Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
15-12-2017
Is sigaarvormige asteroïde Oumuamua een buitenaardse sonde met kapotte motoren? Deze topastronoom denkt van wel
Is sigaarvormige asteroïde Oumuamua een buitenaardse sonde met kapotte motoren? Deze topastronoom denkt van wel
Wetenschappers onderzoeken momenteel of een enorm sigaarvormig object in ons zonnestelsel een buitenaardse sonde is.
Eén astronoom claimt dat de ruimterots, genaamd Oumuamua, een buitenaards ruimteschip met kapotte motoren kan zijn.
Dr. Jason Wright van de Penn State University suggereert dat een kapot buitenaards schip op precies dezelfde manier zou bewegen als de interstellaire ‘komeet’.
Tuimelt
Oumuamua is ongeveer 800 meter lang, zo’n 80 meter breed en raast met honderdduizenden kilometers per uur door ons zonnestelsel.
Volgens astronomen beweegt het niet zoals andere stukken rotsen door de ruimte, maar ‘tuimelt’ het object door ons zonnestelsel.
Zo’n wrak zou, als het niet zo snel beweegt dat het uit het sterrenstelsel kan ontsnappen, uiteindelijk net als andere interstellaire kometen of asteroïden rondzwerven in de ruimte, aldus professor Wright.
Von Neumann-sonde
Hij denkt dat het object een Von Neumann-sonde kan zijn, een zelfreplicerend ruimteschip dat zonnestelsels aandoet.
“Zo’n ontdekking zou impliceren dat er op ieder moment veel van dit soort dingen in het zonnestelsel zijn (zelfs als ze doelbewust op de zon afkomen zijn ze moeilijk te spotten en zullen we de meeste ervan missen) en dat er dus ook veel kansen zijn om ze te bestuderen,” voegde hij toe.
Dr. Wright stelde eerder dat het mysterieuze gedrag van de ster KIC 8462852 veroorzaakt kan worden door een buitenaardse megastructuur.
Eerste bezoeker
Normaal gesproken worden asteroïden vergezeld door een karakteristieke stofstaart, maar die ontbreekt bij Oumuamua.
Dit suggereert volgens experts dat het object, de eerste bezoeker van buiten ons zonnestelsel, mogelijk bestaat uit metaal.
De duivel is veel intelligenter dan wij. Paus waarschuwt in dit interview dat satan een echt persoon is
De duivel is veel intelligenter dan wij. Paus waarschuwt in dit interview dat satan een echt persoon is
“De duivel is slecht. Hij is niet zoals de mist. Hij is niet iets diffuus, hij is een persoon. Als je eenmaal met hem aan de praat raakt, ben je verloren. Hij is intelligenter dan wij.” Die woorden gebruikte paus Franciscus in een zondag uitgezonden interview met de Italiaanse tv-zender Tv2000.
Als je contact zoekt met de duivel, dan laat hij je vallen, hij verdraait je kop, zei de paus. Het kwade, de duivel, heeft een voor- en achternaam, hij komt bij ons thuis.
“Hij doet of hij beschaafd is. Tegen ons priesters en bisschoppen gedraagt hij zich beschaafd. En als je het niet tijdig in de gaten hebt, loopt het slecht af,” zei de paus.
Tegengewerkt
Franciscus heeft het regelmatig over satan of de duivel. Zo meent hij dat de boze werkzaam is telkens als er minderjarigen seksueel worden misbruikt.
Ook wanneer de paus zelf als hoofd van de Katholieke Kerk wordt tegengewerkt bij zijn hervormingen, is dat het werk van de duivel.
Vermomd
Met het kwade ga je geen dialoog aan, waarschuwde de paus in het vraaggesprek.
Franciscus verwees enkele jaren geleden ook naar satan. In 2013 zei hij tijdens een toespraak op het Sinter-Pietersplein dat de duivel vaak verschijnt ‘vermomd als een engel die ons gewiekst toespreekt’.
MYSTERIEUZE COMMUNICATIE MET VERDWENEN ARGENTIJNSE ONDERZEEËR ?
MYSTERIEUZE COMMUNICATIE MET VERDWENEN ARGENTIJNSE ONDERZEEËR ?
Sinds half november 2017 wordt een Argentijnse onderzeeër met 44 opvarenden vermist die onderweg was vanuit het zuidelijk gelegen vuurland naar Mar del Plata, ongeveer 400 kilometer ten zuidoosten van Buenos Aires.
Op 2 december zijn een aantal mensen getuige van hoe mannen in vreemde doorschijnende pakken via lichtflitsen communiceren met iets op zee, precies in het zoekgebied van de verdwenen onderzeeër.
Het zoeken naar de vermiste Argentijnse onderzeeër ARA San Juan die je op de volgende afbeelding ziet in de haven van Buenos Aires, is inmiddels gestaakt en er is geen enkele hoop meer op overlevenden.
De laatste keer dat er contact is geweest met de onderzeeër is geweest in de Golf van St. George en dat is op het volgende kaartje aangegeven als zoekgebied.
Ons verhaal speelt zich af op een onherbergzame plaats aan de Argentijnse kust, Mazaredo, en op de volgende kaart aangegeven met een rode cirkel. Pal tegenover het gebied waar voor het laatst contact was met de verdwenen onderzeeër.
In dat onherbergzame gebied bij de baai van Mazaredo zagen een aantal getuigen heel merkwaardige dingen, wat begon op 2 december 2017. Ze hebben een verslag ingediend bij Mufon die dat hebben geregistreerd onder nummer 88710.
De hoofdgetuige vermeldt in zijn verslag dat ze een trip maakten via de N281 naar Puerto Deseado nabij de kust. In plaats van rechtdoor rijden naar hun bestemming zijn ze op een gegeven moment linksaf geslagen en kwamen ze via de N68, N70 en N14 in de buurt van Mazaredo. De reden dat ze dit deden, was omdat ze een oud postkantoor en telegraafinstallatie uit 1905 wilden bezoeken dat gevestigd is aan de Mazaredo baai.
Ze kwamen 's avonds laat aan, gingen slapen en togen de volgende morgen te voet naar de kust die op ongeveer zeven kilometer afstand lag, omdat ze op die manier mooie natuurfoto's konden maken.
Op een gegeven moment konden ze niet verder omdat hun pad werd afgesneden door een klein ravijn en aan de overkant op een soort hoger plateau zien ze vijf witte Range Rovers, met aan de zijkanten een symbool dat eruit zag als een oranje cirkel met een lijn erdoor. Ook zagen ze mensen rondlopen die gekleed leken te zijn in een soort doorzichtige kleding. Verder zagen ze drie torens van ongeveer tien meter hoog en een groot object in de vorm van een kegel.
Het kegelvormige object wees in de richting van de zee en maakte een geluid zoals walvissen dat doen, een zogenaamde whale song. Ongeveer tien seconden later zien ze flitsend pulserend licht dat in de richting van de horizon op zee schijnt en dan plotsklaps komt er een antwoord vanaf zee, keer op keer. Dit is dus exact dezelfde positie waar de verdwenen onderzeeër voor het laatst is gezien.
De getuigen zwaaien naar de mensen in de vreemde kleding, roepen "hallo" en er wordt teruggezwaaid met een begroeting. Wanneer ze later bij de kust aankomen, treffen ze daar nog twee mensen die hen vragen of ze op bezoek gaan naar het oude postkantoor.
De mannen vertellen vervolgens wat bijzonderheden over het oude postkantoor en geven hen aanwijzingen over hoe ze moeten lopen. De getuigen stellen vragen over de voertuigen en de torens die ze hebben gezien en zij antwoorden dat ze iets zoeken, iets wetenschappelijks dat voor hen van groot belang is zonder verder te vertellen wat het is.
Ze blijven daar nog een dag of drie en zien die vreemde mensen nog een keer of tien, maar gaan er nooit naartoe. Toen ze weggingen en de door hen gemaakte foto's wilden bekijken, bleek dat alle foto's blanco waren; er stond niets meer op.
Verder hebben ze geen nadelige gevolgen ondervonden en voelen ze zich goed.
Wie waren die mannen in vreemde, bijna doorzichtige kleding in auto's met een oranje symbool op de zijkant? Wat was die vreemde kegel, waarmee ze duidelijk communiceerden met iets op zee? En bovenal natuurlijk, wie of wat antwoordde er vanaf zee?
De plek ligt pal tegenover de plaats waar de onderzeeër is verdwenen en waar tot voor kort het zoekgebied was. Misschien allemaal toeval, maar daar lijkt het niet op en moet men zich misschien gaan afvragen of die onderzeeër wel werkelijk is verdwenen zoals in de media wordt gerapporteerd.
Wij weten uiteraard het antwoord ook niet, maar zijn er wel van overtuigd dat hier hoogst waarschijnlijk heel andere dingen spelen.
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Be aware of the beams from the sky - They are in full swing!
Be aware of the beams from the sky - They are in full swing!
What are the chances that 3 of the largest avionics military laser companies are located in the same exact area as the Santa Rosa, CA fires occurred, yet none got torched?
L-3 technologies, Keysight, AEG Industries and Sonoma Design Group are all in Santa Rosa and are held by some of the largest weapons manufactures in the world!
Additionally, over two weeks now, and no official 'story' about how so many fires self ignited all at once in the middle of the dark of night.
5G, Pacific Gas and Electric? Climate Change w/ Diablo Winds? Are all being talked about but none come close to explain the hell fires that occurred and torched metal, glass, rubber, granite, etc. to the ground in minutes, yet left trees and other buildings in tact.
The second video shows Debora Tavares' interview with Jeff Rense in 2015 conclusively provides documented proof of premeditation of fire destruction of Sonoma and Mendocino Counties, in Northern California using microwave weaponry.
Additionally, RFID trackers are being used to locate victims in the vaporized rubble that is left of former residences.
Part II will cover the logging companies efforts to provide massive fuel for West Coast forest fires using the hackn' squirt tree destroying methods of the Fischer Brothers, of Levi Strauss Jeans and GAP Stores fame.
This is all part of Agenda 21, which we will show is in full swing directly after the fires.
Nostradamus, famous for his accurate predictions, left behind a creative legacy-the quatrain, which has for centuries commentators see something quite amazing that goes beyond simple coincidence. Time passes and a new generation discovers a new understanding of the previously described phrases.
It happened at this time, there was a Mr. Chase, who saw in the book of revelation the great Nostradamus, the alien attack in 2017. In the opinion of the interpreter of the quatrain, the aliens are preparing for a major assault on Earth within the next year. Mr. chase claims that he was able to decipher the prophecies of Nostradamus the book of revelation.
According to the author as soon as I start the third world war, then come to Earth by aliens. This event is timed in prophecy for the second coming of Christ to be true until 2020. Putin will win the alien army and take over the planet that people lived peacefully. Aliens, posthouses on the Ground will change our DNA and make us more relaxed, for a long and happy life. Putin is described in the prophecy as the man responsible for starting world war III.
Mr. Chase, said, “In Revelation 19 speaks about UFO invasion – “I saw the heavens open and the armies of heaven followed on white horses””. White horses could well be a UFO or Christ and his fleet arrived to defeat the Antichrist at the battle of Armageddon,” muses Mr. chase. He also says that “the description of the creation of the new Jerusalem in Revelation 21, most likely, a giant alien city, who came to earth from another dimension as a base.
The prehistoric origins of life on Earth may have begun in space, a new study published in the Journal of Chemical Physics suggests.
Researchers at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada created a simulated space environment in which thin sheets of ice containing methane and oxygen were irradiated by electron beams, in a similar manner to what happens to objects in space. The chemical reaction caused a number of small organic chemicals to form on the icy films in a space-like environment.
The new molecules included ethanol, acetic acid, acetylene, formaldehyde and ethane, some of which are key molecules or building blocks needed for early organisms.
The research opens the possibility that our origins are extraterrestrial.
The first life on Earth began around 4 billion years ago, but this finding suggests the building blocks needed for this to happen may have come from space, strengthening the theory that life may have begun outside our planet.
The study was carried out under vacuum conditions, which mimics outer space conditions, according to the journal Astrobiology. The ice films were used as various types of ice form around dust grains in molecular clouds in space, and similar icy environments exist on asteroids, comets and moons.
A tiny ‘plasmid’, a circular strand of DNA used in genetic engineering, was sent into space from Sweden in 2011 on the exterior of a TEXUS-49 rocket. After enduring 1,000C heat it was found to still be intact and with its biological properties when it returned to Earth.
Some scientists believe this is a seed sent to earth by aliens. µµ
If DNA can remain ‘alive’ in space and back to the Earth, it means that it is a pretty solid material, able to resist a cocktail of extreme conditions. As a matter of fact, scientists have, in the past, proposed that DNA from outer space might have reached us while we remain oblivious of it. DNA materials might be preserved in dust and meteorites that hit our planet’s surface.
Life on Earth has its origins in the cosmos
Scientists in the UK and Japan launch in 2014 the ISPA (Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics) which seeks to prove life on Earth originated from Space.
In the Vedic writings of ancient India, ideas of the cosmic nature of life stretch back as far as the 2nd millennium BC. The Universe was considered to be a living entity where every form of life, including life on Earth, found its genesis.
Mainstream science and institutions have fought against theories which expound these beliefs but now evidence from meteorites, from samples of bacteria from space and from space observation is making resistance more difficult. Research into this area is not being adequately funded by governments or institutions. Proving that the Earth is in a constant exchange of matter with the larger cosmos would have implications not only in terms of our identity, but could also give us insight into alien viruses which may be important for our group identity, evolution and survival itself.
Scientists Found Microorganisms in Antarctica that were Thought to be Unable to Live on Earth
Scientists Found Microorganisms in Antarctica that were Thought to be Unable to Live on Earth
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Australian and New Zealand scientists have discovered two new types of bacteriapreviously believed to be impossible to live on Earth, the Tape reported.
In order to maintain the metabolism of the WPS-2 and AD3, the atmosphere is sufficient to supply hydrogen, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, he said. "We assume that atmospheric hydrogen, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide provide such colony-based organisms with reliable sources of energy and carbon, so that atmospheric sources of energy supported by solar and geological sources can serve as an alternative to the functioning of ecosystems," they noted scientists.
WPS-2 and AD3 were found in surface layers in two polar deserts in the eastern part of Antarctica. In these areas, scientists have traces of several microorganisms. Experts managed to restore genomes to 23 of them, including WPS-2 and AD3. Scientists' discovery confirms the possibility for organisms to live even in the most extreme conditions, including the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
The 500m diameter FAST radio in September 2017 upon the first anniversary of being switched on.
CNS
China's FAST radio telescope has discovered three new pulsars, the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) announced this week, taking its discovery total to nine.
FAST, which stands for Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, is the world's largest single aperture radio telescope and came online in September last year.
FAST made its first confirmed finds earlier this year. The pulsars PSR J1859-01 and PSR J1931-02 were detected on August 22 and 25, confirmed by the Parkes telescope in Australia on September 10, and announced in October.
The giant facility has since been discovering pulsars 'almost every night', with six being internationally certified before this week.
Speaking after the formal announcement of FAST's first pulsar discoveries, director of NAOC Yan Jun said, "The two new discovered pulsars symbolize the dawn of a new era of systematic discoveries by Chinese radio telescopes".
Details of the pulsar #1 discovered by China's 500m FAST radio telescope. µ
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Trials and pulsars
Pulsars, discovered 50 years ago as a mystery space signal, are rapidly rotating remnants of formerly massive stars and are sometimes referred to as 'lighthouses' of the universe due to their regular rotational periods and focused electromagnetic radiation emissions.
The telescope is still going through trial operations, but when it comes fully online in 2019, it is expected to discover around 100 pulsars each year.
"We can detect high-quality pulsar candidates almost every night," Li Di, chief scientist of the Radio Astronomy Division of the National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), told Xinhua in October.
FAST is located in Guizhou Province and operated by NAOC, under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Construction of the gargantuan project began back in 2011 in a karst depression in Guizhou Province in southwest China, which has largely now been made a radio-quiet area.
FAST is made up of 4,600 panels giving it a collecting area of 196,000 square metres, dwarfing the next largest single dish radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which at 305 metres across has a 73,000 square metre collecting area.
Placing one of the 4,600 panels during the construction of the FAST radio telescope in Guizhou Province, China. CNS
FAST science goals
Viewing the universe by collecting radio frequency radiation, FAST will be capable of detecting very weak signals from space, and could make contributions in areas such as large-scale physics of the universe and understanding the nature of dark matter.
As well as seeking to confirm the existence of gravitational radiation and black holes, FAST will be used to detect molecules such as long-chain carbon molecules in the interstellar medium - the space between stars - and survey hydrogen levels in the Milky Way and other galaxies.
It will also contribute to the international search for intelligent extraterrestrial life (SETI) by listening for signals from exoplanets and could also be used to track spacecraft involved in China's space program, such as the 2020 mission to Mars.
The stamp issued to commemorate the 500 metre FAST radio telescope.
For as long as us Earthlings have been gazing into the sky, we’ve been obsessed with the potential for life outside of the planet we call home. Countless films have teased out where extraterrestrial life might be hiding, but all of those have been the creation of directors on a silver screen.
Now, thanks to the efforts of the NASA scientists behind the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN), we might have a better idea of where aliens could be by using data collected from one of Earth’s planetary neighbors.
MAVEN doesn’t get the same kind of press as the Pluto-visiting New Horizons or the dearly departed Cassini, but its three years of work in orbit around Mars have provided invaluable data. This underrated space probe has helped reveal how Mars lost its initial carbon dioxide atmosphere around four billion years ago.thathas been gathering information about Mars’s atmosphere since November 2014.
That atmospheric data has let the NASA scientists study whether other planetssimilar to Mars could sustain life if they were orbiting not at 1.5 times Earth’s distance from our sun but rather close in around a red dwarf, which would be much warmer. Their years of research will be presented at the American Geophysical Union Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana this week.
“Habitability is one of the biggest topics in astronomy, and these estimates demonstrate one way to leverage what we know about Mars and the Sun to help determine the factors that control whether planets in other systems might be suitable for life,” Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN’s principal investigator at the University of Colorado Boulder, said in a statement.
MAVEN has been keeping an eye on how the radiation from the sun has been whittling away at Mars’ atmosphere during its time in orbit. This gives the team insights on how quickly the ebbing and flowing radiation from stars degrades the atmosphere of rocky planets.
With this information in hand, the scientists ran simulations to see what kind of effects the energy from a red dwarf — the most common type of star in our galaxy — would have on Mars-like planets.
While the research possibilities presented by the MAVEN data are exciting, the findings of these simulations weren’t as much. Red dwarfs radiate some pretty potent ultraviolet rays, and that’s seriously bad news for life. Specifically, this simulated planet would get hit with five to ten times more UV radiation than Mars has been. These levels of radiation could blast the atmosphere off of this hypothetical planet way faster than the Sun did for Mars, making it not so safe for living.
Even though this experiment ended on a bit of a sad note, MAVEN has given scientists of ton of data that can be used on the hunt for alien life in the future.
'Close Encounters' at 40: How Spielberg Made Sci-Fi's Mothership Connection
'Close Encounters' at 40: How Spielberg Made Sci-Fi's Mothership Connection
Four decades ago, the director bet everything on an intimate science-fiction epic – and bridged the gap between two eras of moviemaking
Revisiting 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' on its 40th anniversary – and why it may still be Steven Spielberg's best movie ever.Everett Collection
How do you follow up a record-breaking blockbuster about a killer shark? For starters, you get out of the ocean. And then maybe you look up.
A longtime watcher of the skies, young Steven Spielberg had already been kicking around an idea involving alien visitation, spacecraft "sightings" and government cover-ups – some sort of story, in the gentleman's own words, about "UFOs and Watergate" – before he had started turning Peter Benchley's novel Jaws into a movie. One three-men-and-an-apex-predator hit later, he was a hot Hollywood director who had folks ready to sign on for whatever he did next. That included Columbia Pictures, as well as Taxi Driver producers Michael and Julia Phillips, who gamely took the director's extraterrestrial-visitors story and got him a greenlight. The result both delighted his patrons – Fox had opened a space opera earlier that year, hence the company was thrilled to have their own science fiction movie on deck – and worried them, given this expensive project was supposed to have come out the previous summer before production problems caused delays. Now, the film was going to make or break the nearly bankrupt studio.
So, in a moment of bet-hedging, Columbia decided to give Spielberg's movie with the screwy name – what the fuck was a Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and why are you driving our marketing department to drink, Steven? – a mid-November opening in two theaters, the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles and the Ziegfeld in New York. Screenings kept selling out. Their confidence had been restored thanks to these two reconnaissance runs. Now it was time to land the mothership.
It was 40 years ago today that Close Encounters of the Third Kind opened in wide release and, in quick succession, proved that Jaws was not a fluke, helped put the financially ailing Columbia firmly back into the black, established the filmmaker as someone with a knack for directing kids and grounding the fantastic, dropped that title phase into the popular lexicon and made John Williams' communicative musical motif famous. (Hum those first three notes – Dun-DUN-duuun – then check out the number of people who chime in with the two-note resolution: DUUUNNN-dun.) You could argue that, while Spielberg would go on to make more notable works involving wonderment, aliens, families, paranoia and suburbia, respectively, there are few that distill everything that's great about his filmmaking in such a pure, well-wrapped package. And seen four decades after it first hit theaters en masse, Close Encounters now feels like an incredibly pivotal American movie – the bridge between the intimate, grungy movies of the Seventies and the spectacular eye-candy blockbusters of the Eighties.
Seriously, when was the last time you watched this spirit-of-'77 sci-fi touchstone in any of its iterations? (We recommend the "Director's Cut," which blends the best parts of the theatrical cut and the "Special Edition," minus the latter's Pink-Floyd-laser-light-show ending. More on that in a minute.) If it's been a while, the first things that come to mind are probably the climactic interstellar meet-and-greet, the sculpted mound of spuds on Richard Dreyfuss's dinner table, the iconic visual of five-year-old Cary Guffey opening his front door and basking in an unearthly orange glow – an image that Spielberg claimed was one of the first conceptual sparks he'd imagined for the project.You remember the bigger moments, the ones in which those bright lights are whizzing through the air and Gregory Jein's mothership model, hovering over Devil's Tower, inspires awestruck faces framed in the director's customary low-angle shots.
It's no wonder these scenes are burned into your memory: Time has been particularly kind to Close Encounters, even if the special effects occasionally carbon-date the movie to the Carter era. What you might not remember, however, are the atmospheric things that Spielberg scatters throughout the movie, the ones that add immensely to its texture. Most of us had probably forgotten that the film starts in the Sonora desert in Mexico, with barely visible figures wandering through dust storms – the same sort of feint that The Exorcist used by kicking off at an archeological dig in Iraq before getting around to the head-spinning money shots. You can practically smell the stale coffee and flop sweat in the air-traffic control tower sequence, and the panic as people pitch coal-mine canaries in the evacuation sequence. Never mind the toys coming to life in a kid's bedroom; it's the extraordinary close-up on Guffey's face that follows, in which he expresses first dawning wonder then outright joy upon meeting his new alien friends, that makes the scene work. Go to the two-minute mark in the clip below. Those 15 seconds are the director's equivalent of the end of Chaplin's City Lights.
The gritty touches and grace notes are what really stick out now, the same way that Roy Scheider and his son crushing the Dixie cups in a faux-manly manner in Jaws adds so much humanity to the sound and fury while barely breaking a cinematic sweat. No one does this anymore, not in big movies. Spielberg told Sight & Sound magazine at the time that he wanted Close Encounters to be "about people and not about events," which feels like a very Seventies/New Hollywood conceit. (He also said that the film "does to UFOs what The French Connection said about crime in the street and narcotics and New York City," so keep that grain of salt handy.)
And for all of what the director termed "cosmic entertainment" epicness on display, this is also a movie takes place in a very recognizable America, one filled with ratty nightgowns and station wagons and instant mashed potatoes, of harried moms and frayed marriages. Yes, the scene in which our otherworldly visitors try to get Melinda Dillon's son, ending with a tug of war in a doggie door, is terrifying. So is Richard Dreyfuss' melting down in the shower, his son screaming "Crybaby" at him, which Spielberg later admitted came from his own life. No aliens there, just a nervous breakdown. You do not need a Great White or a T. Rex to present audiences with a nightmare.
It's those scenes in Roy Neary's house, the arguments and clucking neighbors and the manic episodes that end with men crawling through their broken kitchen window, that offset and compliment the hugeness of the rest of the film – a mix made explicit when Spielberg puts the giant homemade Devil's Tower in the living room right next to the real one miniaturized on TV. (So much brilliant visual wit in this movie.) They never feel like filler until the main event happens, i.e. the first-contact moments that still give you goosebumps. And even that monument to the breaching of our world and the outer limits of the universe is still rife with the sort of faces you'd see at your local gas station and drug store. They just happen to have their jaws dropping.
The climax, however, also seems to anticipate what will come next in blockbuster movies: the idea of wowing someone into submission. It's common knowledge that Spielberg didn't want to film the "special edition" scenes of Dreyfuss entering the ship; in an interview recorded for the movie's 30th anniversary, he insisted that what lay inside that gigantic vessel should be "the province of the viewer's imagination." While it's great to think of Douglas Trumbull's hallucinogenic take on Noah's Ark as a time-capsule piece – see what cutting-edge FX once looked like, kids! – they are completely superfluous. We've been given everything we need to supply our own wonderment already. And we were about to enter a whole era where such overwhelming spectacle reigned supreme.
Some of those big, blow-out-the-Dolby-speakers movies would come from Spielberg, of course, as well as the generation of filmmakers who cut their teeth studying his work. He'd expand on the ideas embedded in Close Encounters with E.T., in which the idea of friendly intergalactic ambassadors turns into, per the director, "a foreign-exchange program." He'd also embark on a career based on balancing multiplex rollercoaster rides with becoming America's cinematic civics professor. As with any feature filmography that spans nearly 50 years and counting, results will vary: If we have to sit through Amistad and The Terminal to get Munich and Lincoln, we'll take the lumps. But it's this near-perfect blend of the epic and the everyday that remains a testament to what Spielberg, at his very best, can accomplish. His ability to give science fiction a sense of emotional resonance – right at the moment between the genre's cerebral and bombastic chapters – with such a large canvas and yet such an attention to the heartbeat underneath it still feels like a major accomplishment. Who knows whether Close Encounters is his "best" movie. It remains my favorite.
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Warp Speed: The Hype of Hyperspace
Warp Speed: The Hype of Hyperspace
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Spaceships traveling at speeds faster than light is a staple of science fiction writers, who call the concept by many names, including hyperspace, hyperdrive, warp speed and subspace. One famous example is "Star Trek," where the starship Enterprise jumps from star system to star system to visit other planets.
"If Captain Kirk were constrained to move at the speed of our fastest rockets, it would take him a hundred thousand years just to get to the next star system," said Seth Shostak, an astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, Calif., in a 2010 interview with Space.com's sister site LiveScience. "So science fiction has long postulated a way to beat the speed of light barrier so the story can move a little more quickly."
However, the lack of research and scholarly discussion on the transportation method make it more often a convenient literary device than scientific possibility, Shostak said. In reality, the concept of hyperspace is "a lot of hype," Shostak said.
The Millennium Falcon spaceship makes the "jump to light speed" in the movie Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
Credit: 20TH CENTURY FOX
Other dimensions
Physics suggests that shortcuts through space do exist, Shostak said. The curved nature of space was first proposed by Einstein, and quickly led to the idea of a wormhole: a portion of space that curves in on itself, connecting two otherwise distant parts of space. A spacecraft could theoretically skip ahead to a distant region of space if it enters such a wormhole between the two locations.
As in our familiar universe, objects in a wormhole would have to travel slower than the speed of light, which, in a vacuum is 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second). But, a spaceship could appear to have exceeded this limit by traveling through a wormhole and reaching a star system thousand of lights years away in a matter of hours, for example.
However, our access to these inter-space freeways would be limited by the size of the portal.
"Wormholes, we think, are made all the time on a microscopic level," Shostak said. "But the question is, can we actually use them for transportation?"
Finding or creating a wormhole that's going to the right place and scooting through it before it closes up and smashes your spaceship to pieces are two unsolved problems that the laws of physics don't clearly bar or allow.
Technically, it would be possible to warp space to create wormhole if one could place a very dense piece of mass in front of their ship, Shostak said. Perhaps similar to the "hyperspace engine" seen in the "Star Wars" movies, the object would distort the shape of space around it, essentially bringing the chosen destination closer to the ship. But the object would need to have the density of the center of a black hole in order to work.
"The problem is, where do you get the black hole and how do you get it in front of your spacecraft?" Shostak said. "It's sort of like, how do you create something that will warp space and then put it in front of your spacecraft?"
What about teleportation?
A related science fiction idea is teleportation — the possibility of instantly conveying a person or ship into another part of the universe. The phenomenon is seen in "Star Trek," where the so-called transporter deconstructs one's body and reconstructs it at another, distant location.
There is some scientific basis for this idea — scientists have shown that subatomic particles can be moved from one point to another faster than the speed of light, said physicist Ian Durham at Saint Anselm College in a 2010 interview.
But the ability to break apart and reassemble an entire human appears impossible, Durham said. Because of the randomized aspects behind the arrangement of subatomic particles, perfectly reversing them becomes increasingly difficult as they accumulate in greater numbers.
Scientifically looking at hyperspace
While hyperspace is not a current form of space travel, there is ongoing research to determine how viable it is — and what the experience would be like.
In 2013, a group of physics students corrected the view of what happens when spaceships fly at the speed of light. The familiar special effect of streaks of light (seen in "Star Trek," "Star Wars" and other series) would not actually be the case. Instead, the view would appear more like a centralized bright glow.
The fast travel would cause light to shift into longer wavelengths due to the Doppler effect, which also explains phenomena such as why the sound of a car horn changes before it passes an observer and afterward. In space, humans would not be able to see starlight because its wavelengths would be stretched into the X-ray spectrum. Also, the glow of the universe — which glows in microwaves — would become visible because its light would be stretched into the visible spectrum.
For the past few years, news reports have been circulating about a real-life engine called the EmDrive. The concept was first designed by British researcher Roger Shawyer more than a decade ago, but hit wide public attention in 2015 after there were rumors saying that NASA was creating a warp drive. (NASA quickly said the effort "has not shown any tangible results" and emphasized it is not a warp drive.)
What makes the EmDrive interesting is the engine doesn't use any propellant, instead functioning through reflecting microwaves inside of a chamber. A peer-reviewed paper in 2016 (led by Harold "Sonny" White of NASA's Johnson Space Center) said that despite this different design, a variant of the EmDrive does produce thrust. Two other successful tests were reported in 2012 (by a Chinese team) and in 2013 (by the same NASA team). Meanwhile, some researchers have said this engine violates Newton's third law of physics, which (simply speaking) says that every action produces an equal but opposite reaction.
Warp drives in science fiction
These are few of the many examples of warp drives used in science fiction, with an emphasis on television series and movies.
An early mention of warp drive (many sources say it was the first mention) was in the 1931 novel "Islands of Space," by John W. Campbell. The plot in part concerned testing of faster-than-light ship.
"Doctor Who": In this long-running British series, a machine called the TARDIS (which stands for Time and Relative Dimension in Space) can transport the occupants through space or time, plopping them down in exact locations in the universe. The lore of the TARDIS is as sprawling as the "Doctor Who" series itself, which began in 1963 and continues to this day. Famously, a TARDIS looks bigger on the inside than it does on the outside. Some versions of a TARDIS look like an old British police box.
"Dune": In this series of novels by Frank Herbert, the Holtzman Drive takes colonists to far-flung locations. This drive takes ships around the universe by warping space.
"Star Trek": This is the most famous example of warp drives, which were first brought up in the 1967 episode "Metamorphosis." Essentially, the device works through matter-antimatter reactions and can easily propel interstellar ships between star systems. The newest spinoff, "Star Trek: Discovery" (which premiered in 2017) uses another propulsion system called the "spore drive," which can travel almost instantaneously between different locations.
"Star Wars": This universe has certain ships that use a hyperdrive. The use of "hypermatter particles" allows a ship to go at the speed of light and then move in between stars in an alternate dimension called hyperspace. The hyperdrive (and the famous view of star streaks seen by the people operating it) was first seen in the 1977 movie "A New Hope" and has been a staple of the series ever since.
"The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy": The Infinite Probability drive worked on sort of a quantum model, where it would transport people to one of the least improbable locations you'd expect. Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, the story rapidly expanded into books, television and a movie.
"Farscape": The universe of "Farscape," a Syfy network series that ran from 1999 to 2003, includes living ships called Leviathans. Some Leviathans have a starburst ability that lets them travel faster than light in case of emergency.
"Battlestar Galactica": This ship, from a 1978 TV series of the same name and its reboot from 2004 to 2009, had a faster-than-light (or FTL) drive that it used to try to stay one step ahead of the menacing Cylons, mechanical beings who rose up to take revenge on their human creators. The cool thing about FTL drives was that it was hard to track a ship's location between "jumps," making it easier for the ship to evade the Cylons.
Additional reporting by contributor Zoe Macintosh.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is More Than 50 Times Deeper Than Earth's Ocean
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is More Than 50 Times Deeper Than Earth's Ocean
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
NASA's Juno spacecraft is getting to the roots of Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot. New research, collected during the mission's first pass overthe iconic storm, reveals that it extends far beneath the planet's surface. The spacecraft also discovered two newly identified radiation zones.
"One of the most basic questions about Jupiter's Great Red Spot is, how deep are the roots?" Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a statement. Bolton and his team presented Juno's results at the American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans yesterday (Dec. 11).
"Juno data indicate that the solar system's most famous storm is almost one-and-a-half Earths wide, and has roots that penetrate about 200 miles [300 kilometers] into the planet's atmosphere," Bolton said. [Jupiter's Great Red Spot: An Iconic Monster Storm in Pictures]
A wind-movement model animates a mosaic image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot made from JunoCam images. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Justin Cowart
A slowly shrinking storm
Despite being long-lived, Jupiter's Great Red Spot hasn't been a model of consistency. While the massive feature has swirled across Jupiter for at least 200 years — possibly 350, if early telescope observations describe the same storm — it has been slowly shrinking. During the 19th century, and again when NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft sped by on the way to Saturn in 1979, the spot stretched well over two Earths wide. But Earth-based measurements today put the spot at only a third of the size measured by the Voyager probes.
Juno arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, after a nearly five-year flight. Since then, the spacecraft has made eight science passes over the gas giant, with a ninth scheduled for this Saturday (Dec. 16). In July 2017, it made its first close flyby of the Great Red Spot. The spacecraft's Microwave Radiometer probed the clouds surrounding the gigantic storm, measuring their depth in the atmosphere.
Juno's microwave radiometer instrument provided this look down into Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Each of the instrument's six channels detects microwaves from a different depth within the planet.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
"Juno found that the Great Red Spot's roots go 50 to 100 times deeper than Earth's oceans and are warmer at the base than they are at the top," said Andy Ingersoll, a professor of planetary science at Caltech and a Juno co-investigator. "Winds are associated with differences in temperature, and the warmth of the spot's base explains the ferocious winds we see at the top of the atmosphere."
Juno detected a new radiation zone just above the atmosphere near Jupiter's equator. The diagram also indicates regions of high-energy, heavy ions at high latitudes.
"We knew the radiation would probably surprise us, but we didn't think we'd find a new radiation zone that close to the planet," said Heidi Becker, Juno's radiation monitoring investigation lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We only found it because Juno's unique orbit around Jupiter allows it to get really close to the cloud tops during science collection flybys, and we literally flew through it."
Identified by the spacecraft's Jupiter Energetic Particle Detector Instrument, the charged particles are thought to come from fast-moving neutral atoms created in the gas around Jupiter's moons Europa and Io, NASA officials said in the statement. As the particles interact with Jupiter's atmosphere, their electrons are stripped away, giving them a charge.
Juno also found a second charged region around the planet's high latitudes, in realms never before explored by any spacecraft. The origin of these particles, which were detected by Juno's Stellar Reference Unit star camera, remains a mystery.
"The closer you get to Jupiter, the weirder it gets," Becker said.4
Editor's Note:This article was corrected to reflect that an atom's electrons being stripped away would give the atom a positive charge, not a negative charge.
On Thursday, NASA and Google announced the discovery of an eighth planet in the Kepler-90 system, located 2,545 light-years from Earth. While we’re excited about another exoplanet — and the cutting edge machine learningtechnology that was used to find it — it’s not cool that this random world is trying to compete with our solar system.
You see, the discovery of Kepler-90i means that now, the Kepler-90 system is tied with ours for the highest number of planets around a single star. It was discovered using a neural network that analyzed data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope which is admittedly pretty exciting, but the description of this planet isn’t so neat — NASA describes it as a “sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days.”
“The Kepler-90 planets have a similar configuration to our solar system with small planets found orbiting close to their star, and the larger planets found farther away,” NASA wrote in a press release. “In our solar system, this pattern is often seen as evidence that the outer planets formed in a cooler part of the solar system, where water ice can stay solid and clump together to make bigger and bigger planets. The pattern we see around Kepler-90 could be evidence of that same process happening in this system.”
For those who are fiercely fans of our own solar system, the good news is that a ninth planet may be lurking around somewhere. The hunt for our mysterious “Planet 9” is still very much in motion, which, if found, would bring us back to #1 in the universe. Though astronomers have been searching for the hypothetical world since 2016, so far, they’ve had no luck finding it.
More information about Kepler-90i will no doubt emerge over the coming weeks, but one thing’s for sure: it’s messing with the wrong solar system. We’re unnecessarily competitive like that.
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Researchers Just Found (For The First Time) An 8th Planet Orbiting A Star Far, Far Away
Researchers Just Found (For The First Time) An 8th Planet Orbiting A Star Far, Far Away
Our Milky Way galaxy is full of hundreds of billions of worlds just waiting to be found. In 2014, scientists using data from our planet-hunting Kepler space telescope discovered seven planets orbiting Kepler-90, a Sun-like star located 2,500 light-years away. Now, an eighth planet has been identified in this planetary system, making it tied with our own solar system in having the highest number of known planets. Here’s what you need to know:
The new planet is called Kepler-90i.
Kepler-90i is a sizzling hot, rocky planet. It’s the smallest of eight planets in the Kepler-90 system. It orbits so close to its star that a “year” passes in just 14 days.
Average surface temperatures on Kepler-90i are estimated to hover around 800 degrees Fahrenheit, making it an unlikely place for life as we know it.
Its planetary system is like a scrunched up version of our solar system.
The Kepler-90 system is set up like our solar system, with the small planets located close to their star and the big planets farther away. This pattern is evidence that the system’s outer gas planets—which are about the size of Saturn and Jupiter—formed in a way similar to our own.
But the orbits are much more compact. The orbits of all eight planets could fit within the distance of Earth’s orbit around our Sun! Sounds crowded, but think of it this way: It would make for some great planet-hopping.
Kepler-90i was discovered using machine learning.
Most planets beyond our solar system are too far away to be imaged directly. The Kepler space telescope searches for these exoplanets—those planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system—by measuring how the brightness of a star changes when a planet transits, or crosses in front of its disk. Generally speaking, for a given star, the greater the dip in brightness, the bigger the planet!
Researchers trained a computer to learn how to identify the faint signal of transiting exoplanets in Kepler’s vast archive of deep-space data. A search for new worlds around 670 known multiple-planet systems using this machine-learning technique yielded not one, but two discoveries: Kepler-90i and Kepler-80g. The latter is part of a six-planet star system located 1,000 light-years away.
This is just the beginning of a new way of planet hunting.
Kepler-90 is the first known star system besides our own that has eight planets, but scientists say it won’t be the last. Other planets may lurk around stars surveyed by Kepler. Next, researchers are using machine learning with sophisticated computer algorithms to search for more planets around 150,000 stars in the Kepler database.
In the meantime, we’ll be doing more searching with telescopes.
Kepler is the most successful planet-hunting spacecraft to date, with more than 2,500 confirmed exoplanets and many more awaiting verification. Future space missions, like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the James Webb Space Telescope and Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will continue the search for new worlds and even tell us which ones might offer promising homes for extraterrestrial life.
Simply put,an exoplanet is a planet that orbits another star.
All of the planets in our solar system orbit around the Sun. Planets that orbit around other stars outside our solar system are called exoplanets.
Just because a planet orbits a star (like Earth) does not mean that it is automatically stable for life. The planet must be within the habitable zone, which is the area around a star in which water has the potential to be liquid…aka not so close that all the water would evaporate, and not too far away where all the water would freeze.
Exoplanets are very hard to see directly with telescopes. They are hidden by the bright glare of the stars they orbit. So, astronomers use other ways to detect and study these distant planets by looking at the effects these planets have on the stars they orbit.
One way to search for exoplanets is to look for “wobbly” stars. A star that has planets doesn’t orbit perfectly around its center. From far away, this off-center orbit makes the star look like it’s wobbling. Hundreds of planets have been discovered using this method. However, only big planets—like Jupiter, or even larger—can be seen this way. Smaller Earth-like planets are much harder to find because they create only small wobbles that are hard to detect.
How can we find Earth-like planets in other solar systems?
In 2009, we launched a spacecraft called Kepler to look for exoplanets. Kepler looked for planets in a wide range of sizes and orbits. And these planets orbited around stars that varied in size and temperature.
Kepler detected exoplanets using something called the transit method. When a planet passes in front of its star, it’s called a transit. As the planet transits in front of the star, it blocks out a little bit of the star’s light. That means a star will look a little less bright when the planet passes in front of it. Astronomers can observe how the brightness of the star changes during a transit. This can help them figure out the size of the planet.
By studying the time between transits, astronomers can also find out how far away the planet is from its star. This tells us something about the planet’s temperature. If a planet is just the right temperature, it could contain liquid water—an important ingredient for life.
So far, thousands of planets have been discovered by the Kepler mission.
We now know that exoplanets are very common in the universe. And future missions have been planned to discover many more!
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The subject of the documentary Love and Saucers, David Huggins, announces the premise matter-of-factly: “Well, when I was 17 I lost my virginity to a female extraterrestrial.” His life story is fantastical, but there’s an additional wrinkle that transforms Love and Saucers from a familiar alien abduction testimonial into something altogether otherworldly, profoundly mysterious and beautiful: Huggins is a painter, who has spent decades interpreting his experiences on canvas.
Huggins was eight, a young boy in 1950s Georgia, when he had his first encounter. “There was this little hairy guy with large, glowing eyes coming straight toward me. I thought it was the boogeyman, I didn’t know what to think of it. What was interesting was that for a split-second I felt as if I was in his eyes, looking at me. Then I just freaked.”
New documentary Love and Saucers is now available to stream.PHOTO: CURATOR PICTURES, PERCEIVE THINK ACT FILMS AND THE ORCHARD
The encounters escalated quickly. After the hairy guys, the next visitor was a “giant, insect-like being,” resembling a praying mantis. Huggins first encounter with the mantid was terrifying, especially when the giant, spindly thing began spraying a bluish-gray liquid, but Huggins soon found a surprising empathy in the alien being. “He always spoke to me as if I was a child.”
Alien greys dropped from the sky and chase a young David back to his house.PHOTO: DAVID HUGGINS
Then came the greys, whole squads of them, dropping from the sky in blue tunics. They followed him home. “I looked underneath our house, because it was on pillars, and I could see their legs on the other side,” Huggins recounts in the movie. They returned that night and abducted him for the first time. Inside their craft he met Crescent, the alien woman who would take his virginity several years later. Their first meeting was less pleasant: Crescent inserted an object far up David’s nose. “You know how we tag whales and stuff like that?”
Sometime after Crescent first had sex with Huggins, he moved to New York, away from Georgia and his abusive, alcoholic parents. There, the relationship continued for years, with Crescent emerging from a portal in his wall at night. Other creatures often observed their sex. Sometimes, Huggins was taken into space, where he met the children produced by his couplings with Crescent.
Huggins’ experiences are extravagantly unbelievable, nevertheless it’s impossible to watch Love and Saucers and truly disbelieve. This is not because Love and Saucersupends your entire conception of the universe or our place in it; or makes the case for sustained extraterrestrial interference in Earthly affairs. Instead, it’s because of Huggins himself: earnest, straightforward and unwilling to evangelize or project beyond the exact parameters of his memories. Whether alien, other-dimensional, supernatural or psychological, Huggins presents the remarkable events that have shaped his life with a straightforward honesty and humility that draws us in, maybe not to an alien realm, but to the absolute certainty that the fantastical has been touched.
Love and Saucers’ greatest strength as a documentary is the dignity it affords Huggins’ experiences. There is no cutting away to lurid UFO photos or testimonials from History Channel kooks. There’s just one man’s life, the story he tells and the canvasses on which he processes unearthed memories of abduction, communion and sexual awakening.
Love and Saucers director Brad Abrahams spoke with Player.One about how he captured and dignified Huggins’ life and work, without falling into the typical UFO documentary tropes. “Love and Saucers is much less about aliens and alien abductions — it’s about the person.”
David Huggins hold up his painting "First Time," depicting his first sexual encounter with Crescent.PHOTO: CURATOR PICTURES, PERCEIVE THINK ACT FILMS AND THE ORCHARD
Abrahams filmed Love and Saucers over a three-year period, conducting interviews a few days at a time, occasionally staying with Huggins in his Hoboken, New Jersey home. “What strikes me so much: David is just such a seemingly normal, simple spoken, straight talking kind of guy,” Abrahams told Player.One.
Only one outside expert is consulted in Love and Saucers: Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal, in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, whose research considers the overlap between religious epiphany and sex. “I wanted someone who was skeptical but not cynical,” Abrahams said.
But why a religious perspective? “[Kripal] doesn’t see alien abductions as any different from someone in the 15th century having a Christian religious experience or in the Greek times having a deity experience. These are all the same things happening to us,” Abrahams explained.
Kripal’s appearance comes late in the documentary, but he makes explicit one of Love and Saucers ’ great strengths. Rather than treating Huggins as a question — “Did this happen?” — it dignifies human experience, no matter how extraordinary.
Which is not to say that Love and Saucers avoids the question of how closely Huggins’ experiences may hew to objective reality, whatever that means. The pieces are there for any determined skeptic to concoct a plausible psychological out: abusive parents and Budd Hopkins’ landmark alien abduction book, Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods, which hit Huggins like a thunderclap, returning some of his repressed memories when he read it in 1987.
“It’s very complex, I don’t have a straight answer. I think it’s clear in the film that I believe that David is telling the truth about what he experienced, but not necessarily that I believe that what happened to him happened literally,” Abrahams said. “He’s having these memories of something that happened to him, but maybe he couldn’t articulate it and we have a tendency to pull from the world around us.”
Abrahams brought up a possible connection between Huggins’ abduction accounts and his immense VHS collection, nearly 2,000 tapes, many sci-fi and horror (Huggins’ makes several excellent recommendations, including ghost story classic The Uninvitedand 1973’s squamata body horror, Sssssss). “It’s a chicken and egg, did he collect those VHSs because of those encounters, or did he pull from those VHS tapes?”
“There’s definitely an impressionability in everyone,” Abrahams said. “David experienced something, but the context of what happened is colored, just by being human.”
And it’s that human need to understand, to process those experiences that confuse and tantalize us, that motivates Huggins’ paintings as much as the viewer’s interest.
Love and Saucers is now available for VOD streaming on iTunes, Amazon, Vimeo, Google Play and YouTube.
Pope Francis: The Devil Is Much More Intelligent Than Us
Pope Francis: The Devil Is Much More Intelligent Than Us
Pope Francis Warns That The Devil Is More Intelligent Than Mortals So Do Not Argue With Him
Pope Francis has given out a warning stating that the devil has more intelligence than mortals and so it is wise not to argue with him. The pope made the claim that the devil is not a concept or a metaphor but someone real that has dark powers.µ
Pope Believes Devil Is A Real Person
The pope was talking to a Catholic TV channel and wildly gesticulated with his hands to get his point across when he continued by saying that the devil was evil and not like mist, he is not diffuse, he is a real person. He went on to say that people should not get into a conversation with Satan as if they do they would be lost. The devil is a lot more intelligent that mortals and the pope went on to say that he would turn mortals upside down and make their head spin.
He is evil, he’s not like fog. He’s not a diffuse thing, he is a person. One must not talk to Satan, if you start talking to Satan you are lost, he is more intelligent than us
Pope Francis said that the devil always pretends to be polite and this is something that he has done in the past with priests and bishops and it is how the devil is able to enter the mind. However, if the person does not realize what is happening to them in time then it all ends in a bad way and this he why it is important to tell Satan he should go away.
Pope Speaks On Twitter To His 40 Million Followers About Satan
This is not the first time that Pope Francis has spoken out about the devil in sermons. He is also known for taking to the social media channel Twitter to talk openly about Satan and the pope has more than 40 million followers. He often uses terms such as Satan, the seducer, Great Dragon, Prince of darkness and Beelzebub when referring to the devil.
Vatican analyst Austen Ivereigh said that it was a Jesuit thing. He described the pope as being a Jesuit who is imbued with spiritual exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola and this means that he can discern the movements of any bad and good spirit. He went on to say that for the pope the devil is real and not just a metaphor and due to the fact that this is not the way that people speak today, there are some Catholic people who are taken aback. Ivereigh went on to say there are a great many people who are uncomfortable with believing in the idea that evil is real, however, those who know about the spirituality of Jesuits are not surprised by the words of the pope.
Pope Francis Told Exorcists They Do A Great Job
Three years ago Pope Francis spoke to a convention of exorcists who had gathered from around the globe and said that they were doing an excellent job in combating the work of the devil. He went on to say that exorcists should show love and the welcome of the church to those who were possessed by evil.
When addressing the crowd at St Peters Square in 2013 the pope said that the devil will often make an appearance under the disguise of an angel and talk to people. Pope Francis is also not afraid to speak out about the many devious ways in which the devil operates during daily homilies in the guesthouse chapel inside the Vatican.
Wording Of Lords Prayer Should Be Changed According To Pope
The pope has even gone as far as suggesting that the words of the Lord’s Prayer should be altered so that the devil is blamed instead of God for leading people into temptation. He went on to say that the prayer had been translated badly from Greek that was used in the New Testament and blaming the devil would be a better reflection on the true meaning. Pope Francis said that it was not a very good translation as it was not god pushing people into temptation to see how they have fallen. This is not something that God would do; a father is there to help you get straight back up if you have fallen. Satan is the one that leads people to temptation.
The Pope believes that the life of the Christian person is one continual battle against evil.
How to watch NASA's big announcement TODAY (1 p.m. Eastern time)
How to watch NASA's big announcement TODAY (1 p.m. Eastern time)
Later on Thursday afternoon, NASA will hold a press conference announcing a new discovery from its Kepler satellite, a telescope designed to spot planets orbiting other stars. The agency has kept its cards close to the chest, but it has said, "The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google."
The press conference, which begins at 1 p.m. Eastern time, will be live-streamed on the NASA website. Although the phone line for the event will be limited to journalists only, the public can ask questions on Twitter using #AskNASA.
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