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 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.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
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30-11-2017
Neuroscientist discusses precognition—or ‘mental time travel’
Dr. Julia Mossbridge
(Courtesy of Dr. Julia Mossbridge)
Neuroscientist discusses precognition—or ‘mental time travel’
There are rules of the physical world that don’t apply to the mental world. You can fly in a dream. You can imagine a squirrel talking to you. The realm of dreams and imagination is, however, often thought of as self-contained. It has no tangible bearing on the world at large.
Precognitive dreams have taught Dr. Julia Mossbridge otherwise. “I think that precognition is a kind of mental time travel into the future to get information,” she said. “We’re just so used to applying the rules of the physical world to the mental world that we don’t really get it that there are different rules. That’s a different domain.”
She continued: “The separation that we have between people in space and the separation we have between events in time in the physical world, who says that has to apply to the mental world?”
Precognitive dreams suggest the mind doesn’t follow the rules we usually apply to the physical world, says Mossbridge.
Mossbridge is a cognitive neuroscientist. She has been working with physicists and psychologists to figure out the rules of mental time travel. Her book, “Transcendent Mind,” co-authored with Dr. Imants Barušs, was published last year by the American Psychological Association.
Having a major scientific institution publish this book is a significant step forward for the many scientists who have seriously studied precognition, a “shared mind,” and other phenomena that suggests the mind exists beyond the brain.
Mossbridge’s personal experience with precognitive dreams started her on this research path. She said that one such dream, “knocked my socks off.”
Mossbridge had a dream that accurately predicted an event in great detail.
At the time she had the dream, she was going through a divorce. She had a 5-year-old child and didn’t know where they would live. She thought of an area where she used to live and thought it would be nice to return there.
In her dream, she called a landlady in the area that she knows. The landlady told her she had a two-story rental property. The upstairs unit had been recently refurbished and was already occupied. The downstairs unit was being refurbished and would be ready in two months. The landlady said she could show Mossbridge around the upstairs unit so she could get an idea of what the downstairs would look like when finished. If she were to sign the lease right away, she could pick the color of the paint.
In waking life, after the dream, Mossbridge didn’t call the landlady; she ran into her instead. But every other minute detail of her dream came true—the two-story property, the refurbishing, the two months until the bottom floor would be finished, picking the paint color, all of it.
“People both have dreams that seem mundane and dreams about things that are really important in their lives. Precognition works that way,” Mossbridge said. “But I’m kind of starting to get convinced that the things that seem mundane are not. That they’re more like signposts in your life. You don’t recognize them as important events, but later you go, ‘Oh yeah.'”
For example, the first precognitive dream she remembers was one she had as a child. She dreamed that her friend lost her watch on the playground, and it really happened the next day. It was a mundane event, but looking back on it, it seems important to Mossbridge. The watch represents time, a topic that would be central to her studies later in life.
As a scientist, Mossbridge asks herself whether it’s confirmation bias. In science, confirmation bias generally refers to interpreting information in a way that will confirm a preexisting belief. A meaningless dream could become “precognitive” if you look back on it and intentionally search for connections to events in waking life.
That’s why Mossbridge tests these things scientifically.
Experiments have shown people unconsciously know what’s going to happen in the future.
A file photo of a man wearing an Electroencephalography (EEG) cap. (Ulrich W.)
For example, she conducted a meta-analysis of experiments from seven independent laboratories indicating that the human body reacts to future stimuli. When something is about to happen, a person unconsciously already knows it’s going to happen. This unconscious response can be tested in a lab by measuring reactions in the nervous system, sweat glands, or heart rate.
Mossbridge described how this presentiment works with an analogy of a stick being dragged through water. The stick represents an event. There are ripples on both sides of it, representing the emotional disturbance we feel from the event. The ripples before the stick aren’t as pronounced, the ripples after the stick are bigger. Similarly, the emotional response to an event is more subtle before the event occurs than afterward.
She is also working on experiments to show that people can use remote viewing and precognitive dreaming to predict stock market events.
What if we could predict terror attacks?
A file photo of a reported suicide car bomb attack by Islamic State (IS) in Kobani, Syria. (Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images)
Predicting mass-shooting or bombing attacks could especially help people. In 2015, Mossbridge had a precognitive dream about an Islamic State (IS) bombing in Kuwait.
She had the dream the same night it happened and a lot of the details matched up. She saw it happening during midday prayer; she saw the number 27, which was the number of people killed; she saw the letters “IS.” Some of the details didn’t match, like she thought it was in Israel, not Kuwait.
Dr. Julia Mossbridge’s journal, where she recorded an apparently precognitive dream about a bombing on July 26, 2015. Screenshot/Skype)
Nonetheless, Mossbridge thinks that if people could share their premonitions via an online registry, it might help. If the registry receives dozens of premonition accounts that all match up in certain regards, it could indicate an event is likely to occur.
People could avoid a certain location if a lot of people have premonitions of an attack at that location at a certain time.
Envision a future with a central premonitions registry.
Although there have been some attempts to create a premonitions registry, Mossbridge said, “They don’t seem to catch on because people can’t be out of the closet with this stuff. People are scared. If I were to tell someone about that dream about the bombing, if it was too much detail, they might be coming up to my house and saying, ‘So, you did this bombing,’” she said.
Since we don’t know how to deal with this information, she said, we say that people with premonitions are crazy, “Or more generously, those people are seeing coincidences as something that’s meaningful, but they’re just coincidences.”
While thinking about time and transcendent mental abilities are some of Mossbridge’s favorite things to do, she also works on all kinds of other cool projects. Her roles include research director of the Mossbridge Institute, director of the Innovation Lab at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and visiting scholar at Northwestern University.
Her daily work includes using compassionate robots to make people happy, developing apps to help people listen to their intuition and test their psychic abilities, and teaching Silicon Valley programmers to take care of their minds.
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Is helderziendheid een vorm van mentaal tijdreizen? Neurowetenschapper komt tot opmerkelijke conclusies
Is helderziendheid een vorm van mentaal tijdreizen? Neurowetenschapper komt tot opmerkelijke conclusies
Helderziendheid is een vorm van mentaal tijdreizen naar de toekomst om informatie te krijgen. Dat heeft dr. Julia Mossbridge gezegd.
“We zijn gewend om de regels in de fysieke wereld toe te passen op de mentale wereld, maar we begrijpen niet dat daar andere regels gelden,” zei ze. “Het is een ander domein.”
“In de fysieke wereld kennen we de scheiding tussen mensen in de ruimte en de scheiding tussen gebeurtenissen, maar wie zegt dat dat ook van toepassing is op de mentale wereld?” vroeg ze.
Toevallig
Mossbridge is een neurowetenschapper en werkt samen met natuurkundigen en psychologen om te achterhalen hoe mentaal tijdreizen werkt.
Ze begon haar onderzoek nadat ze zelf een voorspellende droom had. Toen ze die droom had lag ze in scheiding. Ze had een kind van vijf en wist niet waar ze zou gaan wonen.
In haar droom belde ze een huurbazin die ze kende. De huurbazin zei dat ze binnen twee maanden iets beschikbaar had.
Na de droom kwam Mossbridge de huurbazin ‘toevallig’ tegen op straat. Elk detail van de droom werd werkelijkheid.
Onbewust
Mossbridge heeft onder meer experimenten van zeven onafhankelijke laboratoria geanalyseerd waaruit blijkt dat het menselijk lichaam reageert op toekomstige prikkels.
Als er iets staat te gebeuren, weet iemand dat onbewust al. Deze reactie kan worden getest in een laboratorium door reacties in het zenuwstelsel, de zweetklieren en de hartslag te meten.
Ze werkt ook aan experimenten die aantonen dat mensen remote viewing (verzien) en voorspellende dromen kunnen gebruiken om te voorspellen wat er op de aandelenbeurs gaat gebeuren.
Voorkomen
In 2015 had dr. Mossbridge een voorspellende droom over een bomaanslag van terreurgroep IS in Koeweit.
Ze had de droom op dezelfde dag dat het gebeurde en veel van de details klopten. Ze zag het getal 27, wat stond voor het aantal slachtoffers, en de letters IS.
Mossbridge denkt dat het een goed idee zou zijn om een register op internet te openen waar mensen hun voorspellende dromen kunnen delen.
Misschien kan dat helpen om aanslagen te voorkomen, zei ze.
Huiverig
Er zijn al enkele pogingen gedaan, maar mensen zijn over het algemeen erg huiverig om hun ervaringen te delen.
Ze zijn bang dat ze zelf van een bomaanslag worden verdacht als ze te veel details geven, aldus de neurowetenschapper.
“Omdat we niet weten wat we met deze informatie aan moeten, zeggen we dat helderziende mensen gek zijn,” zei ze. “Of dat het slechts toeval is.”
Photo taken on Nov. 2, 2017 shows Chang Jin, chief scientist of Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) and vice director of the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), introducing the science achievement of DAMPE Satellite, "Wukong", at the PMO in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. China's DAMPE has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter. The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution. The initial detection results were published in the latest issue of the academic journal, Nature. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- China's Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter.
The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution.
"DAMPE has opened a new window for observing the high-energy universe, unveiling new physical phenomena beyond our current understanding," said Chang Jin, chief scientist of DAMPE and vice director of the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The initial detection results were published in the latest issue of the academic journal, Nature.
"This is the first time a space experiment has reported a detailed and precise electron and positron spectrum up to about 5 TeV. In this energy range, we found some unexpected and interesting features. We have detected a spectral break at 0.9 TeV and a possible spike at 1.4 TeV," said Chang.
Precise measurement of cosmic rays, especially at the very high energy range, is important for scientists to look for traces of dark matter annihilation or decay, as well as to understand the most energetic astrophysical phenomena in the universe, such as pulsars, active galaxy nuclei and supernova explosions. "Our data may inspire some new ideas in particle physics and astrophysics," said Chang.
Dark matter, which cannot be seen or touched, is one of the great mysteries of science. Scientists calculate that normal matter, such as galaxies, stars, trees, rocks and atoms, accounts for only about 5 percent of the universe. However, about 26.8 percent of the universe is dark matter and 68.3 percent dark energy.
China sent DAMPE into an orbit of about 500 kilometers above the earth on December 17, 2015, to look for evidence of the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles in space.
DAMPE has the widest energy range coverage and the highest energy resolution of all the dark matter probes currently in space. Based on the satellite's data, scientists drew the cosmic ray electron and positron spectrum.
To their surprise, scientists found a break at around 0.9 TeV and a strange spike at around 1.4 TeV on the spectrum. "We never expected such signals," Chang said.
"The spike might indicate that there exists a kind of unknown particle with a mass of about 1.4 TeV," said Chang.
"All the 61 elementary particles predicted by the standard model of particle physics have been found. Dark matter particles are beyond the list. So if we find a new elementary particle, it will be a breakthrough in physics," he added.
"The spike is very unusual," said Fan Yizhong, deputy chief designer of the scientific application system of DAMPE. "The signals might have originated from either dark matter or pulsars. Even if they were from pulsars, it would be quite a strange astrophysical phenomenon that nobody had known before."
"However, the data of the strange signal are still not enough. We need to collect more data to make sure it's real," Chang said.
More than 100 Chinese scientists and engineers, together with those from Switzerland and Italy, took part in the development of DAMPE and the analysis of its data.
Researchers have ruled out the possibility that the unusual signals are caused by a malfunction of the satellite's detectors. Independent analyses from five different teams all came to the same conclusion, said Chang.
DAMPE's design life is three years, but as it is performing so well, scientists expect it to work much longer. "DAMPE will continue to collect data to help us better understand the anomaly and might bring dark matter out of the shadows," said Chang.
Nobel Laureate Samuel Chao Chung Ting, leader of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) experiment on the International Space Station, said of DAMPE, "It's a very good experiment."
Bi Xiaojun, a particle physicist at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the CAS, said DAMPE's observations are important to help scientists better understand the origin of cosmic rays.
"The satellite's data on the spike at 1.4 TeV are still not enough to declare a physical discovery. If the signal can be confirmed with the accumulation of data, it would be of great significance," Bi said.
"That could be explained by either dark matter or an astrophysical source. If we use dark matter to explain it, dark matter would be different from what we thought before. It conforms to the popular dark matter model of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP), but has some special features," Bi said.
Chen Hesheng, a CAS academician, said that even if a candidate dark matter particle is found, it still needs other experiments such as underground detection or collider experiments to confirm it, which would be difficult.
Illustration of the Wukong space telescope. China's Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter. The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution. (photo provided to China News Service)
The photo shows Chang Jin, chief scientist of Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) and vice director of the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), introducing the findings made by DAMPE Satellite, "Wukong", at Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, capital of China. China's DAMPE has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter. The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution. The initial detection results were published in the latest issue of the academic journal, Nature. (Photo: China News Service/Zhang Su
Photo taken on Dec. 17, 2015 shows a Long March 2-D rocket carrying the Dark Matter Particle Explorer satellite blasting off. China's Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter. The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution. The initial detection results were published in the latest issue of the academic journal, Nature. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
Photo taken on Dec. 24, 2015 shows scientists of the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), work with the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Satellite, "Wukong", at the science mission hall of the center in Beijing, capital of China.(Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
Photo taken on Nov. 2, 2017 shows Fan Yizhong, deputy chief designer of the scientific application system of the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), introduces research findings at the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)
Chinese satelliet vangt mysterieuze signalen op. Leidt deze vreemde piek tot doorbraak?
Chinese satelliet vangt mysterieuze signalen op. Leidt deze vreemde piek tot doorbraak?
Een Chinese satelliet heeft mysterieuze signalen opgepikt die ons mogelijk meer kunnen vertellen over onzichtbare donkere materie.
De satelliet, de ‘Dark Matter Particle Explorer’, heeft meer dan 3,5 miljard energierijke deeltjes gemeten, waaronder 20 miljoen elektronen en positronen.
Met behulp van de satelliet is het mogelijk fysieke fenomenen te bestuderen die ons begrip te boven gaan, zei Chang Jin van de Chinese Academie van Wetenschappen.
Grootste wetenschappelijke mysteries
Het meten van kosmische straling is belangrijk voor wetenschappers die zoeken naar sporen van de vernietiging of het verval van donkere materie.
Donkere materie kan niet worden gezien of aangeraakt en is één van de grootste wetenschappelijke mysteries.
Wetenschappers schatten dat gewone materie – zoals sterrenstelsels, sterren, bomen, stenen en atomen – slechts vijf procent van het universum vormt.
Zo’n 26,8 procent van het heelal bestaat uit donkere materie en 68,3 procent uit donkere energie.
Vreemde piek
China lanceerde de satelliet op 17 december 2015 om in de ruimte te zoeken naar bewijs voor donkere materie.
Er werden elektronen en positronen gemeten met energieën tot vijf TeV (biljoen elektronvolt). Rond 0,9 TeV werd een onderbreking gedetecteerd en bij 1,4 TeV een vreemde piek.
“We hadden zulke signalen nooit verwacht,” zei Chang. “De piek wijst mogelijk op het bestaan van een onbekend deeltje met een massa van ongeveer 1,4 TeV.”
Doorbraak
Alle 61 elementaire deeltjes die worden voorspeld door het standaardmodel zijn al gevonden. Als we dus een nieuw elementair deeltje vinden zal er sprake zijn van een doorbraak, aldus Chang.
“De piek is zeer ongewoon,” zei Fan Yizhong, die betrokken is bij het satellietproject. “De signalen zijn mogelijk afkomstig van donkere materie of pulsars.”
Vreemd fenomeen
“Zelfs als ze van pulsars afkomstig waren, zouden we te maken hebben met een vreemd fenomeen waar nog niemand weet van heeft,” vervolgde hij.
Inmiddels is uitgesloten dat de ongewone signalen zijn veroorzaakt door een technische fout. Vijf verschillende teams zijn allemaal tot dezelfde conclusie gekomen, zei Chang.
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UFO boven Beek ook gezien vanaf industriecomplex Chemelot. Wat deed deze zwarte ‘piramide’ op die plek?
UFO boven Beek ook gezien vanaf industriecomplex Chemelot. Wat deed deze zwarte ‘piramide’ op die plek?
Begin deze week maakte een technicus van vliegveld Beek bij de redactie van NineForNews melding van een onbekend luchtvoertuig boven de luchthaven.
Volgens de getuige is er op vrijdag 24 november even na half vijf ’s nachts stil alarm geslagen op het vliegveld vanwege een object dat wel op de radar verscheen, maar geen responder had en ook niet reageerde op radiosignalen.
Het object naderde de radar met een snelheid van meer dan 2000 kilometer per uur, aldus de technicus, die anoniem wenste te blijven.
Tweede getuige
“Het verdween van de radar en wij denken dat we te maken hebben met iets van ‘elders’,” schreef de getuige. “Het is niet militair.”
Inmiddels heeft zich een tweede getuige gemeld. Deze persoon is naar eigen zeggen werkzaam als inspecteur op de petrochemische fabriek in Sittard-Geleen, net iets ten noorden van vliegveld Beek.
Tijdens nachtdienst op Sabic waargenomen een soort piramide omstreeks 04.45. Deze kwam zeer snel boven en draaide boven de fabriek en boog af naar het westen. Ik heb nog nooit zoiets gezien.
Ik zag een lichtflits gepaard met een knal (vergelijkbaar met straaljager), maar daarna was het voorwerp (‘UFO’) zwart. Het gebeurde in 3 seconden, en ik heb dus een soort piramide gezien in de lucht.
Ik wens anoniem te blijven i.v.m. herleidbaarheid tijdens deze dienst. Ik ben inspecteur op de petrochemische fabriek. Geen interesse in pers, wel melding doen.
Gaat het hier om hetzelfde object?
Nooit eerder
Kunststoffabrikant Sabic bevindt zich op industriecomplex Chemelot, waar woensdag 45 van de 60 fabrieken zijn stilgelegd omdat er een groot probleem was met de stroomvoorziening.
De fabrieken op het complex zijn eigendom van onder meer DSM, Sabic, OCI Nitrogen en Borealis.
Voor de Chemelot-directie was het afschakelen van de fabrieken een nachtmerrie-scenario, meldt 1Limburg.
Het nieuwsportaal bericht verder dat het verplicht afschakelen van de fabrieken een economische ramp is en nog nooit eerder is gebeurd.
Groot alarm
“Het is voor het eerst dat de fabrieken in één klap worden uitgeschakeld,” klonk het.
Het is onduidelijk hoe de storing is ontstaan. De schade kan oplopen tot enkele tientallen miljoenen euro’s. Aan het einde van de dag moeten de fabrieken weer zijn opgestart.
Bij Chemelot werd daarnaast groot alarm geslagen na een lekkage op het terrein. De brandweer riep mensen op om de omgeving te mijden en wegen werden afgezet.
Is hier sprake van toeval of is er mogelijk een link met de waarnemingen?
Experts dateren vermeende graf van Jezus. Is dit de plek waar hij stierf en herrees uit de dood? Most Amazing Space Stories of the Week!
Experts dateren vermeende graf van Jezus. Is dit de plek waar hij stierf en herrees uit de dood?
Het vermoedelijke graf van Jezus blijkt veel ouder te zijn dan gedacht. Het graf, onder de Heilige Grafkerk in Jeruzalem, stamt niet uit de tijd van de kruisvaarders, maar dateert van rond 345 na Christus.
Wetenschappers hebben het graf nauwkeurig bestudeerd en denken dat de grafkapel is gebouwd door Romeinse soldaten.
Die bezochten Jeruzalem in opdracht van keizer Constantijn om het graf van Jezus te zoeken. Ze bouwden in het jaar 325 een heiligdom op de plek die volgens inwoners van Jeruzalem de begraafplaats van Jezus was.
Kruis
Vorig jaar werd de tombe voor het eerst in honderden jaren geopend. Archeologen kregen 60 uur de tijd om het graf binnen te gaan.
Uit onderzoek naar cement onder een marmeren plaat met een kruis erop blijkt dat het dateert van 325 na Christus, zo meldt National Geographic.
In het graf lag ook een lange plank of grafbed, waar volgens de overlevering het lichaam van Jezus werd opgelegd na zijn kruisiging.
Zwaar te verduren
Tot voor kort werd gedacht dat de grafkapel nog geen 1000 jaar oud was en stamde uit de tijd van de kruisvaarders.
Het onderzoek bewijst alleen niet dat de tombe ook daadwerkelijk de begraafplaats van Jezus was.
De Heilige Grafkerk kreeg het door de eeuwen heen zwaar te verduren, onder meer door branden, aardbevingen en belegeringen.
De kerk werd in 1009 volledig verwoest en enige tijd later opnieuw opgebouwd.
DE AARDE GAAT LANGZAMER DRAAIEN EN DE MAAN KRIJGT DE SCHULD
DE AARDE GAAT LANGZAMER DRAAIEN EN DE MAAN KRIJGT DE SCHULD
Wetenschappers slaan alarm omdat ze verwachten dat de aarde in 2018 te maken zal krijgen met zeer zware aardbevingen.
Dit zou dan komen omdat de aarde langzamer gaat draaien en als reden daarvoor wijst men naar de maan.
We leven in spannende tijden, waar steeds meer aanwijzingen boven water komen dat er zich wel degelijk een soort mini zonnestelsel in de buurt van onze zon bevindt, ondanks alle ontkenningen van NASA.
Wij zijn ook kort van geheugen, want iedereen is vergeten dat er de vorige eeuw meerdere gerespecteerde wetenschappers waren die ervan overtuigd waren dat de planeet Nibiru met haar metgezellen bestond en dat deze een vreemde ellipstische baan door ons zonnestelsel aflegt.
Twee wetenschappers die er als het ware uitspringen zijn de astronomen Muñoz Ferrada en Dr. Robert Harrington.
Bij ons in de Westerse wereld hebben waarschijnlijk maar weinig mensen gehoord van Carlos Muñoz Ferrada.
Hij was een Chileense astronoom die in 2001 op 92-jarige leeftijd is overleden en die misschien wel de belangrijkste aanwijzing ooit heeft gegeven voor het bestaan van de planeet Nibiru, of Hercolubus zoals deze soms ook wordt genoemd.
Ruim 43 jaar voordat de infrarode Iris telescoop van NASA in 1983 een onbekende planeet had ontdekt volgens een artikel in de Washington Post, sprak Ferrada hier al over. Dat is zefs ruim 36 jaar voordat in 1976 het beroemde boek van Zecharia Sitchin “De Twaalfde Planeet” verscheen.
Muñoz Ferrada werd beroemd in Chili toen hij op 19 januari 1939 een zware aardbeving voorspelde in zijn land voor 24 januari dat jaar. Op het moment dat hij de lezing gaf, geloofde geen mens in het publiek hem, maar toen op 24 januari 1939 Chili inderdaad werd getroffen door een zeer zware aardbeving die aan tienduizenden mensen het leven kostte, was het een ander verhaal.
De tweede wetenschapper die eruit springt is Dr. Robert Harrington, in de jaren tachtig en begin jaren negentig hoofdastronoom van de US Naval Observatory. Ook deze astronoom was ervan overtuigd dat er een onbekende planeet in ons zonnestelsel moest zijn, omdat dit de enige logische verklaring was voor de verstoringen van omloopbanen van planeten in de buitenste regionen van ons zonnestelsel.
Dr. Harrington stierf plotseling onder mysterieuze omstandigheden, net toen hij op punt stond om in Nieuw Zeeland opzienbarende ontdekkingen bekend te maken in 1993.
In 1991 vertrok Harrington voor NASA met een telescoop naar Nieuw Zeeland om van daaruit de naderende planeet Nibiru vast te leggen. Hij verbleef daar in totaal bijna twee jaar en alles wat hij aan beeldmateriaal produceerde werd doorgestuurd naar Washington. Volgens mensen die hem kenden stond Harrington in januari 1993 op het punt wereldkundig te maken wat hij had ontdekt.
Echter, hoewel Harrington tot dan toe niets gemankeerd had, werd bij hem een zeldzame vorm van slokdarmkanker geconstateerd en was hij vreemd genoeg binnen enkele dagen dood. Wat zijn de kansen dat een gezonde man die in Nieuw Zeeland fysiek vrij zwaar werk verrichtte, binnen enkele dagen overlijdt aan kanker? De vrouw van Harrington, Betty, is er heilig van overtuigd dat haar man werd vermoord. Direct na de dood van Harrington werd de telescoop snel weggehaald of zoals een collega het omschreef, "almost before he was cold". Vanaf dat moment was het eigenlijk voorgoed over met de berichtgeving rond de planeet Nibiru, althans wat de officiële kanalen betreft.
In de volgende video die is opgenomen in 1990 zie je Dr. Harrington in gesprek met de bekende onderzoeker en auteur Zecharia Sitchin.
De afgelopen weken verschenen er uitgebreide berichten in de media over het feit dat de aarde langzamer is gaan draaien en dat dit betekent dat we volgend jaar, 2018, zware en vernietigende aardbevingen kunnen verwachten.
In de hieronder geplaatste video wordt gesteld dat dit het vierde jaar op rij is, waarbij de aarde minder snel om haar as draait. Het zijn minieme verschillen die je als zodanig niet voelt en de verklaring is dan dat dit gebeurt door de aantrekkingskracht van de maan.
Natuurlijk wordt de maan genoemd, omdat dit lekker vertrouwd klinkt, want wanneer je zegt dat dit komt door een aantal vreemde planeten binnen ons zonnestelsel, dan breekt de paniek uit.
Als je verder bedenkt dat het aantal aardbevingen dit jaar al zal uitkomen op het hoogste aantal ooit in de bekende geschiedenis en wetenschappers weten nu al dat er in 2018 veel vooral zware aardbevingen zullen plaatsvinden, dan is duidelijk dat de planeet Nibiru snel naderbij komt.
Als je naar bovenstaande cijfers kijkt van aardbevingen sinds 1997 kijkt en je ziet dat wij ons nu in een bloedrode periode bevinden en ze beginnen nu al met waarschuwen voor aardbevingen volgend jaar, dan is er iets meer aan de hand dan de aantrekkingskracht van de maan. In twintig jaar tijd van 16.469 aardbevingen per jaar naar 112.201 in 2016 en dit jaar naar alle waarschijnlijkheid nog hoger.
Supervulkanen, waarvan de meeste niet eens wisten dat ze bestonden, komen allemaal plotseling tot leven:
Niet alleen in de Verenigde Staten (Yellowstone), maar ook in Italië (bijna Napels) en Noord Korea zijn de afgelopen tijd supervulkanen tot veler verrassing actief geworden. Wetenschappers van het gerenommeerde Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) van de NASA hebben nu nieuw bewijs gevonden dat het afbreken van stukken ijs van Antarctica niet wordt veroorzaakt door klimaatopwarming door CO2, maar door een enorme geothermische hittebron, die bijna de omvang heeft van de Yellowstone supervulkaan, en die het ijs van binnenuit smelt. Daarmee zijn alle tientallen miljarden euro’s kostende maatregelen om in Nederland de CO2-uitstoot terug te dringen nog zinlozer dan ze al waren.
De geothermische hittebron is een ‘mantelpluim’, een hete ‘pilaar’ van onderaardse gesmolten rotsen die door de aardmantel heen tot pal onder het oppervlakte omhoog steekt. De mantelpluim zelf werd al eerder ontdekt en bevindt zich in Mary Byrd Land. Dat deze waarschijnlijk verantwoordelijk is voor het ‘ademeffect’ op delen van Antarctica, en het afbreken van grote stukken ijs –zowel nu als 11.000 jaar geleden-, is echter nieuw.
Dr. Harrington, Sitchin en Muñoz wisten dat er een onbekende planeet bestond en zij hebben hun uiterste best gedaan om ons te waarschuwen. Helaas is de mensheid nogal geneigd de fabeltjes van de elite te geloven die ons vertellen dat we braaf moeten doorwerken, terwijl zij de laatste hand leggen aan hun riante schuilkelders in veilige gebieden.
While it used to be politics and religion, more and more people now agree that two things you shouldn’t bring up at family gatherings are science and religion. That’s because science and religion don’t seem to agree on too many things. Good news for those wondering what they’ll be talking about at Christmas parties … there’s a new discovery that both science and religion fans can agree on. Researchers studying the limestone cave that is the purported tomb of Jesus at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem have determined that it dates back much further than once thought and supports the story of its original enshrinement by the Romans. Discuss amongst yourselves.
The research results were released this week by National Geographic. The tomb, said by believers to be where the Romans laid the body after crucifixion, was covered with a marble shield since at least 1555 CE and was only opened in October of 2016. One of the things found was a mysterious older slab. Parts of it and the mortar used to hold it in place were analyzed and dated, and the results were surprising.
Some of the mortar samples taken from the south wall of the cave date to around 335 CE. That coincides with the stories that Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome, ordered a search for the tomb. It was allegedly underneath a 200-year-old Roman temple which was destroyed, revealing a limestone cave that could be the tomb. This new evidence indicates that the slab was used to seal the tomb and the first Edicule or shrine was built over it. That shrine was damaged by fire and earthquakes and eventually destroyed in 1009 by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. Other mortar samples found date to the reconstruction shortly after this.
Now it’s time for the arguments. Does this new mortar evidence cement the idea that this is the actual tomb of Jesus? Not really. It does show that the location was considered to be the tomb in the fourth century and the belief was strong enough to cover it with a temple, not to mention start many battles.
While the cave will continue to be studied, the real issue today is the condition of the Edicule. It was reconstructed in 1808-1810 after being destroyed by fire and it’s in poor condition due to both age and the amount of activity around it. It sounds like the solution is hidden inside this new discovery … mortar.
What part of that sounds good? Throw in “US military,” and “testing on soldiers” and you have the plot of a dystopian movie. Unfortunately, you also have news this week that this is real and tests have already begun. Does the fact that it’s purported purpose is to eventually treat mental disorders that no other therapies can help make you feel any better?
While this type of brain implant has been discussed for years, previous attempts to alter moods with implanted computer chips have failed. That’s not the case with these latest experiments, according to a new report in the journal Nature on a presentation made by researchers last week at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting in Washington DC. Two different projects are being funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the purpose of providing new and more effective treatment for treating soldiers and veterans with severe depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Neuroscientist Edward Chang from the University of California, San Francisco, heads the team that is mapping the brain activities caused by moods and mood changes in six epileptics. The map will allow them to create a chip with an algorithm that recognizes oncoming mood shifts and sends signals to control them. Chang claims they’ve already tested this brain stimulation on humans.
The second team from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is mapping the brain activity related to behaviors in people with multiple mental disorders. Their goal is to use the maps to develop algorithms to recognize problem behaviors (like distraction) caused by the illnesses and deliver brain stimulations to direct the person to more appropriate behaviors. They are currently looking for test subjects.
The researchers feel that this new type of mood and behavior altering via chip implants will work where others have failed because the mapping will allow them to personalize and pinpoint the electrical stimulations. On the downside, they still need a way to precisely measure the brain impulses so they don’t over-stimulate the person into states of extreme happiness or worse mental illness.
This all sounds wonderful and promising … until you remember that this is a government project intended to be used on soldiers. What else will this “window into the brain” allow the brain stimulators to control or modify? What else will be seen through this brain-mapping window? It’s not monitoring thoughts … yet. It’s not changing behaviors not linked to mental disorders … yet. It’s not collecting data to be sold to businesses, insurance companies, financial institutions, schools and other organizations … yet.
Are you ready to have one of these chips implanted in your brain? If you’re in the military, will you be given a choice? If you’re a civilian and have a mental disorder and other treatments have failed, will you be given a choice?
There are rumors that we went to the moon but we had help, besides it seems the landings filmed by Stanley Kubrick were staged to cover what they really encountered on the moon: reptilians, bases, buildings, machines for mineral exploration and much more.
Lunar Anomaly.
Now, once again, an out of the place lunar anomaly has been discovered by Streetcap1 in one of NASA’s Unmanned Lunar Orbiter photographs taken last year around December.
According to Streetcap1 the shadow seems to indicate right angles and parallel lines which could be an indication that the anomaly is some sort of building. The scale is 0.56 meters/pixel. So it's huge.
So if the landings were staged to cover-up what they really encountered on the moon then could it be possible that the discovery of the lunar anomaly is such a building, a construction built by an intelligent alien race in the past?
Obviously, it cannot be proven whether the lunar anomaly is a building or not but we may wonder whether the moon landings indeed were staged if you listen to the interview that Project Camelot had with Fred, a 90 year old former technical inspector in Aviation working for an Airline back in the 60's. During the interview Fred recalls how he stumbled on a hangar in Michigan that appeared to be at least one staging hangar for the faked part of the Apollo Moon Landings, see second video.
If I heard a young person say this, my first thought would be that they’re on the football team and the “Science of Daydreaming” classes were full. However, if the young person showed an acceptance letter from Akdeniz University in Turkey, they’re telling the truth and their parents are in for a big surprise.
Ufology? Only if there’s no term papers.
Erhan Kolbaşı told the Doğan News Agency that he offering the class because he wants students to be prepared for contact with extraterrestrials, including knowing the ins and outs of alien politics and galactic diplomacy. It’s nice that he’s preparing these young minds for diplomacy rather than warfare, even though he sees this contact leading to the “biggest change seen in the history of the world.”
What qualifies Erhan Kolbaşı to teach this program? He’s the deputy chair of the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Centerin Istanbul, which was founded by ufologist Haktan Akdoğan, who is also the founder of the Istanbul UFO Museum and will help provide background material for the courses. According to the Doğan News Agency, the course is supposed to train students on the methodology and potential sources for finding UFO and ET information.
“We believe representatives from the world and extraterrestrial civilizations will soon be making official contact with each other. We think they will be in an open and mass contact.”
Kolbaşı says he expects this “open and mass contact” to occur “within 10 or 15 years,” which appears to be a strange prediction since he and Akdoğan both seem to concur that alien contact has already occurred numerous times and will be providing the ufology students with information on cover-ups and secret files.
Those cover-ups include their beliefs that aliens and crashed UFOs have provided humans with advanced technologies (at least at the time they were found) like fiber optic cables, microchips, night vision glasses and bullet-proof clothing. Details on this information alone would be worth the price of tuition (no tuition costs were given but Akdeniz University is a major college with 31,000 students, so it’s probably comparable to major public colleges in the U.S.) but Kolbaşı also hints that he may not be able to spill all of the secret beans because of MJ-12 or Majestic 12, the alleged secret committee formed by President Harry Truman in 1947 to investigate and collect data on aliens and UFOs, and later to suppress any information on the data.
Do you think this will be on the test?
Would you take a class like this if it were offered at one of your local colleges? Even if you weren’t on a football scholarship? Does that guy sitting next to you look like Tom DeLonge? Would you be concerned that the person following you back to the dorm wasn’t a creepy freshman but an MJ-12 agent or a Man in Black?
Just to be on the safe side, you may want to purposely fail the class.
If you still think all the warnings about the impending robot and artificial intelligence uprising are just paranoia, you’re not paying enough attention. Robots and machine learning networks have been steadily creeping into our lives for years. From manufacturing to self-checkout kiosks at grocery stores to self-driving taxis or long-haul trucks, robots are beginning to perform many tasks that were once the responsibility of humans. That’s not all though – robots and AI are also researching case law for legal firms, analyzing medical data in hospitals, and winning poker tournaments. What’s next?
We all know what’s next.
According to recent developments, they’ll be invading our bedrooms next, that’s what. And no, not just for that (although according to most reports, they’re pretty good at it). Robots and artificial intelligence are now beginning to revolutionize the most important activity we engage in while in bed: sleeping. We spend nearly a third of our lives asleep, yet millions of individuals worldwide suffer from various sleep disorders. Why not let a cold, emotionless robot crawl in bed next to soothe you to sleep with its simulated breathing? What could go wrong?
With a few added features, Somnox could be a one-stop bedroom bot.
A Netherlands-based robotics laboratory has released what they’re calling the “world’s first sleep robot,” called Somnox. Somnox is essentially a bean-shaped stuffed animal with an internal robotic skeleton wrapped in mattress foam that can expand and contract similar to the way living things do as they breathe. The shape of the robot encourages users to spoon and cuddle the faceless monstrosity, which then ‘breathes’ at a soothing rhythm and speed to help “soothe body and mind, helping you feel more relaxed and energized.” The robot can also play a variety of sounds and music, and has a companion mobile app for data collection and control of sleep-inducing audio or music.
Speaking of which, another laboratory has used artificial intelligence to compose the world’s most effective lullaby. Artificial intelligence firm Jukedeck have developed a neural network capable of analyzing human-created lullabies in order to find the most effective aspects of each. Ed Newton-Rex, the founder and CEO of Jukedeck, says AI can detect the somewhat ‘hidden’ patterns revealed by the types of large-scale musical data analyses of which AI is capable:
An artificial neural network is essentially a representation of the neurons and synapses in the human brain – and, like the brain, if you show one of these networks lots of complex data, it does a great job of finding hidden patterns in that data. We showed our networks a large body of sheet music, and, through training, it reached the point where it could take a short sequence of notes as input and predict which notes were likely to follow.
Using this analysis, Jukedeck and partner AXA PPP healthcare of Kent, England have created an AI lullaby claimed to be one of the most effective lullabies for inducing sleep:
Sure, it’s soothing I guess, but I can’t help but feeling like the overall impression is a bit sterile; it sounds like what you would expect a computer generated melody to sound like. Computers are getting close to being able to produce compelling and moving art, but they’re not quite there yet. It’s only a matter of time, though, before human-generated art has to compete alongside AI-generated art which can take full advantage of human emotional responses much better than humans can.
Would the addition of a cute face help users get over the creep factor of hugging a robot while you sleep?
Will individuals seeking a better night’s sleep take to cuddling robots and listening to AI music? If so, why not build these features into a human-shaped robot? Why not add a personality simulator and artificial intelligence to help it learn your sleep habits better? See where this is going? Somnox might be a cute little cuddle machine, but it’s still a machine. Who knows what kind of doors the adoption of such a robot could open? I know one thing: I’m sewing googly eyes on mine. His name will be Chopstick.
Bacteria express a green fluorescent protein that’s produced from DNA instructions with unnatural chemical “letters” added. (Scripps Research Institute Photo / Bill Klosses)
Researchers have reached a new milestone in their effort to expand the genetic alphabet of life by designing a strain of E. coli bacteria that creates proteins unlike anything cells can produce naturally.
The technique, detailed in a paper published today in the journal Nature, could lead to the production of totally new types of protein-based medicines, plastics and biofuels.
It could also stretch the definition of natural vs. artificial life.
“I would not call this a new lifeform — but it’s the closest thing anyone has ever made,” study leader Floyd Romesberg, a biochemist at the Scripps Research Institute, said in a news release. “This is the first time ever a cell has translated a protein using something other than G, C, A or T.”
Those four letters stand for guanine, cytosine, adenine and thymine, chemicals that serve as the alphabet for the coded instructions in DNA molecules. The instructions are used to produce all the amino acids and proteins that cells require for life’s processes.
Three years ago, Romesberg and his colleagues successfully inserted two other chemicals, dubbed X and Y, into DNA molecules. Since then, the researchers have developed ways for bacteria to store the augmented DNA and pass it along as they reproduced.
In their newly published paper, the team reports that the six-letter DNA coding could be transcribed into RNA molecules, and then translated into amino acids and proteins that don’t occur naturally.
The technique was used to customize a set of genetic instructions for manufacturing a variant of green fluorescent protein, or GFP, that incorporated unnatural amino acids. When E. coli bacteria were genetically engineered to include those instructions, the organisms produced the protein, which glowed bright green under ultraviolet light. That signaled that the bacteria could make use of the “alien” DNA.
“This was the smallest possible change we could make to the way life works — but it is the first ever,” Romesberg said.
The study also demonstrated that life’s molecular machinery could make use of linkages other than the hydrogen bonds that bind G, C, A and T. The X and Y bases were designed to avoid hydrogen bonds, to make sure they didn’t get mixed up with the other molecular letters.
That has implications in the search for “weird life” beyond the earthly variety we all know and love.
“It’s very hard to ask questions about the origins of life. It’s hard to ask questions about why we are the way we are, why we are built the way we are, because we have nothing out there to compare ourselves to,” Romesberg said. “We’ve now given the field a comparison. It’s a small step, but it’s the first successful step.”
He and his colleagues emphasized that the semi-synthetic organisms couldn’t live or reproduce outside the lab, because the chemicals required for producing the X and Y bases had to be provided externally.
Romesberg is among the founders of a biotech venture called Synthorx, which is developing protein therapeutics that make use of X and Y.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has released a virtual reality tour of the City of Wisdom, their vision of humanity's first settlement on Mars. The UAE has announced they intend to establish the first colony on the red planet by 2117.
You’ve reached Mars, and the first stop on your tour of the Red Planet is a small hangar, done up in chrome and brown and rust. Here, you are welcomed by a holographic emissary before departing in your hovering spherical craft: “On behalf of the United Government of Mars, I would like to welcome you to your second home.”
Outside, massive, insectile robot excavators pound away at the dusty red-brown soil to form roads and dig the foundations of new buildings. In no time, a red dome appears on the horizon: the City of Wisdom, humanity’s first settlement on Mars. Complete with laboratories, a University, green spaces, flowing architecture, and 600,000 permanent residents, this is Mars 2117 — the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) vision for the future of our nearest planetary neighbor — and you can explore it yourself in full virtual reality.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, announced earlier this year that the Emirates would lead an effort to establish the first international settlement on Mars by 2117. The country plans to work with scientists from around the globe to develop technology that makes traveling to and living on Mars possible. In September, the Dubai Media Office announced their plan to build a simulated Mars colony in the Emirati desert to develop the food, energy, and water systems that could support future settlers of the Red Planet.
SpaceX's Big Mars Rocket Could Help Chase Down Interstellar Asteroid
SpaceX's Big Mars Rocket Could Help Chase Down Interstellar Asteroid
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist's illustration of 'Oumuamua, the first known interstellar asteroid.
Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO
There may be yet another future use for SpaceX's huge Mars-colonization rocket.
That rocket, called the BFR, could launch a probe toward 'Oumuamua, the interstellar asteroid that zoomed past Earth last month, a new study suggests.
The 1,300-foot-long (400 meters) 'Oumuamua is currently speeding away from us at about 58,160 mph (93,600 km/h, or 26 km/s). That's far faster than any spacecraft has ever traveled upon escaping Earth (though some have gone faster as they approached big bodies, such as the sun). But a mission employing the in-development BFR, with speed-boosting flybys of Jupiter and the sun, could theoretically chase 'Oumuamua down, the study said. ['Oumuamua: An Interstellar Visitor Explained in Photos]
This potential architecture is based on concepts drawn up by researchers at the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), both of which are in Pasadena, California, the study's authors noted.
"The KISS Interstellar Medium study computed that a hyperbolic excess velocity of 70 km/s was possible via this technique, a value which achieves an intercept at about 85 AU in 2039 for a 2025 launch," the authors wrote in the study, one version of which was published on the site Centauri Dreams. (AU is short for "astronomical unit," the distance from Earth to the sun, which is about 93 million miles, or 150 million km. And "hyperbolic excess velocity" just refers to the spacecraft's speed.)
"More-modest figures can still fulfill the mission, such as 40 km/s with an intercept at 155 AU in 2051," the authors added. "With the high approach speed, a hyper-velocity impactor to produce a gas 'puff' to sample with a mass spectrometer could be the serious option to get in-situ data."
Such a mission would really round out the reusable BFR's portfolio. SpaceX already envisions using the giant rocket — along with its paired spaceship — for all manner of tasks, including launching satellites, carrying people on superfast point-to-point journeys around the globe and cleaning up space junk.
But the BFR is not the only option for an 'Oumuamua mission, the study authors wrote. Tiny, laser-propelled sail craft, like the ones the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot project aims to launch to other star systems, could do the job as well. (But a 2025 launch date for a sail-craft swarm is unrealistic; the Starshot team has estimated the probes may be ready for prime time in 20 years or so if everything goes well.)
"An important result of our analysis is that the value of a laser-beaming infrastructure from the Breakthrough Initiatives' Project Starshot would be the flexibility to react quickly to future unexpected events, such as sending a swarm of probes to the next object like 1I/'Oumuamua," the new study said. (The "1I" in front of 'Oumuamua references the object's official scientific designation: 1I/2017 U1.)
"With such an infrastructure in place today, intercept missions could have reached 1I/'Oumuamua within a year," they added.
Even if an 'Oumuamua mission never comes to pass, astronomers could still get an up-close look at a visitor from another solar system in the not-too-distant future: Such interstellar interlopers may zoom through the inner solar system as often as every year or so, scientists have said. (But spotting them appears to be a tall order, given that 'Oumuamua is the first one we've ever identified.)
The new study was conducted by researchers with Project Lyra, which aims to assess the feasibility of a mission to rendezvous with or fly by 'Oumuamua. You can read the short version of the study on Centauri Dreams or the more detailed one on the online preprint site arXiv.org.
Little Green Men? Pulsars Presented a Mystery 50 Years Ago
Little Green Men? Pulsars Presented a Mystery 50 Years Ago
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Senior Writer
Fifty years ago this month, a small group of astronomers made a revolutionary cosmic discovery — explaining a phenomenon that they initially thought might come from an intelligent alien civilization.
In November 1967, Jocelyn Bell (now Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell), a graduate student at Cambridge University in England, made what turned out to be the first detection of a pulsar — an incredibly dense ball of material formed when a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses in on itself. In the time since the discovery of pulsars, the objects have provided insight about the life cycle of stars and extreme states of matter, and provided evidence that supports Albert Einstein's theory of gravity. There are currently efforts underway to use pulsars to detect gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of the universe, and another to use pulsars as part of a space-based navigation system.
Pulsars spin rapidly, while simultaneously radiating opposing beams of radio waves out into space. The setup is similar to a lighthouse that spins around one up-and-down axis and radiates two beams of light from a second axis. To ships on the water, the steady beams looks like a light pulsing on and off. The same is true for pulsars; if one of the beams happens to sweep across the Earth, it appears to astronomers as though the object is blinking or pulsing. [What Are Pulsars?]
Bell Burnell was studying objects using a radio telescope she helped build at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, outside Cambridge, under the supervision of her advisor, Antony Hewish, who designed the instrument. The telescope was intended to help study the radio cosmos using a technique called interplanetary scintillation. Hewish intended to use this method on objects called quasars, or incredibly bright centers of massive galaxies, illuminated by material swirling around monster black holes. Quasars vary in brightness, and Hewish thought the interplanetary scintillation technique was appropriate for identifying those changes.
"We were looking far beyond [what could be seen with] optical telescopes," Hewish told the BBC of the radio astronomy he and his colleagues were doing then. "You felt very privileged actually. It was like opening a new window onto the universe, and you were the first people to have a look out through and see what was there."
Most known neutron stars are observed as pulsars, emitting narrow, sweeping beams of radiation. They squeeze up to two solar masses into a city-size volume, crushing matter to the highest possible stable densities.
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Bell Burnell was in charge of operating the telescope and analyzing the data, according to an article she wrote for Cosmic Search Magazine in the 1970s. Using this technique, Bell Burnell spotted an object that appeared to be flickering every 1.3 seconds; this pattern repeated for days on end. The object didn't match the profile of a quasar. The signal conflicted with the generally chaotic nature of most cosmic phenomenon, the researchers would later explain. In addition, the light was of a very specific radio frequency, whereas most natural sources typically radiate across a wider range.
For those reasons, Bell Burnell, Hewish and some other members of the astronomy department had to acknowledge that they might have found an artificially created signal — something emitted by an intelligence species. Burnell even labeled the first pulsar LGM1, which stood for "little green men 1."
A second discovery
Bell Burnell would later report that Hewitt called a meeting without her, in which he discussed with other members of the department how they should handle presenting their results to the world. While their fellow scientists might practice restraint and skepticism, it was likely that the possible detection of an intelligent alien civilization could create chaos among the public, the scientists said. The press would very likely blow the story out of proportion and descend on the Cambridge researchers. According to Hewitt, one person even suggested (perhaps only partly joking) that they burn their data and forget the whole thing.
Years later, Burnell wrote that she was rather annoyed at the appearance of the strange signal for another reason. As a graduate student, she was trying to get her thesis work done before her funding ran out, but work on the pulsar was taking away from her primary pursuit.
"Here I trying to get a Ph.D. out of a new technique, and some silly lot of little green men had to choose my aerial and my frequency to communicate with us," she wrote in the article for Cosmic Search Magazine.
Pulsars are fast-spinning and highly magnetized stars. See how they work here.
Credit: by Karl Tate, Infographics artist
But then, Bell Burnell resolved the problem. She went back through some of the data from the radio array and found what looked like a similar, regularly repeating signal, this one coming from an entirely different part of the galaxy. That second signal indicated that this was a family of objects, rather than a single civilization trying to make contact.
"It finally scotched the little green men hypothesis," Bell Burnell said in the a BBC documentary filmed in 2010. "Because it's highly unlikely there's two lots of little green men, on opposite sides of the universe, both deciding to signal to a rather inconspicuous planet, Earth, at the same time, using a daft technique and a rather commonplace frequency."
"It had to be some new kind of star, not seen before," she said. "And that then cleared the way for us publishing, going public."
In 1974, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Hewish, along with radio astronomer Martin Ryle, "for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture-synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars." The omission of Bell Burnell's name as a contributor to the pulsar discovery has stirred controversy among scientists and members of the public, though Bell Burnell has not publicly contested the Nobel committee's decision.
Experts reveal the best-kept secret of the mysterious Easter Island Civilization
Experts reveal the best-kept secret of the mysterious Easter Island Civilization
A team of anthropologists came to the conclusion that the inhabitants of the remote Easter Island, the Rapanui, had no contact with the outside world until the arrival of the Europeans on the island in 1722.
The results of the study were published in the specialized journal Current Biology.
The study also points out that if there were cultural contacts between the Rapanui and the South American native peoples, “there is no trace of them” in their genes.
During the experiment, the researchers analyzed the DNA sequences extracted from the remains that are conserved of five individuals, three of which date from the XIV-XV centuries and the other two from people born between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Each bone fragment provided the researchers with about 200 milligrams of genetic material.
According to the person in charge of the study, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, of the University of California in Santa Cruz (USA), the scientists were “really surprised” by this discovery.
“Our information suggests that the American Indian heritage present today in the people of Easter Island was not present on the island before contact with Europeans and therefore may be due to more recent events in history,” said professor Fehren-Schmitz.
He stressed that “we were convinced that we would find direct evidence of a pre-European contact with South America, but we did not”.
The famous Moai Statues.
Image Credit: Shutterstock.
According to Fehren-Schmitz, this discovery sheds light on the evolution and human genetic diversity.
However, scientists could not determine when the first contact that altered the genome of modern Pascuenses occurred.
At present, the DNA of the inhabitants of the island shows between 6% and 8% of genetic material coming from indigenous people.
For this reason, the researcher stressed that his team plans to continue studying in this direction to determine more precisely how and when this gene entry from the continent occurred and from where it originated.
“The dynamics of the population of these regions is fascinating, we need to study the ancient populations of other islands, if they exist,” he said.
He also added that slavery, whaling and mass deportations are activities that could explain this genetic fingerprint.
It is estimated that the Rapanui arrived on Easter Island – located more than 2,000 kilometers from the nearest inhabited island – in the second century of our era.
Some anthropologists believe that this civilization – the creator of the massive Moai statues, which are the main tourist attraction on the island – is more related to pre-Columbian peoples than to inhabitants of other islands in the region.
Image Credit: Shutterstock
More than 900 moai statues sculpted by the ancient rapa Nui are distributed throughout the island.
Most of them were carved from the Rano Raraku volcanic cone, where more than 400 moai remain in different phases of construction.
The historical data of the entire development of the various construction techniques was developed on the island between 700 AD and 1600 AD.
Everything indicates that the quarry was suddenly abandoned and half-carved statues were left in the rock.
Astronomers used an instrument called MUSE to conduct the deepest-ever spectroscopic survey. The result was a bonanza of new knowledge.
Here’s the Hubble Ultra Deep Field region, as observed with the MUSE instrument installed at the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory in northern Chile. MUSE data provide a rainbow-like spectrum for each pixel in this picture. Image via ESO/ MUSE HUDF collaboration.
Sometimes, astronomy is about surveying widely to get the big picture. And sometimes it’s about looking more and more deeply. First released in 2004, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field is clearly about going deep. It’s a composite image of a tiny region of space, located in the direction of the southern constellation Fornax, made from Hubble Space Telescope data gathered over several months. There are an estimated 10,000 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which exist as far back in time as 13 billion years ago (between 400 and 800 million years after the Big Bang). Being able to see galaxies so near the beginning of our universe has been a fantastic tool for understanding how the universe has evolved. And now – thanks to an instrument called MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer), astronomers have been able to eke out yet more information – a veritable bonanza of information – from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Their work is being published today (November 29, 2017) in a series of 10 papers in a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
MUSE does more than just see the galaxies. It also splits their light into its component colors, using a technique that astronomers call spectroscopy. In the image above, a team of astronomers led by Roland Bacon of the Centre de recherche astrophysique de Lyon, France, used MUSE to obtain a rainbow-like spectrum for each pixel in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
… the deepest spectroscopic observations ever made.
They obtained spectra for 1,600 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. That’s 10 times as many galaxies as has been painstakingly obtained in this field over the last decade by ground-based telescopes. Roland Bacon said:
MUSE can do something that Hubble can’t — it splits up the light from every point in the image into its component colours to create a spectrum. This allows us to measure the distance, colors and other properties of all the galaxies we can see — including some that are invisible to Hubble itself.
Jarle Brinchmann, lead author of one of the papers describing results from this survey, from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences at CAUP in Porto, Portugal, commented:
MUSE has the unique ability to extract information about some of the earliest galaxies in the universe — even in a part of the sky that is already very well studied. We learn things about these galaxies that is only possible with spectroscopy, such as chemical content and internal motions — not galaxy by galaxy but all at once for all the galaxies!
Among other results, MUSE revealed 72 galaxies never seen before in this very tiny area of the sky. These galaxies wouldn’t have been obvious to Hubble. They’re members of a perplexing group of galaxies known as Lyman-alpha emitters. They shine only in Lyman-alpha light (produced when electrons in hydrogen atoms drop from the second-lowest to the lowest energy level). These objects become noticeable in MUSE data because MUSE disperses the light into its component colors. Meanwhile, in direct images such as those from the Hubble Space Telescope, these galaxies remain invisible. Why do these galaxies shine in this peculiar way? Astronomers don’t fully know.
The work also revealed luminous hydrogen halos around galaxies in the early universe. The astronomers said this discovery offers:
… a new and promising way to study how material flows in and out of early galaxies.
Other potential applications of this dataset are explored in the series of papers, including a study of the role of faint galaxies during cosmic reionization (starting just 380,000 years after the Big Bang), galaxy merger rates when the universe was young, galactic winds, star formation and the mapping the motions of stars in the early universe.
Roland Bacon pointed out that the data for all of this work were obtained prior to an upgrade to MUSE’s Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF). He said:
The activation of the AOF after a decade of intensive work by ESO’s astronomers and engineers promises yet more revolutionary data in the future.
From MUSE’s website: “Looking like a machine straight out of the movie The Matrix, with its Medusa-like hoses and connections, MUSE is the latest of the 2nd-generation instruments to be installed on Yepun (UT4), the fourth Unit Telescope of the Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory.”
Bottom line: Astronomers used an instrument called MUSE to peer toward the area of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and to conduct the deepest-ever spectroscopic survey. The result? A bonanza of new knowledge!
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