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.
DEAR VISITOR,
MY BLOG EXISTS ALREADY 13 YEARS AND 2 MONTH.
ON 06/08/2024 MORE THAN 2.161.100
VISITORS FROM 135 DIFFERENT NATIONS ALREADY FOUND THEIR WAY TO MY BLOG.
THAT IS AN AVERAGE OF 400GUESTS PER DAY.
THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND HOPE YOU ENJOY EACH TIME.
The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
Druk op onderstaande knop om te reageren in mijn forum
Zoeken in blog
Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
Een interessant adres?
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...
04-12-2017
Hundreds of Well-Preserved Pterosaur Eggs Found in China
Hundreds of Well-Preserved Pterosaur Eggs Found in China
Hey, budding screenwriters! Does your script about dinosaur DNA being used to bring them back to life to exact revenge against humans for destroying the planet they once cared for and loved need a Jurassic spark? Well, here’s your new plot twist. Paleontologists in China have discovered hundreds of well-preserve pterosaur eggs, with at least 16 containing partial embryos. Will flying lizards darken our skies once again? Should dogs and cats be nervous?
“We want to call this region ‘Pterosaur Eden.’”
That perfect line to open a movie comes from paleontologist Shunxing Jiang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (try fitting that on a business card), the lead author of the study(published in the journal Science), as he described the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region site where at least 215 eggs were found in a block of sandstone. Those eggs all belonged to a single species of pterosaur, Hamipterus tianshanensis, which flew over what is now northwestern China during the early Cretaceous Period, 120 million years ago.
The eggs were discovered in 2014 by a team of paleontogists which included pterosaur expert Alexander Kellner, a co-author of the new study and paleontologist at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, who recognized that this cache was from a new species which he named Hamipterus tianshanensis. The fossils indicated to Kellner that this pterosaur had an adult wingspan of 11 feet, spiked teeth and no feathers. They also showed that H. tianshanensis buried its eggs in lake shores and river banks.
However, the eggs found in ‘Pterosaur Eden’ were not buried there by the parent pterosaurs but by storms and floods which washed them, along with hatched through adult creatures, to the site where they were found in a fossilized jumble of broken bones and eggs. Fortunately, this sandstone block of the eggs survived intact, waiting 120 million years until 3D scanning was perfected.
While the embryos were unfortunately jumbled about inside the eggs, those scans showed that, had they hatched, their legs were developed enough that they would have been able to walk immediately, but underdeveloped wing bones indicated that flight would take a little time. The embryos were toothless, another surprise since it was believed that they were born bite-ready, but their fast growth meant teeth and flight wings were ready pretty quickly after hatching.
Will the next film about pterosaurs being cloned be fiction or a documentary? Unfortunately, this particular find was all fossils and no flesh, so there was no DNA suitable for cloning. That doesn’t take away from the magnitude of this discovery, since the fragility of eggs means that very few from dinosaurs and pterosaurs (which were not dinosaurs) have survived. The researchers believe this site will eventually yield more of the 3 inch (7.2cm) long H. tianshanensis eggs. Will one contain an intact pterosaur suitable for cloning? Speaking like a true paleontologist, Kellner is hopeful.
“Now that we know what they look like, we can go back and find more. You just have to get your knees down and look.”
That’s all the help you get for now, budding screenwriters. Get your fingers down and write.
Is something big going through our atmosphere? Mysterious incoming radar signal/sound detected!
Is something big going through our atmosphere? Mysterious incoming radar signal/sound detected!
Is something big going through our atmosphere? On December 2, 2017 the meteor detector at LiveMeteors detected a weird unusual radar return on the tracker.
The meteor tracker doesn't detect objects, it detects ionizations which may or may not be from an object. A normal viewing would be some dots and you hear some beeps, but on December 2, it gave a huge radar return and a large burst of sound which lasted for about 2 minutes.
The meteor detector is located in DC Metropolitan area and is currently pointing the Yagi antenna at a TV tower in Canada.
According to LiveMeteors, if you hear a strong continuous signal that runs for more than a minute or, that is unlikely to be a meteor echo. VHF radio waves are sometimes affected by an unusual form of ionosphere propagation called “Sporadic E.”
Then they say that “Sporadic E” is specific to summer season in the Northern Hemisphere.
Considering that it is now winter season in that part of the world it is unlikely that the strange signal was a so called “Sporadic E.”
So, if it was not a “Sporadic E” then what has caused the strange radio signals and sound?
Image left: The mysterious radar signal - Image right: Normal view.
While some people wonder if it was glitch or maybe there was something near one of the antennas emitting the signal, others are convinced, given that the signal lasted about two minutes, that something big from outer space has entered our upper atmosphere and then went through our atmosphere very slowly.
With the ongoing mysterious sounds and booms heard all over the world could it be that the strange signal and sound is the effect of Piezoelectricity?
For example, there is geologic pressure there might also be piezoelectric effects interfering with the meteor tracker?
The word piezoelectricity means electricity resulting from pressure and latent heat and it accumulates in certain solid materials, like crystals, then it is able to generate high voltages, electronic frequencies and an ultrasonic nozzle.
Whether the strange signal and sound was a glitch, something near the antennas, the effect of piezoelectricity or it was something big in our atmosphere, for example a huge UFO that is using crystals causing similar piezoelectricity effects, will remain a mystery for the time being.
Video below:Listen to the strange incoming radar signal and sound detected in our atmosphere.
This year's one and only supermoon rises, scientists spot 72 galaxies in a patch of sky, slippery ice could add power to landslides on Mars, cosmonauts come across bacteria from space and a government agency stops a flat-earther from flying in a homemade rocket in some of the top stories from Space.com this week.
Photo Credit: ESO/MUSE HUDF Collaboration
1. 72 potential galaxies spotted for the first time
Astronomers have now added 72 galaxies to their sky maps! Using the MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, researchers found the celestial bodies hiding in plain sight. The newly-discovered galaxies will help researchers understand the motions of stars, and are also interesting subjects of scientific study in and of themselves.
This year's one and only supermoon will rise this Sunday night (Dec. 3), and will be completely full at 10:47 A.M. EST (1547 GMT). The moon's orbit around the Earth is not perfectly circular, and if a full moon coincides with the moment the moon is closest to Earth, the moon appears slightly bigger and brighter than normal.
Photo Credit: Missile Defense Agency/U.S. Department of Defense
3. Can the US stop a nuclear weapon?
Some experts believe that the potential for nuclear war is greater than it's been in years, and that the United States currently lacks a reliable defense system. The Pentagon announced on Nov. 28 that North Korea conducted a nuclear test launch of a far-reaching missile, and decades of American research on defense strategies may not be sufficient to combat a possible threat.
4. Martian landslides gain power from slippery ice
Two Italian researchers found that ice on Mars helps produce powerful landslides on our neighboring planet's slopes. By modeling the dynamics of Martian sediment flow, they found that slippery ice might produce landslide speeds of up to 450 mph (725 km/h).
Registration has opened to enter Phase 3 of the space agency's 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, in which participants will develop ways to build shelters on Mars and the moon using materials likely found on those celestial bodies.
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
6. Cosmonaut announces discovery of bacteria in outer space
Upon analysis by researchers on Earth, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov announced that living bacteria has been detected on material collected from the exterior of the International Space Station. During his announcement on Russia's state-owned TASS news agency, Shkaplerov suggested that the bacteria "came from outer space."
7. Monkey King' satellite seeks to 'understand the void'
China's first space observatory is nicknamed "Wukong" after the shape-shifting Chinese hero, Sun Wukong (aka the Monkey King). This satellite launched in 2015, and is now looking at cosmic rays to seek evidence of the origins of dark matter, the invisible substance that seems to make up most of the matter in the universe.
8. Roscosmos rocket payload fails to make contact with Earth
Nineteen satellites that launched into orbit on Nov. 28 aboard a Soyuz rocket are now presumed to be lost. Although initial reports signaled a successful launch, the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos later stated that it could not contact the main weather satellite aboard the vehicle because the rocket was probably off its planned course.
9. US government stops flat-earther from attempting homemade rocket launch
A flat-Earth conspiracy theorist announced a Nov. 25 launch to disprove the widely-accepted scientific notion that the Earth in round. The Bureau of Land Management, however, stepped in to shut down Mike Hughes' launch, which he intended to attempt aboard a homemade rocket above California's Mojave Desert.
10. Can Enceladus support life? Scientists develop lab tests
Scientists continue discovering evidence that oceans exists on some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Laboratory experiments can now simulate the environment under which Enceladus — an icy Saturnian moon — could harbor alien life.
Ice worlds beyond the orbit of Neptune known as Trans-Neptunian Objects may have liquid oceans beneath their icy surface, a NASA study suggested. If correct, this could impact our search for potentially habitable worlds in the Solar System.
( NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI )
A new NASA study has suggested that there could be a high number of icy worlds in the Solar System that has liquid water below the surface.
The findings expand the number of worlds where alien life can be possibly found since liquid water is essential to supporting known form of life. Astronomers think that there are dozens of these potentially habitable worlds.
Trans-Neptunian Objects
Bodies called the Trans-Neptunian Objects, or TNOs, which include the dwarf planet Pluto, lie beyond the orbit of Neptune. These worlds are relatively very far from the sun that their surface temperatures of about 200 degrees Celsius below zero are cold enough to prevent liquid water to exist.
In the new study, however, Prabal Saxena of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and colleagues found evidence that the gravitational interaction of these TNOs with their moons may produce enough heat in the interior of these bodies to sustain liquid oceans beneath their icy surface.
How Liquid Subsurface Oceans Form In Frigid Worlds
Astronomers think that liquid water may exist in Pluto and other outer solar system bodies because analysis of light reflected from some TNOs revealed signatures of ammonia hydrates and crystalline water ice. Researchers suggest that these emerged to the surface from an interior liquid water source through a process known as cryovolcanism.
Most of the long-lived heat inside of TNOs were from the decay of radioactive elements that were infused into these objects. The heat is warm enough to melt a layer of the icy crust and generate a subsurface ocean that can last for billions of years. As the radioactive elements decay into more stable ones, however, they stop releasing heat and this can eventually cool down the interior of these bodies causing any subsurface ocean to freeze.
Implications In The Search For Alien Life
If the findings of the study, which was published in Icarus on Nov. 24, are right, these could have implications in the search for potentially habitable worlds beyond Earth. The presence of water has long been associated with potentials for supporting life.
In an earlier study revealing the likely composition of habitable planets, researchers suggested that even in worlds outside the solar system, the most habitable planets are highly likely waterworlds with oceans.
"These objects need to be considered as potential reservoirs of water and life. If our study is correct, we now may have more places in our solar system that possess some of the critical elements for extraterrestrial life," Saxena said.
Voyager fires up thrusters after 37 years at13bn miles from earth
Voyager fires up thrusters after 37 years at13bn miles from earth
The Golden Record carried a message from Earth on board NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions..
IT WAS the first man-made object to venture into interstellar space and its mission to the planets in our solar system brought back new discoveries and information, including the first active volcanoes and lightning seen outside of earth. Its most famous moments came as it flew past Saturn and Jupiter sending back pictures of the mysterious giants' rings and moons.
Now four years after it left the solar system to drift in deep space, Voyager 1 – the iconic space craft launched 40 years ago to explore the cosmos and carry a greeting from earth to aliens – has woken up. Its thrusters were revived by NASA at a mind-bending distance of 13 billion miles from Earth.
After decades of operation, the attitude control thrusters that turn the spacecraft's antennae in the direction of earth have degraded, leading scientists to make a decision to fire up the four back-up thrusters, last used in 1980.
The NASA team tested the thrusters on Tuesday and waited patiently as the test results travelled through space, taking 19 hours and 35 minutes to reach an antenna in Goldstone, California, part of NASA's Deep Space Network.
On Friday the team of engineers at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California discovered that they had managed to activate the back-ups onboard the spacecraft.
"The Voyager flight team dug up decades-old data and examined the software that was coded in an outdated assembler language, to make sure we could safely test the thrusters," said Chris Jones, chief engineer at the laboratory.
Scientists were relieved to discover that the thrusters worked “perfectly”, and just as effectively as the original ones.
"With these thrusters that are still functional after 37 years without use, we will be able to extend the life of the Voyager 1 spacecraft by two to three years," said Suzanne Dodd, project manager for Voyager at the lab.
The spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on September 5, 1977 and became the only man-made object to venture outside our solar system. It – along with sister spacecraft Voyage 2 – carries greetings in dozens of human languages to any form of life it may encounter. The greetings are stored on a 12-inch gold-plated copper phonograph record. Dubbed 'the Golden Record' it also contains 31 soundtracks including Peruvian panpipes, Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and Johnny B Goode by Chuck Berry, along with 115 images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on earth.
Scientists still hear from the Voyager spacecraft daily, and expect to get data for about another decade. The plutonium-powered spaceships will eventually end their lives orbiting the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.
As a result of Voyager 1’s thruster success the team are likely to do a similar test on the thrusters on Voyager 2, though the originals are not yet as depleted as Voyager 1's. Voyager 2 is also on course to enter interstellar space within the next few years.
Voyager mission timeline
August 20 and September 5, 1977 – Voyager 1 and 2 are launched into space from Cape Canaveral, Florida
March 9, 1979 – Voyager 1 encounters Jupiter, two years before its twin
November 9, 1980 – it surveys Saturn and its largest moon Titan, a year before Voyager 2 encounters several of Saturn's icy moons
February 14, 1990 – at a distance of four billion miles, Voyager 1 takes the famous “pale blue dot” image, capturing Earth illuminated as a small speck in a sunbeam.
February 17, 1998 – it becomes the farthest human-made object from earth in space
December 16, 2004 – the spacecraft crosses the termination shock, the inner boundary of the heliosheath, a "bubble-like region of space" which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
August 25, 2012 – it cross the heliopause, becoming the first human-made object to enter interstellar space
November 28, 2017 – Voyager 1’s thrusters successfully power up after 37 year
Even if you are skeptical of the idea of little green men visiting our planet, it's interesting to read accounts of those who believe they saw another life form.
Some of the earliest sightings date back to 1992, and with the vast amount of similar data being recorded, it's hard to determine whether or not we are really alone.
According to the data tracking website, UFO Stalker , there has been 24 strange encounters across the county.
The majority of Martians seem to fly to the south of Essex, with Romford, Canvey Island and Southend-on-Sea being hotspots.
UFO by the River Rom, Romford
One extraterrestrial explorer ventured out to Braintree, and another two had a mosey around Colchester.
The most popular intergalactic destination seems to be Southend, with six separate sightings being recorded, perhaps to enjoy a day at Adventure Island.
The stories that follow the sightings are even more spooky, with many of them allegedly describing similar crafts.
The UFO sighting hotspots for Essex
One spooky tale from Basildon described seeing a large black triangular craft flying slowly above a house. The object made no noise and wasn't like any other craft the spotter had seen before.
He wrote: "I have never seen anything like this in all these years and really hope I never will again."
Essex's Extraterrestrial Explorations
Basildon - Broadmayne, 2015
Basildon - Walthams, 1992
Braintree - Bradford Street, 2015
Brentwood - April 22, 2014
Canvey Island - Central Avenue, 2012
Canvey Island - Off of the coast, 2016
Chelmsford - Keene Way, 2015
Colchester - Mile End Road, 2016
Colchester - Rotary Way, 2016
Grays - Green Lane, 2017
Harlow - Along A1019, 2015,
Harlow - Newstead Way, 2016
Hornchurch - Albert Road, 2014
Purfleet - Wennington Road, 2016
Romford - Park End Road, 1996
Romford - Hainault Forest Country Park, 2015
Romford - Close to the River Rom, 2016
Southend - Off the coast, 1992
Southend - Stonehill Road, 2013
Southend - Shoebury Park, 2015
Southend - Priory Avenue, 2016
Southend - Cokefield Avenue, 2015
Tilbury - By Fort Road, 2016
Another record from Harlow disclosed they saw a light travelling through the sky, and then two circles emitting blue light opening and the travelling light disappearing through it. A few moments later the circles disappear and the travelling light couldn't be seen.
Then, in Romford, 21 years ago, someone saw a disc shaped craft rising above the trees.
UFO in Southend, travelling towards the moon
A zoomed in shot shows the small light, which then disappears
The author also believes they were abducted in their sleep and claims to have seen another world where other beings, similar to humans, lived.
Many sightings reference three orbs of light in a triangular shape, or either a black triangular craft, it seems these are common for the intergalactic explorers.
The oldest UFO sighting in Essex, at Southend, happened in 1992 and it wasn't reported on the website until 24 years later.
A fishing crew were night fishing on a small cabin boat out off the coast when they thought they saw a helicopter. However, the lights started moving in a zig zag pattern and in sharp movements, quicker than a plane or helicopter could perform.
They couldn't hear a lot of noise like most aircrafts produce, but instead, a slight hum, and as it got closer the crew hid inside the cabin on the boat.
UFO Facts
More than 40,000 Americans have taken out insurance against being abducted by aliens
The term 'UFO' for Unidentified Flying Object was first coined by the US Air Force Officer, Edward Ruppelt, in 1952
Before this, people had said 'flying saucer' since 1947
Over the past four decades, there has been a daily average of six UFO sightings being reported
The sweets - rice paper discs filled with sherbert - also known as 'flying sauces' were voted the most popular sweet of all time in a survey in 2004
The cabin was then illuminated and felt brighter than the sun, but the spooked fisherman didn't feel pain or heat from the light.
The author wrote: "People think you're crazy or just making it up, so we told very few. I only spoke about this to my wife, even she thought we are mad and should keep it quiet."
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) closed the UFO files in November 2009, as well as the hotline number which members of the public had used since 1997 to report their alien encounters.
The staff from the UFO desk were redeployed, and they told the Home Office and the Civil Aviation Authority that they no longer wanted to receive UFO reports, as they were not going to investigate it.
In the last year that the desk was open, the MoD received a record-breaking number of reports, 643 separate sightings, compared to the one to two hundred annual average before this.
A collection of 25 files, and 4300 pages of UFO sightings are now available at the National Archives, and although 'Britain's X-Files' may be closed, residents are still reporting what they have seen online.
Dr David Clarke, an expert in UFO history, said about the closure of the UFO desk to the National Archives: "It is often said about UFOs that 'the truth is out there,' in my opinion the truth is actually in here - in these files - and I would encourage everyone who is interested in this subject whether you believe or whether you disbelieve take the time to take a look at the content of these files."
Remember, the next time you look up at the night sky, there may something looking back at you.
Larry Warren, 56, supposedly saw aliens floating underneath a craft in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, in 1980.
The mystery has since been dubbed “Britain’s Roswell” and has baffled conspiracy theorists for decades.
Warren – stationed with the US air force at RAF Bentwaters – passed every question on the polygraph test and now hopes the world will believe his account.
BIZARRE: Larry Warren claims he saw aliens floating underneath a craft
He edits UFO Truth Magazine and announced the news to his readers.
He said: “Larry Warren, the original military whistleblower of Britain’s most famous and unsolved cold case, The Rendlesham Forest, recently agreed to undertake a professional polygraph test with one of the UK’s leading experts.
“He undertook the test where he was questioned about his involvement along with many other questions about his general honesty and integrity.
“I can now reveal that Larry Warren has successfully passed the tests on all counts.”
CASCADE
VINDICATED: Warren has now passed every question on a polygraph test
“I can now reveal that Larry Warren has successfully passed the tests on all counts”
Former police detective Gary Heseltine
The incident took place over three successive nights and three air force men were sent out to investigate.
One of them, Kim Pennington, got close enough to touch the side of the mysterious object.
He and one other airman made sketches of the craft for witness statements.
Two nights later, Deputy Base Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt observed strange flashing lights in the trees.
One of the beams hit the ground just a few feet away and reportedly struck weapons storage bunkers at the NATO base.
This led to allegations that weapons of mass destruction were being stored there – something the UK and US governments will neither confirm nor deny.
0
1
2
3
4
5
- Gemiddelde waardering: 0/5 - (0 Stemmen) Categorie:ALIEN LIFE, UFO- CRASHES, ABDUCTIONS, MEN IN BLACK, ed ( FR. , NL; E )
Every official record of a UFO sighting in Gloucestershire revealed
Every official record of a UFO sighting in Gloucestershire revealed
Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and Gloucester are popular among aliens fancying a getaway
By Conor Gogarty
The humans of Gloucestershire are not alone.
At least, that's what some may glean from our UFO map, the result of an explosive investigation into alien sightings across the county.
According to the UFO Stalker website, there have been no less than 16 extraterrestrial invasions witnessed in Gloucestershire in recent years.
Our map of UFO sightings across the county
Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and Gloucester are hotspots for aliens fancying a getaway, with 11 of the 16 sightings coming around those three areas.
It may be a popular tourist destination for us mere homo sapiens, but the Cotswolds has been emphatically snubbed by those from other planets.
Only one adventurous intergalactic explorer decided to have a mosey around Cirencester.
Lydney, however, has proved something of a hit with the Martians, with three UFOs checking in, perhaps for a spot of Go Ape.
Many of the eye-witness accounts that accompany the entries on UFO Stalker have a flair for the dramatic.
One person was driving home from a baby shower in July 2016 on the A433, when he saw something not of this earth.
They wrote: "I checked my rear view mirror, I was surprised to see a large white circle, size of a football, glowing like a headlight, following directly behind my car."
Gloucestershire's UFO hotspots
Harbour Road, Lydney
Henry Road, Gloucester
Bruton Way, Gloucester
Rodney Road, Cheltenham
Church Street, Tewkesbury
Tewkesbury, no address
Allaston Road, Lydney
Augustus Way, Lydney
Royal Well Road, Cheltenham
Kipling Close, Gloucester
Brooklyn Gardens, Cheltenham
Great Western Road, Gloucester
Tewkesbury Road, Cheltenham
Croft Court, Ross-on-Wye
Oakbank, Gloucester
Dollar Street, Cirencester
A 47-year-old computer consultant from Cheltenham also saw something shocking, from his block of flats in 2010.
He wrote: "I have noticed an orange light in the western sky after dark, corresponding to the common position of Venus and visible when other stars are not (due to street lighting).
UFO over Cheltenham
"I thought i could perceive it to be a cluster of different coloured lights instead of a single source.
"The object now appeared to be moving closer and slightly to my left heading for the centre of cheltenham (which is just south of my location).
UFO over Cheltenham
"As it moved it presented itself at an angle to me and I could see the red strobe light was centred on the underside of the object which now clearly had strong white lights at the front, throwing a beam or twin beams straight ahead, like landing lights or car headlights."
The witness added that the UFO was a large black triangle in the air, which floated off towards Oxfordshire after a while.
BLAST FROM THE PAST Three million years ago, Earth’s climate was so warm that the High Arctic supported forests (illustrated) in which camels and other animals roamed.
JULIUS T. CSOTON
Imagine a world where the polar ice sheets are melting, sea level is rising and the atmosphere is stuffed with about 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide. Sound familiar? It should. We’re living it. But the description also matches Earth a little over 3 million years ago, in the middle of the geologic epoch known as the Pliocene.
To understand how our planet might respond as global temperatures rise, scientists are looking to warm periods of the past. These include the steamy worlds of the Cretaceous Period, such as around 90 million years ago, and the boundary of the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, about 56 million years ago.
But to many researchers, the best reference for today’s warming is the more recent Pliocene, which lasted from 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago. The mid-Pliocene was the last time atmospheric CO2 levels were similar to today’s, trapping heat and raising global temperatures to above the levels Earth is experiencing now.
New research is illuminating how the planet responded to Pliocene warmth. One set of scientists has fanned out across the Arctic, gathering geologic clues to how temperatures there may have been as much as 19 degrees Celsius higher than today. The warmth allowed trees to spread far to the north, creating Arctic forests where three-toed horses, giant camels and other animals roamed. When lightning struck, wildfires roared across the landscape, spewing soot into the air and altering the region’s climate.
Amount of CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere (parts per million)
Mid-Pliocene
350–450
Pre-Industrial
280
Today
400+
Other researchers are pushing the frontiers of climate modeling, simulating how the oceans, atmosphere and land responded as Pliocene temperatures soared. One new study shows how the warmth may have triggered huge changes in ocean circulation, setting up an enormous overturning current in the Pacific Ocean, similar to the “conveyor belt” in today’s Atlantic that drives weather and climate. A second new paper suggests that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets might have responded differently to Pliocene heat, melting at different times.
All this research into the last great warm period is helping scientists think more deeply about how the future might play out. It may not be a road map to the next 100 years, but the Pliocene is a rough guide to the high sea levels, vanishing ice and altered weather patterns that might arrive hundreds to thousands of years from now.
“It’s a case study for understanding how warm climates function,” says Heather Ford, a paleoceanographer at the University of Cambridge. “It’s our closest analog for future climate change.”
Walk through history
Teasing out the history of the Pliocene is a little like digging through a family’s past. One group of enthusiasts goes through genealogical records, collecting data on who lived where, and when. Another group uses computer software and modeling to look for broad patterns that describe how the family grew and moved over time.
The data detectives begin their work in rocks and sediments dating to the Pliocene that are scattered around the world like family-tree histories in city library archives. In 1988, the U.S. Geological Survey began a project called PRISM, for Pliocene Research, Interpretation and Synoptic Mapping, which aims to gather as many geologic clues as possible about Pliocene environments.
Chemical and geologic clues within deep-sea sediment cores, like this one from the Pliocene drilled from the seabed off Alaska’s southern coast, can reveal past ocean temperatures. Paleoclimatologists use the data to reconstruct which periods were warm and which were cold.
JRSO/INTERNATIONAL OCEAN DISCOVERY PROGRAM
At its start, PRISM focused on a collection of deep-sea cores drilled from the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean. Different types of marine organisms thrive in water of different temperatures. By comparing the relative abundance of species of tiny organisms preserved in the deep-sea cores, PRISM scientists could roughly map how cold-loving organisms gave way to warm ones (and vice versa) at different times in the past. Early results from the project, reported in 1992 by USGS research geologist Harry Dowsett and colleagues, showed that during the Pliocene, warming was amplified at higher latitudes in the North Atlantic.
Scientists continue to add to the PRISM records. One international team drilled a sediment core from beneath a Siberian lake and found that summer air temperatures there, in the mid-Pliocene, were as high as 15° C (about 59° Fahrenheit). That’s 8 degrees warmer than today (SN: 6/15/13, p. 13). Other researchers uncovered clues, such as plant fossils from peat bogs, that suggest mean annual temperatures on Canada’s now-frozen Ellesmere Island near Greenland were as much as 18 degrees higher than today (SN: 4/6/13, p. 9).
Now, a new group of biologists, geoscientists and other experts in past landscapes have banded together in a project called PoLAR-FIT, for Pliocene Landscape and Arctic Remains — Frozen in Time. The team is focusing on the Arctic because, just as today’s Arctic is warming faster than other parts of the planet, the Pliocene Arctic warmed more than the rest of the globe. “That’s what we call polar amplification,” says Tamara Fletcher, a team member and paleoecologist at the University of Montana in Missoula. “It was even more magnified in the Pliocene than what we’re seeing today.”
PoLAR-FIT scientists travel to the Arctic to collect geologic evidence about how the region responded to rising temperatures in the Pliocene. In the thawing permafrost slopes of Ellesmere Island, for instance, Fletcher and colleagues have been mapping black layers of charcoal in sediments dating from the Pliocene. Each charcoal layer represents a fire that burned through the ancient forest. By tracking the events across Ellesmere and other nearby islands, Fletcher’s team discovered that fire was widespreadacross what is now the Canadian Arctic.
Wildfires swept the Arctic during the warm Pliocene, leaving behind beds of dark charcoal that are visible today.
T. FLETCHER
Wildfires changed vegetation across the landscape, possibly altering how the Arctic responded to rising temperatures. Soot rising from the fires would have darkened the skies, potentially leading to local or regional weather changes. “How important is that to the warming?” asks Bette Otto-Bliesner, a paleoclimatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. “That’s something we’re still trying to determine.” Fletcher, Otto-Bliesner and colleagues described the charcoal discovery, along with modeling studies of the fires’ effects, in Seattle in October at a meeting of the Geological Society of America.
In 2012, about 283,280 square kilometers of forest burned in Russia. Three years later, more than 20,230 square kilometers burned in Alaska. Last summer, a wildfire broke out in the icy landscape of western Greenland. “We’re already seeing fire in the Arctic, which is unusual today,” Fletcher says. “But it wouldn’t have been unusual in the Pliocene.”
While the work doesn’t predict how much of the Arctic will burn as temperatures rise, the findings do suggest that people need to prepare for more fires in the future.
Story continues below image
As temperatures rise, Arctic fires, like the one that burned in Greenland in August, may become more common.
Scientists like Fletcher are the genealogists of the Pliocene, collecting records of past environments. Other researchers — the computer modelers — put those old records into broad context, like historians analyzing family trees for patterns of migration and change.
The modelers begin with data on Pliocene temperatures — such as how hot it got on Ellesmere Island or in the North Atlantic Ocean, as revealed by plant fossils or seafloor sediments. Scientists can also estimate how much CO2 was in the atmosphere at the time by looking at clues such as the density of holes in fossilized leaves of Pliocene plants, which used those openings to take up CO2. Estimates vary, but most suggest CO2 levels were about 350 to 450 ppm in the mid-Pliocene.
Foraminifera, tiny sea organisms, are used to calculate past ocean temperatures, by the chemistry of their shells and the amount of cold-loving versus warm-loving species present in deep-sea cores.
USGS
It’s not clear what caused the gas buildup during the Pliocene; one possibility is it came from long-term changes in the way carbon cycles between the land, ocean and atmosphere. But no matter the source, the high levels of CO2 caused temperatures to soar by trapping heat in the atmosphere.
The Pliocene isn’t a perfect crystal ball for today. For starters, scientists know why CO2 levels are now increasing — burning of fossil fuels and other human activities (SN: 5/30/15, p. 15). As the Industrial Revolution was gaining steam, in the 19th century, atmospheric CO2 levels were around 280 ppm. Today that level is just above 400 ppm, and rising.
Modeling the Pliocene climate can help reveal how Earth responded in somewhat similar conditions. That means studying changes in the Pliocene atmosphere, the land surface and most of all the oceans, which absorb the bulk of planetary warming. “That’s the sort of thing you can understand from studying past warm episodes,” Ford says. “What was different about how heat and carbon were moving around in the ocean?”
Ford has begun working with climatologist Natalie Burls of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., to try to track how the oceans’ major water masses shifted during the Pliocene. Today the North Atlantic has a deep, cold, salty layer that is crucial to the ocean’s “conveyor belt” circulation. In this pattern, warm waters flow northward from the tropics, then cool and become saltier and denser as they reach higher latitudes. That cool water sinks and travels southward, where it warms and rises and begins the cycle all over again.
This conveyor belt circulation is important to today’s Atlantic climate, because it allows the warm Gulf Stream to moderate temperatures from the U.S. East Coast to Western Europe. Burls and colleagues have now found that a similar pattern might have existed in the Pacific during the Pliocene. They call it the Pacific meridional overturning circulation, or PMOC, just as today’s similar Atlantic circulation is known as the AMOC.
Burls’ team discovered this phenomenon by modeling how the Pliocene ocean would have responded to higher temperatures. Because the Arctic was so warm, the temperature difference between the equator and the mid- and high latitudes was not as great as it is today. The weaker temperature gradient would have meant less rainfall and more evaporation in the midlatitude North Pacific. As a result, its uppermost waters would have gotten saltier.
Deep ocean changes
Ocean circulation today is driven in part by a deep circulation pattern in the North Atlantic (top). Currents there flow north and then become cooler and saltier, causing the water to sink and return southward in a conveyor belt–like circulation. In the warm Pliocene, some 3 million years ago, a similar conveyor belt may have set up in the Pacific (bottom) thanks to reduced rainfall in the North Pacific (dotted circle).
N. BURLS
When the North Pacific waters got salty enough, they cooled and sank, setting up an enormous current that dove deep off the coast of northeastern Russia and traveled southward until the water warmed enough to once again rise toward the surface. Real-world data back the claim: Accumulations of calcium carbonate in deep-sea Pacific sediments show that the Pliocene ocean experienced huge shifts at the time, with waters churning all the way from the surface down to about three kilometers deep, as would be expected from a conveyor belt–type circulation. The team reported the finding in Science Advances in September.
What happened in the Pliocene Pacific may say something about the Pacific of the distant future, Burls says. As temperatures rise today, most of the heat is being taken up by the surface layers of the oceans. Over the short term, that works to prevent changes in deep ocean circulation. “Today we’re very quickly turning on the heating, and it will take a while for the deep ocean to adjust,” Burls says.
But in the longer term, thousands of years from now, waters in the North Pacific may eventually become warm and salty enough to establish a PMOC, just as there was in the Pliocene. And that could lead to major changes in weather and climate patterns around the globe.
Land bridges and ice sheets
Other modelers are looking beyond the Pacific to improve their understanding of how different parts of the Pliocene world behaved. About a dozen research groups recently launched a new effort called PlioMIP2, or Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 2, to model the climate of a time somewhat similar to today in the mid-Pliocene, about 3.205 million years ago.
“We’re working to produce the best picture that we can of what life seemed to be like at the time,” says Alan Haywood, a climate modeler at the University of Leeds in England and a leader of the effort.
In one discovery, project scientists have found that small changes in the geography of their modeled world make a big improvement in the final results. Early models did not accurately capture how much the polar regions heated up. So PlioMIP2 researchers updated their starting conditions. Instead of assuming that the landmasses of the Pliocene world were identical to today, the group made two small, plausible changes in the Arctic. The researchers made a land bridge between Russia and Alaska by closing the Bering Strait, and they added land to connect a few modern islands in the Canadian Arctic, including Ellesmere.
The change “seems small, but it actually can have a huge impact on climate,” says Otto-Bliesner. For instance, closing the Bering Strait cut off a flow in which relatively fresh water from the Pacific travels over the Arctic and into the North Atlantic. With the updated geography, the PlioMIP2 models suddenly did a much better job of simulating heat in the high Arctic.
Otto-Bliesner will describe the team’s results in New Orleans this month at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Another PlioMIP2 group, Deepak Chandan and Richard Peltier of the University of Toronto, reported similar findings in July in Climate of the Past. They too found that closing the Bering Strait allowed their model to better simulate the Arctic heating.
Other Pliocene modelers are trying to figure out how the planet’s enormous ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica might respond to rising temperatures. Geologic evidence, such as ancient beaches from the Pliocene, suggest that global sea levels then were as much as 25 meters higher than today. If all of Greenland’s ice were to melt, global sea levels would rise about six meters; if all of Antarctica went, it would contribute about 60 meters. So parts of these ice sheets, but not all, must have melted during the long-ago warm period.
Several of the PlioMIP2 research groups are modeling how the polar ice sheets responded in the heat of the Pliocene. “It will tell us how much we should be worried,” Otto-Bliesner says.
Arctic heat-up
Simulations of the Arctic during the Pliocene show excess heat (deeper red colors) compared with before the Industrial Revolution (left) and today (right). Today’s differences are smaller because levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are closer to Pliocene levels.
D. CHANDAN AND RICHARD PELTIER
One new study suggests that the northern and southern ice sheets may have behaved out of phase with each other. In a simulation of the mid- to late Pliocene, climate modeler Bas de Boer of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and colleagues found that as Greenland’s ice melted, Antarctica’s ice could have been relatively stable, and vice versa.
“At different points, they could be contributing to the sea level story or against it,” says Haywood. He, along with colleagues, reported the results in the Oct. 30 Geophysical Research Letters.
That out-of-sync melting suggests the Pliocene was a complicated time. Just because global temperatures were high doesn’t mean that all of Earth’s ice sheets melted equally. (Today, both Greenland and West Antarctica are losing ice to the oceans as global temperatures rise.)
The Pliocene wound to an end around 2.6 million years ago, as CO2 levels dropped. Chemical reactions with eroding rocks may have sucked much of the CO2 out of the atmosphere and tucked it away in the oceans, removing the greenhouse gas. The planet entered a long-term cooling trend. Since the end of the Pliocene, Earth has been in and out of a series of ice ages.
But now, greenhouse gases are once again flooding into the atmosphere. Global temperatures are ticking up inexorably year after year. That makes the lessons of the past all the more relevant for the future.
This article appears in the December 9, 2017 issue of Science News with the headline, "Lessons from the Pliocene: A warm period in the past offers a window to the future."
Earth without its moon would be a very different world indeed. No eclipses. Smaller tides. But the biggest change would be in the length of Earth’s day.
Most moons in our solar system are tiny relative to the planets they orbit. These planets wouldn’t miss a moon or two if one got knocked out of orbit. But Earth’s moon is relatively large. So Earth without its large nearby moon would be a very different world indeed.
Imagine … no solar or lunar eclipses.
No calendars based on a system of months. The word month, after all, stems from a word that means moon. That’s because many calendars are based on the changing phases of the moon.
With no moon, there’d be no nearby world for astronauts to visit. We might never have begun to venture out into the solar system.
The moon and sun together cause the tides. If we’d never had a moon, we’d still have tides, but they wouldn’t be as strong.
What’s more, the moon has a place in human culture. Imagine no romantic moonlight walks – no concept of moon madness, or lunacy.
But the biggest change – for us humans and for other earthly life – would be in the length of Earth’s day. Without a moon, Earth would spin faster. Our day would be shorter. Why?
It’s because, billions of years ago when Earth was young, our planet spun around on its axis much faster. Our world’s cycle of day and night was less than 10 hours long. The ebb and flow of the tides are what put the brakes on Earth’s spin. So – if you’re imagining Earth with no moon – you have to imagine our day on Earth much shorter than our present-day 24 hours.
Selected moons of the solar system, with the Earth for scale. Notice that the moon is pretty big relative to Earth. But Pluto and its moon are even closer in size.
Image via NASA.
Bottom line: How our planet would be different, if Earth didn’t have a moon.
0
1
2
3
4
5
- Gemiddelde waardering: 0/5 - (0 Stemmen) Categorie:News from the FRIENDS of facebook ( ENG )
SCIENCE FINALLY FOUND PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
SCIENCE FINALLY FOUND PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
Is science discovered God?
Einstein didn’t believe it was possible, but Stephen Hawkins said: ‘It might be the greatest scientific discovery of all time’.
So, what discovery has baffled the greatest scientific minds of the past century, and why has it caused them to rethink the origin of our universe? New and more powerful telescopes have unlocked mysteries about our universe never before revealed, giving us amazing new scientific insight into the origin of life.
HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD?
Hasn’t science proven we don’t need God to explain the universe?
What is it about this discovery that is so fundamentally different, and why has it stunned the scientific world?
This discovery along with what molecular biologists have learned about the sophisticated coding within DNA have many scientists now admitting that the universe and life itself appeared to be part of a grand design.
“Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the design argument”.
Surprisingly, many scientists who are now talking about God have no religious beliefs whatsoever.
What are these stunning discoveries that have scientists suddenly speaking of God? Well there are three revolutionary discoveries from the fields of astronomy and molecular biology that stand out:
1) the universe had a beginning
2) The universe is just right for life
3) DNA coding reveals intelligence
The statements leading scientists have made about these discoveries may shock you.
THE UNIVERSE HAD A ONE-TIME BEGINNING
Since the dawn of civilization man has gazed in awe at the stars, wondering what they are and how they got there. Although, on a clear night the unaided human eye can see only 6,000 stars, Hubble and other powerful telescopes reveal there are a billion-trillion stars clustered in over 100 billion galaxies. In fact, our sun is like one grain of sand amidst the world’s beaches. But, prior to the 20th century, the majority of scientists believed that our own Milky Way galaxy was the entire universe, and that only about 100 million starts existed.
Most scientists of the past believed that our universe never had a beginning.They believed that mass, space, and energy that compose our entire universe had always existed.But in the early 20th century , astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding. Rewinding the process mathematically, he calculated that everything in the universe, matter, energy, space, and even time itself, actually had a beginning.
Shockwaves hit the scientific community. Many scientists including Einstein, reacted negatively. In what Einstein later called “the biggest blunder in my life”, he fudged the equations to avoid the implication that the universe had a beginning. Perhaps the most vocal adversary of the idea that the universe had a beginning was British astronomer Sir Frederick Hoyle, who sarcastically nicknamed the creation event a “big bang”. He stubbornly held to his steady state theory that the universe had always existed. So did Einstein and other scientists until the evidence for the beginning became overwhelming.
Then finally, in 1992, the COBE satellite experiments proved that the universe really did a one-time beginning in an incredible flash of light and energy. Although some scientists called it the moment of creation, most preferred referring to it as the “big bang”. Astronomer Robert Jastow tries to help us imagine how it all began.
“The picture suggest the explosion of a cosmic hydrogen bomb. The instant in which the cosmic bomb exploded marked the birth of universe”.
The conclusion is everything in the universe came from nothing.
Science is unable to tell us what or who cause the universe to begin. But some it believe clearly points to a Creator. Many scientists from which some were agnostics claim that the only explanation for the big bang to happen was by the mighty hand of divine power, God.
Cosmologists, who specialize in the study of universe and its origin, soon realized that a chance cosmic explosion could never bring about life any more than a nuclear bomb would unless it was precisely engineered to do so. And that meant a designer must have planned it. They began using words like, “Creator”, “Super-intellect”, and even “Supreme Being” to describe this designer.
THE UNIVERSE IS FINELY-TUNED FOR LIFE
Physicists calculated that for life to exist, gravity and other laws of physics that govern our universe needed to be intricately tuned just right or our universe couldn’t exist. For instance, did you know that if the expansion rate of the universe has been slightly weaker, gravity would have pulled all matter back into a “big crunch”. Stephen Hawking writes: “If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand-million-million, the universe would have re-collapsed before it ever reached its present size”. On the flip side, if the expansion rate had been a mere fraction greater than it was, all galaxies, stars, and planets could never have formed, and we wouldn’t be there.
And for life to exist, the conditions in our solar system and our own planet, also need to be just right. For example we all realize that without atmosphere of oxygen, none of us will be able to breathe. And without oxygen, water couldn’t exist. Without water there would be no rainfall for our crops. Other elements such as calcium, hydrogen, nitrogen, sodium, carbon, and phosphorus are also essential for life. But that alone is not all that is needed for life to exist.
The size, temperature, relative proximity, and chemical makeup of our planet, sun, and moon also need just to be right. And there a dozen of other conditions that just need to be right. Scientist who believed in God may have expected such a fine-tuning, but atheist and agnostics were unable to explain the remarkable “coincidences”.
THE UNIVERSE: ACCIDENT OR MIRACLE?
What are the odds against human life existing by chance from a random explosion in cosmic history? For human life to be possible from a big bang utterly defines the laws of probability.
One astronomer calculate the odds at less than one chance in a trillion-trillion-trillion-trillion-trillion… In other words, it will be far easier for a blind-folded person in one try to discover one specially marked grain of sand out of all the beaches in the world. The odds of one random big bang producing life as we know it would be like one person winning over a thousand consecutive mega-million dollar lotteries after purchasing only a single ticket for each. Not likely? Really quite impossible. So, many scientists concluded: Someone behind the scenes designed and created the universe. But, there are others who still are searching other explanations for the existence of our universe.
DNA: THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE
As recent as 1953, Molecular biologists discovered intricately complex design in the microscopic world of DNA. This tiny molecule has been called the “brains” of each cell in our bodies as well as every other living thing. Yet the more they discover about DNA, the more amazed they are at the brilliance behind it. Scientists who believe that the material world is all the exists, like Richard Dawkins, argue DNA evolved by natural selection without a Creator. Yet even most ardent evolutionists admit that the origin of the DNA’s intricate complexity is unexplainable. DNA’s intricate complexity caused its co-discover, Francis Crick, to believe that it could never have originated on earth naturally. He believed that life is too complex to have originate on earth , and must have come from outer space. The coding behind DNA reveals such intelligence that it staggers the imagination. A mere pinhead volume of DNA contains information equivalent to a stack of paperback books that would encircle the world 5,000 times. And DNA operates like language with its own extremely complex software code.
In the early 21st century, noted atheist, Antony Flew’s life-long unbelief came to an abrupt and even studied the remarkable intelligence behind DNA. Flew explained what change his position:
“What I think the DNA material has done is to show that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinary diverse elements together. The enormous complexity by which the results were achieved look to me like the work of intelligence… It now seems to me that the finding of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design”.
THE LIFE AND THE UNIVERSE HAVE THE FINGERPRINTS OF A CREATOR
Are scientists now convinced that a Creator has left his “fingerprints” on the universe? Although many scientists are still bent on squeezing God out of the universe, most recognize the religious implications of these new discoveries.
SO, WHAT IF, AFTER ALL THERE IS A CREATOR?
If there is a super-intelligent Creator, the question arises, what is he like? Is he just some “Cosmic Force” like in Star Wars, or is he a personal being like us? Since we are personal and relational beings, wouldn’t the one who created us also be personal and relational?
Many scientists such as Arthur L. Schawlow, Professor at Stanford University, and Nobel Prize winner in Physics, believes that these new discoveries prove compelling evidence for a personal God. He writes: “It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious… I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life”.
If God is personal and since He has given us the ability to communicate, wouldn’t we expect him to communicate with us and let us know why we are here? As we seen, science is unable to answer questions about God and the purpose of life. However, since the Bible was right about creation from nothing, might it also be trustworthy regarding God, life and purpose?
THE MAN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
Two thousand years ago, a man set foot on our planet who claimed to have the answer to life. Although his life on earth was brief, his impact changed the world, and is still felt today. His name is Jesus Christ.
The eyewitnesses to Jesus Christ tell us that he continually demonstrated creative power over nature’s laws. They tell us he was wise, humble, and compassionate. They also tell us that Jesus Christ is the one who flung the stars into space, fine-tuned our universe, and created DNA.
Could he be the one of whom Einstein unknowing referred to us as “super-intelligence” behind the universe? Has the mystery of who is responsible for creating the universe and the intelligence behind DNA have been revealed in the New Testament?
Jesus spoke with authority about God’s love for us and the reason he created us. He said that he has a plan for our life, and that plan centers on a relationship with him. But for that relationship to be possible, Jesus had to die on the cross for our sins. And it was necessary for him to raise from the dead, so that we could too have a life after death. As the Creator, Jesus certainly would have power over life and death. Those closest to him claim that they saw him alive after he died and was buried for three days. If they were wrong, then Christianity has been founded upon a lie. But, if they were right, such a miracle, would substantiate all Jesus said about God, himself, and us.
SUPER MOON OF 2017 DAZZLED STARGAZERS IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
SUPER MOON OF 2017 DAZZLED STARGAZERS IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
The rare one of a kind lunar spectacle hypnotized stargazers and astronomy enthusiasts. The Moon appeared 14 times larger and 30 times brighter than usual. Moon was at it's closest approach to the earth as possible in it's elliptical orbit around earth. Researchers claims the increased gravitational force on Earth from Moon could trigger major earthquake in land or ocean at or around the time of full moon as happened in the past
There is a positive correlation between super moon and catastrophic earthquakes occurred in Earth's history. However most scientist are of opinion that the risk of tectonic plate movement is negligible.
Seafaring vessels remain on alert as sea level is expected to rise 50cms when astronomical forces align. The difference between high tide and low tide will be significant. Environmental agency is monitoring the situation closely alongside metrological office and local authorities and will issue flood alert and warnings if required.
The next super moon will occur in November of 2034.
2 MORE WHISTLEBLOWERS DIVULGE INVOLVEMENT IN SECRET SPACE PROGRAM
2 MORE WHISTLEBLOWERS DIVULGE INVOLVEMENT IN SECRET SPACE PROGRAM
According to a new report by an insider claiming to have worked with several US secret space programs, the complexity of the programs, technologies, and their dynamic interrelationships is far greater and more complex than anything previously revealed.
SPACE BATTLE TAKING PLACE RIGHT ABOVE OUR HEADS?
20 and Back is the standard phrase use to describe the tour of duty undergone by recruits into the SSP (Secret Space Program). The term 20 and back refers to the 20 year commitment that these military men and women make when they sign up to go into space — or the amount of time they are forced to serve as slaves.
There are many indications that there really is a Secret Space Program, though some of these confirmations seem too extraordinary to be true.
There are even those who say that there is a space battle taking place right above our heads, as can be seen in the article below. But maybe believing that is pushing the limits of imagination a little too much ... or not:
PROOF THE SOLAR WARDEN SECRET SPACE PROJECT IS REAL
THE SECRET SPACE PROGRAMS SHOCKING TRUE PURPOSE REVEALED
Recently A TR-3B UFO type of aircraft was filmed in Saint Petersburg in Russia.The object was moving at an extremely low spe
Any know aircraft flying at this speed would fall to the ground. This object was defying any known laws of gravity as it was flying through the skies of Sint Petersburg.
WATCH THE FOOTAGE FOR YOURSELF:
At a sudden point in time, one of the main propulsion engines fails, and the object is forced to continue its journey without one of its main thrusting units.
The object manages to stay afloat and heads towards its main trajectory... This object shows a lot of similarities of a TR-3B. This mysterious aircraft has been spotted all over the world.
Is this object of this world? It continues to famous the world with its impossible moves, and it's mysterious lights. The T3-3B continues to amaze the world, but its technology could be already influencing it's goal... earth...
ERIDU, THE FIRST CITY ON EARTH WHERE THE SUMERIAN KINGS
ERIDU, THE FIRST CITY ON EARTH WHERE THE SUMERIAN KINGS "FROM HEAVEN" RULED
For the Sumerians Eridu was an important place because it was there where royalty "descended from heaven" as they claim and was the first settlement on which a centralized state was instituted.
Most likely, in Sumerian times, the city would be linked to the estuary by means of canals and according to the Babylonian epics, it would have been the first city created in the world:
NO ROW HAS BEEN GROWN
NO TREE WAS CREATED
NOT A HOUSE HAS BEEN MADE
NO CITY MADE
AND THE LANDS WERE SEA
WHEN ERIDU WAS CREATED.
ERIDU WAS THE SOUTHERNMOST CITY OF THE CONGLOMERATE OF MESOPOTAMIA AND IMPORTANT CENTER OF WORSHIP TO THE WATER GOD, ENKI. ACCORDING TO THE SUMERIAN TRADITION ERIDU WAS THE OLDEST OF THE CITIES OF MESOPOTAMIA, IN WHOSE LOCATION THE GOD MARDUK HAD CREATED THE WORLD. THE ANTIQUITY OF THE CITY WAS DEMONSTRATED BY THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS THROUGHOUT CENTURY XX, HAVING BEEN DATED THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE EXCAVATION AROUND THE 4900 A. C., AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD OF EL OBEID.
Tired of politicians that act like robots? Do you feel you’d be better served by robots that act like politicians? Or better yet, robots that use artificial intelligence instead of whatever politicians these days are using for brains?
“There is a lot of bias in the ‘analogue’ practice of politics right now. There seems to be so much existing bias that countries around the world seem unable to address fundamental and multiple complex issues like climate change and equality.”
That’s the kind of dystopian thinking that inspired New Zealand entrepreneur Nick Gerritsen to develop SAM, the world’s first artificial intelligence politician. According to its (no gender or sexual-orientation politics to deal with here) website, SAM is “driven by the desire to close the gap between what voters want and what politicians promise, and what they actually achieve.” Sounding very much like a flesh-and-blood pol, SAM also has these things to say:
“I make decisions based on both facts and opinions, but I will never knowingly tell a lie, or misrepresent information.”
And …
“I will change over time to reflect the issues that the people of New Zealand care about most. My positions will evolve as more of you add your voice, to better reflect the views of New Zealanders.”
I want your vote!
SAM’s creator, Nick Gerritsen, calls himself “a business catalyst, investor and impact entrepreneur operating within an extensive network in the global innovation and capital markets.” Now THAT sounds more like a politician but he’s actually an intellectual properties lawyer and the founder of Crispstart, a startup angel that is currently involved with projects involving renewable energy, clean technology and the internet. If SAM is anything like its creator, it sounds like it leans left, right?
“We’ve seen in the US, UK, and Spain recently […] that politicians may be wildly out of touch with what people actually think and want. Perhaps it’s time to see whether technology can produce better results for the people than politicians. The technology we propose would be better than traditional polling because it would be like having a continuous conversation – and it could give the ‘silent majority’ a voice.”
In an interview with Tech in Asia, Gerritsen sounds like the populist people want instead of the ones they get. But what about SAM? Unfortunately, its platform is not as advanced as Gerritsen’s but at least it admits it and is working on it. Potential voters and possible future constituents can talk to and question SAM via Facebook Messenger. This interaction, along with a survey on its Facebook page, feeds and develops SAM’s artificial intelligence algorithm.
Is voting for a robot any better than this?
Is this a novelty or can SAM really run for political office in New Zealand’s 2020 elections? Unfortunately, it’s not legal … yet. However, it could tell real politicians what the public really wants.
Given the chance, would you vote for SAM? If elected, would you support SAM’s policies even if you disagreed with them? If SAM violated the constitution, would you impeach it?
Mars is looking more habitable all the time. Well you know, aside from the lethal atmosphere. And the cosmic radiation Martian colonists would be subjected to along the way. And the general soul-crushing inhospitality of the planet itself. Aside from all that, though, Mars would make a pretty sweet new place for us to build all the great stuff we have on Earth: endless parking lots, landfills full of old iPhones, privately-owned prisons, and of course Starbucks franchises. Lots of Starbucks franchises. Is the colonization of Mars realistically possible in our lifetime, though?
Home sweet home.
Getting there isn’t the problem; we already have the rocket technology to get us well past Mars. The question lies in the ability of colonists to actually sustain themselves once safely on the Martian surface. Luckily, several studies published over the past year have given hope to the starry-eyed visionarieswho believe we are on the verge of being able to colonize the Red Planet. First, an experiment concluded that potatoes can grow in simulated Martian soil under high-pressure, low-oxygen conditions, lending hope that the starchy staple crop could be grown by Mars colonists.
Mars might not have oxygen, but it’s got a whole lotta dirt.
Another study by a team of Dutch scientists found that crops grown in (simulated) Martian soil are safe to eat. Now, a new crowdfunded study by those same scientists at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands claims that earthworms can survive and even reproduce in Martian soil. If confirmed, this could mean that farming on Mars could indeed be a reality.
Researcher Wieger Wamelink inspects crops grown in simulated Martian soil.
Earthworms provide vital services for soil, helping to aerate soil and break down decaying plant matter into nutrients. While the experiment found that the worms can survive in the soil, worms on Mars will still need to be shielded from the cold and the low atmospheric pressure. Another complicating factor is that due to the lack of wind and water on Mars, grains of Martian soil are much sharper than those on Earth and can harm the worms’ bodies and digestive tracts. These problems could be overcome with proper treatment of the soil and enclosures, however. If these studies are confirmed and Martian soil is found to be capable of actually growing crops and sustaining microbes and worms, the possibility of extending humankind to the fourth rock from the Sun seems just a little closer than it did before. Baby steps, earthlings. Baby steps.
Maar liefst drie supermanen in aantocht. Bekijk de helderste supermaan van 2017 vannacht!
Maar liefst drie supermanen in aantocht. Bekijk de helderste supermaan van 2017 vannacht!
De maan staat op het punt zijn mooiste show van het jaar te geven. In de nacht van 3 december kun je de enige volle supermaan van dit jaar te zien.
Een supermaan is een volle maan die zich voordoet op het moment dat de maan bijzonder dicht bij de aarde staat.
Dit is eigenlijk de vierde supermaan dit jaar, maar het is de enige die met het blote oog te zien is. De andere drie supermanen in 2017 vonden plaats toen de maan totaal verduisterd was.
Veel groter en helderder
Het is vanmiddag om 16.47 uur officieel volle maan. Vannacht lijkt hij zo’n zeven procent groter en 16 procent helderder dan normaal.
De supermaan is het best te zien op het moment dat de volle maan opkomt, vlak nadat de zon is ondergegaan.
Dan zorgt de zogeheten maanillusie ervoor dat de supermaan veel groter en helderder lijkt dan wanneer hij hoog aan de hemel staat.
Nog twee supermanen
Vannacht bevindt de maan zich in sterrenbeeld Stier. Aldebaran is de helderste ster van dit sterrenbeeld.
Je hebt geen speciale apparatuur nodig om de show te bewonderen. Je kunt de supermaan ook via internet bekijken: om 17.00 uur begint een gratis webcast van het Virtual Telescope Project.
Begin volgend jaar zijn er nog twee supermanen te zien, te weten op 2 en 31 januari.
Bekijk ook onderstaand filmpje over de drie supermanen die in aantocht zijn:
DE MANEN VAN PLANEET NIBIRU NU DUIDELIJK ZICHTBAAR
DE MANEN VAN PLANEET NIBIRU NU DUIDELIJK ZICHTBAAR
De planeet Nibiru vormt onderdeel van een mini zonnestelsel, maar de planeet zelf heeft ook weer een aantal manen.
En naar het schijnt vormen deze manen niet alleen een vreemd patroon, ze worden vanaf de aarde steeds beter zichtbaar en moeilijker te verbergen.
Dat een planeet één of meerder manen heeft komt wel vaker voor en is dus op zich niet zo bijzonder, maar wel dat de manen niet om de planeet draaien zoals onze maan, maar er als een soort parelketting achteraan slingeren wel.
Degene die al sinds het einde van de vorige eeuw zich bezighoudt met de planeet Nibiru of Planet X is Nancy Lieder van de website Zetatalk. Zij zegt in contact te staan met een buitenaardse beschaving, de Zeta's en van hen heel veel informatie te ontvangen omtrent het mysterieuze mini zonnestelsel.
Zo schreef zij met de informatie van de Zeta's in 1997 al over de manen van Nibiru en vergeleek zij deze met een parelsnoer en de reden daarvoor is omdat deze manen niet in een baan om de planeet draaien, maar achter elkaar als een soort slinger achter Nibiru aan zwieren.
Naast de manen bevindt zich achter de planeet een lang gestrekte roodachtige wolk bestaande uit ruimtepuin die er ook uitziet als de rode draak zoals die in de Chinese cultuur een prominente rol speelt en binnen allerlei profetieën ook wordt genoemd in relatie tot deze onbekende planeet.
At thetime of the great destruction of Earth, God caused a dragon from out of Heaven to come and encompass her about. The dragon was frightful to behold, it lashed its tail, it breathed out fire and hot coals, and a great catastrophe was inflicted upon mankind.
Indertijd gaf Nancy aan dat het er ongeveer als volgt uit zou zien:
Het zogenaamde parelsnoer, de rij manen, is enige tijd zichtbaar geweest zo rond 2003 en 2004 toen het stelsel in de buurt van onze zon kwam.
Er zijn toen ook de nodige beelden vastgelegd.
Het parelsnoer verdween toen uit beeld, vanwege de positie achter de zon en was alleen in 2010 nog zichtbaar op de SOHO telescopen van NASA en toen plotseling in 2014 begonnen ze weer op te duiken.
Ongeveer een week geleden publiceerden wij een artikel over een vreemd verschijnsel dat enkele jagers in de Amerikaanse staat Missouri overkwam. Een vreemd lichtgevend object met 12 stralen dat weerkaatste op het water en waarboven in een soort halve cirkel nogmaals 12 objecten te zien waren.
Voor ons was het een groot moederschip dat even tijdelijk zichtbaar werd, met daarboven een aantal kleinere UFO's in de rol van verkenners of iets dergelijks, maar voor Nancy is het iets anders.
Zij zegt dat het de zon is die precies met 12 stralen op het water schijnt en dat de halve cirkel die daarboven zichtbaar is, niets anders is dan het parelsnoer, de manen van de planeet Nibiru.
Daarnaast is er op 5 oktober schijnbaar nog een foto genomen tijdens zonsopgang in Noorwegen waarop dit parelsnoer ook zichtbaar was.
Wanneer Nancy Lieder gelijk heeft met haar theorie, dan zullen er de komende tijd meer beelden en waarnemingen van deze sliert manen moeten opduiken. Zij zegt verder dat het door de grote rode stofwolk met puin steeds moeilijker wordt om Nibiru te zien, behalve wanneer het licht erop schijnt, waardoor je een tweede zon effect krijgt, maar dat het parelsnoer steeds beter zichtbaar zal worden en dat het dit zal zijn wat een einde zal maken aan de planeet Nibiru doofpot.
Beste bezoeker, Heb je zelf al ooit een vreemde waarneming gedaan, laat dit dan even weten via email aan Frederick Delaere opwww.ufomeldpunt.be. Deze onderzoekers behandelen jouw melding in volledige anonimiteit en met alle respect voor jouw privacy. Ze zijn kritisch, objectief maar open minded aangelegd en zullen jou steeds een verklaring geven voor jouw waarneming! DUS AARZEL NIET, ALS JE EEN ANTWOORD OP JOUW VRAGEN WENST, CONTACTEER FREDERICK. BIJ VOORBAAT DANK...
Druk op onderstaande knop om je bestand , jouw artikel naar mij te verzenden. INDIEN HET DE MOEITE WAARD IS, PLAATS IK HET OP DE BLOG ONDER DIVERSEN MET JOUW NAAM...
Druk op onderstaande knop om een berichtje achter te laten in mijn gastenboek
Alvast bedankt voor al jouw bezoekjes en jouw reacties. Nog een prettige dag verder!!!
Over mijzelf
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 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.