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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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    02-02-2018 om 01:35 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.How UFO Reports Change With the Technology of the Times

    How UFO Reports Change With the Technology of the Times

    Fears of Zeppelins, rockets and drones have replaced the “celestial wonders” of ancient times

    Unidentified flying object

    Reports of weird, wondrous, and worrying objects in the skies date to ancient times. 
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    In 1896, newspapers throughout the United States began reporting accounts of mysterious airships flying overhead. Descriptions varied, but witnesses frequently invoked the century’s great technological achievements. Some sources reported dirigibles powered by steam engines. Others saw motorized, winged crafts with screw propellers. Many recalled a flying machine equipped with a powerful searchlight.

    As technologies of flight evolve, so do the descriptions of unidentified flying objects. The pattern has held in the 21st century as sightings of drone-like objects are reported, drawing concern from military and intelligence officials about possible security threats.

    While puzzling over the appearance of curious things overhead may be a constant, how we have done so has changed over time, as the people doing the puzzling change. In every instance of reporting UFOs, observers have called on their personal experiences and prevailing knowledge of world events to make sense of these nebulous apparitions. In other words, affairs here on earth have consistently colored our perceptions of what is going on over our heads.

    Reports of weird, wondrous, and worrying objects in the skies date to ancient times. Well into the 17th century, marvels such as comets and meteors were viewed through the prism of religion—as portents from the gods and, as such, interpreted as holy communications.

    By the 19th century, however, “celestial wonders” had lost most of their miraculous aura. Instead, the age of industrialization transferred its awe onto products of human ingenuity. The steamboat, the locomotive, photography, telegraphy, and the ocean liner were all hailed as “modern wonders” by news outlets and advertisers. All instilled a widespread sense of progress—and opened the door to speculation about whether objects in the sky signaled more changes.

    Yet nothing fueled the imagination more than the possibility of human flight. In the giddy atmosphere of the 19th century, the prospect of someone soon achieving it inspired newspapers to report on tinkerers and entrepreneurs boasting of their supposed successes.

    The wave of mysterious airship sightings that began in 1896 did not trigger widespread fear. The accepted explanation for these aircraft was terrestrial and quaint: Some ingenious eccentric had built a device and was testing its capabilities.

    But during the first two decades of the 20th century, things changed. As European powers expanded their militaries and nationalist movements sparked unrest, the likelihood of war prompted anxiety about invasion. The world saw Germany—home of the newly developed Zeppelin—as the likeliest aggressor. Military strategists, politicians, and newspapers in Great Britain warned of imminent attack by Zeppelins.

    The result was a series of phantom Zeppelin sightings by panicked citizens throughout the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand in 1909, then again in 1912 and 1913. When war broke out in August 1914, it sparked a new, more intense wave of sightings. Wartime reports also came in from Canada, South Africa, and the United States. In England, rumors that German spies had established secret Zeppelin hangars on British soil led vigilantes to scour the countryside.

    In the age of aviation, war and fear of war have consistently fueled reports of unidentified flying objects. A year after Nazi Germany’s surrender, Sweden was beset by at least a thousand accounts of peculiar, fast-moving objects in the sky. Starting in May 1946, residents described seeing missile- or rocket-like objects in flight, which were dubbed “ghost rockets” because of their fleeting nature. Rockets peppering Swedish skies was well within the realm of possibility—in 1943 and 1944, a number of V-1 and V-2 rockets launched from Germany had inadvertently crashed in the country.

    At first, intelligence officials in Scandinavia, Britain, and the United States took the threat of ghost rockets seriously, suspecting that the Soviets might be experimenting with German rockets they had captured. By the autumn of 1946, however, they had concluded it was a case of postwar mass hysteria.

    The following summer, a private pilot by the name of Kenneth Arnold claimed to have seen nine flat objects flying in close formation near Mt. Rainier. Looking back on the event years later, Arnold noted, “What startled me most at this point was the fact that I could not find any tails on them. I felt sure that, being jets, they had tails, but figured they must be camouflaged in some way so that my eyesight could not perceive them. I knew the Air Force was very artful in the knowledge and use of camouflage.”

    Given the name “flying saucers” by an Associated Press correspondent, they quickly appeared throughout the United States. Over the following two weeks, newspapers covered hundreds of sightings.

    News of these reports circled the globe. Soon, sightings occurred in Europe and South America. In the wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atomic bomb tests, and tensions between the United States and the USSR, speculation ran rampant.

    Finding themselves on the front line of the Cold War, Germans on both sides of the Iron Curtain considered the United States the most likely culprit. West Germans thought the discs were experimental missiles or military aircraft, while Germans in the communist Eastern bloc considered it more likely that the whole thing was a hoax devised by the American defense industry to whip up support for a bloated budget.

    Others had more elaborate theories. In 1950, former U.S. Marine Air Corps Major Donald Keyhoe published an article and book titled The Flying Saucers Are Real, in which he contended that aliens from another planet were behind the appearance of the UFOs. Based on information from his informants, Keyhoe contended that government authorities were aware of this, but wished to keep the matter a secret for fear of inciting a general panic.

    Such a claim about UFOs was new. To be sure, at the turn of the century during the phantom airship waves, some had speculated that the vessels spotted might be from another planet. Already at that time, people were deeply interested in reports of prominent astronomers observing artificial “canals” and structures on Mars. Evidence of Martian civilizations made it seem conceivable that our interplanetary neighbors had finally decided to pay us a visit. Still, relatively few bought into this line of reasoning.

    But by going further, Major Keyhoe struck a chord in a timely fashion. In the aftermath of World War II and over the course of the 1950s, it seemed that science and engineering were making remarkable strides. In particular, the development of guided rockets and missiles, jet airplanes, atomic and hydrogen bombs, nuclear energy, and satellites signaled to many that there were no limits—not even earth’s atmosphere—to technological progress. And if our planet were on the verge of conquering space, it would hardly be a stretch to imagine that more advanced civilizations elsewhere were capable of even greater feats.

    But all this raised a question. Why were the extraterrestrials visiting us now?

    Keyhoe believed that aliens had been keeping us under observation for a long time. Witnessing the recent explosions of atomic weapons, they had decided the inhabitants of planet Earth had finally reached an advanced enough stage to be scrutinized more closely. Still, there was no reason for alarm. “We have survived the stunning impact of the Atomic Age,” Keyhoe concluded. “We should be able to take the Interplanetary Age, when it comes, without hysteria.”

    The flying saucer era had begun. Not everyone would remain as sanguine as Keyhoe. As concerns over global nuclear annihilation and environmental catastrophe grew during the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, claims about UFOs took on ever more ominous tones.

    Times changed. And so, again, did the UFO phenomenon.

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    02-02-2018 om 01:22 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Mutual UFO Network starts Show Low chapter

    Mutual UFO Network starts Show Low chapter

    SHOW LOW —The world’s oldest and largest group of Unidentified Flying Object, or UFO, investigative and research organizations has a new chapter locally in Show Low. MUFON — the Mutual UFO Network — began 47 years ago.

    The new Show Low chapter is led by Dave Loomis and a group of 120 people. They met at their first meeting on Saturday, Jan. 20 at the City Gym on E. McNeil St. Loomis said he was encouraged to have that many people, considering it was wet and snowy that day.

    “I think there’s enough interest that come summertime, we should be having meetings of a couple hundred people because a lot of people on the Mountain are interested in this stuff,” Loomis said.

    He said the group plans to have small meetings about every other month with maybe one guest speaker and he plans to save up money so he can have one big meeting annually with several guest-speakers.

    “It all depends on how many people get involved,” Loomis said.

    The guest speaker on the first day was, appropriately, a local living legend in the UFO enthusiast community. Travis Walton, of Snowflake, is, whether he wanted to be or not, the most-likely-to-be-true abductee of a UFO encounter in the world. His case is the most documented and investigated case of an abduction in UFO history. Walton wrote a book afterward and it became a popular movie, “Fire in the Sky.”

    Many people showed up for the occasion. Some were there out of curiosity and others showed true excitement to gather and hear Walton speak. But first some history:

    The disappearance

    Walton, as many locals familiar with the case know, was cutting wood on a crew Nov. 5, 1975, for a U.S. Forest Service contract with several co-workers on the day he was allegedly abducted. Walton was then 22 years-old. The crew was working long hours and had finished at dusk south of Heber in the Sitgreaves National Forest.

    While driving homeward, the crew — riding in a crew-cab pickup in the dark — saw some lights they thought might have been hunters on a ridge or a low-flying aircraft. Upon investigation, there was a disk-shaped craft hovering about 20 feet over the ground nearby.

    Walton quickly left the vehicle to check it out and his co-workers yelled for him to come back. As Walton describes it, he crouched under the object as he got under it and when he stood up, he thinks the proximity of getting too close must have set something off with the visitors. As he stood up, a blue beam, as witnessed by the rest of the crew, hit Walton hard, throwing him back about 10 feet, but held him airborne, just a few feet off the ground in the beam with his arms spread backward.

    The rest of the crew got scared, started screaming and took off in the truck. They thought Walton was dead as his body looked lifeless to them.

    Walton remembers thinking he was in a hospital-type room being the subject of medical procedures.

    The investigation

    Five days of investigation, including polygraphs and separate interviews, each turned up the same description from the witnesses. Each were threatened with murder charges as the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office and more than 100 people searched the area for Walton’s body. But nothing turned up from the searches, including a body to make charges.

    The re-appearance

    Five days later, Walton describes that the craft returned him to a street in Heber where, as he came to, from some kind of trance, he saw the craft above him, leaving in about a second and going straight up. Walton saw a light in the distance that turned out to be a gas station in Heber, so he began walking toward it He called his brother for help from a payphone. He thought he’d only been missing for an estimated two hours.

    Walton to this day, still describes the same events in the same detail, but says the movie ‘Fire In The Sky’ was fictionalized and “took some liberties with what actually occurred,” so Walton has a new movie called ‘Travis,’ which has many clips from witnesses from back when it happened. The 80-minute movie was shown to the crowd following an introduction of Walton where he spoke briefly. He did a Q&A session following. Travis and the crew all lost their jobs in the immediate aftermath of the ordeal and were all treated like they were a bit off.

    But hearing Walton speak he doesn’t sound like he’s crazy. He eloquently philosophizes his thoughts of what an alien civilization might do if they wanted to investigate the human race and Earth.

    “They’re not going to come down here and land on the White House lawn, if that’s what you think,” Walton says. “Scientists like Michio Kaku say that these other civilizations, if you look out into the night sky, based on these star systems out there; there could easily be millions of years ahead of us. And if you stop and think about all the technology we have here on Earth at this time- — it has all happened in the last 200-300 years, so if we have done that in 200-300 years, how far do you think these other civilizations would have progressed over hundreds of thousands of years, or even a million?” says Walton.

    “There are probably civilizations out there traveling that may have been around for at least 200-300 years before we even had any technology, or maybe they are even a million years ahead of us, we don’t know.” Walton points out that they are most-likely smart enough to know, like Star Trek’s Prime Directive suggests, not to influence other civilizations with technology ahead of their time. The aliens probably know that if they or their technology were captured by the United States, Russia, or China, it would upset the balance of our planet and cause wars and severe disruption if not total chaos. “I don’t think we have much to be worried about from them. I mean, if they wanted to have the Earth they would have just taken it,” said Walton.

    MUFON, being an investigative group has a mission statement: The Scientific Study of UFO’s For The Benefit of Humanity. To learn more or join the club, contact Loomis or visit their website, www.showlowmufon.com.

    Reach the reporter at bmartinson@wmicentral.com

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    02-02-2018 om 01:12 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Incredible photos show UFO-like clouds near Cheyenne

    Incredible photos show UFO-like clouds near Cheyenne

    Spoiler alert: These are lenticular clouds.

    A 9NEWS viewer sent us photos Monday of a series of three clouds that sort of looked like UFOs near Cheyenne, Wyoming.

    “I’ve never seen clouds like this,” viewer David Smith wrote via Your Take.

    One of the best parts about working at 9NEWS is the fact that we have meteorologists at our disposal to explain the science behind cool cloud photos (apparently, most offices do not have this perk)

    A view of lenticular clouds near Cheyenne Wyoming.

    Here’s what 9NEWS Meteorologist Cory Reppenhagen had to say about the photos:

    These get called flying saucers or UFOs a lot, not only because of their lens shape, but since they also appear to hover. The wave in the air that is causing these lenticulars is maintaining a crest in a constant location. So, lenticulars stand in one place for a period of time.

    You don’t see the mountain range in the shot, but that is likely what is causing this. High winds out of the west and northwest hit the mountains or other obstruction, and causes a disruption in the flow of air, making a wave downstream of the obstruction.

    A smooth cloud forms at the crest of the wave where the air meets the dewpoint, and as the air falls down the other side of the wave, evaporation occurs.

    Lenticulars can form at any level of the atmosphere, but this variety is altocumulus.

    There have been very strong winds in Wyoming the last couple days. There is a High Wind Warning in parts of Wyoming Tuesday with 35 to 45 mph sustained winds and gusts near 70 mph.

    So there you go – these aren’t UFOs but rather lenticular clouds caused by a unique combination of wind and the mountains.

    Do you have an awesome photo to share or a science question we can solve? Email us at yourtake.9news.com.

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    02-02-2018 om 00:58 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Muna: the highest hill in Yucatan and must-see UFO destination

    Muna: the highest hill in Yucatan and must-see UFO destination

    Muna, “place of soft or tender water,” is a small town with just over 11,000 inhabitants, mainly of Mayan origin.

    Located in the southern part of Yucatán, very close to the archaeological site of Uxmal (UN Cultural Heritage Site), Muna will delight your senses.

    Coming from Mérida, drive towards the Umán highway, through Yaxcopoil and Abalá until you get to Muna, only a 67 km drive. In this peaceful small town you can start your visit at the local market and have breakfast at one of the food stands located along the side; in this market you can find a wide array of typical Yucatecan fruits such as guanabana, pitaya (dragon fruit), carambola (star fruit), orange, lime, zapote, chicozapote, mamey and more.

    Chapel “La Asunción” in Muna.
    (Photo: Niccolo Brooker, found in mexico.photium.com)

    In Muna you can visit the “highest” hill in the state of Yucatan, from which you can observe the beautiful Mayan jungle, with the magnificent pyramid of Uxmal in the background! Besides, you can visit the six colonial chapels dedicated to San Bernardo, San Mateo, San Sebastián, La Soledad, Santa María and San Andrés which are famous for their colonial architecture.

    The “Mirador de Muna,” is a must… located on the old highway to Uxmal and on the highest point of the surrounding hills, from this lookout point, you will have a breathtaking view of the forest known as “bosque bajo de Yucatán” (Yucatáns low jungle). With Uxmal’s “Adivino” pyramid in the background, it is an amazing panorama!

    You can also take a tour of the cenotes in the area, the tour starts with a guided walk through the jungle, until you get to the entrance of the cenote, where you can swim and relax in its clear waters.

    Muna is also famous for its handcrafts: embroidered textiles, clay and wood items carved by the magical hands of the Muna artisans.

    The Muna cenote where residents saw a flying object getting into the water, emerging seconds later to disappear in the sky.
    (Photo: SIPSE)

    Additionally, Muna is also uknown among UFOlogists, for frequent UFO sightings. In fact many locals claim to have seen “strange things in the sky”…

    One of the most important Muna’s UFO sightings took place in 2004, as a group of locals say that they saw a flying object, landing on top of a nearby cenote, where it remained for a few seconds, and then disappeared into the sky at high speed.

    Even though Muna residents were used to see these objects in the sky, that particular time, the whole thing happened very close to the ground, near the population, and many people claim to have seen this thing falling into the cenote and then flying out of it, in broad daylight (even a group of local taxi drivers witnessed the event).

    For more information on this UFO sighting check the following link (in Spanish): sipse.com

    http://www.theyucatantimes.com/ }

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.These planes could jet you around the world at hypersonic speed

    These planes could jet you around the world at hypersonic speed

    Aerospace firms aim to usher in a new era of supersonic travel.

    by Kate Baggaley 
    Boeing's concept for a jet-powered hypersonic aircraft.
    Boeing

    Commercial airliners haven’t broken the sound barrier since the Concorde was retired in 2003. But now some aerospace firms hope to usher in a new era of supersonic air travel. Boom Supersonic, for one, plans to build 1,451-mile-per-hour planes that would be able to make the trip from New York to London in 3 hours and 15 minutes starting in 2023.

    Other firms aren’t content with supersonic flight. They’re designing so-called hypersonic aircraft capable of flying five times the speed of sound, or around 3,800 miles per hour. These ultra-fast planes would likely first be used by the military for strike and reconnaissance missions. But experts say hypersonic technology could make its way into commercial jets. It would then be possible to fly anywhere on Earth in under three hours.

    “It’s certainly within the realm of possibility,” says Dr. Kevin Bowcutt, senior technical fellow and chief scientist of hypersonics for Boeing Research & Technology. “I think we have the technology now where we could actually do it.”

    BUILDING A FASTER JET

    It’s no easy task to create a plane that can slice through the air at hypersonic speed.

    A few aircraft have flown that fast, including Boeing’s experimental X-51A WaveRider. But all hypersonic planes built so far have been powered by rocket engines or used rocket boosters. Rockets are powerful but heavy because they have to carry the oxygen needed to burn fuel with them. “Rocket motors are great for going to space and powering missiles, but they’re less than ideal for carrying people,” Bowcutt says.

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    That’s why Boeing and Lockheed Martin are working to develop jet-powered hypersonic aircraft. So far, information about these incredibly fast aircraft is sparse; Lockheed Martin declined to provide details on their plane.

    Boeing unveiled a new design earlier this month at a conference in Orlando, Florida. At low speeds for takeoff and landing, the sleek plane would be powered by a turbine engine, much like a regular commercial plane. But for the main portion of flights, it would switch over to an engine called a dual-mode ramjet that can only operate at speeds above Mach 3.

    A regular turbine uses whirling fan blades to suck air into the engine and other blades to compress the air so more oxygen can come in contact with the fuel. But this equipment would melt if used at hypersonic speeds. The ramjet instead uses the shockwaves created by traveling at such high speeds to squeeze incoming air.

    Flying at such high speeds creates an incredible amount of friction, so a hypersonic aircraft would have to be made out of heat-resistant materials such as a nickel alloy, Bowcutt says.

    A hypersonic aircraft using this technology could be available within 10 to 20 years. What would it feel like to fly on one? You’d be pushed back into your seat as the plane accelerates to take off, just as with a regular passenger jet. “The only difference with a hypersonic plane is that the feeling of takeoff would persist for a few minutes until you got up to speed and altitude,” Bowcutt says. “Then it would feel no different than any other airplane.”

    You’d be traveling at 90,000 to 100,000 feet. That’s much higher than today’s airliners, which typically fly at altitudes around 35,000 feet, and high enough to see Earth’s curvature below and the blackness of space above. To strengthen the fuselage, the plane might substitute virtual windows for real ones. Cameras mounted on the plane’s exterior would feed video to the virtual windows, recreating what you’d see if you actually looked out of the plane.

    A SPEEDY FUTURE

    Both supersonic and hypersonic flight face many hurdles before they can be used for commercial air travel. One hurdle will be dealing with the environmental impacts of emissions at such high altitudes. Another will be finding enough of a market for this ultra-fast form of travel; to support its supersonic speed, the Concorde demanded four times as much fuel per passenger as other jets, which drove up ticket prices.

    When it comes to hypersonic passenger travel, "It's hard for me to see, at least in the next 15-20 years, that it's going to be so cost competitive that it's going to compel the airlines to take a stab at it," John Plueger, president and CEO of Air Lease Corporation, a company that leases aircraft around the world, told CNBC.

    And then there’s the sonic boom that is created by aircraft traveling faster than the speed of sound. Sonic booms can startle humans and wildlife on the ground; to avoid that, the Federal Aviation Administration has forbidden supersonic flights over land. The Concorde used to go supersonic only over the ocean, limiting the routes it could fly.

    But engineers are hard at work on ways to quiet the sonic boom. NASA is hoping to create a supersonic plane that can fly quietly enough to convince the FAA to lift its ban, opening the door for airlines to offer supersonic commercial flights over land.

    The agency selected Lockheed Martin to create the preliminary design for its QueSST (Quiet Supersonic Technology) aircraft. The plane’s shape would scatter the shockwaves produced at intense speeds so they couldn't combine to form a loud sonic boom. Instead they will create a soft thump, like the sound of a neighbor closing their car door.

    “If you were at a barbeque and there’s people out there and you’re chatting and there’s potentially some music, you would never hear it,” says Peter Iosifidis, the QueSST program manager at Lockheed Martin.

    Hopefully, this will inspire the FAA to update its rules around 2025, he says, allowing supersonic travel to become widespread within a few years.

    Supersonic speed would cut many journey times in half. But hypersonic flight could make commercial air travel still faster and more convenient. International day trips around the world could eventually become routine. You could travel from New York to London in about an hour. Or you might wake up and eat lunch in Los Angeles and then spend two hours flying to Tokyo. “You have a meeting, maybe grab a bite to eat, come home and you sleep in your bed,” Bowcutt says.

    02-02-2018 om 00:42 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Universes with no weak force might still have stars and life

    Universes with no weak force might still have stars and life

    An alternate cosmos could do without one of the fundamental forces, physicists say

     
    illustration of alternate universes

    MANY WORLDS  Alternate universes with different laws of physics could still host galaxies, stars and planets, a new study suggests. 

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    Not all fundamental forces are created equal. An alternate universe that lacks the weak nuclear force — one of the four fundamental forces that govern all matter in our universe — could still form galaxies, stars, planets and perhaps life, according to calculations published online January 18 at arXiv.org.

    Scientists have long thought that our universe wouldn’t exist, or at least wouldn’t support life, without certain physical laws. For instance, if gravity were much stronger than it is, most matter would collapse into black holes; if it were weaker, the universe wouldn’t form structures such as galaxies or planets. The strong nuclear force holds atomic nuclei together, and the electromagnetic force carries light across the universe.

    “Those three forces, gravity, strong and electromagnetic, are part of the deal,” says theoretical physicist Fred Adams of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. But the weak nuclear force — responsible for making neutrons decay into protons, electrons and neutrinos — might not be so essential (SN: 4/29/17, p. 22). “That’s the only one you can get rid of entirely without messing everything up,” he says.

    previous study had argued that a universe lacking the weak force could exist. Some physicists think our universe is just one in an infinite multiverse, where many different cosmoses exist side-by-side, possibly governed by different physical rules. We live in this one simply because we couldn’t live anywhere else(SN Online: 10/10/14), some scientists say.

    “People talk about universes like they’re very fine-tuned; if you changed things just a little bit, life would die,” Adams says. But “the universe and stars have a lot more pathways to success.”

    In the new research, he and his colleagues simulated how matter was created in the Big Bang and then condensed into stars, but without the effects of the weak nuclear force. In our universe, one consequence of neutron decay is that most of the universe is made of hydrogen, which consists of a single proton and electron. Stars, in their hot cores, fuse protons into helium and heavier elements and then scatter them into space, helping to create everything from planets to physicists. But with no weak force, a universe would be filled with neutrons that didn’t decay — a dead end for building heavier elements.

    The only way such a universe could create complex matter would be to have started out with fewer neutrons and more free protons than our universe did. That way, neutrons and protons could link up and make deuterium, also called heavy hydrogen. So Adams and his colleagues tweaked the simulated universe’s initial neutron and proton content, too.

    Stars fueled with deuterium would still shine, the simulations showed, but the objects would look different. Burning deuterium is more efficient than burning hydrogen, so these stars would be a little hotter, larger and redder than our stars. But the stars could still create all the elements of the periodic table up to iron, and stellar winds could carry those elements out into space.

    Any planets that formed would have water made with deuterium instead of hydrogen, which is toxic to life in our universe. “But if life had to evolve with deuterated water … it might be OK,” Adams says.

    Adams and his colleagues are some of the first to explore the consequences of a “weakless” universe seriously by tweaking the numbers, says Martin Rees of the University of Cambridge, who was not involved in either study.

    The paper does not help figure out if the multiverse is real, though. “We hope that eventually we’ll know,” Rees says, but “I’m not holding my breath.”

    Citations
    Further Reading

     { https://www.sciencenews.org/ }

    01-02-2018 om 23:55 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.13 Stunning Images of the Super Blue Blood Moon
    Red Moon

    Wednesday’s Super Blue Blood Moon was seriously showing off this morning, and rightfully so. The tangerine spot in the sky delighted many stargazers, as evidenced by some unreasonably gorgeous photos of it on social media.

    Sure, the moon wasn’t “blue,” as its name suggests. Its color comes from the careful arrangement of the sun, moon, and Earth during a lunar eclipse. As Inversepreviously reported, when the moon passes through Earth’s shadow, our atmosphere scatters more blue light than red, causing observers on our planet to see a copper moon.

    No matter what color it is, one things for sure: the Super Blue Blood Moon is pure internet magic. Gaze upon the moon’s splendor in these spectacular photos, unless you have actual stuff to do, like work, or feeding your cat:

    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.SpaceX to launch reused Falcon 9 ahead of Falcon Heavy debut

    SpaceX to launch reused Falcon 9 ahead of Falcon Heavy debut

    Elon Musk's rocket company has another delivery to make before he plans to send his Roadster to Mars.

    Image result for SpaceX will attempt the first launch of its new giant rocket the Falcon Heavy on Feb 6 the company's CEO Elon Musk said Saturday Jan 27

    A recycled Falcon 9 carrying GovSat-1 awaits launch in Florida.

    SpaceX

    SpaceX has some routine business to take care of this week before the long-anticipated debut of Falcon Heavy, its newest and most powerful rocket yet. 

    Elon Musk's commercial space venture on Tuesday scrubbed the scheduled launch of a recycled Falcon 9 rocket set to lift the GovSat-1 satellite into orbit. The mission was called off so SpaceX can swap out a sensor on the rocket. Weather conditions had also been less than ideal for launch much of Tuesday. The launch will now be attempted again from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Wednesday during a window starting at 1:25 p.m. PT. 

    GovSat-1 is a communications device built for a public-private partnership involving the government of Luxembourg and satellite operator SES. The Falcon 9 that the satellite sits atop is one of a handful that SpaceX has flown on a previous mission, landed, recovered and reconditioned for further launches. This particular rocket is the same one that carried a spy satellite to space for the US National Reconnaissance Office last year. 

    Two missions will apparently be all that this reused rocket will see, however, as SpaceX has no plans to recover it again after GovSat-1 is launched.

    This fairly routine mission happens against the backdrop of the planned demonstration launch of Falcon Heavy, currently scheduled for Feb. 6. If it succeeds, Heavy will be the most powerful rocket in use since the Saturn V that carried Apollo astronauts to the moon, and it will also send Musk's red Tesla Roadster on a journey toward Mars because, well, Elon thinks that'll be cool. 

    The Falcon 9 GovSat-1 launch has nothing to do with the Falcon Heavy launch, but if Wednesday's mission were to fail for some reason, it's possible it might lead to the Falcon Heavy debut being pushed back as well. SpaceX postponed all launches for several months when a Falcon 9 exploded on the launch pad in 2016.

    It's also interesting that SpaceX won't attempt to recover the rocket's first stage on Wednesday. After Falcon Heavy's launch, it will attempt to land all three of the powerful system's first stage rockets. 

    You can watch the GovSat-1 mission live or replay it afterward via the embed below:

    Crowd Control: A crowdsourced science fiction novel written by CNET readers.

    Solving for XX: The tech industry seeks to overcome outdated ideas about "women in tech."

    01-02-2018 om 23:14 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Most remarkable UFO sightings in January 2018

    Most remarkable UFO sightings in January 2018

    ufo-january
    Most remarkable UFO sightings in January 2018 by www.Latest-UFO-Sightings.net.

    1. early January 2018; multiple lights in the sky – Chile


    2. 17th January 2018; triangle UFO – Summerlin near Las Vegas, Nevada


    3. 17th January 2018; triangle UFO – Morrison, Colorado


    4. 28th January 2018; daytime UFO sighting – Miami, Florida


    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    01-02-2018 om 21:59 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.3 Ancient Underground Cities You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

    3 Ancient Underground Cities You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

    Thousands of years ago, for reasons unclear to scholars, ancient cultures around the globe decided to escape from the surface of our planet, and seek shelter deep within Earth.

    Somehow, ancient cultures managed to create incredible underground cities that feature many rooms, living quarters, religious centers, underground farms, and shelters.

    Since the Middle Ages, building tunnels was necessary to survive, even to practice pagan rituals without being seen, plan a revolution, attack unexpectedly or connect two peoples.

    Some of these cities we are are about to explore even came to be declared a World Heritage Site.

    The underground city of Derinkuyu.
    Image Credit: Shutterstock.

    1. The ancient underground city of Derinkuyu

    Derinkuyu in Cappadocia in Turkey is probably the largest underground city that has been discovered to date.

    It extends for more than eight levels as deep as 80 meters with more than 600 entrances to the surface.

    Although the date the original city was built is unknown, the Turkish Department of Culture believed the underground city was built during the 8th century BC.

    It is believed to have been built by the Phrygians, ancient Indo-European people, who worshiped the “great mother,” Cybele.

    The Phrygians developed an advanced culture, famous for its music and the legend of King Midas, a king of Phrygia, who turned into gold everything he touched.

    It is estimated that Derinkuyu, based on the storage capacity of food and resources, had about 10,000 inhabitants and that it could shelter 30,000 in case of need.

    The city had a communications network with the outside of the city and was connected to the city of Kaymakli.

    Derinkuyu, with an area of 4 square kilometers, is built on a soft and easily worked surface. The terrain is composed of smooth volcanic stone; mixed with mud and ash from volcanic eruptions.

    2. The underground city of Naours

    This ancient settlement is located in northern France where ancient cultures build two miles of tunnels, featuring more than 300 underground rooms, hidden around 100 feet beneath the surface. It is believed that Naours was first built as a Roman quarry during the third century A.D. and was later expanded into a fully functional underground city after local inhabitants started using it as a shelter during the wars and raids of the Middle Ages.

    Archaeologists estimate that at its peak the underground city of Naours provided shelter for more than 3,000 inhabitants, and included its own chapels, stables, wells, and bakeries.

    3. The underground city of Kaymakli

    The underground city of Kaymakli.

    Image Credit: Shutterstock.

    Kaymaklı is one of several underground cities (Derinkuyu, Mazi, and Özkonak) located in the Cappadocia region, in Central Anatolia, Turkey.

    It is thought that it was probably built between the fifth and the tenth centuries.

    Although the lack of decoration and documentation make it difficult to date, the ancient city has been occupied by various cultures over the centuries.

    Its main function was to shelter the inhabitants of the region in case of invasions.

    Its strategic position in the center of the Cappadocia region (20 kilometers south of Nevşehir), made it a refuge easily reachable by the inhabitants.

    The ancient city only has one entrance; but once underground, it extends for 2.5 km².

    In the interior, there are areas for storing food, stables, cisterns, cellars, kitchens, churches and even graves arranged in a maze of tunnels and stairs.

    In the kitchens, it is appreciated that the walls and ceiling are impregnated with soot. In the churches, there are remains of the Byzantine frescoes that adorned them.

    Like many other ancient underground cities in the region, this city too has a number of ventilation shafts.

    The entrance is protected by a disk-shaped stone that was placed to block the passage of enemies entirely, and that could only be moved from within.

    A second disc protects the city, a few meters further on the entry tunnel: as “double insurance” in case the first entry was broken into.

    There is an underground tunnel in the direction of the neighboring underground city of Derinkuyu (9 km to the south), although the tunnel has not been completely excavated.

    https://www.ancient-code.com/ }

    01-02-2018 om 21:45 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Five periods of mass extinction on Earth. Are we entering the sixth?

    Five periods of mass extinction on Earth. Are we entering the sixth?

    BY CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR

    Credit: Pixabay.

    Credit: Pixabay.

    Our Earth is very old. Based on the estimation of the oldest rock, it’s around 4.5 billion years of age.

    Scientists from all over the world use astronomy, geology, chemistry, biology, archaeology and other sciences to investigate the Earth’s formation as well as the emergence and extinction of life on Earth.

    1. …Then there’s life!

    Around 13.8 billion years ago, an enormous explosion that scientists call the Big Bang spurred the formation of our planet. The explosion produced increasingly dense, cloud-like masses of hydrogen dust; the biggest turned into our sun, while smaller ones became planets. One of those planets is our Earth.

    Some scientists believe around 600 to 700 million years later, meteor showers bombarded the earth, carrying with it large volumes of water and amino acids. Life, in the form of single-cell bacteria, began.

    Since then, bacteria has evolved into more complex forms, though different beings have also become extinct.

    2. Geological eras

    Geologists divide the periods from the Earth’s formation up until now into a number of eras based on the changes that happened in each of them.

    We are currently in the Holocene era, which started around 11,700 years ago when the Ice Age ended.

    More recently though, a number of scientists have argued that because of the nuclear bomb testings of the 1950’s and population explosion, humans have entered a new era, called the Anthropocene.

    They argue that with more than seven billion people, human activity has drastically influenced nature and the extinction of a number of wildlife.

    The Earth is no stranger to disappearing life forms. There are have been many periods of extinction, from when the first organism emerged on Earth until today.

    However, according to fossil records, only five eras have drastically reduced the population of living beings on earth to warrant the label of mass extinction.

    3. First period of extinction

    Entering early to mid period of the Ordovician Era, the Earth was still warm with an ideal humidity level for living. However, towards the end of the period – around 443 million years ago – everything changed suddenly, when the old continent Gondwana reached the South Pole. The temperature dropped drastically and ice formed everywhere, lowering the water level.

    Subsequently, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and in the sea dropped, causing the number of plants to decrease dramatically and an ecosystem chaos ensued because certain plants, used as sources of food, became scarce.

    Some 86% of the population of living beings disappeared within three million years. Some of the organisms affected by the first extinction were Brachiopods, Conodonts, Acritarchs, Bryozons, and also Trilobites that lived in the ocean.

    4. Second period of extinction

    The second period of extinction, during the Devon Age, happened around 359 million years ago. A relentless meteor shower is believed to be one of the causes of mass extinction. Other causes include a drastic decrease in oxygen levels globally, the increased activity of tectonic plates, and climate change. These changes caused around 75% of living creatures to die.

    Extinction in this period impacted life in the sea which, at the time, was dominated by corals and stromatoporoids.

    5. Third period of extinction

    The third period of extinction, around 251 million years ago, during the Permian Age, was the biggest and worst that ever happened on Earth.

    The formation of the giant continent Pangea caused immense changes in geology, climate and the environment. Volcanic eruptions that continued for 1 million years released around 300 million square kilometres of lava while more than 1750 metres of sediment was formed in the Siberian Traps.

    The eruptions burned forests four times the size of Korea. It produced large volumes of carbon dioxide that caused global warming. As a result, frozen methane below the sea melted, producing a global warming effect 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

    The global warming lasted for approximately 10 million years. A terrible mass extinction was inevitable. Only 5% of the population of life on Earth survived and 95% perished from massive drought, lack of oxygen and acid rain that made plants unable to survive.

    6. Fourth period of extinction

    The fourth period of extinction happened around 210 million years ago, during the Late Triassic Age.

    The slow splitting of Pangea caused volcanoes to form in the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. After a spike in atmospheric carbon dioxide, global warming started again, with scientists speculating it lasted as long as eight million years.

    This caused coral and conodonts, an eel-like ancient sea creature to face serious crisis. Coral-based creatures did not survive.

    A meteor rain also hastened the destruction in this period: Around 80% of living creatures, including reptiles died, with some 20% of the creatures that became extinct sea-based lifeforms.

    Additionally, a number of creatures that lived on land that died in this period were pseudosuchia, crocodylomorphs, theropods and several large amphibians.

    7. Fifth period of extinction

    The fifth period of extinction happened around 65 million years ago and is more popularly known as Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction. It was the fastest period of mass extinction, occurring over one to 2.5 million years.

    It’s possibly the most known period of mass extinction because this was when dinosaurs were wiped out from the face of the earth. Scientists believe a meteor fall in today’s Gulf of Mexico compounded with high volcanic activity which produced a significant amount of carbon dioxide, killed half of the earth’s living population.

    8. How does the future look?

    Some scientists believe that we have entered the sixth period of extinction since 2010. The massive emission of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels has affected the lives of many plants and animals. Scientists predict that this will affect many life forms on Earth in the next three to four decades. Who knows?

    Mirzam Abdurrachman, Lecturer at Department of Geology, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi BandungAswan, Lecturer in Geology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, and Yahdi Zaim, Professor in Geology, Institut Teknologi Bandung

    This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.De magnetische polen van onze aarde gaan “binnenkort” omslaan. Wat zijn de gevolgen?

    De magnetische polen van onze aarde gaan “binnenkort” omslaan. Wat zijn de gevolgen?

    (themabeeld) FOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK

    Meerdere zaken wijzen erop dat de magnetische polen van onze aarde “binnenkort” zullen omslaan. Lees: noord wordt zuid en zuid wordt noord. Een publicatie van één wetenschapper daarover was genoeg om het internet te doen gevolgen dat het einde der tijden nu echt wel nabij is. Maar moeten we ons echt zorgen maken? Zijn we echt met z’n allen gedoemd? Een expert van National Geographic geeft meer uitleg.

    De eerste vraag: gaan we met z’n allen sterven?

    “Ja.”

    Wat?

    “We gaan allemaal sterven, uiteindelijk toch. De kans dat we allemaal tegelijk en wel meteen zullen vergaan als de magnetische polen omslaan, is echter klein. Onbestaand zelfs.”

    De magnetische polen van onze aarde gaan “binnenkort” omslaan. Wat zijn de gevolgen?

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    Oef. Maar wat is zo’n geomagnetische ommekeer eigenlijk?

    “Als de geologische geschiedenis zichzelf herhaalt, zullen de magnetische polen van onze aarde uiteindelijk omslaan. Eenvoudig gezegd: de Noordpool wordt de Zuidpool en de Zuidpool wordt de Noordpool. Het is zeker geen nieuw fenomeen. Uit de magnetische vingerafdrukken in oude gesteentes kunnen we afleiden dat zo’n ommekeer de voorbije 20 miljoen jaar al meermaals voorgevallen is. Gemiddeld om de 200.000 à 300.000 jaar zelfs.”

    “De vorige ommekeer dateert wel al van zo’n 780.000 jaar geleden. Je zou dus kunnen stellen dat een nieuwe al lang over tijd is. Het klopt inderdaad wel dat sommige gegevens erop wijzen dat er binnenkort opnieuw een ommekeer zit aan te komen. Maar dan is binnenkort wel op te vatten in de geologische betekenis. Het is niet zo dat de Noordpool morgen plots de Zuidpool zal zijn. Onze gok is dat alles wel nog een tijdje zal blijven zoals het nu is. Al kan niemand zo’n ommekeer met enige precisie voorspellen.”

    En wat zijn de gevolgen van zo’n ommekeer?

    “Ook dat is nog heel onduidelijk. Wetenschappers menen dat de vorige flips nogal traag verlopen zijn. Dat wil zeggen: het duurde duizenden jaren voordat noord zuid werd en omgekeerd. Dat is zowel goed als slecht voor wie bezorgd is over hoe zo’n ommekeer het leven op aarde zal beïnvloeden.”

    “De trage verandering is enerzijds goed, omdat het betekent dat we tijd hebben om ons voor te bereiden en om ons best te doen om alle mogelijke nadelige effecten te voorkomen. Anderzijds is het ook slecht, want het magnetische veld rond onze aarde beschermt ons ook tegen schadelijke stralingen van de zon en uit de kosmos. Na een ommekeer zal dat veld, dat schild, minder krachtig zijn.”

    De magnetische polen van onze aarde gaan “binnenkort” omslaan. Wat zijn de gevolgen?

    Vogels zullen na een magnetische ommekeer opnieuw hun weg moeten zoeken.
    FOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK

    Zal de gewone sterveling er iets van merken?

    “De enige grote opmerkbare verandering, is dat na een ommekeer je kompasnaald Antarctica als het noorden zal aanduiden en de Noordpool als het zuiden. Daardoor zullen de namen van het Amerikaanse continent tijdelijk (tot de volgende ommekeer, nvdr.) een beetje verwarrend zijn aangezien Noord-Amerika dan ten zuiden van Zuid-Amerika zal liggen”

    “Een ander interessante gevolg is dat dieren die het magnetische veld van de aarde gebruiken om te navigeren - zoals bijvoorbeeld vogels, zalmen en zeeschildpadden - verdwaald kunnen raken tijdens hun routine-uitstapjes. Uiteindelijk zullen ze de verandering wel onder de knie krijgen en zal het leven opnieuw z’n gangetje gaan. Heel wat einde-der-tijden-profeten hebben geprobeerd om zo’n magnetische ommekeer te koppelen aan massale uitstervingen, maar de gegevens bevestigen dat gewoonweg niet.”

    We moeten ons dus helemaal geen zorgen maken?

    “Niet bepaald. Het klopt wel dat het magnetische veld rond de aarde zwakker wordt na een ommekeer. Al is dat op zich niet zo ongewoon, want ook nu is de kracht van dat veld aan hevige veranderingen onderhevig. Volgens de NASA wijst niets er ook op dat het veld volledig zal verdwijnen. Waarom? Omdat dat nog nooit gebeurd is.”

    “Als het veld echter substantieel zwakker wordt en een hele tijd zwak blijft, dan zullen we minder beschermd zijn tegen de hopen hoog-energetische deeltjes die voortdurend rondzweven in de kosmos. Dat betekent dat alles en iedereen op aarde blootgesteld zal worden aan hogere stralingsniveaus, wat na een tijd kan leiden tot een stijging in ziektes als kanker en mogelijk ook een invloed zal hebben op ons elektriciteitsnetwerk en op ruimtereizen. Maar dat zijn gevolgen waarop we ons kunnen voorbereiden. En we hebben ook nog altijd een dikke laag atmosfeer om ons te beschermen, natuurlijk.”

    “Op dit moment doen we zelf al heel goed ons best om kankerverwekkende gifstoffen te introduceren in onze omgeving en om onze natuurlijke ecosystemen van functie te veranderen… We hebben op korte termijn dus belangrijkere zaken aan ons hoofd.”

    “Tot slot nog één pluspuntje: een zwakker magnetisch veld betekent dat de aurora’s (zoals het bekende Noorderlicht, nvdr.) op veel meer plaatsen te zien zullen zijn. Onze nachten zullen dus nog epischer worden.”

    De magnetische polen van onze aarde gaan “binnenkort” omslaan. Wat zijn de gevolgen?

    Het magnetische veld rond de aarde beschermt ons onder meer tegen zonnestraling.
    FOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK

    http://www.nieuwsblad.be/ }

    01-02-2018 om 19:03 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Magnetische polen kunnen switchen en tot chaos leiden: “Zelfs doorspoelen wc wordt dan onmogelijk” - HLN.be

    Magnetische polen kunnen switchen en tot chaos leiden: “Zelfs doorspoelen wc wordt dan onmogelijk” -  HLN.be

    Bron: National Geographic, Undark

     AFP
     Dat de magnetische polen op aarde van positie zouden wisselen, lijkt op zich straf. Toch gebeurde dat al vaker en zál het ook blijven gebeuren. Er zijn aanwijzingen dat we nu weer in zo’n lange overgangsperiode zitten. Op zich geen ramp - sorry, aanhangers van doemscenario’s - maar toch kan zo’n switch mogelijk chaotische gevolgen hebben, als licht, gsm’s en computers zouden uitvallen.

    De omkering van het aardmagnetisch veld betekent op dit moment dat de naald van een kompas niet langer naar het noorden zou wijzen maar naar het zuiden. Niet ongewoon: pas sinds zo’n 780.000 jaar bevindt de magnetische zuidpool zich op de geografische noordpool, wat dus daarvóór niet het geval was.

    Zo’n switch gebeurt heel langzaam en kan zelfs duizenden jaren duren. Volgens experts zitten we er mogelijk op dit moment in. Dat zien ze onder meer aan het aardmagnetisch veld dat de laatste 200 jaar met 15 procent afgezwakt is. Een wetenschappelijk rapport op de site Undark waarschuwt ervoor dat de bescherming die het aardmagnetisch veld normaal biedt tegen allerhande schadelijke zonne- en kosmische straling, door die verzwakking vermindert en dat zo meer van die “onzichtbare krachten die levende wezens schade kunnen toebrengen of doden” onze aarde kunnen bereiken.

    Satellietsystemen die de elektrische en elektronische netwerken op de aarde regelen kunnen verstoord geraken en zo licht, computers en gsm’s doen uitgaan. Zelfs het doorspelen van de wc wordt dan problematisch, beweert het verslag, dat Daniel Baker aanhaalt, directeur van het Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics aan de University of Colorado. Hij vreest ook dat “delen van de planeet onbewoonbaar worden tijdens de omwisseling”.

     EPA

    Doorheen de geschiedenis van onze planeet keerden de magnetische polen elke 200.000 à 300.000 jaar om. Omdat de laatste magnetische ompoling dateert van 780.000 jaar geleden, zijn we al even ‘overtijd’. Soms mislukt zo’n poging tot poolshift overigens. Die laatste keer was 40.000 jaar geleden.

    De magnetische ompoling is een van die klassieke fenomenen die in bepaalde middens aangezien worden als het inluiden van het einde der tijden. Maar daar zijn helemaal geen wetenschappelijke aanwijzingen, laat staan bewijzen, voor. Het enige dat vaststaat, is dat na de omkering je kompas het noorden op Antarctica zal situeren en het zuiden ergens in de buurt van Canada. En ook dat vogels, zalmen en zeeschildpadden, die gebruik maken van het magnetisch veld om zich te oriënteren, zich zullen moeten aanpassen. 

    Een van de beste redenen om aan te nemen dat het magnetisch veld, dat dus wel kan verzwakken, niet helemáál zal verdwijnen, komt van de NASA: omdat het in het verleden ook nog nooit gebeurd is.

    https://www.hln.be/ }

    01-02-2018 om 18:35 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Magnetisch veld aarde kan ieder moment omkeren. Worden delen van de wereld hierdoor onbewoonbaar?
    Magnetisch veld aarde kan ieder moment omkeren. Worden delen van de wereld hierdoor onbewoonbaar?

    Magnetisch veld aarde kan ieder moment omkeren. Worden delen van de wereld hierdoor onbewoonbaar?

    Het magnetisch veld van de aarde is de afgelopen 200 jaar met 15 procent afgezwakt. Wetenschappers zien dit als teken van een aanstaande magnetische omslag.

    Volgens Daniel Baker van de Universiteit van Colorado in Boulder zijn er duidelijke aanwijzingen voor een omkering.

    Als zoiets gebeurt zullen sommige gebieden op aarde onbewoonbaar worden, voorspelt hij.

    Ieder moment

    Historisch gezien keert het magnetisch veld van de aarde eens in de 200.000 tot 300.000 jaar om.

    Het is nu wachten op de volgende omslag, aangezien het magnetisch veld 780.000 jaar geleden voor het laatst is omgekeerd.

    Uit de nieuwste satellietgegevens van de Europese ruimteorganisatie ESA blijkt dat een omkering ieder moment kan plaatsvinden.

    Onophoudelijke activiteit

    Wetenschappers spreken van ‘onophoudelijke activiteit’ die erop wijst dat het magnetisch veld op het punt staat om te keren.

    Bij een omslag worden we blootgesteld aan de zonnewind, die gaten in de ozonlaag kan veroorzaken.

    Ook kunnen elektriciteitsnetwerken uitvallen, kan het klimaat drastisch veranderen en kan het aantal ziektegevallen stijgen.

    Ernstige zaak

    “Dit is een ernstige zaak,” zei professor Richard Holme van de Liverpool University.

    Onderzoekers voorspellen dat er na een omslag jaarlijks honderdduizenden mensen zullen sterven als gevolg van blootstelling aan straling uit de ruimte.

    170 jaar

    Maar ze voegen toe dat ze niet met zekerheid kunnen zeggen wanneer het magnetisch veld precies zal omkeren.

    “We bestuderen het veld nog maar zo’n 170 jaar,” zei dr. Colin Forsyth van University College London.

    [Daily Mail

    01-02-2018 om 18:25 geschreven door peter  

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    Categorie:NineForNews. nl ( new ipv NIBURU.nl) (NL)
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Kippenvel! NASA’s verkenner Curiosity maakt prachtige nieuwe beelden van Mars - HLN.be

    Kippenvel! NASA’s verkenner Curiosity maakt prachtige nieuwe beelden van Mars - HLN.be

    Bron: NASA

     NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
     Curiosity, de Mars-verkenner van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA, heeft na maanden klimmen eindelijk de flanken bereikt van de bergkam Vera Rubin. Daar maakte de verkenner zestien foto’s die samen een prachtig panorama van de Gale-krater vormen, waar Curiosity in 2012 landde. Het is de eerste keer ooit dat er zo’n groot overzichtsbeeld vanop de planeet werd gemaakt.

    De Mars-verkenner heeft sinds de landing meer dan vijf jaar geleden in totaal 18 kilometer afgelegd, en pas nu, na een maandenlange klimtocht, kon het staaltje toptechnologie even terugkijken op zijn tocht en prachtige foto’s maken van het dal waarin het geland is. Het resultaat vormt een van de mooiste panoramabeelden ooit van de rode planeet. Een hogeresolutiebeeld kan je hier downloaden.

    Curiosity schoot de beelden al op 25 oktober vorig jaar, vanop een hoogte van 327 meter. Pas deze week liepen ze echter bij de ruimtevaartorganisatie binnen, nadat de Maven-satelliet erin geslaagd was een recordhoeveelheid data in één keer door te sturen. NASA plakte de zestien beelden aan elkaar en veranderde de witbalans, zodat de kleuren overeen zouden komen met daglicht op aarde. 

    Een detail van het panorama. Curiosity landde in 2012 op de Bradbury landingsplaats, en legde sindsdien een tocht van 18 kilometer af, hier deels weergegeven met een grijze lijn.

     NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS 
    Een detail van het panorama. Curiosity landde in 2012 op de Bradbury landingsplaats, en legde sindsdien een tocht van 18 kilometer af, hier deels weergegeven met een grijze lijn.

    154 kilometer breed

    Op de beelden is goed te zien hoe groot het dal is van de krater waarin Curiousity landde. In totaal is de Gale-krater 154 kilometer breed. De afstand vanop de bergflank waar de foto’s zijn genomen tot aan de tegenoverliggende bergen is ongeveer 30 kilometer. NASA toonde zich bijzonder verheugd over de beelden. “Hoewel Curiousity al vijf jaar aan het klimmen is, is het de eerste keer dat we konden terugkijken en een volledig beeld te zien kregen van de missie die achter ons ligt”, aldus projectleider Ashwin Vasavada. “Vanop ons terras op de Vera Rubin-bergkam toont de bodem van de krater zich in al zijn glorie tot aan de spectaculaire bergkam die de noordelijke rand vormt van de Gale-krater.”

    Curiousity bereidt zich nu voor op nieuwe boorwerkzaamheden in de ondergrond, waarna de stalen in de verkenner zelf geanalyseerd zullen worden. Het is al meer dan een jaar geleden dat de verkenner nog nieuwe boorstalen heeft genomen. 

    NASA maakte ook dit beeld van bovenaf. De ster is waar Curiosity in 2012 landde, en de zwarte lijn het pad dat de verkenner sindsdien aflegde.

     ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/NASA/JPL-Caltech 
    NASA maakte ook dit beeld van bovenaf. De ster is waar Curiosity in 2012 landde, en de zwarte lijn het pad dat de verkenner sindsdien aflegde.
    Curiosity maakte vorige week nog dit zelfportret vanop de bergkam waar hij zich momenteel bevindt. Links in beeld is de krater die op de panoramafoto te zien is.
    REUTERS
    Curiosity maakte vorige week nog dit zelfportret vanop de bergkam waar hij zich momenteel bevindt. Links in beeld is de krater die op de panoramafoto te zien is.

    https://www.hln.be/ }

    01-02-2018 om 11:23 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Footage of a UFO passing the Blue Blood Moon

    Footage of a UFO passing the Blue Blood Moon

    The USAToday live feed were showing the Griffith Observatory live broadcast of the Lunar Eclipse Blue Blood Moon event on January 31, 2018 when suddenly a UFO comes into view travelling at a very high rate of speed going down the left side of the moon and downwards to the left until it was out of the frame.


    Trailing behind the object was a pulsating/flashing light that seemed to flash at regular interval.

    Not only people in Australia saw it with their own eyes, a resident of Los Angeles, California recorded the portion of the UFO at the moment it passing the Moon. Mufon case 89921.

      

    http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/ }

    01-02-2018 om 11:09 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.What has the U.S. government been hiding about UFOs?

    What has the U.S. government been hiding about UFOs?

    01-02-2018 om 01:37 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Miami, Florida UFO sighting 28-Jan-2018

    Miami, Florida UFO sighting 28-Jan-2018

    daytime-ufo

    Daytime UFO sighting filmed over Miami, Florida on 28th January 2018.

    Witness report: 

    On January 28th, my family went for a afternoon of carnival fun at st rose Catholic Church in Miami Florida . Upon arrival we noticed two silver white object just sitting in the sky like a pin on a board. My aunt took her camera and took a picture and I took my iPhone plus 7s and started to film. After a few minutes my phone died which was surprising since it was fully charged. I took her camera which was a new camera for professionals and when I aimed towards the ufos. The camera would not work but as soon as I put the camera towards a level in which I can take a pictures of a family member it would work. I did this several times and others tried as well with the same outcome. Maybe 10 minutes later I can see fighter jets in the distance which suddenly the object just vanished .No one really noticed which was seared and at the beginning we thought it was a ballon but it didn’t move 

    Author (source: MUFON)

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    01-02-2018 om 01:28 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Britain’s Area 51: Paranormal hotspot for UFO and ghost sightings REVEALED

    Britain’s Area 51: Paranormal hotspot for UFO and ghost sightings REVEALED

    ONE of the most haunted places in Britain and a hotbed for sightings of ghosts and UFOs has been identified – as a leafy stretch of the A30.

    Windwhistle Hill, near A30

    SWNS

    PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: Windwhistle Hill has had strange goings on report for over 400 years

    Experts say the eight-mile section of the Somerset route from Chard to Crewkerne has been the centre of repeated reports of scary goings on dating back 400 years.

    They include a constant series of sightings around Windwhistle Hill of "strange, unusual and eerie lights, sounds, figures and shapes''.

    Locals have even started to dubbed the road as "Area-oohh-aarr 51".

    Gloria Dixon, of the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA), says the Somerset road is liniked to years of spooky tales.

    She says the the scary sightings on the mysterious hill are connected with the area's history of highwaymen, smugglers and witches.

    BUFORA researchers have investigated the stretch of A30 road connecting Crewkerne and Chard and have found "mystical" reports dating back to 1662.

    Windwhistle Hill is steeped in the traditional folklore of strange lights, visions and figures with ghostly highwaymen and galloping horses

    Gloria Dixon

    Gloria wrote on the BUFORA website: "Reports of strange visions and incidents have continued to date.

    "According to the literature, during the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Windwhistle [Hill] had a history of highwaymen and smugglers in this area.

    "The A30 used to be a coaching route from London to the West Country and highwaymen could hide in the beech trees waiting for the carriages with their cargoes of valuables.

    "It has been suggested that the Windwhistle Inn near the summit was the central point for these highwaymen.

    "They would use the wells and caves all around the area to hide their treasures and also the bodies of those they had robbed.

    "The story goes that some skeletons have been discovered in these hideouts.''

    Area 51 Nevada

    GETTY

    CREEPY: Area 51 is famous among UFO and alien stories in America

    Mrs Dixon's research focuses particularly on two separate experiences encountered by a local mother, Kate Walker, when she was travelling between Yeovil and Chard with her family.

    "As they came to the top of the hill Kate and her family all observed a huge orange light diffused by cloud, to their left-hand side and at the far end of Windwhistle Hill," wrote Mrs Dixon.

    "It seemed to be right beside the road, not very high up, and partially obscured by cloud, but they did not feel any alarm as there was a power station and pylons further along.

    "However, as they drove nearer to the light, it was easier to observe and Kate states it was massive and totally static and very low and bright.

    "She describes it as being cigar shaped and vast in size, maybe 200-300 feet, and she estimates the light to be approximately 800-1000 feet above them.

    "As they got closer she noticed that the pub on the right hand side of the road, The Windwhistle Inn, was almost in total darkness, except for a light in a small upstairs window."

    Mrs Dixon writes that Kate looked up again at the light, which by that time was almost on top of the family.

    It is then said that Mrs Walker "lost" around half an hour, a space of time that was unaccounted for in her memory.

    And just a few days after the "puzzling incident", the family encountered another altogether more chilling experience in virtually the same spot.

    They are said to have seen two people in front of them, on the left hand verge, with one appearing to be lying down, and the other standing.

    She wrote: "Their initial thoughts were that someone had been injured and went to slow down.

    "But to their astonishment, the person standing took one step out in front of them, with one foot remaining on the grass verge at the roadside, while the other was right over the centre of the road.

    "Kate described the figure as being abnormally tall with legs that were horrendously long and thin.

    "Her husband swerved to the far side of the road, around the figure, and they kept on driving and did not look back.

    "They all agreed that there was no one who could possibly have legs that long."

    Mrs Dixon also notes that, in a book on East Somerset, Alan Holt comments that Whindwhistle Hill – named for the winds whistling through its tall treetops – is haunted by a witch.

    Holt alleges that the woman was knocked down by a stage coach many years ago.

    A number of further reports from the archives of the Yeovil Weekly News tell of other strange incidents experienced over the years.

    One witness reports that in 1991 herself, her husband and her grandson perceived a tall strange figure looking through their farm window.

    This was followed a few days later by their observations of a "saucer-shaped object".

    Another witness tells how he was driving a lorry on Windwhistle Hill in 1976 or 1977, when he claims his lorry went out of control as though by some "strange force".

    He says he felt as though the lorry was hovering over the road.

    And a final witness tells how she and her husband observed a very large unidentified object, silver and shaped like a humming top, near Windwhistle Hill in November 1959.

    They watched it as though “hypnotised" from about 11pm to 9am the next day and for some reason felt unable to tell anyone.

    Mrs Dixon writes: "It appears that there is a history of odd occurrences in this area.

    "Certainly Windwhistle Hill is steeped in the traditional folklore of strange lights, visions and figures with ghostly highwaymen and galloping horses. It's tantalising stuff."

    https://www.dailystar.co.uk/ }

    01-02-2018 om 01:19 geschreven door peter  

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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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