The Zimbabwe Incident (Zimbabwe UFO Kids TODAY)

The Zimbabwe Incident occurred a generation ago. The many kids who met a matched pair of extraterrestrials, have since grown into adults. What are they saying today, about their close encounters as the Zimbabwe UFO school children?

A very remarkable UFO visitation took place in 1994, in front of more than sixty witnesses… between the ages of five and twelve. On a playground outside their school, the children all stopped playing at the same time, to watch a large flying saucer, hovering over distant scrubland. That sight, however, was only the beginning of their nightmares.

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16-02-2018 om 01:02 geschreven door peter  

Strange UFO lights filmed over Colorado 13-Jan-2018

Check out this amazing footage of a bright lights hovering in the sky above Colorado. This happened on 13th January 2018.

Witness report: 

Glowing red/orange objects stayed in the same place for 30 min. Colors went from dark orange to light orange from side to side and changed sequence. It started out with two. Then three. Then around6-7, Then would go back to smaller, Then start over again

8:00 pm, Tuesday, February 13th. We were driving home from the grocery store, on a road through the mountains. We noticed a series of orbs moving horizontally across the sky in front of us. Each orb would light up, and then would start to fade. As one would start to darken, the light next to it would light up, before they would all disappear. The first sighting of the same phenomenon, the lights appeared to be stacked in two horizontal rows, but went to only one row afterward. We pulled the vehicle over to the side of the road, as this happened again, and continued to watch. At one point, the orbs lit up and branched out to the left and right, before turning back and going toward the middle again. We turned the vehicle around and drove back toward the store, turned back and watched again. The video was taken, during the last series of light orbs. After that, the sky went black and nothing else was witnessed.

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16-02-2018 om 00:59 geschreven door peter  

Antarctica Reveals Ancient Secrets As Researchers Explore 120,000-year-old Hidden Underwater World

A mysterious ancient seabed that has remained in total isolation for more than 120,000 years is set to be explored by researchers.

A team of scientists is heading towards Antarctica in order to explore a region that has remained covered in ice for more than 120,000 years. This rare opportunity came after an iceberg known as A68—four times the size of London—broke from the Larsen Ice Shelf in 2017, exposing an alien world that has never before been explored by scientists.

This is a never-before-seen rare opportunity that will allow experts to study an alien ecosystem that is about 6,000 square kilometers in size.

When the massive block of ice moved, it revealed a region that had not seen the light of day for a long time, and now experts will delve into its mysteries and begin searching for any life that may have remained trapped there.

It’s a rare opportunity to explore a hidden, alien ecosystem.

Image Credit: BAS

Speaking about this rare opportunity, BAS marine biologist Katrin Linse said to the Independent: “We don’t know anything about it, it has been covered by an ice shelf that is several hundred meters thick.”

“It’s important we get there quickly before the undersea environment changes as sunlight enters the water and new species begin to colonize.”

During the exploration which is planned to last for three weeks, seabed animals, microbes, plankton, sediments and water samples will be collected, in addition to documenting the evidence of new marine mammals or birds that may have migrated to the exposed waters.

While their plane is spot on, researchers acknowledge that they really do not know what to expect when they get there.

“We need to be bold on this one,” says BAS science director David Vaughan.

Antarctica as seen from Space.

Image Credit: NASA.

“Larsen C is a long way south and there’s lots of sea ice in the area, but this is important science, so we will try our best to get the team where they need to be.”

This trip represents a unique and unprecedented opportunity for scientists to look into an isolated region on Earth that has never before been explored.

“We’re going into an area where we don’t know what we’re going to find, and this is an exciting thing,” Linse told BBC News Radio.

“I expect to find animals similar to animals we find in the extreme deep sea, so animals that are not used to feeding on green food, because there was no phytoplankton in the water above… We don’t know until we’ve seen it.”

All of the researchers taking part in the new survey are aware of the importance of their mission since observational windows like this one sometimes take more than 100,000 years to open.

“I cannot imagine a more dramatic shift in environmental conditions in any ecosystem on Earth,” said in an interview with Nature, marine ecologist Julian Gutt from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany – one of the participating institutions on this voyage.

As noted by the Independent, besides studying any life that may be inhabiting the region,  climate scientists will try and establish whether or not the breaking apart of the Larsen Ice Shelf was induced by climate change.

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16-02-2018 om 00:48 geschreven door peter  

Scientists Say Aliens Could Try And Hack Us By Sending Malicious Messages To Earth

A recently published study looks into the potential threats of receiving an alien message from the stars. Scientists say how the contents of a potential alien message could be malicious in nature, resulting in many problems for our civilization.

The research suggests how humanity could protect itself against spam or malicious viruses from a hypothetical extraterrestrial message.

As explained by Michael Hippke from the Sonneberg Observatory in Germany, and John G. Learned from the High Energy Physics Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii; “A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand. Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose an existential threat. Complex messages would need to be destroyed in the risk-averse case.”

The recently published study has warned that if humans ever receive a message from an extraterrestrial civilization, apart from the fact that this would be the largest event in the history of mankind, we would be at great risk.

Image Credit: Shutterstock.

The study published on arXiv and titled ‘INTERSTELLAR COMMUNICATION. IX. MESSAGE DECONTAMINATION IS IMPOSSIBLE’ analyses the risk of potential alien messages.

Hippke and Learned note in their study how there are “several possible threats from an ETI message. On the most basic level, a message might represent a statement like “We will make your sun go supernova tomorrow”. True or not, it could cause widespread panic.”

“More realistically, a longer text could have a demoralizing cultural influence. For example, it is debated whether the Roman Empire was destroyed by the bible. We now follow along with the (perhaps more likely) case that the hypothetical message is not very short, and non-trivial in content.”

In their paper, multiple possibilities of a hypothetical contact with an extraterrestrial civilization are analyzed in detail.

The research considers how humanity could protect against spam or malicious viruses that could contain a message from the stars, for example.

Speaking in an interview with Universe Today, Professor Learned said:

 “There is no compelling reason at all to assume benevolence (for example that ETI is wise and kind due to their ancient civilization’s experience). I find much more compelling the analogy to what we know from our history… Is there any society anywhere which has had a good experience after meeting up with a technologically advanced invader? Of course, it would go either way, but I think often of the movie Alien… a credible notion it seems to me.”

Scientists suggest that any potential alien messages spotted by SETI are examined and “decontaminated” previously, to avoid potential damage, since, as researchers point out, to eradicate an entire civilization it would be much easier for aliens to send us a malicious message (virus) than an alien armada.

The study takes a look at the different dangers that an extraterrestrial message could contain. As noted by Universe Today, beyond the likelihood that a message could convey misinformation designed to cause a panic or self-destructive behavior, there is also the possibility that it could contain viruses or other embedded technical issues (i.e. the format could cause our computers to crash).

Hippke and Learned assure that neutralizing a possible computer threat that could arrive in the form of a message coming from an extraterrestrial civilization with more advanced technology would be very difficult, so they recommend being cautious and applying security measures to try to avoid greater risks.

Featured image credit: Shutterstock.

Source: INTERSTELLAR COMMUNICATION. IX. MESSAGE DECONTAMINATION IS IMPOSSIBLE

Reference: Universe Today

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16-02-2018 om 00:35 geschreven door peter  

AI Expert Claims Artificial Intelligence Will Become ‘Billions Of Times’ Smarter Than Humans

According to an expert in Artificial Intelligence, machines will become billions of times smarter than humans, and mankind needs to fuse with machines in order to survive.

Artificial intelligence could evolve to become “billions of times smarter” than humans according to Ian Pearson, a futurist at Futurizon who says people will need to merge with machines to survive.

The fact is that AI can go further than humans, it could be billions of times smarter than humans at this point,” said Pearson during a panel hosted by CNBC at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

“So we really do need to make sure that we have some means of keeping up.”

Will AI destroy the human race?

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Pearson continued, “The way to protect against that is to link that AI to your brain so you have the same IQ… as the computer. I don’t actually think it’s safe, just like Elon Musk… to develop these superhuman computers until we have a direct link to the human brain… and then don’t get way ahead.”

Pearson’s comments echo the ex-engineer of Uber and Google, Anthony Levandowski, who formed the first church that worships an artificially intelligent being.

The futuristic religion, known as the “Way of the Future,” states that our species can improve itself by following the instructions of a robot that is “a billion times smarter than humans.”

WOTF will eventually have a gospel called ‘The Manual’, as well as rituals and even a physical place of worship.

Levandowski named himself “WOTF” dean, giving him total control until his death or resignation.

Interestingly, Pearson’s comments echo those made by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk who spoke about Artificial Intelligence saying: “Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.”

Musk continued, “It’s mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output.” Musk has since founded a startup company called Neuralink which aims to explore linking human brains to computers.

Numerous experts have spoken out about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence, as well as its benefits.

Should we be worried about AI?

Image Credit: Shutterstock

Professor Stephen Hawking, for example, says how we should be very careful when dealing and developing AI. The world-renowned scientist has said that Artificial Intelligence could become the worst event in the history of our civilization, urging experts to “employ best practice and effective management.”

In 2017, during a talk at the Web Summit technology conference, Hawking said that AI can in theory not only emulate human intelligence but greatly exceed it. Hawking also said that there is a danger that Artificial Intelligence could become so advanced that it may develop a will of its own.

Despite the fact that many people welcome AI into society, experts in the subject remain worried.

Elon Musk seems to agree with Hawking when it comes to AI. Mr. Musk warns we must tread carefully when it comes to AI, and called for companies developing AI systems to slow down in order to ensure they don’t unintentionally create something extremely dangerous for humans.

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16-02-2018 om 00:27 geschreven door peter  

Out of this world: 17 UFO sightings on Staten Island since 2015

Staten Islanders said they saw unidentified flying objects in various shapes, such as cigars, triangles, ovals, diamonds and eggs. Others reported seeing flashes of white or blue lights.

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15-02-2018 om 23:57 geschreven door peter  

UFO hunters struggle to explain mystery ‘alien object’ spotted on Google Maps near Area 51

Jasper Hamill

This is the strange ‘UFO’ seen near a military base

Yesterday, we revealed the location of a strange object resembling an alien craft that was spotted on Google Maps.

But we’re still no closer to knowing explaining the mysterious sighting of a structure which looks like it could be an alien ship – or just a boring old cesspit.

The object was first noticed by the YouTube channel SecureTeam10, which claimed it was in Area 51 – a top-secret military research base which has long been at the centre of wild alien conspiracy theories.

We discovered the coordinates of the ‘anomaly’ – which is actually 500 miles away from Area 51 – and have now been contacted by several readers keen to offer their own explanation about the object

‘While I do not have a definitive explanation, I would like to point out that the exact same shape of the ‘ship’ is mirrored and imprinted into the ground across from it,’ one man wrote.

MORE: Mysterious ‘death circle’ spotted outside military base near Area 51

The object was spotted about 500 miles from Area 51 (Photo: Google Maps)

‘That, plus the boat, leads me to believe this is a man-made body of water which caused a visual glitch.’

Another shared a picture of an object he claimed was a Mayan relic, showing an object in the sky which looks remarkably like the Google Maps sighting.

However, we have been unable to verify the authenticity of this image so have not published it.

Another reader pointed out what appears to be tanks nearby, which you can see in the images below.

He wrote: ‘There are a lot of what appear to be tanks covering every road to the south leading up to it. Some even look like they have embankments built around them. Weird!’

Are the objects in this Google Maps screenshot taken nearby actually tanks?

A close-up of one of the ‘tanks’

The ‘UFO’ was actually spotted near Naval Weapons Center China Lake, which is about 500 miles away from Area 51.

Some observers have suggested it’s a water reservoir or even a cesspit.

There is a boat nearby, which indicates that it could be used for sailing or perhaps testing boats.

However, this rather prosaic explanation was not enough for some Twitterers.

There are boats and other vehicles located near the ‘anomaly’

‘That, my friends, is one of the ships that’ll be used in a fake alien invasion,’ one nervous chap tremored.

‘Will be used to scare the masses. Remember this pic.’

Others questioned why you would test boats in a desert – and also whether the site was a military testing zone.

One person said: ‘It’s for boats. There is a boat nearby. That is a large pool of water with a launch ramp. Why is the question? WHY?’

It was later suggested that the object could be the result of some sort of glitch in Google Maps.

After the publication of this article, a reader wrote in and said: ‘While I do not have a definitive explanation I would like to point out that the exact same shape of the ‘ship’ is mirrored and imprinted into the ground across from it. That, plus the boat, leads me to believe this is a man-made body of water which caused a visual glitch.’

Can you explain the weird sighting? Do you know what the object is? Get in touch with jasper.hamill@metro.co.uk.

MORE: Does this ancient map show a mermaid holding a ‘flying saucer’ UFO?

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15-02-2018 om 23:47 geschreven door peter  

Discovering the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial Control System

Australian contactee George Kavassilas is interviewed about his lifelong experiences with different extraterrestrial civilizations and shadow government operatives. In this first installment of a two part Exonews TV interview conducted in Australia’s Gold Coast, George explains how his contacts began, how these evolved over the years involving several different groups, and the torture he received at the hands of shadow government authorities attempting to suppress his experiences and silence him. Finally, he describes a global control system comprising the planet Saturn, the Moon and extraterrestrials that has resulted in a Matrix-like illusory reality that manipulates humanity. He asserts that discovery of the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial control system is the first step to human freedom.

Part 1 — Discovering the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial Control System (S06E01)

In part two of this Exonews TV interview conducted in Australia’s Gold Coast, George Kavassilas explains the key components of a Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial control matrix used to limit human potential and growth. In particular, he identifies the roles of the chakra system and the pineal gland in creating false synthetic light experiences that entrap many individuals. He asserts the creation of synthetic light experiences is the favored manipulation technique used by unscrupulous extraterrestrials and higher dimensionals. He outlines his Heart -Centric/Core-Self method of how to overcome the global control system that creates a Matrix-like illusory reality that continues to manipulate most of humanity. He insists that overcoming the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial control system is the necessary step we all have to take in attaining human freedom and achieving our highest potential as universal beings having a physical experience.

Part 2 — Overcoming the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial Control System (S06E02)

Related:

• Jay Weidner — Archons and Saturn Worshippers
• Why Most People are Worshipers of the Cult of El (Saturn)
• Saturn Occult Symbolism and ‘The Cube’
• Loosh: Rudolf Steiner Describes the Hostile Spiritual Beings Who Feed Off Your Fear and Anxiety
• The Trail that Led to the Black Sun — Will Humanity Learn From the Past?
• The God of Freemasonry Exposed
• The Gnostic God Yaldabaoth
• The Occult Religion of the Elite & Its Influence

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15-02-2018 om 23:28 geschreven door peter  

BEWARE! Aliens could destroy life from Earth without even visiting it!

According to the researchers, the aliens will not be sending any flying saucers to destroy the life. They will be simple sending messages through Artificial Intelligence to wipe out the human life.

New Delhi:

A joint study by two researchers at the University of Hawaii and Sonneberg Observatory in Germany has revealed that aliens are able to wipe out the life from Earth with just AI messages, and do not even need to visit us.

According to the researchers, the aliens will not be sending any flying saucers to destroy the life. They will be simple sending messages through Artificial Intelligence to wipe out the human life.

If humans get message or mail which cannot be decoded, from the aliens, they should delete the communication without reading it as the mail may result in the destruction of the planet. Responding or replying to the messages could prove costly as it might alert the extra-terrestrial beings, said the researchers.

The Academic paper, which is titled “Interstellar Communication. IX. Message decontamination is impossible’, discusses a possible alien invasion. The research was carried out by Michael Hippke of Sonneberg Observatory, and John G. Learned from the University of Hawaii.

According to the scientists, the messages will be impossible to decode, and thus, there is no reason to open any such mail or message. They also warn that these emails or messages might contain malware or virus which could be so strong that it can destroy the technologies which exist on the planet.

Also Read: Aliens may cause end of human lives on Earth? Experts warn!

The researchers wrote in their academic paper, “A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand. Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose an existential threat. Complex messages would need to be destroyed in the risk-averse case.”

With the paper going viral, several theorists claim that Artificial Intelligence can be a possible way in which the aliens can cause the end of our planet.

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15-02-2018 om 23:20 geschreven door peter  

WOLKEN DIE GEEN WOLKEN ZIJN EN VREEMDE PAARSE LUCHTEN ( VIDEO )

Wanneer je in een ruimteschip van bijvoorbeeld een verre beschaving naar de aarde komt en je wilt dat min of meer anoniem doen, hoe verberg je je dan het best voor nieuwsgierige blikken? 

Je vermomt je als wolk en ook al ziet die wolk er dan soms een beetje vreemd uit, de meeste mensen merken dat toch niet op want ze kijken naar de grond of zien wat ze willen of verwachten te zien. 

Al jaren schrijven wij over (grote) ruimteschepen die zich vermommen als wolken zodat ze niet opvallen voor het doorsnee publiek. Het Engelse woord voor dit soort vermomming is cloaking/cloaken en dat is wat deze grote schepen heel regelmatig doen.

Soms gaat er even iets mis en worden ze tijdelijk zichtbaar, zoals we onlangs aantoonden in een artikel. Dit heeft alles met lichtval te maken en dus het tijdstip. Het schijnt dat rond zonsopkomst en -ondergang dat cloaken het moeilijkst is en dat zijn ook de momenten dat deze schepen nogal eens zichtbaar zijn.

Nu is er wederom een vreemde opname opgedoken die is gemaakt door een dame genaamd Wendy Wagner, boven New Mexico in Amerika.

De foto ziet er als volgt uit en hoewel men ook dit formeel een wolk noemt, lijkt welhaast overduidelijk dat we hier niet te maken hebben met een natuurlijk gevormde wolk, maar met een moederschip dat even tijdelijk de cloak niet goed hanteert. 

Wanneer je wat verder inzoomt, zie je heel duidelijk dat het hier om een constructie gaat in plaats van een door de natuur gevormd iets.

Het is een hele goede manier om dit soort schepen te verbergen, want in 99 procent van de gevallen worden ze niet opgemerkt, omdat men de vage omtrek van een wolk ziet en deze nooit in verband zal brengen met een ruimteschip.

Op onderstaande foto zie je een voorbeeld hoe soms wolken totaal niet thuis horen in het landschap. De volgende is genomen in Turkije en laat een kleinere UFO zien naast een wolk die overduidelijk niet thuis hoort in het landschap.

In de volgende video de bewegende beelden van diezelfde wolk met UFO: 

Een ander vreemd verschijnsel doet zich de laatste tijd voor op de Filipijnen waar mensen soms een paarse lucht zien. Waar het vandaan komt weet niemand, maar duidelijk is wel dat de lichtbron niet van de grond afkomstig is.

De lucht ziet er dan uit zoals te zien op de volgende afbeeldingen.

De volgende opname is gemaakt op 11 februari en wanneer je naar de bewegende beelden kijkt, zie je dat de lichten plotsklaps verdwijnen, alsof iemand een schakelaar heeft omgedraaid.


Dit is niet de eerste keer dat deze vreemde lichten te zien waren, want ook op 26 januari dit jaar was er iets vergelijkbaars te zien.

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15-02-2018 om 23:10 geschreven door peter  

Origins of Earth's Weird 'Pulsating Auroras' Nailed Down

15-02-2018 om 23:09 geschreven door peter  

Was there a highly advanced civilization prior to all other known civilizations?

I believe this is the biggest conspiracy of all, and one in which, you must dive deep down the rabbit hole to truly understand all other conspiracies, especially modern era ones.

I think in order for you to be able to see the full picture and fully grasp the complexity of TPTB, you need to go all the way back and research history (real history - not the propaganda they teach in schools), mythology, lost civilizations, symbolism, occult, mystery schools, etc etc, and then move forward. Once you have done this, the bigger picture will come into focus, imo.

i hate that word "mythology" ...mainstream loves it...they use it to reference shit they dont understand and shit that isnt in the governments version of history...

ancient peoples did not waste their time carving fairy tales in stone...they carved their versions of history...more people need to wrap their head around that fact and dig a little deeper then the bible..

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15-02-2018 om 22:44 geschreven door peter  

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'Time Traveler Who Visited The Year 8973' Shares Vision Of Future

Being able to travel in time is something that has often been discussed, and it has been the focus of many movies. So far it has been seen as nothing more than a theory but would anyone believe a person if they said that they had traveled to a different time and come back?

Time Travel proof: 'British intelligence worker' reveals truth behind Mandela effect

Time travel is something that has fascinated many people for decades, and now a man from England by the name of William Taylor has come forward to say that he has been to the future on many different occasions and come back to tell the tale.

"Time travel was first successfully accomplished in 1981," Taylor claims. "There is an infinite number of alternate universes, it's possible every one of these universes exist and it's possible to move between these universes. We developed a machine to not only time travel, but move between these parallel universes."

Here is what Taylor - the time traveler - has to say to the world:

Taylor has realized that not everyone believes his story about being able to travel into the future and this does not seem to bother him. What bothers him more is fear of reprisal for telling his story. This is because he claims to have worked for the government in Britain along with the British Intelligence agency.

Taylor said that there are many advanced technologies being kept secret. He went on to say that in time they will be released to the public but for the time being, they are highly classified. He claimed that “they” would be coming after him for releasing the video and telling the truth and that he was putting himself at risk for speaking up. According to Taylor time travel was first accomplished in 1981, and there is an infinite number of alternate universes out there. He went on to say that it is possible that the universes exist and they can be moved between. Taylor claims that a machine was developed for time traveling and to allow people to move between the parallel universes.

In The Year 3000 Humans Live Underwater

Taylor spoke out above visiting the year 3000 and said that not a great deal had changed, other than humans lived under the water and he talked in detail about the things that he had seen during his time in the future. Taylor described looking up and seeing flying transportation in the sky above but only being able to see lights through what he claimed was thick smog. He went on to talk about going to 8973 and said that this was when the British government thought that machines and men would fuse together as one.

The video goes on and the longer that Taylor speaks about his time in the future and time travel the stranger it seems to get. He starts by talking about going into the future and time traveling and then goes on to talk about parallel universes and to travel to them. He then goes on to talk about invisibility and more. Whether you believe what Taylor has to say or you are skeptical about it, the video is rather entertaining to watch, and it may have some people wondering.

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15-02-2018 om 22:33 geschreven door peter  

There are vast quantities of mercury in the permafrost. With global warming, it’s now seeping away

 BY MIHAI ANDREI 

Researchers found surprisingly large quantities of mercury in the permafrost of the northern hemisphere. As temperatures rise and ice continues to melt, the mercury can be released, with significant consequences for both wildlife and mankind.

Maps of mercury concentrations (micrograms of mercury per square meter) in Northern hemisphere permafrost zones for four soil layers: 0-30 centimeters, 0-100 centimeters, 0-300 centimeters, and permafrost. The permafrost map represents the mercury bound to frozen organic matter below the Active Layer Depth (ALD) and above 300 cm depth.

Credit: Schuster et al./GRL/AGU.

The tentacles of climate change are long and far-reaching. As temperatures rise, it brings along a number of unforeseen changes. Rising temperatures are threatening the oceans, causing more hurricanes, and even causing a coffee crisis. Now, we can add mercury to that long list of problems.

A new study reports that permafrost soils contain more mercury than the rest of the planet’s soils, atmosphere, and oceans combined.

In the new study, geologists assessed the concentrations in permafrost cores from Alaska. They found that permafrost soils contain two times more mercury than soils elsewhere in the world — an unexpected discovery with important consequences.

“This discovery is a game-changer,” said Paul Schuster, a hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Boulder, Colorado and lead author of the new study. “We’ve quantified a pool of mercury that had not been done previously, and the results have profound implications for better understanding the global mercury cycle.”

This wouldn’t normally be a very high concern, but the problem is that temperatures are now rising.

Permafrost in Alaska is thawing, and a new study finds northern permafrost soils are the largest reservoir of mercury on the planet, storing nearly twice as much mercury as all other soils, the ocean, and the atmosphere combined. Credit: John A. Kelley, USDA Natural Resources Conservation, CC BY 2.0.

Mercury tends to bind with organic material in the soil and gets stuck with that soil. As it gets buried by sediment, it becomes frozen into permafrost, where it can remain for thousands of years. But if temperatures rise, all that can change. When temperatures rise and the permafrost melts, mercury isn’t fixed in place anymore. Instead of being frozen in the permafrost, it can also be transported by waters or microorganisms, or it can slowly seep on its own.

“There would be no environmental problem if everything remained frozen, but we know the Earth is getting warmer,” Schuster said. “Although measurement of the rate of permafrost thaw was not part of this study, the thawing permafrost provides a potential for mercury to be released—that’s just physics.”

Locally, the effects could be dramatic. From microorganisms, things can slowly move up the food chain, and like most toxins, they tend to gather higher up the food chain — and potentially end up on our plates.

The release of mercury could also have far-reaching global consequences. If released into the atmosphere, it could travel quickly at the mercy of air currents, possibly ending up as far as thousands of kilometers away.

But we don’t really know how much and how far the mercury can travel. Scientists are also unsure how much of the stored mercury would affect ecosystems if the permafrost were to thaw.

Schuster hopes to analyze that those issues in further studies, understanding how the mercury can affect humans and natural environments.

“24 percent of all the soil above the equator is permafrost, and it has this huge pool of locked-up mercury,” he said. “What happens if the permafrost thaws? How far will the mercury travel up the food chain? These are big-picture questions that we need to answer.”

Journal Reference: Paul F. Schuster et al. Permafrost Stores a Globally Significant Amount of Mercury. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL075571.

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15-02-2018 om 22:16 geschreven door peter  

Huge Antarctic iceberg exposes mysterious marine ecosystem hidden beneath the ice for 120,000 years

 BY TIBI PUIU

Last year, one of the largest icebergs in history broke off broke off from the Larsen C ice. The massive 2,200-square-mile iceberg called A-68 has exposed an ecosystem that has been hidden beneath the ice for thousands of years. Now, a diverse team made up of scientists from nine research institutes around the world is urgently traveling to the area where the iceberg calved to probe the seabed before it’s too late.

A daring expedition and lifeforms removed from time

The researchers are supposed to leave from the Falkland Islands to the calving site on 21 February, where they will spend three weeks until March 2018 on board the research ship RRS James Clark Ross.

The A-68 iceberg is one of the largest ever observed on Earth. It’s about as big as the state of Delaware and holds four times more ice than what gets melted from Greenland’s ice sheet in a year. Scientists had been preparing for A-68’s split from Larsen C for months before the calving, ever since they witnessed a crack in the ice shelf extending over 100 miles in length.

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The Larsen-C rift opening over the last 2 years from #Sentinel1

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Ice shelves encircle the Antarctic continent, extending thick floating ice from the land glaciers. Due to warming temperatures, Antarctica’s ice shelves are starting to thin or collapse. An iceberg such as A-68 won’t raise sea levels because the detached ice was already afloat in the ocean. That’s very good news since A-68 holds enough mass to raise global sea levels by 3 millimeters had the ice been added anew to the ocean. However, events such as these can destabilize the ice shelf.

If an Antarctic ice shelf such as Larsen C collapses, it can free the ice it’s currently holding back on the Antarctic Peninsula. It’s this terrestrial ice flowing out that can raise sea levels, and by no negligible amount. On the upside, icebergs such as A-68 can make room for human explorers who can now witness what ecosystems which have been isolated for thousands of years look like. Perhaps, they will find totally new, strange life forms that have adapted to total darkness, completely isolated from other ecosystems.

The team of daring researchers led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will collect seafloor animals, microbes, plankton, and water samples from the now-exposed seafloor. They will record video footage and document whatever marine mammals and birds might have moved in the area.

The expedition is somewhat fortunate — it’s the first to benefit from an international agreement signed in 2016 by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). Under this agreement, exposed marine areas following the collapse or retreat of ice shelves in Antarctica, such as the one targeted by BAS, are designated Special Areas for Scientific Study.

“The calving of A-68 offers a new and unprecedented opportunity to establish an interdisciplinary scientific research programme in this climate-sensitive region. Now is the time to address fundamental questions about the sustainability of polar continental shelves under climate change,” said Professor David Vaughan, Science Director at BAS.

Vaughan and colleagues are in a hurry to get to the calving site and get to work as quickly as possible. They’re concerned that sunlight will alter the ecosystem too much, at least at the surface layer.

Large icebergs have broken off Antarctic ice shelves before, such as those that separated from the Larsen A and B ice shelves in 1995 and 2002, respectively. However, it took five to 12 years for expeditions to make it to those areas. When they got there, they reported sparse signs of life.

This time around, researchers hope to be there quick enough to possibly surprise some of the supposed alien-like life lurking in the depths.

“We need to be bold on this one. Larsen C is a long way south and there’s lots of sea ice in the area, but this is important science, so we will try our best to get the team where they need to be,” Vaughan said.

{ https://www.zmescience.com/ }

15-02-2018 om 22:02 geschreven door peter  

Berkely's SETI project can't get its hands on the latest graphics cards, which are popular with cryptocurrency miners.

Matthew Gault

Image: Shutterstock

Everyday thousands of volunteers turn the power of their computers over to the SETI@home project in hopes of finding aliens among the stars. SETI@home—short for “Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at Home”—is an experiment that uses people’s computers to increase the project’s processing power and analyze more radio signals from outer space.

The UC Berkeley-based SETI project only relies on volunteers for a portion of its computing power, however, and has its own computing installations at several telescopes. But the project team ran into problems recently when it tried to expand its operations by adding the latest and most powerful computers to two observatories. The team discovered, Berkeley SETI Research Center chief scientist Dan Werthimer told the BBC, that it couldn’t find the key computer component it needed: graphics processing units (GPUs).

That’s probably thanks to cryptocurrency miners. The same cards that make PC games look amazing and can crunch alien radio signal data can also “mine” (or generate) digital coins like Ethereum and Zcash, so cryptocurrency miners are buying them in bulk and leaving few behind for anyone else.

Read More: Cryptocurrency Mining Is Fueling a GPU Shortage

Searching the stars is intense work that “uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space.” Analyzing all of the data from these telescopes uses a lot of computing power. "We'd like to use the latest GPUs and we can't get 'em," Dan Werthimer, chief scientist of SETI, told the BBC. “That's limiting our search for extraterrestrials.”

Manufacturers such as Nvidia are struggling to keep up with demand for graphics cards. It recently told investors it would rise to meet its manufacturing challenge while focusing on its core market—gamers. It even suggested vendors limit purchases of graphics cards from individual buyers in an effort to stop miners from buying up all the cards.

“This is a new problem, it's only happened on orders we've been trying to make in the last couple of months,” Werthimer told the BBC. “We've got the money, we've contacted the vendors, and they say, 'we just don't have them'”

One scientist at the SETI Institute—an organization founded by Carl Sagan unrelated to UC Berkeley’s SETI project—think this GPU shortage is just a minor dip in the long arc of rising computer processing power. Computers will get faster and, eventually, we’ll find aliens if they’re there to find.

“I've bet everyone a cup of Starbucks that we might find ET within two dozen years,” Seth Shostak, fellow at the SETI Institute, told me in an email. But then, he isn’t using GPUs to conduct the search. “Using GPUs for SETI is certainly something we’ve been investigating for a long time," he said. "When it comes to finding the aliens, the more computer power you have, the quicker you can do the search. It’s like looking for buried treasure on a South Pacific island … if you can replace a teaspoon with a shovel, you might find it a lot quicker!”

At the moment, it seems that cryptocurrency miners are buying up all the shovels.

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15-02-2018 om 21:50 geschreven door peter  

Five years ago today, a small asteroid with an estimated size of 65 feet (20 meters) entered Earth’s atmosphere. The February 15, 2013, asteroid was moving at 12 miles per second (~19 km/sec) when it struck the protective blanket of air around our planet, which did its job and caused the asteroid to explode. The bright, hot explosion took place only about 20 miles (30 km) above the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia and carried 20 to 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Its shock wave broke windows and knocked down parts of buildings in six Russian cities and caused some 1,500 people to seek medical attention for injuries, mostly from flying glass.

Large and small bodies from space strike Earth’s atmosphere continuously. The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, which operates a network of sensors that monitors Earth around the clock listening for the infrasound signature of nuclear detonations, said in 2014 that it had recorded 26 atom-bomb-scale asteroid impacts to Earth’s atmosphere since 2000.

Still, the February 15, 2013 Russian superbolide was extremely powerful. It was later said to be the most powerful explosion caused by an asteroid since the Tunguska event, which flattened a wide area of forest and killed reindeer in Siberia in 1908.

The Tunguska event happened in a sparsely populated part of Siberia. It remained mysterious to scientists throughout the early part of the 20th century. By contrast, across a wide swath of Russia on February 15, 2013, dashboard cameras and amateur photographers captured images of the incoming meteor.

Bright fireball over Russia on the morning of February 15, 2013. Scientists later said the light from the meteor was brighter than the sun. It was visible up to 60 miles (100 km) away.

Vapor cloud trail left by the Chelyabinsk, Russia asteroid as captured by M. Ahmetvaleev on February 15, 2013.

Image via ESA.

After the 2013 meteor exploded, it’s said that local residents and schoolchildren found meteorite fragments left in its aftermath, many located in snowdrifts. An informal market emerged for meteorite fragments.

A large number of small meteorites fell on areas west of Chelyabinsk, and, within hours of the visual sighting of the meteor, a 20-foot (6-meter) hole was discovered on the frozen surface of Lake Chebarkul in the Russian Ural Mountains. Scientists from the Ural Federal University collected 53 samples from around the hole that same day.

In June 2013, Russian scientists reported further investigation by magnetic imaging below the location of the ice hole in Lake Chebarkul. They had identified a larger meteorite buried in sediments on the lake floor.

Following an operation lasting a number of weeks, on October 15, 2013, a large fragment of the meteorite was lifted from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul. It had a total mass of 1,442 pounds (654 kg) and to date remains the largest found fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite.

Largest-discovered fragment of Russian meteorite, lifted from the bed of Lake Chebarkul in the Urals,

via Voice of Russia

NASA satellites were also able to track the meteor plume in Earth’s atmosphere. As the video below describes, they tracked and studied the meteor plume for months.

Bottom line: On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid created a bright meteor over Russia, which exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk.

Read more: Former Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart describes the February 15, 2013 meteor 

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15-02-2018 om 17:35 geschreven door peter  

Unexplained Mystery Booms Continue Across America

Seriously though: what is causing all of these unexplained booms all across North America? From coast to coast, the sounds of thunderous explosions in the sky have rattled windows and shaken homes without any definitive official explanation. Is something strange going on overhead? Then again, when is something strange ever not going on overhead? 

Case in point.

The first of this week’s unexplained booms happened on February 6th in Midwest City just outside of Oklahoma City. Residents described what sounded like dynamite going off as their homes shook violently. One Midwest City woman, Donna Hood, described the ensuing vibration to local news as earthquake-like:

We thought we’d had an earthquake and we waited and looked on the news and everywhere else and nobody posted anything. So, we had no idea what it was.

Local meteorologists, meanwhile, say there’s nothing to worry about, just a case of the ol’ cryoseism, or frost quake. These rare seismic events occur when groundwater tables freeze rapidly and expand against one another underground, cracking under immense pressure. 

Cryoseisms can sometimes be powerful enough to crack the earth.

Two days later, police in Wheat Ridge, Colorado received numerous calls after homeowners heard a loud boom in the night. Residents of the Denver suburb told police they in fact regularly feel and hear what sounds like an unexplained explosion at 3:00 a.m., mostly on weekends. According to CBS4 Denver, Wheat Ridge residents are left frightened and mystified by the lack of answers. Some believe the noise could be caused by something industrial like a malfunctioning electrical transformer, while others worry the noise is “something not so easily explained.”

Local news eats this stuff up. As do I, of course.

Wheat Ridge Police department spokesperson Sara Spaulding says police are likewise baffled:

We’ve had descriptions that are everything from a transformer blew, to a sonic boom that you might hear with an airplane passing overhead or a jet passing overhead, fireworks sometimes, those loud booms without the crackly noises associated. The challenge for us is that there isn’t any evidence of what this could be.

Are the Wheat Ridge or Oklahoma City booms related to the other booms heard and felt around the country? What is behind this phenomenon? I’m going with secret military activity. The world sure seems to be getting weird and dangerous again.

{ http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

15-02-2018 om 17:14 geschreven door peter  

Nothing attracts conspiracy theories like a SpaceX launch. From UFO sightings at failed launches to rumors of corporate espionage, all kinds of speculation have been cast at the enigmatic Elon Musk and his sometimes secretive private space program. After Musk and co. recently launched the first Falcon Heavy rocket into space carrying Musk’s red Tesla roadster and its supposed empty spacesuit driver, the internet realized that, well, you know there could be a body in that suit and we’d never know. But come on, would Elon do something like that? I mean, if anyone had the cojones to put a dead body in orbit on live TV, it’s that dude. The Falcon Heavy launch didn’t just contain the empty spacesuit, though. Riding along beside the convertible was a disc of quartz crystal containing a hologram upon which was etched a massive library of data encoded using some of the most advanced storage methods possible, all designed to last billions of years. Strangest of all, no one really knows what exactly is written on them.

I bet whoever is in this spacesuit knows.

The disc is part of what is being called the Arch, created by the The Arch Mission Foundation, a non-profit group which statestheir goal is to “permanently archive human knowledge for thousands to billions of years. We exist to preserve and disseminate humanity’s knowledge across time and space, for the benefit of future generations.” To do this, the foundation helped develop a “5D optical storage” method using discs of quartz crystals inscribed with laser nanostructuring to create afreaking hologram inside the structure of the crystal disc. Yeah, we’re living in the future. These discs will be readable 14 billion years and can hold 360 terabytes of data, or around 7,000 Blu-Ray discs.

Plus they look like they’re straight out of Blade Runner.

According to the Arch foundation, the first arch disc contains Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, an epic series of deeply philosophical science-fiction novels. Throughout those novels, the protagonist seeks to preserve humanity’s knowledge in the face of an impending galactic disaster. The Arch Mission foundation says that we live in an uncertain age where planetary chaos and disaster seems ever more likely. Thus, the need to preserve the collected knowledge of humankind is dire. And, of course, shoot it into space on a really big rocket that goes boom. Oh, and in the most American fashion possible, by putting it orbit alongside a red convertible piloted by a single spacesuit, making it the most conspicuous thing in space possible:

This Arch library will orbit the Sun for at least millions of years alongside Elon’s Tesla Roadster. The Roadster will likely be the oddest object in the solar system, and thus is the perfect place to put an Arch library so that it can be noticed and retrieved in the distant future.

Of course, it might just look like a rock to any passing aliens. It is made of metals.  While the goals of the Arch Mission Foundation sounds well-intentioned (at least on the surface), calling any set of data the “collected knowledge of humankind” makes you really wonder who chose what to include in that library and what not to. The group’s founder has stated he wants to “put Wikipedia in space.” Sounds great. I’m sure the Pirahã people of the Amazon will love having their entire existence being summed up in 1600 words. The photos on the “crew” page of the foundation’s website don’t exactly represent the collective demographics of the entire human race, if you know what I mean. 

Is this really representative of the entirety human experience?

It also makes you wonder what could be on those discs that we don’t know about. The entire Foundation series wouldn’t take up more than a few hundred megabytes, tops. What about the other hundreds of terabytes? Is some group trying to seed space with a very specific vision of what human knowledge should be preserved in space and create a new human civilization where you can, I don’t know, marry your attractive cousins? Is Elon Musk trying to send a message to his home planet after landing here and benevolently giving us the technology of the future like Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth? Is he going to fly away with all our water?

David Bowie could have easily played him in a movie, too.

I mean, if anyone is an alien, it’s that dude. It’s like he’s not even trying to hide it anymore. Or at least a Bond villain who hasn’t had his horrific accident that turns him evil yet. We’re still just living in his origin story.

{ http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

15-02-2018 om 16:57 geschreven door peter  

Dark UFO Over Crete, Does The World Need To Worry About Invasion? Jan 11, 2018, UFO- Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 11, 2018

Location of sighting: Rethymno, Crete

News source: http://china.greekreporter.com/希腊克里特岛惊现怪异飞碟云/

 

This UFO cloaked in a cloud was seen over Crete last week. You can see that its breaking through the clouds. Don't be fooled by these cloaked craft. Aliens are highly intelligent and often believe that human intelligence is incredibly inferior to them. Thus, humans will often assume the cloud is just a cloud. However, we at UFO Sightings Daily know different. Here it almost looks like an invasion. Very dark, almost sinister looking. 

Scott C. Waring

 

News states: 

Photographer Yiannis Gkikas snapped a rare scene on January 11 in Rethymno, Crete, Greece, when a huge cloud of disk-shaped aircraft appeared in the sky. The group's photos were subsequently posted on the Greek weather website Meteokrites.

{ http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/ }

15-02-2018 om 16:32 geschreven door peter