returned to production amid rising interest in the paranormal.
Researchers — especially in the humanities — acknowledge the relevance of the paranormal. Yet enduring skepticism in the social sciences about the legitimacy of the claims about paranormal phenomena and experiences has resulted in a lack of critical studies on how people are actually engaging with the paranormal.
Academic research has already acknowledged the importance of local paranormal groups and international conferences that engage paranormal phenomena — in particular ghosts, UFOs and cryptids such as sasquatch. Yet we know very little about the relationships between these groups and conferences, as well as why and how they shape people’s everyday lives.
My study helps explain how paranormal organizations and conferences are contributing to these sociocultural changes.
Rationality conflicts with crop circles’ mystery
Crop circle research or “cereology” exemplifies the tension between the ordinary and extraordinary.
No matter what one understands to be the cause of crop circles, whether they are all human-made or involve aquifers, ley lines, divine feminine energy, ancient sacred sites, ball lightning or even UFOs, crop circles bring to the fore a mysterious disconnection between language and the visible, as described in Jean-François Lyotard’s book Discourse, Figure.
The French philosopher argues there is an unstable relationship between linguistic meaning and units of signification, that is, the visible patterns of words, dreams, symbols and visual art. Because there is no inherent meaning in any given signifier (meaning always relies on another word and a wider context), and art and symbols are conceptually opaque by default, they necessarily defy easy rational understanding.
A crop circle enthusiast from Dublin lies on the ground to connect with what he believes are sacred energies in a crop circle in Wiltshire, England, in July.(Paul Kingsbury), Author provided
One day during the conference, I went to visit a crop circle with fellow researchers only to find a sign on a gate to the property: “Crop circle closed.” The person representing an organization that liaises between farmers and crop-circle researchers was not present. Because we could not proceed without trespassing, we got back into the car.
Back at the conference, an argument erupted over the behaviour of some researchers who had ignored the “Crop circle closed” sign, climbed over the fence and walked to the crop circle.
For one researcher, this transgression was troubling because it exhibited the crass consumption of what he believed was a sacred phenomenon. Another researcher, who had ignored the sign, replied that he respected this opinion, but felt the crop circle was “calling out” to him and that it would be more disrespectful to ignore the pull of the sacred.
The researchers had differing views on whether a “Crop circle closed” sign, which demarcated a boundary, should be obeyed or whether it was an inappropriate obstacle to the “call” of the crop circle.
The tension between the appearances and meanings of crop circles also informed the tricky patience demanded in a sacred geometry workshop. As participants drew lines with compasses and protractors, they struggled to accurately reproduce the complex patterns of crop circles, losing small pieces of pencil lead and struggling to keep their compasses from slipping on the paper. Conference organizer Karen Alexander said the exercise gave the participants a better appreciation and intimate understanding of crop circles.
Interpreting paranormal cultures
As a part of my work, I explore the tensions between the visual and language, focusing on the complexity of crop-circle landscapes where enthusiasts struggle to navigate toward, inside and away from crop circles.
Lyotard aligns these events with “figural space” — elusive elements that disrupt and exceed the capture of language. Crucial here is how crop circles — unlike ghosts, UFOs and sasquatches — are highly tangible signs. But what they mean and what they are remains a mystery.
Despite claims by “circle-makers” that they are human-made, the sheer size and complexity of the circles belies a 100 per cent human-made explanation.
According to researchers at the conference, hoaxers, when questioned about how they were able to make 80 or so perfectly round circles without breaking or snapping cereal stalks, are unable to reproduce the patterns and ignore the researchers’ questions.
Furthermore, finding and getting to the crop circles — navigating narrow and winding English countryside roads and locating their exact whereabouts in large fields of wheat or barley — is no small feat.
Like all the other paranormal investigation cultures I have studied so far, crop circle research blurs the distinction between the everyday and the extraordinary. Beyond this, one cannot discount the importance of geography in the micro-spaces of fields and conference venues. The regional nature and extent to which crop circles are landscape phenomena incites many people’s desire to shape their encounters with the sublime.
Since 1950, Missouri is fourteenth in the highest number of sightings of unidentified flying objects.
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In recent years, the state of Missouri has embarked on an aggressive tourism campaign, designed to attract visitors from surrounding areas. Some of those visitors may even be from other galaxies.
Since 1950, Missouri is fourteenth in the highest number of sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), with 2,114 reports to the National UFO Reporting Center. Among the eight states bordering Missouri, only Illinois has more.
The statistics were revealed in the most extensive release of government UFO files to date. In January 2015, some 136,000 pages of declassified records from Project Blue Book, the renowned Air Force investigation of UFOs, were placed online.
Project Blue Book, based at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, recorded 12,618 reports of UFOs between 1947-69. Most were easily explained, though 701 are still listed as “unidentified.”
More than ever, Americans are convinced that aliens visit Earth. In 2012, a National Geographic survey revealed that 36 percent of Americans believe in UFOs, with only 17 percent disputing such a notion. The rest – a whopping 47 percent – was undecided. Some eighty percent of those surveyed think the U.S. government has concealed information on UFOs from the public.
The following year, a Huffington Post survey found that 48 percent of American adults were “open to the idea that alien spacecraft are observing our planet,” with 35 percent disagreeing. Men and women were nearly equal in percentage of believers, though political preference apparently influences UFO support. The Huffington survey found that 58 percent of Democrats call themselves believers, compared to 37 percent of Republicans and 47 percent of independents.
Missouri’s high ranking may be attributed to several factors, including relative population. Of the leading ten states for UFO reports, eight are in the top ten in population. California, for instance, leads the nation in population with 38.3 million residents, and its 12,658 UFO reports are over twice the number of the next-highest state.
Water may also be a factor. UFO reports tend to be clustered around large bodies of water, a trait shared by nine of the top ten states for sightings. With the Lake of the Ozarks, Table Rock Lake, and the Mississippi River, Missouri has plenty to attract cosmic visitors looking for a scenic vista or a cool drink.
Several sightings have been reported around the area in recent years, including in Perryville on Dec. 10, 2011. In that instance, two witnesses reported “two triangle-shaped objects hovering very high above the Missouri bootheel.”
On April 4, 2012 in Perryville, “one large, spherical unblinking light” was “seen in the distance that made quick movements.” The sighting lasted for thirty to forty-five minutes. Sometimes the reports were not of sightings at all. On Jan. 11, 2015 in Perryville, “an unusual and almost deafening rumbling noise” was reported that “sounded very low but could not be seen.”
Perhaps otherworldly visitors to Perry County want to see what’s happening at the Perry Park Center. Or to check out the latest Cruise In.
Maybe they were passing through on their way to nearby towns. On June 21, 2014, a slow-moving orange light was reported across the sky over Fredericktown, where a “blinking white light” that “traveled a short distance, (then) disappeared” was also reported on May 2, 2015.
To the north, Farmington’s slogan of “the city of tradition and progress” may have attracted a “huge fireball-type object with humanoid object in the center,” according to a report on Nov. 8, 2012. On Dec. 19, 2013, “three horizontal bright white lights hovering in the southwest sky at night” were witnessed in Farmington, which may be comparable to a sighting there on June 17, 2015 of “a flash, or streak” that “seemed very bright, brighter than the moon, with the intensity of lightning.”
Aliens may have wanted to celebrate July 4 in Farmington in 2015, because on that night, a motorist “looked out (the) windshield and viewed the craft headed west. It seemed quite large, a fireball, with no discernible flashing lights.”
At least two recent UFO reports in neighboring Illinois have garnered national attention. In the early morning hours of Jan. 5, 2000, a string of local policemen on night patrol in neighboring towns reported a well-lit triangular object flying quietly at low altitudes over such locations as Highland, Lebanon, Dupo, Millstadt, and O’Fallon. Dubbed the “St. Clair Triangle,” the sighting has been the subject of national television features and multiple investigations by UFO enthusiasts.
On Nov. 7, 2006, mass reports of a lighted, saucer-like phenomena over a concourse of the United Airlines terminal at O’Hare Airport in Chicago set the Windy City abuzz. The alleged craft hovered for several minutes before racing into the sky and leaving what appeared to be a hole in the clouds.
Commercial and military pilots sometimes report strange lights in their airspace, though, as are sightings on the ground, the extraterrestrial possibility of these objects is hotly debated.
Interest in UFOs revives every few years, sometimes with reported sightings. The spike in the post-war era started with reports of alleged UFO wreckage near Roswell, N.M. in 1947. However, Roswell was hardly the first alleged UFO incident, as some researchers argue that strange phenomena in the skies is reported in the Bible.
In 1896 and 1897, there was a spate of UFO sightings across the nation, usually of cigar-shaped lighted objects in the sky. On April 17, 1897, reports surfaced of an extraterrestrial vehicle crash near Aurora, Tex., which allegedly resulted in one alien casualty.
Closer to home, three men claimed to have seen a cigar-shaped object with some sort of canopy top and oars that landed in a field near the tiny town of Nilwood, Ill., 30 miles south of Springfield, a mere two days before the Aurora crash. Whether or not the incidents are connected is not clear.
Despite the debate, Hollywood has made billions on the fantasy of space travel and the encounters that follow. The never-ending Star Wars releases are among the most profitable films of all time, while television favorites like Star Trek have legions of fans.
Tom Emery is a freelance writer and historical researcher from Carlinville, Ill., and a non-believer in UFOs. He may be reached at 217-710-8392 or ilcivilwar@yahoo.com.
After more than 70 years of tourism, authorities announced this week that the iconic Australian landmark Uluru would be off limits for climbers as of October 2019.
The huge red monolith, formerly known as Ayers Rock, has been considered by many tourists a must-visit site when travelling through Australia.
However, it is sacred to its traditional Aboriginal owners who have long been asking people to stop climbing it.
“The land has law and culture. We welcome tourists here. Closing the climb is not something to feel upset about but a cause for celebration. Let’s come together; let’s close it together,” said Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park board chairman Sammy Wilson.
But what other famous landmarks around the world are off-limits to visitors?
1. Lascaux Caves, France
The cave complex in southwestern France is home to some of the world’s most famous examples of prehistoric paintings.
After being discovered by a group of teenagers in 1940, the site became a popular tourist spot, accepting more than a thousand visitors a day following World War II.
However, the UNESCO World Heritage Site had to be sealed off to the public in 1963 because the breath and sweat of visitors, presence of light and changes in air circulation had damaged the paintings.
Lascaux II, an exact copy of the Great Hall of the Bulls and the Painted Gallery, opened in 1983 for visitors.
2. Vatican Secret Archives, Vatican City
Hidden deep within the walls of the Vatican City are the Vatican Secret Archives, storing thousands of important historic documents on an estimated 52 miles of shelves.
Files include correspondence between the Vatican and some of the world’s most famous historic figures, such as Mozart, Queen Elizabeth I and Adolf Hitler.
The archives, which are officially the pope’s personal property, are off-limits to visitors. Scientific researchers from qualified universities can apply to enter, but even if granted access, no document after 1939 is available for public viewing.
3. Ise Grand Shrine, Japan
Visitors hoping to get inside the Ise Grand Shrine in Japan will have to think again, as authorities won’t even let you see the building.
The shrine is dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu and is considered one of the holiest places in Japan.
Only the chief priest or priestess of the shrine, who must be a member of the Imperial Family, is allowed to enter the sacred site.
4. Area 51, US
The United States Air Force facility in the Nevada desert commonly known as ‘Area 51’ is the stuff of UFO legends.
The CIA publicly acknowledged the existence of the base for the first time in 2013.
But while the surrounding area, including the small town of Rachel on the so-called “Extraterrestrial Highway”, is a popular tourist destination, Area 51 itself is off limits.
While you can see the complex’s buildings in satellite images, it doesn’t appear on public US government maps, and you can’t drive anywhere near it.
5. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, China
Located at the northern foot of the Lishan Mountain, the Qinshihuang Mausoleum is the tomb of Emperor Qinshihuang, the founder of the first unified empire in Chinese history.
The huge complex reportedly took 38 years to build, from 246 to 208 BC, and was designed to mirror the urban plan of the then-capital, Xianyang.
The UNESCO World Heritage Site contains thousands of intricately crafted terracotta soldiers, each designed individually with horses, chariots and weapons and first unearthed in 1974.
However, far from being open to visitors, the tomb itself has not yet even been excavated.
6. Mezhgorye, Russia
Mezhgorye is a closed town in the Republic of Bashkortosan, Russia, which is believed to serve as a bunker against a nuclear attack.
Its status means that the federal government has the power to grant and deny access to the town of around 17,000 inhabitants, making it out of bounds for tourists.
It has been reported that the site is home to Russian military battalions that serve a secret nuclear missile base.
7. Snake Island, Brazil
Ilha da Queimada Grande, also known as Snake Island, is a tiny island off the coast of Brazil that is home to more than 4,000 deadly snakes.
The island is deemed so dangerous that the Brazilian government banned visitors, and while scientists occasionally venture there for study, no humans or mammal species call the island home.
8. The Queen’s bedroom, England
Buckingham Palace has long welcomed tourists, but the Queen’s bedroom remains completely out of bounds to visitors.
The heavily guarded chamber is said to be among the most secure rooms in England, and has become even more so since 1982, when a man named Michael Fagan broke into the bedroom and saw the Queen in her nightie in the biggest royal security breach of the 20th century.
9. Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the remote Norwegian island of Spitsbergen is strictly off limits to the public.
The vault was built to store seeds that could be retrieved in the case of a huge environmental disaster.
It is one of the most secure storage facilities on the entire planet, so tourists hoping to pay a visit to the vault will have to think again.
10. North Sentinel Island, India
The remote North Sentinel Island off the coast of India is home to the indigenous Sentinelese people who actively avoid contact with the outside world.
India has reportedly stopped all attempts at contacting the tribe and imposed a three-mile out-of-bounds zone around the island.
In 2006, two fishermen approached the island illegally and were killed.
11. Room 39, North Korea
North Korea is one of the most secretive countries in the world, but even more secret is its Room 39.
Very little is known about Room 39 – thought to be inside the Workers’ Party headquarters in downtown Pyongyang – but it is believed to handle weapons deals, drug trafficking and money counterfeiting.
For tourists visiting the country on one of the official tours, it is certain to be left off the itinerary.
Editor’s note: This is the final entry for Robert Powell’s three part series regarding a UFO encounter by the US Navy. Here are links to Part I and Part II.
In Part I of this series I told you about an amazing UFO encounter that occurred between the USS Nimitz, USS Princeton, an E-2C airborne early warning aircraft, four Navy F-18 Super Hornets and a Marine F-18. In Part II I told you about emails that I received from the Navy JAG where a Marine Lt Colonel and a Major confirmed that they were aware of this UFO encounter as were at least seven other Navy and Marine officers. Now in Part III I will explain how you can help and make a difference. This is your chance to pressure your congressman to investigate this incident. If everyone acts together, there is a reasonable chance that the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services will ask for a debriefing on the incident.
The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), guided missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59), and fast combat support ship USS Bridge (AOE 10) participate in an underway replenishment (UNREP).
(Credit: US Navy)
The Senate Armed Service Committee is the congressional organization that would receive a debriefing and this is why we are also sending a letter to John McCain who is the Chairman of this committee. The four steps below will guide you. The letter to your congressman has already been written and the wording of the letter has been carefully chosen to provide the best chance at success.
Step 1 – Share/forward this information with all of your friends that are interested in a solution to the UFO phenomenon. This is the most important action that you can take. Let’s get thousands of letters sent!
Step 2– Go to the following link to identify your congressional representatives by entering your address including your state: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/
You will have two senators and one representative. Click on their “Official Website” to obtain their physical address and use their address that is in Washington, D.C.
Add the appropriate name of your senator or representative, print, sign the letter, use the address from Step 2, and then mail it. You will have three letters for your two senators and one representative. Physical mail with a personal signature has more effect with your congressman than an email.
Step 4 – Download the following letter to Senator John McCain here: Letter to John McCain
Sign your name and use the address shown in the letter heading to address your envelope.
Robert Powell presenting at the International UFO Congress.
(Credit: International UFO Congress)
Thank you for support! Once you’ve sent your letters, please send an email with the subject line “I voted from ‘name of your state’” to robertmaxpowell@gmail.com This will allow me to measure the effectiveness of the campaign.
Historical discovery: Researchers find hidden ‘chamber’ inside the Great Pyramid
Historical discovery: Researchers find hidden ‘chamber’ inside the Great Pyramid
The Great Pyramid is a universal symbol of genius and creativity. The evidence that humankind can make the impossible possible., It was ‘opened’ in the Middle Ages by Calif Al-Mamun. His team found most of the major internal structures we see today.
Launched in October of 2015 the ScanPyramids Mission is looking through stones using non-invasive technologies in order to detect unknown internal structures.
The void looks like a corridor, it has remained hidden behind the chevrons of the North face of the pyramid for centuries.
The detected part of this big void has a more or less similar size to the known Grand Gallery. The Grand Gallery has a length of 47 meters in length, a height of 8 meters, and volume of 600m3.
The Big Void’s minimum length is 30 meters and is located between 50 to 70 meters from the ground. It could be composed of one or more internal structures. It is either horizontal or inclined, and its cross-section is similar to that of the Grand Gallery.
With the aid of muon detectors, scientists from the ScanPyramids project have found a previously unknown, 30-meter-long structure, hidden deep inside the Great Pyramid of Giza.
For millennia has the Great Pyramid of Giza remained shrouded in mystery? Now, thanks to revolutionary new technology—particle physics— new details and long-held secrets from within the monument may come to life.
Using cosmic-ray based imaging, scientists have found a narrow void embedded deep within the ancient structure.
Located just above the “Grand Gallery” which links two of the main chambers inside the Pyramid, the hidden structure goes on for around thirty meters.
Researchers still do not know the exact design and what the purpose of the void was, but the finding has already been hailed by scholars around the globe as the biggest discovered inside the Pyramid since the 19th century.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is believed to have been commissioned by Pharaoh Khufu and completed sometime around 2550 BC.
The Great Pyramid of Giza remained as the world’s tallest manmade structure for thousands of years.
The construction technique and process used to build the Great Pyramid of Giza has remained one of the greatest scientific mystery for decades.
However, as the ScanPyramids project explains, “Just because a mystery is 4,500 years old doesn’t mean it can’t be solved.”
However, the latest discovery could help researchers understand how and why the Great Pyramid of Giza was erected thousands of years ago.
Since 2015, a group of scientists from various countries including France and Japan, and experts from Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities, the University of Cairo, and the non-profit organization the Heritage Innovation Preservation (HIP) Institute, began scanning and studying the structure with revolutionary new technology.
Now with the help of ‘cosmic ray muons’ which are partially absorbed by stone, researchers have spotted something ‘big’ inside the Pyramid. Something that has never before been spotted. Something that has remained a mystery for thousands of years.
Muon data showing the big void. This view is looking upward from the Queen’s Chamber.
ScanPyramids/HIP Institute; Business Insider
Scientists set up a number of muon detectors inside the pyramid, including the Queen’s chamber.
This allowed experts to ‘view’ the inside of the Pyramid without physically touching anything.
The presence of the ‘structure’ which has been dubbed by Scan Pyramids as the ‘Big Void‘ was confirmed using three different Muon detectors, observed and confirmed several months after it was spotted for the first time, wrote scientists in a study published in the journal Nature.
The results were analyzed several times before the discovery was confirmed.
“We have been very surprised to discover something so big—a big anomaly,” said Mehdi Tayoubi, one of the authors of the paper, during a press conference.
“A lot of people tried to dig some tunnels looking for chambers,” Tayoubi added. “But as far as I am aware, no one has tried to dig something in this area. There was no theory expecting to find something as big as the Grand Gallery here.”
Tayoubi and his fellow colleagues are firmly convinced that the “Big Void” is neither an anomaly in the data nor porous rock or loose rubble.
Furthermore, the team is 99.99% certain it is real, it exists, and a foremost expert on Egypt’s pyramids agrees with that conclusion.
“I don’t think this is bulls…,” Mark Lehner, an archaeologist and Egyptologist at the Ancient Egypt Research Association, told Business Insider. “I put credence in the results, and I think they have indications of a large empty space.”
Stephen Hawking is worried that artificial intelligence could copy itself and replace humans as Earth’s dominant life form. It sounds farfetched, but the 75-year-old physicist is not alone in his predictions, as tech entrepreneurs have also sounded the alarm over such systems.
“I fear that A.I. may replace humans altogether,” Hawking said in an interview with Wired this week. “If people design computer viruses, someone will design A.I. that improves and replicates itself. This will be a new form of life that outperforms humans.”
Hawking isn’t the first big name to warn about A.I. SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk has claimed the technology poses “a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization,” and its exponential growth is advancing “like a tidal wave.” Among other projects, Musk has criticized plans to develop a godlike A.I. capable of forming its own religion:
An AI god will emerge by 2042 and write its own bible. Will you worship it?
In the next 25 years, AI will evolve to the point where it will know more on an intellectual level than any human. In the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of t…
Musk and Hawking have worked together before to warn about the future of A.I. The pair joined hundreds of other researchers and experts earlier this year to endorse a list of 23 guiding principles for future A.I. development. The Asilomar A.I. Principles includes basic ideas like ensuring humans have control, but also cover bigger concepts like ensuring such systems have a shared benefit and designing machines with compatible human values.
In the wider tech industry, responses to these warnings have varied. But as A.I. forms a bigger part of people’s lives, the conversation is shifting.
“[Musk is] a deep thinker about problems, and I think it’s right to be concerned about A.I.,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an interview, when told Musk had raised concerns about his company’s A.I.-powered camera.
Like Musk, Hawking is worried people aren’t concerned enough about the pace of change. At the launch of Cambridge University’s artificial intelligence center last year, he said that while experiments with machines learning how to play Go were cool, they “will surely pale against what the coming decades will bring.”
“I believe there is no deep difference between what can be achieved by a biological brain and what can be achieved by a computer,” Hawking said . “It therefore follows that computers can, in theory, emulate human intelligence – and exceed it.”
Each year, Mars City Design hosts a competition in which teams from around the world submit their concepts for future Martian cities. This year, a team from MIT took home first prize in the architecture category with their Martian city inspired by trees.
MARTIAN FORESTS
Every year, Mars City Design hosts a competition in which innovative teams of scientists, engineers, and students design unique concept-cities for the day when humans attempt to live on Mars. This year, a team of nine MIT students led by MIT postdoc Valentina Sumini and Assistant Professor Caitlin Mueller took first place in the architecture portion of the contest with their unique tree-inspired Mars city concept, titled Redwood Forest.
Redwood Forest is a soothing space that can provide up to 10,000 weary human travelers with equal amounts of comfort and safety from the elements. While at first glance the domes themselves don’t appear capable of housing such large numbers of people or providing them with adequate facilities, just like a tree, these domes aren’t limited to what you see above ground.
Image Credit: Mars City Design
Below the surface of the Red Planet, each dome in MIT’s Mars city concept branches out into “roots.” These intricate tunnel systems connect the domes and provide additional protection from surface threats. This design was chosen for both functional and symbolic reasons.
“On Mars, our city will physically and functionally mimic a forest, using local Martian resources such as ice and water, regolith or soil, and Sun to support life,” Sumini told MIT News. “Designing a forest also symbolizes the potential for outward growth as nature spreads across the Martian landscape. Each tree habitat incorporates a branching structural system and an inflated membrane enclosure, anchored by tunneling roots.”
Image Credit: Mars City Design
Doctoral student George Lordos, who was responsible for Redwood Forest’s system architecture, shared details on how Redwood Forest will take advantage of those Martian resources:
Every tree habitat in Redwood Forest will collect energy from the Sun and use it to process and transport the water throughout the tree, and every tree is designed as a water-rich environment. Water fills the soft cells inside the dome providing protection from radiation, helps manage heat loads, and supplies hydroponic farms for growing fish and greens.
Solar panels produce energy to split the stored water for the production of rocket fuel, oxygen, and for charging hydrogen fuel cells, which are necessary to power long-range vehicles as well as provide backup energy storage in case of dust storms.
THE PATH FORWARD
The surface of the Red Planet is intrinsically harsh. From a virtually nonexistent atmosphere to radiation to dust storms capable of covering the entire planet, Mars is a barren landscape that can get as cold as -125 degrees Celsius (-195 degrees Fahrenheit) near the poles in winter.
Obviously, any Mars city concept would need to be capable of protecting Earthling travelers from these physical hardships. However, after a mind-numbingly long and arduous journey through space, survivable conditions might not be all that a group of human beings needs to live a happy, healthy life on Mars.
Thinking of all these potential variables will be essential if humanity ever hopes to live beyond Earth. We’ll need innovative thinkers at all stages of the process, from designing the rockets that transport us to building the cities we inhabit once we arrive. The Redwood Forest concept illustrates the power and potential of both sound scientific planning and the ability to see far beyond what has been done, or even imagined, before.
NEW HIDDEN CHAMBER WITH UNKNOWN PURPOSE FOUND INSIDE GREAT PYRAMID AT GIZA
NEW HIDDEN CHAMBER WITH UNKNOWN PURPOSE FOUND INSIDE GREAT PYRAMID AT GIZA
An international team of scientists claims to have discovered a previously unknown space within the Great Pyramid of Giza. In a study published in Nature detailing their use of advanced scanning processes, the Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute disclosed the apparent existence of a large unknown structure located above the famed Grand Gallery.
Mehdi Tayoubi, the institute's president, told Daily Mail reporters “it could be composed of one or several structures. Maybe it could another Grand Gallery. It could be a chamber; it could a lot of things.”
There are so many theories — nice ones but also crazy ones,
He went on to tell the BBC "what we are sure about is that this big void is there; that it is impressive; and that it was not expected as far as I know by any theory."
THERE ARE SO MANY THEORIES — NICE ONES BUT ALSO CRAZY ONES
The team, composed of French and Japanese scientists, employed the use of cosmic-ray imaging. The process uses plates designed to record the activity of muons, a kind of naturally occurring sub atomic particle. Such muons are constantly entering the earth's atmosphere, but their path can be interrupted by solid objects, such as the pyramid's rock walls.
Using these plates and triangulating the data, the team was able to approximate the size of the “void” without disturbing the surrounding walls. This technology has been employed successfully in multiple geological studies as well as, more recently, the investigation into the reactor failure at Fukushima.
says Mehdi Tayoubi, president of the Heritage Innovation Preservation institute in Paris
The pyramid is also known as Khufu's Pyramid for its builder, a 4th dynasty pharaoh who reigned from 2509 to 2483 B.C.
Researchers placed muons detectors inside and outside the pyramid
The pyramids of Giza have drawn both scientific and artistic study for ages. However, no major discoveries have been found in the pyramid since the 1800’s. The 19th-century techniques of excavation were primitive and often damaged to the artifacts being studied. “We can no longer go blasting our way through the pyramid with gunpowder, ” the American archaeologist Mark Lehner said while calling for “more of a focus” on the discovered “anomaly.” More recent explorations using robots, such as the Upuaut Project campaigns in 1992 and 1993, were significantly less damaging but produced only minor successes.
However, not all of the archeological community is thrilled with the published results, and some have expressed doubts regarding the validity of the find. Archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying “The Great Pyramid is full of voids. We have to be careful how results are presented to the public.”
Coincidentally, both the exact details of the Great Pyramids construction and the ultimate source of the universe’s muons are unknown. In both sciences, arguments clash and contradict each other, and new theories are frequently created and disposed of. In this unique case, scientists can use the known qualities of one mystery to explore the unknown facts of another.
KEPLER JUST FOUND EARTH'S TWIN WITH AN ORBIT OF 395 DAYS AND VERY CLOSE IN SIZE
KEPLER JUST FOUND EARTH'S TWIN WITH AN ORBIT OF 395 DAYS AND VERY CLOSE IN SIZE
Newly discovered planet capable of hosting life.
Science Magazine, New Scientist, has revealed that 20 extraterrestrial worlds that might be able to host life have been discovered.
According to an analysis by the magazine, these worlds come with a varying orbit time, noting that one of them might even be very similar to earth as it takes 395 Earth days to circle its star and 18 days to complete a single orbit.
IT ALSO HOLDS LIQUID WATER WHICH IS ESSENTIAL TO LIFE
NASA launched mission Kepler to find other habitable planets in 2009.
Jeff Coughlin, the Kepler team Leader, said that the exoplanet with a 395-day orbit time was definitely the most promising to host life.
He was quoted as saying: "If you had to choose one to send a spacecraft to, it's not a bad option."
The exoplanet is about 97% the size of Earth as well. However, it is colder, and its chilly temperature is said to be as a result of the distance from its star.
Dubbed KOI-7923.01, the exoplanet boasts of a slightly cooler star and has a warm enough temperature to host life conveniently.
It also holds liquid water which is essential to life, the report said.
NASA announced that 219 new planets were discovered to be able to host life in June.
It said 10 of them shared many similarities with Earth, having almost the same orbit and size as the Earth.
Kepler, NASA's first mission to find potentially habitable zones launched in 2009 and has so far found 4,000 new potentially habitable new planets.
BRIGHT 'FLYING SAUCER' CAPTURED OVER THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
BRIGHT 'FLYING SAUCER' CAPTURED OVER THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
It seems it’s not just humans who love the Great Barrier Reef. A woman in Australia thinks she has photographic evidence of aliens visiting the reef.
After a long day fishing with friends, Jenny Morrison couldn’t help but take a few quick photos of the beautiful sunset over the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Jenny took her photos around the area of Elford Reef, a reef around 50km east of Cairns.
Later that evening in the comfort of her own home Jenny looked through the images she’d taken of her day out on the 2,300km-long reef. To her astonishment, she noticed what appeared to be an odd shape hanging in the sky.
The odd shape in the sky seemed to resemble a flying saucer, a disc-like shape with a haze around it. With the availability of photo editing equipment, any image can easily be manipulated, but Miss Morrison was quick to stress she had not interfered with the image in any way and she cannot explain what is on the photograph.
No doubt most people will be skeptical and say this image was not a UFO and was simply some kind of glitch or effect created by the light reflecting off the seawater or some dirt on the camera lens.
All the above is possible, but maybe it’s not just earthlings who find the barrier reef a majestic beauty, surely anyone looking down on earth from above would surely be interested in the largest living thing on the planet.
Maybe an alien expedition? Or a package holiday to visit Earth's most beautiful natural landmarks.
This part of North Queensland is a Hotspot for UFO activity. For decades UFO sightings have been reported.
They have an annual UFO event called The Cardwell UFO Festival, held every October to celebrate the area’s links with extraterrestrial activity by encouraging members of the public to share their experiences.
Tweede wetenschapper spreekt zich uit over mummies uit Nazca. Dit is wat hij erover te zeggen heeft
Tweede wetenschapper spreekt zich uit over mummies uit Nazca. Dit is wat hij erover te zeggen heeft
Arts Jose Benitez maakt onderdeel uit van het team dat onderzoek doet naar de bizarre mummies die recentelijk in een grot in Nazca in Peru zijn ontdekt.
Diverse Peruaanse wetenschappers hebben gezegd dat het gaat om een hoax, maar dr. Benitez is nu de tweede wetenschapper die zijn reputatie op het spel durft te zetten door te zeggen dat het gaat om authentieke gemummificeerde resten.
Afgelopen maand gaf dr. Edson Vivanco aan dat de resten volgens hem echt zijn.
Meerdere afwijkingen
Vivanco en Benitez zijn onderdeel van een team dat geleid wordt door de Mexicaanse onderzoeksjournalist Jaime Maussan, die heeft gezegd dat het mogelijk aliens zijn.
Dr. Benitez werd onlangs geïnterviewd voor een documentaire die is gemaakt door de Britse ufoloog Steve Mera. Hij reisde af naar Peru om de zaak te onderzoeken.
“Ik stuitte op een aantal eigenaardigheden die dit lichaam totaal anders maken,” zei Benitez. “In eerste instantie leek het op een normaal lichaam, maar bij nadere inspectie zagen we meerdere afwijkingen.”
Opvallende verschillen
“Het hoofd is groter, de ogen zijn groter, de neus is kleiner en oren ontbreken,” voegde hij toe. “Het heeft minder wervels dan een normaal mens.”
Benitez zei verder dat ook de botstructuur en het aantal vingerkootjes anders zijn. “Er zijn slechts drie vingers en drie tenen. Dit zijn de meest opvallende verschillen die we konden vinden,” zei hij.
Het witte materiaal waarmee de mummies bedekt zijn is volgens hem een speciaal soort materiaal dat diatomeeënaarde wordt genoemd.
Bijzondere eigenschappen
Het materiaal heeft volgens hem zeer bijzondere eigenschappen.
Dergelijke aarde kan goed worden gebruikt om weefsel te bewaren en houdt bovendien insecten op afstand, aldus dr. Benitez.
Hij zei dat vastgesteld moet worden wat het is en waar het vandaan komt.
SECOND SCIENTIST GIVES VERDICT OF NAZCA TOMB 'ALIENS'
SECOND SCIENTIST GIVES VERDICT OF NAZCA TOMB 'ALIENS'
The alleged remains of mummified bodies that were found in Nazca Peru were said to have been alien. However, after analysis, it was said that they were human. Now a second scientist has analyzed them, and it appears that they are not ordinary human beings.
BODIES HAD SEVERAL ABNORMALITIES SUGGESTED THEY ARE NOT HUMAN
It was said that at first sight, they did look like normal bodies but when looking closer it was found that there were several abnormalities. The heads are bigger; they have eyes that are wider, no ears and a nose that is smaller, along with fewer vertebras that what is found in humans.
The remains have sparked a huge debate among those who believe they may be aliens. At first, it was said that the mummified remains found in Peru were alien, but then the scientific community said that the whole thing had been nothing more than a hoax and the mummies had been fabricated and they had not actually been discovered in a cave in Peru. These comments had been made without scientists ever looking at the mummies, and they had not been analyzed properly.
SCIENTISTS CLAIM BODIES ARE NOT ORDINARY HUMAN BEINGS
The scientists stood up to their claims even though a journalist and UFO researcher from Mexico, Mr. Jaime Maussan, along with his team, gave evidence that suggested that the remains that had been found in Peru were not those of ordinary humans. Months after they were found they have now been analyzed by independent laboratories from around the world and another scientist has been able to study them and he says that they are not a hoax.
Dr. Jose Benitez is a doctor of forensic medicine, and he has made claims that are shocking about the mummified remains. He is now the second scientists to have put his work and reputation on the line as he said that the remains might be alien or a new species that has never been seen on Earth. Dr. Edson Vivancoa, a skeletal specialist, made the same claims when he studied the remains.
I found a lot of characteristics that make this body entirely different.
At first sight, it looked like a normal body but looking closely at every body part we found could find several abnormalities. “For example, the head is bigger, it has wider eyes, a smaller nose, and it has no ears. It has fewer vertebrae that a common human.
The bone structure is different; it’s wider. There are only three fingers and three toes. These are the most notable distinctions we could find. There are a few more such as the number of finger joints and the nail beds.
The white dust that covers the mummified remains is a special material known as diatom soil. This soil has a unique origin with extraordinary characteristics. It dries, dehydrates and preserves tissue and also has the unusual characteristic of being an insect repellent, deterring insects.
For example, the head is more prominent. It has wider eyes, a smaller nose, has no ears. It has fewer vertebrae that an ordinary human.
Helping the dehydration process and encouraging the natural mummification process.
DNA tests had suggested a different story as one result said that the remains were 100% human, but another set of tests of DNA revealed that the results were inconclusive. Therefore there has been a lot of confusion surrounding the mummified remains as to whether or not they are human or alien.
Drs Vivancoa and Benitez are a part of a group that was led by Mr. Maussan, and Benitez had analyzed other discoveries with Maussan. In 2015 they looked at images of what people said was not the body of a human but later on, it turned out that it was, in fact, a mummified child. Steve Meera, a Ufologist from Britain recently interviewed Dr. Benitez, and he said that he had found many characteristics that set the body apart from that of a human being.
MUMMIFIED BODIES HAD BEEN COVERED IN DUST THAT IS UNIQUE
He went on to say that there had been many abnormalities, one of which was the fact that the bone structure was wider and another was the fact that the bodies had only three fingers and toes. He also said that there were more differences between the number of joints in the fingers and nail beds.
He said that the mummified remains had been covered in white dust, which was a material by the name of diatom soil. He said that the soil was unique in origin and it has characteristics that were unusual.
The findings and conclusions of Dr. Benitez have now been presented in a documentary that has been presented by Steve Meera that suggests that the remains found in Peru are not human. He said that it was essential that people faced up to the possibility that an organic being had been found that is similar to a human being but at the same time very different. He concluded by saying that now steps should go forward to try to find out what the bodies are and where they actually came from.
HOAX: A fake CGI UFO over the great wall in a Section 51 YouTube video.
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) today received a report from an eyewitness who shaped the "flying saucer" near the great wall at Simatai in the north of Miyun County, 72 miles northeast of Beijing.
US-based MUFON is the world's largest independent organisation dedicated to UFO, alien and other paranormal research.
It also maintains a database of sightings from across the globe, which it investigates.
The unnamed photographer said in a report to MUFON: "I Went for great wall hiking.
MUFON
The UFO (ringed) that was snapped over the great wall today and sent to MUFON.
However, the object in the image may not be as exciting as it seems, and certainly not of extra terrestrial origin, according to Scott Brando, a forensic UFO investigator who has debunked hundreds of suspected UFO videos and pictures through his website ufoofinterest.org.
He told Express.co.uk it was likely a "blurfo".
This is a term coined by UFO investigators for a blurred bird or insect that is caught on camera and resembles a disk or flying saucer shape.
He said: "It is a blurfo. In this case it's most likely an insect."
BEIJING, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- There's a giant "ruler" hidden among millions of galaxies in the universe. With it, scientists can measure how fast the universe is expanding. This will help them explore dark energy, the mysterious power behind cosmic expansion, and so speculate on the universe's destiny.
With this ruler, Chinese astronomers recently succeeded in reconstructing the evolution history of dark energy based on the observation of over a million galaxies. The research shows that dark energy is dynamic.
"What it means is that dark energy, which causes cosmic expansion, might not be a vacuum energy with a constant density, like many scientists previously believed, but rather an energy field with certain dynamic properties," said Zhao Gongbo, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The research result made by a team led by Zhao was recently published on the academic journal, Nature Astronomy.
Dark energy determines the universe's destiny, he said.
"If dark energy is indeed a vacuum energy, the universe will keep on expanding until it ends with a 'big rip'. But if dark energy is dynamic, the universe might go through expansion, contraction and then expansion again -- a cyclical universe."
FINDING THE RULER
How do scientists measure such a vast universe? According to Zhao, nature provides a magic ruler -- baryon acoustic oscillations.
The early universe consisted of a hot, dense plasma of electrons, baryons (protons and neutrons) and photons, like a pot of porridge. The primordial disturbances from cosmic creation transmitted through the "porridge," causing periodic changes to its density, temperature and pressure on the chronological sequence. This transmission mechanism is similar to sound waves transmission, so it is called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) by scientists.
About 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the cooled-down universe became transparent. The transmission of BAOs stopped, and the information of those oscillations is frozen in space-time. But the great power of it influenced the distribution of galaxies in the universe.
In 2005, the BAO signal was discovered for the first time. Thus cosmologists finally got the "standard ruler" they dreamed of, in order to measure the universe -- whether it's flat or curved, and how fast it's expanding.
But that's just the start. Scientists also have to make accurate measurements.
Since 2012, Zhao's team has been making observations with the Sloan telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Based on the observation of galaxies and quasars, they obtained high-precision BAO signals.
"The observation of BAOs is becoming more precise. Previous observations focused on a short period of the universe, but we adopted a new method. Like doing a CT scan for a more remote universe, we get to know more about the history of cosmic evolution," said Zhao.
Based on the measurement with the ruler, astronomers will be able to draft a three-dimensional map of the universe.
EXPLORING DARK ENERGY
In 1929, U.S. astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble discovered most galaxies are moving away from the Earth, indicating the universe is expanding. The discovery shocked the world, overthrowing the long-held perception of a static universe.
But many scientists still believed that cosmic expansion would slow down. However, to their surprise, two research teams, in the United States and Australia, reported respectively in 1998 that they had discovered cosmic expansion is speeding up.
Scientists assumed an unknown power they called dark energy was accelerating cosmic expansion. Even now, scientists still know little about it, although they have put forward many theoretical models.
For instance, a model of dark energy advanced by Zhang Xinmin, a researcher at Institute of High Energy Physics under the CAS, conforms to the observation results of Zhao's team using the Sloan telescope.
In order to test so many theories, large-scale computer simulations are needed. "With the help of China's Tianhe supercomputer as well as foreign supercomputers, we simulated approximately 2,000 universes for analytic purposes," said Zhao.
On the computer screen, billions of years flew by, galaxies took shape and the universe evolved.
"I want to understand why cosmic expansion is accelerating," said Zhao. "There is so much new physics in that. Normal matter only accounts for about 5 percent of the universe, while the other 95 percent of dark matter and dark energy is still unknown to us. If one day we know what dark energy is, the whole discipline of physics will be revolutionized."
In the next five to 10 years, many projects will study dark energy on Earth and in space, both in China and abroad, he said. For example, China's future space station will contain a space telescope two meters in diameter. Its major scientific goal is to study dark energy.
We leven in een cyclisch heelal. Chinese wetenschappers doen opzienbarende ontdekking
We leven in een cyclisch heelal. Chinese wetenschappers doen opzienbarende ontdekking
Ergens tussen de miljoenen sterrenstelsels in het heelal zit een gigantische ‘magische liniaal’ verborgen. Daarmee kunnen wetenschappers meten hoe snel het universum uitdijt.
Op deze manier kunnen ze donkere energie bestuderen, de mysterieuze kracht achter de kosmische expansie.
Met behulp van de liniaal zijn Chinese astronomen er recentelijk in geslaagd om de evolutie van donkere energie in kaart te brengen. Hun onderzoek laat zien dat donkere energie dynamisch is.
Cyclisch universum
“Het is mogelijk geen vacuümenergie met een constante dichtheid, zoals veel wetenschappers denken, maar een energieveld met dynamische eigenschappen,” zei Zhao Gongbo van de Chinese Academie van Wetenschappen.
Als donkere energie daadwerkelijk een vacuümenergie is, blijft het universum uitdijen tot het uiteen wordt gereten.
Maar als donkere energie dynamisch is, dijt het universum uit om vervolgens weer samen te trekken en weer opnieuw uit te dijen; een cyclisch universum, aldus Zhao.
Einde
Met behulp van de liniaal kunnen astronomen nu een driedimensionale kaart van het universum maken.
In 1929 ontdekte astronoom Edwin Powell Hubble tot ieders verbazing dat de meeste sterrenstelsels bij ons vandaan bewegen, wat erop wijst dat het universum uitdijt.
Veel wetenschappers dachten dat er op den duur een einde zou komen aan die kosmische expansie.
Vrijwel niets bekend
Onderzoeksteams uit de VS en Australië kwamen echter tot de ontdekking dat het heelal steeds sneller uitdijt.
Wetenschappers namen aan dat een onbekende kracht die ze donkere energie noemden verantwoordelijk was voor de versnelde expansie. Vandaag de dag weten ze hier nog steeds weinig over.
Het heelal bestaat voor vijf procent uit normale materie en over de resterende 95 procent – donkere materie en donkere energie – is vrijwel niets bekend, zei Zhao.
De onderzoeksresultaten zijn onlangs gepubliceerd in vakblad Nature Astronomy.
Ancient UNDERWATER structure, said to be 14,000 years old—Could this be evidence of ALIEN bases & UFOs?
Ancient UNDERWATER structure, said to be 14,000 years old— Could this be evidence of ALIEN bases & UFOs?
Three decades ago, a Japanese diver discovered a massive stone complex near Yonaguni, at the southwestern-most tip of the Japanese archipelago. Scientists have determined that this structure is man-made and that it must have been built more than 14,000 years ago—a conclusion that led some to seek out more “paranormal” explanations.
The massive structure, first discovered by tour diver Kihachiro Aratake, consists of megalithic stone formations, the largest of which resembles a tiered pyramid the size of two football fields.
The underwater ruins, which lie at depths ranging between 60 and 100 feet below the surface, is considered one of the greatest underwater archeological discoveries in history.
Based on geometric patterns present at the site, scientists have concluded that the formation is not natural. While the structure contains “tons of right angles,” there are also clearly rectangular channels, which lead to stairwells.
According to Graham Hancock, author of the book “Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization,” the structure, which he believes to be a “ceremonial complex,” was built using a scale of thinking that far surpasses all stone-age civilizations known to us. According to him, the structure was probably built before the thaw of the last ice age, which would have caused massive flooding, a conclusion that would date the structure to over 14,000 years ago.
Given that mankind was unable to conceive of such structures so early, (thus implying that they could not have been built by mankind), some scientists have further formed theories in the direction of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Looking into the history of the area where the ruins were found, there are untold numbers of accounts of strange phenomena that have occurred.
According to ancient Japanese history, the area of sea south of Japan has long been the subject of legends, telling of fire-breathing underwater dragons flying out of the water and capsizing vessels, while causing sailors to meet a watery grave. That area of ocean was termed the “Dragon’s Triangle,” also known as the “Devil’s Sea.”
In modern times, this area is considered a hotbed of UFO activity, with descriptions of glowing objects rising out of the water and circling ships from above.
Strangely enough, this vast stretch of water has a counterpart on the exact opposite side of the earth, on exactly the same line of latitude, the 25th parallel north—and that is of course the Bermuda Triangle, also considered to be a hotbed of UFO and paranormal phenomena.
Both areas of water similarly are considered treacherous, where magnetic phenomena causing compasses and instruments to fail are common, and literally thousands of vessels and aircraft have entered the region only to vanish, often without a distress call being made, and without a trace.
The similarities don’t end there; just as ancient ruins were discovered on the outskirts of the Dragon’s Triangle, so too have there been ruins found beneath the oceans off the coast of Cuba, just on the outskirts of the Bermuda Triangle, including terraced, pyramid structures. Could there be some connection between the ruins of the east Atlantic and those of Yonaguni in the Pacific?
Some paranormal experts have considered the possibility that the areas of the Triangles could indicate the existence of alien bases, which might have existed on earth for thousands of years.
Given the facts that these structures must have been built before they were submerged some 14,000 years ago and that stone-age man could not have conceived such structures as early as that time, who could have created these structures? Is it merely coincidence that ruins are located beside the mysterious seas of the Bermuda and Dragon’s Triangle?
Could all of these mysteries be explained by the existence of aliens and alien bases beneath the sea, or could there be some less extraordinary, more conventional explanation? Please share your thoughts!
Ex-Air Force reveals HUGE ‘alien’ structures on Moon—NASA warned off, ‘don’t come back!’
Ex-Air Force reveals HUGE ‘alien’ structures on Moon—NASA warned off, ‘don’t come back!’
While NASA prepares for man’s first ever mission to Mars, it’s curious we have not set foot on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972, let alone established a base there yet. Astronauts and many researchers have claimed this is because there are in fact bases on the lunar surface already … and indeed they are not human bases.
Former chief of NASA Communications Systems, Maurice Chatelain confirmed in 1979 that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had seen two UFOs on the rim of a crater during the Apollo 11 Moon Mission in the Summer of 1969. “The encounter was common knowledge in NASA,” Chatelain said, “but nobody has talked about it until now.”
According to Armstrong, they had been “warned off” from the Moon by extraterrestrials.
Former NASA employee Otto Binder said that an unnamed radio-receiving facility bypassed NASA’s broadcasting outlets and captured the following exchange:
NASA: What’s there? Mission Control calling Apollo 11…
Apollo: These “Babies” are huge, Sir! Enormous! OH MY GOD! You wouldn’t believe it! I’m telling you there are other spacecraft out there, lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They’re on the Moon watching us!
During Apollo 17, NASA’s final Moon mission in 1972, only CBS was covering the live footage as the lunar rover traversed the lunar surface. NASA operators on Earth began to pan the TV camera, mounted on the rover, in order to get a panorama of the terrain. There was a 4-second delay between the TV camera’s movements and the controls operated from Earth, due to the distance between the Moon and Earth.
As the camera panned the landscape, suddenly, it captured what looked like a massive rectangular building in the distance.
CBS host Walter Cronkite was stunned, exclaiming: “That looks like a man-made object!” Almost immediately, the live feed was cut along with Cronkite and was replaced with older footage labeled: “recorded earlier today.”
Twenty minutes later, Walter returned on air and, bemusedly, he told viewers that the so-called “man-made object” in fact had been just part of the lunar rover. However, the footage was never aired again, nor was the incident ever mentioned again on TV, nor in any document known to the public … ever.
It would seem one of NASA’s responsibilities is to control what information the public gets to see and what it doesn’t. Former NASA employee Dona Hare explained that she and her colleagues were responsible for airbrushing out evidence of alien activity in our skies and on the lunar surface.
Dona asked her colleague one day, “What are you going to do with this information? ‘We have to airbrush these out’ … The people that told me there was a coverup … they’d tell me, ‘Don’t ever say I said it, or I’ll say, I didn’t.’”
Yet, it would seem that images of so-called “alien activity” on the Moon have leaked out anyway. On Oct. 1, 2010, China launched its Chang’e-2 Moon orbiter. Widely disputed claims were made that the orbiter’s cameras captured what appears to be an installation on the lunar surface.
Eventually, it was determined that the photos were not taken by Chang’e-2 but were from NASA’s own archives, though this could not be confirmed, as there was no frame number on the photo.
Could the Chinese government have intentionally (possibly subversively) leaked out a NASA photo before they’d had a chance to doctor it?
Indeed, much of this evidence is corroborated by claims from numerous high-level officials such as one ex-U.S. Air Force employee named Karl Wolf, who, at one time, had “cryptologic top secret” security clearance. He confided that he was told by an NSA employee: “We’ve discovered a base on the back side of the moon.” Wolf then added: “And then he pulled out one of these [maps] and showed this base, which had geometric shapes.
“There were towers; there were spherical buildings … they’re massive. Some of the structures are half a mile in size. They’re huge structures.”
More images of what appear to be gigantic structures were obtained during the Apollo 16 mission. A towering cylindrical structure, similar to a nuclear cooling tower, was discovered beside what could be a turret of some kind. A 3D digital reconstruction of the photo illustrates what this image might look like from near the lunar surface.
What makes all this evidence so compelling is how many well-known astronauts make corroborating statements. The sixth man to walk on the Moon, Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Michell shared that, “After traveling in space, I am fully confident that the aliens are watching us. I do not know how many, where and how they do it, but watching us; we see these ships are all times.”
Apollo 11 lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin supported this preposition with his own experience: “I saw this illumination that was moving with respect to the stars. We were smart enough to not say, ‘Houston, there’s a light out there’s a light out there that’s following us.’ So, technically, it becomes an unidentified flying object.”
Is it possible that NASA has been covering up knowledge of alien bases on the Moon for the last 50 years? Could that be the real reason why we have not set foot on or colonized the lunar surface since our last Moon mission? Please let us know in the comments!
Check out this amazing revelation in the video below:
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Is dit de echte reden dat we niet zijn teruggegaan naar de maan?
Is dit de echte reden dat we niet zijn teruggegaan naar de maan?
De NASA bereidt zich voor op de eerste bemande missie naar Mars. Maar waarom zijn we na 1972 niet meer teruggegaan naar de maan?
Astronauten en vele onderzoekers claimen dat dit is omdat er al bases op het maanoppervlak staan. En dat die bases niet door mensen zijn gebouwd.
Het voormalige hoofd van NASA Communications Systems, Maurice Chatelain, bevestigde in 1979 dat Neil Armstrong en Buzz Aldrin aan de rand van een krater twee UFO’s hadden gezien na hun maanlanding.
Gewaarschuwd
“Iedereen binnen de NASA wist ervan,” zei Chatelain. “Maar niemand sprak erover.”
Volgens Armstrong hadden de buitenaardsen ‘gewaarschuwd’ dat ze niet moesten terugkomen.
Tijdens Apollo 17, de laatste bemande maanmissie van de NASA in 1972, deed CBS live verslag van de landing.
Toen de NASA uitzoomde met de camera die op de rover was gemonteerd, verscheen plotseling een enorm rechthoekig object in beeld.
Verbaasd
Presentator Walter Cronkite was verbaasd en zei: “Dat lijkt op een door mensen gemaakt object.”
Vrijwel gelijk ging het beeld op zwart, waarna oudere beelden werden getoond. Twintig minuten later kwam Walter weer in beeld. Hij vertelde de kijkers dat het object ‘onderdeel was van de maanrover’.
De beelden zijn nooit opnieuw uitgezonden en er is op tv ook nooit meer over het incident gesproken.
Meer hierover in onderstaande video:
Enorm
Donna Hare heeft voor de NASA gewerkt en verklaarde dat haar team beelden moest ontdoen van UFO’s en andere onverklaarbare objecten.
Karl Wolfe, die voor de Amerikaanse luchtmacht werkte, kreeg naar eigen zeggen beelden van een NASA-medewerker over ‘een basis op de achterkant van de maan’.
“Er waren torens en cirkelvormige gebouwen te zien, ze waren enorm,” zei hij. “Sommige bouwwerken waren wel een kilometer groot. Het waren enorme bouwwerken.”
Verborgen
Ook astronauten die op de maan zijn geweest hebben zich hierover uitgesproken.
Dr. Edgar Mitchell zei bijvoorbeeld: “Ik ben er volledig van overtuigd dat aliens ons in de gaten houden. Ik weet niet hoeveel er zijn, waar ze vandaan komen en hoe ze het doen, maar ze houden ons in de gaten; we zien hun schepen constant.”
Is het mogelijk dat de NASA het bestaan van buitenaardse bases op de maan al 50 jaar verborgen houdt? Kan dat de echte reden zijn waarom we sindsdien niet meer terug zijn geweest?
“Imagine a social networking site, where instead of having a page with posts of people here you have an actual cave wall or roof full of different pictographs.”
If you’re looking for proof that the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans were ahead of their time, a new study that is the result of three years of intense spelunking in the caves of the uninhabited Puerto Rican island of Mona Island is a good place to start. Researchers found 70 cave systems on the currently uninhabited island filled with indigenous pre-Columbian rock art and the reason behind the strangeness of some of the drawings is a surprise.
All images used with permission from University of Leicester
In a press release announcing their study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, researchers from the University of Leicester, the British Museum, the British Geological Survey and Cambridge University call the thousands of well-preserved wall drawings deep in the caves the “greatest diversity of preserved indigenous iconography in the Caribbean.”
“Most of the precolonial pictographs are in very narrow spaces deep in the caves, some are very hard to access, you have to crawl to get to them, they are very extensive and humidity is very high but it is extremely rewarding.”
Fortunately for the pictorials, but not for the indigenous people, the island has been uninhabited since the 16th century. First settled by Arawaks from Hispaniola and later by the Tainos from Cuba and other Caribbean islands, Ámona had the bad luck of being ‘discovered’ by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage. It quickly became a major port and the natives were offered ‘jobs’ as ‘laborers’ in the fields while merchants and pirates (including Captain Kidd) pillaged the island. By the late 16th century, the Spanish had no more use for Mona and abandoned it to the natives – who had already abandoned it to the ruthless Europeans. As a result, there was no one to see or destroy the hidden cave artwork.
Being in caves, it’s not surprising that the artists used bat guano that had changed colors by absorbing minerals from the floors. Most of the pictures were drawn with their fingers after dipping them in the guano ‘paint’ or simply by using their fingertips to remove the dark calcite on the walls and expose the lighter rock underneath. The figures in the drawings appear to be humans in transition to animals or plants which the researchers say indicates that these wee deeply spiritual pictures in a deep, dark spiritual place. In fact, that explains the strange shapes in the pictures.
“They took cohoba a hallucinogenic drug that you snort and it’s very powerful.”
According to co-author Dr. Jago Cooper, the Tainos people inhaled the ground seeds of cojóbana tree for a psychedelically-induced spiritual experience. Under the direction of a shaman or religious leader, the people would be led deep into this temple-like place.
“The further you go into the cave the more into the spiritual world you go. In the dark a lot of your sense are totally transformed – it’s very eerie and strange. You are completely out of your comfort zone – it’s discombobulating and the same thing would have happened would have happened to the people making this art.”
The art shows that the caves acted as portals to the spiritual world – a kind of transition point where the human changed to another form. More research is planned. (Shouldn’t this be done under the influence of cohoba? Asking for a friend.)
Mona Island is still generally uninhabited and the areas where the drawings are found in the caves are difficult to reach, so they’re safe … for now.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETMet de hulp van kosmische stralen hebben wetenschappers een minstens 30 meter lange ruimte in de grootste van de drie piramides in Gizeh ontdekt. Het resultaat betekent een doorbraak om de interne structuur van de piramide van Cheops beter te begrijpen, schrijven de onderzoekers in een verslag in vakblad Nature.
“We weten niet wat de bedoeling van deze holle ruimte is”, zegt Mehdi Tayoubi van het internationaal wetenschappelijk team. “Daarom willen we ook niet van een kamer spreken”. Maar de omvang van de ontdekte ruimte is groot. “Zo groot als een Boeing”, klinkt het.
Drie teams van verschillende instituten en universiteiten uit Frankrijk en Japan onderzochten gedurende twee jaar de 4.500 jaar oude piramide in Gizeh. Daarbij gebruikten de wetenschappers een scan met muonen, een nevenproduct van kosmische straling. Net zoals röntgenstralen bij het menselijk lichaam kunnen die elementaire deeltjes honderden meter steen doordringenen, aldus de vorsers.
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Grootste
De piramide van Cheops is de oudste en de grootste van de drie piramide van Gizeh en is een van de zeven wereldwonderen uit de Oudheid. De piramide is 139 meter hoog en 230 meter lang. Het bouwsel werd tijdens de regeerperiode van Cheops (2509 tot 2483 v. Chr.) opgericht en heeft nog steeds niet al zijn geheimen blootgegeven.
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