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Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.

This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Is alien PROOF hidden in new batch of British UFO files which have finally been released?

    Is alien PROOF hidden in new batch of British UFO files which have finally been released?

    A FINAL batch of the British "real life X Files" have been released by the Government after a decade long battle by UFO hunters.

    The declassification of the final three documents among a series of reports dating from the 1970s brings to an end a 10-year campaign for transparency by ufologists.

    The Ministry of Defence (MoD) papers have been trickled out over a series of releases to the National Archives, with many delays along the way.

    There are still complaints that they have been made deliberately hard to access, as they are not available online, and require a visit to the National Archives in London to pour through hard copies.

    The papers include UFO witness accounts, photos and sketches of mystery objects, and MoD and official reports of sightings.

    However, so far there does not appear to be the smoking gun evidence of alien life so-called truth seekers were hoping for.

    UFO-Files

    Getty*Nick Pope

    UFO DISCLOSURE: Nick Pope has welcomed the release of the last batch of British X-Files.

    Coming so soon after the revelations about the Pentagon's UFO program, this will raise suspicion in the UFO community that there's been co-ordination between the US and UK government on this.

    Nick Pope

    Nick Pope, former UFO investigator at the MoD, has suggested that alien enthusiasts won't be too chuffed with this final release.

    The last three documents all date from 1986, and were released on New Year’s Day.

    Mr Pope said: "This looks suspiciously as if The National Archives tried to sneak out this release when nobody was looking."

    The timing of the release, just weeks after the US Pentagon confirmed it had maintained a top-secret UFO investigation program, has also raised suspicions.

    Mr Pope added: "Coming so soon after the revelations about the Pentagon's UFO program, this will raise suspicion in the UFO community that there's been co-ordination between the US and UK government on this."

    However, he is glad they are finally out.

    He added: "Having worked on the MoD's UFO investigations in the 90s I'm pleased that these files are finally in the open.

    "There's no smoking gun in these files that says UFOs are extraterrestrial, but there are plenty of interesting sighting reports and other related material relating to MoD research on the subject.

    "These recent revelations in the UK and the US show that whatever you believe about the UFO mystery, some of us in government took the subject seriously.

    "I hope this means that the media, the scientific community and the public can now have a more serious and informed debate about the UFO phenomenon, with less sarcastic comments about little green men."

    11-01-2018 om 01:33 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Rh Negative Blood: An Alien Origin or a Rare Mutation?

    Rh Negative Blood: An Alien Origin or a Rare Mutation?

    Rh negative blood type

    Being of the Rhesus monkey lineage, around 85 % of the world population inherits the Rh positive blood group. The remaining 10-15 % is Rh negative pointing out their origin being from a different source.

    This difference in blood type has attracted various conspiracy theories – linking them to reptilian blood in one and to an alien origin in another.


    Our immune system responds to any foreign substance by generating antibodies. The triggering up of these antibodies is a function of antigens. One such important antigen found in Rh positive blood type is the D antigen.The absence of this antigen indicates a person having a Rh negative blood type.

    Apart from a difference in certain traits and characteristics, they live a normal life.  In fact,  as this blood type lacks proteins, it provides them immunity against certain diseases which require proteins as a carrier.

    Traits and characteristics

    • Empathetic
    • Reddish hair
    • Green, blue or hazel eyes
    • Intuitive
    • Always look for facts
    • Higher than average IQ
    • Easily Scared
    • Lower body temperature
    • Sense of purpose in life
    • Compassionate
    • Unexplained psychic dreams
    • Interest in space and science
    • Extra vertebrate
    • An inclination to healing professions
    • A feeling of being different

    Mothers immune system rejects the fetus

     This blood type becomes a cause of concern only during the pregnancy when a Rh negative mother carries a fetus having the Rh-positive blood type.

    When the blood of mother comes in contact with that of the fetus blood, it develops antibodies against the Rh D antigen. The mother’s immune system can then prove fatal for the fetus.

    But with the advancement in medical science, medications are now available to prevent the fetus from such harm.

    Some believe that the evolution of Rh negative blood came about when aliens mated with humans.

    As these people are blessed with psychic and intuitive powers, did the aliens desired to create a lineage separate from rest of the humanity?  or did they wanted them to act as angels and prevent humanity at the time of need?

    Some of the strange things common to the people having this bloodline are

    • They are doing research on ancient astronauts
    • Author of the books based on extraterrestrials, space, and science
    • Are alien abductees

    It is no denying the fact that our history has also pointed to alien visitations. These indications come preserved in the form of scriptures, stone carvings, and paintings.

    Some examples include

    • Ancient cave paintings
    • UFO sightings
    • Crop circles
    • The uncanny architectures such as the pyramids of Giza, Nasca lines, stone henge etc

    Did the ancient astronauts come here with a purpose?

    Various texts have even pointed out that gods came and blessed humans with their sons. Can Rh negative blood type come into existence due to one such blessing?

    One of the professors even said that we all as a race came from space.

    Prof Wickramasinghe mathematician, astronomer, and astrobiologist said

    A dark secret lies deeply buried in our DNA. We are all aliens made up of cosmic genes from cosmic bacteria and viruses that drifted down to us in comet dust and meteorites through the depths of space”.

    The largest percentage of this bloodline are the Basque people who live near the Pyrenees mountain between France and Spain.They are semi-isolated from the rest of Europe

    According to the University of Nevada, center for basques studies

    No one knows exactly where the Basques came from. Some say they have lived in that area since Cro-Magnon man first roamed Europe. Estimates of how long they have lived there vary from 10,000 to 75,000 years. Some say they are descended from the original Iberians. More fanciful theories exist, as well. One is that the Basques are the descendants of the survivors of Atlantis.

    Scientific explanation

    Let us now understand how science tries to clarify this conspiracy.

    According to this website, our DNA decides our body characteristics. With a slight change in DNA, our characteristics also change.

    These DNA changes can take place either when a cell divides or through outside influences such as radiation.

    Mutation, as we know, is the change in the DNA or genome of an individual. Rh negative blood type having no D antigen evolved due to one such mutation.This also changed their appearance and immune system characteristics.

    rh factor

    What a Rh-negative mothers immune system is doing is activating its defense system obeying its DNA characteristics.

    One of the inherent benefit they have over other individuals is their immunity against the parasite Toxoplasma. Also, as this bloodline is prominent in places having this parasite, it is indicative of a rare mutation took place which aided the people having this mutation to cope well.

    As people in Europe account for the maximum percentage having this blood type, maybe this served them to survive in that geography.

    CONCLUSION

    Whether the Rh negative blood type is of alien origin or a rare genetic mutation, weighs equal.It can be concluded only after science gives us, even more, facts to remove the veil out of its very origin.

    If it is only a result of genetic mutation then why does it makes such people more intuitive, psychic healers, being the popular target of aliens,  science and space explorers? There are a lot of questions which need to be answered to reach a definite conclusion.

    Who knows that the theory of alien mating with humans turns out to be true when science has sufficient data to back up the claims or it turns out to be our random assumption with the concept of genetic mutation winning in the end.

    Sources:

    https://www.notesforsapiens.com/ }

    11-01-2018 om 01:19 geschreven door peter  

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    Un "ancien employé de la Zone 51" affirme avoir piloté une Soucoupe volante !

    Un homme, qui prétend être un ancien employé de la zone 51, affirme dans une vidéo avoir été recruté par le gouvernement américain pour piloter un vaisseau spatial. Dans la vidéo, Robert Miller explique comment il avait l'habitude de travailler au sein de la base de l’US Air Force.


    M. Miller révèle comment des extraterrestres, des engins spatiaux et des preuves de vie extraterrestre sont cachés à l'intérieur des installations de Groom Lake.
    Il détaille également un souvenir particulier du moment où il a été invité à conduire un des véhicules volants.
    Il déclare : "Je me souviens qu'ils m'avaient amené à l'intérieur du vaisseau, jusqu'à la place du pilote, il y avait seulement de la place pour une personne dans le géant vaisseau"
    "J'ai regardé autour du cockpit et j'ai seulement vu un siège."
    "Pas de joystick, pas de volant ni d'autres outils contrôles. Il y avait cependant un casque. Ils m'ont dit que l'engin était contrôlé par télépathie et d'imaginer que l'engin commençait à flotter, mais cela n'a pas fonctionné."


     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIxzvtmF0t4

    "Au lieu de cela, j'ai dû imaginer que j'étais l'engin, et comme faisant partie de celui-ci, et j'ai commencé à penser à moi-même en train de flotter sur le sol puis j'ai senti les vibrations."
    M. Miller a également suggéré avoir pu avoir voyagé dans le temps après s'être évanoui pendant l'expérience.
    "Je me trouvais à 500 pieds du sol, puis les vibrations du moteur se sont arrêtées. Il n'y avait pas de bouton d'éjection sur l'engin. J'étais effectivement sans défense."
    "[L'engin] s’est mis à plonger vers le sol et je suis devenu inconscient."
    "Alors que je me trouvais à l’hôpital, un homme en costume noir est entré et m'a expliqué ce qui s'était passé. Il a dit que juste avant que l'engin ne touche le sol, il avait disparu…"
    "Au milieu de la nuit, ils ont entendu un bruit à l'extérieur, et l'engin s'était écrasé au même endroit."
    "Les scientifiques avaient émis l'hypothèse que l'engin avait voyagé dans le temps."
    Miller affirme dans sa vidéo prendre un risque considérable pour sa vie en déclarant : "Si quelque chose m'arrive dans les prochains jours, vous saurez pourquoi." 

    Filibert : Il est vrai que d'après les témoignages de personnes qui ont été dans des vaisseaux extraterrestres, il n'y a pas de manettes ou commandes, tout se fait pas transmission de pensée !  Ici nous avons affaire à une soucoupe terrestre mise au point, sans doute, avec l'aide d'extraterrestres collaborant avec les humains. Mais pour la piloter, il faut savoir bien visualiser l'endroit où l'on désire aller, il faudrait faire des essais avec un simulateur pour savoir bien transmettre des ordres à la machine !  L'Aire 51 est une des bases avec Dulce, l'Aire S-4…, où il y a des extraterrestres qui collaborent avec les Hommes !

    Source : 
    http://ovnis-direct.com/un-ancien-employe-de-la-zone-51-affirme-avoir-pilote-un-ovni-54545.html#JQwNgQIo

    https://changera.blogspot.be/ }

    11-01-2018 om 00:53 geschreven door peter  

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    What was that bright flash over Russia?

    A flash seen over a wide swath of Russia on January 7 at first caused fears of a U.S. air strike on North Korea. For now, the flash is unexplained.

    Bright flash in the night sky over the Tatarstan region of Russia on January 7, 2018, via Siberian Times.

    Siberian Times and other media reported this week (January 9, 2018) on an exceedingly bright flash that “turned night to day” over a wide swath of western Russia on Sunday, January 7. Some media reported that the flash caused speculationabout a U.S. air strike over North Korea. A next logical assumption might be a meteor, but – as of this writing – there are no reports about the event in the meteor logs for both the International Meteor Organization and the American Meteor Society, suggesting no bright streak of a meteor was seen.

    The flash was seen primarily over three regions Bashkortostan, Udmurtia, and Tatarstan.

    Siberian Times reported:

    The black sky suddenly turned momentarily deep blue as if on a bright day – but according to some accounts, the Earth moved too.

    Experts insist the phenomenon was not manmade: there were no reports of missile tests or explosions.

    Nor were there reports of meteorites striking the Earth.

    Witnesses had the feeling something massive had happened – but what?

    Looking back, I noticed a story about a similar bright flash over Russia in 2014. In that story, an IFLScience reportconcluded:

    It’s definitely possible that the light wasn’t originating in the sky; it came from the ground and was being reflected off of the clouds.

    Other explanations include “dry thunderstorms” to “atmospheric electricity.”

    The sky over Tatarstan during the mysterious explosion of light, via Siberian Times.

    Bottom line: A flash seen over a wide swath of Russia on January 7, 2018 is so far unexplained.

    http://earthsky.org/ }

    11-01-2018 om 00:24 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.What is a sun pillar, or light pillar?

    What is a sun pillar, or light pillar?

    Sun pillars, or light pillars, are shafts of light extending from the sun or other bright light source. They’re caused by ice crystals drifting in Earth’s air.

    Canada geese look like ghosts as they fly though a sun pillar – January 28, 2017 – in Quakertown, Pennsylvania.

    EarthSky Facebook friends occasionally post beautiful photos of sun pillars, or light pillars. For example, there was a beautiful one seen from the U.S. West Coast on March 20, 2016 … a beautiful prelude to the first full night of spring. Sun pillars are vertical shafts of light that extend upward (or downward) from a bright light source, such as the sun or other bright light low on the horizon. They can be five to 10 degrees tall and sometimes even higher. They might lengthen or brighten as you gaze at them.

    They’re beautiful and wondrous. They’re also the source of some UFO reports!

    Joe C. Tabb and his wife caught this amazing sun pillar at sunset on May 10, 2016. A storm had recently passed.

    Joe C. Tabb and Dawn Tabb caught this amazing sun pillar at sunset on May 10, 2016. A storm had recently passed.

    U.S. West Coast got an amazing sun pillar on the first evening of spring. Thanks, Lyle Evans

    The U.S. West Coast got an amazing sun pillar on the first evening of spring, 2016. Photo by Lyle Evans in Highland, California.

    Another shot of the beautiful sun pillar seen on March 20, 2016, from the U.S. West Coast.  This one is from Chris Levitan Photography.  Thanks, Chris!

    Another shot of the beautiful sun pillar seen on March 20, 2016, from the U.S. West Coast. This one is from Chris Levitan Photography. Thanks, Chris!

    Sun pillars or light pillars are formed by reflection from hexagonal plate-like ice crystals in Earth’s air. These crystals drift through the atmosphere with a horizontal orientation, gently rocking from side to side as they fall. Diagram via University of Illinois.

    Sun pillars or light pillars form when sunlight (or another bright light source) reflects off the surfaces of millions of falling ice crystals associated with thin, high-level clouds, for example, cirrostratus clouds. The ice crystals have roughly horizontal faces. They are falling through Earth’s atmosphere, rocking slightly from side to side.

    When is the best time to see a sun pillar or light pillar? 

    You’ll most often see sun pillars when the sun is low in the western sky before sunset, or low in the east just after the breaking of dawn. You might even see a sun pillar when the sun is below the horizon. Light pillars can be seen at any time of night.

    View larger. | Wesley Liikane in Severn Bridge, Ontario captured these light pillars on December 23, 2013.   See more photos by Wesley at Cowboy with a Camera on Facebook.

    View larger. | Wesley Liikane in Severn Bridge, Ontario captured these light pillars on December 23, 2013. See more photos by Wesley at Cowboy with a Camera on Facebook.

    They’re called sun pillars when the sun helps make them. But this the moon or even streetlights can create this light phenomenon, too, in which case the name light pillar is more appropriate.

    These pillars of light often prompt people to report sightings of UFOs. They can sometimes look strange! There are said to be a lot of UFO reports caused by light pillars over Niagara Falls, where the mist from the rush of descending water interacts with the city’s many upward facing spotlights. Light pillars do appear frequently over Niagara Falls, especially during the winter.

    As always, the great website Atmospheric Optics is a wonderful place to go and learn more about sun pillars.

    Sun pillar seen by EarthSky Facebook friend Colin Chatfield on November 6, 2012 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thank you, Colin. Click here to expand image.

    Sun pillar seen by EarthSky Facebook friend Shanna Dennis. Thank you, Shanna. Click here to expand.

    Photo credit: EarthSky Facebook friend Kim Smith, taken February 2013. She says “My first ever sun pillar! We don’t often see them here in Walker Creek, Arkansas. I am glad I was out to photograph the sunset today when this occurred.” Thanks Kim!

    Bottom line: Sun pillars, or light pillars, are vertical shafts of light that can sometimes be seen extending upwards or downwards from the sun or other bright light source. They’re caused by light reflection from hexagonal ice crystals drifting in Earth’s atmosphere.

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    11-01-2018 om 00:14 geschreven door peter  

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    10-01-2018
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.2017 UFO Year in Review – January 8, 2018

    2017 UFO Year in Review – January 8, 2018

    Open Minds UFO Radio: 2017 turned out to be a breakthrough year for UFOs, especially in the last month. However, there were other exciting UFO stories throughout the year, and our panel is here to discuss what those were. Host Alejandro Rojas, UFO news guy Martin Willis, and our special guest Lee Speigel, UFO journalist and media guy, share their top UFO stories of 2017.


    http://www.openminds.tv/ }

    10-01-2018 om 23:49 geschreven door peter  

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    Alien Invasion: What Would Aliens REALLY Want With The Earth?

    Let’s put aside the questions as to whether or not we’ve been visited by aliens. Let’s ask a better question: Why would aliens visit us at all? Is there anything about Earth that makes us prone to an alien invasion?

    alien invasion earth

    Photo by NASA on Unsplash

    An Alien Invasion has Occurred, But For What Reason?

    While there’s plenty of talk of human-alien hybridization programs & plans to take over our government and make us slaves, do these ideas make any sense? I mean, if a far advanced alien race came here with the intent of making us slaves, they wouldn’t need to infiltrate our government to do so. They’d just… do it. They would just do it because they’re so advanced relative to us. So let’s explore the possibilities…


    The Most Unlikely Scenarios for an Alien Invasion

    The first 2 scenarios really have good reasons why they’re unlikely. While they’re popular with hardcore alien enthusiasts, many of which believe these things are happening now or have in the past, a step back to reality doesn’t support these ideas. The likely scenarios are much more insidious and dire for humans in the event of a true alien invasion.

    #1. Gold Mining

    Gold is a very rare metal. For thousands of years, humans have mined it. We work for it. We kill for it. Aliens want gold too.

    The idea is a cornerstone for Ancient Alien theorists. They believe that aliens came to the earth in ancient times to mine gold. In their desire for gold, they genetically modified ancient apes to make them more intelligent. The theory states that modern-day humans, us, are those genetically modified apes. Aliens designed us to have love and desire for gold so that we would mine it for them by our own ‘choice’.

    Gold Jewelry

    Photo by Nick Karvounis on Unsplash

    The Argument for an Alien Gold Mining Operation

    Truth be told, there isn’t much evidence in support of this theory. Everyone who reads this blog knows my stance on the Ancient Alien religion. It’s undeniable that humans have a love and obsession with gold. We also have a love and obsession with lots of pretty stones and shiny metals that aren’t gold.

    The Reality – Gold isn’t THAT Rare

    While gold is a rare metal by certain standards, there’s no reason to think Earth has more gold than other rocky planets. Gold can only be created during a supernova and any planets forming in the resulting cloud of heavy elements will have some gold on them. So does it really make sense that aliens would travel here specifically for gold? Probably not. The fact of the matter is that from the perspective of an interstellar species, gold isn’t that rare or hard to find.

    Alien technology would be so great, they wouldn’t need human ‘slaves’ to mine gold for them. They’d have machines that can do it much faster. Additionally, there’s no reason why they would choose an inhabited planet to mine when there are so many uninhabited ones out there. If they did choose to mine an inhabited planet such as the Earth, they’d probably wipe out all life first so that they wouldn’t have to deal with all the ankle biting from the pesky humans.

    #2. Hybridization for Their Dying Species

    Another popular theory by alien-believers is that aliens are running a hybridization program. The theory postulates aliens are a dying species, abducting humans, and taking DNA to merge with their own in order to strengthen their own biology. Many people believe it’s already happening.

    The Arguments for an Alien Hybridization Program

    The proponents of the theory point to cases of alien abduction & cattle mutilations as evidence. Sightings of cryptids, such as the Chupacabra, are cited as examples of alien hybridization having gone wrong.

    Additionally, many female abductees describe being artificially inseminated and forced to carry fetuses only to be abducted later and having it removed. Male abductees frequently describe having semen extracted from them by their alien abductors. Some folks claim to have had sexual encounters with extraterrestrials.

    The Reality – You Don’t Need Much DNA for Hybridization

    By far, the weakest part of the entire theory is that a little DNA goes a long way. A single human carries enough DNA information to hybridize an entire generation of extraterrestrials. Aside from the fact that many abduction cases can be dismissed as instances of sleep paralysis, continued abductions for 50+ years would be unnecessary.

    It’s also worth noting that a species capable of interstellar travel would have learned how to genetically modify themselves without the need for samples from a relatively primordial species such as ourselves.


    The Most Likely Scenarios for an Alien Invasion

    This set of scenarios for an alien invasion take into account what science knows about intelligent life and how it behaves. Of course, we only have ourselves to look at, but you work with what you’ve got right? These scenarios which come from real scientists are much more disturbing than some of the fantasy stories tossed around by the ancient alien and conspiracy crowds.

    #1. Their Own Earth-like Planet was Destroyed

    What if aliens weren’t very different from us? What if they came from a planet just like ours in a neighboring solar system? Maybe their planet died or became uninhabitable, and the entire species took the skies looking for a new place to call home.

    Nebula

    Photo by NASA on Unsplash

    Woah, This One is Crazy to Think About

    As a skeptic, this scenario for an alien invasion is mind blowing because it could actually happen. No planet lives forever. Our own Earth has gone through several mass extinction events and there’s no reason to think other planets would be any different.

    We’d likely be powerless to stop it, and if our own history of exploration is any indication, it wouldn’t turn out very well for us humans. Think about what happened to the Native Americans when Europeans discovered the New World…

    #2. Natural Resources that Support Carbon-Based Life

    If there’s one thing more rare in the universe than gold and diamonds, it’s life. At least, life as we know it – carbon-based life. Life with all its associated proteins & fats is likely the rarest thing in the cosmos. We know this because we’ve looked around and not found it anywhere else.

    Tropical Paradise

    Photo by Milada Vigerova on Unsplash

    Earth’s Natural Resources Would be a Figurative Goldmine

    While it rains diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn, the compounds necessary to support carbon-based life are much rarer. Earth’s trees, plants, animals, & humans might be so rare in the universe that aliens could invade in order to use these sources of energy.

    The rarity of life in the universe makes the Earth a prime candidate for aliens wishing to create a planetary zoo or to rule us. They could also potentially farm the life on Earth for food much as humans currently do.

    #3. Dominance

    It could simply be that a space-faring race may come to the earth simply to rule the population. Remember Superman 2? Political and social power can be addictive and satisfying to intelligent beings. The desire to rule may even be a common trait of all intelligent species.

    alien invasion grey alien

    The Desire to Rule Depends on the Aliens

    The culture of the aliens who happen to find us really determines the likelihood of this scenario. By all counts, it’s a true alien invasion of the type only seen in movies and cinema. The takeover could be quick and violent, or it could be slow and shadowy. Proponents say it’s already happening. They point to reports of reptilian aliens infiltrating our government and big corporations as evidence.

    #4. They Might Be Looking for a Planetary Zoo

    Zoos are pretty cool. Maybe aliens think so too? Perhaps aliens wouldn’t actually invade the earth as much as keeping it ‘caged up’ for observation.

    lions in zoo

    Photo by Shireah Ragnar on Unsplash

    Another Very Possible Alien Invasion Scenario

    Like the previous example, the planetary zoo is very possible. What’s really crazy? It might already be happening and we aren’t even aware of it.

    #5. Food – Humans? Yummy!

    There isn’t a single animal on this planet that humans won’t eat. We’ll eat anything except other humans (and there are even exceptions to that as well). Aliens might be the same way, especially if carbon-based life turns out to be a compatible food for their biology.

    Steak Rosemary

    Photo by Jez Timms on Unsplash

    The Scariest Scenario of All: Humans = Cattle

    Based our own behavior towards other animals, this scenario is highly likely. Perhaps, it’s the most likely of all. And it’s utterly terrifying. With advanced intelligence and technology, humans would be raised as cattle scarcely aware of our true purpose. We might live out our lives without so much as a hint of our grisly ends at the hands of our alien farmers.


    Other Reasons?

    We can only guess at the motives of our potential alien invaders. Perhaps the alien invasion will have nothing to do with us at all, or maybe it will have everything to do with us. Regardless, if aliens ever do come to meet us with technology millions of years ahead of us, we won’t have much say in the matter anyway. And that’s the scariest part of the entire thing.

    What do you think? Why would aliens invade the earth? Let us know below in the comments.

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    10-01-2018 om 23:41 geschreven door peter  

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    Aliens Don't Exist: Our Solar System Is an Anomaly, Study Claims.

    Chris Mahon

    Aliens Don't Exist: Our Solar System Is an Anomaly, Study Claims
    Image credit: YouTube

    We've said it before, but it seems like the universe keeps proving that it's a lot more complicated than the Drake Equation would lead us to believe.

    Previously, the thousands of exoplanets we discovered last year would suggest that life exists in some solar system out there, if most solar systems end up looking like ours. But new research has revealed that most solar systems are very, very different—meaning that finding alien life could be even more difficult.

    According to a new paper in the Astronomical Journal, most of the solar systems observed by the Kepler telescope have planets that are a) roughly the same size and b) roughly the same distance from one another. Compared to our solar system, which has huge gas planets like Jupiter and Saturn and tiny, rocky planets like Venus and Mercury at varying distances from one another, these systems seem to be much more uniform. 

    This may mean that out solar system's formation was actually an anomaly:

    "In classic planet formation theory, planets form in the protoplanetary disk that surrounds a newly formed star. The planets might form in compact configurations with similar sizes and a regular orbital spacing, in a manner similar to the newly observed pattern in exoplanetary systems...Abundant evidence in the solar system suggests that Jupiter and Saturn disrupted our system's early structure, resulting in the four widely-spaced terrestrial planets we have today. That planets in most systems are still similarly sized and regularly spaced suggests that perhaps they have been mostly undisturbed since their formation."


    All of this adds a new layer to the search for life on other planets: apart from finding planets in the "Goldilocks" area, where they are neither too far nor too close to their star, scientists may start digging into what factors decide the size and spacing of planets in solar systems, which will determine what systems end up looking like ours.

    Having smaller, rocky planets closer together near the sun may be a new marker to look for in the search for life.

    https://www.outerplaces.com/ }

    10-01-2018 om 23:14 geschreven door peter  

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    10-01-2018 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

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    10-01-2018 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

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    These Stunning Blue Alien Crystals Contain Water and Organic Molecules

    Asteroids have been spitballing life juice at each other for billions of years, and we have the receipts.

    Becky Ferreira

    Becky Ferreira

    Every meteorite that falls to Earth has an incredible story to tell about its extraterrestrial origins and interplanetary adventures. That’s particularly true of the 4.5 billion-year-old space rocks known as Monahans and Zag, which respectively landed in Texas and Morocco in 1998. Soon after their recovery, scientists detected microscopic pockets of water and halite (rock salt) crystals in the meteorites—a direct window into an ancient briny world from the solar system’s infancy.

    Now, an extensive analysis of the meteorites led by Open University astrobiologist Queenie Chan reveals that these alien salt crystals contain organic matter, or “life’s precursor molecules,” as the team put it. These carbon compounds provide new insights into the distribution of prebiotic materials in the early solar system, while shedding light on the meteorites’ protracted and occasionally bumpy voyage to Earth.

    The paper, out Wednesday in Science Advances, also marks the first time scientists have found organics in extraterrestrial samples that still contain liquid water, Chan told me over email. This is significant because water and organic matter are the key ingredients for life as we know it, and the paper suggests they may have been widespread on primitive worlds in the ancient solar system.

    “Finding organic compounds in meteorites [and] other extraterrestrial samples is nothing new,” Chan said. “However, this study is unique in the sense that we have studied the organic material contained within the water-bearing salt crystals within the meteorites.”

    Identifying these subtle compounds within the millimeter-scale crystals required an exhaustive experimental approach. Chan’s team scrutinized the samples with a wide range of advanced spectrometry, spectroscopy, microscopy, and liquid chromatography techniques to achieve their results. They detected carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen-bearing materials “exhibiting a wide range of structural order,” as well as “aromatic, ketone, imine, and/or imidazole compounds.”

    Dr. Chan with a Raman spectrometer, one of the instruments used in the study.
    Image: Dr. Queenie Hoi Shan Chan

    The fact that this organic matter was locked inside these sapphire-colored crystals raises the tantalizing possibility that speculative alien beings, most likely in tiny microbe form, could be preserved the same way. Chan referred me to a 1988 studythat described terrestrial bacteria suspended in small liquid inclusions within salt crystals, so it’s not absurd to think extraterrestrial life could be likewise contained.

    “If life formed elsewhere, there is such a possibility that it could be trapped in a way similar to that of the terrestrial setting,” Chan told me. “Bear in mind that, while the rich deposits of organic remnants recovered from the meteorites don’t provide any proof of life outside of Earth, finding abundant organic precursors associated with water indicates that complex chemical processes could have occurred.”

    “This offers a significant implication for the context for the origin of life,” she added.

    Read More: Scientists Find a Quasicrystal from Outer Space in a Russian Meteorite

    These organics also flesh out the backstory of the Zag and Monahans meteorites. The rocks are similar in composition to the carbonaceous surface of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, suggesting they probably originated on that world. Chan and her colleagues propose that hydrovolcanic activity on young Ceres produced brines, and when the water eventually evaporated, it left behind these salt crystals filled with organic molecules.

    At some point, these hydrovolcanic disruptions on Ceres were forceful enough to blast the material into space, where exposure to ionizing radiation caused the crystals to turn that “beautiful blue color,” Chan said, which is “pretty unique in nature.”

    Photomicrograph of blue halite from Zag.
    Image: Dr. Queenie Hoi Shan Chan

    The ejected material then impacted with another world, possibly the metal-rich asteroid Hebe, which imprinted its own signature of organics and amino acids into the meteorites. Finally, these intermixed samples were gently “stripped” from this asteroid by natural processes, and ended up on Earth some 20 years ago.

    It’s pretty mind-boggling to retread this story of interworld hops, written in the chemical composition of the Zag and Monahans meteorites. What’s even trippier is the notion that these journeys may be quotidian, with similar exchanges likely occurring right now around some of the most promising candidates for life in our solar system.

    “In the context of understanding moons such as Enceladus and Europa,” Chan’s team said in the study, “halite crystals formed from cryovolcanism and ejected into space represent an ideal sample to study prebiotic and possibly biotic processes on these bodies.”

    It’s impossible to predict what first contact with an alien organism might look like, but with this comprehensive new paper, Chan and her colleagues have distinguished salt crystals embedded in world-hopping rocks as a smart bet.

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    10-01-2018 om 22:55 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Doorbraak: menselijke spieren groeien in labo uit huidcellen en wérken - HLN.be

    Doorbraak: menselijke spieren groeien in labo uit huidcellen en wérken - HLN.be

    Bron: WIRED, The Independent

    Het in een labo uit huidstamcellen gekweekte spierweefsel reageert op uitwendige stimuli zoals elektrische pulsen en chemische signalen.

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    Het in een labo uit huidstamcellen gekweekte spierweefsel reageert op uitwendige stimuli zoals elektrische pulsen en chemische signalen.
     Werkende menselijke spieren zijn in een labo ontwikkeld uit stamcellen uit de huid. Die doorbraak is beloftevol voor mensen die lijden aan degeneratieve spierziektes.

    muscle

    Credit: Pixabay.

    Het team wetenschappers van de Duke universiteit in de Amerikaanse staat North Carolina stelt de eersten te zijn die dit klaarspeelt met stamcellen uit huidweefsel dat werd “geherprogrammeerd” naar jeugdig en veelzijdig spierweefsel.

    Het gaat om ‘geïnduceerde pluripotente stamcellen’ of iPSC’s. Net als natuurlijke stamcellen in embryo’s kunnen ze eender welk type menselijke cel worden. In dit geval werden de iPSC’s overgehaald om skeletspiercellen te worden, die uitgroeiden tot ‘functionerende menselijke skeletspieren’, meldde het team in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Nature Communications.

    Spieren reageren op elektrische en chemische signalen

    “Het heeft ons jaren proberen en falen gekost, met kleine stapjes richting functionerend menselijk spierweefsel uit die pluripotente stamcellen”, stelt mede-auteur van de studie Lingjun Rao.

    De doorbraak werd mogelijk gemaakt door “unieke celcultuuromstandigheden” in het labo en een 3D-steiger die de cellen toeliet “sneller en langer te groeien” dan bij andere teams gebeurde, stelt Rao.

    Het spierweefsel reageert op uitwendige stimuli zoals elektrische pulsen en chemische signalen.

    Researchers have grown the first functioning human muscle tissue from skin cells reprogrammed into stem cells.

    Credit: Duke University.

    In muizen

    Ze implanteerden de spiervezels ook in volwassen muizen, waar ze overleefden en gedurende minstens drie weken functioneerden, hoewel ze “niet zo sterk” waren als natuurlijk weefsel.

    De vorsers hopen dat hun techniek zal leiden tot het kweken van “een eindeloze hoeveelheid” werkende spieren waarop medicijnen en genbehandelingen voor degeneratieve spierziektes kunnen getest worden. 

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    10-01-2018 om 22:45 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Researchers close in on the reactions which fed the first life on Earth

    Researchers close in on the reactions which fed the first life on Earth

    BY ALEXANDRU MICU 

    New research is in hot pursuit of life’s first energy-producing reactions.

    Grand prismatic spring.

    Image credits Jim Peaco, National Park Service.

    What’s life worth if one can’t enjoy a good meal, right? Or, failing that, any meal at all? Not very much, since our bodies need to turn that food into fuel to keep going — and they have very sophisticated mechanisms on hand to do just that.

    Our cells turn oxygen organic compounds, especially sugars, into energy and CO2 through a process known as cellular respiration. You may have been told in school that mitochondria, the specialized organelles which handle cellular respiration, ‘burn’ food to release energy, and that’s a pretty functional illustration of the process. The whole picture is, however, much larger that.

    Energy-producing mechanisms in our body are often referred to as cycles — one of the most common ones is the citric acid / Krebs cycle. These are usually very complicated processes, and as such, are very difficult to wrap your head around and study them in the lab. Which is a pain if you’re the kind of scientist who’s trying to understand how these cycles came to be, where they first started from, and how they evolved. However, new research could offer these researchers the lucky break they need.

    A team led by Greg Springsteen, Professor at the Chemistry Department of Furman University, South Carolina, has identified what seems to be an ancient precursor of the citric acid cycle, one that could exist in the much less-refined conditions of early Earth and sustained early life.

    It’s akin to looking at a modern roadway like Route 66,” Springsteen, who’s also affiliated with NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, Atlanta, explains.

    Wagon trails were templates for Route 66. The twists and turns of the modern pathways tell us about the challenges of the original route.”

    The Krebs cycle works with a chemical known as pyruvate through a series of reactions over which the molecule changes its form (through subsequent addition/removal of atoms and molecules). The end results are energy and chemical bits and pieces to be used in other reactions throughout the body. Since organisms need a lot of energy, the Krebs cycle is propped up by specially-designed enzymes which make every step in the reaction go buttery-smooth. Because of all these extras pitching in, it can be hard to figure out how the cycle looked initially, and what chemicals could have sustained the process before the enzymes came along.

    Cycles.

    Image credits Greg Springsteen et al., 2017, Nature.

    However, the team, which also included members from the Scripps Research Institute in California and two undergrads at Furman, found two compounds which could maintain a Krebs-like cycle in experiments mimicking conditions on early Earth. Christened the HKG- and malonate-cycles, the team says these processes are likely very similar to the pre-life versions of the reactions that keep us alive today.

    They’re hugely less efficient than the Krebs cycle, but that was to be expected, given the lack of supportive enzymes. More importantly, however, they’re based on a similar chemical blueprint — both cycles turn a molecule called glyoxylate into CO2 and other molecules in the presence of an electron-capturing agent. They’re so similar, the authors’ hypothesis is that biology picked them up as it was and simply tweaked and improved upon them, leading to the reactionary cycles we see today.

    We think biology mapped itself onto preexisting chemical pathways on the early Earth,” said Springsteen.

    As exciting as the findings may be, take them with a grain of salt. The team doesn’t yet have much to offer in regards to how the cycles evolved over time into today’s Krebs’, and they’re yet to find the reactions occurring naturally or to prove that they did so before life took hold on Earth. Still, the two new cycles have a lot going for them — the reactions occur in a neutral (not acidic or basic) environment and in a mild temperature range. “There were environments on the early Earth where these reactions were reasonable,” the authors note.

    At the very least, they give us a possible starting point from which to expand our search.

    The paper “Linked cycles of oxidative decarboxylation of glyoxylate as protometabolic analogs of the citric acid cycle” has been published in the journal Nature.

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    10-01-2018 om 22:37 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Japanese astronaut didn’t actually grow 3½” taller after only three weeks in space [UPDATE]

    Japanese astronaut didn’t actually grow 3½” taller after only three weeks in space [UPDATE]

     BY TIBI PUIU 

    ISS astronaut Norishige Kanai (first from right) grew 9 cm taller in only 3 months in space. Credit: NASA.

    ISS astronaut Norishige Kanai (first from right) grew 9 cm taller in only 3 months in space.

    Credit: NASA.

    Free from the pressure of gravity, the spine can relax and temporarily expand almost like an unwinded coiled spring. This is why all astronauts stationed at the International Space Station grow taller during their stint there. But the case of Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai, who arrived at the station on Dec. 19, 2017, was extreme by all accounts, though. In the three weeks since he arrived at the ISS, Kanai claimed he had grown a staggering 3½ inches (9 centimeters) — the most he’s “grown in 3 weeks since junior high school,” the astronaut tweeted.

    Typically, a normal stint at the International Space Station will see people grow about two inches taller. But every human body is different and sometimes you get these freak occurrences at the high end of the bracket.

    Good morning, everybody,” Kanai wrote on twitter. “I have a major announcement today. We had our bodies measured after reaching space, and wow, wow, wow, I had actually grown by as much as 9cm!

    みなさま、おはようございます。今日は重大なご報告があります。

    実は、宇宙に着いてからの身体計測があったのですが、な、な、なんと、身長が9センチも伸びていたんです!
    たった3週間でニョキニョキと。こんなの中高生のとき以来です。

    帰りのソユーズの座席に体が収まるか、ちょっと心配です。

    I am a little worried I won’t fit in my seat on the return trip on Soyuz,” Kanai said more jokingly than serious.

    Each seat on the Russian Soyuz TMA spacecraft actually molds to the body of each astronaut to ensure a tight fit during atmospheric re-entry which can be quite the bumpy ride. You can’t be taller than 6 feet 3″ to hitch a ride, which is why anyone around that limit isn’t allowed to the ISS.

    After receiving so much media coverage, Kanai’s captain questioned the astronaut about his height and the two performed a new measurement. Turns out Kanai’s initial measurement was WAY off. Apparently, the 41-year-old Japanese astronaut had stretched only 2 cm from his Earth-bound height.

    Kanai tweeted: “This mis-measurement appears to have become a big deal, so I must apologize for this terrible fake news … It appears I can fit on the Soyuz, so I‘m relieved.”

    Kanai didn’t explain how he arrived at this ‘mis-measurement’ but it sure is weird  After all, he is an astronaut — a person who is trained in avionics and space engineering, which should entail being able to tell an inch from three inches.

    The real talk

    If growing a couple inches taller might sound appealing to some of you, know that it’s only temporary since astronauts slip back to their normal height once they touch down on Earth. Actually, growing taller can only mean trouble in space where every cubic inch counts.

    Growing tall on the ISS is a fleeting experience but there are really far more concerning effects zero gravity has on the human body. Scientists are only beginning to understand what long-term weightlessness is doing to human biology but already we know some things aren’t good at all. For instance, astronauts hurt their vision since the retina gets pushed forward, arteries can become clogged due to plaque buildup, and thousands of genes switch on and off. 

    If humanity ever becomes a space-faring species, we shall have to confront the effects of weightlessness and conquer them. In the meantime, stints made by brave astronauts on the ISS will teach us many valuable lessons.

    https://www.zmescience.com/ }

    10-01-2018 om 22:25 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.BUSTED? Has USAF been caught hiding 'alien tech UFO' in Florida on Google Earth?

    BUSTED? Has USAF been caught hiding 'alien tech UFO' in Florida on Google Earth?

    THESE could be top secret US Air Force spy craft developed using alien technology, according to staggering claims.

    Defence firm Lockheed Martin is understood to be working on a state-of-the-art spy plane for the US Air Force, which could reach over 4,600mph.

    Google Earth images have now surfaced of an object bearing a startling similarity to artist’s impressions of the plane.

    The silvery shape was spotted at the end of a runway in the swamplands of the Sunshine State, US.

    According to Tyler Glockner – who uploaded the clip to his YouTube channel secureteam10 – the area belongs to an aerospace company that has a “main foothold in designing aircraft engines that are widely used in civilian and military aviation”.

    “That gives us a hint they work with secretive things,” he added.

    The Hypersonic jet

    YOUTUBE

    MYSTERY: A strange craft spotted in Florida could be the USAF's secret hypersonic warplane

    “What you’re seeing is a very mysterious object.

    “I haven’t been able to find out what this is.

    “It is no public aircraft that has been disclosed.

    “You can see that this thing looks like a hypersonic aircraft or spacecraft.”

    More than 390,000 people have seen the clip and were quick to offer their suggestions.

    “Definitely seems to match the images of that fast jet, but why would they leave it in the open?” one asked.

    Another agreed, saying: “Not very secret if they're out in the open for anyone to see!”

    But a third wrote: “These look like powerboats, could be something else but there is a massive lake not far away.”

    10-01-2018 om 22:14 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The truth is out there? Secret ALIEN programme 'concealing evidence of UFOs'

    The truth is out there? Secret ALIEN programme 'concealing evidence of UFOs'

    A SECRET Government group is concealing the truth about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), according to researchers.

    Alien USA UFO programme space

    GETTY

    The New York Times and Politico both reported on the programme

    The belief in aliens visiting Earth via spacecraft was given greater validity last year following reports by both The New York Times and Politico Magazine of the secretive Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP).

    This was coupled with a video released by the Department of Defence which shows a two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object near San Diego.

    But, some experts in UFO studies think the release was merely a test to gauge public reactions to set people up for really big news about aliens.

    Retired nuclear physicist and a long-time investigator and lecturer on the UFO phenomenon, Stanton Friedman, said: "I can't say I know why things are coming out at this time.

    "I appreciate the courage of those former officials who came forth.”

    He also criticised debunkers who advocate listening for alien signals but “ignore the tone of evidence of alien visitors”.

    According to Steven Aftergood of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, the purpose of the AATIP is “threat identification”.

    He added: "But the fact that this program was initiated at the request of Senator Reid — not the Air Force — suggests that national security was not the paramount motivation here.

    "It is somewhat dismaying to see how quickly 'unidentified' aerial phenomena are publicly interpreted and portrayed as UFOs of possibly extraterrestrial origin.

    ”Collectively, we should all be becoming more intelligent and more perceptive, not more stupid and gullible."

    President and scientific director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in Chicago, Mark Rodeghier, said he was initially sceptical of UFOs.

    But, after looking through hundreds of reports by witnesses, he became convinced that UFOs deserve serious study.

    Speaking of the AATIP, he said the sightings "confirms something that has been believed for many years … that these sightings are still happening, we just were not learning about them”.

    He said he hopes the core AATIP information that has been gathered can be released to the public and made available for scientific study.

    He added: "It would be extremely disappointing and frustrating if these reports are not released for scrutiny. We need high-quality data about UFOs to do better science.

    "If those reports are never released, all of this is going to be blip in UFO history.

    Alien USA UFO programme space

    GETTY

    Mark Rodeghier said he was initially sceptical of UFOs

    "But even if it's only a blip in history, it's still a darn interesting blip."

    A spokesman for the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU), Alejandro Rojas, said the revelation of the AATIP is evidence the US Government has been researching the phenomenon for years, despite claiming no interest in the phenomenon since 1969.

    Mr Rojas advocates the scientific study of UFOs and believes all information regarding them should be released so the data can be properly analysed scientifically.

    He said: "Remember, the 'U' is for unidentified, not alien. We don't know what these things are.

    Alien USA UFO programme space

    GETTY

    The US Air Force had a programme called Project Blue Book

    “Just because we get uncomfortable with the idea of aliens does not mean we should not investigate when the people who pilot our most advanced technology say they encounter something that outclasses their aircraft.

    “It would be highly negligent not to investigate."

    Between 1952 and 1969, the US Air Force’s official UFO-investigation programme called Project Blue Book came to the following conclusions:

    No UFO reported, investigated and evaluated has ever indicated a threat to our national security; there is no evidence that sightings categorised as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge, and there is no evidence that sightings categorised as "unidentified" are extraterrestrial vehicles.

    https://www.express.co.uk/ }

    10-01-2018 om 21:42 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Area 51’s Secret Airline is Looking for a Flight Attendant

    Area 51’s Secret Airline is Looking for a Flight Attendant

    Performs Flight Attendant duties aboard Company operated aircraft.

    Reports to Operations one (1) hour before scheduled flight or as otherwise assigned by supervisor.

    Post/Pre-flights aircraft as assigned.

    Perform light cleaning of aircraft interiors.

    Active Top Secret Clearance Highly Desired

    Wait, what? That sounds like the typical job description of a typical flight attendant. However, Janet is anything but typical, which explains that last qualification. Are you interested in flying in and out of Area 51? Are you willing to serve coffee to any passenger – no matter how many arms they have or how big their heads are? Can you keep your big mouth shut about it? Janet is looking for you.

    As anyone who knows anything about Area 51 will tell you, Janet is a mysterious airline operating out of a terminal at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport that is rumored to fly military and contract employees to the Nevada National Security Site (home of Area 51), and other secretive sites, including Edwards Air Force Base (California), Hill Air Force Base (Utah) and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio).  Anyone asking questions about it is jokingly (and occasionally nervously) told Janet stands for “Just Another Non-Existent Terminal.” It has six Boeing 737-600s painted white with a red stripe and five executive turboprops painted white with blue stripes.

    That’s it. Nothing else to see here. Move along. Any more questions and those men over their in black with the blue gloves will see you in that small room to the right that no one ever comes out of.

    Well, that’s normally the case when you try to dig deeper into this airline. However, Janet has opened itself up for scrutiny with the flight attendant job posting on the website of AECOM, the defense contractor which operates it.

    AECOM is a place where you can put your innovative thinking and business skills into high gear and work alongside other highly intelligent and motivated people. It’s a place where you can apply your skills to some of the world’s most challenging, interesting, and meaningful projects worldwide.

    That sounds like a nice place to work, especially if you like living in Las Vegas where all Janet employees are allegedly based. The duties sound like those of flight attendants at any other airline: ensures security practices and procedures are followed; provide leadership, direction, and assistance during an emergency, including aircraft evacuation; assist and administer first aid to ill or incapacitated passengers or crew members; push heavy doors weighing up to 80 pounds; possess a current state driver’s license.

    Is this why Janet flight attendants need top security clearance?

    And then there’s the big one: Active Top Secret Clearance Highly Desired.

    That’s not easy to get. A person cannot apply for it – the application must come from a current or prospective employer. The process can take up to two years due to the high number of background checks required. Individuals with Top Secret Clearance are assumed to have access to information or material that could be expected to cause “exceptionally grave damage to national security if it was released without authorization.” The clearance must be reinvestigated every five years.

    Does this job sound like something more than checking seat belts. Closing overhead doors and passing out pretzels?

    If you think you can handle it, applications are now being taken. Whatever you do, don’t say you got the information from me.

    http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    10-01-2018 om 21:28 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Academic Claims Noah had Cell Phones, Drones and Nuclear Power

    Academic Claims Noah had Cell Phones, Drones and Nuclear Power

    Does anyone in the world NOT know the story of Noah and his DIY wooden ark filled with family and animals (not necessarily in that order)? After all, it’s been retold many times in many tomes, including the Old Testament, the Quran, the Ethiopian Orthodox Book of Jubilees, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Epic of Gilgamesh and has spawned hunts for its existence and amusement parks recreating the experience. And yet … a Turkish academic claims all of these have the story wrong. He believes Noah built his ark with steel plates, propelled it with nuclear power, sent a drone to look for dry land, communicated with his son via cellphone and was able to save all of the world’s species because he filled the ark with not pairs of animals but sperm and eggs. Really!

    I am a scientist, I speak for science

    Yavuz Ornek, a lecturer at the Marine Sciences Faculty of Istanbul University, made these bold ‘scientific’ revelations in a recent appearance on a talk show on Turkey’s TRT channel that was translated by Hurriyet Daily News . He based his alternative flood narrative on the idea that the waves were too massive and the distances too far to allow mere wood and doves to function successfully.

    There were huge 300 to 400-metre-high waves and his [the Prophet Noah’s] son was many kilometers away. The Quran says Noah spoke with his son. But how did they manage to communicate? Was it a miracle? It could be. But we believe he communicated with his son via cellphone.

    How many bars do you have on your phone?

    If you believe that people living 5.000 to 7,000 years ago – the time when many archeologists suggest an historical deluge occurred and inspired the various accounts of Noah – had modern technology such as cellphones (and towers) to communicate over great distances, it’s not a stretch for Ornek to extrapolate that other advanced (and not-so-advanced) technologies such as nuclear power, drones and steel allowed Noah to build a ship to withstand and sail through 1,300-foot waves and survey the area while buffeted by high winds that would have kept birds from flying.

    But in vitro fertilization? That would certainly allow Noah to build a much smaller ark filled with Petri dishes and beakers stored in nuclear powered coolers … right? Remember, Ornek is a “scientist” who speaks “for science,” not religion, so he is looking for scientific solutions to 7,000-year-old problems and, since wood, nails, doves and pairs of animals don’t solve the problem, he solves it with what he knows best – modern technology.

    If only there was a better way.

    But … how did Noah get this modern technology? Not surprisingly, Ornek doesn’t answer that question. However, if one accepts even just some of the ancient astronauts/aliens theories, is it that farfetched to think that the same beings who helped build the pyramids might have also aided in constructing the ark and saving life on earth? Sure, if they had that kind of knowledge and power, a better choice might be to stop the flood, but what kind of stories and movies would that inspire?

    Since he’s in Turkey, perhaps Professor Ornek should join in on one of the expeditions to find the ark on Mt. Ararat. And bring a Geiger counter.

    http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    10-01-2018 om 21:19 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Strange Tales From Secret Bases

    Strange Tales From Secret Bases

    We hear a lot of tales of crashed UFOs and dead aliens secretly taken to well-guarded government facilities for study. But, what about cases where the incident/discovery went down in the heart of the sensitive facility itself? That’s altogether quite another thing. I’ll share two such stories with you, one from the U.K. in the 1990s, and the other from the United States in the early part of the 1980s. Both are deeply weird, but for extremely different reasons. As will soon become apparent.

    Porton Down is an installation located in the English county of Wiltshire. Its overwhelmingly-classified work focuses to a very significant degree on exotic viruses, chemical-warfare and biological-warfare. Although work at Porton Down originally, and secretly, began at the height of the tumultuous First World War, it was not until the dawning of the 1940s that the installation became the central hub for British interest in, and concerns relative to, the expanding realms of chemical- and biological-warfare. From 1946 onward, one year after the successful defeat of Nazi Germany, Porton Down’s work began to focus more on the defensive – rather than chiefly offensive – aspects of such issues, and in 1957 the installation was duly christened the Microbiological Research Establishment.

    By the late-1970s, a decision was made to place the MRE under the control of a civil body. As a result, significant reorganization duly occurred: on April 1, 1979, the MRE became the Center for Applied Microbiology and Research. Then, in 1995, it was absorbed into the Defense Evaluation and Research Agency. Six years later, there was yet another change: DERA split into two organizations, a private body called QinetiQ, and the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory, a body steeped in official secrecy, as a result of the fact that it is an arm of the Ministry of Defense. After that, the facility became known as DSTL, Porton Down.

    View of Porton Down

    All of which brings us to a very strange story. Jonathan Downes is the director of the U.K.-base Center for Fortean Zoology. But, it’s not just strange creatures like Bigfoot, Nessie, and Mothman that have attracted Downes’ attention. It’s the issue of Crop Circles too. For years, there have been rumors of classified, military/government investigations into the Crop Circle phenomenon in the U.K.

    Downes publicly stated something that may have had a bearing on those same rumors. He said, in 2000: “I am aware that midway through 1996 on land adjacent to the Government’s chemical and biological research establishment at Porton Down, Wiltshire, a Crop Circle was found. When it was first seen, the circle was still in the process of being formed and had actually been surrounded by both troops and police who had cordoned off the area.”

    I have heard variations on this very odd story over the years, suggesting that an intricate formation was indeed found within the grounds of Porton Down in the mid-90s. Whether it was the work of fence-jumping circle-makers of a very human mind, or the work of something much stranger, is very much still open to debate. Of course, if the formation really was forming as the police and the military watched on, then that effectively rules out a human connection. Moving onto Area 51…

    From 2003 to 2009 I lectured at Ryan Wood’s annual UFO Crash-Retrieval Conference, which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. As is so often the case at such conferences, an attendee came up to me at the 2008 event with a very strange story to tell. Aged around thirty he said that his now-retired father had worked out at Area 51 in the early 1980s, specifically in the development of Stealth technology for military aircraft. The guy said that on several occasions, in the 1990s, he had asked his father about the rumors of crashed UFOs and dead aliens held at the secret vase. His father said that the only thing he knew about aliens at Area 51 came from watching TV shows. Indeed, he told his son that he had never seen any evidence at all of alien-related activity at Area 51. But, there was one strange event that the man was willing to share with his son – and which was then shared with me.

    The story told to me was that on one occasion in January 1981, a pedal bike was found deep in a remote part of the vast amount of land that is collectively known as Area 51. Yes, a bicycle. The highly-sophisticated sensors that are carefully placed all around the facility had picked up the sudden presence of something not far from one such sensor. So, a security team was quickly sent out to investigate. It was that team, I was told, which found the bike. But, there was something very strange about the bicycle: it was extensively damaged – as if it had plummeted to the ground from a great height.

    Had it fallen from an aircraft? Probably not! It’s a fact that unauthorized flights over Area 51, and in the immediate vicinity, are treated very seriously. Any such event over the base would have resulted in drastic (maybe even deadly…) action. And, of course, the base would likely have gone on lock-down. Even NASA’s astronauts have almost found themselves in trouble for photographing the facility from space.

    The guy who shared the story with me said that the finding of the bike was a matter of deep concern: how had it got there? Where was the rider? Who was the rider? Why did the bike look like it had fallen from a great height? There were no answers. As a result, the investigation was finally closed down. Quiet and concerned discussion of the weird affair apparently continued for quite some time though, among those who had heard of it. The whole thing, the man told me, became a bit “of a legend.”

    http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    10-01-2018 om 21:13 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Extra-terrestrial Hypatia stone rattles solar system status quo

    Extra-terrestrial Hypatia stone rattles solar system status quo

    Date:
    January 9, 2018
    Source:
    University of Johannesburg
    Summary:
    Analyses on a small pebble found in south-west Egypt cast significant questions on a widely-held view about the primitive pre-solar dust cloud which our Sun, Earth and other planets were formed from. Researchers found exotic micro-mineral compounds in the 'Hypatia' stone that are not known to occur on Earth, elsewhere in our solar system, or in known meteorites or comets
    FULL STORY

    Researchers Jan Kramers and Georgy Belyanin found mineral compounds unlike anything on Earth, or in known meteorites or comets, in these fragments from the Hypatia stone, which was picked up in south-west Egypt in the Libyan Desert Glass Field.
    Credit: Dr Mario di Martino, INAF Osservatorio Astrofysico di Torino

    In 2013, researchers announced that a pebble found in south-west Egypt, was definitely not from Earth. By 2015, other research teams had announced that the 'Hypatia' stone was not part of any known types of meteorite or comet, based on noble gas and nuclear probe analyses.

    (The stone was named Hypatia after Hypatia of Alexandria, the first Western woman mathematician and astronomer.)

    However, if the pebble was not from Earth, what was its origin and could the minerals in it provide clues on where it came from? Micro-mineral analyses of the pebble by the original research team at the University of Johannesburg have now provided unsettling answers that spiral away from conventional views of the material our solar system was formed from.

    Mineral structure

    The internal structure of the Hypatia pebble is somewhat like a fruitcake that has fallen off a shelf into some flour and cracked on impact, says Prof Jan Kramers, lead researcher of the study published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta on 28 Dec 2017.

    "We can think of the badly mixed dough of a fruit cake representing the bulk of the Hypatia pebble, what we called two mixed 'matrices' in geology terms. The glace cherries and nuts in the cake represent the mineral grains found in Hypatia 'inclusions'. And the flour dusting the cracks of the fallen cake represent the 'secondary materials' we found in the fractures in Hypatia, which are from Earth," he says.

    The original extraterrestrial rock that fell to Earth must have been at least several meters in diameter, but disintegrated into small fragments of which the Hypatia stone is one.

    Weird matrix

    Straight away, the Hypatia mineral matrix (represented by fruitcake dough), looks nothing like that of any known meteorites, the rocks that fall from space onto Earth every now and then.

    "If it were possible to grind up the entire planet Earth to dust in a huge mortar and pestle, we would get dust with on average a similar chemical composition as chondritic meteorites," says Kramers. "In chondritic meteorites, we expect to see a small amount of carbon{C} and a good amount of silicon (Si). But Hypatia's matrix has a massive amount of carbon and an unusually small amount of silicon."

    "Even more unusual, the matrix contains a high amount of very specific carbon compounds, called polyaromatic hydrocarbons, or PAH, a major component of interstellar dust, which existed even before our solar system was formed. Interstellar dust is also found in comets and meteorites that have not been heated up for a prolonged period in their history," adds Kramers.

    In another twist, most (but not all) of the PAH in the Hypatia matrix has been transformed into diamonds smaller than one micrometer, which are thought to have been formed in the shock of impact with the Earth's atmosphere or surface. These diamonds made Hypatia resistant to weathering so that it is preserved for analysis from the time it arrived on Earth.

    Weirder grains never found before

    When researcher Georgy Belyanin analyzed the mineral grains in the inclusions in Hypatia, (represented by the nuts and cherries of a fruitcake), a number of most surprising chemical elements showed up.

    "The aluminum occurs in pure metallic form, on its own, not in a chemical compound with other elements. As a comparison, gold occurs in nuggets, but aluminum never does. This occurrence is extremely rare on Earth and the rest of our solar system, as far as is known in science," says Belyanin.

    "We also found silver iodine phosphide and moissanite (silicon carbide) grains, again in highly unexpected forms. The grains are the first documented to be found in situ (as is) without having to first dissolve the surrounding rock with acid," adds Belyanin. "There are also grains of a compound consisting of mainly nickel and phosphorus, with very little iron; a mineral composition never observed before on Earth or in meteorites," he adds.

    Dr Marco Andreoli, a Research Fellow at the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a member of the Hypatia research team says, "When Hypatia was first found to be extraterrestrial, it was a sensation, but these latest results are opening up even bigger questions about its origins."

    Unique minerals in our solar system

    Taken together, the ancient unheated PAH carbon as well as the phosphides, the metallic aluminum, and the moissanite suggest that Hypatia is an assembly of unchanged pre-solar material. That means, matter that existed in space before our Sun, the Earth and the other planets in our solar system were formed.

    Supporting the pre-solar concept is the weird composition of the nickel-phosphorus-iron grains found in the Hypatia inclusions. These three chemical elements are interesting because they belong to the subset of chemical elements heavier than carbon and nitrogen which form the bulk of all the rocky planets.

    "In the grains within Hypatia the ratios of these three elements to each other are completely different from that calculated for the planet Earth or measured in known types of meteorites. As such these inclusions are unique within our solar system," adds Belyanin.

    "We think the nickel-phosphorus-iron grains formed pre-solar, because they are inside the matrix, and are unlikely to have been modified by shock such as collision with the Earth's atmosphere or surface, and also because their composition is so alien to our solar system," he adds.

    "Was the bulk of Hypatia, the matrix, also formed before our solar system? Probably not, because you need a dense dust cloud like the solar nebula to coagulate large bodies" he says.

    A different kind of dust

    Generally, science says that our solar system's planets ultimately formed from a huge, ancient cloud of interstellar dust (the solar nebula) in space. The first part of that process would be much like dust bunnies coagulating in an unswept room. Science also holds that the solar nebula was homogenous, that is, the same kind of dust everywhere.

    But Hypatia's chemistry tugs at this view. "For starters, there are no silicate minerals in Hypatia's matrix, in contrast to chondritic meteorites (and planets like the Earth, Mars and Venus), where silicates are dominant. Then there are the exotic mineral inclusions. If Hypatia itself is not presolar, both features indicate that the solar nebula wasn't the same kind of dust everywhere -- which starts tugging at the generally accepted view of the formation of our solar system," says Kramers.

    Into the future

    "What we do know is that Hypatia was formed in a cold environment, probably at temperatures below that of liquid nitrogen on Earth (-196 Celsius). In our solar system it would have been way further out than the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where most meteorites come from. Comets come mainly from the Kuiper Belt, beyond the orbit of Neptune and about 40 times as far away from the sun as we are. Some come from the Oort Cloud, even further out. We know very little about the chemical compositions of space objects out there. So our next question will dig further into where Hypatia came from," says Kramers.

    The little pebble from the Libyan Desert Glass strewn field in south-west Egypt presents a tantalizing piece for an extraterrestrial puzzle that is getting ever more complex.

    The research was funded by University of Johannesburg Research council via the PPM Research Centre.

    The researchers would like to thank Aly Barakat, Mario di Martino and Romano Serra for access to the Hypatia sample material; and Michael Wiedenbeck and his co-workers at the Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam, Germany for their collaboration.

    Story Source:


    Journal Reference:

    1. Georgy A. Belyanin, Jan D. Kramers, Marco A.G. Andreoli, Francesco Greco, Arnold Gucsik, Tebogo V. Makhubela, Wojciech J. Przybylowicz, Michael Wiedenbeck. Petrography of the carbonaceous, diamond-bearing stone “Hypatia” from southwest Egypt: A contribution to the debate on its originGeochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018; 223: 462 DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2017.12.020

    Cite This Page:

    University of Johannesburg. "Extra-terrestrial Hypatia stone rattles solar system status quo." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 9 January 2018.
    {https://www.sciencedaily.com/ }

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  • The Black Vault
  • Terry's Theories UFO Sightings. Its a Youtube Channel thats really overlooked, but has a lot of great and recent sightings on it.
  • . UFO Institute: A cool guy who works hard
  • YOUTUBE kanaal van het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt
  • LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS

  • DES LIENS AVEC LE RESEAU FRANCOPHONE DE MUFON ET MUFONEUROP
  • BELGISCH UFO-NETWERK BUFON
  • RFacebook BUFON
  • MUFONFRANCE
  • MUFON RHÔNE-ALPES
  • MUFON MIDI-PYRÉNNÉES
  • MUFON HAUTE-NORMANDIE
  • MUFON MAROC
  • MUFON ALSACE LORRAINE
  • MUFON USA
  • Site du REUB ASBL

    Other links with friends / bloggers # not always UFOs
  • PANGRadio MarcSima
  • Blog 2 Bernward
  • Nederlandse UFO-groep
  • Ufologie Liège
  • NIBURU
  • Disclose TV
  • UFO- Sightings - HOTSPOT
  • Website van BUFON ( Belgisch UFO-Netwerk)
  • The Ciizen Hearing on Disclosure
  • Exopolitics Finland: LINKS

    LINKS OF THE BLOGS OF MY FACEBOOK-FRIENDS
  • ufologie -Guillaume Perrot
  • UFOMOTION
  • CENTRE DE RECHERCHE OVNI PARASPYCHOLOGIE SCIENCE - CROPS -
  • SOCIAL PARANORMAL Magazine
  • TJ Morris ACO Associations, Clubs, Organizations - TJ Morris ACO Social Service Club for...
  • C.E.R.P.I. BELGIQUE
  • Attaqued'un Autre Monde - Christian Macé
  • UFOSPOTTINGNEDERLAND
  • homepage UFOSPOTTINGNEDERLAND
  • PARANORMAL JOURNEY GUIDE

    WELCOME TO THIS BLOG! I HOPE THAT YOU ENJOY THE LECTURE OF ALL ISSUES. If you did see a UFO, you can always mail it to us. Best wishes.

    Beste bezoeker,
    Heb je zelf al ooit een vreemde waarneming gedaan, laat dit dan even weten via email aan Frederick Delaere op
     www.ufomeldpunt.be. Deze onderzoekers behandelen jouw melding in volledige anonimiteit en met alle respect voor jouw privacy. Ze zijn kritisch, objectief  maar open minded aangelegd en zullen jou steeds een verklaring geven voor jouw waarneming!
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    Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
    Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
    Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
    Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën... Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.
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    LINKS NAAR BEKENDE UFO-VERENIGINGEN - DEEL 1
  • http://www.ufonieuws.nl/
  • http://www.grenswetenschap.nl/
  • http://www.beamsinvestigations.org.uk/
  • http://www.mufon.com/
  • http://www.ufomeldpunt.be/
  • http://www.ufowijzer.nl/
  • http://www.ufoplaza.nl/
  • http://www.ufowereld.nl/
  • http://www.stantonfriedman.com/
  • http://ufo.start.be/

    LINKS NAAR BEKENDE UFO-VERENIGINGEN - DEEL 2
  • www.ufo.be
  • www.caelestia.be
  • ufo.startpagina.nl.
  • www.wszechocean.blogspot.com.
  • AsocCivil Unifa
  • UFO DISCLOSURE PROJECT

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