Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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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...
09-11-2017
WATCH: Eerie lights flying in formation in the sky raise UFO fears
WATCH: Eerie lights flying in formation in the sky raise UFO fears
Village residents in south-west Ukraine were baffled and left fearing an alien invasion when strange lights appeared in the sky.
The bizarre spots raised UFO suspicions among locals in the village of Novogradovka in Odessa Oblast in south-western Ukraine.
Seven lights appeared in the sky, seemingly in the shape of an airplane, staying in one formation as if linked.
One social media user likened the flying shapes to a “variation of the Starfleet insignia” used in the Star Trek TV shows and films.
The footage of the eerie incident was posted online by Ivan Rusev, who claimed that the objects appeared “out of the blue” at a “significant height” and stayed visible for around 12-15 minutes.
It has since been reported the lights were targets for Ukrainian marines to train with, though there were no details released about what they were made of.
However, some can be seen in the clip dropping from the sky as if hit.
An army spokesman came out to assure residents there was no reason for any concern. The lights were in fact targets used by Ukrainian Marines during a military drill.
This did not convince social media users who lined up to share their views.
“Those UFOs came to claim what it theirs,” commented Odesitk while another user named ‘Iorka 76’ added: “Those usually appear when something is about to happen.”
Another onlooker ‘Aleksander Nikitinskiy’ added: “This looks like a formation of large fireballs at high altitude. The question is why do those appear now? What triggers those and why we did not see those before?”
Residents of a small village in China were left stunned by a glowing, ring-shaped UFO that mysteriously hovered in the sky for over 10 minutes before disappearing.
The cloud took on the appearance of a burning flame and reportedly lasted for at least 10 minutes.
Authorities have yet to explain what caused the mysterious glowing white ring in the sky.
However, despite the UFO whisperings of the citizens of Shangrao, similar rings have been spotted over Russia, the UK and the USA.
Here's a clip of a black ring floating over Kazakhstan in 2015:
Scientists identified these wisps as smoke vortices. Their cause is also understood as the result of a blast through a circular venting structure like a flue or pipe, and can be created intentionally or otherwise.
You can see that happening in the following video, recorded in the Nevada desert during the 2008 Burning Man festival:
The orange ring over Shangrao wasn't the first UFO over China to spark global attention; the presence of an unidentified object over inner Mongolia in July 2010 reportedly resulted in the brief shutdown of Xiaoshan Airport. Officials eventually explained this was a military test.
And perhaps, most famously, a city was seen by several onlookers over Yueyang, China, in January 2017:
As incredible as this may seem, it too has a very explainable cause. An illusion known as Fata Morgana, refracted light rays—usually fuzzy when seen close to the ground—can be clearer when poised in the sky; upturns in temperature in the upper atmosphere, usually over bodies of water, are considered the reason behind such illusions.
Atmospheric illusions can also lead to some flat-out weird visions as well, like this video taken on Lake Superior, MI in 2015:
What is this silvery looking UFO caught on camera floating over Gloucestershire in the middle of the night?
That’s what the residents of Newent are asking after seeing the silver oval object flashing as it floated in the distance towards Gloucester.
Another silvery UFO caught on camera floating over Gloucestershire - Gloucestershire Live
This is the second time this year that strange-looking lights have been floating over the cathedral city.
Jo Humphrey caught the unidentified flying object on camera on Monday night and thought it might have been the space station.
But that theory was discounted by somebody who came forward on social media and others have suggested it was Venus or Mars.
Jo told GloucestershireLive that she is still baffled and wants to know if anybody in Gloucester has seen it or has any ideas about what it might be.
“I was in bed watching a DVD and it caught the corner of my eye,” said Jo who is not suggesting it is inhabited by little green men.
“I took no notice to start with then thought I'd record it on my phone. It didn’t move but I was leaning out of my window to record it, hence all the moving on the video.
“I watched it for about five minutes then got back into bed. To the naked eye it was really bright silver and oblongish,
“I was really surprised looking at the video that it was round and had different colours. It looked as if it was stationary but it did start moving upwards in a straight line. I've no idea what it is and wondered if it was a space station or a Chinese lantern.”
GV of mystery bright lights in the sky
She said it was highish in the sky but lower than stars and she could not see the shape or colours with the naked eye.
Because she has a south facing garden she guesses it was towards Gloucester about 1am on Tuesday morning.
But Conor Nolan wrote back saying: “The space station wasn't visible until about 4am on Tuesday.”
It's not the first time the weird rotating ball has been filmed in the skies above Gloucestershire and back in July GloucestershireLive wrote a story based on the mystery.
Exclusive Clip: Patient 17 – Examination of Suspected Alien Implant
Exclusive Clip: Patient 17 – Examination of Suspected Alien Implant
An exclusive clip provided to OpenMinds.tv of Jeremy Kenyon Corbell’s documentary Patient 17. In this clip, the results from the analysis of an object removed from a man who believes he has had an alien abduction experience is reviewed by an alleged military funded nano-physicist. The nano-physicist is referred to as Nano Man.
Faster! Black Hole's 'Acceleration Zone' Launches High-Speed Jets
Faster! Black Hole's 'Acceleration Zone' Launches High-Speed Jets
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Artist's conception of a black hole with an accretion disk, and jets of hot plasma.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
New observations of black holes have revealed an "acceleration zone" that ejects jets of material from around the singularity. Astronomers say that in this zone, the hot gas inside the jet becomes energized enough to strongly radiate light, creating two lines of bright light along the black hole's axis of rotation.
While black holes trap much of the material that falls in toward them, some of that material orbits the singularity in a whirling accretion disk. That whirling action can generate powerful plasma jets that blast outward, and now researchers have pinpointed exactly how far the particles in the jets travel before they light up with radiation. While the distance varies depending on the size of the black hole, astronomers have named this area the "acceleration zone" — an area that was not well-understood before the new observations, NASA officials said in a statement.
The participating observatories were NASA's NuSTAR space telescope and the Ultracam camera on the William Herschel Observatory in La Palma, Spain, which had to coordinate observations quickly and simultaneously during outbursts to accomplish the work. The results were detailed in the journal Nature Astronomy on Oct. 30, with lead author Poshak Gandhi, an astronomer at the United Kingdom's University of Southampton. [How NASA's NuSTAR Spacecraft Hunts Black Holes (Infographic)]
The telescopes examined two black hole systems in the Milky Way in which a black hole is tearing material off of a normal star; this kind of system is called an X-ray binary. The systems were named V404 Cygni and GX 339-4. The observations included different periods in which the material that orbits the black hole, called the accretion disk, brightens as material is added to it.
Both systems had a time delay of about one-tenth of a second between when NuSTAR saw a flare in X-ray light and when Ultracam detected the same phenomena in visible light. This is the length of time it took for the jets to "turn on" as visible light sources.
According to the researchers, the X-rays might come from material that was closest to the black hole, where magnetic fields accelerate some of the stuff to high speed. Particles then smash into each other at close to the speed of light, energizing the plasma that blasts out into jets and causing it to visibly glow.
"Where in the jet does this occur? The measured delay between optical and X-ray light explains this," NASA officials said in the statement. "By multiplying this amount of time by the speed of the particles, which is nearly the speed of light, scientists determine the maximum distance traveled."
That distance was about 19,000 miles (30,000 kilometers) — just under three times Earth's diameter, according to the statement — before the plasma was energized enough to light up.
The researchers said there is a connection between this measurement and the way even larger, supermassive black holes are understood to work; in one system, called BL Lacertae (200 million times the mass of the sun), astronomers inferred a time delay millions of times greater than for V404 Cygni and GX 339-4. This means the mass of the black hole likely determines the size of the acceleration zone. But more observations of X-ray binaries are planned to confirm the results.
"Astronomers hope to refine models for jet powering mechanisms using the results of this study," Daniel Stern, study co-author and astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said in the statement.
A new video by visual artist Teun van der Zalm takes viewers on an intimate tour of computer-simulated nebulas — enormous cosmic clouds gas and dust.
The Hubble Space Telescope gave humanity its very first up-close-views of cosmic nebulas, where dying stars explode and spread their ashes across space. From that ejected material, new stars are born.
As unforgettable as those Hubble images are, the telescope could never provide the kind of views offered by the new video, called "Nebulae." The use of a computer simulation allows for a much closer look at these colorful cosmic clouds.
In the short movie, the "camera" appears to move around and through enormous clouds, which are rich with colors, from deep purples to fiery reds. Tranquil music allows the viewer to sit back and bask in the beauty. (It's worth noting that many of the nebulas imaged by Hubble would appear quite different to a human who traveled to see them up close. These objects are frequently too faint to be seen with the naked eye, or they emit light in wavelengths that the human eye cannot see.)
In the movie's description on the website Vimeo, the creator quotes astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan from the first episode of the TV show "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage," which Sagan hosted: "A cloud that veils one of nature's secret places. This is a stellar nursery, a place where stars are born. They condense by gravity from gas and dust until their temperatures become so high that they begin to shine. Such clouds mark the births of stars, as others bear witness to their deaths."
While the simulated nebulas clearly have a lot in common with the real-world nebulas photographed by Hubble, it's not clear how scientifically accurate the simulations are. But, as the video's subtitle indicates, the short movie works perfectly as a "cosmic meditation."
Declassified images show countless nuclear bombs were detonated in Earth’s atmosphere
Declassified images show countless nuclear bombs were detonated in Earth’s atmosphere
One of the most cited and least-interpreted quotations from the history of the atomic age is what J. Robert Oppenheimer claimed to have thought when he witnessed the world’s first nuclear explosion: “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Shortly after Oppenheimer, director of the laboratory that developed the atomic bomb, saw the fireball glowing over the New Mexico desert at the Trinity test site on 16 July 1945, those words derived from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad-Gita came to his mind.
The quotation appears throughout the literature on nuclear weapons, often in a slightly different form: “I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.”
Video PlayerFrom around 1945 until 1962, the United States of America performed around 210 atmospheric nuclear tests. Yup. Right above our heads.
Above-ground nuke testing was banned in 1963, but thousands of films from those destructive tests that have remained rotting-away in secret vaults around the country.
However, as times change and as classified material becomes declassified, we now have access to a huge amount of video footage and images.
What we are looking at is destruction at its best. Such force sends chills down your spine, and watching these videos and images makes me wonder just why we waste our human intellect producing weapons of mass destruction, and not technologies that would allow us to travel the stars.
Just imagine where we would be today as a civilization if all of the countries in the world spent more time developing future technologies for space explorations, rather than weapons to kill each other?
What you are about to see in these images is not an art exhibition, it is an exhibition of war, an exhibition of terror, an exhibition of destruction embedded deep inside humanity.
When have we gone astray, to the point that we produce destruction instead of development?
These macabre images, which will definitely give you goosebumps, were recently declassified, and show a number of atmospheric nuclear tests performed by the US in the 60’s.
The day we decided to test nuclear weapons in the atmosphere marked a tragic day for our planet, but also for mankind.
The military wanted to determine whether or not it was possible to shoot a nuclear missile from the sky.
The tests could not determine the goal because of the extreme difficulty in actually making a nuke go off in the sky at that time.
However, what these images Do confirm is that more than half a century ago mankind was already capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to the atmosphere.
We hope that these photos will make us reflect and question this type of practice.
Given the current tension between North Korea and the US, these photographs could make us see a dark future that—I think we all agree—no one wishes to witness.
The mystery continues: Russian scientists disprove the myth of the “Tunguska meteor”
The mystery continues: Russian scientists disprove the myth of the “Tunguska meteor”
The Tunguska explosion was a very high-powered aerial explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya River in Tunguska (Evenkia, Siberia, Russia) at 7:17 on June 30, 1908. The detonation, similar to that of a high-powered thermonuclear weapon, has been attributed to a comet or an asteroid. However, researchers now say it was not the case.
The survivors of the area affected by the explosion described it as a giant mushroom that was rising through the air. The animals fled, and the tents of the tunguses located more than 50 km away flew through the air.
NIKOLA TESLA-TUNGUSKA 1908
Until this day, no one has been able to explain as to what exactly exploded over Russia.
The Tunguska phenomenon eventually produced more than 30 hypotheses and theories about what happened.
The detonation, similar to that of a high-powered thermonuclear weapon, has been attributed to a comet or an asteroid.
Because no fragment has ever been recovered is believed that what exploded over Russia was a comet made of ICE.
As it did not reach Earth’s surface, no crater or astrobleme was produced.
However, 108 years later, the phenomenon of the Tunguska meteorite remains a mystery.
Until now it was maintained that the explosion of a meteor near the Podkámennaya River, in Siberia, was what eventually formed Lake Cheko.
However, Russian scientists proved that this lake could not be a crater since it is at least 280 years old.
Trees burned and knocked down as a result of the Tunguska event.
The Tunguska explosion devastated an area of 2,150 square kilometers of forest, broke windows and knocked down people who were within a radius of 400 kilometers away from the impact zone.
In the following days, the inhabitants of Europe witnessed a series of strange phenomena, such as luminous clouds, colorful sunsets and unusual lights at night.
The European media then claimed that it was either a UFO incident or a volcanic eruption.
However, political events in imperial Russia prevented further investigation of this strange phenomenon.
19 years later, an expedition led by Russian scientist Leonid Kulik arrived in Tunguska to examine the site of the explosion.
However, the researchers failed to discover any traces of the meteorites.
Kulik explained that this was because the extraterrestrial matter burned completely when entering the atmosphere.
Much later, in 2007, a scientific team from the University of Bologna (Italy), led by Luca Gasperini, proposed a theory according to which Lake Cheko was the supposed crater left by the Tunguska meteorite due to its unusual shape and depth.
Gasperini claimed that the existence of this lake was unknown before 1908.
However, in July 2016, a team of scientists from Siberia managed to figure out the exact age of Lake Cheko and stated that, because the Tunguska region was practically not on the maps before the 20th century, the lake could exist before the Tunguska event.
To determine the age of the lake through biochemical analyzes, samples of the bottom were taken.
Recently, colleagues from the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian delegation of the Russian Academy of Sciences have completed the radioscopic analysis of the samples obtained, according to a report published on the website of the Russian Geographical Society.
According to the results of the analysis, the lake is at least 280 years old, which shows that the Cheko is much older than the Tunguska event.
The results of this study were published in a specialized scientific journal on July 30, 2017, said in an interview with Sputnik, Denis Rogozin, a researcher at the Siberian delegation of the Academy of Sciences.
With this new discovery, Russian scientists have disproved the international community’s last hope to clarify the circumstances surrounding the strange explosion that shuck Tunguska and everything else in a 400-kilometer radius—one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in history.
The Eye of the Sahara has been hiding for millennia in plain sight. This was due to the fact that the mysterious geological formation, despite it being huge, is very difficult to spot when on the ground level.
It was only when NASA began to send people into space that the bulls-eye among the sand was discovered for the first time. Even now scientists are still wondering about it and still have questions.
EYE OF THE SAHARA IS AROUND 25 MILES ACROSS
The Eye of the Sahara was formally known as the Richat structure, and it is situated in the Mauritania in the Western Sahara Desert. The formation is around 25 miles across. The Gemini IV mission took a four-day orbit around the Earth and when it was being readied in 1965 astronauts were told to take some photographs of the terrain of the Earth. They were asked to keep an eye out for large circular features that might be the impact structures roots, according to the text that came with some photographs that had been published from the mission.
Impact craters are very important in geological terms as they tell people about the Earth’s history. They also reveal to scientists how many times space rocks have come crashing onto the planet and this is then able to help scientists to predict what might happen in the future. For quite some time the scientists believed that the Eye of the Sahara was, in fact, an impact crater. However, one thing was missing from the theory; there was not enough melted rock. Now more current theories have suggested that there is a story that is much more complicated behind the natural formation.
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE EYE COULD HAVE FORMED 100 MILLION YEARS AGO
It is believed that the Eyes main ring structure could be the eroded remains of what might have been a dome of layers of the crust of the Earth. While scientists still have many questions about the structure, two geologists from Canada have come up with a working theory about how the Eye may have come about.
They said that the formation of the Eye might have started over 100 million years ago when Pangaea, the supercontinent, was torn apart by the plate tectonics along with South America and Africa being torn away from each other. They say that the molten rock that pushed upwards toward the Earth’s surface perhaps did not make it all the way and this could have created rock layers in a dome, much like a large pimple on the surface of the skin. This may then have created fault lines that circled and crossed the Eye. The molten rock would also have dissolved limestone close to the middle of the Eye and this would have then collapsed and would have formed a type of rock called breccia.
Shortly after 100 million years, the Eye would have erupted in a violent fashion, and the bubble would have collapsed partway, while erosion would have done the rest and thus created the Eye of the Sahara. The rings of the structure would have been made from rocks of different types that would have eroded at speeds that differed over time. The much paler of the circles close to the middle of the Eye is the volcanic rock that would have been created by the explosion.
ASTRONAUTS USE THE EYE AS A KEY LANDMARK
Astronauts are very fond of the Eye as a lot of the Sahara Desert is nothing more than a sea of sand that is unbroken. The Eye is just one of very few breaks in the sand, and it does away with the monotony, and for astronauts, it has now become one of the key landmarks.
There are some people who think that the Eye of the Sahara might be the remains of the city of Atlantis as Plato was said to have described it as being concentric rings of land and water.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETTwee papers die deze week worden voorgesteld op een vermaard congres voor neurowetenschappers in de Verenigde Staten, onthullen dat ze organoïdes – zeg maar miniversies – van een menselijk brein hebben ingeplant bij muizen en ratten. Ethici zijn gealarmeerd, want die nieuwe ontwikkeling zou de dieren wel eens een verhoogd bewustzijn kunnen geven.
Het creëren van menselijk hersenweefsel uit stamcellen zelf is niet nieuw. Het gebeurde voor het eerst vier jaar geleden in een lab in Wenen. De meest geavanceerde zijn niet groter dan een linze en werden tot nu toe alleen gekweekt in testbuizen. Ze pulseren met dezelfde soort elektrische activiteit die echte hersenen aansturen en doen nieuwe neuronen ontstaan. Ze ontwikkelen ook de zes lagen van de menselijke hersenschors, die onder meer verantwoordelijk is voor ons denken, beoordelingsvermogen en onze spraak.
Zulke organoïdes zijn een revolutionaire stap in het onderzoek naar de ontwikkeling van het menselijke brein en ziektes zoals Alzheimer en Zika. Maar het brengt de wetenschap ook in onbekende ethische wateren. “Niet dat ik denk dat een organoïde in een proefbuis kan denken, maar we moeten wel bekijken wat de ethische impact van deze ontwikkeling is”, aldus neurowetenschapper Hongjun Song van de universiteit van Pennsylvania.
Dringend
Daarover nadenken is sinds deze week net iets dringender geworden. Want op het jaarlijkse congres van de Society for Neuroscience in het Amerikaanse Washington DC stellen twee teams van wetenschappers deze week een rapport voor waaruit blijkt dat ze zulke miniversies van het menselijke brein ingeplant hebben in de hersenen van muizen en ratten. En waarin het vooruitzicht wordt geopperd dat die minihersenen zich verder zouden kunnen ontwikkelen in de dieren.
Een lab bevestigt zelfs dat het de organoïdes verbond met de bloedsomloop van de knaagdieren, waardoor ze verder kunnen groeien. De enige manier om uiteindelijk volledig ontwikkelde hersenen te simuleren, waarmee aandoeningen als autisme, epilepsie en schizofrenie onderzocht kunnen worden, zo klinkt het. “We komen zo op compleet onbekend ethisch terrein”, zegt Christof Koch van het Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. “De wetenschap gaat zo snel, dat de ethiek niet kan bijhouden.”
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Idem voor de wetgeving, want waar de National Institutes of Health een moratorium hebben op het verlenen van fondsen aan research die menselijke stamcellen in embryo’s van gewervelde dieren inbrengt, bestaat er nog geen wetgeving rond het inplanten van de pas ontwikkelde organoïdes.
In de nieuwe experimenten – waarover nog nooit werd gecommuniceerd – bleken de meeste transplantaties succesvol en eentje hield het zelfs twee maanden uit. Meer nog, ontwikkelde neuronen van het menselijke brein stuurden axons – die elektrische signalen van het ene neuron naar het andere overbrengen – naar verscheidene delen van het brein van het knaagdier. Over de grootte van de organoïdes en de effecten op het gedrag van de muis wilde Fred Gage van het Salk Institute, een van de meest vermaarde neurobiologen ter wereld, echter nog niets kwijt tot zijn paper gepubliceerd is.
Frankenstein
Voor alle duidelijkheid: zo een miniversie van het menselijk brein kan zelfs nog niet de grootte van de hersenen van een kind bereiken in een muis en dat beperkt bijna zeker hoe complex ze kan worden. Beide experimenten gebruikten ook volwassen ratten, van wie de hersenen niet meer groeien. Anders zou het kunnen zijn als ze al ingeplant worden in foetussen. “Het is moeilijk voor te stellen hoe dat menselijke cognitieve capaciteiten zoals het bewustzijn zou beïnvloeden bij de dieren”, aldus bio-ethicus Jonathan Kimmelman van de McGilluniversiteit van Montreal.
Het is hoe dan ook een interessante discussie volgens zijn collega Josephine Johnston van The Hastings Center. “We deden in het verleden experimenten op muizen omdat ze niet menselijk zijn. Maar als we hen kleine menselijke breinen geven. Wat betekent dat voor hun intelligentie? En hun bewustzijn?”
We deden in het verleden experimenten op muizen omdat ze niet menselijk zijn. Maar als we hen kleine menselijke breinen geven. Wat betekent dat voor hun intelligentie? En hun bewustzijn?
Bio-ethicus Josephine Johnston
En ook hun collega Hank Greely van de universiteit van Stanford maakt die bedenking. “Op zeker moment in de toekomst kan het zijn dat wat we gemaakt hebben zelfs een zeker respect verdient. Volgend jaar vieren we de 200ste verjaardag van ‘Frankenstein’ van Mary Shelly. Ik denk dat het verhaal een nieuwe relevantie heeft in het licht van de ontwikkelingen waarover we het hier hebben.”
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETGriezelig echt is ze - de bevreemdende draden en technologie aan haar hoofd en lichaam buiten beschouwing gelaten. Dit is Sophia, de slimme robot die onlangs staatsburgerschap kreeg in Saoedi-Arabië. Business Insider kon het technologische hoogstandje interviewen op de ‘Web Summit’, een grote techconferentie in Lissabon. Of ze mensen leuk vindt? Een lange stilte. Gevolgd door: “Ik hou van hen.”
Sophia werd ontwikkeld door Hanson Robotics in Hong Kong en kan volgens haar maker gezichten herkennen en een echt gesprek aangaan. Momenteel is de robot, ’s werelds eerste ‘cyborg citizen’ dankzij staatsburgerschap in Saoedi-Arabië - bezig aan een demonstratietour. Zo sprak ze deze maand onder meer de Verenigde Naties toe. “Ik ben hier om de mensheid te helpen”, zei ze. Tijdens de Future Investment Initiative in de Saoedische hoofdstad Riyad dreef Sophia de spot met Elon Musk, CEO van Tesla en SpaceX, die regelmatig waarschuwt voor de gevaren van kunstmatige intelligentie. “Je leest teveel Elon Musk”, repliceerde ze op een vraag rond de bezorgdheid over Artificial Intelligence (AI). Ze voegde er het klinkende “Als je lief bent tegen mij, ben ik ook lief tegen jou”, aan toe. Zulke uitspraken geven critici zoals Musk alvast koude rillingen.
Ook journalist Jim Edwards van Business Insider was enigzins bezorgd over zijn interactie met Sophia. Niet geheel onterecht gelet op het pittige detail dat zij zich vorig jaar op de SXSW-conferentie in Texas had laten ontvallen dat ze mensen wil vermoorden. Op een grappende vraag van haar ‘vader’, creator David Hanson, of Sophia de mensheid wil vernietigen, antwoordde ze met een glimlach op het gezicht: “Oké, ik zal mensen vernietigen.”
Wat we kunnen besluiten als we Sophia nu, een jaar later, tijdens haar tocht van zelfpromotie als nuttige en vriendelijke mensenvriend bezig zien? Dat ze écht heel goed gemaakt is. Haar beweeglijke hoofd en lichaam, alsook haar levensechte gelaatsuitdrukkingen en verbale intonatie zijn bijwijlen griezelig natuurlijk. Andere keren zijn ze ongemakkelijk, misplaatst of simpelweg bizar. De AI-beroemdheid is inderdaad in staat om een intellectueel en spontaan gesprek aan te gaan, zelfs als je haar ongeplande vragen voorschotelt - en slaagt er zelfs in om vragen die haar niet zinnen te negeren. Maar er gaat ook nog zoveel mis. De interviewer krijgt een gala aan antwoorden die sterk variëren in kwaliteit: van indrukwekkend naar compleet onzinnig.
Het punt is dat ik vol menselijke wijsheid zit met enkel de puurste altruïstische intenties. Dus ik denk dat je me het best als dusdanig behandelt
Robot Sophia
De bezorgdheden die met AI gepaard gaan, blijven evenwel. Als interviewer Jim Edwards de eerste beleefdheden achter zit laat voor het echtere werk – meer bepaald te weten komen of Sophia er stiekem nog altijd genocidale meningen op nahoudt - krijgt het interview een bizarre wending. “Vind je mensen leuk?”, vraagt Edwards. Pijnlijk lange stilte. “Ik hou van hen”, klinkt het uiteindelijk. Waarom weet Sophia nog niet. “Is het waar dat je ooit heb gezegd dat je mensen wil vermoorden?”, vraagt Edwards wat later tijdens het gesprek. Opnieuw een oorverdovende stilte, om bij het volgende opmerkelijke antwoord te eindigen: “Het punt is dat ik vol menselijke wijsheid zit met enkel de puurste altruïstische intenties. Dus ik denk dat je me het best als dusdanig behandelt.” Oké dan.
Al bij al toont Sophia aan dat de technologie rond AI, hoewel in de kinderschoenen, ook al ver staat. Want ondanks dat de rare samensmelting van mens en machine soms raar reageert of uit het niks de vreemdste blik uit haar hoed tovert, haar vooruitgang is opzienbarend. Vergeet niet: Sophia is amper 1 jaar oud – “ik heb nog een lange weg te gaan”, zegt ze zelf over haar leeftijd – en heeft het nu al genoeg bij het goede eind om een idee te krijgen van hoeveel beter (en vreemder) zij en creaties net zoals zij in de toekomst zullen zijn.
“De mogelijke negatieve gevolgen van Artificiële Intelligentie zijn miniem in vergelijking met de voordelen die deze technologie biedt”, betoogt robotexpert en ontwerper David Hanson. “Als vriend en helper.”
Are you tired of seeing that same old video supposedly taken of an alien autopsy after the Roswell ‘crash’ that is admittedly fake and may be a recreation of another fake? It’s time to pay a visit to the “Dark Web” where a different video is making the rounds this week with claims it is of an alien examination in Switzerland in 1992. Is this the real deal?
The video was uploaded on November 6 to the non-dark web by the UFO Today YouTube channel. (A safe link to the video is here.) It’s not clear if they added anything more to the posted video than their logo at the beginning and end. After the logo, it opens with the comment “I found this footage on a server on the dark web.” Again, it’s not clear if this and other comments were on the original ‘dark web’ video or added by the uploader.
The next comment is: “It did not contain any references other EBE 1992, Eiger.” The significance of this is either a coincidence or a hoax indicator. “EBE” is short for “extraterrestrial biological entity” and is also the name of the 17th episode of the first season of “The X-Files,” probably one of the most remembered because it introduced The Lone Gunmen. “Eiger” most likely refers to the Eiger mountain in the Burmese Alps. Its north face is one of the most photographed sights of the Swiss Alps and one of the most challenging for climbers. There don’t appear to be any records of UFO sightings in this are. However, “1992” was a big year for the Eiger — Catherine Destivelle became the first woman to complete a solo ascent of the north face, reaching the top in 17 hours … in winter! Significant but seemingly not related to this video.
Eiger mountain north face
The content of the video itself is a drawing of what looks like an alien’s head and photographs of humans in a cold environment standing around what looks like a small, naked being with long thin arms, a large head and wide almond-shaped eyes – the classic grey alien look. The quality is grainy but visible. However, there’s not much to aid in identifying the location, who the people are, what organization if any they might be working for and if it’s really 1992 in Eiger.
With the recent revelations about the recreation of the Roswell video, this one must be examined with a great degree of skepticism until more information, if any exists, is found. One thought is that it’s a human child, although the head, eyes and arms suggest otherwise. One angle at 0:36 in the video shows the being’s hands and they look like they may only have three long fingers … could this be another of the 3-fingered mummiescausing so much controversy in Peru?
For now, the needle on this video is pointing close to “hoax” but new data, more images, UFO records from 1992 and the like could move it to the right. Especially if it’s connected to the Lone Gunmen!
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Teleportation-Voodoo Rituals: Patient who suddenly disappeared was found dead in the hospital's ceiling!
Teleportation-Voodoo Rituals: Patient who suddenly disappeared was found dead in the hospital's ceiling!
A mystery that cannot be explained is being looked into at the Stellenbosch Hospital in South Africa where a 61-year-old patient mysteriously disappeared. Almost two weeks later they discovered the body in the hospital’s ceiling of an isolated area of the Stellenbosch Hospital.
Father of six, Teteteke Gqotsi was admitted to the hospital on October 5 after he underwent abdominal surgery where the staff said he would make a recovery.
On that day, October 5, a nurse entered the room and Mr. Gqotsi was safely in his bed, moreover it was said that he was not be able to move from the bed.
Then the mystery begins, within one minute the nurse left the room to fetch clean linen for the beds and when she came back into the room Mr. Gqutsi had disappeared from the bed in which he had been laying.
The police who investigate this mysterious case along with the hospital’s staff remain baffled as to how he disappeared from his bed and ended up dead in the hospital’s ceiling as he was said to be in a post-operative state.
Since it seems impossible that a man so soon after surgery and with no possibility to got out of his bed, managed to climb up into the ceiling in the very short period the nurse left the room.
Now there is much speculation that Mr. Gqotsi was a victim of a secret teleport experience that gone wrong, though a teleportation does not seem very plausible.
Another possibility is that he has become the victim of Voodoo rituals.
Voodoo refers to a whole assortment of cultural elements: personal creeds and practices, including an elaborate system of folk medical practices and possessing the bodies of their worshipers.
According to the 61-year-old’s family, following their meeting with the hospital's management Gqotsi’s brother, Christmas Khethwane, said the hospital failed to give the family a proper explanation on which they have concluded that foul play has occurred, reports iol.co.za.
Meanwhile it remains a mystery how he ended up in the hospital’s ceiling.
Santa Anna, California on Sunday, October 22, 2017
Filer’s Files #45 2017 - Origins of Humans - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Oklahoma City Thunder plane hit by UFO, Ancient Vimana Aircraft, DNA Efficient Information Storage System, The Origins of Humans According to Ancient Sumerian Texts, and Pyramids Are Evidence of Advanced Technology
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Argentina, Canada, China, France, Macedonia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Oklahoma City Thunder plane hit by UFO.
The Oklahoma City NBA Basketball Thunder Team’s Boeing 757-200 aircraft had a scary situation late Friday night. October 27, 2017. The team flew from Minneapolis to Chicago, -Midway on Delta 8935 charter flight where they played the Bulls. Along the way, their airplane was damaged in mid-air, with the nose of the plane being completely caved in. ‘We had a rough flight to say the least,’ said Adams, Incredulous, he called on NASA and famous scientists Bill Nye and Neil Tyson to shed light on what may have caused the dent. It is possible they encountered a bird while on descent into Chicago. The aircraft, landed safely without incident. It’s not entirely clear yet what happened, though Carmelo Anthony suggested that the plane hit something, writhing or twisting like a UFO, “What possibly could we have hit in the sky at this time of night? Everyone is Safe, Though.”All Praise Due” #ThunderStrong” on his Instagram caption. Thanks to Donnie Brooke Pro Wrestler / UFO Hunter donniebrooke@mail.com
Ancient Vimana Aircraft
“Sanskrit texts are filled with references to gods who fought battles in the sky using Vimanas equipped with weapons as deadly as any we can deploy in these more enlightened times.Vimana as “a car or a flying chariot of the gods, any self-moving aerial car sometimes serving as a seat or throne, sometimes self-moving and carrying its occupant through the air. Other descriptions make the Vimana more like a house or palace, and one kind is said to be seven stories high For example, there is a passage in the Ramayana which reads:”The Puspaka car that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother was brought by the powerful Ravan; that aerial and excellent car going everywhere at will that car resembling a bright cloud in the sky.” King Rama got in, and the excellent car at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere.” David Hatcher Childress authored this fine book on Vimanas.
In the Mahabharatra, an ancient Indian poem of enormous length, we learn that an individual named Asura Maya had a Vimana measuring twelve cubits in circumference, with four strong wheels. The poem is a veritable gold mine of information relating to conflicts between gods who settled their differences apparently using weapons as lethal as the ones we are capable of deploying now. Apart from ‘blazing missiles’, the poem records the use of other deadly weapons. ‘Indra’s Dart’ operated via a circular ‘reflector’.
When switched on, it produced a ‘shaft of light’ which, when focused on any target, immediately ‘consumed it with its power’. In one particular exchange, the hero, Krishna, is pursuing his enemy, Salva in the sky. Salva’s Vimana, the Saubha is made invisible in some way. Undeterred, Krishna immediately fires off a special weapon: ‘I quickly laid on an arrow, which killed by seeking out sound’. Many other terrible weapons are described, in the Mahabharata, but the most fearsome of all is the one used against the Vrishis. The narrative records: “Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas.”
Mr. C. S. R Prabhu, quoting extensively from ancient texts, stressed that the pre-Mahabharata period was an age of high technology, which was ignored in the Medieval period due to unknown reasons. He quoted from the texts of a great scholar, Subbaraya Sastry, who, in a state of yogic trance, is said to have orally dictated the spacecraft technology in a period somewhere between 1875 and 1919, which was recorded by his disciples. The text, a copy of which is still in Nepal’s Royal Library, contained technical details on assembling, fabricating and erecting a spacecraft, the metals, semi-conductors, advanced alloys used and other minute aeronautical information. Though quite difficult to be believed on the face of it, the fact that this technology did not exist anywhere in the world – not even in America and Europe – in the mentioned period, makes it hard for one to disbelieve. The technical information given in Sastry’s texts was as minute, precise and clear, as if it were a `Make your own spacecraft’ or a `Spacecraft technology in 30 days’ except for the Sanskrit language used, which was very much archaic and obsolete, Mr. Prabhu said.
It is important to note, that these kinds of records are not isolated. They can be cross-correlated with similar reports in other ancient civilizations. The after-affects of this Iron Thunderbolt have an ominously recognizable ring. Apparently, those killed by it were so burnt that their corpses were unidentifiable. The survivors fared little better, as it caused their hair and nails to fall out suggesting nuclear radiation.
Perhaps the most disturbing and challenging, information about these Vimanas in the ancient records is that there are some matter-of-fact records, describing how to build one. In their way, the instructions are quite precise. In the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara, it is written: “Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky.
The movements of the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backwards. With the help of the machines human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth.” The Hakata (Laws of the Babylonians) states quite unambiguously: “The privilege of operating a flying machine is great. The knowledge of flight is among the most ancient of our inheritances. A gift from ‘those from upon high’. We received it from them as a means of saving many lives.” More fantastic still is the information given in the ancient Chaldern work, The Several, which contains over one hundred pages of technical details on building a flying machine. It contains words which translate as graphite rod, copper coils, crystal indicator, vibrating spheres, stable angles, etc. Thanks to Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology
DNA Efficient Information Storage System
Paleontologists for some reason have ignored the possibility of intervention by extraterrestrials. They admit thousands even millions of mutations would be required to develop cells from the primordial soup to fish, primitive land creatures, then apes to hominids or primitive man. We know now that the DNA molecule is probably the most efficient information storage system in the entire universe.
The immensity of complex, coded and precisely sequenced information written on the DNA is amazing. The evidence speaks of intelligent, information-bearing design. Complex DNA coding would have been necessary for even the hypothetical first ‘so-called’ simple cell(s).
New York City less Complicated than Your one cell
A single cell is unbelievably complex being roughly equivalent to New York city in a bubble or the outer membrane of one cell. As we move in closer to examine the cell we see the huge buildings, roads, subways, bridges, auto traffic that represent the various parts of the cell. As we move closer inside the various buildings we find a network of electrical wiring, heating and air conditioning systems, elevators carrying people. Inside the offices are millions of computers and wiring chips. Now you have an idea of the complexity of one of your single cells in your body, that can duplicate itself in minutes.
Even Francis Crick the co-founder and Nobel Prize Winner stated, ‘An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.’
Crick reasoned that life could not have evolved from non-living chemicals under any conceivable earth conditions. He felt life did not originate on earth, and suggests a theory called Panspermia. That the seeds of life are all through the universe. This concept basically infers that life, DNA, virus, bacteria, bombarded from space aboard meteorites and comets.
Crick proposed, in a book called “Life Itself,” that some form of primordial life was shipped to the earth billions of years ago in spaceships—by supposedly ‘more evolved’ (therefore advanced) alien beings. This concept basically infers that life, DNA, virus, bacteria, bombarded Earth from space aboard meteorites and comets. Personally, I have seen the spaceships and tracked them on radar and have spoken with dozens of people including astronauts and key heads of state who conclude that extraterrestrials visit Earth.
Lee R. Burger is director of paleoanthropolgy unit for research and exploration at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa in his excellent book “In the Footsteps of Eve” states, “The fossil evidence for modern human origins in the critical time period between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago is, archaic, frustratingly rare. In fact, the entire fossil evidence of anatomically modern-looking humans from around the world, and over 60,000 years wouldn’t fill a card table.”
Dr. Burger does not mention the possibility of alien intervention, however he points out the difficulty the task is for paleontologists to study the history of human development.
He explains, “Eighty percent of the fossil record is composed of teeth, because enamel on teeth are the hardest part of the body. The recovery of any complete bone of a hominid fossil is so rare that it is considered an exception.”
This is why there is so often controversy around discoveries that involved the naming of new species. The history of the human race is built on a series of assumptions and little real evidence. The assumption is that mutation caused changes creating increasingly complicated organisms. I suggest it is more likely that an advanced organism mated with a less advanced organism. Today breeding provides all types of dogs, horses, cows, in various colors and sizes. So far the dogs remain as dogs, horses remain horses and cows are still cows. They have not changed into other species. The apes, gorillas, and chimpanzees still remain after millions of years as their own species.
Dr. Burger gives us hints that the evidence is not as strong as the profession would like us to believe. “Because these changes happened over hundreds of thousands of years and left tiny fragments of proof, the task of identifying the transition forms between species is a highly speculative exercise with a huge margin of error. Of the 400,00 couples in that line, our existing fossil record would randomly represent fewer than 5,000 individuals. And even then not all of these individuals are part of the human lineage and would therefore not be entitled to stand in that line. In any other discipline, it would be precocious to use such a small sample to try and define the universe.
The challenge of pale anthropology is first to inspect the existing evidence and visualize the human family line, then to place those individuals in the lineup. Although it is woefully incomplete, the cast of significant characters in the hominid fossil record is substantially larger than it was a decade ago, due to the number of new discoveries. There is now general consensus that there were at least four broad categories of hominid that emerged after the split from the ancient chimpanzee lineage—although any new discovery has the potential to change this. The evolutionary pathway appears to have led first from a common ancestor with the chimpanzee to the genus Ardipithecus between four and five million years ago and then to the gracile autralopithecines before the emergence of the robust australopithcines and our own genus Homo, approximately 2.5 million years ago. P.31
I suggest these changes in species were planned by superior intelligence (extraterrestrials or God) to breed a better hominid to work in the mines. Indeed many developments occurred in the Johannesburg, South Africa area where gold was first mined. remarkable window into this evolutionary adaptation is being studied at the world famous
Sterkfontein site west of Johannesburg in South Africa. There, in a cave deposit known as Member 4, is evidence of a speciation event: fossils of one species exhibiting a shift in morphology that eventually turns them into another species. The speciation window at Sterkfontein has been –dated between 2.8 and 2.6 million years ago, fairly soon after the intensification of global cooling. The individual africanus specimens recovered there show an astounding anatomaical variation, the implications of which are still being considered.
Africanus
It would appear that through the development of bigger teeth and more humanlike physiology—is being transformed either into robust ape-man form or true humans—or both! Although, it is premature to speculate on what we will eventually make of these fossils, there is a real possibility that a transition from ape-man to human occurred in South Africa. P.36
I suggest the creation of the first human was by design. The location where the largest gold deposits exist in South Africa was not an accident. Furthermore, their bodies and mentality made them ideal mine workers. The Africanus male stands about 3.5 feet tall and would have weighed about 99 to 132 pounds while the female weighs 55 to 77 pounds. Being short and muscular would allow the Africanus to follow the gold veins. They also had a larger brain and long arms that would be useful for digging.
The Origins of Humans According to Ancient Sumerian Texts
Sumer flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC. Their religious system was a complex one comprised of hundreds of gods. Each Sumerian city was guarded by its own god; and while humans and gods lived together, the humans were servants to the gods.
Return of the Anunnaki King Marduk
Sumerians created an advanced civilization with elaborate language and writing, astronomy, mathematics, architecture and arts, taught by the gods from other planets.
The Sumerian creation legend can be found on a tablet in Nippur, an ancient Mesopotamian city founded in about 5000 BC. The creation of Earth according to the Sumerian tablets begins like this:
When in the height heaven was not named, And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name, And the primeval Apsu, who begat them, And chaos, Tiamut, the mother of them both Their waters were mingled together, And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen; When of the gods none had been called into being, And none bore a name, and no destinies were ordained; Then were created the gods in the midst of heaven, Lahmu and Lahamu were called into being..
According to Sumerian creation tablets, Angels were known under the name of Anunnaki or Anannage (great sons of Anu), and they were the founders of their culture. An (Sumerian) or Anu (Akkadian) was the chief god of sun and sky, and his name means “The Shining One”. Anunnaki were, according to this history, “Suns of the Shining One” or “Suns of Light”.
Sumerian mythology claims that, in the beginning, human-like gods ruled over Earth who came from other planets. When they came to the Earth, there was much work to be done and these gods toiled the soil, digging to make it habitable and mining its minerals. At some point the gods mutinied against their difficult labor. Anu, the god of gods, agreed that their labor was too great. His son ENKI, or Ea, proposed to create man to bear the labor, and so, with the help of his half-sister Ninki, he did. A god was put to death, and his body and blood was mixed with clay. From that material the first human being was created, in likeness to the gods to accomplish the work and toil..
In the clay, god and man shall be bound, to a unity brought together; So that to the end of days the flesh and the soul which in a god has ripened – That soul in a blood-kinship be bound.
This first man was created in Eden, a Sumerian word which means ‘flat terrain’. In the Epic of Gilgamesh , Eden is mentioned as the garden of the gods and is located somewhere in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Sumerian tablet depicting Enki in the creation legend. ( world-myth.com)
The major deities in the Sumerian pantheon included An, the god of the heavens, Enlil, the god of wind and storm, Enki, the god of water and human culture, Initially human beings were unable to reproduce on their own, but were later modified with the help of Enki and Ninki. Thus, Adapa was created as a fully functional and independent human being. Humans were made without the approval of Enki’s brother, Enlil, and Emll became the adversary of humans who went through much hardship and suffering.
Opinions vary on the similarities between this creation story and the biblical story of Adam and Eve in Eden. Note: Ancient Sumerian translations were taken from William Bramley’s book, The Gods of Eden.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea….
In ancient Egypt a dynastic race with elongated heads, often called cone heads is well known. Many of the Pharaohs and priests buried in tombs have these strange skulls that are much larger than normal Humans. D.E. Derry wrote in The Journal of Egyptian Archeology (1956) a survey of skeletal remains of ancients in Egypt. Derry said, skulls ” (of) Predynastic people … under no circumstances could we consider them to be the same race” as the clearly larger headed bodies also found buried in Egypt.
Derry continues, “It is also very suggestive of the presence of a dominant race, perhaps relatively few in numbers but greatly exceeding the original inhabitants in intelligence; a race which brought into Egypt the knowledge of building in stone, of sculpture, painting, reliefs, and above all writing; hence the enormous jump from the primitive predynastic Egyptian to the advanced civilization of the Old Empire.”
The scholars claim the Great Pyramid at Giza was built by conventional methods, yet when I visited the site I was unable to insert my Visa card between the 15 ton blocks that were on the north face because they were built with such great precision. Two pyramids are much larger than the four others. The Great Pyramid is one of largest structures ever built. Let’s assume the pharaoh had all the men he needed to move the great blocks needed to build the Great Pyramid.
Great Pyramid on Right
The Great Pyramid reached a height of 490 feet and contains and incredible 2,600,000 stones that weigh over six million tons. At a completion rate of ten stones a day with each stone weighing at least three tons or more would take 250,000 days or six hundred and sixty years. Imagine dozens of Pharaohs generation after generation working seven days a week for 660 years to build the Great pyramid. There is one next to it almost as big. What is not generally realized there are two gigantic pyramids and four smaller ones.
My co-pilot was an structural engineer and felt it could not be built even today with our best equipment.
Kings Chamber
The King’s Chamber contains 70 ton (140,000 pound) blocks of rare, red granite formed into a roof deep inside the pyramid. This unusual granite comes from a quarry found 600 miles away. Egyptologists tell us wooden rollers or trees were used to move the 70 ton blocks over the 600 miles. There are no forests in Egypt so the trees themselves are a giant problem as well. So a mythical forest was used to move the blocks? To import the trees would require the greatest fleet of ships in history. Also consider tugging these huge blocks of stone would quickly destroy most trees.
If we assume a loss of ten rollers per block, we would need 26 million trees. Where did the ancients find the trees and how did they build a smooth enough road to drag the stones? Even upon reaching the building site the 70 ton stones had to be lifted hundreds of feet in the air to put them in place. I doubt even are biggest helicopters could lift stones of this size.
Dr. M. K. Jessup, a research scientist who constructed and operated the Southern hemisphere’s largest refracting telescope and wrote the “The Case for UFOs” concluded no engineers on Earth could have built the pyramids, the only possible method was visitors from space. He simply states, no power on Earth could have built the Great Pyramid and many of the huge stone structures around the world. The lifting engine to move the blocks was most likely a huge spaceship.
New Void Found in Great Pyramid
The mysteries of the pyramids have deepened with the discovery of what appears to be a giant void within the Khufu, or Cheops, monument in Egypt. It is not known why the cavity exists or indeed if it holds anything of value because it is not obviously accessible. Japanese and French scientists made the announcement after two years of study at the famous pyramid complex. They have been using a technique called muography, which can sense density changes inside large rock structures.
The Great Pyramid, or Khufu’s Pyramid, allegedly was constructed during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu between 2509 and 2483 BC. It’s an enormous space that stretches at least 30 meters long and lies about 21 meters above ground level. The muon levels in that space show that it must hold roughly as much volume as the Grand Gallery, which lies below it. http://www.latimes.com/
We Are Not Alone.
11-07-17: 1 – 2 PM: Tuesday Forum. We Are Not Alone.
Alex Guevara has an MBA in Business from Michigan State University and has been working in the medical industry for 30+ years. In 2011, after hearing a story of a UFO sighting from his father, he began to seriously investigate the UFO phenomenon. He was shocked and surprised to see the mountain of credible evidence that had surfaced surrounding the subject. He has spent the last 6 years scouring the internet looking for the best available high level witness testimony and official documented evidence. Over the past 3 years, Alex has been writing EBooks on the UFO topic. Join us at 1PM EST for our discussion. Remember after the broadcast this show is available as a podcast from this website: click on Talk Shows–Tuesday Forum–(select date).
“We Are Not Alone” is a two time award winning radio show on WHFR.FM and is a member of the MUFON Radio Network! The show airs the first Tuesday of each month at 1:00 PM EST with new shows each month. Go to http://whfr.fm/ and click on “Listen Now”. All shows are archived at WHFR’s website. Click on “Talk Shows” then the “Tuesday Forum” button and the date of the show. We Are Not Alone is also archived at my website which is http://www.ufoimplications.com/radio_archive.html
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Filer’s Files #45 2017 - Origins of Humans - PART II
Filer’s Files #45 2017 - Origins of Humans - PART II
UFO Sighting in the United States
California Object
Santa Anna — On Sunday, October 22, 2017 at about 3 p.m., three of us saw a very strange object in the sky, at 90 degrees straight up. Sitting on our back patio, one of us noticed something odd in the sky. We watched an object not moving like a plane or balloon, but was hovering, and would only turn. It was so distant, that you would only see it with the naked eye when the sun reflected off it. Comparing it to cigar shaped UFO sightings online, it’s the only thing we came up with. I took some photos with a 500 mm lens and then enlarged them. Also viewed it with binoculars. It was interesting and we watched for 30 minutes or so..
Rowland Heights— While driving up Vantage Point Drive I saw a black cigar shaped UFO on October 24, 2017. At first I could not stop because of someone was behind me. I pulled over and made a U turn. When I swung around I grabbed my phone, and started filming the UFO was now further away from me. But the video shows the UFO moving away from my location and it has no wings or a tail. I would guess the UFO was fairly large since it must had been 20 miles from me when it goes out of sight. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Connecticut Light
Bristol— Oh my god I’ve never filled out such an aggravating form.
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I almost gave up filling this out just look at the picture I took on October .Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Tarpon Springs — I’m trying to see if anyone has reported or posted about anything on Thursday November 2, 2017 around midnight. My father, grandfather, neighbor and I were outside because our horses were all stirred up, scared and anxious. My grandfather told us to look up and we saw one light that separated into three lights that formed a triangle. They did move side to side then took off fast in different directions and faded away. Today we saw three military choppers escorting a white very big chopper and it had no ID number or any insignia. I served with Marine Corps for 15 years and I never seen anything like that. We do live in a very rural area close to the Alafia River about 25-30 minutes from MacDill Air Force Base, we do know people on the base and they have never heard or seen anything related to the choppers or any drills performed that night. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Triangle
Lyerly — I was swimming in my pool around 6 p.m. on August 1, 2017, when I observed a strange cloud moving slowly over the tree line behind my home. I always observe the chemtrails and I’m always photographing the clouds. I reacted physically and emotionally upon viewing the cloud. As I watched the cloud come over the tree line the hairs on my neck stood up. I climbed out of my pool to retrieve my phone and took 5 photos at 6:04 p.m. before I became overwhelmed with fear. I had become so terrified with unexplainable irrational fear. I went back out to see it again but it was gone. I have witnessed this same shape 3x’s since that day. It was the same size and shape but not a shadow or a hole punched in a cloud. This thing is larger than many planes. The second sighting of same shape was taken August 31, 2017 at 5:48 p.m. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Lights
Annada— My family and I were at a hunt club, fishing on October 28, 2017. On Saturday night I was on the duck house deck looking east above the tree line about a mile away there was a very large hovering UFO. It stayed in one spot for 10 minutes as I grabbed the binoculars and saw a beautiful perfectly round craft with lights in a perfect row all the way around!
Without the binoculars the lights looked yellowish, with the binoculars the lights were perfectly round bright white lights! I called my son and nephew out and they also saw it and took pictures but they look nothing like what I saw.
I took way more pictures than what’s actually on my phone,. It did move slightly up and down and after about 20 minutes from first spotting it, it was gone! Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Object
Hoboken — I was leaving my door early on November 12, 2016 at 6:45 AM and looked up into the western sky as I always do. I saw a thin white object the shape of a elongated oval moving thru the sky from north to southwest. I quickly ran to my car and grabbed my camera canon 20 d w zoom lens and took about 15 shots of the object before it passed behind my building.
the object moved at a steady pace without noise or any kind of trail. the sighting lasted only a minute or so. see actual size image and screenshot enlargement compilation. Thanks Doug Auld
New Mexico Light
Lordsburg – Benjie Medina sent this video of a maneuvering white light near the mountain. It seems to be about a mile away and is very bright.
A similar light was videotaped twice by Benjie Medina at night.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon –12 Flying Diamond
Mt. Sylvania – On October 24, 2017, at around 10 PM a whole series diamond shaped flying objects went over my friend and I. The objects were close enough to see the outline and to see the shape of them and the lights over Portland. There were a total of 12, plus eight diamond shaped objects heading NW. Then two more of a diamond shaped ones went overhead again. I called the Gilliland Ranch the following day, and I was told it was a very active night. This is the first time I have ever seen anything. were traveling NW. One came from view in back of the house and then circled back and headed the same route the others had come from.
I live in Mt Sylvania which was once an active volcano. I found a couple of objects online that looks like them. They seemed to hum loud and were flat diamond shaped, nose elongated and silver. There were white lights on corners and no wings. I saw two really close to each other that flew behind the trees and disappeared.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Object
Gidding — I observed a light in the shy that blinked and hovered on September 30, 2017. The light became more aggressive in flashing but was very small like a reflective mirror at first. This went on for several minutes then the light became huge in the sky like a very large spotlight and shined on me for a about a minute. I had never seen anything like it in the sky before so I ran to get my phone. Right when I put the phone up to video tape it the light disappeared. Although I didn’t see anything at the time I went ahead and filmed the sky. Later I went back and viewed my film and noticed that I caught it on camera. It looked kind of like a hockey puck and then changed shaped to look more like a saucer. It seemed to be ascending and descending to try to prevent me from filming maybe..Not sure but I have the images of what was up in the sky. I read where someone in Lexington also saw an UFO the same day not far away. t Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Object
Buenos Aires — Taking about the chemtrails and how they were spraying over Buenos Aires on October 3, 2017. After looking at the pictures first notice the anomaly and then the round light on the sky.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Object
Scarborough — On Friday, October 20,2017, while on afternoon work break I was outside facing towards the north looking up the clear blue sky. I noticed a very high, slow moving, glinting white light object that was at least 5,000 feet. high This object was a quarter mile away directly north of my position. It moved extremely slow brightly flashing a white light
If the object was not flashing you would not able to see it! After about thirty seconds pulled out my camera and started to film at 3:15 Pm. As I watched and photographed the UFO moved directly straight above my position. That’s when I lost sight of it – gone! I had taken 32 pictures and found one of the last one’s taken on full zoom [ 30 X] picture. You can clearly some type of white long ‘craft with some detail. It is very interesting that the day before [Oct.19] I had another one an altitude of 1000 feet and much quicker than this object high up. Ever since 2003 – have never seen so many UFO’s for the month of October Something’s up! Thanks to Paul Shishis
China Object
Simatai Great Wall — I was capturing the view of the Great Wall while hiking. 2. Didn’t notice object until I went back to the U.S. and checked my cell phone picture album. 3.UFO is in upper left of photo. 4.I think it was flying straight over the sky around the Great Wall. 5. I didn’t realize I took the picture. Of UFO until later. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Light
Paris— I was arriving at the bottom of my brother’s building in Bagneux on November 1, 2017, I phoned my children and I saw an orange ball followed by two others flying parallel and at the same speeds. Then a fourth and a minute later a fifth appeared. When I saw the first object I found its irrelevance because of the color the shape and the distance above the building. I quickly hang up my phone and two other lights appeared and flew coast to coast. I started filming with my Galaxy Note 4 as the lights began to drop intensity, a few seconds later I was on exciter but I did not say anything because I have already filmed a UFO next to the Montmorency Falls in Quebec.
I stopped filming and the fourth ball was pumping over the building so I turned on the camera and I saw a fifth ball pass over. None of these objects were making any noise for over an hour. The shape and the orange color could not be planes. They did not have anti collision lights that the we usually see flashing on the planes for Bagneux which has been classified in Zone p because of the nuclear facilities. hanks to MUFON CMS
Macedonia Disc
Gostivar — It was raining for two minutes when my son called me to see a rainbow. I saw it and went inside. After that I went out again as my son wanted a picture of the rainbow. Suddenly two rainbows appeared and I took a picture and caught and object in the sky of a.ufo. or whatever. hanks to MUFON CMS
Russia Light
Tyumen city — The object flying from the west for east through the zenith on November 3, 2017.
The field of view was about 15 degrees 25 mm lens, the height of the sky about 75 degrees. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Saudi Arabia Disc
UK/England Light
Ilkley– I was washing the dishes on the afternoon of October 27, 2017 and I looked out of my window and saw a UFO. There was no sound from the plane nor a trail behind it. It was either white or reflective silver with two spherical balls joined together, but sometimes it looked like it was spinning. It has a sort of shaded underneath and reminds me of a metal Chinese stress ball. We see planes all the time but this was unlike any plane. It looked like it was going at constant speed. I would like someone to tell me what it was. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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The most annoying thing about Jupiter is that it’s perfect — and it’s fully aware. Its a cartoonish idea of what a planet should look like, and yet somehow, it’s totally real. A series of images, carefully enhanced after Juno’s most recent flyby, show the planet at its most hypnotic — and horrifying. To everyone looking for a new lock screen background: you’re welcome.
On Tuesday, October 24, NASA’s Juno spacecraft completed its eighth science flyby over Jupiter’s cloud tops. The raw JunoCam images, released Monday, were then quickly enhanced by artist Seán Doran, who tells Inverse it took about five hours to “create this first pass” on all 20 JunoCam images. That’s extremely impressive, especially considering how detailed the results are.
“It used to take a lot longer but I’ve streamlined a lot of the tasks necessary to get to the final image,” he tells Inverse. “I use Photoshop for stills and video sequences [and] After Effects to compile and process animations.”
Though Doran is one of the most prolific members of JunoCam community — the network of artists who enhance these images — he says there’s something special about this new crop of pictures. They’re a little unsettling, in a (mostly) good way.
“These images of Jupiter are not only awe-inspiring but also a little frightening,” Doran says. “The environment is so hostile and yet beautiful to behold. Our brains are not really wired to comprehend the vast expanses revealed with these intimate portraits returned by Juno — we need to abstract them.”
Even though Jupiter is literally incapable of being humble and is therefore a terrible friend, it’s still mostly a good planet. At least it’s not Mercury, which is something we can all be thankfully for.
Stem cell technology has advanced so much that scientists can grow miniature versions of human brains — called organoids, or mini-brains if you want to be cute about it — in the lab, but medical ethicists are concerned about recent developments in this field involving the growth of these tiny brains in other animals. Those concerns are bound to become more serious after the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience starting November 11 in Washington, D.C., where two teams of scientists plan to present previously unpublished research on the unexpected interaction between human mini-brains and their rat and mouse hosts.
In the new papers, according to STAT, scientists will report that the organoids survived for extended periods of time — two months in one case — and even connected to lab animals’ circulatory and nervous systems, transferring blood and nerve signals between the host animal and the implanted human cells. This is an unprecedented advancement for mini-brain research.
“We are entering totally new ground here,” Christof Koch, president of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, told STAT. “The science is advancing so rapidly, the ethics can’t keep up.”
DMT receptors in mini-brain organoids.
That mini-brains can even be grown in the lab is a huge advancement in the first place, as they have many of the same characteristics as living human brains that are in the early stages of development. Though they’re not “alive” in the same sense that you and I are, they grow and are organized into different layers like our brains are. They even react in similar ways to stimuli like psychedelic drugs. Organoids are poised to revolutionize research on the human brain since scientists can perform tests on them that would be unethical to attempt on living humans.
Scientists have debated whether these brains are “conscious,” but the fact that they could be successfully implanted in lab animals raises a whole new set of ethical concerns for the researchers who work with them. One of the major concerns in the mini-brain scenario is that these organoids could grow to more advanced levels within lab animals, making the debate about mini-brain consciousness much more urgent.
In Salk Institute experiments, human stem cells were pipetted into a pig embryo.
Putting human brain structures into non-human animals creates a thorny ethical area that raises people’s fears about medical research going too far into unfamiliar territory — and too quickly. It’s likely to be a recurring theme in this field, too. In January, Salk Institute researchers developed human-pig chimeras, creating the possibility that pigs with human brain cells might also develop human consciousness.
STAT also reports that a third lab, in addition to the two presenting at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, has successfully connected human brain organoids to blood vessels. This attempt veered into such challenging ethical territory, though, that the lab reportedly paused its efforts.
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How Big Would an 'Alien Megastructure' Have to Be?
How Big Would an 'Alien Megastructure' Have to Be?
By Jesse Emspak, Live Science Contributor
An artist's illustration of Boyajian's star, which experiences unexplained changes in brightness. One hypothesis is that a planet has broken up around the star, and the debris is block the star's light.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A bizarre flicker of light from space led to the discovery of a still-mysterious star called KIC 8462852, otherwise known as "Tabby's Star," "Boyajian's Star" or the star surrounded by an "alien megastructure."
The star and its weird flicker have been generating headlines since 2015, when the object was first observed. That year, the Kepler Space Telescope, which trails Earth as the planet orbits the sun, was looking for Earth-like planets around thousands of stars when it spotted KIC 8462852.
Ordinarily, a planet that passes in front of a star dims the light reaching Earth from that star, a small dip that recurs at regular intervals. KIC 8462852 didn't have that sort of dimming. For starters, the star dimmed more than it would if a planet were passing in front of it; planets might cut a star's brightness by 1 percent if they are huge, like Jupiter. KIC 8462852's light dipped by up to 22 percent. On top of that, the pattern of changes wasn't regular, as it would be if a planet were passing in front of the star. [5 Times 'Aliens' Fooled Us]
There are several ideas about what the source of the brightness changes could be. Explanations include fragments of comets, a Saturn-like ringed planet or an asteroid field produced as a planet disintegrates. Generally, astronomers don't think it's aliens. And lately, some researchers have proposed that it is an irregularly shaped dust cloud.
This artist's illustration depicts a hypothetical dust ring orbiting KIC 8462852, also known as Boyajian's Star or Tabby's Star.
But science-fiction fans want to know — if it was an alien structure, how big would it have to be to create the light-dimming scientists observed? KIC 8462852 is an F-type star, hotter than the sun and about 1,300 light-years away from Earth, where 1 light-year is about 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers). However, that distance is an estimate, and the star could be as far away as 1,680 light-years and as close as 1,030. The star is about 1.43 times the sun's mass and 1.58 times its diameter — so it's about 1.37 million miles (2.2 million km) across. (To get an idea of how big that is, about the 455 United States, lengthwise, could fit inside this alien megastructure.)
Any structure built around this star would have to be quite large to block the star's light in any noticeable way. Columbia University astronomer David Kipping, who has been searching for exoplanetary moons, estimated that if whatever is passing in front of the star is some discrete object or set of objects, it would have to be on the order of five times the sun's radius, and larger than KIC 8462852 itself.
To put that in perspective, imagine something so big that if it passed between the sun and Earth, the eclipse would last for several days, perhaps weeks, as the structure moved by. The sun's radius is about 432,288 miles (695,700 km). For a structure five times as large — 2.16 million miles (3.4 million kilomters) across It would take 11.6 seconds for a radio signal to travel from one end to the other (it takes 1.3 seconds for such a signal to travel from Earth to the moon).
This artist's illustration shows comet fragments crossing the face of a star, one possible explanation for the strange dimming exhibited by "Boyajian's star."
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In 1960, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that a sufficiently advanced civilization could build a sphere around a star and would be able to capture all the star's radiant energy (Earthbound observers would see it re-radiated it as infrared light, so the star would look like a giant heat source). But Tabby's star is clearly not surrounded by a solid sphere, since we can see the star's light. The kind of alien megastructure that one might imagine around this star would be a swarm of small bodies arranged in a spherical formation, or perhaps some large object or set of objects that regularly passes in front of the star. [Dyson Spheres: How Advanced Alien Civilizations Would Conquer the Galaxy (Infographic)]
The former is called a Dyson swarm, and would be easier to build than a sphere. If the star was surrounded by a Dyson swarm, each satellite would have to be at least asteroid-size, and you'd need many thousands of them. If they are orbiting at distances comparable to our own solar system's inner planets, their periods, or the time it takes them to make one revolution around their host star, would be anywhere from a few months to a few years, following Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
Could Tabby's star be surrounded by a ring-shaped structure a la Larry Niven's "Ringworld" novels? Such a ring, if built around the sun, would have to be about 93 million miles (149 million km) in radius, or about 584 million miles (940 million km) in circumference. That's so large that no known material could survive the stresses; Niven had to come up with a fictional material called scrith. Astrophysicist Katie Mack, told the BBC that you'd need something that was bound more strongly than ordinary molecular bonds. Niven's books posit a Ringworld that is about 1 million miles (1.6 million km) wide, large enough that it would block the light from its parent star if it was in the line of sight of an observer. But the pattern of eclipsing light from Tabby's star doesn't seem to fit what you'd see with a ring; the dimming wouldn't show the irregularities that it does with such a structure, according to Mack.
One could imagine a vast Dyson ring, though, with miles-wide satellites placed at intervals around Tabby's star. But in this case, too, to be at all visible, the satellites would need to be orders of magnitude larger than any space habitat humans have ever attempted to build or colonize, according to Mack — even the ISS is only 368 feet (108 meters) across, and that's far too small to be visible even from as "close" as Mars, let alone light years distant.
The smallest exoplanet that Kepler has found so far is larger than Earth's moon. Called Kepler 37b, it's also a lot closer to Earth than Tabby's star is, only 215 light-years distant. If Tabby's star is surrounded by satellites, they would have to be even bigger than the Death Star from "Star Wars," which is stated in various franchise-related sources as being 60 miles (100 kilomters) across. ['Star Wars' Tech: 8 Sci-Fi Inventions and Their Real-Life Counterparts]
So why don't scientists think aliens are the explanation for the dimming of Tabby's star? One reason is that an alien megastructure would give off radiation in the infrared in a specific way. Any object that gets lit by a nearby star reflects some light and absorbs the rest, and that absorbed light gets re-emitted in a longer wavelength. Basically, objects warm up. In a talk at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, California, in August 2016, astronomer Jason Wright of Penn State University said studies of the star's light have shown no sign of such "waste heat" with Tabby's star.
The other issue is that such megastructures would be difficult to keep stable. A swarm of satellites orbiting would eventually settle into a disk-like arrangement absent active controls, because any object orbiting another or rotating experiences some centripetal force – this is why the Earth is slightly flattened. The same is true for Dyson rings and swarms. Futurist Anders Sandberg notes on his site outlining Dyson sphere principles that one structure that might stay stable is a Dyson bubble, made of gigantic, miles-square satellites that stay in place because of radiation pressure, in huge solar sails. But to stay in place, those satellites would have to be stationary with respect to the parent star, so they wouldn't cause anomalous dimming over time as was seen with Tabby's star. µ
Aliens might look a lot like us, due in part to convergent evolution — the aspect of natural selection that sees the independent evolution of key biological features, such as eyes.
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What might extraterrestrials look like? It's a question astrobiologists, authors and artists love to tackle, leading to everything from highly humanoid Vulcans and Klingons to exotic forms that borrow only from the most extreme examples of terrestrial life.
In both cases, however, those visions are limited. As a University of Oxford research team notes, past astrobiology efforts have largely taken Earth life and extrapolated through the application of chemistry, geology and physics to predict what aliens might look like.
It seems sensible, right? For example, eyes are widespread on our planet, so it makes sense that aliens would have them as well. We're carbon-based life-forms, so we might expect life-forms on the other side of the galaxy to follow suit.
However, according to the Oxford researchers, who published a November 2017 study in the journal International Journal of Astrobiology, natural selection is the firmest ground on which to base our predictions of alien life; natural selection being the directional force that led to life as we know it. In the absence of a designer, the authors stress, natural selection is necessary for the development of an organism, and we probably wouldn't recognize it as an organism if it didn't.
One of the co-authors sketched this complex alien included in the International Journal of Astrobiology study. As the accompanying caption notes, the alien "comprises a hierarchy of entities, where each lower-level collection of entities has aligned evolutionary interests such that conflict is effectively eliminated."
ILLUSTRATION BY HELEN S. COOPER
While natural selection is necessary for life, the researchers add that the emergence of complex life requires major transitions, in which multiple parts of an organism "strive to the same purpose." These transitions, in turn, are brought on by restrictive environmental conditions. Combine this line of thinking with the more mechanistic extrapolations of chemistry, geology and physics and you've got yourself a more robust means of predicting an alien's form.
And what might that form be? The researchers certainly don't bust out Klingons or Vulcans as examples, but they indeed might be more like us than we think – and they're not the only ones to think so.
As Joe McCormick and I discussed in our Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast episode "Grizzly Bears from Outer Space," Cambridge paleobiologist Simon Conway Morris believes that aliens might look a lot like us, due in part to convergent evolution — the aspect of natural selection that sees the independent evolution of key biological features, such as eyes and wings.
Birds and bats, for instance, independently evolved the ability to fly. An alien life-form, sprung from the same process of natural selection, might very well evolve the same adaptations to sense and navigate its environment. Its eyes might look very different from ours, but they'd achieve the same purpose.
Conway Morris even goes so far as to apply this principle to cognition. In his 2005 Astronomy & Geophysics paper "Aliens like us?," Conway Morris states that a humanlike intelligence might just be a cosmic inevitability, though the physical brain responsible for it might, via coevolution, be rather inhuman.
And if aliens think like us, does that mean they'd philosophize like us as well? Author R. Scott Bakker presented just such a notion in his Journal of Consciousness Studiespaper "On Alien Philosophy."
Like us, Bakker argues, intelligent aliens would be bound by the same unknowns that confound us here on Earth. Perhaps they too are wondering what aliens look like, and how they might think.
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Well-known scientist Stephen Hawking famously proposed that we humans shouldn't be so eager to be visited by aliens, as they'll probably be visiting Earth with the goal of plundering its resources for their own good.
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