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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In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
06-02-2018
Bryce Zabel – Hollywood and UFOs – February 6, 2018
Bryce Zabel – Hollywood and UFOs – February 6, 2018
Bryce Zabel has a long list of achievements in the feature film and television industry. Much of this includes UFO and alien related projects. This includes writing and producing the NBC series Dark Skies and the Syfy movie Official Denial. He also was on the writing staff of Steven Spielberg’s Taken and ABC’s Lois and Clark (don’t forget, Superman is an alien). More recently, he co-wrote the book A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact with Richard Dolan. He is currently working on two UFO related movies. One is about the Betty and Barney Hill abductions and the other is a movie about the work of Roswell researchers Stanton Friedman and Don Schmitt.
In this interview, we discuss Bryce’s current project, some interest from a famous Hollywood actor/comedian and what it is like making UFO/Alien related entertainment projects. We also discuss Bryce’s upcoming talk at the 2018 International UFO Congress.
The Pentagon has been chasing UFOs for a long, long time
The Pentagon has been chasing UFOs for a long, long time
Projects that began more than five decades ago and still continue to this day include efforts to evaluate bizarre sightings and exotic objects, scan the skies for signs of intelligent transmissions, and develop instruments capable of sniffing out signs of life on faraway worlds. The fact that the government chose to spend some cash on a supposedly scientific look at UFOs—particularly as they could be crucially related to national security threats—really should be no surprise, says Seth Shostak, one of the SETI Institute’s senior alien hunters.
1970s and ‘80s: CIA Investigations of Paranormal and Psychic Phenomena The 1970s and 1980s saw the CIA investigating a bunch of phenomena associated with UFO sightings, such as parapsychology and psychic happenings. According to CIA report “Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90 (A Die-Hard Issue)”, “CIA officials also looked at the UFO problem to determine what UFO sightings might tell them about Soviet progress in rockets and missiles and reviewed its counterintelligence aspects.”
1976-1993: SETI/HRMS The only time the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has been written into a NASA budget line, this decade provided as much as $12 million a year for searches using the Arecibo and Goldstone antennas. Around 1990, the government’s SETI program—headquartered at NASA’s Ames Research Center—was renamed the High Resolution Microwave Survey in an attempt to avoid cancellation. Nevada senator Richard Bryan ended up cancelling the program anyway in 1993, right after actual observations had started.
1990s to now: NASA’s Astrobiology Institute Founded in 1998, the NASA Astrobiology Institute is one of many projects within the space agency aimed at investigating the possibility that life exists elsewhere in the cosmos. Scientists under its umbrella are currently thinking about whether life once existed on Mars, if there might be organisms tucked beneath the icy shells of the moons Europa and Enceladus, and how we would even recognize what life beyond Earth looks like if and when we see it. Now, and beyond.
Other ongoing work that continues to rely on federal funds includes developing instruments capable of detecting not only exoplanets but also alien biospheres, as well as work using organisms and environments on Earth as extraterrestrial analogs.
Why The Universe Does Not Need To Have A Beginning Or End
Why The Universe Does Not Need To Have A Beginning Or End
According to the Big Bang theory, the universe was born about 13.8 billion years ago. All the matter that exists today was once squished into an infinitely dense, infinitely tiny, ultra-hot point called a singularity. This tiny fireball then exploded and gave rise to the early universe. The widely accepted age of the universe, as estimated by general relativity, is 13.8 billion years. In the beginning, everything in existence is thought to have occupied a single infinitely dense point, or singularity. Only after this point began to expand in a “Big Bang” did the universe officially begin allegedly.
Does the Universe have a beginning and thus an end state? I think that question itself is very short-sighted. I have a general problem with the word started. We must understand our place in the wonderous and almost entirely unknown mux of energy we call the Universe. Our brains developed with some severe biases. Like linear time, only seeing and experiencing a super slim sliver of reality with our poor biological senses. Our senses are all lockstep into an infinitesimal experience. We can only see a small infinitesimal small slice of the EM spectrum, hear an infinitesimal slice of auditory sensations, our skin and brains as in the other examples can only process an infinitesimal slice of motion, movement, and causation. Our intellects are just as hindered with infinitesimal perceptions and understanding. We are just the dominant animal on planet Earth. We must understand that we are woefully unsuited for any of this question to fall into colloquial understanding limits.
The Universe has no obligation to make colloquial sense to us. We can not (I suspect) even ask or comprehend the correct line of deductive reasoning yet alone understand the answers that must pour forth. We and our intellects are just fleas in a world of infinite. Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
We and the Universe are more than just our 3 spatial axes of freedom plus time. The math works out for over 10 axes of freedom (dimensions). It is all this that we must at least try to consider when you think about the big bang, or how the observable Universe began.
First off there is no reason to think in our limited capacity of start and ends. That is a bias we have evolved to trust on our little dirty ball of dirt. That is our level of animal experience and intellect we must understand is by understanding what I wrote so far is incomplete. It is an asymptote that approaches zero. There does not have to be a beginning or an end.
We are 4D creatures in a Universe of many more dimensions. To a single dimensional creature, a single point is infinite. Consider a two-dimensional creature if it ever came upon a circle structure. To that creature the circle is infinite..it would if it could represent it by the symbol for infinity. Where does the circle start? Where does it end? Who created the symmetry of the circle?
We are predominately 3D creatures and the Universe looks infinite to us. It looks like it has a beginning and an end. But it is no truer for us as it is for the 2D creatures mentioned before.
As we go up the dimensional ladder the same questions can be asked ( I assume). What spatial geometry does a 5D creature see in the Universe? I wish I knew. I have some ideas which I have previously written about.
What I do know is that answering “GOD” to any of the questions we have considered so far is just a weak player, a pawn for intellectual stagnation which never answers anything.
There does not have to be a start/end to the grandeur of the Universe. It makes no sense unless you are looking with solely evolved monkey eyes. Eyes that are driven by imperfect cognition, billions of years of evolution in just one place, and a deep fear of death and non-existence. The human construct of “God” is just that a human construct to replace the ponderings which are imponderable by some people. Not their fault.
“Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
~ Carl Sagan.
We could exist in just one slice of a continuum of Hubble volumes which all essentially look the same. What we see as spatial distances may and probably are illusions in the grand scheme of things. Spatial distance and time are different than we can comprehend at this point in our intellectual evolution. Serves us well on planet Earth at relativistic velocities but that is about it.
I suspect that the expansion and the question of the “Big Bang” are moot. Observable by our 3D instrumentation but is no more a complete picture than our vision is when considering the EM spectrum.
There certainly does not have to be a creator. That falls into that limited vision thing I spoke of earlier. The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe and it is still unable to comprehend the truth… so far. In time we will see the truth as prosaic. I know we will have to look forward to the answers not backward thousands of years to lies and deception which is so popular today.
Is the Tesla Roadster Flying on the Falcon Heavy's Maiden Flight Just Space Junk?
Is the Tesla Roadster Flying on the Falcon Heavy's Maiden Flight Just Space Junk?
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
A cherry red Tesla Roadster will serve as the payload on the maiden flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.
Credit: SpaceX
The maiden flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy booster, slated to launch tomorrow (Feb. 6), comes factory-equipped with a Tesla Roadster as a part of the payload/ballast, and is meant to be hurled toward a solar orbit that could take it as far out as the orbit of Mars.
But what's the point of sending a car into space? Is it bound to become just more space junk? We asked spaceflight experts to weigh in.
"Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars orbit," tweeted SpaceX founder, CEO and lead designer Elon Musk, referencing the David Bowie song. "Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it doesn't blow up on ascent." [In Photos: SpaceX's 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket at the Pad]
In a more recent tweet, Musk said, "Falcon Heavy launch simulation almost ready. Will be set to Bowie's Life on Mars." Musk also commented that the Tesla's glove box will contain a copy of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (Pan Books, 1979) by Douglas Adams, as well as a towel and a sign saying "Don't Panic" (an iconic phrase from the book).
The Tesla Roadster's glove box contains a copy of the famed Douglas Adams novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Credit: Crown/Archetype
"I love the thought of a car drifting apparently endlessly through space and perhaps being discovered by an alien race millions of years in the future," Musk tweeted on Dec. 2.
Shipping out
Hurling into space using an automobile as a mass simulator is certainly a first. Back in the early development days of NASA's Saturn V booster, several Saturn C-1 test boosters carried thousands of gallons of water to mimic the weight of fully fueled "live" rocket stages.
But does shooting a Roadster into space constitute a frivolous addition to orbital debris?
"He is shipping it out of Earth orbit, so I do not think that there is any risk here," said orbital-debris expert Darren McKnight, technical director for Integrity Applications in Chantilly, Virginia. "The enthusiasm and interest that he generates more than offsets the infinitesimally small 'littering' of the cosmos."
However, McKnight said "it is [a] huge waste of a beautiful car, so I would be happy to take the brand-new red Tesla off his hands, and he can send my five-year old silver Prius into space."
Launch license
On Feb. 2, the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation issued its launch authorization for the Falcon Heavy via Transportation License Number: LLS 18-107.
A Tesla Roadster tops SpaceX's Heavy launcher.
Credit: SpaceX
That license gives the go-ahead for flight of the huge rocket, noting that flight begins with ignition of the first stage from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and transportation of the modified Tesla Roadster as a "mass simulator" to a hyperbolic orbit with the sun, meaning on a trajectory that will allow it to escape Earth's gravity.
"Flight includes landing of the Falcon Heavy first stage core and side boosters as indicated in the license application," the license states. "A flight is concluded upon SpaceX's last exercise of control over the Falcon Heavy vehicle, including the safing of Falcon Heavy vehicle stages or components that reach a hyperbolic orbit."
Boosterism or "big bang" theory?
No matter how you look at it, the Falcon Heavy is a big deal.
"This is in many ways the most significant launch since the first shuttle launch in April of 1981," Dylan Taylor, an active angel investor in commercial space ventures, told Space.com. "Falcon Heavy has the potential to open up commercial space to deep space for the first time ever."
The rocket's first stage is composed of three Falcon 9 nine-engine cores, adding up to 27 Merlin engines. Those three cores are arranged in an "octaweb" structure.
All that firepower makes for a chancy rocket launch, Musk said last July at the 2017 International Space Station Research and Development Conference in Washington, D.C.
"There's a lot that could go wrong there," Musk said. "It's guaranteed to be exciting."
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy booster is ready for its maiden voyage.
Credit: SpaceX
Indeed, "there's a lot of risk associated with the Falcon Heavy," and there is "a real good chance that [the] vehicle does not make it to orbit," Musk said in July, noting that he wanted to make sure he "set expectations accordingly."
"I hope it makes it far enough away from the pad that it doesn't cause pad damage," Musk said. "I would consider even that a win to be honest. Yeah … a major pucker factor really is the only way to describe it."
Musk mentioned several specific reasons why the Falcon Heavy's maiden flight may not go perfectly. One is the need for all 27 orbit-class first-stage engines to light at the right time. Another is the stress that the first stage's central "core" will experience during liftoff; the loads on the rocket, from aerodynamic forces to vibration and acoustic issues, will be quite high, he said.
The Falcon Heavy will be a great vehicle, Musk said, but he added that there may be some kinks to work out, especially given how challenging the rocket's development has been.
"It just ended up being really way, way more difficult than we originally thought," Musk said. "We were pretty naive about that."
Test firing
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy successfully gunned up its 27 main engines during a test fire on Jan. 24, though it was held down tightly on the launchpad. Does that 12-second test firing signal a potential successful flight?
"Not really," said Jim Cantrell, CEO of Vector, a rocket developer in Tucson, Arizona, told Space.com. "It means that they can ignite all 27 engines at the same time. Liftoff will test the structural and flight dynamics of this new configuration and the guidance, navigation and control system that guides it. A lot can still go wrong as this is a massive undertaking."
Despite all that could go wrong, however, Burt Rutan, legendary aerospace engineer and designer of the private suborbital craft SpaceShipOne (which won the Ansari X Prize in 2004), saluted Musk and his Falcon Heavy program.
Rutan told Space.com that he thinks Musk's decision to put his car on an outward-bound trajectory was a great idea.
Elon’s maiden trek of Falcon Heavy is "somewhere along the guts and chutzpah that we did for Apollo 8 — the first time you put people on a Saturn V and shoot for the moon," Rutan said. "Has anybody made that courageous of a flight plan since?
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," published by National Geographic. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel series "Mars." A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us@Spacedotcom,Facebook andGoogle+. Original article onSpace.com.
There were no alien invasions or tales of abduction, yet a UFO sighting by a group of Pembrokeshire school children remains one of the most famous cases in Wales.
It was 40 years ago when a class of pupils at Broad Haven Primary School said they spotted a UFO in a field near their playground.
It was one of a wave of sightings in the area in 1977 - dubbed the Dyfed Triangle.
David Davies was 10 at the time and heard reports of pupils seeing flying saucers throughout the day.
"I was a natural born sceptic so after the bell rang I decided to go to the area that the children said they had seen it," he told BBC Wales.
He described seeing a silver "cigar-shaped" craft with a "dome covering the middle third".
"My sighting only lasted a couple of seconds. It popped up and then went back behind a tree."
Mr Davies said he did not feel afraid, "more in awe and wonderment", although he admitted he had "a strange desire to run away".
Image captionDavid Davies said UFOs has been a subject which has gone on to "dominate" his life
None of the teachers believed the children and so the headmaster separated them and got them to draw what they saw. There were slight variations, but what they drew was basically the same.
Mr Davies described the days that followed as a "wild rollercoaster."
"It went crazy with the media and it was difficult to settle down and actually think about what we had seen."
Two months later, Rosa Granville, who ran the Haven Fort Hotel in nearby Little Haven, described seeing an object which looked like an "upside-down saucer" and two "faceless humanoid" creatures with pointed heads.
She said so much heat came off it, her "face felt burned".
"There was light coming from it and flames of all colours. Then [the creatures] came out of these flames, that's what I don't understand," she said.
When she visited the field she said there was "two inches of burned grounds".
Ms Granville said the incident left her "agitated and disturbed".
Image captionDavid Davies' 1977 drawing
Image captionPupil drawings taken from Broad Haven School's 1977 UFO scrapbook
A number of theories have been put forward to explain the sightings.
Then-MP for Pembroke, Nicholas Edwards contacted the Ministry of Defence after being "inundated" with UFO sightings.
Flt Lt Cowan, an officer from RAF Brawdy, visited Ms Granville's hotel and examined the site, but could find no evidence of a landing.
He joked: "Should a UFO arrive at RAF Brawdy we will charge normal landing fees."
In his report, he mentioned the possibility that a "local prankster was at work" and the description of aliens "fitted exactly the type of protection suit that would have been issued in the event of a fire at one of the local oil refineries".
This fits in with the account of businessman Glyn Edwards, who in 1996 revealed he wandered around the area in a silver suit in 1977 as a prank.
Image captionThe Broad Haven pupil's sightings sparked a media frenzy
The National Archives also released files which examined UFO sightings across Wales, and the officials who investigated the Broad Haven sightings suspected pranksters.
"There is general speculation in the neighbourhood that a practical joker may be at work," wrote staff at S4 - the government department that investigated sightings at the time.
It was also thought school children could have confused a sewage tank as a UFO, although many were from farming backgrounds and would have been familiar with the machinery.
More recently, a former US Navy sailor said the figure in a silver suit was in fact a member of US military personnel wearing their standard fireproof uniform and the UFOs were new Harrier jets flying over.
Media captionBBC archive footage of the children explaining what they saw
To mark 40 years since the sightings, a conference is being held in Broad Haven on Saturday, organised by Swansea UFO Network.
Organiser Emyln Williams said the case started "worldwide interest".
Asked if he thought it was genuine, he said: "One child can lie, but can a whole class?
"Over 40 years at least one of them might have come forward to say they made it up - but they haven't."
Mr Williams said there were several sightings the day the children claimed to have seen a UFO, including at Hubberston School in Milford Haven.
"That year there was so much happening. It is what we know as a UFO flap," he said.
Image copyrightNEIL SPRINGImage captionMr Spring moved into a cottage in Broad Haven to get to the bottom of what happened
Eyewitness Mr Davies, who lives in Shropshire, will be a guest speaker.
He said he had always been open-minded to the theories which attempted to explain the sightings and at no time had he "ever sensationalised his story".
"So many people are ridiculed for saying they have seen a UFO," he said, describing his secondary school life as a "misery".
"I was beaten senseless purely because of what happened to me. It would have been so much easier to take back my story."
He admits UFOs has been a subject that has gone on to "dominate his life".
"At one point I must have had the largest library of books in Wales on the subject."
Image captionBroad Haven School today
Attending alongside Mr Davies is Neil Spring, who wrote a book based on the Broad Haven sightings.
"The moment I heard of this small village plagued by UFO sightings, I was inspired to understand what really happened," he said.
His research uncovered a secret investigation by the military police.
"Whilst the government was telling the public they had no records of any unusual activity in the area, privately, officials were so concerned about the UFO sightings in Broad Haven that they asked the military police to conduct a 'discreet' investigation," he said.
Mr Spring believes local pranksters were behind some of the sightings, but said "people emulate what's happening around them" and the pranks were inspired by events which had been "sincerely reported".
"My research showed that there were strange occurrences in Broad Haven long before the incident at the school and for a long times afterwards.
"So you can take the children out of the story and you'll still have the story."
Those were the shock claims made after video of the apparently unknown object passing the Epsilon 3 rocket launch was uploaded to YouTube by conspiracy theory channel UFO Today.
The rocket was sending a £255 million satellite - which will monitor the Earth's atmosphere - from Kyushu Island in Japan into orbit.
UFO Today speculated that a "mysterious craft" passed by the rocket as it flew at 25,000mph and it could mean that aliens are monitoring our activity in space.
Thousands watched the Japanese Space agency Jaxa launch the rocket at 6.06am local time on January 18.
YouTube
The alleged UFO (ringed) could be nothing more than a plane, claim debunkers.
The launch went perfectly, but during the launch a strange mysterious craft was filmed. This UFO was flying at the same altitude as the rocket.
UFO Today
In a promotional blurb for the video the channel said: "Many will say this is an aeroplane, but the area had a no fly zone at the time of the rocket launch.
"The launch went perfectly, but during the launch a strange mysterious craft was filmed. This UFO was flying at the same altitude as the rocket.
"It was moving along with the rocket as it started it's orbit around earth. What was this object?"
Sceptics have laughed this off and said it was nothing more than a plane.
The black triangle UFO is a global phenomenon, with hundreds of sightings each years across the globe, but most in the US.
Steve Barone, aUFO hunter based near the Nellis Air Force base in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, uploads sightings to his YouTube channel UFOs in The USA and claims this footage is one of his best yet.
In the video, two apparently triangle-shaped objects appear to fly across the screen from right to left.
Mr Barone said in the video: "I set my night vision camera up to do a little sky fishing looking at the entrance of Red Rock Canyon.
"When I got the video inside and went through it slowly and was amazed towards the end of the video you see two triangle objects fly out of the canyon into the Las Vegas valley.
"If you look really close they look like little triangles and appear to have little half domes on top of them."
He said some people had suggested there was just one with a shadow beneath, but he claimed the top went made a separate manoeuvre going into a spin while the one below did not.
YouTube
REAL PHENOMENON? Mysterious triangle UFOs, like these CGI mock ups are seen across the globe.
When I got the video inside and went through it slowly and was amazed towards the end of the video you see two triangle objects fly out of the canyon into the Las Vegas valley.
Steve Barone
The UFO hunter added: "If you look at the snap shots you see the bottom one is clearly a triangle and the top one has a rounded dome on top.
"It is a really good example of what was flying out of that canyon.
"Vegas is unreal, I am still waiting for the mother of all UFOs as it is going to be really special. It has happened before but I just didn't catch it and I know it can happen again."
Many people claim the triangle UFOs are the legendary TR-3B craft - said to be a secret spy plane developed by the US military.
The TR-3B is alleged by conspiracy theorists to be a secret "black project" spy craft of the US Government that can be flown into space.
The allegations are that these crafts are created at top-secret military bases like Area 51 in Nevada, by reverse engineering alien technology.
Others claim they are actual UFOs flown by aliens visiting Earth.
Apart from witness accounts there is no proof the TR-3B exists.
Angela Patchell, who viewed Mr Baron's video, said: "This is amazing. I saw something similar a few weeks ago.
"It passed over in front of me at a super fast speed from right to left and disappeared. This was after viewing UFO orbs high in the night sky the night before."
Another posted: "Red Rock Canyon is notorious for UFOs
Nieuw DNA-onderzoek naar langwerpige schedels uit Paracas. Zie hier de resultaten
Nieuw DNA-onderzoek naar langwerpige schedels uit Paracas. Zie hier de resultaten
In de jaren twintig ontdekte de Peruaanse archeoloog Julio Tello een aantal graftombes in Paracas, die gevuld waren met skeletten met langwerpige schedels die naar schatting 3000 jaar oud zijn.
In 2013 begonnen L.A. Marzulli, bioloog Brien Foerster en een aantal andere onderzoekers de schedels te bestuderen.
Uit het eerste onderzoek bleek dat de vreemde vorm niet alleen was veroorzaakt door schedelvervorming.
Ongelooflijk ingewikkeld
Begin deze maand maakte het team op het Elongated Skulls Symposium in Los Angeles de resultaten bekend van nieuw DNA-onderzoek.
“De resultaten waren ongelooflijk ingewikkeld,” zei Foerster. “Het zal enige tijd duren voordat we weten wat de resultaten precies betekenen.”
“We weten in ieder zeker dat de mensen waar de langwerpige schedels aan toebehoren niet 100 procent inheemse Amerikanen zijn,” voegde hij toe.
Mengeling
Het gaat volgens hem om een mengeling van verschillende volkeren. Als ze 100 procent inheemse Amerikanen zijn, moeten ze bloedgroep O hebben gehad en dat is niet het geval, aldus Foerster.
“We hebben hier waarschijnlijk te maken met een subsoort,” zei hij, toevoegende dat het DNA wijst in de richting van Oost-Europa en West-Azië, ergens tussen de Zwarte Zee en de Kaspische Zee.
Genetisch van aard
Hij wees erop dat ze een aantal verschillende haplogroepen aantroffen die op geen enkele manier zijn te rijmen met de geschiedenis van Peru.
De grootste langwerpige schedels zijn gevonden in Peru en de Kaukasus, dus hij denkt dat deze subsoort naar Zuid-Amerika is gemigreerd.
Hij benadrukte dat de vervormingen genetisch van aard zijn en dat deze mensen met de afwijkingen werden geboren.
Toen het Amerikaanse leger maatregelen nam om het overgewicht van personeel te bestrijden, had niemand gedacht dat hiermee ook gevoelige geheimen aan het licht zouden komen.
Door dit alles is er nu precies vast te stellen waar zich op Antarctica een geheime ondergrondse basis bevindt, alhoewel deze niet persé Amerikaans hoeft te zijn.
Men heeft er bij het Pentagon nooit bij stilgestaan dat door middel van dingen zoals zogenaamde Fitbit horloges exacte locaties van de gebruikers kunnen worden vastgesteld. Dit systeem houdt al je lichamelijke activiteiten bij en meet verschillende dingen zoals hoeveel je gelopen hebt. Het doet dit op basis van het GPS systeem zodat van iedere gebruiker de exacte locatie kan worden vastgesteld.
Het Amerikaanse leger vond dit een goed hulpmiddel bij het bestrijden van overgewicht onder hun personeel en waren zo enthousiast dat ze deze Fitbits volop hebben verspreid binnen het leger.
Via een organisatie die Strava heet is er nu een zogenaamde heatmap gemaakt van de aarde, waarop je precies kunt zien waar de Fitbit gebruikers zich bevinden. Het zijn natuurlijk niet alleen Amerikaanse militairen die met deze dingen rondlopen, maar overal ter wereld worden deze Fitbits gebruikt. Op de volgende kaart zie je het gebruik in Nederland en België. Hoe lichter de kaart, des te meer Fitbits zijn er actief.
Bij ons valt er weinig af te leiden uit het gebruik, behalve dat het in bepaalde gebieden meer voor komt dan in andere, maar wanneer je naar een totaal verlaten gebied kijkt in Syrië, net ten noorden van de stad Raqqa, dan begint het wel op te vallen.
Kortom, we weten nu van bovenstaande locatie dat het geen totaal verlaten gebied is, maar dat er één of meerdere personen aanwezig zijn die daar rondjes lopen.
Veel militaire complexen zijn op verzoek van overheden niet opgenomen in Google Maps en Apple Map. Een woordvoerder van de US Central Command heeft aan de Washington Post laten weten dat het leger aan het kijken is naar de implicaties die de kaart met zich meebrengt. De looproutes van de militairen kunnen nu de locaties van geheime basissen vrijgeven.
En dan komt er op de zogenaamde heatmap van Strava iets bijzonders tevoorschijn, ergens in een totaal verlaten gebied op Antarctica.
Ergens lopen daar één of meerdere mensen rond met een Fitibit.
Echter, op ongeveer 12 kilometer afstand ligt een landingsbaan die de Union Glacier Blue-Ice Runway heet. De rode markering geeft de landingsbaan aan en de groene de plek waar de bewegingen zijn waargenomen.
Dan blijft er eigenlijk maar één conclusie over en dat is dat er zich onder de bergen een basis bevindt. Het signaal is opgevangen, één of meerdere mensen hebben daar een bepaalde weg afgelegd en aangezien het zo goed als onmogelijk is dat dit aan de oppervlakte is geweest, kan het alleen ondergronds zijn geweest.
De vraag die dan overblijft is: Van wie is die basis? Van de Amerikanen waar veel militairen met een Fitbit rondlopen of toch van iemand anders?
FORWARD THINKING Toby Walsh cuts through the hype to give a critical assessment of how much we should welcome or worry about a future full of “thinking” machines.
Movies and other media are full of mixed messages about the risks and rewards of building machines with minds of their own. For every manipulative automaton like Ex Machina’s Ava (SN: 5/16/15, p. 26), there’s a helpful Star Wars droid. And while some tech titans such as Elon Musk warn of the threats artificial intelligence presents, others, including Mark Zuckerberg, dismiss the doomsayers.
AI researcher Toby Walsh’s Machines That Think is for anyone who has heard the hype and is seeking a critical assessment of what the technology can do — and what it might do in the future. Walsh’s conversational style is welcoming to nonexperts while his endnotes point readers to opportunities for deeper dives into specific aspects of AI.
Walsh begins with a history of AI, from Aristotle’s foundation of formal logic to modern facial-recognition systems. Excerpts from computer-composed poetry and tales of computers trouncing humans at strategy games (SN: 11/11/17, p. 13) are a testament to how far AI has come. But Walsh also highlights weaknesses, such as machine-learning algorithms’ reliance on so much data to master a single task.
This 30,000-foot view of AI research packs a lot of history, as well as philosophical and technical explanation. Walsh personalizes the account with stories of his own programming experiences, anecdotes about AI in daily life — like his daughter’s use of Siri — and his absolute, unapologetic love of puns.
Later in the book, Walsh speculates about technical hurdles that may curb further AI development and legal limits that society may want to impose. He also explores the societal impact that increasingly intelligent computers may have.
For instance, Walsh evaluates how likely various jobs are to be outsourced to AI. Some occupations, like journalist, will almost certainly be automated, he argues. Others, like oral surgeon, are probably safe. For future job security, Walsh recommends pursuing careers that require programming acumen, emotional intelligence or creativity.
AI also has the potential to revolutionize warfare. “Like Moore’s law, we are likely to see exponential growth in the capabilities of autonomous weapons,” Walsh writes. “I have named this ‘Schwarzenegger’s law’ to remind us of where it will end.” Walsh isn’t resigned to a Terminator-like future, though. If governments ban killer robots and arms developers use automation to enhance defensive equipment, he believes military AI could actually save many lives.
In fact, Walsh argues, all aspects of AI’s future impacts are in our hands. “Artificial intelligence can lead us down many different paths, some good and some bad,” he writes. “Society must choose which path to take.”
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Mankind Survived A ‘Civilization Changing’ Extraterrestrial Impact 12,800 Years Ago
Mankind Survived A ‘Civilization Changing’ Extraterrestrial Impact 12,800 Years Ago
In a massive study that included 24 researchers and published in two scientific papers, experts found that our planet suffered the impact of a space object as early as 12,800 years ago when humans were already sedentary and were beginning to form the very first complex societies around the planet.
The study titled Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ~12,800 Years Ago” analyzed geochemical and isotopic markers and found that massive fires would have been responsible, in part, for the disappearance of large mammals.
“The study includes measurements made at more than 170 different sites around the world,” said Adrian Melott, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kansas and one of the authors of the research.
According to Melott and his colleagues, the new data indicates that the disaster was unleashed when the Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet that was approximately 100 kilometers in diameter, whose remains persist in our solar system to this day.
A chaotic time for early society
This impact would have caused fires so large that the resulting dust clogged the sky and prevented sunlight from entering.
The climate cooled rapidly, the plants died, the food sources were exhausted, and the glaciers moved forward again.
The oceanic currents moved, forming an almost glacial era that lasted a thousand years more.
Gobekli Tepe is considered one of the most mysterious places on the surface of the planet. Curiously, some authors believe that a similar catastrophic event was recorded at Gobekli Tepe by its builders.
“The hypothesis is that a massive comet fragmented and the pieces hit Earth, generating this disaster,” said Melott.
“A number of different chemical signatures – carbon dioxide, nitrate, ammonia, and others – seem to indicate that an astounding 10% of the earth’s surface, or about 10 million square kilometers, was consumed by fires.”
Furthermore, according to Melott, pollen analysis suggests that pine forests were probably burned to be replaced by poplars, which is a species that colonizes cleared areas.
In fact, the authors postulate that the cosmic impact could have triggered the episode of the Recent Dryas, the burning of biomass, the extinction of the late Pleistocene of larger species (of which we were blamed) and the cultural changes in humans and the decrease in population.
“The estimates imply that the impact would have depleted the ozone layer, causing increases in skin cancer and other negative health effects,” said Melott.
“The impact hypothesis remains a hypothesis, but this study provides a large amount of evidence, which we argue can only be explained by a very large cosmic impact.”
If confirmed the hypothesis of this study which seems to have been recorded by ancient cultures, would indicate that humans not only survived a cataclysmic event, but we took advantage of it and we could start to repopulate the planet.
What Graham Hancock said
Curiously, that’s exactly what world-renowned author Graham Hancock said a few times already.
According to Mr. Hancock,
an extremely advanced ancient civilization—that flourished during the Ice Age—was wiped out from the surface of the planet some 13,000 years ago due to a massive comet strike, and the ancients left us a warning of future events.
As explained in the book Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization, Mr. Hancock argues; “Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap.”
SHOCK CLAIM: Nuclear WW3 between US and Russia 'prevented by aliens'
SHOCK CLAIM: Nuclear WW3 between US and Russia 'prevented by aliens'
ALIENS have repeatedly switched off nuclear warheads in Russia and the United States, in a bid to stop world war three breaking out, an expert has claimed.
Steve Bassett, founder of the Paradigm Research Group (PRG), is one of the most senior UFO campaigners based in the US, and is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the "aliendisclosure" subject.
Mr Bassett claims global governments are engaging with extraterrestrials on Earth and keeping it top secret from the public.
He believes there is more chance of Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking out than Donald Trump.
Mr Bassett spoke to Natalia Pryguina for Russian TV programme Most Shocking Hypotheses on Ren TV, one of the most watched networks in Russia with a viewer base of 120 million.
He has now released segments of the interview on the PRG website.
Mr Bassett said there was a wealth of testimony from witnesses about UFOs seen hovering over nuclear facilities in both the US and Russia.
And he revealed his thoughts on the main reasons "aliens are here."
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Aliens are trying to stop nuclear war on Earth, claims Steve Bassettt
The ETs come down and hover a craft over a nuclear site and turn all the missiles off.
Steve Bassett
He said: "Number one, nuclear weapons tampering. There is evidence all the way back to the sixties, but the media would not deal with it.
"The ETs come down and hover a craft over a nuclear site and turn all the missiles off.
"That was impossible. These are all individually siloed, they have individual support, you would literally have to affect each one separately.
"When a SAT-based officer or personnel try to turn them back on, they run through three sequences and as soon as they turn them back on, they are turned off again and they cant turn them back on until the craft leaves.
"This has been happening in the US, we have got scores of witnesses capable of testifying, SAT-based officers with top-security clearance."
He then detailed a more disturbing event said to have happened in Russia.
Mr Bassett said: "There was one event where there is some evidence, I am not saying it has been proved and that is an event of a different kind. We believe it happened in Russia.
"It was not a case of turning the missiles off, what happened, is, I understand the Russian nuclear facility, usually a series of missiles within a site, all of a sudden the launch sequence began within that facility and it shouldn't have happened.
"The people that worked there didn't initiate that."
He said a call to Moscow was met with a denial.
Mr Bassett said: "I have heard from separate different directions, but if it is true, at the very last minute, when as far as the people in the silo were concerned 'this is over' and apparently there were sightings over the site."
He speculated why aliens would get involved. Mr Bassett said: "What was the message there?
"'Why do you have these weapons - you want to engage in the galaxy if there is something out there do you think other civilisations, who already have interstellar travel, would let you bring these weapons into space - that is not going to happen - if you use them on each other you are done'."
Mr Bassett is not alone in his belief about aliens tampering with nuclear missiles on Earth.
Robert Hastings published the book UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites in 2008.
A theory emerged in 2017 that claimed nuclear weapons were stored at RAF Bentwaters during the December 1980 Rendlesham incident in Suffolk, in the UK, and that is why the site was allegedly visited by aliens.
Many alien conspiracy theorists claim that extra terrestrials are highly advanced races compared to humans.
However, sceptics say there is no scientific evidence to back up any of these ideological theories, or that any aliens have ever visited Earth.
Grand Cameron and Steve Bassett on 2018 UFO disclosure events
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Aliens schakelen al sinds de jaren zestig kernraketten uit. Dit interview werd onlangs uitgezonden op de Russische tv
Aliens schakelen al sinds de jaren zestig kernraketten uit. Dit interview werd onlangs uitgezonden op de Russische tv
Aliens schakelen al sinds de jaren zestig kernwapens uit op aarde. Dat heeft Stephen Bassett, oprichter van de Paradigm Research Group, gezegd op de Russische tv.
“Er is bewijs voor, maar de media willen hun vingers er niet aan branden,” zei hij.
Hij noemde gevallen waarbij ‘aliens in een vaartuig boven een kerninstallatie hangen en vervolgens alle raketten uitschakelen’.
Ook in Rusland
“Het personeel kon ze pas weer inschakelen nadat het schip was vertrokken,” zei hij. “Dit gebeurt al lange tijd in de VS en er zijn veel getuigen die zich hierover hebben uitgesproken.”
Volgens Bassett gebeurt het ook in Rusland.
Op de vraag waarom aliens zich met onze kernwapens bemoeien antwoordde hij: “Denk je dat andere beschavingen in het sterrenstelsel zullen toelaten dat wij deze wapens meenemen de ruimte in? Dat gaat niet gebeuren.”
Eerste staatshoofd
In het interview, dat werd uitgezonden op REN TV, zei Bassett te denken dat de Russische president Poetin het eerste staatshoofd zal zijn dat officieel gaat erkennen dat er aliens op aarde zijn.
Bekijk het fragment hieronder:
Zender KLAS-TV meldde eerder dat meer dan 150 Amerikaanse legerveteranen, officieren en beveiligers claimen dat ze UFO’s boven kerninstallaties hebben gezien.
“Het waren vliegende schotels,” zei een fotograaf die werkzaam was in een testgebied voor atoombommen.
Ingegrepen
“UFO’s houden onze kernwapens al decennia in de gaten en hebben zelfs ingegrepen,” zei schrijver en onderzoeker Robert Hastings, die er een documentaire over maakte.
Uit vrijgegeven documenten van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Energie blijkt bovendien dat UFO’s zijn waargenomen boven alle grote kernwapeninstallaties.
In één geval zagen legerfotografen hoe een UFO een raket uitschakelde die vanaf vliegbasis Vandenberg was gelanceerd.
OBJECTEN NAAST DE ZON EN VREEMDE LICHTEN STRAND EGMOND AAN ZEE, NEDERELAND ( VIDEO )
OBJECTEN NAAST DE ZON EN VREEMDE LICHTEN STRAND EGMOND AAN ZEE, NEDERELAND ( VIDEO )
We schrijven vaker dat wanneer je je ogen openhoudt en regelmatig naar de lucht kijkt, je soms bijzondere dingen ziet.
In het volgende geval is het niet alleen het zien van bijzondere dingen in Egmond aan Zee, maar ook het horen van vreemde geluiden.
Wij mogen ons gelukkig prijzen met zeer oplettende lezers en regelmatig verrassen zij ons met interessante zaken.
Zoals het volgende bericht dat wij ontvingen van een lezer (dank!).
Bijgaand een foto die mijn dochter van 9 op zondag 21 januari heeft genomen. De foto is genomen op het strand van Egmond aan Zee ter hoogte van de vuurtoren. Ze kwam hier pas een paar dagen geleden mee aan bij. "Papa!?, kijk deze foto". "Ik zag de hele tijd 2 lichtjes boven de zee en die hingen stil maar het was geen vliegtuig en het maakte ook geen geluid". "En opeens vloog het heeeeeeel hard weg naar rechts"(noordelijk).
Grappig is als je de foto vergroot het wel hartjes lijken. De foto is onbewerkt. Geen filters o.i.d.
Daarnaast heb ik eindelijk ook het mysterieuze geluid gehoord. De "sonic booms" van een paar geleden heb ik al meermaals gehoord en en vind al 4 jaar lang in september plaats. Nu hoor ik al vanaf vrijdag avond 10 uur het geluid van die hoorn. Om twee uur viel ik slaap dus weet niet hoe lang het door is gegaan.
Je hoort het gewoon in de huiskamer. Eerst dacht ik nog wat heeft de buurman de muziek hard aan maar die waren op vakantie. bedacht ik me al snel. Om de circa 10 minuten een raar geluid wat ik niet thuis kan brengen en ook niet iets waar je het echt goed mee kunt vergelijken. Een hoorn, een industrieel geluid van staal op staal wat over elkaar heen schuift o.i.d. en ik heb ook al een gelezen over walvissen. Die zitten hier wel af en toe in Egmond maar dat is het zeker niet. Het geluid komt uit "de ruimte". Ben er voor naar buiten gegaan. Vrijdag was het een heldere avond dus waren het ook geen misthoorns van schepen voor de kust. Daarnaast, de laatste tijd veel mist, woon al 18 jaar in Egmond, maar nooit misthoorns gehoord al die tijd.
Afgelopen nacht was het geluid er ook maar was het zachter en leek het verder weg. Het is absoluut in de atmosfeer.
Omdat ik de eerste 30 jaar van mijn leven bij schiphol heb gewoond (letterlijk onder de zwanenburgbaan in Zwanenburg) ken ik ook het geluid bij bepaalde weersomstandigheden als er een vliegtuig overvliegt dat je een minuut er na de lucht dicht hoort trekken. Heel hard gesuis vergelijkbaar op de eerste oude platen van de synthesizervirtuoos Jean Michel Jarre. Hier lijkt het geluid in de atmosfeer in de verste verte niet op.
Vorig jaar had ik een rare ervaring op het strand, ook in Egmond. Het was een mooie onbewolkte dag met een vaag laagje waardoor het net niet een mooie knalblauwe lucht was. Wij weten inmiddels wat dat betekent maar ik noem het woord niet. Opeens een heel luid gebulder van straalmotoren. Het leek op het geluid dan van een opstijgend vrachtvliegtuig, maar veel harder. Je zag ook iedereen naar de lucht kijken om een vliegtuig te zien maar het was niet te zien. Wel kwam er een schaduw van een vliegtuig over het strand. Je zag mensen ook duidelijk even verward rondkijken, zo van heh? hoe kan dit? Wat was dit? maar daarna ging men gewoon weer verder met waar ze mee bezig waren.
Ik stuur apart nog een filmpje en foto wat ik in maart/april heb gemaakt. Ook in Egmond. Ik weet niet of het wat is maar lijkt een planeet of lichtbron naast de zon. Het feit dat ik het film is op zich al veelzeggend want ik zie hier elke dag de lucht. Het was ook in een periode dat er heel erg veel Chemtrails waren.
Op het filmpje kun je duidelijk zien dat het geen lensflare is want die zie je op een andere plek door het beeld gaan.
AP & SpaceXDe krachtigste draagraket staat klaar in haar lanceerplatform. Aan boord ook de rode Tesla van Elon Musk. Als de lancering lukt, zal de auto járen in de ruimte zweven.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Eindelijk, klinkt het bij diegenen die er al maanden naar uitkijken: rond 19.30 uur vanavond wordt de krachtigste raket sinds maanraket Saturn V de ruimte ingestuurd. Aan boord: de rode Tesla van Elon Musk. Hij houdt dus woord.
Je weet maar nooit wie binnen miljoenen jaren ons zonnestelsel met een bezoekje vereert. Al staat één ding vast: ze zullen in de baan om de zon plots een rood voertuig zien cirkelen. Een Tesla Roadster, met uitneembaar glazen dak. “De snelste wagen ter wereld in 2017, toch volgens de oprichter van Tesla, Elon Musk”, zullen ze op het internet (?) zien verschijnen wanneer ze op zoek gaan naar wat meer informatie. “In de ruimte gestuurd op 6 februari 2018.”
Vandaag dus. En wat al maanden als grap wordt bestempeld, blijkt nu toch waar. Elon Musk - ook oprichter van ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX - postte gisteren nog een foto op sociale media: z’n auto zit vastgegespt boven in de Falcon Heavy-raket. Die staat intussen kaarsrecht in haar lanceerplatform Apollo 39A op Cape Canaveral in Florida. Klaar om rond 13.30 uur plaatselijke tijd de ruimte in te gaan, bij ons vanaf 19.30 uur. De plek ademt trouwens geschiedenis uit, want ook Neil Armstrong werd vanaf deze basis naar de maan gestuurd.
In april 2011 al maakte SpaceX bekend dat “the world’s most powerful rocket” een lanceerdatum had. Al kwam het bedrijf niet verder dan ‘eind 2013 of 2014’. Die datum bleek veel te optimistisch. De raket is pas in het tweede deel van december vorig jaar geassembleerd, waarna het gevaarte goed een maand geleden rechtop werd gezet. Tot de kortstondige shutdown van de Amerikaanse overheid roet in het eten gooide. Op 24 januari volgde eindelijk de eerste test waarbij alle 27 motoren tegelijkertijd ontbrand werden - een huzarenwerk.
En dus wordt vandaag ook een absoluut nagelbijtmoment. Na jaren uitstel en het feit dat het productieproces “veel moeilijker” bleek dan gedacht, volgt de maiden trip. Die voor Musk al geslaagd zou zijn “indien de Falcon Heavy ver genoeg van haar lanceerplatform afkomt, zodat het niet beschadigd raakt”. “Dat zou ik eerlijk gezegd zelf al als winst beschouwen”, liet hij eerder optekenen.
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Wat de Heavy nu zo speciaal maakt? In feite is hij het sterkere broertje van de Falcon 9 met nog eens twee extra stuwmotoren, die aan weerszijden zijn gemonteerd. De Falcon Heavy heeft dus in totaal 27 raketmotoren, drie keer zoveel als waar de Falcon 9 over beschikt. De Heavy wordt zo de krachtigste raket sinds de maanraket Saturn V, die sinds 1973 niet meer heeft gevlogen. En heeft meer dan tweemaal de vrachtcapaciteit van de krachtigste raket op de huidige markt (voor de specialisten: de Delta IV Heavy, goed voor 28,8 ton). Ook andere huidige operationele raketten komen lang niet in de buurt van de stuwkracht van de Falcon Heavy. De in 2011 door de NASA uit dienst genomen Space Shuttle bijvoorbeeld kon een vracht van 24.000 kilo in een lage baan om de Aarde brengen. Volgens SpaceX kan hun tuig 63.800 kilo aan. Op een reis naar Mars zou dat 16.800 kilo zijn.
AFPDe Falcon Heavy staat klaar in haar lanceerplatform.
SpaceX zet trouwens de commerciële lanceermarkt op zijn kop, want doel van de Heavy: de komende twee jaar ruimtetoeristen naar de maan en Mars laten vliegen. De raket die de lucht in moet gaan, zal echter vooral gebruikt worden voor vrachtmissies waarbij satellieten in een baan om de Aarde worden gebracht, bijvoorbeeld de zwaardere exemplaren van de Amerikaanse overheid.
En oh ja, ook David Bowie pikt een graantje mee vanavond: bij de lancering zal zijn nummer ‘Space Oddity’ weerklinken. “Een fantastische publiciteitsstunt”, zeggen experts erover. Afwachten dus dat de raket niet ontploft.
photo_newsEen illustratie die toont hoe het oppervlak van een van de planeten er zou kunnen uitzien.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET“Op de zeven planeten rondom de dwergster TRAPPIST-1, die niet zo lang geleden ontdekt werden, is in theorie leven mogelijk.” Dat hebben wetenschappers - ook Belgische - die de verre wereld bestuderen, vandaag bekendgemaakt. De planeten, op veertig lichtjaar van ons, zijn gesteente-achtig en sommigen zouden ook water hebben.
“Alle op dit ogenblik bestudeerde signalen staan op groen”, zei astronome Amaury Triaud van de Universiteit van Birmingham die mee de maandag verschenen studies schreef. “Op dit moment wijst niets erop dat zij niet ‘levensvatbaar’ zijn”. Op 22 februari 2017 maakten astronomen bekend dat bij de weinig heldere en koude dwergster TRAPPIST-1 zeven planeten ontdekt werden. Qua grootte gelijken ze op de onze. Drie ervan, Trappist-1 e, f en g, omcirkelen in de levensvatbare zone hun ster, wat betekent dat er vloeibaar water op hun oppervlak zou zijn.
Sindsdien beschikken de astronomen over meer informatie met betrekking tot de ster, haar planeten en hun atmosfeer. De wetenschappers konden hun metingen van omvang en massa van de planeten verfijnen om vast te stellen dat zij vooral uit gesteente bestaan en dat bij sommigen tot vijf procent van hun massa uit water kan bestaan.
AFPDe planeten Trappist-1 e, f en g, omcirkelen in de levensvatbare zone hun ster, wat betekent dat er vloeibaar water op hun oppervlak zou zijn.
Vijf procent water
Ter vergelijking: slechts 0,1 procent van de massa van de Aarde bestaat uit water. Aangaande de kans dat de planeten leven zouden herbergen, zei Triaud tegenover het Franse persbureau AFP “in dit stadium niets te kunnen zeggen omdat ze erg van elkaar verschillen van de enige planeet waar leven is (de onze). “Maar ze hebben ook de geëigende kenmerken en vormen tot op vandaag de beste plaats buiten ons systeem om te zoeken naar signalen van levensvatbaarheid en van leven”.
“In termen van grootte, dichtheid en hoeveelheid straling van haar ster lijkt de vierde planeet het meest op de Aarde. Het lijkt erop dat het de meest gesteente-achtige planeet is, zelfs als de aanwezigheid van water niet is uitgesloten”, aldus een communiqué van het Franse CNRS dat deelnam aan het onderzoek. Het is gepubliceerd in de wetenschappelijke vakbladen Nature Astronomy en Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Er namen ook Belgische vorsers aan het pas gepubliceerde onderzoek deel zoals Julien De Wit van het prestigieuze Massachusetts Institute of Technology, alsmede een reeks wetenschappers van de Luikse universiteit Valérie Van Grootel, Michaël Gillon, Artem Burdanov, Laetitia Delrez en Emmanuël Jehin van de Luikse universiteit.
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De wetenschappers konden hun metingen van omvang en massa van de planeten verfijnen om vast te stellen dat zij vooral uit gesteente bestaan, en dat bij sommigen tot vijf procent van hun massa uit water kan bestaan.
Those who were excited about the Super Blue Blood Moon last week probably don’t live in Venice, where the pull of the Moon at its closest approach to Earth further dried up the canals already mysteriously on the edge of being bone dry. And, while the lunar eclipse that turned the Moon blood-red didn’t cause it, frustrated Siberians angry after a local river mysteriously turned the same color may swear at it anyways … at least until they get an explanation. What’s going on?
Better days in Venice
Let’s start with the canals. No matter what color they are, they’re the lifeblood of Venice, so any problems with them – and disappearance is definitely a big one – affect virtually everyone living in or visiting the beautiful city. Photographs taken last week (shown here and here) show gondolas resting in dry canal beds. Unfortunately, ‘dry’ doesn’t mean ‘empty’ as the pictures also reveal the garbage and debris that the waters normally hide.
A water-covered city knows its tidal calendar, so Venice was prepared for the low waters due to the Super Blue Blood Moon. This is also the third year in a row that droughts have contributed to extremely low – although not bone dry – water levels. However, experts are still mystified because the city continues to sink, which should make it prone to flooding – in Venice, that’s a good thing … or at least a better-than-no-water thing. Is the City of Canals destined to become the City of Great Places to Skateboard?
Will we ever see this again?
Meanwhile, a different problem is causing the residents of the Siberian city of Tyumen to avoid the Molchanka River because of what the media is calling … well, you can read it yourself:
“Experts say they so far cannot pinpoint the cause of what state news agency Itar-Tass called a ‘Biblical bombshell’.”
The “biblical bombshell” is a river that mysteriously and quickly turned red (more pictures here) and has not changed its hue in over a week. Tyumen is the home of many oil and gas companies, so the first inclination is to point fingers at them, not the bible. However, local officials doubted that explanation.
“Team of experts examining the area found no trace of sewage discharges. Extra water samples were taken. Laboratory results will be ready by the end of this week.”
That was on January 31st and no results have been released as of this writing, days after the “end of the week.” Meanwhile, the water isn’t moving, some residents say it’s getting redder and the Russian environmental watchdog group Rosprirodnadzor (The Federal Service for Supervision of Use of Natural Resources) isn’t making anyone feel better with comments like this:
“We have never dealt with this before so we are waiting for the results of tests.”
Hey, at least they have an environmental watchdog group.
While many people today (including news agencies) are quick to use the terms “biblical,” apocalyptic” and “end times” (like the story today about birds falling from the sky), the real problem is that our waterways and oceans are being affected constantly by humans (yes, the moon influenced the tide in Venice but humans built the city in spite of it) and watchdog groups are becoming an endangered species.
Are songs like “Watching the River Flow” and “Blue Bayou” destined for extinction too?
It’s never good news when birds – or any other animals for that matter – fall from the sky … dead or alive. Get ready for some bad news from Draper, Utah, and Rome, Italy, where hundreds of dead starlings covered the ground recently. Pollution? End times? Something worse?
The Times reports that the dead starlings began appearing the weekend of January 27th at the Porta Pia gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome. Residents reported the ground being covered with corpses, blanketing walkways and roads with dead, and eventually flattened, birds (photos here). This is migration season, so Romans are used to seeing the sky and tree branches covered with starlings summering in the city and eating the local olives. Unfortunately, something has made life the pits for these birds this year. But what?
“We found they were in good health but suffering from the trauma and broken bones you would associate with collisions, either with each other or with cables.”
Francesca Manzia, head of a hospital run by the Italian League for the Protection of Birds (there’s an idea other cities should adopt), had no answer. Fatal bird collisions when there’s millions of them aloft can be caused by a predator, a loud noise or some other disturbance, leading to lemming-like processions of crashes into buildings, trees or each other. Is Rome no longer big enough for the starling migration? Could the birds have been stunned by an electromagnetic or other unseen forces?
If they’re looking for a different warm migration stopover, they need to scratch Draper, Utah off of the list. Located 20 miles south of Salt Lake City in the north central portion of the state, Draper is home to many Native Americans, a state prison and, on January 30th, thousands of dead starlings.
“As I was driving, these birds were just falling out of the sky. They were all on the ground right around here and on the roadway. They were just falling out of the sky like leaves.”
Resident Lacey Brown told a local news station that there were so many starlings on the ground, she stopped to help a man shovel them out of the road to avoid making a feather, bloody mess. Unfortunately, Sergeant Chad Carpenter with the Draper police, saw more carnage.
“It was just one of those freak things where the birds were just flying along, crashed into the side of a large vehicle and boom.”
Draper Animal Services helped with the cleanup and found some starlings still alive, lending credence to the theory that these birds were also startled into a mass collision.
Again, what could have startled the starlings to their deaths? The beautiful twisting formations they fly in are called murmurations and bird experts are unable to explain how millions of birds can make tight turns so close together without colliding … which makes the rare times they do collide even more mystifying. Sadly, they may have more opportunities to study the phenomena since it seems to be happening more frequently.
Starlings are highly social birds and their survival depends on the ability to fly together. If their mysterious deaths are not a sign of the end times, can we at least see them as a sign that not living and working together is a bad thing?
Recent news revealing the Pentagon’s secret UFO program has reignited the general public’s curiosity about the possibility of extraterrestrials in our skies. There has always been a blurry line between the topic of UFOs and the realms of fantasy and science fiction. Skeptical UFO historian Martin Kottmeyer has documented how virtually every detail witnesses report about alien encounters can be found in earlier science fiction stories, or in legends and mythology.
It’s also a fact that our books, TV shows, and movies have used UFO reports for inspiration, which in turn has helped spread fantastic concepts of extraterrestrial visitors. A cultural feedback loop exists between the real and unreal. Let’s take a look at a few of the most powerful examples.
The Early Days
In the 1870s, Earth’s telescopes detected dark, linear features on Mars, which were interpreted by some as canals produced by a civilization older and more advanced than our own. This inspired one of the most influential of all science fiction novels, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.
When Orson Welles (no relation) adapted The War of the Worlds in 1938 for CBS radio using a faux documentary style, the tale of an attack by Martian invaders was heard by thousands. Some of those listeners (but not as many as you might think) were persuaded the story was true and panicked. The reaction to the broadcast made headlines, and to capitalize on the sensation, Universal studios quickly recut their movie serial Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars into the feature-length Mars Attacks the World. It’s kinda-sorta the first UFO movie, produced to exploit the public’s interest in extraterrestrial visitors. Like the radio play, it also preyed on the flip side of hope — fear. If our rockets were beginning to reach into space, what if someone out there had a big head start?
In June of 1947, newspapers broke the story of how aviator Kenneth Arnold had spotted a formation of unknown disc-like aircraft moving at speeds beyond those of our fastest jets. The U.S. Air Force began an investigation into the sighting, and the explosion of flying saucer reports that followed it. By late 1949, the Air Force’s investigation, later known as Project Blue Book, determined that saucers were not a secret project by the U.S. itself, the Soviets, or anyone else. They tried to shut down the saucer fever, but science fiction had greased the skids. If these UFOs were real craft, they came from somewhere else, and that somewhere must be Mars or another planet.
Saucer reports dwindled, but radio and newspapers found that covering them made for hot filler material. In 1950, two best-selling books emerged that would shape the belief in UFOs and influence the films made about them.
Retired Marine Corps Major Donald Keyhoe’s The Flying Saucers Are Real debuted, and his key ideas would become canon: UFOs are ships from outer space, the U.S. government knows it, and there’s a big cover-up. Keyhoe reached some far-out conclusions, but he relied on the word of credible sources working in the government saucer investigation. However, there was another guy with a saucer story, a far more fantastic tale, and it became the biggest one of all time when rebranded as the Roswell UFO crash.
Frank Scully was a columnist for the show biz magazine Variety, where he first introduced his story which was later expanded into a book, Behind the Flying Saucers. Scully told how scientists revealed that a saucer had crashed in the New Mexico desert, the U.S. military recovered the disc, the alien technology, and the small deceased humanoid bodies found inside, then hid and denied everything. (Scully’s tale was exposed as a hoax in 1952, when his source, the “scientists” Silas Newton and Leo GeBauer, were convicted as swindlers, but that’s another story.)
With the phenomenal success of the 1950 Keyhoe and Scully books, many people went from asking if flying saucers were real to accepting that they were. Hollywood was ready to capitalize on the saucer craze, but they needed more stories. They turned to science fiction for material.
John W. Campbell, Jr’s story “Who Goes There” from Astounding Science Fiction, August 1938, was adapted into the 1951 movie The Thing from Another World. The first change was to make the spaceship in the story into a flying saucer,although it’s only as an indistinct shape through ice except for its tail fin. The Thing bears a resemblance to the premise of Frank Scully’s saucer book, the military mission to recover a crashed flying saucer, and it also gets in a few jabs at government denials. The extraterrestrial in the movie is truly alien, a throwback to Wells’ monstrous Martians, out to survive at the cost of human life.
The Day the Earth Stood Still,also released in 1951, was loosely based on Harry Bates’ story from the October 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, “Farewell to the Master.” Again the spaceship was swapped for a flying saucer, and it’s a major set piece, almost a co-star. As for the aliens, the giant Gort is as enigmatic as the ship. Klaatu seems human, benevolent, almost angelic, bringing a message of peace, love, and understanding – but carrying a stern warning that mankind will not be allowed to spread its warlike ways to the people of other planets. The Day the Earth Stood Still was not influenced by genuine saucer stories, but it became a tremendous influence on those that followed. George Adamski and his cult concocted the hoax of an angelic Klaatu-like visitor from Venus here to warn of the dangers of nuclear war, as chronicled in the 1953 book Flying Saucers Have Landed. Following Adamski’s fame, a legion of imitators dubbed “Contactees” surfaced with tales of meetings and flights with the Space Brothers. This kind of friendly visitor from the stars wasn’t good movie material until Stephen Spielberg revived the idea in the 1970s.
Invaders from Mars (April 1953) delivered the goods, an original story with a flying saucer full of aliens here for the business of abducting, controlling minds, and conquering. Due to its hasty production, it has the distinction of being the first UFO film in color, so we get to see the saucer, the green-skinned Martians, and their strange little tentacled, big-headed leader in all their glory. Invaders also depicted a number of elements that would come to be staples of later UFO tales — alien abductions and medical implants.
When The War of the Worlds finally made it to the movies, it was influenced by flying saucers as well, with the Martian war machines’ tripods eliminated, updated into sinister saucer-like aircraft.
Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers (1956) was the first try at a docudrama. It’s historically important for being the first film to be factually based on UFO cases, including real witnesses and saucer footage. Unfortunately, in striving so hard to be realistic, it did the unbelievable – it almost made saucers seem dull. Still, the ads and posters for UFO promised something far more sensational.
In 1961, after New Hampshire couple Betty and Barney Hill observed a star-like object in the sky, they started having nightmares. Under hypnosis, an abduction story surfaced, one reminiscent of Invaders from Mars. The Hills story was portrayed in the 1975 TV movie The UFO Incident, which may have in turn inspired other abduction dreams and stories that followed.
Travis Walton’s alleged abduction near Snowflake Arizona came shortly after the broadcast of the Betty and Barney Hill TV movie. What makes Walton’s case noteworthy is that he appears to have been the first guy kicked off a flying saucer for fighting.
All the truly influential things happened in the first 20 years or so of flying saucers – both the sightings and in the movies. With rare exceptions, after 1980, films were either toying with the established memes or were just remakes, remixes, and rip-offs of what had come before.
The year 1977 for saucer buffs, at least in the cinema. George Lucas’ film Star Wars was more about reviving Flash Gordon-style fun than anything else, but it’s worth a passing mention, since it featured a Bigfoot co-piloting a flying saucer.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind was inspired by real UFO cases, but copied and pasted bits of them together, adding a mothership-sized dose of Disneyesque melodrama, with a side order of Adamski’s message of the aliens’ love from above. Real-life UFO expert Dr. J. Alien Hynek served as a consultant on the film and made a cameo appearance during the finale.
Stephen Spielberg scuttled the idea of a direct sequel to CE3K and went for another story of cuddly aliens in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, in 1982. Spielberg inspired many other friendly aliens, like those featured in Mork & Mindy, Starman, Cocoon, ALF, The Abyss, and others.
Hangar 18 (1980) can be seen as a marker in the UFO topic’s turn toward the dark side. It was (very loosely) based on Scully’s crashed aliens story and it also featured a sinister government conspiracy to cover it up. The huge advertising push for Hangar 18 helped prepare the public to swallow the retconned Roswell story that surfaced around the same time, bit it didn’t catch fire in the mainstream until September of 1989, when it featured on the NBC TV show, Unsolved Mysteries, as “Legend: Roswell Crash.”
For the Roswell conspiracy story to be true, there must be a massive cover-up, and a mythology sprang up to serve as the story’s super-villain, a secret government cabal known as MJ-12. The idea of benevolent ETs was again pushed aside, replaced with spooky tales of government treaties with aliens to allow abductions, cattle mutilations, and human-hybrid breeding programs at Area 51 and secret underground bases.
When Travis Walton’s abduction story was turned into a movie, 1993’s Fire in the Sky, Hollywood considered his 1950s-style aliens outdated. The producers insisted on a jazzed-up more horrific version of the aliens and abductions like those that became fashionable in the 1980s.
The X-Files (1993) television show came to define UFOs in the ’90s, but most viewers were unaware of the source of the stories. The alien content on the show was “ripped from the headlines,” but from tabloids and crackpot UFO magazines about those dark, dubious ’80s encounters. An early and enduring UFO conspiracy belief was that the truth about aliens would shock and panic the populace, but the public could adjust gradually to the idea as introduced through entertainment.
Independence Day (1996) incorporated a stew of lore, the Roswell incident, the government UFO cover-up, abductions, and more, with the fight against the aliens based at Area 51. Some imagined that Hollywood’s UFO movies and The X-Files were part of the acclimation program. To them, seeing an old story resurface on screen was “confirmation” that it was genuine.
Men In Black (1997) was also based on an old UFO legend via a little-known comic book. The MIB were first made famous in Gray Barker’s 1956 book, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, and further embellished by John Keel. Thing is, the MIB were made up by Barker and his friends to exploit the paranoia of many UFO buffs who thought that the government was operating a “Silence Group” to cover up UFO reports.
In 2008, The History Channel brought us UFO Hunters, but had far better success with Ancient Aliens. It was based on the second- and third-hand notions popularized by Erich von Däniken, that extraterrestrials were the gods of myth, and that there is abundant alien evidence in archeological remains. The success of the show served to demonstrate that the public’s interest in UFOs and aliens remains strong. However, recent incidents that make for good evidence – or good entertainment – are quite rare. They literally had to dig up the past for story material.
The UFO concepts have become so familiar, they blend in, nestled almost unnoticed into the premises of hit movies such as The Transformers or Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers series. Recently, UFOs themselves as a central topic have made a comeback, both in the news and on the entertainment screen, with several movies, documentaries and TV shows in production. You can expect AMC’s 10-episode docudrama, Blue Book, starring Aidan Gillen as J. Allen Hynek, to continue the circle on TV screens soon.
WHAT WAS IT? Two 'experienced skywatchers' saw UFO on BOTH sides of Atlantic last night
WHAT WAS IT? Two 'experienced skywatchers' saw UFO on BOTH sides of Atlantic last night
ALIEN investigators have been independently contacted by two "experienced skywatchers" who claim to have seen an unusually slow-moving UFO last night on both sides of The Pond.
The US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which investigates and records UFO and alien sightings across the globe, was today contacted by amateur astronomers in Ireland and the USA with reports about two separate sightings.
One witness, in Olancha California, whose name has not been released by MUFON, sent in a video of a bright object crossing the night sky which was captured by an "all-sky night camera."
In a report to MUFON, they ruled out it being a satellite or meteor.
The report said: "Our all-sky night camera caught this unusual bright object pass overhead, Highway 395 Inyo county, heading west over the Sierra Nevada.
"It was too late at night to be a satellite (plus satellites don't travel E to W) and too slow for a meteor.
It initially appeared not to be moving but I soon realised it was moving considerably slower than an aircraft or way slower than a satellite and space debris.
UFO witness
"An aircraft might be possible, but normally aircraft at night flying high are almost totally dark and invisible, this thing got near magnitude -6 at the high point, with multiple colors white, green, pink.
"Unlikely to be aircraft headlights, since it got brightest when it was nearly overhead, not when approaching, so would be looking right at the object's side when brightest.
"This is a rural area with no nearby airports. Was indoors at the time, so can't say if it made any sound or not. No loud sound."
The Republic of Ireland is eight hours ahead of California, but neither witness gave a time of their sighting, so it is impossible to tell which was first.
The second witness, who has also not been named, was in Westport, in County Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland.
Their report said: "I'm an experienced sky watcher in the West of Ireland and know very well what aircraft look like.
"I live on a busy air corridor from the US to Europe.
"I also know what a satellite and space debris looks like.
"Tonight I saw a strobe-like flash in the sky to the north west from the corner of my eye and again several seconds later."
They said they locked onto it and counted 13 seconds between single white strobe like flashes.
They added: "It initially appeared not to be moving but I soon realised it was moving considerably slower than an aircraft or way slower than a satellite and space debris.
"It took over an hour to cross the sky and seemed to be at great altitude or in orbit."
The witness said they checked flight radar websites and several satellite tracking apps, which "revealed nothing."
They added: "I tried to capture a video but my phone wasn't up to the job. I watch the sky on a nightly basis and have seen loads of strange stuff which I could explain but this was very different from any thing I've seen."
MUFON is investigating both cases.
It cautions, however, that most suspected UFO sightings can be explained as natural phenomena or man-made aircraft.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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