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...
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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit the worst possible place on Earth
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit the worst possible place on Earth
A new study by the Tohoku University and the Tsukuba Institute of Meteorological Research (both in Japan), published in Nature, suggests that the reign of Dinosaurs could have possibly continued if the massive asteroid that struck our planet 66 million years ago had impacted Earth elsewhere and not at the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
Authored by Kunio Kaiho and Naga Oshima, the new study titled: “Site of asteroid impact changed the history of life on Earth: the low probability of mass extinction,” indicates that the asteroid that impacted Earth had a little more than a one-in-10 chance of triggering a mass extinction on Earth as it struck our planet violently.
The massive collision event, which eventually gave rise to the Chicxulub crater annihilated around 75 percent of animal life on our planet in what is today referred to as the Cretaceous-Paleogene or K-Pg extinction event.
Scientists now say that the collision was an exceptionally unlikely shot.
Tyrannosaurus, a prehistoric era dinosaur.
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According to the newly published study, had the massive asteroid impacted our planet in any other part of the world, like in the middle of most continents or even the ocean, Earth’s massive reptiles most likely would have survived the extinction event.
“This significant event could [only] have occurred if the asteroid hit the hydrocarbon-rich areas occupying approximately 13% of the Earth’s surface,” they said in a study recently published in the journal Nature.
In fact, researchers note that only 13 percent of Earth’s surface had the necessary ingredients to turn the collision event into a mass extinction.
Researchers argue that the massive energy produced during the collision had a combustible impact on the humongous reservoirs of hydrocarbons and crude oil stored beneath a shallow sea in the Yucatán Peninsula.
In fact, one thing led to another. The combustion created after the impact would have blown out massive amounts of soot and sulfur into our planet’s stratosphere blocking the sun, which triggered a set of events that caused entire ecosystems to collapse, and eventually destroying up to three-quarters of Earth’s inhabitants.
Global map showing the amount of organic matter in sedimentary rocks ejected if the Chicxulub asteroid hit various locations at the end of the Cretaceous.
“The probability of mass extinction was quite low even with an asteroid as large as the [Chicxulub asteroid] because hydrocarbon-rich and sulfate-rich sites were rare,” said Kaiho and Oshima. If the asteroid had hit a low–medium hydrocarbon area, mass extinction could not have occurred.”
According to previous calculations, scientists believe that the asteroid impact released energy around a billion times more powerful than the combined power of the atomic bombs that were released on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Scientists concludedthat around 87 percent of our planet surface—in areas like most of present-day Africa, China, India, and the Amazon—would not have had high-enough concentrations of hydrocarbons to lead to such an apocalyptic result on dinosaurs if the asteroid had collided there.
Such an extinction event would have been triggered if the asteroid had crashed into marine coastal areas rich in algae, such as the present-day eastern coast of North America, the Middle East, and Siberia, concluded scientists.
This star has a spiral disk of dust around it. Processes in the inner disk – winds, or swirls or clashes of pebbles – seem to be casting shadows on the outer disk.
A team of mainly Dutch astronomers said on November 9, 2017 that it has observed moving shadows on a dust disk around a young star designated HD135344B. The star is 450 light-years away. It’s in a formation stage and shows striking spiral arms. On multiple days, the astronomers captured an image of this star and its dust disk. They used the SPHEREinstrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile, which can block the image of a central star in order to capture orbiting exoplanets or the details of dust disks like this one, with the goal of learning more about star formation. These astronomers believe that processes in the inner disk cast their shadows at the outer disk.
The discovery builds on an earlier publication in which the researchers made one image of the disk. By making multiple images, the astronomers clearly saw variations in the shadows. As a result, they could study the shadows in more detail …
The astronomers saw subtle variations of brightness in the outer dust disk. They presume this is because the gas and dust in the inner disk quickly turn around the star. The astronomers do not know yet which process causes the quick turning of the dust.
Astronomer Tomas Stolker is the first author of the paper about the shadows. He said the turning of the dust may be due to:
… winds, or swirls or clashes of pebbles.
The astronomers expect 1 or more large exoplanets – Jupiter-like worlds – to emerge from this dust disk eventually. Read more about this research from Astronomie.nl.
View larger. | Dust disk around the star HD 135344B. The star itself is removed from the picture. Image via Tomas Stolker/ astronomie.nl.
Bottom line: For several days, astronomers imaged the young star HD 135344B and its dust disk. They saw moving shadows on the disk, which they believe is caused by a turning of the gas and dust in the star’s inner disk. Hence we learn more about the process by which stars and planets form.
SHOCK AS MYSTERIOUS UFO 'HOVERS ABOVE CALIFORNIA NAVY BASE'
SHOCK AS MYSTERIOUS UFO 'HOVERS ABOVE CALIFORNIA NAVY BASE'
ALIEN hunters have been sent into a frenzy by these images appearing to show a UFO near an American Navy base.
We all remember the gripping testimony, a former agent of the CIA, who spoke publicly for the first time through a video about his experience dealing with extraterrestrials, their ships and the cover-up of the phenomenon. The 15-minute video aired on May 3, 2013, the last day of the Citizen's Public Hearing. The 77-year-old man, obviously in poor health, but well articulated, spoke to two researchers about the UFO phenomenon.
Smartphone, computer, television and video game. What they have in common, apart from circuits, is an extraterrestrial influence. Many theories say that the aliens make available to humans, slowly, everything that is already obsolete on their planets. In this way, they can observe the development of human civilization (as we do with rats).
Well, if this story is real, we are just guinea pigs of social experiments coordinated by races of much more developed civilizations. Concepts of psychology such as behaviorism (which preaches that behavior is always based on responses and stimuli) could easily describe this type of action.
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BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE? 'Alien UFO' found in NASA images 'orbiting the Moon'
BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE? 'Alien UFO' found in NASA images 'orbiting the Moon'
A LEGENDARY "alien satellite", that is said to have orbited Earth for nearly 13,000 years, has been caught on camera in NASA images orbiting the Moon, UFO fans claim.
YouTube UFO hunter Streetcap1 posted NASA Apollo 16 images in a video on his channel.
NASA images of the Moon, Mars, other planets, as well as footage taken by the International Space Station, was scoured in an extensive search for evidence of alien life.
The expert said in the video: "I have been browsing a lot of photographs tonight and I discovered this on a moon photograph
"It is on the edge of the photograph, that is as close in as I can get.
"It appears on quite a few photos, not all of them. It is some sort of structure and it is just sitting orbiting the Moon.
"You can see its structure when I get a close up of it. To me it looks like some sort of structure."
Viewers have suggested it could be the mysterious Black Knight satellite, also known as the "Dark Knight".
After watching, Traci Hill posted on YouTube: "Looks kind of like the Dark Knight."
BLACK KNIGHT? A still from Streetcap1's latest video showing a 'UFO' over the Moon.
Valle Janes later added: "Someone commented it looks like the Black Knight... I agree."
Others were less convinced, offering up alternative explanations.
One poster with the user name Coil Smoke said: "Could be high terrain like mountain peaks still getting sunlight."
Jack Gordon added: "Photographic artefact more likely than alien ship."
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The 1998 Nasa image (left) and an earlier alleged Black Knight snap over the Moon in July 2015.
The Black Knight Satellite is the name that has been given to an object captured on camera by NASA astronauts during a 1998 space shuttle mission.
There are alien conspiracy theorists who claim the satellite is of extraterrestrial origin, possibly up to 13,000 years old orbiting Earth in near-polar orbit.
The myth developed in 1963 when NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper was reported as saying he had seen the Black Knight Satellite while in space, but there was a media blackout upon his return and the US space agency allegedly put it down to cosmic hallucinations.
It has been reported that a decade later in 1973, a researcher from Scotland, Duncan Lunan, looked back at the Norwegian scientists' data from 1928, before claiming the "messages" suggested the Black Knight was sent by aliens from Epsilon Boötis, as a welcome message to Earth 12,600 years ago.
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A close up of the 'UFO' taken from the YouTube video.
Someone commented it looks like the Black Knight... I agree.
Valle Janes
In 1998, the first alleged photographs of the satellite emerged and were taken by astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour, as it made its first flight to the ISS.
However, many sceptics claim the legend was retrospectively created after the 1998 images emerged, with the preceding odd events weaved into the story to make it more convincing.
Sceptics also say the existence of the Black Knight satellite has been debunked many times, and the NASA images show, as the space agency said at the time, a thermal blanket accidentally dropped from a space shuttle.
In 2015, YouTube debunker NUA, laid the mystery to rest.
In a video called "Black Knight Satellite UFO Documentary - Truth Exposed 2015 - (Debunked)" - he claims to conclusively prove the 'Black Knight', as photographed in 1998 NASA images, was nothing more than the dropped thermal blanket.
The blanket was lost by the crew of the Endeavour space shuttle as they worked on the developing the International Space Station (ISS).
In his video, NUA compared NASA video of the Endeavour mission which shows a thermal blanket on the ISS.
The same blanket is then seen being dropped by the crew as it tumbles away into space.
He highlights the blanket as being exactly the same shape as the 'Black Knight' in the 1998 pictures seized on by conspiracists and explain the object only appeared to change shape because it was turning as it fell away.
This is the longest-duration binary device containing a radio pulsar. A pulsar, referred to as J2032. When astronomers commenced looking it, they'd no concept how dynamic became. They nonetheless do not know what it's capable of. This pulsar has been accelerating for the closing ten years, and it is still rushing up.
When it passes thru the partner famous person's disk, we're gonna see some serious gamma-ray emission.
The pulsar, called J2032 is the overwhelmed center of a massive celebrity that exploded as a supernova.
It is a magnetized ball about 12 miles throughout, or approximately the size of Washington, weighing almost twice the sun's mass and spinning seven instances a 2d.
The massive superstar tugging at the pulsar is called MT91 213. Classified as a Be big name, the associate is 15 instances the mass of the solar and shines 10,000 instances brighter. Be stars power robust outflows, known as stellar winds, and are embedded in large disks of gas and dirt.
Astronomers are waiting for excessive-strength explosions whilst pulsar J2032 swings around its big companion celebrity in early 2018. The pulsar will plunge thru a disk of gasoline and dust surrounding the famous person, triggering cosmic fireworks.
Several features integrate to make this an great binary. Out of six similar systems in which the large megastar uses hydrogen as its imperative energy source, J2032's has the best combined mass, the longest orbital duration, and, at a distance of about five,000 light-years, is closest to Earth.
Astronomers assume the supernova explosion that created the pulsar also kicked it into its eccentric orbit, almost tearing the binary aside inside the technique. A have a look at of the machine led by using Lyne and together with Ray and Stappers become published June sixteen in the magazine Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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He took the snaps near the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in 2007, but has been too nervous to show anyone until now.
Mr Bradshaw apparently sneaked out to the desert after an old friend working on the Navy base told him about the mystery craft.
He claims he heard a helicopter as he approached the base, before seeing the silver UFO with a number of military vehicles parked nearby.
The UFO hunter – who took off his shirt to blend in with his surroundings – spent 10 minutes watching the 'flying saucer'.
CASCADE
They have been described as 'the most controversial UFO photos on record'
This thing would wobble along close to the ground, very unstable
Keith Bradshaw
He said: "This thing would wobble along close to the ground, very unstable.
"Then it would freeze in position, go up to a certain height and sit there for a few minutes perfectly still. It made no noise that I could hear.
"I don't believe anyone could have been riding on the inside, but I got the idea the helicopter was somehow remotely controlling it.
"It looked like whoever was controlling it was having fun with it, sometimes because they would do little tricks with it."
CASCADE
The photographer said he saw the silver UFO flying above the navy base
He has sent the images to be analysed by some of the world's top UFO experts, who are divided over their authenticity.
British UFO sleuth Philip Mantle said: "This could turn out to be one of the most controversial UFO photo-cases on record.
"The photo-analysts contacted cannot come to an agreement about these photos. Are they fake or genuine? Who knows."
CASCADE
Top UFO experts are divided over the authenticity of the snaps
Jason Gleaves, an ex-RAF and BAE Airbus division employee based in the UK, said he believes they could be genuine.
But he added: "With technology of today and software, you can't be 100 percent sure of image authenticity, no matter how good it looks."
Dr Bruce Maccabee, an-ex US Navy physicist, said: "That is not enough evidence to prove either way that the object was not an unusually shaped drone operating under control of the person(s) flying the helicopter."
Tobias Lingren of Sweden's Aviation Authority added: "I'm not sure the military is so stupid to fly in an open space a 'flying saucer' if they want to keep it secret but I still have no idea what the object could be."
The new Netflix original series, Stranger Things, has been gaining popularity since its release this summer and for good reason. Not only is the TV show captivating, but it has numerous conscious undertones as well. The TV show is actually based on real-life government programs regarding telepathy and parallel universes. On a recent episode of Chelsea, Nuclear physicist and U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, discussed the truth behind Stranger Things and confirmed that the U.S. government is researching higher dimensions and parallel universes.
MK Ultra Was The Inspiration Behind Stranger Things
If you’re unfamiliar with the TV show Stranger Things, here’s a quick synopsis: set in the 1980s, a young boy goes missing and his mother and friends set out to find him. They discover his disappearance is linked to a secret government program surrounding telepathy and an alternate dimension they refer to as “The Upside-Down.” As they uncover more clues, they meet a young girl (Eleven) with telepathic abilities who was experimented on in a government mind-control program. What many viewers didn’t know is that this horrific experiment was inspired by a real, CIA sanctioned program that ran from the 1950s until mid-1970s.
Matt and Ross Duffer, the brothers behind the show, stated in a Rolling Stones interview that their show was based on “bizarre” government experiments that took place during the Cold War, specifically MK Ultra. Matt explains, “We wanted the supernatural element to be grounded in science in some way. As ridiculous as it is, the monster [in the alternate dimension] doesn’t come from a spiritual domain and it’s not connected to any religion. It made it scarier. I don’t believe in ghosts, but I believe in aliens and alternate dimensions.”
In Stranger Things, the government allows the sacrifice of young children to satisfy this monster for “the greater good.” This sounds bone-chillingly familiar to what occurred in Project MK Ultra, as numerous innocent people including young children fell victim to these experiments, all of which was developed for “the greater good of America.”
More specifically, the experiments were intended to identify drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture in order to weaken victims and force confessions out of them through the use of mind control. The TV show lightly touched on the severe mental, physical, and sexual abuse involved but left out many of the other gruesome details of the experiments, all of which you can read about here. The real monsters aren’t the illusory ones hiding under your bed, they’re the ones controlling these types of programs, otherwise known as the elite or the shadow government.
U.S. Secretary of Energy On Stranger Things, Higher Dimensions, and Parallel Universes
One of the more recent episodes of the new Netflix show, Chelsea, guest stars Joshua Jackson, Don Cheadle, and U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, in which they discuss Stranger Things. Even though Moniz hasn’t watched the show, he was quick to engage in the conversation by stating that he’d heard of the series and that there’s some truth behind it.
Moniz explains, “We do work in parallel universes… We are also a big supporter of very basic science, and that includes trying to understand the basic particles of nature and the structure of the universe. It turns out, theoretical physics addressing that looks at things like higher dimensions than three dimensions and parallel universes.”
You can watch the interview on Chelsea Handler’s show here:
How This Relates To Us
During the interview, the audience laughs off Moniz’s claims. People have so much trust in the system that they can’t even see what’s in front of them, even when government officials admit what they’re doing. To be fair, most of them probably hadn’t considered that the government may study parallel universes because the concept is often dismissed or considered “Hollywood movie material.”
This concept really isn’t that far out. The Milky Way alone includes billions of Earth-like, potentially habitable planets and the Milky Way itself is only one of billions of galaxies. Furthermore, the scientific term multiverse was created in support of Stanford physicist Andrei Linde’s theory of eternal chaotic inflation, which supports the existence of an infinitely-increasing number of universes. Linde explains, “We started calling it a ‘multiverse,’ meaning the entire ensemble of innumerable regions of disconnected space-time.” We need to accept that we literally know nothing about the multiverse; thus, the potential for parallel universes is very real.
Scientists have been researching higher dimensions for decades, this is not new information. Carl Sagan discussed it on his TV show, Cosmos, back in the 1980s. We currently live in a third-dimensional world, so how do we gain access to higher dimensions? I personally believe that it can be done through our consciousness. Carl Sagan explained the differences between the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th dimensions on his show Cosmos, which you can watch here.
If you’re interested in learning more about multiple dimensions, below is a great clip for starters, taken from the film What The Bleep Do We Know.
Another noteworthy part of this video was when Joshua Jackson said, “So Stranger Things was fiction for us, but autobiography for you.” This relates to the lack of transparency in the government and how little information is disclosed to the public.
For example, UFO disclosure is practically non-existent in the U.S., mainstream media regularly spreads misinformation to benefit corporations, and black budget programs operate in complete secrecy. It’s no wonder the audience was confused, given how much corporate and government propaganda they’re exposed to on a daily basis.
Final Thoughts
I believe that all of this is proof that our planet is experiencing a massive shift in consciousness. Stranger Things helped shed light on what I consider to be one of the darkest government programs in history and one that continues to plague America. The fact that the U.S. Secretary of Energy was honest in admitting the government researches higher dimensions is a huge step in the right direction, even if there was an air of humour surrounding it. Let’s hope that other government officials follow suit!
Bestaan parallelle universa echt? Amerikaanse oud-minister doet opmerkelijke uitspraken in talkshow
Bestaan parallelle universa echt? Amerikaanse oud-minister doet opmerkelijke uitspraken in talkshow
Het parallelle universum uit de populaire serie Stranger Things bestaat mogelijk echt. Dat heeft de Amerikaanse oud-minister van Energie Ernest Moniz gezegd.
In Stranger Things is een parallelle wereld te zien die de Upside Down wordt genoemd. Die staat misschien dichter bij de realiteit dan je denkt.
In de talkshow Chelsea vroeg presentatrice Chelsea Handler aan Moniz of de Amerikaanse overheid net als het ministerie van Energie in de serie onderzoek doet naar de Upside Down.
Groot voorstander
“Laat ik voorop stellen dat ik de serie niet heb gezien, maar ik heb er wel van gehoord,” antwoordde de oud-minister.
Hij voegde toe dat zijn ministerie ‘inderdaad onderzoek doet naar parallelle universa’, maar ging daar verder niet op in.
Moniz zei een groot voorstander te zijn van wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar de kleinste deeltjes en de structuur van het universum.
Parallelle universa
“De theoretische natuurkunde houdt zich bezig met dingen als hogere dimensies en parallelle universa,” lichtte hij toe.
In een gelekte e-mail schreef Moniz eerder: “Het is niet waar dat het ministerie van Energie geen onderzoek doet naar parallelle universa. We ondersteunen theoretisch natuurkundigen en kosmologen, waarvan sommige onderzoek doen naar parallelle universa.”
Het tweede seizoen van Stranger Things is momenteel te zien op Netflix.
De makers van de serie lieten zich inspireren door MK-ULTRA, een reeks bizarre, geheime experimenten die de CIA tijdens de Koude Oorlog uitvoerde.
Let’s get a couple of things out of the way right up front. First, NASA needs help coming up with names for new space objects. The subject of this article is named OGLE, which is bad enough, but its full name is OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb, a string of letters and numbers that would be better in a password (secretly level: medium – needs some special characters). Have they run out of Greek and Roman gods? How about hiring the guy at a record company who names new bands? Second, although the subject of this article may be some new kind of mysterious planet, it’s probably not Planet X nor Nine nor Nibiru.
The object was first discovered in June 2016 by astronomers from the University of Warsaw working on the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, which means they used gravitational microlensing to detect its presence as its gravity bent the light of its star (and used the discovering telescope to come up with the odd ogling name). Its presence 22.000 light years away was confirmed a few days later by scientists using NASA’s orbiting Spitzer telescope.
Spitzer space telescope
At this point, the discovery gets exciting enough to publish a paper about it. In the study submitted to the Astronomical Journal, lead author Y-H Ryu of the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute reveals that OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb is something to ogle at – its mass is 13 times that of Jupiter or 4,000 times Earth’s mass, making it one of the largest planets ever discovered … IF it’s a planet. That sort of mass usually indicates an object is a brown dwarf – a non-functioning star that is not performing hydrogen thermonuclear fusion. However, Ogle’s orbit is at a fairly close distance from its star where astronomers have long assumed that gravity would not allow it to exist – they even describe this area as a “brown dwarf desert.”
So what exactly is Ogle? Astronomers can’t decide (there’s nothing more exciting than a competition among astronomers – kind of a Dancing With The Stargazers) so they have to make do with the 2016 pictures and computer models until its three-year orbit puts it in front of its start to cause another microlensing event.
Artist’s interpretation of the Milky Way’s galactic bulge
If it’s indeed a giant exoplanet, it “is likely to be the first Spitzer microlensing planet in the Galactic bulge/bar.” ‘Galactic bulge’ – now there’s a good name for the space phenomenon that is the middle of the Milky Way (not to mention a great name for a band or a malady that affects aliens on long space flights with little opportunity for exercising. At the local astronomers betting parlor, the odds favor some sort of failed brown dwarf over giant exoplanet or some new form of orbiting space object. The bookie tells those wanting to place bets on Planet X to go for something with better odds, like the lottery.
Astronomical event called “The Star of Bethlehem” graces the predawn sky on November 13, 2017
Astronomical event called “The Star of Bethlehem” graces the predawn sky on November 13, 2017
Get ready for the most exciting sky event of 2017! A truly fascinating event occurs on November 13th. "The Star of Bethlehem" graces the predawn sky.
They are the brightest celestial objects after the Sun and Moon. Venus and Jupiter are going to converge for a close jaw-dropping encounter. Astronomers refer to a close celestial pair-up like this as a conjunction.
What Was The Star of Bethlehem? Many Christians see the star as a miraculous sign to mark the birth of the Christ (or messiah). Some theologians claimed that the star fulfilled a prophecy, known as the Star Prophecy.
Astronomers have made several attempts to link the star to unusual astronomical events, such as a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, a comet or a supernova.
The truth is, we don't know the answer, and in fact, no one else does either, in spite of what you might hear. If there was a clear-cut answer to this question, everyone would already know the answer and wouldn't have to ask.
Some scholars say that the Star of Bethlehem must have been a supernatural event, not a natural occurrence of astronomy. Indeed, perhaps this is a mystery that modern science can never truly unravel.
Doughnut-Shaped UFO Floats Over A Famous Lake In Southwest China
Doughnut-Shaped UFO Floats Over A Famous Lake In Southwest China
Taiwanese salesman John Chen claimed he had captured a UFO in a doughnut shape on camera in southwest China.
The businessman said he snapped some scenic shots of the favourite tourist spot Lake Dian on November 1 after attending a trade show held in Yunnan Province.
Together with his sister-in-law, he was shocked to see a strange ring-shaped aerial thing when they were reviewing at one picture at home in Taipei.
The object appears to have a hole in the middle and ridged sides, similar to the shape of a classic doughnut.
In hope to find what the object could be, Mr Chen decided to look for a UFO expert.
Mr Chen happened to consult the leading British UFO researcher Philip Mantle about the strange thing in the photo. However, Mr Mantle could not explain it and called the incident an open verdict.
Mr Chen said that he did not see the strange thing the time as it was his wife’s sister who noticed it. He tried to share the photos with his colleagues, but they did not capture the same thing in the sky.
Mr Mantle said that he could not see any evidence that the pictures were tampered in any way, but admitted that the object could also be some airborne debris.
Watch Alleged U.S. Navy Footage Seemingly Shows A UFO That Defies Physics
Watch Alleged U.S. Navy Footage Seemingly Shows A UFO That Defies Physics
An unidentified flying object that defied physics is claimed to be in a leaked U.S. Navy video footage, which has emerged after a former Area 51 insider shared about the encounter.
Several F-18 pilots are said to have outmaneuvered by extraordinary UFO during the terrifying encounter. Former U.S. national security chief Chris Mellon, who claimed to have spent time at Area 51 military base, said that U.S. Navy personnel aboard the USS Nimitz recorded the UFO on video during the seven-hour encounter.
Mr. Mellon claimed that he served for nearly 20 years in the U.S. federal government in several national security roles under the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
The former national security chief was reportedly on a committee with oversight of all special access programs in Department of Defense. He also said to have spent ten years on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Mr. Mellon is one of the ex-senior government insiders who has gone forward after joining former Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge’s alien truth-seeking organization To The Stars Academy.
Mr. Mellon, who also had accessed on classified projects at the highly-secretive military facility in Nevada, detailed the bizarre incident that said to take place off the San Diego coast in broad daylight.
Now, a video has surfaced, claiming to be the footage recorded in 2004. It has been released anonymously and recently doing the rounds on social media.
The clip shows a mysterious object hovering in the skies.
It seems to show one of the F-18’s crosshairs lining the UFO up, but the bizarre thing speeds out of sight.
Many UFO experts believe that the craft disappeared with supersonic speed.
UFOlogist Tyler said that it looks like legit F-18 footage, which has been corroborated by men that were in the incident.
Called the "flagship case" of alien abduction. A husband and wife (Betty and Barney Hill) taking a short vacation see a bright object in the evening. They are stopped on the road by aliens and become part of an abduction case for the ages. Regressive hypnosis plays a major role in unveiling a dark secret... a secret of alien abduction, and medical experimentation.
In South Ashburnham, Massachusetts on the night of January 25, 1967, one of the most celebrated cases of UFO abduction began. Betty Andreasson was working in her kitchen while her seven children, mother, and father were in the living room... suddenly a bright light invades the house. From the yard, alien creatures are seen hopping toward the house! One of the strangest abduction cases.
1967 ABDUCTION OF HERBERT SCHIRMER
As Patrolman Schirmer passed through the intersection of Highway 6 with Highway 63 on the outskirts of Ashland, he saw what appeared to be red lights on a large truck stopped a short way down Highway 63. He decided to turn around and check it out. He drove the short distance down 63 and stopped with his headlights shining on the object. According to Schirmer, the object was definitely not a truck. The red lights that he had seen were blinking through the oval portholes of a metallic, oval-shaped object.
1969 THE BUFF LEDGE CAMP ABDUCTION
Only seven and a half years after the Betty and Barney Hill story, the New England states would again host an alien abduction. Buff Ledge in Vermont would be the site of a visitation by four UFOs which would make revolutionary aerial maneuvers, Two counselors would suffer missing time, and seek professional help.
Fifteen different people see a large, silver UFO fly over a housing project in St. Tammany Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana. Only a scant 24 hours later, Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson would unwillingly take a journey into the unknown... strange creatures with claw-like hands abduct them. J. Allen Hynek investigates.
1975 THE ABDUCTION OF SERGEANT CHARLES L. MOODY
Alamogordo, New Mexico would be the location of a UFO encounter involving Air Force Sergeant Charles L. Moody on August 13, 1975. Moody was in the desert observing a meteor shower at ab 1:15 A.M. when he saw a glowing, metallic, disk-shaped object falling toward the ground about 300 feet away.
As seven bloggers began their journey home, they see a "luminous object, shaped like a flattened disc." All of the men agreed that Travis Walton, captivated by the sight, left the truck to get a closer look. A blue beam hits him, throwing him to the ground. He would vanish for five days, and soon begin telling his story of the inside of an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
1976 The Stanford, Kentucky Abductions
While America was still buzzing over the Travis Walton abduction, three women are abducted near Stanford, Kentucky. Heading for Hustonville on Highway 78, they suddenly see a "bright, red" object in the clear, night sky, turning a nice evening into a night of terror. Read about this in depth investigation here.
The Allagash Waterway incident would involve multiple witnesses.
Four artists were enjoying a canoeing trip on the Allagash Waterway when their pleasant evening was turned into a nightmare... A nightmare of missing time and alien abduction. At first only missing time, and then forgetfulness. Finally a connection is made, and little by the details become known in this compelling case of alien abduction.
1976 The Dechmont Forest Abduction
Robert Taylor was sixty-one-years-old at the time that he had the most unusual encounter of his life. He had worked as a forester all of his adult life in the Dechmont woods located in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. On the morning of Friday, November 9, 1979, he and his red setter rounded a corner on a forest trail and saw an unbelievable sight, a UFO! The object appeared to be hovering just above the forest floor. It made no sound, and seemed to be motionless.
A policeman named Philip Spencer claims to have taken a picture of an alien being. If this is true, it is one of only a few in existence. The scary Ilkley Moor in Yorkshire, England would hold the secret of the strange creature encountered one early morning.
Godfrey was frightened, but ran after the creature, taking one photograph. See it here. Through hypnosis, he would recall an odd flying object, and an alien abduction.
1988 Father & Son Abducted
John Salter Jr. and his son are abducted by benevolent aliens. One of the few cases in which alien abduction turned out to be a good thing. Medical experimentation has a happy ending, with improved health for both abductees.
An extremely compelling case of alien abduction is that of Linda Napolitano. Napolitano has claimed that she was abducted by the so-called "greys," who floated her from a closed bedroom window into a hovering UFO. As time went by, several different eye witnesses came forward to substantiate her claims... Several bystanders, including a well known politician, actually see the incident.
1993 The Kelly Cahill Abduction
In August 1993, 27-year-old Kelly Cahill, her husband, and three children were driving home after a visit to a friend's house. Their routine journey would soon become a harrowing trip into an unknown world of strange beings that occupied space but were void of color as we know it. The Dandenong foothills, near Victoria, Australia would be forever linked to one of the strangest creatures in Ufological archives.
1997 Abduction in Wales
One of the weirdest cases reported to the Welsh Federation of Independent Ufologists is the multiple sighting of UFOs on the same night - except one family got too close for comfort and were apparently abducted. The strange and disturbing events began to unfold when for several nights an elderly man living in Little Orme, Conwy, was troubled by what he called "frightening" beams of light over the Great Orme.
For many years now, UFOs have more than not been identified as "flying saucers," or disc-shaped objects. Of course, there were other unknown flying object reports of odd-shaped vehicles of many different descriptions, but these were the exception and not the rule.
In the last 30 years or so, the triangle shape has become a topic of much discussion. Often reported as flying low and running silent, with several lights on the bottom, these strange objects have become an enigma in UFO circles.
Sightings of these objects often come in waves, and they are reported as being able to go from a crawl to a high-speed departure in a matter of seconds.
A GOVERNMENT PROJECT?
Many feel that the triangle UFO may be a top-secret government craft, still in the experimental stage, and more than likely designed with military implications. Some researchers feel that they are the next step in the Stealth series of craft, capable of flying low and making their exit without being detected by enemy radar. This type of craft would be indispensable for enemy surveillance, especially with weapon capabilities.
I will agree that a good portion of triangle UFO sightings may be attributed to a government manufactured craft, but this cannot account for all of them. The man on the street cannot know just how advanced governmental or military technological prowess may be, but reports of the flight characteristics of the triangles seem to surpass even our most liberal estimates of what modern technology is capable of.
REPORTS INCREASING
Although the triangle craft seem to be a dark, mysterious entity, according to researcher and author, Clyde Lewis, triangle sightings in the United Kingdom are almost an everyday occurrence. He states in his article, "Mystery of the Black Triangles," there have been approximately 4,000 reports of the triangles since 1990 in the UK alone.
There have also been waves of triangle sightings in Belgium, France, Holland and Germany, beginning with the most celebrated wave of all, the 1989-1990 triangle wave over Belgium.
In this particular case, in addition to triangle sightings, other anomalous events took place. As some of the triangles were picked up by military radar, jets would be scrambled to get a close look at exactly what was invading Belgian airspace. However, although the jet fighters could briefly lock in on the mysterious UFOs, when their weapons were set to fire, their electrical systems would malfunction, and soon the triangles were out of range.
One of the most famous UFO pictures ever taken. The photographer, to my knowledge, still remains unnamed. Taken on an April night during a well known "wave ...
ANOMALOUS EFFECT
A second unusual fact during the Belgian wave was the inability of eyewitnesses to capture the objects on film. There are a couple of fairly decent, distant videos of them, and finally, one good photograph was taken in April 1990 in the city of Petit-Rechain.
This photograph clearly shows a triangle-shaped object with red lights on the belly.
There were approximately 1,000 sightings of the Belgian triangle, and many of these were reported by ground observers who could clearly see the craft and took what they felt would be a good, clear picture. However, when their film was developed, the image was blurry and had no probative value.
This fact came to the attention of August Meessen, a physics professor, who was employed by the Catholic University at Louvin.
He developed a theory that the photographic failures were caused by infrared light. He proved his theory through scientific experiments. What this actually means is open to debate, but it appears from witness statements, that the farther away the triangle was from the photographer, the better chance to get a good image.
The sightings over Belgium were investigated, and there was no doubt that unknown, triangular-shaped objects moved over the country for about two years. They were caught on radar, seen by pilots, and witnessed by a general cross-section of the public, including policemen.
No explanation could be given, except to say that something very unusual occurred in the Belgian skies.
This is one of the best examples of the triangle UFOs, but in future articles, I will detail other special cases of these strange, low-flying craft.
1. Los Angeles, California; February 25, 1942, 02:25 p.m.
1942-Los Angeles, California.
The legend: Alarm sirens installed in the event of a Japanese air raid are started as flying objects are seen and announced in the sky. A blackout is declared and anxious and terrified citizens follow the instructions by turning all the lights off. 03:16 p.m. Anti-aircraft guns open fire on the unidentified flying objects coming from the ocean, and projector beams are searching the sky. Witnesses observe small objects flying at high altitude, of red or silver plated color, moving in formation at high speed, and untouched by the AAA salvos. This large object was unhurt by many AAA projectiles, according to the reports.
2. McMinnville, Oregon; May 8, 1950
1950-McMinnville, Oregon. Paul Trent
Photographed by Paul Trent after his wife spotted a strange object in the sky, these images were published in a local newspaper in McMinnville, Oregon. Soon after, the Trent photos were published in Life magazine edition of June 26, 1950. The rest is history.
3. Washington, D. C., 1952
1952-Washington, D. C. 1952-Washington, D. C. United States Air Force
The legend: Early in the history of Ufology in the United States, unidentified flying objects made themselves known to the leaders of the free world, buzzing over the White House, the Capitol building, and the Pentagon. Seemingly the unknown objects were defying the very governmental agencies sworn to protect the United States from foreign powers. Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base picked up a number of UFOs on their radar screens on July 19, 1952, beginning a wave of sightings still unexplained to this day.
4. Rosetta/Natal, South Africa; July 17, 1956
1956-South Africa 1956-South Africa. South African Air Force
This famous photograph, part of a series of seven similar images, was taken by a well-respected member of South African society in the Drakensberg Mountains. The photographer maintained her story until she died in 1994.
5. Santa Ana, California; August 3, 1965
1965-Santa Ana, California 1965-Santa Ana, California. Rex Heflin
This photograph was taken by highway traffic engineer Rex Heflin, while driving near the Santa Ana freeway. Heflin did not report his sighting, but the photographs were published by the Santa Ana Register on August 20, 1965. The photos were reportedly confiscated, and disagreements arose between Ufologists regarding their authenticity.
6. Tulsa, Oklahoma; 1965
1965-Tulsa, Oklahoma 1965-Tulsa, Oklahoma. Life Magazine
The legend: In 1965, a series of strange low flying objects were reported almost nightly by people of all ages and walks of life across the United States. As the year progressed, the number of reports rose dramatically. On the night of August 2, 1965 thousands of people in four midwestern states witnessed spectacular aerial displays by large formations of UFOs. That same night a multi-colored disc was photographed in Tulsa, Oklahoma while several people watched it perform low altitude maneuvers. This picture was extensively analyzed, pronounced authentic, and later published by Life magazine.
7. Provo, Utah; July 1966; 11 a.m.
1966-Provo, Utah 1966-Provo, Utah. United States Air Force
The pilot of a twin engine C-47 "Skytrain" transport aircraft of the USAF took this photograph on a July morning in 1966. The aircraft was flying over the Rocky Mountains, at about 40 kilometers southwest of Provo, Utah. The Condon commission, which concluded that UFOs are unworthy of scientific investigations, analyzed the negative at the time and concluded that the photograph shows an ordinary object thrown in the air. Many Ufologists disagree with their conclusion.
8. Woonsocket, Rhode Island; 1967
1967-Woonsocket, Rhode Island 1967-Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Harold Trudel
The legend: This daytime photograph of a disk-shaped object was taken in East Woonsocket, Rhode Island by UFO contactee Harold Trudel. The photograph shows a slightly asymmetric hubcap shaped object with a small dome and aerial extending from the bottom. Trudel believed he was in mental contact with space people, who sent him telepathic messages as to where and when they would appear.
9. Costa Rica; September 4, 1971
1971-Costa Rica 1971-Costa Rica. Costa Rican Government
An official mapping aircraft of the Costa Rican government took this photograph in 1971. The aircraft was flying at 10,000 feet over Lago de Cote. An investigation could not identify the object as a "known" aircraft. Debunkers took some stabs at it, but the photograph is still recognized as authentic by most investigators. No "earthly" explanation has ever been given to explain the object.
10. Apollo 16 / Moon; April 16-27, 1967
1972-Apollo 16 1972-Apollo 16. NASA
The UFO is seen at just right of top center. No explanation has been given for the object.
11. Tavernes, France; 1974
1974-Tavernes, France 1974-Tavernes, France. Anonymous French Medical Doctor
This classic French UFO image was taken by an anonymous French medical doctor in Var, during a major UFO flap over France. Skeptics doubted the picture on the grounds that "luminous rays cannot end like this." Of course they do not, normally. But the skeptics simply forgot to consider other explanations—that these are not luminous rays but light emission by ionized air, for example. The object in the photograph is still considered a UFO.
12. Waterbury, Connecticut; 1987
1987-Waterbury, Connecticut 1987-Waterbury, Connecticut. Randy Etting
The lengend: Randy Etting was taking a walk outside his home. A commercial airline pilot with over 30 years experience, he spent a lot of time looking at the sky. On the night he took the photograph, he saw a number of orange and red lights approaching from the west. He got his binoculars and called his neighbors to come outside. By this time, the object was a great deal closer and seemed to be over I-84, just east of Etting's home. The lights were shimmering like distortion from engine heat, but he could hear no sound. Etting stated: "As the UFO passed over I-84, cars in both the east and west bound lanes began pulling over and stopping. The UFO displayed a semi-circular pattern of very bright multicolored lights. Five motorists reported that, as the object became visible, a number of cars lost power and had to pull off the highway."
13. Gulf Breeze, Florida; 1987
1987-Gulf Breeze, Florida 1987-Gulf Breeze, Florida. Ed Walters
When the news of the flurry of sightings spread beyond the close knit community of Gulf Breeze, soon UFO enthusiasts across the world were involved. Shortly after Walters' photos hit the local newspaper, more UFO photographers came forward with their stories or sightings; more images, both still and moving.
The photographer of this famous Belgian UFO photograph still remains unnamed. Taken on an April night during a well known "wave," the photo shows a triangle-shaped object with lights. The photo was edited slightly as the original photo was too dark to show the object's outline.
15. Puebla, Mexico; December 21, 1944
1994-Puebla, Mexico 1994-Puebla, Mexico. Carlos Diaz
While taking photos of the eruption of Mt. Popocatepetl in Puebla, Mexico, Carlos Diaz, a photographer with an extensive collection of UFO images, shot this photo. It has since been authenticated by many photographic experts and published in numerous magazines, newspapers, and books. This picture shows a glowing, yellowish, disc shaped object with a red hue toward the top and windows or portholes.
This photograph is one of many depicting one of the most publicized UFO events in history. First observed in a hexagram pattern at about 7:30 p.m. over the Superstition Mountains area east of Phoenix, the characteristic 8+1 formation of amber orbs was next seen in two separate arc patterns with "trailing lights" over the Gila River area at about 9:50 and again at 10:00 at the southern edge of Phoenix. Thousands reported seeing these objects and a handful videotaped them on camcorders.
17. Taipei, China; 2004
2004-Taipei, China 2004-Taipei, China. Lin Qingjiang
Lin Qingjiang, a worker in Hualian County of Taipei, discovered a suspected UFO, shaped like a large bamboo hat, at about 10:00 p.m. when he was resting outside the house. Lin was quoted as saying that the suspected UFO flew towards east and west five times within 10 minutes, during which time Qingjiang captured this photograph on his cell phone.
18. Kaufman, Texas; 2005
2005-Kaufman, Texas 2005-Kaufman, Texas. lawwalk
The photographer states: "I was out today taking pictures of the chemtrails 01-21-2005, and at 11:35 a.m. I was aiming my camera at a scrawny little cloud. As I was snapping the picture, I noticed a flash in the sky through the viewfinder. When the picture came on the screen, I noticed a gold-colored object at the top of the cloud I had captured also. I looked back where it was and of course it was gone. I really couldn't tell much of what it may be until I downloaded it to my computer. I zoomed in on it and nearly fell out of my chair. It appears to be a craft of some kind with maybe windows or ports on the right side, in the middle. It also appears to be emanating a gas or some type of energy field around it, mainly at the top."
This photograph was taken by Valpara newspaper reporter Manuel Aguirre when he noticed.a band of glowing lights in the distance over the city skyline. This photograph has not been debunked, and to date is considered legitimate. The unknown object appears to be circular or spherical in shape.
20. Modesto, California; 2005
2005-Modesto, California 2005-Modesto, California. R. David Anderson
The photographer states: "I noticed some kind of craft toward my left that appeared from behind a tree that is in our front yard. I rapidly rotated my camera on its mount and took one picture. There were several brilliant lights that surrounded this craft. It was impossible to make out the shape of the craft because the lights were so brilliant. The lights did not strobe or flash like a normal aircraft array would. Each light glowed with the same intensity and color as a sodium-vapor type street lamp."
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NASA'S $1 BILLION JUPITER PROBE JUST SENT BACK STUNNING NEW PHOTOS OF JUPITER
NASA'S $1 BILLION JUPITER PROBE JUST SENT BACK STUNNING NEW PHOTOS OF JUPITER
Traveling above Jupiter at more than 130,000 miles per hour, NASA's $1 billion Juno probe took its ninth set of stunning flyby images on October 24. But the sun slipped between the giant planet and Earth for more than a week, blocking the spacecraft from beaming home its precious bounty of data. Now that the conjunction is over, however, new raw image data from Juno's ninth perijove — as the spacecraft's high-speed flybys are called — has poured in. Researchers posted it all online on Tuesday, and a community of amateurs and professionals has been busily processing the data to yield colorful and stunning new pictures of Jupiter.
“Brand new Jupiter pics from @NASAJuno Perijove 09! What a blimmin' gorgeous/diabolical planet,” Seán Doran, a UK-based graphic artist who regularly processes NASA images, tweeted on Tuesday. Below are some fresh, close-up images of Jupiter, along with other unbelievable views captured from earlier perijoves.
In the most recent flyby, as with the previous eight, Juno's flyby started over Jupiter's north pole.
At its closest approach to Jupiter during each flyby, the robot briefly becomes the fastest human-made object in the solar system, reaching speeds of around 130,000 miles per hour.
Then Juno flew back out into deep space, passing over Jupiter's south pole on its exit. Churning storms at the poles constantly change their appearance.
Many cloud bands have features called chevrons. These atmospheric disturbances blow at several hundreds of miles per hour and sometimes zig-zag through a band, or punch through into others.
In this older view of Jupiter, from Juno's eighth perijove, two cloud bands battle for dominance — one of which contains a swirling storm many times larger than a hurricane on Earth.
The history of art has been rewritten after archeologists unearthed an astonishing 3,500 year old carving of an ancient Greek battle, depicting human bodies in anatomical detail which was thought way beyond the skill of Bronze Age artisans.
In 2015, the tomb of the so-called 'Griffin Warrior' was discovered near the ancient city of Pylos, southwest Greece, containing the remains of a powerful Myceneaen warrior and a treasure trove of burial riches.
Dating from around 1,500BC the grave also held a intricately carved gem, or sealstone, which was covered in limestone.
Now after a year of careful restoration the scene beneath has finally been uncovered.It depicts an ancient battle in which a bare-chested warrior plunges a blade into the neck of an assailant, while a second enemy corpse lays at his feet.
The seal, named the 'Pylos Combat Agate' has been hailed as one of the finest works of prehistoric Greek art ever discovered and may depict the mythological war between the Trojans and Mycenaeans, which was told in Homer's Iliad hundreds of years later.
"What is fascinating is that the representation of the human body is at a level of detail and musculature that one doesn't find again until the classical period of Greek art 1,000 years later. It's a spectacular find.," said Jack Davis, Professor of Archaeology of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Classics.
"It's a spectacular find."
The find is all the more remarkable because of its tiny size. The tiny piece of agate measures just 1.4 inches in length (3.6cm) and many of the details such as the ornamentation on the shields and jewellery are too small to be viewed with the naked eye.
Researchers are baffled as to how ancient craftsmen were able to create the minute scene without microscopes.
"Some of the details on this are only a half-millimeter big," added Prof Davis. "They're incomprehensibly small.
"It seems that they were producing art of the sort that no one ever imagined they were capable of producing.
"It shows that their ability and interest in representational art, particularly movement and human anatomy, is beyond what it was imagined to be. Combined with the stylized features, that itself is just extraordinary."
Dig leader Shari Stocker, of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Classics, said: "Looking at the image for the first time was a very moving experience, and it still is.
"It's brought some people to tears. It would have been a valuable and prized possession, which certainly is representative of the Griffin Warrior's role in Mycenaean society.
"This seal should be included in all forthcoming art history texts, and will change the way that prehistoric art is viewed."
The tomb contained more than 3,000 objects arrayed on and around the warrior's body, including four solid gold rings, silver cups, precious stone beads, fine-toothed ivory combs and an intricately built sword, among other weapons.
An ivory plaque adorned with a griffin was also buried with the warrior, leading archaeologists to dub him The Griffin Warrior.
The grave-good are helping archaeologists piece together greater detail about the interactions between the Mycenaens and Minoans at the time.
The seal, and other artefacts suggest that the Griffin Warrior was a Mycenaen nobleman but many of grave-goods are Minoan, including four gold signet rings. Around the time of his death, approximately 1500BC, the Mycenaeans conquered the Minoans meaning the tomb riches could be the spoils of conquest.
The new findings are published in the journal Hesperia.
Comment:
This exquisite find is just one of many examples that should have us questioning the much touted myth of human progress. The evidence suggests that some ancient peoples possessed knowledge superior to our own.
NASA Wants To Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before
NASA Wants To Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before
Scientists from the Paris Observatory used the Hubble Space Telescope to take a look at the auroras on Uranus
(Picture: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Lamy / Observatoire de Paris)
Up until now, NASA has never paid too much attention to Uranus – but now the space agency wants to take a good, long look. And one of the things it might be investigating is all that gas. A NASA group outlined four possible missions to the ice giants Uranus and Neptune.
These missions include three orbiters and a possible fly-by of Uranus. The planned probes would take off in the 2030s, New Scientist reports.
‘The preferred mission is an orbiter with an atmospheric probe to either Uranus or Neptune – this provides the highest science value, and allows in depth study of all aspects of either planet’s system: rings, satellites, atmosphere, magnetosphere,’ says Amy Simon, co-chair of the Ice Giants Pre-Decadal Study group.
MORE: Sorry, you’ve probably been saying the word Uranus wrong your whole life MORE: Hubble just spotted something massive coming out of Uranus One of the proposed missions includes a fly-by of Uranus, which would include a narrow-angle camera – and a probe which would drop into Uranus’s atmosphere to measure gas and heavy elements. There are four proposed missions.
Three orbiters and a fly-by of Uranus, which would include a narrow angle camera to draw out details, especially of the ice giant’s moons. It would also drop an atmospheric probe to take a dive into Uranus’s atmosphere to measure the levels of gas and heavy elements there. Three orbiters and a fly-by of Uranus, which would include a narrow angle camera to draw out details, especially of the ice giant’s moons. It would also drop an atmospheric probe to take a dive into Uranus’s atmosphere to measure the levels of gas and heavy elements there. Has Uranus been probed?
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew closely past distant Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, in January 1986.
A map of the outer solar system
(Picture: AFP/Getty)
At its closest, the spacecraft came within 81,500 kilometres (50,600 miles) of Uranus’s cloudtops on January 24, 1986. Voyager 2 radioed thousands of images and voluminous amounts of other scientific data on the planet, its moons, rings, atmosphere, interior and the magnetic environment surrounding Uranus.
Since launch on August 20, 1977, Voyager 2’s itinerary has taken the spacecraft to Jupiter in July 1979, Saturn in August 1981, and then Uranus. Voyager 2’s next encounter was with Neptune in August 1989. Both Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, will eventually leave our solar system and enter interstellar space.
MORE: Sorry, you’ve probably been saying the word Uranus wrong your whole life Voyager 2’s images of the five largest moons around Uranus revealed complex surfaces indicative of varying geologic pasts. The cameras also detected 10 previously unseen moons.
Several instruments studied the ring system, uncovering the fine detail of the previously known rings and two newly detected rings. Voyager data showed that the planet’s rate of rotation is 17 hours, 14 minutes. The spacecraft also found a Uranian magnetic field that is both large and unusual. In addition, the temperature of the equatorial region, which receives less sunlight over a Uranian year, is nevertheless about the same as that at the poles.
Juno maakt foto van het overweldigende zuidelijk halfrond van Jupiter
Juno maakt foto van het overweldigende zuidelijk halfrond van Jupiter
Vivian Lammerse
Op dit prachtig gedetailleerde plaatje is zelfs een van Jupiter’s stormen goed zichtbaar.
Ruimtesonde Juno maakte deze foto terwijl hij bezig was met zijn negende vlucht rond de grootste planeet van ons zonnestelsel. Juno was slechts 33.115 kilometer van de wolkentoppen van Jupiter verwijderd.
De foto van ruimtesonde Juno van het zuiderlijk halfrond van Jupiter. De foto is gemaakt op 24 oktober 2017.
Storm Op de foto is het zuidelijkhalfrond van de enorme gasreus te aanschouwen in opmerkelijk veel detail. Zo vangt Juno een geweldig beeld van één van Jupiter’s stormen. Deze storm maakt deel uit van een hele reeks aan stormen – in totaal acht – die in een massief draaiende beweging op zo’n 40 graden zuiderbreedte over de planeet woedt.
Omlooptijd De sonde doet er op dit moment zo’n 53 dagen over om een rondje rond de gasreus te voltooien. Wetenschappers wilde Juno van baan doen veranderen waardoor de omlooptijd teruggeschroefd zou worden naar 14 dagen. Echter werd deze manoeuvre om technische mankementen uitgesteld. Op 11 december is er een tweede mogelijkheid om de baanwisseling te laten plaatsvinden.
NASA hoopt monsterraket en Orion op het randje van volgend jaar te lanceren
NASA hoopt monsterraket en Orion op het randje van volgend jaar te lanceren
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Maar het wordt waarschijnlijk krap.
Dat is tenminste de conclusie uit een nieuw rapport waarin de voortgang van de missie EM-1 en de uitdagingen waar men nog voor kan komen te staan, aan bod komen.
Mijlpaal Tijdens EM-1 zal NASA’s gloednieuwe Space Launch System (SLS) voor het eerst samen met het nieuwe ruimtevaartuig Orion gelanceerd worden. Het is een mijlpaal: na jarenlang werk zal dan moeten blijken dat de monsterraket en het ruimtevaartuig waarmee NASA naar de maan, Mars en nog verder weg wil, doen wat ze op papier beloven.
Het nieuwe rapport is opgesteld nadat duidelijk werd dat er nog wel enige hindernissen moesten worden genomen alvorens EM-1 werkelijkheid kon worden. Zo is het bijvoorbeeld nog even spannend of alle onderaannemers op tijd hun onderdelen voor Orion aan kunnen leveren. Ook zijn er nog wel wat uitdagingen omtrent de bouw van het Space Launch System (niet zo gek als je bedenkt dat er nog nooit zo’n krachtige raket in elkaar is gezet).
2019 Met het oog op al die uitdagingen concludeert men in het rapport dat de lanceerdatum ergens in juin 2020 zal liggen. Maar NASA-directeur Robert Lightfoot wil daar niks van weten en gaat er nog steeds vanuit dat er in december 2019 gelanceerd gaat worden. Volgens hem zijn alle risico’s wel zo’n’ beetje ingecalculeerd en wordt er alles aan gedaan om de lanceerdatum in 2019 te houden.
WIST JE DAT…
…er serieus overwogen is om de eerste vlucht van SLS en Orion bemand te maken? Uiteindelijk bleken de risico’s toch te groot en werd het idee echter afgewimpeld.
Bemand De eerste bemande missie van SLS en Orion blijft gepland staan voor 2023. Om te voorkomen dat die missie in de nabije toekomst moet worden uitgesteld, doet NASA er nu alvast een stapje bij. Zo zal nog voor EM-1 – in april 2019 – het launch abort system van Orion getest worden. Tijdens deze test wordt het systeem dat astronauten kunnen gebruiken om zich in veiligheid te brengen als er tijdens de lancering iets misgaat, getest.
Terwijl nog volop aan de monsterraket en Orion geknutseld wordt, fantaseert NASA alvast druk over wat deze twee allemaal moeten gaan doen. Zo wordt er nagedacht over een missie naar Mars en een planetoïde en liggen er serieuze plannen voor een Deep Space Gateway.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
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