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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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...
22-02-2018
Controversial Study Claims: Man Began Using Words 1 Million Years Ago
Controversial Study Claims: Man Began Using Words 1 Million Years Ago
According to a new study, ancient man began using words around One Million years ago, as experts believe without ‘speech,’ ancient humans would not have been able to build boats and sail the planet in order to populate the planet.
“What is the greatest technology we have ever had as a species, the answer is language. Who invented it? Homo Erectus, about one million years ago or more.”
Experts may have just solved the riddle as to how and when ancient humans began speaking.
A controversial new study claims that speech was invented to help them organize, and build boats to populate the world.
Without ‘speech’ ancient man would not have been able to build boats and populate the world, say, researchers.
Image Credit: Shutterstock.
If we take a look at human origins, we will find that our earliest known ancestor, Homo erectus took a huge leap forward by starting to walk upright, more than one million years ago.
However, while he could walk like we can today, researchers have not been able to find evidence that he could talk. As noted by experts, language was not something that Homo erectus was capable of.
All of this is based on anatomy, as scientists believe Homo erectus did not have a bone called the Hyoid, which is a bone that helps anchor the tongue. Homo Sapiens did have it.
Therefore, experts suggest that Hom erectus wasn’t really capable of speech, he was only capable of howling.
This means that language is believed to have arrived together with Homo Sapiens.
However, a new controversial study forces us to rethink human origins, saying that Homo erectus must have had the ability to speak.
Researchers now claim that without language, Homo erectus would have never been capable of building the boats needed to travel across Earth’s vast oceans.
Furthermore, experts note that if Homo erectus had not developed speech, he would not have been able to sail across the globe in large numbers populating the planet.
What is the greatest technology we have ever had as a species, the answer is language. Who invented it? Homo erectus, about one million years ago or more. Those are controversial claims. Everybody talks about Homo erectus as a stupid ape-like creature, which of course describes us just as well, and yet what I want to emphasize is that erectus was the smartest creature that had ever walked the Earth,” says Daniel Everett, Professor of Global Studies, at Bentley University, Massachusetts.
Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, professor Everett explained: “Oceans were never a barrier to the travels of erectus.”
Homo erectus was able to travel all over the world. He traveled to the Island of Flores, across one of the greatest ocean currents on Earth.
“They sailed to the island of Crete and various other islands. It was intentional they needed craft and they needed to take groups of twenty or so at least to get to those places. And this is the consensus of the archaeological evidence. Erectus needed language when they were sailing to the island of Flores. They couldn’t have simply caught a ride on a floating log because then they would have been washed out to see when they hit the current,” explained Professor Everett.
“They needed to be able to paddle. And if they paddled they needed to be able to say ‘paddle there’ or ‘don’t paddle. You need communication with symbols not just grunts. They accomplished too much for this to simply be the sort of communication that we see in other species without symbols,” he added.
Countless Maya Artifacts And Human Remains Found In World’s Largest Underwater Cave
Countless Maya Artifacts And Human Remains Found In World’s Largest Underwater Cave
Researchers have found sacred Maya relics together with a 10,000-year-old Human skeleton in an underwater cave in Mexico.
In what is considered the world’s most important underwater archaeological site, experts have discovered sacred ancient Maya relics, together with human remains and Ice Age Animal Bones. So far, experts have discovered a total of 198 objects, including walls, altars and a Mayan burial site with human remains. Some of these objects date back more than 10,000 years and belonged to the first settlers of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
The team in charge of the Great Maya Aquifer Project found a human skeleton which is believed to be 10 thousand years old, in what is considered the largest cenote in the world, in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico.
The recently found bone structure is the fourth skeleton found so far, of what are believed to be the first settles in the area.
Image Credit: INAH
Lead Archaeologist Guillermo De Anda reported in a press conference the discovery of a cenote with stairs and altars dedicated to Ek Chuah, the God of war and commerce.
“I think it’s overwhelming. Without a doubt, it’s the most important submerged archaeological site in the world. It is very unlikely that there is another site in the world with these characteristics. There is an impressive amount of archaeological artifacts inside, and the level of preservation is also impressive.”
It is assumed that this space was used as a pilgrimage point by Mayan merchants.
Image Credit: INAH
Archaeologists found a large number of pottery remains and a mask representing the Ek Chuah.
The land routes used by the Maya for trade needed points of “ritual pilgrimage,” according to De Anda.
“On their way inland, they had to make stops at altars and in sacred places to make an exchange with the gods and, in some way, this is one of the traces they have left,” he said.
The so-called Cave of the God of Commerce has a temple and a stairway that allows access to the cave.
Image Credit: INAH
Throughout 347 kilometers of tunnels under the soil of Quintana Roo, archaeological and paleontological remains are concentrated in 198 places.
The team researching the world’s most important underwater archaeological site has the support of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and National Geographic to explore the flooded galleries, where unique elements have been found so far, such as a cave with remains of Pleistocene fauna embedded in the walls.
Experts have uncovered a total of 198 objects in the cave system.
As noted by De Anda, the remains found could account for “a catastrophic event” that allowed these bones to remain in that place.
“We still need to determine what these bones belong to, but the project is integrating a resident paleontologist to understand these contexts and take care of them as they should,” he concluded.
RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME In September 2016, an amateur astronomer was looking at spiral galaxy NGC 613 (shown), located about 65 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor, and caught a supernova exploding.
SMARTT/QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST, NASA, HUBBLE/ESA, ROBERT GENDLER
Víctor Buso spotted the supernova from his rooftop observatory in Rosario, Argentina, on September 20, 2016, when he aimed his telescope straight overhead at spiral galaxy NGC 613 to test a new camera. To avoid letting in too much light from the city sky — Rosario is a city of about 1.2 million people — he took a series of about 100 images that were each exposed for 20 seconds, spanning about an hour and a half.
Over the last half-hour of Buso’s observations, the supernova appeared and then doubled in brightness. In 2013, astronomers spotted a supernova within hours of its explosion (SN Online: 2/13/17), but this is one of the first to be spotted before it exploded.
Because there is no way to predict when and where a supernova will go off, this sort of observation is extremely rare, says astrophysicist Melina Bersten of the National University of La Plata in Argentina, who reports details of the supernova in the Feb. 22 Nature.
NOW YOU SEE IT The black spot toward the bottom right of this image is a supernova going off near galaxy NGC 613. An amateur astronomer in Argentina captured the explosion in nearly 100 images taken with a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor camera.
VÍCTOR BUSO AND GASTÓN FOLATELLI
“This is completely unusual, and was something that many people were searching for around the world without success,” Bersten says. “It was incredible.”
Bersten and her colleagues analyzed the light from the supernova and found that it matches models of the first phase of a supernova called the shock breakout phase, in which a shock wave from a massive star’s collapse ricochets back from the star’s core and pushes stellar material outward.
Photo NewsDe superstorm Winston in 2016 richtte voor vier miljard euro schade aan in Oceanië.
WEERNIEUWS Tropische superstormen zijn door opwarming van de aarde zo sterk geworden dat de huidige categorie-indeling van kracht 1 tot 5 niet meer voldoende is. Volgens klimaatwetenschappers op een congres in Nieuw-Zeeland is het daarom nodig een nieuwe categorie toe te voegen: schaal 6. Voor windsnelheden vanaf 320 kilometer per uur.
Tropische stormen of cyclonen worden al naar gelang hun kracht ingedeeld volgens de schaal van Saffir-Simpson. Bedoeling daarvan is bewoners in bedreigde gebieden voor te bereiden op de verwachte schade en risico’s. Een orkaan van categorie 2, 3 en 4 is bijvoorbeeld tien, vijftig, honderd keer zo verwoestend als een zwakke orkaan van categorie 1. Tot nu toe is categorie 5 het gevaarlijkst. Dan gaan de daken eraf van de meeste huizen en bedrijven. Bij een stormvloed langs de kust wordt de meeste laagbouw weggespoeld en kunnen de golven tot wel vier kilometer landinwaarts gaan.
Volgens klimatoloog Michael Mann van Pennsylvania State University dekt categorie 5 niet langer de lading. Een nieuwe categorie 6 zou een betere aanduiding zijn om de werkelijke kracht aan te geven van stormen van 320 kilometer per uur”, zegt hij in de Britse krant The Guardian. Uitbreiding van de schaal zou volgens hem benadrukken dat er wel degelijk een klimaatverandering gaande is die stormen krachtiger maakt dan ooit.
Aanpassing is ook nodig omdat het schadebeeld vertekend is, aldus Mann. Sinds de schaal van Saffir-Simpson werd opgesteld, in 1969, is er veel verbeterd in de stevigheid van bouw en infrastructuur. Dat er desondanks gebouwen omwaaien, zegt wat over de toegenomen kracht, aldus de wetenschapper. Recente stormen als de orkaan Patricia in 2015 met geschatte windstoten van tegen 400 kilometer per uur (8 doden, bijna 400 miljoen euro schade) en orkaan Winston in 2016 (44 doden, 4 miljard euro schade) passen volgens Mann in een nieuwe buitencategorie. Volgens de Nieuw-Zeelandse klimaatminister James Show zou orkaan Winston zeker een zes hebben gekregen ‘als die categorie had bestaan.’
WETENSCHAPEr is één kans op 10 tot 100 miljoen en het is de droom van elke astronoom. De Argentijnse amateur-sterrenkundige Victor Buso won de kosmische jackpot door (het begin van) een supernova te zien, zo staat in het jongste nummer van het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature.
“Beroepsastronomen zoeken al lang naar een dergelijk evenement”, (de start van) een ontploffende ster, schreef Alex Filippenko van de Universiteit van Berkeley. “Het is zoals de ‘kosmische jackpot’ winnen”, “uitzonderlijk”. “De metingen van Victor Buso vormen een geheel van data zonder voorgaande”, weet Federico Garcia van het Franse Commissariaat voor Kernenergie.
Op 20 september 2016 beslist de door sterren gepassioneerde Argentijn een nieuw fototoestel op zijn telescoop te testen. Hij had de telescoop zelf gebouwd op het dak van zijn huis in de stad Rosario, ten noorden van Buenos Aires. Hij kiest voor zijn eerste foto’s sterrenstelsel NGC 613, op ongeveer tachtig miljoen lichtjaar van ons, in het sterrenbeeld Beeldhouwer. Bingo: een enorme ster beleeft de laatste uren van haar leven in een cataclystische ontploffing die bekendstaat als een supernova.
Spectaculair fenomeen
De fenomenen die daarmee gepaard gaan, zijn hevig. Want volgens de theorie wordt de materie van de ster aan snelheden van duizenden kilometer per seconde uitgespuwd. Vanwege de ongelooflijke hoeveelheid uitgestoten energie is het evenement helder en is het van op onze planeet te zien. Maar het is een zeldzaam en vooral niet te voorzien evenement. Astronomen ontdekken het in het algemeen pas na enkele dagen en nooit sinds het begin. Dat geluk had Victor Buso wel.
Hij sloeg alarm via de Amerikaanse vereniging van waarnemers van variabele sterren AVVSO en bracht een kettingreactie op gang. Een batterij astronomen en natuurkundigen richtte zijn instrumenten op het fenomeen. Sommigen observeren het vervolg gedurende meer dan twee maanden. Volgens de studie in het Britse Nature laten de nieuwe data toe beter de fysieke structuur te begrijpen van een ster vlak voor ze ontploft, alsmede de natuur zelf van de explosie.
Eén kans op tien miljoen
De ploeg wetenschappers kon uitmaken dat de initiële massa van de ster ongeveer twintig keer die van onze Zon was. Ze zagen ook de helderheid van de supernova spectaculair toenemen. Op minder dan een half uur tijd verveelvoudigde die met factor 3, zegt de Franse universiteit Paris Diderot. Volgens Melina Bersten van het Instituut voor Astrofysica van La Plata in Argentinië had Victor Buso “maar één kans op tien miljoen of zelfs 100 miljoen” om het spektakel te kunnen aanschouwen.
TwitterDe Argentijnse astronoom bouwde deze telescoop zelf op zijn dak.
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Mysterious Bright Object falls from the sky over Bahia, Brazil
Mysterious Bright Object falls from the sky over Bahia, Brazil
Residents of Salvador, the capital of Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, reported a bright object falling from the sky with a huge flash before it exploded at low altitude on February 20, 2018.
Residents of Monte Gordo, in the district of Camaçari in the metropolitan region of Salvador heard the explosion too.
Credit image: Canal TV Noticias - Juliana Almirante – G1.Globo.
Land owner Edinei da Silva Almeida said that he was burning vegetation when he heard the explosion. Then Mr. Edinei da Silva Almeida accompanied by his neighbors started looking in the direction of the explosion and soon they found a strange object in an area of vegetation near a material store. The object looks like iron and weighs about 2.9 kg and is 15 cm in size.
Credit images: Juliana Almirante – G1.Globo.
While most of the experts believe that it was a small piece of a meteorite that fell to the ground, the Brazilian Meteorological Monitoring Network (Bramon) suggests there is also the possibility that a part of a rocket, which was sent by Russia to the International Space Station, may have come loose and have fallen in Bahia reports Globo.1.com.
Whatever it may have been remains a mystery for the time being.
This unique case remained unknown to the public until May 2004, when a comic book about UFOs published the case. This introduced the meeting to the new generation of UFO enthusiasts, starting something similar to a cult in Japan.
LAS VEGAS - When it comes to UFO stories, all roads lead to Las Vegas, right?
Recent revelations about a secret Pentagon study of UFOs raised many questions, including this one --do government scientists have a piece of a flying saucer? According to a New York Times story, scientists in southern Nevada had a chance to study a piece of mystery metal which had some unusual properties.
When Nevada Senator Harry Reid and a few colleagues quietly found the funding back in 2007 for a serious Pentagon study of unknown aerial intruders, otherwise known as UFOs, one goal was to move the subject beyond the long shadow of the so-called Roswell crash, the controversial tale about a mysterious object that crashed in New Mexico in 1947.
"If you're here to find out where the little men from New Mexico at the end of World War II, are stored in some vault some place, you want to spend time talking about flying saucers that took people some place, I'm not into that," former Sen. Harry Reid said.
When the New York Times broke the story in December, and an organization called To The Starsreleased Pentagon videos of encounters with unknown craft, a separate line of inquiry was also unleashed. Was there, as the Times reported, a piece of metal or material that could not be identified by scientists?
For three years, a private organization named BAASS (Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies), headquartered at Bigelow Aerospace in North Las Vegas, collected and analyzed UFO files and data on behalf of the defense intelligence agency, DIA.
Company founder Robert Bigelow built special secure facilities inside his plant to house the program, its files, and according to news reports, a piece of unknown material, reportedly a compound with special properties. Senator Reid, for one, said he is unaware of any such exotic materials.
"I don't know anything about exotic materials but (there's been) a lot of talk about it."
The subject isn't new in UFO circles. The properties of supposedly recovered mystery metals have been debated online for years. Rock star turned UFO investigator Tom DeLonge speculated last year about possible anti-gravity effects of one alloy. Nick Pope, a former official with the British Ministry of Defense study of UFOs said he believes such material does exist. But what about the point man for the Pentagon's UFO program?
"So, now we can theoretically warp space time in a way that we can go from A to B a little faster," said Luis Elizondo.
I-Team Reporter George Knapp: "Do we need special materials?"
Luis Elizondo: "Well, special materials are important no matter what you do. On a car, you might want titanium. Everything requires special materials."
Elizondo is the person most directly responsible for the public release of the now ubiquitous videos, the so called gimbal UFO and the Tic Tac encounter. He thinks these craft are able to bend space and time with a technology beyond anything known on earth. But, is the technology dependent on mystery metal, and did the U.S. have a piece of it at the Bigelow plant?
"Sadly, I can't discuss that. You would have to ask the U.S. government. But I've said before, when you are collecting special data, there are always tell-tale signs on how something works by its signature," Elizonda said.
Some who read the story speculated that the material contains an unknown element. Not true, say those who worked on the program, but multiple sources have confirmed to us that there was a weird piece of something at the Bigelow plant.
Physicist Dr. Hal Puthoff was one of the chief scientists for the BAASS study. He confirmed last month that he had a look at "unusual material" that was "very complex." Puthoff implied that it was engineered by unknown means, layered, he says, in ways that produced unusual characteristics. But that's as far as he would go.
Pentagon UFO Study Jan. 28, 2018, Coast to Coast hosted by George Knapp
Dr. Hal Puthoff said:
“Detailed proof that crashes had happened would be so highly classified piece of data. There has been one leaked document — how it got leaked, I’ll never know — which is out there, that talks about some crashes, that we were able to verify … it was a real document. My opinion is there are probably at least materials. Now, it wouldn’t necessarily have to be crash of an entire craft, but it could be a piece blown off, whatever, by a lightning strike or a missile or whatever. So I am not surprised to find out that there’s discussion of material being available. We’ve had an opportunity to look at some unusual material, and I think that is a big area that will become more significant as time goes on. And the interesting thing about it was that I couldn’t figure out a very complex material. When you talk to people that are doing this kind of research … [we know about] all the elements on the periodic table, so you are not finding some new element that you didn’t realize is on the periodic table. No, it’s more like putting together layers of various kinds of materials that you wouldn’t expect to be able to be layered, and the result at the end of the day is that it has certain unusual characteristics that you wouldn’t have predicted in advance, so that is the kind of thing that, to a physicist, is the most interesting.”
Elizondo gave one other tantalizing clue.
"You may call it material or meta-material but if something is left behind or recovered or retrieved, you'd want to study it just like at a crime scene," he said.
No one would say on the record how the piece of material was obtained, or where it was taken once the Las Vegas study ended back in 2012.
Illustration of three THEMIS satellites and Earth's magnetosphere. Credit: NASA
Sometimes on a dark night near the poles, the sky pulses a diffuse glow of green, purple and red. Unlike the long, shimmering veils of typical auroral displays, these pulsating auroras are much dimmer and less common. While scientists have long known auroras to be associated with solar activity, the precise mechanism of pulsating auroras was unknown. Now, new research, using data from NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms—or THEMIS—mission and Japan's Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace—shortened to ERG, or also known as Arase—satellite, has finally captured the missing link thought responsible for these auroras. The answer lies in chirping waves that rhythmically pulse the particles that create the auroras.
Earth's magnetic bubble—the magnetosphere—protects the planet from high-energy radiation coming from the Sun and interstellar space, but during particularly strong solar events, particles can slip through. Once inside, the particles and the energy they carry are stored on the nightside of the magnetosphere, until an event, known as a substorm, releases the energy. The electrons are then sent speeding down into Earth's upper atmosphere where they collide with the other particles and produce the characteristic glow.
Pulsating auroras, however, have a slightly different cause. The magnetosphere is home to a type of plasma wave known as whistler mode chorus. These waves have characteristic rising tones—reminiscent of the sounds of chirping birds—and are able to efficiently disturb the electrons. When these waves make their appearance within the magnetosphere, some of the electrons scattered by the wave careen down into Earth's atmosphere, causing the pulsating auroras.
Illustration of the ERG satellite in orbit. Credit: ISAS/JAXA
While scientists have long believed this mechanism to be responsible for pulsating auroras, they had no definitive proof until now. The multipoint observations from the ERG satellite and ground-based all-sky cameras from the THEMIS mission allowed scientists to pinpoint the cause and effect, seeing the event from start to end. The results were published in the journal Nature.
Research done with NASA's ground-based camera and Japan's spacecraft in the near-Earth laboratory has applications further afield. Chorus waves have been observed around other planets in the solar system, including Jupiter and Saturn. Likely, the processes observed around Earth can help explain auroral features on these gas giants as well as on planets around other stars. The results also help scientists better understand how plasma waves can influence electrons—something that occurs in processes across the universe.
After just yesterday we wrote that Jupiter’s emblematic Giant Red Storm was quieting down, Neptune’s own giant storm is about to suffer the same fate.
Dark spot on Neptune full color (left) and blue light (right).
Although not as famous and easily visible as the Great Red Spot, Neptune’s Great Dark Spot (creative names, I know) has its own remarkable history. Also an anticyclonic storm, the first Dark Spot was first observed in 1989 by NASA’s Voyager 2. It was big enough to cover the entire Atlantic, from the US to Europe’s West Coast, but unlike Jupiter’s storm, it had a much shorter lifespan. I say “the first” Dark Spot because, since its discovery in 1989, several others have appeared and disappeared, and the initial one is long gone. Hubble discovered two dark storms that appeared in the mid-1990s and then vanished. The current storm was first observed in 2015, but it’s already shrinking.
We don’t really know that much about Neptune. The farthest planet from the Sun (sorry Pluto) remains largely a mystery, with most of our information coming from remote observations or from the Voyager days. The way it was discovered says a lot about this: Neptune was the first and only planet in our Solar System found by mathematical predictionrather than by empirical observation. Astronomers believe that Neptune has a solid rock core, a mantle consisting of water, ammonia and methane ices, and an atmosphere. The top of the atmosphere is covered by top clouds, while the rest consists of hydrogen, helium, and methane The Dark Spot is interesting because it allows astronomers to indirectly deduce certain aspects about Neptune’s atmosphere.
The Great Dark Spot is thought to represent a hole in the methane cloud deck of Neptune, generating large white clouds made of frozen methane. The dark spot itself might also contain hydrogen sulfide, a substance commonly found in crude petroleum, natural gas, volcanic gases, and hot springs.
It seems a bit strange if you think about it — why would white clouds, including ice, create a dark spot? Well, it isn’t that they’re necessarily dark, just that they’re less bright than the rest of the atmosphere. Joshua Tollefson from the University of California at Berkeley explained.
“The particles themselves are still highly reflective; they are just slightly darker than the particles in the surrounding atmosphere.”
This series of Hubble Space Telescope images taken over 2 years tracks the demise of a giant dark vortex on the planet Neptune. The oval-shaped spot has shrunk from 3,100 miles across its long axis to 2,300 miles across, over the Hubble observation period. Image credits: NASA, ESA, and M.H. Wong and A.I. Hsu (UC Berkeley).
But other than this, we don’t really know much about the nature of these storms. We don’t know why or how they form, and no missions other than Voyager and Hubble are able to visualize them.
“We have no evidence of how these vortices are formed or how fast they rotate,” said Agustín Sánchez-Lavega from the University of the Basque Country in Spain. “It is most likely that they arise from an instability in the sheared eastward and westward winds.”
Unlike Jupiter’s storms, Neptune’s storms don’t last as long. Neptune doesn’t have atmospheric conveyor belts, which keep the storm trapped, and it doesn’t have the proper atmospheric conditions to fuel the storm. So quite soon, the Dark Spot will fade away — but another one will eventually rise up to take its place.
“It looks like we’re capturing the demise of this dark vortex, and it’s different from what well-known studies led us to expect,” said Michael H. Wong of the University of California at Berkeley, referring to work by Ray LeBeau (now at St. Louis University) and Tim Dowling’s team at the University of Louisville.
My recent 2-part article on the Roswell affair of July 1947 (part-1here and part-2 here) provided a couple of reasons why, in my opinion, nothing of an extraterrestrial nature came down on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico. But, something definitely came down. And it wasn’t a weather-balloon or a Mogul balloon. And there wasn’t a crash-test-dummy in sight. Not a single one. My down-to-earth views on what reallyhappened at Roswell are well-known by those who follow the controversial saga of “The R-Word.” But, those same ufologists have little time for theories that blow the E.T. angle out of the water. Too bad that when it comes to Roswell the “I want to believe” factor is so dominating. But, if one day, the truth really does surface – to an undeniable degree – and it’s found that Roswell had nothing had to do with aliens, how will the UFO research community react? I’ll tell you.
What Really Happened at Roswell ? The Truth will shock you!
When Roswell topples (as it will, one day) there will be a fair degree of denial. Probably a huge degree of denial. No aliens at Roswell? Ridiculous! Nonsense! That will be followed by a sudden increase in the sales of comfort-blankets – and prescriptions for anything and everything that will lessen anxiety and lower blood-pressure. Should all of that happen, the small numbers of people like me won’t suffer. I will be knocking back the beer and the brandy – thus ensuring an entire week of head-spinning celebrations and an endlessly revolving-door of babe-tastic strippers. Those who will suffer are those who cannot accept that Ufology’s number-one case will become a rotting, stinking corpse. And, you know what we do with them: we bury them or burn them.
There is also the matter of how the extermination of Roswell will have a spiraling effect on various other aspects of Ufology. Let’s face it, whatever happened at Roswell, the majority of UFO researchers accept the alien angle. But, if Roswell – perceived as the best crash case on record – does collapse, what does that say about all of the other crash cases? Not at lot, that’s what! The December 1965 affair at Kecksburg, PA is seen as a good, solid UFO case by many. But, if Roswell goes belly-up, then it’s all but inevitable that people will soon develop doubts about the second-best case (or third, or fourth, depending on your personal perspective).
If aliens didn’t die on, or over, the Foster Ranch then the tale of Philip J. Corso – and his “back-engineering” schemes of alien technology – completely falls apart. That would then make people question the back-engineering-based claims of Bob Lazar, too. If there were no aliens at Roswell, then that means no extraterrestrial corpses were secretly taken to what is, today, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. That will provoke questions about whether or not there were ever any such corpses at the base.
This gets us to the heart of the big problem with Roswell: it supports so many aspects of what pro-Roswell UFO researchers believe and want to hear. And when the case crumbles, all of those related aspects – the back-engineering, the Wright-Pat legends of “dead aliens on ice,” and the other crash-based cases – will plummet to the ground.
Few people ever give much thought at all to just how much of present-day Ufology is so deeply plugged-in to Roswell – directly or indirectly. If Roswell was seen as just another case – but, admittedly, a high-profile one, wherever it leads – then it could be explored and investigated without the issue of it holding up the whole damn subject. But, when you have one, single case which is loudly championed as the incident to beat all other incidents, you are on dangerous and rocky ground.
To a degree, though, and when it comes to Roswell, most people in Ufology will deny any and all kind of disclosure than the one they want to hear. No E.T.s at Roswell? It must be disinformation. No dead aliens at Wright-Pat? “They” secretly transferred the bodies to somewhere else. No back-engineering? It all got moved from Area 51 to the Dugway Proving Ground. Roswell completely and utterly dictates Ufology. Which is a terrible and unfortunate thing.
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Dying sucks. It’s a sad fact of human existence. When you’re young, the inevitability and permanence of death are hard to conceptualize, but experiencing the deaths of loved ones sure makes it real in a heartbeat – or lack thereof. Despite our impotence in the face of what is surely an inescapable fate, humans have been trying to find ways to avoid death since time immemorial. Modern medicine and digital media have come a long way, but the fact remains that we’re all just going to rot in the ground someday – that is, unless one of these kooky scientists proclaiming the advent of human immortality turns out to be right. This week, yet another self-proclaimed “futurologist” has issued his prediction for the strange, immortal future humanity likely has in store. Will we really soon be able to cheat death with the help of technology?
The bigger question is why the future is always depicted in blue and orange.
These latest predictions were made by engineer and futurologist Ian Pearson who has been a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society and a fellow of both the World Academy for Arts and Science and the World innovation Foundation. He claims his predictions have been shown to have “about 85% accuracy when looking 10-15 years ahead.” In an interview with The Sun, predicts humans will be able to cheat death by the year 2050. Well some humans, anyway. The rich ones. The really, really rich ones:
One day your body dies – maybe you get hit by a bus or a nasty disease – but it doesn’t matter, because your mind will still be there. You’ll be able to use an android body instead of the organic one you just lost. For normal people on everyday salaries, it’s more likely that you’ll have to wait a little longer. By 2060, people like you or I will be able to buy it, and by 2070 people in poor countries on modest incomes will be able to buy it.
In his prediction about human immortality, Pearson cites three emerging technological trends which have the potential to indefinitely extend the human lifespan, or at least the lifespan of human consciousnesses: rejuvenating body parts with anti-aging gene therapies or swapping out body parts for lab-grown replacements; digitizing the human consciousness and downloading it into biohybrid android sleeves à la Altered Carbon; or developing technologies which will allow our consciousnesses to exist forever in virtual realities. I don’t know about you, but that last one sounds the best to me.
We might one day look at swapping out body parts the same way we look at getting a haircut.
While these kinds of transhumanist predictions are great material for sci-fi and surely have led to some generous research grants, I can’t help but wonder if these are merely some kind of new techno-religious belief system emerging. These kinds of technological immortality sound a lot like concepts of the afterlife, reincarnation, or the soul tossed around by many world religions. Will we really ever be able to digitize the human consciousness? Do we really want to? Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
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UFO Spotted by Air Traffic Control Over Oregon, Recordings Reveal What Happened
UFO Spotted by Air Traffic Control Over Oregon, Recordings Reveal What Happened
By Cathy Zhang
F-15 fighters were unable to locate the UFO over Oregon on Oct. 25, 2017.
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On Oct. 25, 2017, a mysterious aircraft was spotted, in broad daylight, near a busy flight route over the state of Oregon. U.S. Air Force jet fighters were then launched to investigate. But found nothing.
Originally reported by The War Zone blog from auto news site The Drive, the unidentified aircraft was initially picked up on radar at around 4.30 p.m. The object was traveling at high speeds through Northern California at 37,000 feet, according to the site.
There was no flight path recorded for the aircraft, and it did not respond to radio calls. Neither did it appear on any nearby aircraft Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems.
The object then turned north and merged with nearby commercial air traffic, before disappearing from radar.
Shortly after, several pilots radioed into air traffic control to report sightings of a white aircraft flying at 37,000 feet, but at distance too far to make an identification. This occurred for a period of half an hour and over hundreds of miles.
US Air Force F-15 interceptor fighters were then scrambled from Portland. But despite their speed and radar capability, the fighters could not locate the mystery aircraft.
The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), and the U.S. Air Force both confirmed to War Zone that the event did occur.
Recently, War Zone obtained, via a freedom of information request, audio recordings of radio transmissions and phone calls made by FAA staff during and after the event.
The recordings paint a fuller picture of what happened as authorities struggled to determine what they were dealing with.
In a recording after the initial spotting by air traffic control, a controller reported an object traveling “very fast at 37,000,” before remarking: “That’s crazy.”
When the F-15 fighters enter the scene, they can be heard calling air traffic control asking for an update. The controller responds that the aircraft “must be in stealth mode or something.”
Phone interviews with the pilots who saw the UFO conducted after the event provide further details about the craft.
The pilot of Southwest 4712 noted that he had not seen anything like this in his nearly 30-year flying career.
“If it was like a Lear [private jet] type airframe I probably would not have seen it this clear. This was a white airplane and it was big,” he said. And it was moving at a clip too, because we were keeping pace with it, it was probably moving faster than we were… It was a larger aircraft yeah.”
Online users on Reddit have speculated that the object may have been a drug smuggling aircraft or a secret military stealth plane. However, it was a test run for a new stealth craft, flying through a commercial carrier route during daylight hours would seem to be an odd move.
A news.com.au writer conjectures that Russia and China, which also have developed aircraft stealth technology, could also be capable of a flyover such as this.
Whatever theories we may have about the strange white aircraft, the recordings show that even the officials didn’t have a clue.
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In mijn hele carrière heb ik nog nooit zoiets gezien. Verbazing en verwarring alom na UFO boven Oregon
In mijn hele carrière heb ik nog nooit zoiets gezien. Verbazing en verwarring alom na UFO boven Oregon
Op 25 oktober vorig jaar verscheen op klaarlichte dag een UFO boven de Amerikaanse staat Oregon. Er werden straaljagers op afgestuurd, maar die konden niets vinden.
Het onbekende vliegtuig werd rond 16.30 uur lokale tijd opgepikt op de radar, meldt website The Drive.
Het object bevond zich op ruim 11 kilometer hoogte en bewoog zich met grote snelheid voort. Het reageerde niet op radio-oproepen.
Niet traceren
Het kwam aangevlogen vanuit het noorden van Californië, begaf zich vervolgens onder het commerciële luchtverkeer en verdween uiteindelijk van de radar.
Kort daarop maakten diverse piloten bij de luchtverkeersleiding melding van een wit vaartuig op ongeveer 11 kilometer hoogte.
Vanuit Portland stegen F-15’s op om het object te onderscheppen, maar die konden het mysterieuze toestel niet traceren.
Gestoord
De Amerikaanse luchtvaartautoriteit en luchtmacht hebben bevestigd dat dit voorval zich daadwerkelijk heeft voorgedaan.
Uit geluidsopnames blijkt dat de autoriteiten grote moeite hadden om te begrijpen waar ze mee te maken hadden.
Een luchtverkeersleider maakte melding van een object ‘dat zeer snel bewoog op een hoogte van 11 kilometer’. “Dat is gestoord,” klonk het.
Nog nooit
Eén van de piloten merkte op dat hij gedurende zijn hele carrière nog nooit zoiets had gezien. “Het was een wit vliegtuig en het was groot,” zei hij.
Sommigen speculeren dat het object mogelijk een geheim militair stealthvliegtuig was. Maar het zou niet logisch zijn om zo’n vliegtuig te testen in een gebied waar ook lijnvliegtuigen vliegen.
A BUZZ ABOUT TOWN Canada city plagued by mysterious creepy humming noise that’s been driving residents mad for years… and nobody knows what it is
A BUZZ ABOUT TOWN Canada city plagued by mysterious creepy humming noise that’s been driving residents mad for years… and nobody knows what it is
The low-level noise dubbed the Windsor Hum, can be heard throughout Windsor, Ontario, home to almost 220,000 people
By Aletha Adu
A MYSTERIOUS low-level humming noise which has plagued a Canadian city for years has left residents unable to cope with the persistent sound with poor health.
The Windsor Hum, can be heard throughout Windsor, Ontario, home to almost 220,000 people, but it has been reported 90 miles away in the US city of Cleveland.
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The Windsor Hum is said to have plagued residents since 2011, sounding like the vibrations blasting from a sub woofe
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Troubled locals have taken matters into their own hands, recording the noise each day and comparing it to previous results, in a bid to determine its source
Complaints of the part noise, part vibration arose in 2011, when locals initially compared it to rattling windows.
But as the hum began to vary in its intensity, droning on for days at unbearable levels, distressed locals have taken to all forms of social media to question their hearing and vent their frustrations.
On Twitter, Kieran Owen wrote: "Heard the Windsor Hum for the first time. Like a distant yet gigantic lawn mower."
Jim Dunstan, who may be new to the local area questioned on Facebook: "Is there something going on? Can hear a loud humming and mechanical noises consistently in the past half hour or so."
Others have likened the sound to a fleet of diesel engines positioned right next to your home or the vibrations blasting from a concert sub woofer.
A Twitter group established to examine the Windsor Hum claimed the noise was at its worst in 2016.
The Windser Hum wrote: "The Hum is worse than its been in years!" A day later, another post said: "An entire community is being shaken by the Hum..24 hours and no rest!"
Locals have been affected to such an extent, they launched a private Facebook group to vent their frustrations, but also trying to find their own solutions.
Mike Provost who helps run the page has collected more than 4,000 pages of daily observations of the sound, during different weather conditions, in a bid to find a cause, the New York Times reported.
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Some believe the noise comes from Zug Island on the Detroit River, because it's heavily industrialised
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Even Detroit residents, pictured on the left side with bright lights, have complained of the persistent noise
Sabrina Wiese beckoned others to consider having to leave their home town - full of everything and everyone they know and love - just to escape the sound.
Researchers from the Canadian government, the University of Windsor and the University of Western Ontario launched a series of studies to investigate its cause, but are still yet to provide concrete explanations.
A report from The University of Windsor suggested the hum originates from Zug Island on the Detroit River, because it is full of manufacturing operations.
In deze stad wordt al jarenlang een mysterieus brommend geluid gehoord, en niemand weet waarom
In deze stad wordt al jarenlang een mysterieus brommend geluid gehoord, en niemand weet waarom
Al jaren wordt een Canadese stad geplaagd door een mysterieus brommend geluid. Niemand weet waar het vandaan komt.
De zogeheten Windsor Hum kan worden gehoord in Windsor in Ontario, waar bijna 220.000 mensen wonen.
Ook in de Amerikaanse stad Cleveland, enkele tientallen kilometers verderop, is het geluid inmiddels al gehoord.
Enorme grasmaaier
Veel mensen maken op sociale media melding van het geluid. “Heb de Windsor Hum voor het eerst gehoord,” schreef Kieran Owen op Twitter. “Het klinkt als een enorme grasmaaier.”
“Is hier iets aan de hand?” vroeg Jim Dunstan zich af op Facebook. “Hoor al een half uur een hard, zoemend en mechanisch geluid.”
Anderen vergeleken het geluid met een rij dieselmotoren die vlak naast hun huis waren geplaatst of subwoofers tijdens een concert. De Windsor Hum zou in 2016 op zijn ergst zijn geweest.
Geen verklaring
Mike Provost doet onderzoek naar het geluid en heeft al 4000 pagina’s aan materiaal verzameld, schrijft de New York Times. Nog altijd is er geen verklaring voor de Hum gevonden.
Onderzoekers van de Canadese overheid en verschillende universiteiten hebben meerdere studies verricht, maar daar is tot op heden niets uitgekomen.
De Universiteit van Windsor suggereerde dat het geluid mogelijk afkomstig is van Zug Island, waar allerlei zware machines staan.
Overal ter wereld
Mysterieuze geluiden zoals de Windsor Hum worden overal ter wereld gehoord, waaronder in Australië en Engeland.
In Groot-Brittannië haalde de zogeheten Bristol Hum eind jaren zeventig het nieuws.
WETENSCHAPWetenschappers hebben het mysterie ontrafeld rond een tempel voor Pluto in de oude stad Hiërapolis, vlak bij Pamukkale in het huidigeTurkije. Dieren die te dicht bij deze ‘poort naar de hel’ kwamen, overleefden het niet, priesters wél. Een nieuwe studie wijst uit dat de giftige dampen die uit de offergrot opstegen vooral uit dodelijk geogenische koolstofdioxide bestonden.
Ook het laatste decennium nog vielen vogels die te dicht bij Ploutonion (‘poort naar de hel’) vlogen dood neer. De overlevering wil dat de adem van Hades - de Griekse naam voor Pluto, god van de onderwereld - dodelijk was. In de Griekse en Romeinse oudheid werd ook beweerd dat mensen bedwelmd werden door de giftige dampen. Maar priesters konden blijkbaar wel overleven op de heilige plek.
Onderzoekers ontdekten dat de dampen voornamelijk bestaan uit dodelijke concentraties CO2-gassen, die opborrelen uit de aardkorst. De nieuwe studie werd gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Archaeological And Anthropological Sciences.
Meer dan 2.000 jaar geleden schreef de Griekse historicus en geograaf Strabo al: “Deze ruimte is gevuld met dampen, zo mistig en dicht dat je nauwelijks de grond kunt zien. Elk dier dat binnenkomt, valt onmiddellijk dood. Ik gooide er mussen in en ze bliezen meteen hun laatste adem uit en vielen neer.”
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Het heiligdom werd in 2011 door Italiaanse archeologen opnieuw blootgelegd. Tijdens de opgravingen stelden ze al vast dat de dampen verscheidene vogels hadden gedood. In de kleine tempel offerden priesters stieren aan Pluto, terwijl ze zelf lichtjes hallucineerden door de giftige dampen. Die blijken nu op te stijgen uit een onderaardse kamer waar een warmwaterbron boven een breuklijn ligt.
In de grot zelf kon de CO2-concentratie oplopen tot 91 procent, wat dodelijk is voor mens en dier. Rond de tempel konden priesters het hoofd hoog genoeg houden om zelf niet te bezwijken. Daar waren de concentraties veel lager. Vandaag ontsnappen volgens het onderzoek nog altijd kleinere gifwolken uit de grot, “die verbazingwekkend genoeg fataal kunnen zijn voor insecten, vogels en zoogdieren”.
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Black Knight Satellite FILMED by International Space Station, UFO watchers say
Black Knight Satellite FILMED by International Space Station, UFO watchers say
THE International Space Station (ISS) appears to have recorded the mysterious and ancient Black Knight Satellite floating near to the Soyuz spacecraft, according to space watchers.
The Black Knight Satellite is the name given to an object captured on camera by NASA astronauts during a 1998 space shuttle mission.
Conspiracy theorists claim the satellite is of extraterrestrial origin and possibly up to 13,000 years old and orbiting Earth in near-polar orbit.
The legend has been circulating since the Sixties and now footage uploaded to YouTube channel Section 51 claims to be evidence of the alleged craft.
A caption beneath the video reads: “Leaked pictures from ISS show the 13,000 year old Black Knight Satellite UFO very close to Soyuz Spacecraft during approach to the Station.”
Black Knight Satellite FILMED by International Space Station, UFO watchers say
In the video, a mysterious and long looking black object can be seen floating near the Soyuz spacecraft, which is set to dock with the ISS.
As astronauts are heard mumbling in the background, the black knight seems to stay in the distance as if it were keeping an eye on what is happening.
Some of the comments show viewers were convinced by the authenticity.
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The Black Knight Satellite is allegedly 13,000 years old
AkumaGaming wrote: “I have a funny feeling that isn't piloted by someone, sent here to observe us on a daily activity.”
The Black Knight Satellite theory developed in 1963 when NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper was reported as saying he had seen the satellite while in space, but there was a media blackout upon his return and the US space agency allegedly put it down to cosmic hallucinations.
A decade later in 1973, Duncan Lunan, a researcher from Scotland, looked back at the Norwegian scientist data from 1928, before claiming the "messages" suggested the Black Knight was sent by aliens from Epsilon Boötis, as a welcome message to Earth 12,600 years ago.
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It was first spotted in 1998
In 1998, the first alleged photographs of the satellite emerged and were taken by astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour, as it made its first flight to the ISS.
NASA however has looked to debunk the claims by saying that the Black Knight Satellite was actually a thermal blanket accidentally dropped from a space shuttle.
Is This The Gate To Hell? Researchers find Ancient ‘Portal To The Underworld’
Is This The Gate To Hell? Researchers find Ancient ‘Portal To The Underworld’
Despite the fact that the discovery sounds like an excellent beginning for a new Indiana Jones Movie—We love Indy—researchers say they have found what they are calling “The Gates of Hell.”
Obviously not in a literal way, this mythical portal to the underworld was mentioned by ancient Greeks and Romans alike.
“This space is full of a vapor so misty and dense that one can scarcely see the ground. Any animal that passes inside meets instant death. I threw in sparrows and they immediately breathed their last and fell,” wrote Greek historian Strabo (64 BCE – 24 CE).
An inscription at the site to underworld gods Pluto and Kore.
Image Credit: Francesco D’Andria/University of Salento
The site discovered by experts is located in ancient Phrygian city of Hierapolis, now Pamukkale in southwestern Turkey
The great majority of ancient legends refer to the different ways of reaching the underworld, going through different stages that increase the suffering of the soul that leaves the body.
For many Romans, this process began in “the gateway to the underworld” and scientists have recently revealed that the site still exists.
The place is actually a cave that has been rediscovered by researchers from the University of Salento (Italy). The place belonged to ancient Phrygia and was used to perform animal sacrifices by priests.
The site as it looks today.
Image Credit: Francesco D’Andria/University of Salento.
However, what the ancients considered a reality as a portal to the underworld is something entirely different, and we can thank science.
After finding the location of the ancient ‘portal to the underworld’ scientists have found out why animals that approached the site died nearly instantly.
The cause is an underground seismic activity, through which a large amount of volcanic carbon dioxide is expelled to the surface that killed the animals, but not to the priests performing the sacrifice.
The ancient priests must have surely thought they were favored by their gods, while in fact, it was just science, all along.
Specialists from the University of Duisburg-Essen, in Germany, took samples of the levels of carbon dioxide in the area surrounding the cave and found that the gas forms a kind of “lake” that rises 40 centimeters above the ground.
Deadly Gases Still Emerge From This Ancient Portal to the Underworld.
One of the most surprising facts is that this area continues to be as deadly as it was back in the days of the Ancient Romans and Greeks.
The gas is dissipated by the sun during the day but is more deadly at dawn. The concentration reaches above 50 percent at the very bottom of the lake, rising to around 35 percent at 10 centimeters, which could even kill a human – but, above 40 centimeters, the concentration drops rapidly, reports Science Alert.
However, above 40 centimeters, the concentration decreases rapidly.
“While the bull was standing within the gas lake with its mouth and nostrils at a height between 60 and 90 cm, the large grown priests (galli) always stood upright within the lake caring that their nose and mouth were way above the toxic level of the Hadean breath of death,” the team wrote in their paper.
“It is reported that they sometimes used stones to be larger.”
Archaeological evidence suggests that the site was fully functional until the 4th century AD, but remained a place of sporadic visitation by visitors for the next two centuries. The temple was destroyed in the 6th century AD by Christians, while later earthquakes may have further damaged the site
Hell On Earth: A Massive Crater In The Middle Of The Desert Has Been Burning For Decades
Hell On Earth: A Massive Crater In The Middle Of The Desert Has Been Burning For Decades
Ladies and gents, meet the Gateway, or Doorway to hell.
There is a mysterious crater in the middle of the desert that simply put, can’t stop burning.
This massive crater located in Turkmenistan has not stopped burning since 1971, the year in which it was created by accident.
In the middle of the Karakum desert, in Turkmenistan, a singular flaming hole emerges from the earth: the well of Darvaza, popularly known as “Door to Hell.”
Burn baby burn…
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It is a huge crater that burns day and night without ceasing for nearly 50 years.
The strange circular depression, near the small village of Darvaza, is located on a huge desert that occupies practically 70% of the territory of the country and is very rich in oil and natural gas.
The origin of the crater goes back to a accident that took place in 1971, when a group of Soviet geologists, believing they had found a natural gas field, was conducting a survey in the area.
However, in the middle of their research, the earth split open and swallowed their machinery and the tents, before the astonished look of the researchers.
Turns out they had discovered an underground cave filled with natural gas.
Aware of this, and fearing that the dangerous gases escaped, the geologists decided to set it on fire thinking that it would eventually cease to burn in a few days. Little did they know how wrong they were.
The Door to Hell, a burning natural gas field in Derweze, Turkmenistan. This image is made from three 17mm shots stitched together and the field of view (~170°) is larger than it may appear (the field has roughly the size of two basketball courts).
Ever since it was set on fire, the Door To Hell burns without stopping and offers a show so impressive that it attracts tourists and adventurers to the remote area. Since 2009, 50,000 touristshave visitedthesite. The gas crater has a total area of 5,350 m2. The surrounding area is also popular for wild desert camping.
And although there have been several attempts to put out the crater flames, 69 meters in diameter and 30 meters deep, the flames continue to urn just as they started burning 47 years ago.
Inside the Door To Hell, the temperatures reach 1000degreesCelsius.
Curiously, Canadian explorer GeorgeKourounis—a man with real cojones—became the first person to descend into the crater, in 2013.
The well is a tourist attraction.
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To achieve this extraordinary feat, Kourounis used a special system of pulleys, a heat-resistant suit, and breathing equipment.
Inside the well, he was able to take samples that allowed him to discover a methane-rich bacteria present in the burning environment.
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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.
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