UFO? Cigar-shaped interstellar space object baffles scientists who DEMAND further tests

MORE tests on the first interstellar asteroid ever discovered in our solar system are to be conducted after an initial search for artificial life returned mysterious results.

16-12-2017 om 17:42 geschreven door peter  

BY SEAN HUTCHINSON

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We are not alone. Here are a few facts about Steven Spielberg’s 1977 UFO classic, on its 40th anniversary.

1. IT WAS INITIALLY A VERY DIFFERENT FILM.

Spielberg’s initial story outline involved UFOs and shady government dealings following the Watergate scandal, which became a script entitled “Watch the Skies.” The idea involved a police or military officer working on Project Blue Book, the Air Force’s official study into UFOs in the 1950s and 1960s, who would become the whistleblower on the government cover-up of aliens. There were numerous rewrites—Taxi Driver scribe Paul Schrader even took a crack at it, penning a political UFO thriller titled “Kingdom Come” that Spielberg and the movie studio rejected—before the story we know today emerged.

2. IT’S NAMED AFTER LEGITIMATE UFO RESEARCH.

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Spielberg partly based his idea on the research of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a civilian scientific advisor to Project Blue Book who eventually admitted that 11 percent of the study’s findings about unidentified flying objects could not be explained using science.

The title (which is never specifically explained in the movie) is actually derived from Hynek’s own alien close encounter classification system: A close encounter of the first kind is sighting of a UFO; the second kind is physical evidence to prove the existence of an alien; and the third kind is actual contact with alien life forms.

3. THERE’S A CAMEO FROM THE GODFATHER OF UFO RESEARCH.

Hynek, who also served as a technical advisor on the movie, makes an uncredited cameo in the final scene of the movie. You can spot him pretty easily—he’s the goateed man smoking a pipe and wearing a powder blue suit who pushes through the crowd of scientists to get a better look at the aliens.

4. NOBODY WANTED THE STARRING ROLE.

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The director first offered the part of Roy Neary to actor Steve McQueen, who turned it down because he said he couldn’t cry on cue, something he saw as essential to the character. Spielberg then went to Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, and James Caan who all turned him down as well before asking his friend Richard Dreyfuss, who previously worked with Spielberg on Jaws, to take the part.

5. BUT IT WASN'T THE MOST DIFFICULT ROLE TO CAST.

Spielberg approached French actors like Lino Ventura, Yves Montand, and Jean-Louis Trintignant to play Claude Lacombe—who was based on famous UFO researcher Jacques Vallée—before settling on director and sometimes-actor François Truffaut. The initially skeptical Truffaut, who was nervous about appearing in a big budget Hollywood movie, accepted the role because he wanted to compile research for a book about acting (he never did write the book).

6. MERYL STREEP COULD HAVE PLAYED ROY'S WIFE.

Many actresses—including a then-unknown Yale Drama School grad named Meryl Streep—auditioned for the part of Roy’s wife Ronnie, but he ultimately cast actress Teri Garr because he saw her in a coffee commercial and loved the way she was able to convey a wide range of emotions in a 30-second clip.

7. THEY SHOT IN A DISUSED AIR FORCE HANGAR.

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Spielberg wanted to shoot in real suburban locations rather than studio backlots, but the production had trouble finding locations. The biggest question: Where could Spielberg shoot the climactic canyon sequence with the mothership?

The production looked for huge indoor enclosures that would allow for the massive scale of the scene, though they only found ones with center support dividers that spoiled the openness Spielberg wanted for the UFO runway. The only location producers found without center dividers was a 300 foot by 300 foot disused hangar that had been used for dirigibles during World War II at Brookley Air Force base in Mobile, Alabama.

8. THE TEAM BOUGHT A HOUSE FOR THE PRODUCTION—AND SOLD IT FOR A PROFIT.

The Nearys' house, which is located at 1613 Carlisle Drive East in Mobile, was actually purchased by the production for $35,000 so they could do whatever they wanted with the interiors. It was later sold for $50,000 after production wrapped, netting a $15,000 surplus that went back into the film’s budget.

9. THE MEMORABLE 5-NOTE TONES TOOK A LONG TIME TO FIGURE OUT

Composer John Williams worked with Spielberg to come up with the movie’s distinct five-note musical method of communication between humans and aliens—which Spielberg partly based on the Solfège system of musical education—a year before shooting began.

Williams initially wanted a seven-note sequence, but it was too long for the simple musical “greeting” Spielberg wanted. The composer enlisted a mathematician to calculate the number of five-note combinations they could potentially make from a 12-note scale. When that number proved to be somewhere upwards of 134,000 combinations, Williams created 100 distinct versions, and they simply whittled the combinations down one by one until they had a winner.

10. SPIELBERG USED TRICKS TO GET THE PERFORMANCE OUT OF HIS CHILD ACTOR.

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Cary Guffey, who plays little Barry Guiler, had never acted before, so Spielberg set up ways to coax a performance out of the 3-year-old. To get a shot of Guffey reacting to the aliens first approaching the Guiler house, Spielberg slowly unwrapped a present for the young actor just off camera, making him smile. Guffey even exclaims “Toys! Toys!” in the final take.

To get the boy to react to the aliens offscreen, Spielberg had Guffey walk up to his mark where—unbeknownst to the little actor—two crewmembers were dressed as a gorilla and a clown standing behind cardboard blinds. When Guffey entered the kitchen, Spielberg dropped the first blind revealing the clown to scare him, and then dropped the other blind to reveal the gorilla, which scared him even more. The gorilla then took off his mask, revealing the film’s makeup man, Bob Westmoreland, who Guffey recognized, causing him to laugh and smile in the final take.

11. THE MOVIE NEARLY FEATURED VERY EARLY CGI.

Spielberg originally toyed with the idea of using computer generated images to create the aliens and their ships, even going so far as to have animator Colin Cantwell create a CGI test of three UFOs floating over a stadium. The single-shot test, which took three weeks to complete and was one of the first computer generated images ever created for a film, proved to be unfeasible for the whole movie—so the idea was dropped.

12. THERE WERE SOME UNORTHODOX IDEAS FOR CREATING THE ALIENS.

Spielberg wanted the aliens to be non-human beings that glided instead of walked, and he had a weird idea to pull it off: An orangutan dressed in a specially-made suit. For a screen test, the production team outfitted an orangutan in grey spandex and strapped it into roller skates. The orangutan immediately took off the skates and crawled to its owner, so a full test couldn’t be completed, and the team scrapped the idea. The majority of the small aliens in the final movie were played by local elementary school girls from Mobile in specially made grey suits and masks who were heavily backlit to create the final alien silhouette effect.

13. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS FEATURES A PRECURSOR TO E.T.

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To create the alien who bids farewell using the musical hand signals at the end of the film, Spielberg enlisted the help of Italian special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi, who designed a fully articulated steel, aluminum, and fiberglass animatronic puppet that Spielberg nicknamed “Puck.” Puck’s expressions were based on photos of Guffey. The puppet was operated by a crew of seven puppeteers, with Spielberg himself controlling the final articulation before the alien leaves to go to the mothership.

Puck would help inspire E.T. after Spielberg asked himself, “What if this little guy didn’t get back on the mothership?” Rambaldi would also go on to design the character of E.T.

14. SPIELBERG BET AGAINST HIS OWN MOVIE—AND REALLY CASHED IN.

Spielberg and his buddy George Lucas both had new movies coming out in 1977; Lucas’s was a little movie called Star Wars. Lucas thought his ramshackle space movie wouldn’t make back its budget, and he knew his friend’s new movie would break box office records just like Jaws had done, so he offered Spielberg a friendly wager. Both agreed to give the other 2.5 percent of the profits of their respective films. Lucas grossly underestimated his movie, which went on to become the second highest grossing movie of all time if adjusted for inflation (in comparison, Close Encounters is #71). The difference ended up being $40 million.

15. SPIELBERG DIDN'T LIKE THE VERSION THAT WAS INITIALLY RELEASED.

Spielberg wanted to release Close Encounters in the summer of 1978, which would have given him ample time to edit the film and finish its special effects—but Columbia Pictures, which was going through major financial troubles, insisted he have it ready for a November 1977 release, leaving the director with a final cut on a movie he didn’t feel was completely ready. 

Three years later, the company allowed Spielberg to “finish” the movie under one condition: That he show the inside of the mothership, which would give the studio’s marketing department an angle to sell this new version. The director capitulated, adding new scenes and cutting others to create a “Special Edition.” The director was unhappy with the scene, though, and later cut it for the “Collector's Edition” home video release.

ADDITIONAL SOURCES:

• Blu-ray special features; Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Making of Steven Spielberg’s Classic Film; Close Encounters of the Third Kind Diary.

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16-12-2017 om 17:22 geschreven door peter  

‘Alien probe’ asteroid is dead quiet, but is that good news or bad news?

A couple of months back, a really, really weird asteroid flew through our Solar System. It looked nothing like any object humanity had ever spotted in space, and was moving might fast. First it was identified as a comet, then an asteroid, and most recently scientists have been wondering if maybe it was actually an alien spacecraft. Now, after spending hours listening to the strange visitor with powerful radio telescopes, scientists say they haven’t heard a peep.

The object, named Oumuamua, is shaped like a cigar. If it’s really an asteroid it would be the very first interstellar asteroid — that is, a rock that originated outside of our Solar System — to be observed by humans, but its bizarre form and speedy entry and exit gave alien hunters reason to believe it might actually be otherworldly technology. Now, it seems, that question will have to wait a little longer to be answered.

Earlier this week scientists from the Breakthrough Listen project pointed their ears towards Oumuamua in the hopes of hearing something, anything, that couldn’t be explained by some natural process. After a preliminary review of the data, they haven’t found anything that would suggest the object is actually an alien probe, but whether or not we should be happy about that is up for debate.

Humanity has been hastily attempting to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations for decades now. We’ve sent spacecraft out of our Solar System with directions on where to find us, and shot radio wave messages to distant stars in the hopes that someone is listening. If we’re going to meet aliens, these are probably our best shots at making first contact, but should we even be trying?

Every scientist with an itch to find alien life has a counterpart who fears what that meeting may bring. Many astronomers and physicists, including Stephen Hawking, have warned that contact aliens could result in the utter destruction of mankind. We simply don’t know whether intelligent beings living elsewhere in the universe will see us as a friendly neighbor, a threat, or simply a nuisance that should be wiped out simply because we’re annoying them.

“Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they could reach,” Hawking famously said. “If so, it makes sense for them to exploit each new planet for material to build more spaceships so they could move on. Who knows what the limits would be?”

For now, it appears that the strange object that just visited us isn’t relaying messages with alien handlers on a distant star system, and maybe that’s for the best.

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16-12-2017 om 16:50 geschreven door peter  

Boy Remembers His Past As An Extraterrestrial Being & Provides Startling Details

You might not know it, but children remembering their past lives is nothing new. Reincarnation is no doubt a fascinating subject, even within the scientific community. 

Carl Sagan, American astronomer and astrobiologist, even acknowledged the fact that reincarnation deserves serious study, stating that: “children sometimes report details of a previous life, which, upon checking, turn out to be accurate and which they could not have known about in any other way than reincarnation.” (source)

There are some great examples, many of which have been uncovered by University of Virginia psychiatrist Jim Tucker, who is arguably the world’s leading researcher on this topic.

In 2008, he published a review of cases that were suggestive of reincarnation in the journal Explore.

A typical reincarnation case, described by Jim, includes subjects reporting a past life experience. The interesting thing is that 100 percent of subjects who report past life remembrance are children. 

The average age when they start remembering their past life is at 35 months, and their descriptions of events and experiences from their past life are often extensive and remarkably detailed. 

These children remember things that would be impossible to know about the person they claim that they were. They’ve been taken to their families, confirmed addresses, professions, and various other details of the lives of the people that they used to be.

We recently published an article of 6 great examples that go into more detail; you can read that article here. Again, these are truly astounding, and there would be no other way for these children to know these details.

I personally believe that reincarnation is real, but I don’t think it’s the only option for what takes place after death. I believe it is one of many possible paths for the soul. I believe some souls can reincarnate, as we’ve seen above, into another life. 

I also believe some can reincarnate onto other planets, as beings we would consider to be alien. Furthermore, I believe reincarnation is just one option for a soul. 

Other possibilities include the option to travel to other dimensions and experience a life there, or to completely forgo reincarnation and experience life in the non-physical realm, free from a physical body. 

Perhaps a soul must continue to reincarnate until certain lessons are learned to move to another ‘level?’ Who knows. Perhaps there is an origin from which all souls stem from? So many questions, so many possibilities, and reincarnation could be one of many.

Below is a a video of Boriska in an interview conducted by Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot. If you went through the cases in the link above, this one is very different, as this one involves a previous life on the planet Mars. 

This is no ordinary boy. His mother states that he began speaking at just four months, and pronouncing full words shortly after. At eight months he was speaking in sentences, and at the  age of two he could read. 

He become a local celebrity for being so intelligent, and when he turned three he could name all of the planets in the Solar System, how many galaxies there were, and a lot more. He knew so much about astronomy that would be impossible for a child of his age.

He also remembers one of his past lives on Mars, where his incarnation apparently took place millions of years ago. In the interview, he made a number of statements such as:

“People from Mars traveled in many galaxies and planetary systems.”

“There were ships of an airplane type. They were triangular. There were ships like a drop.”

He said that these ships used “plasma power, ion power. If they used gasoline the fuel ran out too fast, the engines were too powerful.”

He also talked about teleportation, saying that “portal is the same like teleport. It slows down time and opens a kind of a portal where time is speeding up fast…I can’t say exactly. 

“I don’t remember. It opens on one side and in a few seconds or even minutes if the transfer is far away it opens another area of space.”

“Not all ships had the same principle. Ships with plasma engines were limited to travel only in the Solar System on high speed. The ships in a shape of a drop were carrying other ships.”

“Each race had its own technology and innovations. For example, if we had plasma and ion engines others had energy engines.”

He spoke about other people from other planets, planetary cooperation, and wars as well. He also spoke on people that still live on Mars, but who live beneath the surface and inside of the planet. According to him, they breath CO2.

The interview is very detailed and if this interests you, you can watch the whole interview below.

Here is the link to the original interview. Unfortunately, it was not working when we attempted to upload it, but wanted to give credit to the original YouTube channel as it (this particular interview) has amassed almost 2 million views.

Information To Further Validate Some Of Boriska’s Claims

It wasn’t long ago when NASA called for a press conference to announce a major discovery regarding the planet Mars. During the meeting, they revealed some pretty shocking information, completely changing what we once thought about the “red” planet that, suddenly, doesn’t seem so red anymore. 

They announced that Mars actually contains rivers of flowing water. What we once believed to be an arid and rocky desert of a planet is actually seasonal, not unlike our own planet Earth.

Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, made the discovery by using images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The quotes below are from this press conference if not otherwise sourced.

“Mars is not the dry, arid planet that we thought of in the past … [and] liquid water has been found on Mars.”

– James Green, NASA director of planetary sciences

Obviously, with the announcement that there is water on Mars, the possibility of life near the surface becomes ever more plausible. The press conference also goes into more details about the atmosphere and condition of Mars, and how the planet could have supported life in the past.

“We are going to Mars, our journey to Mars is a science led expedition right now, but soon I hope we’ll be sending humans to the red planet to explore and science will lead the way. 

“And today’s announcement of a really fascinating result about current water on Mars is one of the reasons why I feel it’s even more imperative that we send astrobiologists and planetary scientists to Mars to explore the question of, ‘Is there current life on Mars?’”

 – John Grunsfeld, five time space flown astronaut, Associate Administrator Head of NASA Science Mission Directive

Here is an interesting quote, given that Boriska said even today, people are living underneath the planet.

“The possibility of life in the interior of Mars has always been very high. There’s certainly water somewhere in the crust of Mars … It’s very likely, I think, that there is life somewhere in the crust of Mars.” – Alfred McEwen, Principal Investigator, HiRISE, University of Arizona

Below are some more interesting quotes, because the boy also said that the planet went through some massive climate shifts.

“The more we observe Mars, the more information we’re getting that it really is a fascinating planet, from the Curiosity Rover we now know that Mars once was like a planet very much like Earth, with long salty seas, with fresh water lakes, probably with snow capped peaks and clouds and a water cycle just like we’re studying here on Earth… Something has happened to Mars, it lost its water.”

– John Grunsfeld, five time space flown astronaut, Associate Administrator Head of NASA Science Mission Directive

John also goes on to discuss the high likelihood that Mars previously sustained life, before whatever happened to the planet that led to its change in climate. Scientists are still struggling to work out what exactly that event or series of events may have been.

“Mars is the planet most like Earth … [and in the past,] Mars was a very different planet, it had an extensive atmosphere, and in fact it had what we believe was a huge ocean, perhaps as large as two thirds the Northern Hemisphere. 

“And that ocean may have been as much as a mile deep. So Mars indeed three billion years ago had extensive water resources. But something happened. Mars suffered a major climate change and lost its surface water.”

– James Green, NASA director of planetary physics

These scientists emphasized the fact that something happened to cause major climate change. In the interview above, the boy also speaks to that.

According to Dr. John Brandenburg, PhD, and plasma physicist, life on Mars was eradicated by nuclear war. 

He believes that a couple of intelligent civilizations from ancient history were responsbile for this, and in his published works, argues that the coloration and composition of Martian soil points to a series of “mixed-fission explosions” that led to nuclear fallout on the planet. (source) (Life And Death On Mars: The New Mars Synthesis)

Like the astronauts quoted above, Brandenburg is no crackpot. He was involved in the Clementine Mission to the Moon, which was part of a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defence Organization (BMDO) and NASA. The mission discovered water at the Moon’s poles in 1994. He was the deputy manager of that mission. (Source: page 16 of 18) (source) (source)

General Stubblebine is a retired United States Major General. He was also the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), and one of America’s most distinguished soldiers and Chief of U.S. Army Intelligence, with 16,000 soldiers under his command, said this about Mars:

“There are structures on the surface of Mars. I will tell you for the record that there are structures underneath the surface of Mars that cannot be seen by the Voyager cameras that went by in 1976. 

“I will also tell you that there are machines on the surface of Mars and there are machines under the surface of Mars that you can look at, you can find out in detail, you can see what they are, where they are, who they are and a lot of detail about them.”

- (Dolan, Richard. UFOs And The National Security State: New York: Richard Dolan Press)

Stubblebine was a major proponent of the U.S. governments StarGate Project & remote viewing.
By Arjun Walia

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16-12-2017 om 16:40 geschreven door peter  

Humanity's Expansion into Deep Space Is Inevitable, Industry Experts Say

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Dwarf Planet Ceres' Bright Spots Suggest an Ancient Ocean

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What Force Created These Bizarre Cubes in Antarctica's Ice?

16-12-2017 om 13:31 geschreven door peter  

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.

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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.

See also our article including images/GIF animation: Sky-Watcher Caught Giant Interstellar Cylinder UFO Near Orion Nebula.

Below a GIF animation showing the movement of the cylinder shaped alien craft captured on December 11, 2017.

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16-12-2017 om 13:03 geschreven door peter  

Artificial intelligence just discovered two new exoplanets

This is what happens when you turn machine learning loose on the cosmos.

The Kepler-90 system; AI helped discover the planet called Kepler-90i.

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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.

Mary Beth Griggs contributed research to this report.

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16-12-2017 om 01:44 geschreven door peter  

NASA ontdekt miniversie van ons zonnestelsel dankzij artificiële intelligentie- HLN.be 

Bron:Belga

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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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.

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15-12-2017 om 23:53 geschreven door peter  

UFO Spotted Moving Over North Korea

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.

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15-12-2017 om 23:44 geschreven door peter  

UFOs over the sea in Rosarito, Mexico 12-Dec-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.

15-12-2017 om 23:41 geschreven door peter  

UFOs over the sea in Rosarito, Mexico 12-Dec-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.

15-12-2017 om 23:41 geschreven door peter  

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.

Author (source: MUFON)

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15-12-2017 om 23:39 geschreven door peter