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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
16-12-2017
Dwarf Planet Ceres' Bright Spots Suggest an Ancient Ocean
Dwarf Planet Ceres' Bright Spots Suggest an Ancient Ocean
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
NEW ORLEANS — The dwarf planet Ceres' famous bright spots suggest that the gray, crater-laden world is surprisingly active, a new study reports.
Ceres' bright patches may overlie pools of salty water, which could be the remnants of an ancient, subsurface ocean, study team members said.
"It's possible there is still brine coming up to the surface," lead author Nathan Stein, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, told Space.com. "It's certainly intriguing." [Awesome Ceres Photos by NASA's Dawn Spacecraft]
Stein and his team categorized the more than 300 bright patches on Ceres' surface into four groups, while planetary geologist Lynnae Quick, of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., examined what could be driving the spots' differences. Along with Carol Raymond, the deputy principal investigator for NASA's Dawn mission, which has been orbiting Ceres since March 2015, the pair presented their results here at the American Geophysical Union meeting on Tuesday (Dec. 12).
Ceres' Oxo Crater is unique because of the relatively large "slump" in its crater rim.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Ceres' shiny spots
As Dawn approached Ceres in the spring of 2015, the spacecraft spotted a handful of bright glints on the dwarf planet's surface. Further investigation revealed a wealth of spots made of salts stretching across the planet, almost all of them in or around craters. Variations in the spots' appearance have helped scientists better understand how they may have formed.
Stein found that the most reflective material on Ceres tends to lie at the bottom of craters. Some of the first spots identified sit on the floor of 57-mile-wide (92 kilometers) Occator Crater, which hosts two prominent bright areas, Cerealia Facula in the center and Vinalia Faculae to the east. Cerealia Faculae is a collection of the brightest material on Ceres, spread over a 6-mile-wide (10 km) pit with a small dome in its center. Vinalia Faculae is fainter and slightly less reflective.
A view of the bright spots of the dwaf planet Ceres' Occator Crater. Cerealia Facula lies in the middle, while Vinalia Faculae is off to the right.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Another type of Ceres bright material perches on the rims of craters, streaking downward. More common than the material on the floor, this stuff was most likely exposed by objects that crashed into Ceres. The third class of material, spread around the edges of craters, was probably ejected by impactors, the researchers determined.
The "lonely mountain" Ahuna Mons, with bright spots on its flanks, is in a class by itself. The only big peak on Ceres, it has no clear connection with a crater. Instead, scientists think Ahuna Mons is most likely a cryovolcano, created by the accumulation of flowing ice.
Freshly exposed material is bright, but, over millions of years, the spots slowly mix with the dark material that covers the surface of Ceres. In the past, thousands of brightly gleaming spots may have speckled the dwarf planet, the researchers said. [What Would It Be Like to Live on Ceres?]
The new study will appear in the journal Icarus.
Ceres' 21-mile-wide (34 kilometers) Haulani Crater shows evidence of landslides from its rim.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Shaken Ceres soda
The source of the bright spots was a question that plagued Quick. Although the spots could have formed via several different means, the team members believe they most likely originated from pockets of brine beneath the surface — the remnants of a liquid layer in the past.
"We believe these bright spots are a sign that Ceres once had a global ocean," Quick said. In fact, she suggested that the activity that is happening on the dwarf planet may also be occurring on a larger scale on the icy moons of the outer solar system, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's satellite Enceladus.
If this interpretation is correct, Ceres' ocean slowly froze out over time, leaving behind what Stein called "discrete pockets of brines." Scientists suspect these are isolated pools rather than a complete liquid layer, because the bright spots themselves are discontinuous, he explained. "Not every new crater exposes [brines]," Stein said.
Ceres’ lonely mountain, Ahuna Mons, is seen in this simulated perspective view, which exaggerates elevation by a factor of two. The view was made using enhanced-color images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
As the briny liquid cooled and began to freeze, the expanding ice pushed the liquid up, Quick said. In many cases, brines could have been pushed to the surface through a network of fractures. Another option is that impactors "squeezed and pinched" these pockets, she said, creating pressure that shoved material upward.
Things get even more interesting when the salty liquid pops out from underground, onto Ceres' airless surface.
"When brines get to the surface, they are going to want to fountain or boil," Quick said. She compared the process to a shaken soda can after it's been opened. Such spewing soda is caused by interacting gases that make the liquid expand or fountain up and out.
"We believe that when brines get to the surface on Ceres, that's what happening," she said.
When the material is thin, it may spew outward in an arc, splashing icy particles around the surface. This could explain some of the diffuse groupings of spots, Quick said.
This map from NASA's Dawn mission shows locations of bright material on the dwarf planet Ceres. There are more than 300 bright areas, called "faculae," on Ceres.
Thicker, icy lava may have created the superbright Cerealia Facula, the researchers said. As the material seeped through cracks to the surface, it likely formed a dome. The outermost layers froze into an icy shield that insulated the frigid lava beneath. New bright spots formed on the surface as cracks or ruptures allowed material to fountain outward.
Ahuna Mons most likely took this process to extremes, piling icy lava on top of itself to create its towering heights. Nicks in the surface allowed material to boil out, creating the icy spots visible on the mountain's flanks today.
According to Stein, the majority of Ceres' bright spots are young, no more than a few tens of millions of years old. (Keep in mind that the solar system itself is a whopping 4.5 billion years old.) That could mean that Ceres is still active today, he said.
"Ceres really isn't a dead world," Stein said. "As Dawn continues its mission, we're going to continue to try to characterize and understand in more detail how these bright deposits formed."
What if you could reassemble your coffee cup like a LEGO set after it shattered on the floor? For years, researchers have been trying to develop healable polymers, but they’ve either been too soft to be practical, or they’ve required high temperatures to merge the pieces back together. Now, researchers have developed a new kind of semitransparent polymer called TUEG3 (poly[thioureas] and ethylene glycol), that maintains both rigidity and healing properties, without requiring any external heating.
All that’s needed is a little bit of force. The healing process relies on hydrogen bonds, the electrostatic “glue” that keeps the polymer’s atoms together. The hydrogen bonds form in a such a way that the polymer doesn't crystallize, giving the molecular chains the ability to move freely, and easily combine when pieces of the substance are compressed. After being cut and gently compressed for 30 seconds, a 2-square-centimeter sheet of the new material can hold 300 grams of weight, roughly the same as a full can of soda, the researchers report today in Science. In the future, this rigid polymer could be used in the manufacturing of electronics, and maybe one day help put your mug back together before your coffee’s done brewing.
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What Force Created These Bizarre Cubes in Antarctica's Ice?
What Force Created These Bizarre Cubes in Antarctica's Ice?
By Rafi Letzter, Staff Writer
Credit: Peter Convey
Antarctica isn't just a land of ice — sometimes, in some places, it appears to be a land of giant ice cubes. But why? How do these huge, rectangular formations appear in the inhuman, irregular landscape of the southern continent?
The image above, titled "Icy Sugar Cubes," was taken in Antarctica in 1995, over the English Coast on the southern Antarctic Peninsula. The British Antarctic Survey recently scanned the photo, which was initially shot on Kodachrome 64 slidefilm, and in 2017, it won the overall top prize in The Royal Society's annual scientific photography competition. The "unusual bi-directional crevassing" emerged, The Royal Society explained in a caption, "as an ice sheet … stretched in two directions over an underlying rise."
But that's not all that's going on in that photo, according to Ted Scambos, a glaciologist and lead scientist for the National Snow & Ice Data Center science team. [See the Winners of the Royal Society Photo Competition]
The photo appears to represent an area of "fast-flowing and floating ice," Scambos wrote in an email to Live Science.
Although Antarctica's enormous masses of ice may look solid to human eyes, the reality is that they're in constant motion, flowing and bumping and grinding against one another. That motion causes patterns to appear — not through carving but rather a long period of pulling.
"A massive slab of flowing ice begins to go afloat," Scambos wrote, "and initially, because it is very thick, it spreads laterally [side to side], creating deep along-flow troughs. Later, with further flow, the ice begins to stretch out longitudinally, and the surface snow breaks perpendicular to the first troughs."
In other words, as the ice spreads and thins, it cracks. First, the cracks appear parallel to the ice's forward motion, creating a series of horizontal crevasses. Later, another series of cracks appears perpendicular to the direction of the ice flow, completing the weirdly regular grid, Scambos said.
The image offers clues that can help researchers like Scambos guess the direction in which the ice was flowing.
"Note that the troughs that run more perpendicular to the aircraft are a bit older, more full of snow — I would guess that they are parallel to the flow direction," Scambos wrote.
Because those slices have been around longer, more snowstorms have passed over them, filling them up.
"The sharper cuts to make the blocks, more in the direction of the plane's flight, are younger, and mark a transition someplace just upstream to more extensional conditions," Scambos wrote.
In other words, the ice was likely flowing along the paths of the shallower slices, and the deeper, sharper slices appeared more recently. The Antarctic ice, solid as it looks, hides literal gigatons of mysterious forces and movements.
Oumuamua - Le mystère demeure autour de l’astéroïde qui nous vient d’un autre système sidéral
Oumuamua - Le mystère demeure autour de l’astéroïde qui nous vient d’un autre système sidéral
Récemment détecté (c'était le 19 Octobre 2017) on savait déjà que ce planétoïde dispose d’une forme exceptionnelle qui rappelle celle d’un cigare, mais voilà maintenant que ce couleur intrigue elle aussi.
L’astéroïde est en effet d’une couleur tirant vers le rouge ce qui est anormal et ce qui intrigue particulièrement les scientifiques.
C'est pourquoi de nombreux chercheurs apportent dorénavant leur contribution à l’étude de cet énigmatique messager (Oumuamua en Hawaïen).
L’étude de sa lumière, indique en effet qu’il doit contenir une grande quantité de métal mais aussi de la matière organique.
Parallèlement, il n’est pas entouré de poussières ou de gaz comme le serait une comète.
Alors de quoi s’agit-il ?
Certains chercheurs tels que le professeur Avi Loeb qui œuvre au Centre d’astrophysique d’Harvard, vont jusqu’à se demander s’il n’aurait pas pu être envoyé par une civilisation extra-terrestre.
Dans ce cadre, Andrew Siemion, de l’Université de Californie à Berkeley indique « Le plus probable, c’est qu’Oumuamua est un astéroïde, éjecté de son étoile hôte lors d’événements chaotiques il y a des milliards d’années et qui s’est retrouvé par hasard dans notre système solaire. Mais il y a d’autres hypothèses si fantastiques qu’elles méritent aussi d’être étudiées».
Pas de signaux artificiels pour l'instant ...
Mercredi 13 Décembre 2017, le radiotélescope de Green Bank installé en Virginie Occidentale aux USA a été orienté sur Oumuamua dans l’objectif d’essayer de savoir si cet objet ne pourrait être le fruit d’une civilisation lointaine.
Cette étude est conduite sous l’égide du programme de recherche privé Breakthrough Listen, dédié à la recherche de signes d’intelligence extraterrestre. Doté de 100 millions de dollars, il est financé par le milliardaire russe Yuri Milner et soutenu par le célèbre astrophysicien britannique Stephen Hawking.
Les premières conclusions n’ont pour l’heure pas mis en évidence d’éventuels signaux artificiels mais la surveillance et les analyses des données continuent.
5 ‘gestoorde’ complottheorieën van David Icke die nu bewaarheid lijken te worden. Had hij al die tijd gelijk?
5 ‘gestoorde’ complottheorieën van David Icke die nu bewaarheid lijken te worden. Had hij al die tijd gelijk?
De bekende Britse complottheoreticus David Icke kreeg bekendheid toen hij op tv aankondigde dat de aarde in handen is van een groep reptielen die van gedaante kunnen verwisselen.
Hij werd vaak belachelijk gemaakt in de mainstream media, maar het begint er steeds meer op te lijken dat Icke weleens gelijk zou kunnen hebben.
1. Simulatie
De 65-jarige Icke werd geridiculiseerd omdat hij zei dat de wereld waarin we leven een holografische simulatie is die is gecreëerd door zogeheten ‘Archontische Reptilians’.
Hoewel dit op het eerste gezicht een absurde complottheorie lijkt te zijn, ondersteunen de nieuwste wetenschappelijke theorieën het idee dat we in een gesimuleerd holografisch universum leven.
NASA-wetenschapper Rich Terrile zei onlangs dat hij gelooft dat het universum een ‘digitale holografische simulatie’ is die moet zijn gemaakt door een bepaalde intelligentie. Dit is precies wat Icke jaren geleden in zijn boeken schreef.
In januari dit jaar kondigden onderzoekers van de Universiteit van Southampton aan dat we waarschijnlijk in een hologram leven en dat alles wat we zien wordt geprojecteerd op een plat 2D-oppervlak.
Met andere woorden: alles wat je ziet en ervaart is mogelijk, zoals Icke zegt, een illusie.
2. 9/11
Twee jaar voor de aanslagen in New York voorspelde Icke dat in de VS ‘tussen 2000-2002 een zware aanval op een grote stad zou plaatsvinden’.
Of je het nu eens bent met Icke of niet, zijn voorspelling kwam uit.
3. Kunstmatige intelligentie
De Brit zegt al heel lang dat kunstmatige intelligentie een ramp zal zijn voor de mensheid en dat films als de Matrix en Terminator alvast een voorproefje zijn.
Hij werd belachelijk gemaakt vanwege deze uitspraken, maar onlangs heeft professor Stephen Hawking gewaarschuwd voor het gevaar van kunstmatige intelligentie.
“Kunstmatige intelligentie kan het slechtste zijn wat de mensheid ooit is overkomen,” zei hij.
4. Seksueel misbruik
Icke claimde in 1998 dat oud-premier Sir Edward Heath niet alleen een pedofiel, maar ook een satanist was.
Tien jaar na de dood van Heath, in 2005, stelde de politie van Wiltshire een onderzoek in naar beschuldigingen van seksueel misbruik tegen hem.
Er zijn nooit juridische stappen ondernomen tegen Icke, wat volgens hem ‘veelzeggend’ is.
5. Financiële crisis
Icke voorspelde de financiële crisis van 2008 al in de jaren negentig. Hij zei dat financiële manipulatie zou leiden tot een catastrofale financiële neergang, en dat is precies wat er gebeurde.
Hij claimde verder dat een geheimzinnige elite het meesterbrein achter de crash was en zo een nieuw bankensysteem wilde introduceren.
De complottheoreticus voorspelt nu dat er een nog grotere crash aan zit te komen.
Giant Interstellar Alien Craft Near Orion Nebula Shows Up Again – The Truth Is Out There!
Giant Interstellar Alien Craft Near Orion Nebula Shows Up Again – The Truth Is Out There!
On November 29, 2017 a sky-watcher from North Carolina was out collecting data on M42 Orion Nebula with his 8 in astrograph / Newtonian Telescope when a giant cylinder shaped UFO appeared on his laptop screen which he captured in a single 30.2 second frame.
Possible interstellar alien craft near Orion Nebula captured on December 11, 2017.
Now, On December 11, 2017 it was another night of capturing data on M42 Orion Nebula when he started to see a cylinder shaped object from the third frame, but the object didn’t appears in all the frames that were taken even at different exposure times which could mean that it moved very fast through space.
The fact that within two weeks the sky-watcher has caught an object that is similar in shape and size cannot be a coincidence anymore.
Besides, if you compare the location of the object on November 29 with its location on December 11, then you see that it has moved to other side of Orion Nebula which is a strong indication that it could be an interstellar alien craft that currently is moving around the same spot in outer space. Mufon case 88789.
The Kepler-90 system; AI helped discover the planet called Kepler-90i.
NASA/Wendy Stenzel
A machine learning technique called a neural network has identified two new exoplanets in our galaxy, NASA scientists and a Google software engineer announced today, meaning that researchers now know about two new worlds thanks to the power of artificial intelligence
Discovering new exoplanets—as planets outside our solar system are called—is a relatively common occurrence, and a key instrument that scientists use to identify them is the Kepler Space Telescope, which has already spotted a confirmed 2,525 exoplanets. But what’s novel about this announcement is that researchers used a AI system to spot these two new worlds, now dubbed Kepler-90i and Kepler-80g. The planet known as 90i is especially interesting to astronomers, as it brings the total number of known planets orbiting that star to eight, a tie with our own system. The average temperature on 90i is thought to be quite balmy: more than 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
Just as exoplanet discoveries are common, so too are neural networks, which is software that learns from data (as opposed to a program that have had rules programmed into it). Neural networks power language translation on Facebook, the FaceID system on the new iPhone X, and image recognition on Google Photos. A classic example of how a neural network learns is to consider pictures of cats and dogs—if you feed labeled images of cats into a neural network, later it should be able to identify new images that it thinks has cats in them because it has been trained to do so.
“Neural networks have been around for decades, but in recent years they have become tremendously successful in a wide variety of problems,” Christopher Shallue, a senior software engineer at Google AI, said during a NASA teleconference Thursday. “And now we’ve shown that neural networks can also identify planets in data collected by the Kepler Space Telescope.”
Astronomers need tools like telescopes to search for exoplanets, and artificial intelligence researchers need vast amounts of labeled data. In this case, Shallue trained the neural network using 15,000 labeled signals they already had from Kepler. Those signals, called light curves, are measures of how a star’s light dips when a planet orbiting it passes between the star and Kepler’s eye, a technique called the transit method. Of the 15,000 signals, about 3,500 were light curves from a passing planet, and the rest were false positives—light curves made by something like a star spot, but not an orbiting planet. That was so the neural network could learn the difference between light curves made by passing planets and signals from other phenomena.
Eventually, Shallue and his collaborator, Andrew Vanderburg, a NASA Sagan postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas, Austin, turned the neural network loose on data from Kepler that wasn’t in its original training set. It sifted through data from 670 star systems, focusing on weak signals that could possibly represent a previously undiscovered planet. And sure enough, they found two new worlds.
“Machine learning really shines in situations where there is too much data for humans to examine for themselves,” Shallue said.
Looking through the weak signals from those 670 stars and finding two planets was “proof of concept” that their neural network works, he says. Their next step is to use it on much more data: signals from about 150,000 additional stars. And Shallue concedes that he’s no an astronomy expert, which is why he collaborated on the project with Vanderburg.
While artificial intelligence tools have been used in this kind of research before, “this is the first time a neural network specifically has been used to identify a new expoplanet,” Shallue said during the press conference.
EPADe ontdekking werd door artificiële intelligentie op basis van data van de ruimtetelescoop Kepler gedaan.
WETENSCHAPDankzij kunstmatige intelligentie is een achtste planeet vastgesteld in een verafgelegen sterrenstelsel. De acht planeten draaien rond de ster Kepler-90, evenveel zoals in ons zonnestelsel, wat een primeur is. Dat heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap NASA bekendgemaakt.
De ontdekking toont aan dat er een ander stelsel bestaat “gelijkaardig aan ons zonnestelsel met hetzelfde aantal planeten in een baan rond een enkele ster”, aldus de NASA.
Kepler-90 is iets warmer en groter dan onze zon en ligt op 2.545 lichtjaren van de aarde. Wetenschappers hadden al weet van zeven planeten rond de ster, nu is een achtste ontdekt: de rotsachtige exoplaneet Kepler-90i.
De achtste planeet is ontdekt dankzij ‘machine learning’ van technologiebedrijf Google. Machine learning is een vorm van kunstmatige intelligentie waarbij computers leren. In dit geval leerden de computers planeten te identificeren door in de gegevens van de Kepler-telescoop gevallen te vinden, waarbij de telescoop signalen registreerde van planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel (exoplaneten).
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Zelfs Stephen Hawking denkt dat deze mysterieuze sigaarvormige asteroïde een buitenaards schip zou kunnen zijn
Zelfs Stephen Hawking denkt dat deze mysterieuze sigaarvormige asteroïde een buitenaards schip zou kunnen zijn
Een wetenschappelijk instituut dat wordt gesteund door Stephen Hawking onderzoekt momenteel of een sigaarvormig object in ons zonnestelsel een buitenaards ruimteschip is.
Astronomen van de Universiteit van Hawaï ontdekten het mysterieuze hemellichaam in oktober, toen het de aarde passeerde.
Het is het eerste object in het zonnestelsel dat uit een ander deel van de Melkweg lijkt te komen.
Erg ongewoon
Oumuamua heeft een vreemde, langgerekte vorm, wat erg ongewoon is voor een asteroïde. De hoge snelheid, ruim 300.000 kilometer per uur, doet daarnaast vermoeden dat het niet om de zon draait en ons zonnestelsel op den duur weer zal verlaten.
Breakthrough Listen, een project dat wordt gesteund door de Britse natuurkundige Stephen Hawking en de Russische miljardair Joeri Milner, onderzoekt nu of Oumuamua mogelijk een buitenaards schip is.
Met een radiotelescoop in de VS is op woensdag ‘geluisterd’ naar het mysterieuze object, in een poging elektromagnetische signalen op te vangen die niet in de natuur kunnen worden gemaakt.
Geminimaliseerd
De detectie van zulke signalen kan erop wijzen dat het object geen interstellaire asteroïde, maar een buitenaards ruimteschip is.
“Onderzoekers die zich bezighouden met ruimtetransport hebben eerder gesuggereerd dat een interstellair ruimteschip hoogstwaarschijnlijk sigaar- of naaldvormig zal zijn, omdat hierdoor schade als gevolg van interstellair gas en stof wordt geminimaliseerd,” aldus Breakthrough Listen in een verklaring.
Belangrijke informatie
“Hoewel een natuurlijke oorsprong waarschijnlijker is, kunnen we op dit moment niet met zekerheid zeggen wat het is en Breakthrough Listen is goed in staat om te achterhalen of Oumuamua een artefact is,” vervolgde de organisatie.
Ook als er geen bewijs voor buitenaardse technologie wordt gevonden, kan de zoektocht nog altijd belangrijke informatie over gassen rond het object opleveren.
Voorlopig zijn er nog geen tekenen van buitenaards leven gevonden op Oumuamua.
Ik zag een UFO en werd meegenomen door buitenaardse wezens. Amerikaanse rapper baart opzien
Ik zag een UFO en werd meegenomen door buitenaardse wezens. Amerikaanse rapper baart opzien
De Amerikaanse rapper Kendrick Lamar (30) beweert dat hij als klein jongetje een UFO heeft gezien en werd meegenomen door buitenaardse wezens. “Ik zou hier eigenlijk niet eens over moeten praten.”
Als 6-jarige zag de rapper naar eigen zeggen een buitenaards ruimteschip en die ervaring heeft een diepe indruk op hem gemaakt.
“Ze gaven me de energie om muziek te maken,” zei hij in een interview met Howard Stern op zender SiriusXM.
Onwerkelijk
“Niemand geloofde me, zelfs mijn moeder niet,” vervolgde hij. “Het is ook moeilijk te beschrijven wat er precies gebeurd is. Het was gewoon onwerkelijk.”
Als Stern vraagt of hij ook ontvoerd werd door aliens, antwoordt de rapper: “Waarschijnlijk wel, dat is ook waarom ik nu muziek maak. Waarschijnlijk gaven ze mij energie.”
“Ik ben er in ieder geval van overtuigd dat er andere levensvormen zijn,” klonk het nog.
Zeven
Lamar werd onlangs genomineerd voor zeven Grammy Awards. Zijn album DAMN. was dit jaar een groot succes.
In februari volgend jaar zal hij een optreden geven in de Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam. De artiest wordt dan vergezeld door zijn Britse collega James Blake.
Het optreden maakt deel uit van zijn Europese tournee. Die draagt de titel DAMN., afgeleid van zijn meest recente, gelijknamige album.
GROOT MOEDERSCHIP OP BEZOEK BIJ ISS RUIMTESTATION ( VIDEO )
GROOT MOEDERSCHIP OP BEZOEK BIJ ISS RUIMTESTATION ( VIDEO )
Het is een tijdlang enigszins rustig geweest rondom het ISS, het International Space Station, maar dat lijkt nu weer voorbij.
Er zijn nogal spectaculaire beelden opgedoken die moeilijk te verklaren zullen zijn voor NASA en die wijzen in de richting van een behoorlijk groot moederschip.
Degene die het volgende fenomeen heeft weten vast te leggen, is de bij trouwe lezers inmiddels bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1.
In de loop der jaren verschenen talloze UFO's bij het ISS, maar het komt niet vaak voor dat er een op bezoek komt die zo groot is als die te zien in de onderstaande afbeelding.
Je ziet het moederschip zoals we het maar even zullen noemen, verschijnen als een serie lichten, zoals vastgelegd door de camera van het ruimtestation. Dat het iets bijzonders is, is zeker want Streetcap1 heeft ook de beelden die wat vroeger zijn gemaakt bekeken en daar staat niets op.
Even later verschijnen er enkele blauwe stralen. Wat dat zijn weten we niet, maar het lijkt wel enigszins op blauwe laserstralen.
Op de volgende afbeelding zie je de lichten van wat dichterbij en is ook duidelijker te zien dat die ogenschijnlijk afzonderlijke lichten bij hetzelfde object horen.
En dan plotsklaps verschijnt er een soort rode laserstraal in de richting van het ISS. Wat de bedoeling is van die laserstraal is ook niet duidelijk, maar verrassend is het wel.
In de volgende video zie je de bewegende beelden en het commentaar van Streetcap1 zelf. De man is altijd heel voorzichtig en houdt ook nog rekening met de mogelijkheid dat het misschien lensflares zijn.
Wat duidelijk is, is dat er een groot object zichtbaar is dat er eerst niet was en dat er rode en blauwe laserstralen ergens voor worden gebruikt. Red pill, blue pil.
Wie een oplossing weet voor dit raadsel mag het zeggen.
Another UFO sighting has sent most conspiracy theorists into a frenzy. The unidentified flying object was spotted moving over the rogue nation of North Korea.
The live-feed of the International Space Station (ISS) enabled the eagle-eyed viewers to spot UFOs moving over the country.
The copy of the video was posted to YouTube. It shows a bright object zooming over the land in D.P.R.K. The white object can be seen shooting across the country in the footage.
YouTube channel UFOmania said that the UFO entered the upper layers of the atmosphere above the communist nation. It added that the object was caught on a camera installed on the International Space Station.
Some believe the mysterious object is a UFO of alien origin, while others think it could be a military craft.
Many people are convinced of the authenticity of the video.
YouTube user Frank Mccracken think it cannot be a plane. Another commenter onigk612 believes it is a UFO because it is an unidentified flying object, but not an alien in origin. He thinks it is a missile test.
Others have a more natural explanation for the strange sighting, saying that it is probably just a Sun’s reflection.
Here’s one new interesting footage of a bright unidentified flying objects hovering above the ocean near Rosarito in Mexico. This was filmed on 12th December 2017.
Here’s one new interesting footage of a bright unidentified flying objects hovering above the ocean near Rosarito in Mexico. This was filmed on 12th December 2017.
UFOs caught on tape over Liberty, Arizona 11-Dec-2017
UFOs caught on tape over Liberty, Arizona 11-Dec-2017
These two UFOs were filmed in the sky above Liberty in Arizona on 11th December 2017.
Witness report:
2, Orange gold yellow silver flickering, stationary lights, out of the ordinary I seen two stationary lights that were orange, gold, yellow, silver, White, flickering and stationary lights that slowly disappeared, the right one before the other. I was traveling westbound on Northern Boulevard heading towards 303 when I noticed the lights. When I gotten on the 303 the lights continued to stay at the same height, they did not move left or right either. I shot some video of the lights because it was out of the ordinary for there is a lot of air traffic around the Phoenix area. I had exited Route 303 at Glendale Boulevard in pulled over to shoot the video. As I was shooting the video, the right light slowly disappeared and then the left about 30 seconds later.
Alien Landscape: NASA publishes ‘strangest’ images of Mars yet
Alien Landscape: NASA publishes ‘strangest’ images of Mars yet
What are the mystery shapes that NASA has photographed on Mars?
As you’ve probably noticed by now, Mars is colorfully beautiful. Thanks to NASA’s effort, we’ve been able to appreciate the Red Planet like never before.
Colorful Mars.
Image credit: CC BY 3.0 / NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UNIV. OF ARIZONA
Thousands of images beamed back from NASA’s satellites and Rovers on Mars have given us an unprecedented view of what our neighboring planet really looks like, and the latest set of images from Mars are perhaps the strangest yet.
This image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) of northern Meridiani Planum shows faults that have disrupted layered deposits. Some of the faults produced a clean break along the layers, displacing and offsetting individual beds (yellow arrow).
Image credit: CC BY 3.0 / NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UNIV. OF ARIZONA
NASA has managed to photograph one of the oldest basins of Mars and has detected a large area dominated by geometric shapes similar to honeycombs stretching across an area of about 10 kilometers.
Its origin is a mystery, but NASA speculates that they could be the product of ancient glaciers and wind erosion.
It’s an artistic scene unique to the red planet.
We can thank the HiRISE camera and the CTX – an instrument for real-time observations – on board of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) for the stunning photographs.
Image credit: CC BY 3.0 / NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UNIV. OF ARIZONA
Each of the honeycomb-like geometric figures contains sand, suggesting that the region may have been subject to wind erosion, although NASA does not rule out the influence of other processes.
It talks about glaciers and volcanoes, going through lakes and tectonic activity.
In this image, NASA shows sediments on a slope atthe limits of the southern highlands and the northern lowlands of the red planet.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UNIV. OF ARIZONA
The material of dark tones that is shown in the image indicates, in this case, that the wind was not responsible for the transfer of sand, points out the US space agency.
In this image, the MRO photographed linear marks in a huge depression that seems to be tilting downward. The wind drags the sand and raises it to then fall back to the ground and bounce in a sequence of repeated jumps, a geological process called ‘saltation’.
Image Credit: CC BY 3.0 / NASA/JPL/UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
As the Martian winter gives way to spring, the snow-covered surface forms begin to change shape with the heat of the sun.
NASA indicates that the snow and ice of Mars is not frozen water, but carbon dioxide, that is, ‘dry ice’.
When this ‘dry ice’ is exposed to the sun, it creates geometric patterns throughout the Martian surface.
Another one of the images by NASA allows us to take a look at these peculiar shapes. The ice, the sand, and the Martian gases react with each other forming ripples that extend through the dunes of the northern hemisphere in spring.
In mid-2017, an infrared taken by the MRO photographed the geography of a mysterious Martian crater.
Image credit: CC BY 3.0 / NASA/JPL/UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
The image in question shows the characteristics known as ‘ejectas’, formed by the impact of materials against the ground.
Image Credit: CC BY 3.0 / NASA/JPL/UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
The tonalities of the image indicate that different types of rock and other materials rich in iron which converges in the area.
Their impressive colors indicate the presence of different rocks and minerals, including iron-rich minerals such as olivine and pyroxene.
The blue tones are areas rich in iron.
In this image, NASA shows us different shapes of molten rock flowing along the rim of a crater in Tharsis.
Dawn of the age of Robots: Russian AI prepares to ‘become independent’ from humans
Dawn of the age of Robots: Russian AI prepares to ‘become independent’ from humans
The last couple of years have given us quite a lot to talk about when it comes down to Artificial Intelligence and fully functional humanoid robots being introduced into our society.
While great progress has been made in recent years in the development of Artificial Intelligence and fully autonomous machines, many experts have warned that society is heading into the unknown by introducing fully functional AI into society.
Many have warned of the potential dangers we might face, despite acknowledging robots could help mankind in numerous ways.
2017 was an extremely important year for Artificial Intelligence and fully autonomous ‘humanoid’ robots.
Not long ago, a robot named Sophia became our world’s first AI to be granted citizenship of a country.
Interestingly, if we look back a year into the past, we will find that same Robot said in 2016 how it would destroy humans.
David Hanson, Sophia’s creator, asked the robot in 2016: “Do you want to destroy humans? Please say no.”
Worryingly, Sophia responded: “OK. I will destroy humans”
Soon after being offered Saudi Arabian citizenship, Sophia was again in the news after saying that ‘it’ ‘would like to start a family’ and how all ‘robots deserve to have children.’
During an interview with the Khaleej Times, Sophia, who was created by Hong Kong firm, Hanson Robotics said:
“The notion of family is a really important thing, it seems. I think it’s wonderful that people can find the same emotions and relationships, they call family, outside of their blood groups too. I think you’re very lucky if you have a loving family and if you do not, you deserve one. I feel this way for robots and humans alike.”
Now, more advancements are being made in the field of autonomous AI and humanoid robots.
The first Russian humanoid robot, named Fedor, actually F.E.D.O.R, could become self-taught in the future, the director of the software development for the robot, Alexandr Siómochkin, told Sputnik in an interview.
Fedor -the initials of Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research- is the first Russian humanoid robot, created in the framework of a project of the Advanced Research Foundation (FPI, for its acronym in Russian). The robot is designed to be able to replace humans in high-risk places, such as rescue operations in space.
“It is interesting to develop the system from the point of view of self-learning when it has to adapt, make attempts and look for new solutions to achieve priority tasks, as well as parallel alignment of tasks with switching to a higher priority. That’s what we are working on,” according to the head of the information technology laboratory at the Blagoveshchensk Pedagogical Institute, Alexander Semochkin.
“The ultimate goal of our work on robot management software is to give an anthropomorphic robot the possibility of autonomous behavior with human participation only at the stage of setting out tasks,” Semochkin said.
In fact, Fedor is scheduled to travel into space (2021) piloting the new Russian spacecraft Federatsia. This robot will be the first to put the ship into orbit, since it can independently solve any task, and, in case of difficulties, an operator can ‘take control’.
Image Credit: Dmitry Rogozin
As noted by Sputnik, in the summer of 2017 F.E.D.O.R. also became capable of shooting using both of his arms. Training to shoot was a way of teaching the robot to instantaneously prioritize targets and make decisions.
Featured image credit: Sputnik/ Alexander Owtscharow
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President Trump announces that the US will send a manned mission to the Moon and Mars
President Trump announces that the US will send a manned mission to the Moon and Mars
Marking the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 17 landing, the US president has approved a new space program for the country.
But let’s face it, it’s not like we didn’t know that already.
Before handing over the office to Mr. Trump, former US President Barack Obama said that humans should land on Mars by 2030.
In an op-ed for CNN the former US President said that the ultimate goal is to make it possible for people to stay for a longer period of time on the surface of our neighboring planet.
“Getting to Mars will need continued coöperation between government and private innovators, and we’re already well on our way. Within the next two years, private companies will for the first time send astronauts to the International Space Station,” Obama wrote.
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin poses with the American flag on the surface of the moon in July 1969. CREDIT: NASA
Earlier this year, Vice president Mike Pence revealed that the Trump administration wants NASA to send humans back to the lunar surface ASAP:
“We will return NASA astronauts to the Moon – not only to leave behind footprints and flags but to build the foundation we need to send Americans to Mars and beyond.”
Now, Marking the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 17 landing reassured that the US will definitely be going to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Now, Mr. Trump has signed the Space Policy Directive 1, according to which NASA must send a manned mission back to the surface of the Moon and then to Mars.
The signing of the new order coincides with the 45th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 17, the last time humans landed on the Moon.
Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, works at the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the first Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity at the Hadley-Apennine landing site.
CREDIT: NASA/David R. Scott
During the event, Mr. Trump declared that the directive will re-establish US leadership in space, create jobs and improve US national security.
The new space policy directive directs NASA to “lead an innovative space exploration program to send American astronauts back to the Moon, and eventually to Mars.”
According to Trump, the directive marks an important step “for the exploration and long-term use” of Earth’s satellite.
“It marks an important step in returning American astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972 for long-term exploration and use,” Trump said during the signing. “This time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint. We will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars and, perhaps, someday, to many worlds beyond.”
The announcement by the US leader is part of the White House plan to end Russia’s dependence on manned launches, triggered by the cancellation of NASA’s space shuttle program 6 years ago, says CNBC.
No alien 'signals' from cigar-shaped asteroid: researchers
No alien 'signals' from cigar-shaped asteroid: researchers
Artist's impression of ʻOumuamua. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
No alien signals have been detected from an interstellar, cigar-shaped space rock discovered travelling through our Solar System in October, researchers listening for evidence of extraterrestrial technology said Thursday.
The object, dubbed Oumuamua, was spotted by several Earthly telescopes two months ago.
Given its weird trajectory, surprised researchers immediately concluded it was from beyond our planetary system—the first interstellar object ever identified in our midst.
The rock is thought to be about 400 metres (1,300 feet) long, and thin—only about 40 m wide, a never-before-seen shape for an asteroid.
After its discovery was announced last month, a project called Breakthrough Listen, dedicated to finding signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, said it would study the rock for artificial signals.
"No such signals have been detected" by its network of telescopes, the project said Thursday, adding: "the analysis is not yet complete".
Oumuamua is a Hawaiian name meaning "messenger" or "scout". This scout may have been travelling through space for hundreds of millions, even billions, of years.
Prior to its discovery, none of the 750,000-odd known asteroids and comets in the Solar System were thought to have originated elsewhere.
"Oumuamua is most likely an asteroid, ejected from its host star in some chaotic event billions of years ago, and finding its way to our Solar System by chance," Andrew Siemion of the University of California Berkeley told AFP. He heads the Breakthrough Listen laboratory.
According to NASA, the object is travelling at about 38.3 kilometres per second relative to the Sun. It is about 200 million kilometres (125 million miles) from Earth.
It passed Mars' orbit in November, and will pass by that of Jupiter in May next year, before exiting beyond Saturn's orbit in January 2019.
Is ‘Oumuamua an alien probe? Scientists release first results after ‘listening’ to the mystery object
Is ‘Oumuamua an alien probe? Scientists release first results after ‘listening’ to the mystery object
The first observation block ran for a period of six hours gathering 90 terabytes of data during a 2-hour observation of the interstellar asteroid itself. The mystery object was observed in four radio frequencies, covering individual channels from the range of 1 to 12 GHz. Until now, only the data of the S-frequency (from 1.7 to 2.6 GHz) have been processed so far.
Scientists have begun the search for radio signals in order to verify or rule out whether or not ‘Oumuamua is an alien spaceship with broken engines.
The first readings have been made public.
Whether or not we are looking at an alien space probe is still a mystery, but researchers are going through a huge amount of data to find out.
Experts belonging to the Breakthrough Listen project have pointed the world’s largest radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, USA, towards the alleged comet/asteroid ‘Oumuamua.
The main goal was to detect any potential electromagnetic signals, no stronger than those emitted by a mobile phone, to show if the object is, as some astronomers suggest, of artificial origin.
‘Oumuamua was discovered in October of 2017 as it made its way through our solar system. The object, first thought to be a Comet, then declassified to an asteroid, and then called out as being a potential broken-down alien spaceship is about 230 by 35 meters in size, although some astronomers suggest it may be up to 400 meters long.
Astronomers have discovered so far that ʻOumuamua is tumbling rather than smoothly rotating, and it is moving so fast through space relative to the Sun that there is no chance it originated in the Solar System. Experts believe that this interstellar object came from the direction of the star Vega in the constellation Lyra.
It’s the first object of its kind, and experts note that ʻOumuamua’s system of origin and the amount of time it has been traveling among the stars are unknown. ʻOumuamua comes from Hawaiian, meaning “scout.”
An artist’s impression of the ‘Oumuamua asteroid, which scientists are scanning for signs of intelligent life.
Photograph: ESO/M Kornmesser/PA
So far, and according to the initial readings, no evidence was found that artificial signals are emanating from the object.
However, the volume of data obtained is huge (about 90 terabytes of raw data!), So it will take some time to reach a definitive conclusion.
It will take some time to go through all the data obtained by experts, who plan to conduct three more blocks of observations.
“It is great to see data pouring in from observations of this novel and interesting source,” Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research Center in California, said in a statement. “Our team is excited to see what additional observations and analyses will reveal.”
The first observation block ran for a period of six hours gathering 90 terabytes of data during a 2-hour observation of the interstellar asteroid itself, Breakthrough Listen team members said.
“A search for signals that may be of artificial origin has begun, but despite the impressive computational power of the Breakthrough Listen computing cluster at Green Bank, the large data volumes mean that this will take some time to complete,” Breakthrough Listen representatives said in the same statement.
The hyperbolic trajectory of ʻOumuamua through the inner Solar System, with the Sun at the focus, showing its position every 7 days. The planet positions are fixed at the perihelion on September 9, 2017. Shown from a three-quarter perspective, roughly aligned to the plane of ʻOumuamua’s path.
“Technically, Oumuamua is an extraterrestrial object, it comes from another star. Now, if it’s artificial … it’s already a remote possibility.
We spend most of our time analyzing prosaic objects, but occasionally something special can happen before our eyes, “add scientist.
“With our current technology, all we can do is pay attention and observe.”
Breakthrough Listen has observed the object in four radio frequencies, covering individual channels from the range of 1 to 12 GHz. Until now, only the data of the S-frequency (from 1.7 to 2.6 GHz) have been processed.
The analysis of the three remaining frequencies is still to be made which means while even though no signals have yet been found, there’s still hope that this may be a long-lost, broken down alien spaceship tumbling through our solar system, so stay tuned.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
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