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17-12-2017
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program
A video shows an encounter between a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet and an unknown object. It was released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.Published On
WASHINGTON — In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.
Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.
For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze.
The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties.
The shadowy program — parts of it remain classified — began in 2007, and initially it was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who was the Senate majority leader at the time and who has long had an interest in space phenomena. Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid’s, Robert Bigelow, who is currently working with NASA to produce expandable craft for humans to use in space.
On CBS’s “60 Minutes” in May, Mr. Bigelow said he was “absolutely convinced” that aliens exist and that U.F.O.s have visited Earth.
Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, has had a longtime interest in space phenomena.CreditAl Drago/The New York Times
Working with Mr. Bigelow’s Las Vegas-based company, the program produced documents that describe sightings of aircraft that seemed to move at very high velocities with no visible signs of propulsion, or that hovered with no apparent means of lift.
Officials with the program have also studied videos of encounters between unknown objects and American military aircraft — including one released in August of a whitish oval object, about the size of a commercial plane, chased by two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets from the aircraft carrier Nimitz off the coast of San Diego in 2004.
Mr. Reid, who retired from Congress this year, said he was proud of the program. “I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going,” Mr. Reid said in a recent interview in Nevada. “I think it’s one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I’ve done something that no one has done before.”
Two other former senators and top members of a defense spending subcommittee — Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican, and Daniel K. Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat — also supported the program. Mr. Stevens died in 2010, and Mr. Inouye in 2012.
While not addressing the merits of the program, Sara Seager, an astrophysicist at M.I.T., cautioned that not knowing the origin of an object does not mean that it is from another planet or galaxy. “When people claim to observe truly unusual phenomena, sometimes it’s worth investigating seriously,” she said. But, she added, “what people sometimes don’t get about science is that we often have phenomena that remain unexplained.”
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Video: U.S. Military Jets Encounter Unknown Object
A video shows a 2004 encounter near San Diego between two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object. It was released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.Published OnCreditImage by U.S Department of Defense
James E. Oberg, a former NASA space shuttle engineer and the author of 10 books on spaceflight who often debunks U.F.O. sightings, was also doubtful. “There are plenty of prosaic events and human perceptual traits that can account for these stories,” Mr. Oberg said. “Lots of people are active in the air and don’t want others to know about it. They are happy to lurk unrecognized in the noise, or even to stir it up as camouflage.”
Still, Mr. Oberg said he welcomed research. “There could well be a pearl there,” he said.
In response to questions from The Times, Pentagon officials this month acknowledged the existence of the program, which began as part of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Officials insisted that the effort had ended after five years, in 2012.
“It was determined that there were other, higher priority issues that merited funding, and it was in the best interest of the DoD to make a change,” a Pentagon spokesman, Thomas Crosson, said in an email, referring to the Department of Defense.
But Mr. Elizondo said the only thing that had ended was the effort’s government funding, which dried up in 2012. From then on, Mr. Elizondo said in an interview, he worked with officials from the Navy and the C.I.A. He continued to work out of his Pentagon office until this past October, when he resigned to protest what he characterized as excessive secrecy and internal opposition.
“Why aren’t we spending more time and effort on this issue?” Mr. Elizondo wrote in a resignation letter to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
Pentagon officials say the program ended in 2012, five years after it was created, but the official who led it said that only the government funding had ended then.CreditCharles Dharapak/Associated Press
Mr. Elizondo said that the effort continued and that he had a successor, whom he declined to name.
U.F.O.s have been repeatedly investigated over the decades in the United States, including by the American military. In 1947, the Air Force began a series of studies that investigated more than 12,000 claimed U.F.O. sightings before it was officially ended in 1969. The project, which included a study code-named Project Blue Book, started in 1952, concluded that most sightings involved stars, clouds, conventional aircraft or spy planes, although 701 remained unexplained.
Robert C. Seamans Jr., the secretary of the Air Force at the time, said in a memorandum announcing the end of Project Blue Book that it “no longer can be justified either on the ground of national security or in the interest of science.”
Mr. Reid said his interest in U.F.O.s came from Mr. Bigelow. In 2007, Mr. Reid said in the interview, Mr. Bigelow told him that an official with the Defense Intelligence Agency had approached him wanting to visit Mr. Bigelow’s ranch in Utah, where he conducted research.
Mr. Reid said he met with agency officials shortly after his meeting with Mr. Bigelow and learned that they wanted to start a research program on U.F.O.s. Mr. Reid then summoned Mr. Stevens and Mr. Inouye to a secure room in the Capitol.
“I had talked to John Glenn a number of years before,” Mr. Reid said, referring to the astronaut and former senator from Ohio, who died in 2016. Mr. Glenn, Mr. Reid said, had told him he thought that the federal government should be looking seriously into U.F.O.s, and should be talking to military service members, particularly pilots, who had reported seeing aircraft they could not identify or explain.
Luis Elizondo, who led the Pentagon effort to investigate U.F.O.s until October. He resigned to protest what he characterized as excessive secrecy and internal opposition to the program.CreditJustin T. Gellerson for The New York Times
The sightings were not often reported up the military’s chain of command, Mr. Reid said, because service members were afraid they would be laughed at or stigmatized.
The meeting with Mr. Stevens and Mr. Inouye, Mr. Reid said, “was one of the easiest meetings I ever had.”
He added, “Ted Stevens said, ‘I’ve been waiting to do this since I was in the Air Force.’” (The Alaska senator had been a pilot in the Army’s air force, flying transport missions over China during World War II.)
During the meeting, Mr. Reid said, Mr. Stevens recounted being tailed by a strange aircraft with no known origin, which he said had followed his plane for miles.
None of the three senators wanted a public debate on the Senate floor about the funding for the program, Mr. Reid said. “This was so-called black money,” he said. “Stevens knows about it, Inouye knows about it. But that was it, and that’s how we wanted it.” Mr. Reid was referring to the Pentagon budget for classified programs.
Robert Bigelow, a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid, received most of the money allocated for the Pentagon program. On CBS’s “60 Minutes” in May, Mr. Bigelow said he was “absolutely convinced” that aliens exist and that U.F.O.s have visited Earth.CreditIsaac Brekken for The New York Times
Contracts obtained by The Times show a congressional appropriation of just under $22 million beginning in late 2008 through 2011. The money was used for management of the program, research and assessments of the threat posed by the objects.
The funding went to Mr. Bigelow’s company, Bigelow Aerospace, which hired subcontractors and solicited research for the program.
Under Mr. Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena. Researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes. In addition, researchers spoke to military service members who had reported sightings of strange aircraft.
“We’re sort of in the position of what would happen if you gave Leonardo da Vinci a garage-door opener,” said Harold E. Puthoff, an engineer who has conducted research on extrasensory perception for the C.I.A. and later worked as a contractor for the program. “First of all, he’d try to figure out what is this plastic stuff. He wouldn’t know anything about the electromagnetic signals involved or its function.”
The program collected video and audio recordings of reported U.F.O. incidents, including footage from a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet showing an aircraft surrounded by some kind of glowing aura traveling at high speed and rotating as it moves. The Navy pilots can be heard trying to understand what they are seeing. “There’s a whole fleet of them,” one exclaims. Defense officials declined to release the location and date of the incident.
“Internationally, we are the most backward country in the world on this issue,” Mr. Bigelow said in an interview. “Our scientists are scared of being ostracized, and our media is scared of the stigma. China and Russia are much more open and work on this with huge organizations within their countries. Smaller countries like Belgium, France, England and South American countries like Chile are more open, too. They are proactive and willing to discuss this topic, rather than being held back by a juvenile taboo.”
By 2009, Mr. Reid decided that the program had made such extraordinary discoveries that he argued for heightened security to protect it. “Much progress has been made with the identification of several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings,” Mr. Reid said in a letter to William Lynn III, a deputy defense secretary at the time, requesting that it be designated a “restricted special access program” limited to a few listed officials.
A 2009 Pentagon briefing summary of the program prepared by its director at the time asserted that “what was considered science fiction is now science fact,” and that the United States was incapable of defending itself against some of the technologies discovered. Mr. Reid’s request for the special designation was denied.
Mr. Elizondo, in his resignation letter of Oct. 4, said there was a need for more serious attention to “the many accounts from the Navy and other services of unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities.” He expressed his frustration with the limitations placed on the program, telling Mr. Mattis that “there remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.”
Mr. Elizondo has now joined Mr. Puthoff and another former Defense Department official, Christopher K. Mellon, who was a deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence, in a new commercial venture called To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. They are speaking publicly about their efforts as their venture aims to raise money for research into U.F.O.s.
In the interview, Mr. Elizondo said he and his government colleagues had determined that the phenomena they had studied did not seem to originate from any country. “That fact is not something any government or institution should classify in order to keep secret from the people,” he said.
For his part, Mr. Reid said he did not know where the objects had come from. “If anyone says they have the answers now, they’re fooling themselves,” he said. “We do not know.”
NASA has been hunting for alien exoplanets with the Kepler Space Telescope.
Recently, it teamed up with the tech giant Google to try and work out smarter ways of discovering these so-called exoplanets. Specifically, the Kepler mission looks for planets like Earth inside the "habitable zone" of its star.
Now it has discovered a "sizzling hot, rocky planet" in the distant solar system of Kepler 90 - this is the eighth known exoplanet (called Kepler 90i) in this solar system and ties it with our own Milky Way for the most number of known planets in one system.
Scientists have found, for the first time, an eighth planet (called Kepler 90i) in the Kepler 90 system - tying that solar system with our own for the most known planets in any one system.
The Kepler team made the discovery through the use of a “neural network” artificial intelligence program developed by the search giant Google.
“Just as we expected, there are exciting discoveries lurking in our archived Kepler data, waiting for the right tool or technology to unearth them,” said Paul Hertz, director of NASA’s Astrophysics Division in Washington. “This finding shows that our data will be a treasure trove available to innovative researchers for years to come.”
The discovery came about after researchers Christopher Shallue and Andrew Vanderburg trained a computer to learn how to identify exoplanets in the light readings recorded by Kepler – the miniscule change in brightness captured when a planet passed in front of, or transited, a star. Inspired by the way neurons connect in the human brain, this artificial “neural network” sifted through Kepler data and found weak transit signals from a previously-missed eighth planet orbiting Kepler-90, in the constellation Draco.
While machine learning has previously been used in searches of the Kepler database, this research demonstrates that neural networks are a promising tool in finding some of the weakest signals of distant worlds.
Other planetary systems probably hold more promise for life than Kepler-90. About 30 percent larger than Earth, Kepler-90i is so close to its star that its average surface temperature is believed to exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit, on par with Mercury. Its outermost planet, Kepler-90h, orbits at a similar distance to its star as Earth does to the Sun.
Artist's impression of the surface of Kepler 90i (Image: NASA)
“These results demonstrate the enduring value of Kepler’s mission,” said Jessie Dotson, Kepler’s project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. “New ways of looking at the data – such as this early-stage research to apply machine learning algorithms – promises to continue to yield significant advances in our understanding of planetary systems around other stars. I’m sure there are more firsts in the data waiting for people to find them.”
JEFF PARSONS = The conference is over
NASA has finished up its conference surrounding its discovery of an eighth exoplanet in another solar system which ties it with our own for the most number of known planets.
The space agency is starting an “Ask Me Anything” segment over on Reddit to discuss the discoveries in more detail.
JEFF PARSONS = Last question
Finishing up the Q&A is a bit of an overview of the announcement - what are neural networks and how does the Kepler 90 solar system differ from ours.
Loosely, a neural network is a type of algorithm that can classify inputs by learning through example. It’s modelled on the human brain and can be “trained” to get better over time.
And the second part of the question hinges on Kepler 90 being “squished” when compared to our own solar system. As in, the planets exist closer to each other than our own.
That’s what the signals seem to suggest but, unfortunately, we only have minimal data on the Kepler 90 system. It’s too early to say too much about how its makeup is similar or different from our own.
“New ways of looking at the data – such as this early-stage research to apply machine learning algorithms – promises to continue to yield significant advances in our understanding of planetary systems around other stars. I’m sure there are more firsts in the data waiting for people to find them,” said Jessie Dotson.
JEFF PARSONS = Google's CEO aiming for 'hyperspace'
Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai has tweeted out his reaction to this evening’s news:
1/2 Google AI working w/ @UTAustin used machine learning to look for exoplanets in @NASAKepler data. Our models were trained on 15,000 signals to recognize patterns caused by actual planets vs those caused by other objects, and performed w/ 96% accuracy for planet detection.
1/2 Google AI working w/ @UTAustin used machine learning to look for exoplanets in @NASAKepler data. Our models were trained on 15,000 signals to recognize patterns caused by actual planets vs those caused by other objects, and performed w/ 96% accuracy for planet detection.
2/2 So excited to share 2 newly-discovered planets ID’d by Google AI models: Kepler-80 g, and Kepler-90 i -- which is in the first 8-planet system outside our own! Amazing example of how AI can help w/ new scientific discoveries. Next stop, hyperspace:) http://goo.gl/4fuWG2pic.twitter.com/nOjecR57zD
KEY EVENT = Kepler is NOT able to confirm alien life
Aliens (Image: Getty)
The inevitable question about finding aliens has been asked - and received a pretty comprehensive reply: NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is not able to tell if the alien planets have life on them - all it can do is confirm the planets are there.
“Searching for bio-signatures will be something that has to be done with more specialist equipment,” Hertz said.
If we’re going to find aliens, chances are we’ll have to use the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope which is taking over from Hubble.
JEFF PARSONS = Tied for the lead
One questioner has asked whether this discovery will set off an arms race between the Kepler 90 solar system and our own when it comes to finding a ninth planet.
The answer? Quite possibly.
Meanwhile, check out this image NASA has released showing how the planets in our solar system stack up against those of Kepler 90:
JEFF PARSONS = Soon anyone will be able to start Googling for planets
An artist's impression of LHS 1140b (Image: ESO / SWNS.com)
Google will release the code needed to use the neural network tools to the public. No special hardware will be required and, since the Kepler data is all public, anyone can comb through the data.
The research paper reporting these findings has also been accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal.
“These results demonstrate the enduring value of Kepler’s mission,” said Jessie Dotson, Kepler’s project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.
“New ways of looking at the data – such as this early-stage research to apply machine learning algorithms – promises to continue to yield significant advances in our understanding of planetary systems around other stars. I’m sure there are more firsts in the data waiting for people to find them.”
JEFF PARSONS = "Sizzling hot, rocky planet"
Here’s a brief rundown of what NASA has announced this evening:
JEFF PARSONS = Will Google's Kepler tech put astronomers out of work?
Google (Image: Getty)
The artificial intelligence will “absolutely work alongside astronomers,” confirms Jessie Dotson, Kepler project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center when asked about whether the automation will replace human jobs.
So, don’t let this put you off a career in astronomy. The robots aren’t coming for their jobs yet.
JEFF PARSONS = Could the planet have been found without AI?
The first question from the Q&A session is whether or not NASA would have found this planet without Google’s help?
“If humans were to have looked at a much larger set of signals it would have been possible using the previous technique...the key contribution of machine learning was that it was able to search a much higher range of signals that humans would have been able to do in the same amount of time,” explains Paul Hertz.
So there you go, turns out you can even use Google to search for alien planets.
JEFF PARSONS = There could be more...
Finding a planetary system that rivals our own is a big step in planetary science.
But the NASA engineers believe there may even be solar systems with more than that.
There could well be systems out there with ten or more exoplanets orbiting their parent star.
Researchers using data from our planet-hunting @NASAKeplermission and machine learning from @Google discovered an 8th planet orbiting a distant star. With this discovery, our solar system is now tied for most number of planets around a single star! Info: https://go.nasa.gov/2zcJtS6
JEFF PARSONS = Kepler 90i - no signs of alien life
Kepler 90i is one of two planets discovered in the Kepler 90 solar system that orbits its star every 14 days.
It’s likely got a “scorching hot” surface and is not somewhere we’d like to go and visit.
It’s proximity to its parent star means it’s extremely unlikely to support any kind of alien life.
JEFF PARSONS = Neural networks
(Image: Brand X)
Christopher Shallue, senior software engineer at Google AI in Mountain View, California, is explaining how neural networks are computer programs that can be trained to recognise patterns and differentiate between objects.
Turning the technology onto Kepler’s findings means that the researchers are picking up on planets they might otherwise have missed.
“To train our neural network we used 15,000 signals from Kepler data that had already been examined,” Shallue said.
Searching 672 stars, the AI program was able to pick up signals of two new planets.
KEY EVENT = An eighth planet has been found in a distant solar system
Scientists have found, for the first time, an eighth planet (called Kepler 90i) in the Kepler 90 system - tying it with our own solar system for the most known planets.
Kepler has confirmed that other stars can have large amounts of planets orbiting it, just like our own sun.
This discovery was made through the use of a “neural network” AI program developed by Google.
JEFF PARSONS = The conference is underway
The NASA conference has just kicked off in the US.
Panellists are to be introduced and then we will hear the main announcement.
As usual, you can ask questions yourself on Twitter using the askNASA hashtag.
JEFF PARSONS = What is an exoplanet?
(Image: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI))
In case you were wondering what an exoplanet actually is - it’s simply the name given to any planet orbiting a star that’s not our own sun. So, any planet outside of our solar system.
Since the first confirmation of an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star in 1995, and with only a few, narrow slices of our Milky Way galaxy so far surveyed, the astronomical community has already struck many rich veins. A recent statistical estimate places, on average, at least one planet around every star in the galaxy. That means there’s something on the order of a trillion planets in our galaxy alone, many of them in Earth’s size range.
“Right now we know, for the first time, that small planets are very common,” said Sara Seager, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an exoplanet research pioneer. “It’s phenomenal. We had no way to know that before Kepler. We’ll just say, colloquially: They’re everywhere.”
How long has Kepler been up there?
Kepler launched back in March 2009, and it’s become one of NASA’s main pieces of kit.
When it launched, scientists didn’t know how common planets were beyond our solar system. Thanks to the discoveries it’s made, astronomers now believe there may be at least one planet orbiting every star in the sky.
NASA explains: “Kepler completed its prime mission in 2012 and went on to collect data for an additional year in an extended mission. In 2014, the spacecraft began a new extended mission called K2, which continues the search for planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, while introducing new research opportunities to study young stars, supernovae and other cosmic phenomena.”
Google getting involved
Google (Image: Getty)
This is the first time we’ve heard of Google joining in with the planet-hunting Kepler mission.
A representative for the search giant will be present on the panel today and we’re expecting to hear about how Google’s software has helped NASA zero in on potential exoplanets.
“The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google. Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence, and demonstrates new ways of analysing Kepler data,” it said in a brief press statement.
Using computers and artificial intelligence could help with some of the grunt work, and free up time for the researchers at NASA to delve deeper into the results.
Could we soon be seeing Google Earth-style simulations of Kepler’s alien planets?
How does Kepler find alien planets?
Exoplanet Kepler 62f, which orbits a star 1,200 light years from Earth (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle/PA)
Here’s a really quick explanation of how the Kepler space telescope actually discovers a planet.
Basically, it uses a technique called the “transit method” of planet finding. That means, it spots the tiny blockage of light that occurs when a planet passes in front of the star. It’s called transiting and if the telescope spots repeated transits at regular times it must mean an orbit and therefore a planet.
“From the brightness change we can tell the planet size. From the time between transits, we can tell the size of the planet’s orbit and estimate the planet’s temperature,” explains NASA.
“These qualities determine possibilities for life on the planet.”
Why am I a bit excited about the @NASA announcement at 6pm? We may get the answer to the question: Are we alone in the universe? #askNASA#lifeonmars#Extraterrestrial
Three of these planets lie within the star’s “habitable zone” where surface temperatures range from nought to 100 degrees centigrade.
All seven planets could have liquid water – key to life as we know it – under the right atmospheric conditions, but the chances are highest with the three in the habitable zone.
Cambridge astronomer Dr Amaury Triaud said: “Here we have the right target to start the search for life.
“Within the next decade we could know if we are alone in the universe. And that is quite incredible.”
“We’ve made a crucial step toward finding if there is life out there.”
No other star system known to man contains such a large number of Earth-sized and probably rocky planets.
JEFF PARSONS = Who will be giving the announcement?
NASA's planet-hunter, the Kepler Space Telescope (Image: Rex Features)
The hosts of today’s announcement will be a panel of experts including:
Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington
Christopher Shallue, senior software engineer at Google AI in Mountain View, California
Andrew Vanderburg, astronomer and NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Texas, Austin
Jessie Dotson, Kepler project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley
If the conference follows the same route as previous Kepler announcements, it will start with a brief overview of the mission and an update on the status of the craft and its progress.
Then we’ll get to the meat of the space sandwich and a big reveal of what it’s found. After that, you can expect some more interstellar chatter on the implications of the findings and finally some Q&As.
Members of the public will be able to submit questions through Twitter by using the hashtag #askNASA.
JEFF PARSONS = What to expect from today's event
NASA’s Kepler space telescope is the space agency’s dedicated planet-hunting piece of equipment. It scans the stars looking for alien worlds and has - so far - found over 2,000 exoplanets.
Today we might be adding to that number.
NASA has said it will begin the announcement at 1pm Eastern Time - which is 6pm here in the UK. Even though it’s staying tight-lipped until then, plenty of space fans have been speculating about what the announcement could be.
Finding another exoplanet is all well and good, but many will be hoping for a discovery within the so-called “Goldilocks zone”. That is, a planet the right size and distance from its parent star to hold liquid water and - potentially - alien life.
Has NASA finally found aliens? Stick with us to find out.
Everybody lookin’ at you crazy (crazy!) What you gonna do? (what you gonna do?) Lift up your head and keep moving (keep moving) Or let the paranoia haunt you (haunt you)?
If those lyrics from the song “i” by Grammy Award winning rapper and songwriter Kendrick Lamar make you wonder if he’s being haunted by seeing a UFO and possibly from being abducted by extraterrestrials, you’re obviously not familiar with his works … or you heard him talk about those personal experiences on the radio this week. Who do you think was more scared … Kendrick or the aliens?
“Nobody believed me then and [nobody] believes me now. I probably shouldn’t even be talking about it… [but] I’m going to stand my ground. It’s just something I can’t really describe, because it just sounds like, ‘OK, you just saw a dart go past.’ That shit don’t make sense … I remember this. Words just can’t describe – it was just a surreal moment.”
Directions for UFOs?
The discussion took place on The Howard Stern Show. Kendrick revealed to co-host Robin Quivers that he saw a UFO as a 6-year-old in Compton (this is starting to sound like a movie plot) and, while it may not have haunted him, it has stuck with him in a “surreal” way. How surreal? He speculated that, although he doesn’t remember it, he may have been abducted and it influenced his career choice.
“That’s probably why I’m doing music right now. Who knows. They probably gave me the energy.”
This could be chalked up as another instance where guests say strange things just because they’re on the Howard Stern Show … except it’s not the first time Kendrick has talked about his close encounter. In late 2014, he told the same story to another radio host, JoJo Wright, but apparently no one believed him then either, so he was back two years later on a different show with the same story and plea to be believed.
Alien rapper?
Kendrick is a spiritual artist who talks about having a greater purpose. Did that belief come from religion or his alien encounter? Or did it come from the influence of his name? Kendrick was named after Eddie Kendricks, an original member of The Temptations, who sang about being on “Cloud Nine.” Then again, they also sang about what they saw out their window being “Just My Imagination.”
Do artists like Kendrick Lamar attract extraterrestrials or are they just more open to seeing them? Is it time to believe Kendrick?
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Cosmic Photobomb! Monster Black Holes Turn Up in New View of Andromeda Galaxy
Cosmic Photobomb! Monster Black Holes Turn Up in New View of Andromeda Galaxy
By Samantha Mathewson, Space.com Contributor
A stunning new view of the Andromeda galaxy reveals an unexpected pair of supermassive black holes that researchers say are in close orbit around each other
When they caught the black holes on camera, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes were photographing the nearby Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31). This spiral galaxy is about 2.5 million light-years from Earth, making it our Milky Way's closest neighbor.
The new images revealed an unusual source of radiation known as J004527.30+413254.3 (or J0045+41), which researchers thought was located within Andromeda but is instead a whopping 2.6 billion light-years away and contains a pair of monster black holes that act "as a cosmic bomb," researchers said in a statement. [Andromeda Galaxy Photos: Amazing Pictures of M31]
Researchers spotted a pair of black holes shining from behind the Andromeda galaxy.
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Washington/T.Dorn-Wallenstein et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/J. Dalcanton, et al. & R. Gendler
The estimated total mass for the two giant black holes is about 2 hundred million times that of the sun, according to the statement. The black holes are believed to be in close orbit around each other and may even be "the most tightly coupled pair of supermassive black holes ever seen," the researchers said.
"We were looking for a special type of star in M31 and thought we had found one," lead author Trevor Dorn-Wallenstein, a researcher from the University of Washington in Seattle, said in the statement. "We were surprised and excited to find something far stranger!"
Previously, scientists thought J0045+41 was a different kind of object within M3
1. Earlier observations showed periodic variations in the optical light from J0045+41, which researchers initially classified as a pair of stars that orbited around each other approximately once every 80 days.
The new data, however, shows that the repeating variations in the light from J0045+41 are actually the result of a pair of orbiting supermassive black holes, located much farther from Earth than previously thought.
In addition to the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the recent observations used data from the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii and the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory. Astronomers used the ground-based telescopes' observations to estimate the location and velocities of the supermassive black holes.
The optical data from the Palomar Transient Factory also revealed several periodic variations in the light from J0045+41, including ones at about 80 and 320 days, according to the statement.
"This is the first time such strong evidence has been found for a pair of orbiting giant black holes," co-author Emily Levesque, a researcher from the University of Washington, said in the statement.
The black holes are believed to orbit each other with a separation of only a few hundred times the distance between the Earth and the sun. At this distance, which is less than one hundredth of a light-year, the two black holes are in orbits that bring them exceptionally close together, the researchers said.
This type of system likely formed following a galaxy merger that occurred billions of years ago. In this scenario, the two galaxies that merged would have each contained a supermassive black hole of its own, according to the study.
Currently, the two giant black holes emit gravitational waves as they draw closer together. Eventually, the black holes are expected to collide, the researchers said.
"We're unable to pinpoint exactly how much mass each of these black holes contains," co-author John Ruan, a researcher from the University of Washington, said in the statement. "Depending on that, we think this pair will collide and merge into one black hole in as little as 350 years or as much as 360,000 years."
UFO? Cigar-shaped interstellar space object baffles scientists who DEMAND further tests
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.
Further test are wanted on the stange space rock that has stunned scientists
The cigar-shaped space rock first shot past Earth two months ago and caused excitement that it may be an alien space ship.
The Breakthrough Listen project have announced that they will be conducting more tests on the strangely shaped space object after the initial investigation revealed no sign of alien life.
Andrew Siemion, Director of the Berkeley SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research Center in California said: “Our team is excited to see what additional observations and analyses will reveal.”
The object’s official name is A/2017 UI but has been dubbed “Oumuamua”, which loosely means “a messenger that reaches from the distant past” in Hawaiian.
The bizarre rock is believed to have been wandering among the stars for hundreds of millions of years and it is the first foreign object in our solar system to be spotted.
It was spotted by the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii on October 19 and travelling at about 95,000 kilometres per hour.
The space organisation also ran more radio test on Wednesday that might provide more information about Oumuamua.
The six hour observation gathered 90 terabytes of data and scientist will now examine the information the test gathered.
A spokesman for Breakthrough Listen 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.”
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Oumuamua is the first time an interstellar has passed through the solar system
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The foreign object is thought to be hundreds of millions years old
Three more observations of the unusual space rock will take lace in coming months.
Mr Siemion added: “It is great to see data pouring in from observations of this novel and interesting source.”
Oumuamua is the first time that scientists have been able to analyse an interstellar asteroid and their findings could provide previously unknown information about other solar systems and galaxies.
So far more than $100million (£74million) has been spent researching the space rock.
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 Solfègesystem 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.
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‘Alien probe’ asteroid is dead quiet, but is that good news or bad news?
‘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.
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)
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Humanity's Expansion into Deep Space Is Inevitable, Industry Experts Say
Humanity's Expansion into Deep Space Is Inevitable, Industry Experts Say
By Sarah Lewin, Space.com Associate Editor
An artist's illustration of NASA's Deep Space Gateway, which the space agency aims to be humanity's foothold for deep-space exploration beyond Earth orbit.
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There will be a market for humanity's expansion beyond Earth orbit, industry experts said — but none of them can predict what form that market will take.
The International Space Station, in low-Earth orbit, serves as humanity's farthest outpost in space right now. But panelists gathered Wednesday (Dec. 6) at the SpaceCom 2017 conference here to discuss the future of living and working in space beyond that orbiting laboratory.
The predictions by space industry experts are all the more relevant after President Donald Trump signed his Space Policy Directive 1 on Monday (Dec. 11), ordering NASA to return astronauts to the moon, then aim for human exploration of Mars and other solar system destinations. [Deep Space Habitats: What They Might Look Like]
Before the panel, NanoRacks CEO Jeff Manber revealed a new image of his proposed solution: Ixion, a collaboration between his company, Space Systems Loral and Space Adventures, working with United Launch Alliance on how to repurpose spent upper stages of Atlas V rockets as crew habitats. Those stages, which carry fuel and are ejected during the launch process, could attach to the International Space Station or be used alone.
"We have spent the last five months seeking to convince ourselves and NASA that one can repurpose a spent fuel tank while it's in space," Manber said at the panel. "To our pleasant surprise, it seems very possible … [and] not only can we repurpose the second stage using astronauts once it's in orbit and convert it into a habitat, but also, equally cool to me, you could even do it without astronauts, robotically."
That idea isn't new, he added — the U.S. considered something similar 50 years ago, but the technology wasn't there to safely recycle rocket stages in orbit. Now, the Ixion collaboration is looking into the idea for a modern age with NASA's NextSTEP program.
"There have been enough advances in 50 years, and the upper stage of the Atlas V is a good way to begin, that we can now envision sending to LEO," Manber said, referring to low-Earth orbit. For "habitats, whether crewed in LEO, or the warehouses and factories of tomorrow in deep space, we can suggest this as a pathway that's proven, that's commercially efficient, and it makes strong utilization of what the taxpayer is already paying for.
"We're now looking at how we can do this in a commercial manner, and one of the clues is that one of our partners is [space tourism company] Space Adventures," Manber added.
Orbital ATK is also participating in the NextSTEP program — and their approach to space habitats would redesign their Cygnus cargo craft as a habitat module that can be added to NASA's Orion spacecraft or a larger space habitat.
"The final piece [for the craft's development] is a deeper look into how cislunar could be extended in some commercial direction," said Bob Richards, the vice president of advanced programs at Orbital ATK.
John Elbon, vice president and general manager at Boeing, said now that we've learned to live and work on the space station, it's time to move farther out; spacecraft like Boeing's upcoming Starliner will help create a sustainable economy in low-Earth orbit, and later extend outward toward the moon. NASA's Deep Space Gateway programcould provide an anchor similar to the space station for the industry to expand outward. [Boeing's Starliner Space Capsule in Pictures]
But what are the logical steppingstones to extending that marketplace from low-Earth orbit, to the moon, and someday out toward Mars?
"I love when people … put the word 'logical' and 'new markets' together," Manber said. "It's not logical. There's no logic to this." Manber compared the industry to predicting how the internet would develop in 1985. "There has to be some degree of faith that our commercial marketplace, the way we do business in America, will come up with solutions, because it always has."
"It's a combination of reform, government as customer, getting the LEO economy going, and Earth observation, bettering life on Earth, increasing in-space services, looking to see if asteroid mining and projects like that are real, and having that leap of faith," he added.
Leaving low-Earth orbit
Elbon had a different take: "Jeff and I have this discussion; I usually have the more pragmatic view of the situation, I suppose."
He cautioned that there's a lot of opportunities for companies to test things in low-Earth orbit, and that it's dangerous to overextend or dismiss the space station too early.
"I think it's important we don't gamble our future in low-Earth orbit with too much of a build-it-and-they-will-come kind of approach," he said. "ISS is the place right now where we have an incubator for those kind of commercial demands, and we need to keep that going as a place where companies who have potential ideas can test them out … if we pull the rug out from under [the space station's commercial capabilities] too quick, it will falter before it gets going. That transition, it's really important for us to think through and do properly."
Staffing a space revolution
Barton Bolfrass, the CEO of Fathom Academy, has an eye on providing workers for all these space enterprises — his company is set to build underwater training facilities so people can learn how to build habitats, repair satellites and do construction outside of spacecraft.
"We [at Fathom Academy] do not train Ph.D.s, we do not train pilots — we simply create a workforce for space," he said. "We are currently asking surgeons to build our hospitals in space. Just as it would be surprising to drive by a construction site and [see] surgeons or chefs building the hospitals or restaurants, we need scientists, but scientists need assistants. Officers need enlisted men, chefs need sous chefs.
"The biggest hurdle that our industry has been suffering from since we set foot on the moon is accessibility," he added. "People have to care about it to want to go and continue to do it, … [and] the excitement dies the moment you leave the ground without them. To be able to say that I have a chance to go, that I can go, that there's something for me to go to, that's where I think the commercial aspect of our industry will go from a trickle to a flow to an explosion of interest."
Richards pointed out that the U.S. opening the space station to commercial experiments as a national lab "jump-started gigantic amounts of small companies and new ideas … [and that] working closely with the government to come up with solutions is the right way to go there."
"I think the NextSTEP program is architected about right for the beginnings of that," he added.
The panel's moderator Jason Crusan, the director of NASA's advanced exploration systems division, which administrates NextSTEP, added that creating enough demand to build an economy in space while encouraging exploration, is a major focus and concern.
"Demand generation is probably one of the biggest things that keeps me up at night: What is that demand model going to be," he said. "There is no logical step. One of the things we're trying to do is build an ecosystem for economic experimentation. How do we set up, as a government entity, drop down barriers to entry, reduce cost to doing that experimentation, all the different things that we can do to allow an ecosystem for experimentation to occur outside the government.
"We're shifting the entire way we interact with industry," he added. "We're actually moving in concert together quite a bit — we can't go too fast, they can't go too fast; we have to kind of learn and experiment together."
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.
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Over mijzelf
Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.
