Water may be all over the Moon, giving new hope for sustained life

By Chris Ciaccia | Fox News

It may not be as widely available as say a bottle of Poland Spring, but the water on the Moon may be more accessible than first thought, giving new hope for its potential.

The analysis, which appeared in the journal Nature Geoscience earlier this month, may wind up letting researchers understand where the water comes from. It could also indicate whether it could be used to sustain life or for conversion into rocket fuel, breaking it down into its base elements, hydrogen and oxygen.

"Regardless of the specific composition or formation mechanism, we conclude that OH/H2O [Hydroxide/Water] can be present on the Moon under thermal conditions more wide-ranging than previously recognized," the study's abstract reads. The study was conducted by Michael Poston, Joshua Bandfield, Rachel Klima and Christopher Edwards.

LUNAR FOUNTAIN? ACCESSIBLE ICE COULD LURK IN MOON'S LAVA TUBES

“By putting some limits on how mobile the water or the OH on the surface is, we can help constrain how much water could reach the cold traps in the polar regions,” said Poston in a NASA press release. 

Water was first discovered on the Moon in 2009 by three spacecraft. However, it was believed up until now that the water was trapped in "cold traps" at the Moon's poles. That is no longer the case.

According to NASA, a cold trap is a region that’s "so cold, the water vapor and other volatiles which come into contact with the surface will remain stable for an extended period of time, perhaps up to several billion years."

It's still unclear how accessible the water is, but the study does suggest that it can be found on the lunar surface both during the day and the night.

It's also unclear what its source is, though the team did not rule out that the water may be emanating from the Moon itself, via minerals.

TRUMP WANTS TO SEE NASA BOOTS ON THE MOON

“Some of these scientific problems are very, very difficult, and it’s only by drawing on multiple resources from different missions that are we able to hone in on an answer,” said NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter project scientist John Keller in the release.

The study follows recent reports that suggest there may be an underground network of lava tubes on the Moon which may provide access to subsurface ice, as well as water.

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28-02-2018 om 21:22 geschreven door peter  

We’ve just found the earliest traces of hydrogen, showing when the first-ever stars ignited

 BY ALEXANDRU MICU 

MIT and Arizona State University researchers are hot on the heels of the Universe’s first stars: they’ve traced the faint signals of hydrogen gas energized by stellar radiation just 180 million years after the Big Bang.

Image via Pixabay.

Where does everything come from? That’s one of the questions people have been burning to answer since times immemorial. It’s a hugely complicated question, but science can offer some bits and pieces to start cobbling the answer together. A paper published today by MIT and Arizona State University researchers uncovered a fundamental one such piece: the earliest evidence of hydrogen gas and the earliest evidence of stars igniting that we’ve ever seen.

The gas from whence we came

Using a table-sized radio antenna plopped down in a remote part of western Australia, dubbed EDGES (Experiment to Detect Global EoR Signature), the team managed to pick up trace signals generated by hydrogen gas, just 180 million years after the Big Bang. This is the earliest evidence we’ve ever seen for the presence of hydrogen in the early universe — a very important find, considering hydrogen is the simplest, and thus first, atom out there. The team was also able to determine that by this time, the gas bore traces of the first stars in the world.

“This is the first real signal that stars are starting to form, and starting to affect the medium around them,” says study co-author Alan Rogers, a scientist at MIT’s Haystack Observatory.

“What’s happening in this period is that some of the radiation from the very first stars is starting to allow hydrogen to be seen. It’s causing hydrogen to start absorbing the background radiation, so you start seeing it in silhouette, at particular radio frequencies.”

The EDGES instrument was designed to pick up radio signals generated during a time in the universe’s history known as the Epoch of Reionization, or EoR. It’s during this time that we think the first sources of light (such as stars) sprang up in the world, from a sort of cosmic primordial soup made up mostly of hydrogen gas. Not much else was happening before this time, mostly due to a lack of energy to change objects in the universe: hydrogen, for example, was virtually invisible, as its energy state made it indistinguishable from the surrounding cosmic background radiation.

The dark Horsehead Nebula in the constellation Orion. Hydrogen corresponds to red.
Image credits Ken Crawford.

But the birth of these sources of light and energy ionized the hydrogen gas, changing its energy state, and making it release energy as radio waves — and that’s exactly what EDGES was designed to pick up.

However, not all went according to plan. When the team looked at the frequency range the antenna was designed to pick up, between 100 to 200 megahertz, they hardly picked up any signal.

Void-cold

One explanation they came up with is that the theoretical models which we used to calculate what emissions this early hydrogen would give off overestimated the gas’ temperature. So they re-crunched the numbers, this time assuming that the hydrogen and its environment were at about the same, lower temperature. They decided their best bet was to search the 50 to 100 megahertz frequency range, so they returned their antenna and flipped the switch again.

“As soon as we switched our system to this lower range, we started seeing things that we felt might be a real signature,” Rogers says.

The device picked up a flattened absorption profile (i.e. a dip in the radio wave-spectrum) centered around 78 megahertz. Rogers adds that the frequency corresponds to “roughly 180 million years after the Big Bang”, adding that “this has got to be the earliest” detection of a signal from hydrogen we yet have. To put things into perspective, we know that the universe is at least 11 billion years old, and most estimates place its age upwards of 13.5 billion years.

The radio profile matches theoretical predictions of a star-hydrogen interaction. These early stellar bodies poured ultraviolet radiation out into the void, ionizing any surrounding body of hydrogen. As a result, the gas began to absorb background radiation, which changed the spin on its single electron. Ultimately, this change made the atoms emit, rather than absorb, radiation, at a characteristic wavelength of 21 centimeters, or a frequency of 1,420 megahertz — becoming, in effect, ‘visible’ for the first time.

Red-shift affected these waves, so by the time it reached present-day Earth, it was somewhere in the range of 100 megahertz.

But the dip in the radio spectrum was also stronger and deeper than the models predicted — suggesting that the hydrogen was indeed colder than previously assumed. The team estimates that the hydrogen gas and the universe as a whole must have been twice as cold as previously estimated, at about 3 kelvins, or -270.15 degrees Celsius / -454 degrees Fahrenheit.

The edges of discovery

Image credits MIT / Haystack Observatory.

The research is likely the best window we’ll have into the universe’s early history for a long time to come. It took an incredible scientific effort to obtain these results. It took years of hard work for engineers and scientists to design, re-design, and re-calibrate the EDGES instrument to even have a hope of picking up on these signals. Peter Kurczynski, program director for Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation in the Division of Astronomical Sciences at the National Science Foundation, the organization that built EDGES, compares it to “being in the middle of a hurricane and trying to hear the flap of a hummingbird’s wing.”

“Sources of noise can be a thousand times brighter than the signal they are looking for,” he explains.

It was built in the middle of Australia’s nowhere (which has to be at least nowhere squared) because it was the most remote place they could get to — and that limited interference from man-made radio signals, which would easily overpower any of the signals the antenna was designed to pick up on.

“It is unlikely that we’ll be able to see any earlier into the history of stars in our lifetimes,” lead author Judd Bowman of ASU says. “This project shows that a promising new technique can work and has paved the way for decades of new astrophysical discoveries.”

It’s also the first actual glimpse we get into this period of the universe, a particularly important one — these were, after all, the universe’s early days. The foundation of everything we see today was laid down during that Epoch.

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28-02-2018 om 21:05 geschreven door peter  

Astronomen detecteren signalen van eerste sterren in de kosmos - HLN.be

Bron: ANP

De intensiteit van de waargenomen signalen laat veronderstellen dat het universum veel sneller is afgekoeld dan gedacht. Dit kan leiden tot het herzien van de kosmologische modellen, en het mogelijk beter begrijpen van de mysterieuze donkere materie, die voor telescopen onzichtbaar is.

Lees ook

Dan toch geen kans op leven bij ruimtebuurman die op slechts vier lichtjaar van de aarde ligt

De bewuste astrofysici, onder wie Brian Schmidt, winnaar van de Nobelprijs voor Fysica in 2011, noemen de ontdekking “revolutionair”. Anderen roepen op tot “voorzichtigheid”. De observatie moet nog bevestigd worden door instrumenten en andere teams van wetenschappers.

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28-02-2018 om 20:28 geschreven door peter  

Maan bevat meer water dan eerst gedacht - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

Bijna een decennium geleden werd met sondes bevestigd dat er water is op de maan. De theorie luidde toen dat het vervat zat aan de polen in zogenaamde ‘cold traps’. Dat zijn gebieden die zo koud zijn dat waterdamp en andere vluchtige stoffen die met het oppervlak in aanraking komen gedoemd zijn om daar misschien wel miljarden jaren op rij stabiel te blijven. Maar nieuw en veelbelovend onderzoek zet die theorie op de helling, zo blijkt uit een recente publicatie in het vakblad Nature Geoscience gemeld.

Twee maanmissies, de Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter en de Chandrayaan-1, geven aan dat het water op onze maan over het hele oppervlak verspreid kan zijn. Het zou dus niet beperkt zijn tot een bepaalde regio’s (zoals de polen) of vastzitten in een bepaald terrein (zoals kraters). Bovendien lijkt het water zowel dag als nacht aanwezig te zijn, voornamelijk in de vorm van OH (of hydroxyl). Dit bestaat uit één zuurstofatoom en één waterstofatoom. 

Hoe toegankelijk het water is en waar het vandaan komt, is niet duidelijk. Maar mogelijk kan het uiteindelijk als drinkwater dienen, tot waterstof en zuurstof voor raketmotoren worden geconverteerd of tot lucht voor ruimtereizigers worden herleid. 

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28-02-2018 om 20:10 geschreven door peter  

Should we fear robots or embrace them?

That question gets more difficult to answer every day as new announcements are released about robotic achievements and advances in artificial intelligence. Just in the past week we’ve seen a realistic robotic dog that can open a door and fight off a human who tries to stop it, a realistic walking humanoid robot that puts out fires, a call to equip robots with kill switches, a warning that robots will use humans as guinea pigs and a call to be cautious rather than dystopic. Which one is it?

Boston Dynamics, a world leader in robotics, released two videos of one of its latest inventions – a four-legged SpotMini robot dog that can open a door with its ‘mouth’. The popularfirst video shows how cute the robotic pet looks as it grabs the knob without the usual canine slobber, while the second, which is called “Testing Robustness,” shows the pit bull wannabe fighting off a human who tries to stop it. Here’s a telling statement from the second video’s commentary:

“The ability to tolerate and respond automatically to disturbances like these improves successful operation of the robot. (Note: This testing does not irritate or harm the robot.)”

What about irritating or harming humans?

Not SpotMini but this is how it starts

Next, the Italian Institute of Technology’s (IIT) released a video of its WALK-MAN humanoid robot performing a simulated disaster rescue operation during an industrial plant disaster where it walks into a room, turns off a leaking gas valve, clears out debris and operates a fire extinguisher. While not fully autonomous (yet), all it will take is for one WALK-MAN to rescue a baby in a fire to move humans to embrace it like the Sony Walkman of the 80s and 90s (which ultimately took control of how humans listen to music … coincidence?).

Do we need to put a ‘kill switch’ or ‘kill chip’ in the brains of robots to stop them before their AI turns on their human overlords (if they even exist anymore) and kills their makers? Futurist Dr. Michio Kaku said in a Reddit Q/A session that he thinks it’s imperative to do this … and here’s why.

“I think we should chip their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.”

Murderous thoughts in robots! The plot of many sci-fi movies, which Dr. Kaku doesn’t see happening until 2100. But what about in the meantime? Fellow futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson has his own dystopian view of the future. He told The Sun he believes robots will act like rogue states and, as they gain more intelligence than humans, turn us into their own enslaved guinea pigs.

“We’ll have trained it to be like us, trained it to feel emotions like us, but it won’t be like us. It will be a bit like aliens off Star Trek—smarter and more calculated in its actions. It will be insensitive to humans, viewing us as barbaric. So when it decides to carry out its own experiments, with viruses that it’s created, it will treat us like guinea pigs.”

Guinea pigs of robots! Another great sci-fi plot that seems awfully close to reality – far sooner than 2100. Is there any hope for humans against robots and their murderous, rogue-state AI brains?

“What we are faced with, this list suggests, is not an existential threat to humanity but sharper forms of the problems with which we are already grappling. AI should be seen not in terms of super-intelligent machines but as clever bits of software that, depending on the humans wielding them, can be used either for good or ill.”

That’s from the new report, “The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation,” which says we should worry less about the robots themselves and more about humans panicking over the advance of said robots.

Is this a good idea? We humans do tend to panic easily.

Then again, how do we know this report wasn’t written by a robot as the next step in leading us complacently into its guinea pig lair?

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28-02-2018 om 19:53 geschreven door peter  

There have certainly long been plenty of reports of reptilian humanoids reported across cultures and all over the world, some of which I have covered here at Mysterious Universe before, and such beings have become intertwined with the myths and legends of many cultures throughout our planet. But taking it to the next surreal level is a rather persistent and pervasive conspiracy theory that not only are lizard people real, but that they are taking over the world as we know it. It is an idea so far out in the fringe that it is considered pretty out there even among other conspiracy theorists, yet it has managed to become rather stubborn and pervasive, an idea that has gained momentum and just will not go away, and the notion that we are in thrall to some mysterious race of reptilian overlords seems like it is here to stay for awhile.

The main thrust of such bizarre theories originates with a man named David Icke. Originally a professional soccer player, before moving on in later years to the position of sportscaster, Icke’s calling took a sharp right turn into the bizarre when he had a “spiritual awakening” and became deeply interested in psychic abilities and various unexplained phenomena. He began to take up the reputation of being a psychic, making various predictions and outlandish claims, including one in which he insisted the world would end in 1997 (hint- it didn’t). He really found his true calling, however, when he latched onto the idea that ancient shape-changing reptilian aliens had come to Earth thousands of years ago and were in the process of infiltrating society for the sinister purposes of taking over the world to work towards some sort of New World Order.

David Icke

The theory first leapt out into the public consciousness with the publication of Icke’s book The Biggest Secret, in which he lays out the whole thing in great detail. According to Icke, his research showed that millennia ago a race of reptilian aliens called the the Anunnaki visited Earth and began to press us and mate with us, spreading out their bloodlines and working their way into society until they controlled all aspects of our life. Icke claimed that these creatures could shape-shift or possess humans, and they were claimed to have designed all of the world’s major religions, as well as government systems and other aspects of civilization as we know it, all while they fed upon us and performed human sacrifices and genetic manipulation on us.

Icke claims that the presence of these beings was well-known amongst ancient peoples, and cites as proof several passages from religious books such as the Bible, where he claims there can be found references to these Reptilians and their efforts to interbreed with and control humans. He also cites the numerous references throughout cultures to the worship of reptile gods and other entities, such as the Mesopotamian reptile serpent god Quetzalcoatl, the reptilian Naga of India, and many others. This is all evidence of out ancestors having had contact with out reptilian overlords in ancient times, according to Icke. He would say of this incredible theory:

I make these connections, not just from intuition, but from a tremendous amount of ancient and modern evidence that shows that this reptilian connection travels right through these thousands of years to the present day. Some of these references to serpents and dragons are obviously symbolic, not the least, the Kundalini energy and other things, but when you look at the evidence, there is a tremendous number of literal references to serpent people – serpent gods.

Over the centuries these Reptilians interbred with us and spread out to the world along with humankind, and managed to insert themselves into important families and organizations, from which they control religion, the government, education, and of course the media. These creatures are apparently attracted to our planet because of the “vibrations” present here, plus the fact that we give them a chance to continue to reproduce. Icke said of this:

The reptilians and other manipulating entities exist only just outside the frequency range of our physical senses. Their own physical form has broken down and they can no longer re-produce. Thus they have sought to infiltrate human form and so use that to exist and control in this dimension. They chose the Earth for this infiltration because it most resembles in vibration the locations from which they originate. These reptilians are addicted to the dense physical “world” and the sensations it offers and they have no desire to advance higher. Their aim in this period is to stop the Earth and incarnate humanity from making the shift from dense physical prison into multi-dimensional paradise.

By having power in every single country, the Reptilians have created a global prison that people don’t even realize they’re in. The prison was created by drawing country lines, which leads to endless wars and conflicts. Another way they control humans is by distracting us with media, entertainment, and even politics. They’ve also made the population stupid and lazy by poisoning food, the air, and the water.

A crucial aspect of all of this has been to create a network of mystery schools and secret societies to covertly introduce their agenda while, at the same time, creating institutions like religions to mentally and emotionally imprison the masses and set them at war with each other.

One common theme with the whole Reptilian conspiracy is interbreeding with human and genetic experiments upon us. This mixing of their DNA with that of humans and other genetic doctoring has been claimed to have several purposes. One is to allow them to more completely blend in and infiltrate us, and another is that it was meant to limit our mental capacity in order to keep us meek, stupid, and compliant. According to Icke, this reptilian DNA lies dormant within many of us, waiting to be activated at a moment’s notice to serve the whims of our Reptilian overlords. His whole philosophy on this is quite complex, and at times really absolutely bonkers, but he says of it:

These reptilians and their allies have corrupted Earth DNA with their own and this genetic infiltration lies dormant until it is activated by the vibrational fields generated by the Illuminati secret society rituals, and others in the public eye like the carefully designed coronations and official ceremonies of many kinds, including even the UK State Opening of Parliament and certainly those of the various religions.

Once activated, the DNA opens the body to possession by these reptilians and other beings, and this is what is happening, for example, to Freemasons in the rituals that most of them deliver parrot fashion while having no idea of their vibrational significance. This is why the Illuminati are so obsessed with knowing a person’s bloodline. They know which have the potential for this activation and possession and which do not. The Mormon Church genealogical data base and now the DNA data banks are designed to identify those with the bloodline. These are the people who are given jobs and roles that serve the Illuminati agenda, while most of them have no idea what is really going on and what they are being used for. Their DNA is then activated and they go through a change of character (a phrase I have heard so many times in relation to such people once they advance in the system) and a very different consciousness takes over their mental and emotional processes.

Each new generation of the Illuminati bloodline families is exposed to the appropriate ritual to activate their possession by the reptilian entities and so the cycle goes on. The phrase that comes to mind is “…forgive them for they know not what they do.

This all goes very deep, according to Icke, with the bloodline of the aliens getting rather complex, and with a hierarchy involved with both the Reptoids themselves and the many hybrids they have spawned that are said to walk amongst us. In particular, Icke makes frequent mention of the difference between “full bloods,” meaning they are of or close to the original Reptilian alien stock, and hybrids, which are generally lower on the totem pole. Full bloods are claimed to be in possession of a vast array of powers, such as shape-changing, which is supposedly achieved through vibrations that trick the human mind into seeing what the Reptilian wants you to see, and other abilities such as mind-control. Hybrids, on the other hand, are said to lack these powers, look very much like humans without any obfuscation, and are often not even aware of their alien ancestry. These hybrids are apparently constantly manipulated and influenced by the pureblood ruling class towards their own agendas. Icke even claims that there are two different races of Reptilian; the winged Dracos and the more humanoid Reptoids. It is a lot to take in.

Seeing as these Reptilians are said to be fond of taking over the wealthiest and most powerful of families and secret societies, it is perhaps no surprise that Icke names many of them as being without a doubt crawling with lizard people. The ever present conspiratorial society called the Illuminati is said to be basically Lizard Central, with many families of pureblood Reptilians in its ranks, and the mythology of this all incredibly complex and beyond the scope of what I plan to go into here, but which was written of extensively in Stewart A. Swerdlow’s book Blue Blood, True Blood: Conflict & Creation, which goes into considerable, meticulous detail on as to how the Reptilians are connected to the dealings of the notorious Illuminati.

Of course, these alleged Reptilians can apparently be seen in powerful mainstream families politics, and other public figures and historical figures as well. The French king Charlemagne, the Pope, the Rockefellers, the powerful Rothschild family of Germany, the British Royal family, and many American presidents including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, the Clintons, the Obamas, and the Bushes, and, yes, Trump, are all named as Reptilians in disguise. Countless entertainers are also accused of being Reptilians, including Bob Hope, Marilyn Monroe, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, and many others. Virtually everyone who is anyone is suspected by Icke of being a Reptilian or hybrid, and it all serves to keep us under control and subservient to our real, Reptilian masters.

The media is also accused by Icke of being highly influenced by the Reptilians, and they supposedly use it as a tool to feed us a constant barrage of images and stories designed to dull our minds, usurp our common sense and rationality, and keep us asleep and “unconscious.” Adding to the list of conspiracies of plots perpetuated by the Reptilians is that they also seek to use medication and drugs such as alcohol to manipulate us, and that they have effectively corrupted our food and water supply with such insidious chemical agents. These are not really new ideas among those who distrust government and politicians in general, by it is all given a rather bizarre spin when it is all blamed on flesh-eating, shape-shifting reptilian aliens from beyond the stars looking to subjugate the human race for their own inscrutable purposes.

This may all sound rather insane, and in many ways it perhaps is, yet Icke and others like him have still managed to draw large numbers of  people into these incredible theories and accusations. Websites and books on the Reptilian conspiracy go through great lengths to provide the “evidence,” and are often so dense with esoteric jargon and psuedo-science, and worded in such a way that it is easy to see how it might resonate with someone as true and how they might get sucked down into the rabbit hole to actually start believing this stuff. I waded through quite a bit of it while looking into this, and it is all admittedly an assault on the psyche that could very feasibly pull someone in, and by all accounts it already has. Indeed, it is estimated that a full 12 million Americans believe that this is all true, and that a secret race of Lizard People rule from behind the scenes pulling the strings and subjugating us through whatever means possible. In the end it is up to each individual to decide what one believes, but for this author if there are mysterious entities controlling our lives from the background, then I would say that it is not reptilian Lizard People. It is obviously the Greys.

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28-02-2018 om 19:39 geschreven door peter  

VREEMDE CONSTRUCTIE WORDT ZICHTBAAR OP ANTARCTICA

Het ijzige continent Antarctica is niet altijd bevroren geweest en door de heftige aardveranderingen en de zogenaamde wobble van de aarde wordt het op sommige plaatsen kouder dan normaal en elders precies andersom.

En dat betekent dan weer dat er op Antarctica dingen zichtbaar worden die voorheen verborgen bleven. 

Wat het veroorzaakt, weten we niet precies. Het kan komen door de aardveranderingen waarbij het weer op sommige plaatsen anders wordt dan normaal of het kan een andere oorzaak hebben, maar op Antarctica wordt iets zichtbaar wat er voorheen niet was.

Het ziet er ongeveer zo uit:

Het geheel is ongeveer 300 meter lang en de muren zijn tussen de 30 en 50 meter hoog.

Het is niet iets natuurlijks en wanneer je het wat verder uitvergroot ziet het er zo uit:

Het lijkt op de restanten van een gebouw of een nederzetting waar ooit mensen hebben gewoond.

Je kunt het ook zelf bekijken wanneer je de volgende coördinaten gebruikt:: 69°53'42.03"S 8°42'22.02"E

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28-02-2018 om 18:13 geschreven door peter  

VEEL 'TWEEDE ZONNEN" WAAR GENOMEN ( VIDEO )

Steeds vaker zie je beelden van mensen die vlak in de buurt van onze zon een "tweede zon" waarnemen, vooral bij zonsopkomst en -ondergang. 

Al snel worden dit soort opnames verwezen naar het rijk der fabelen en afgedaan als lensflares, maar steeds vaker gaat ook die vlieger niet meer op. 

Voor ons is het niet zo verrassend dat er steeds vaker een tweede zon wordt waargenomen. Maar, voor de meeste mensen is dit toch iets onvoorstelbaars, want er is toch helemaal geen vreemde planeet in ons zonnestelsel?

Voor hen is het misschien toch wel schokkend om te zien dat er steeds vaker beelden worden gemaakt van een soort tweede zon. De positie waar deze wordt waargenomen kan behoorlijk variëren, zeker met zonsopkomst en -ondergang en is helemaal afhankelijk van de positie op aarde.

Iemand aan wie we al vaker aandacht aan hebben besteed, is een dame uit West Virginia, Amber Williamson, die eind vorig jaar bijzondere opnames maakte. Deze zijn uitgebreid gecontroleerd door Marshall Masters en hij is ervan overtuigd dat ze echt zijn en bovendien heeft Amber deze tweede zon ook met het blote oog waargenomen.

Zo maakte zij onlangs de volgende opnames tegen zonsondergang. Je ziet de normale zon en daarachter heel duidelijk een tweede planeet/zon. Deze opname is heel mooi, want het sluit een lensflare uit, simpelweg omdat de tweede zon zich achter de bomen bevindt, wat bij een lensflare niet kan.

De volgende opname is genomen door Philip Sinclair uit Somerset in de Amerikaanse staat Massachusetts. Ook deze foto is door Marshall Masters gecontroleerd en volgens hem echt en ook hier zie je de tweede zon gedeeltelijk schuil gaan achter wolken. Ook hier is de opname gemaakt tegen zonsondergang.

De volgende opname is niet tegen zonsondergang, maar wat eerder op de dag genomen door Steve Dix uit Flagstaff in de staat Arizona. Ook deze foto is na controle echt bevonden en laat duidelijk een tweede zon zien aan de hemel. (Redactie: wij hebben twijfels over of dit niet toch een lensflare is.)

De volgende opname is voor de verandering genomen tijdens zonsopkomst. Ook hier is heel duidelijk sprake van een tweede zon.

Aan de rechterkant de zon, links de tweede zon/planeet en ook hier geen sprake van een lensflare omdat ook hier de planeet gedeeltelijk achter de wolken schuil gaat.

De exacte locatie is niet bekend, maar zo te horen aan de stem van de vrouw in onderstaande video, ergens in Amerika. Wat deze video ook interessant maakt, is dat de vrouwe die deze heeft gemaakt ooit slechts enkele video's op haar kanaal heeft geplaatst en op het moment dat wij de video zagen deze slechts 22 keer was bekeken.

Het heeft dan ook alle kenmerken van een echte opname en het is zeker niet de maan, want de opkomsttijd van de maan in Amerika was op de datum van 4 februari toen deze video werd gemaakt, pas 's avonds. 

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28-02-2018 om 18:04 geschreven door peter  

ALIEN MOTHERSHIP? Huge object seen ’releasing UFOs’ over city in bizarre video

A HUGE craft has allegedly been recorded "releasing several smaller UFOs" over a city, a video report by conspiracy theorists claims. Footage released by YouTube UFO channel Thirdphaseofmoon shows what appears to be a cluster of lights hovering in the night sky.

28-02-2018 om 17:39 geschreven door peter  

New Satellite Will Shift Shape While in Space

 

Airbus

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28-02-2018 om 01:33 geschreven door peter  

Triangular Object Spotted “Dogfighting” With Two F-16s Inside Area 51

Photos shot from UFO Seekers allegedly show unknown, triangular object interacting with two U.S. Air Force F-16s.

On Feb. 15, 2017, UFO seekers Tim Doyle and Tracey Su were camping near Groom Lake to take pictures and film videos of activity in the skies inside Area 51. During their stay, they spotted a couple of F-16s dogfighting and snapped some shots at the jets. It wasn’t until they got back home, when they started reviewing the pictures, that they noticed a third unidentified aircraft that they described as a “triangular” object which appeared to be dogfighting the “Vipers” (as the F-16s are dubbed within the fighter pilots community).

The video below includes the pictures shot by Tracey (go to 19:45).

“We try to be a medium between the UFO Community and the Aviation Community. My dad worked at Plant 42 and other family had similar jobs. So people shouldn’t believe we would ever jump to advocating the existence of aliens or an alien craft at AREA 51. But that day we did catch a third craft, unfortunately we only used the photos in the video. All media from that trip was lost in a hard drive failure. In fact UFO Seekers lost over 5 months worth of media (6TB). It may have been a foreign aircraft as that is the primary purpose of the airspace at Groom Lake. Also I know the Air Force tests craft like the Polecat at the NTTR so it may have been an unmanned drone. But maybe, just maybe, it was something more,” said Tim in a message to The Aviationist.

The two F-16s flying close to the mysterious object (highlighted). This is a screen grab from UFO Seekers video filmed close to Area 51.

Here’s the mysterious object. (Screenshot from the UFO Seekers video).

The resolution of images in the video does not allow a proper identification of the object which might well be a drone (or a distant manned aircraft…such as an F-117 that was spotted flying over Nevada with accompanying F-16, in the recent past). Assessing the size is also difficult: even though the perspective might be a factor here, the object seems to be smaller than the F-16s, but probably much larger than a micro-drone as the bird-sized Perdix drones, 103 of those, launched from three F/A-18F Super Hornets, took part in one of the world’s largest micro-drone swarms over the skies of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California on Oct. 25, 2016. That said, the aircraft could be a prototype of some new UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), maybe a UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle), a weaponized drone.

Considered the position of the two fighters, rather than a dogfight, it seems that the jets were chasing the mysterious object rather than engaging it. Maybe they had just intercepted it in a simulated VID mission, or they were simply shadowing or filming a test flight. However, unlike what happened last year with the shots of the Su-27P dofighting with an F-16 inside Area 51, these new photos embedded in a YT video can’t provide a clear picture of the interaction.

Anyway, what’s your opinion? Let us know.

H/T @ufo_seekers

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28-02-2018 om 01:26 geschreven door peter  

Famous Black Knight UFO satellite myth 'solved' by YouTube novice in just 11 minutes

From the nervous, shaky start, you can tell it's his first ever YouTube video. The narrator even apologised for his amateur presenting style and asked viewers to bear with him.

28-02-2018 om 01:12 geschreven door peter  

'UFO hovered over my head' Robbie Williams says a flying saucer came close enough to hit

ROBBIE Williams claims a flying saucer once hovered over his head and was so close he could have hit the UFO with a tennis ball and the pop legend insists he was stone cold sober at the time. The former Take That star says the UFO was so close he could have hit a tennis ball at it had he been holding one and a racket.

28-02-2018 om 00:48 geschreven door peter  

Alien bases hidden across UK claims conspiracy theorist after 20-year old UFO snap emerges

ALIEN bases are hidden across Britain, one of the top UFO hunters has claimed as he suggested extraterrestrial life is working with the military underground. Scott C Waring, editor of Ufosightingsdaily.com, claims aliens are secretly working with the British military in hidden underground bases.

28-02-2018 om 00:34 geschreven door peter  

Argentina: UFOs Over a Rural Service Station in Entre Rios

Source: AHORA (Argentina)
Date: 02.26.2018
A report by Elias Moreira Aliendro

Argentina: UFOs Over a Rural Service Station in Entre Rios

The mysterious lights were recorded and shared on social media, where cybernauts were consulted as to their opinion of what the objects might be in an effort to arrive at a logical explanation. What could be involved here? See the photos.

Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) were seen last night over the rural region of El Quebracho, Department of La Paz, over the premises of a local filling station.

The lights that could be seen and recorded by witnesses were shared on social media, where an effort to find a logical answer to the mystery was made. What could the lights have been?

"When we began asking questions, some suggested it could be a rebound effect of artificial lights, since there are dancing establishments in the local canyons. However, given the distance from where the place the photo was taken and Santa Elena, which is the nearest community, we don't believe those two single lights could have been the result," wrote local journalist Oscar Cuenca.

A major fire was unleashed in Granja Tres Arroyos, very near the area, causing considerable smoke over the region. "Given the density of the smoke in the air, others think a tube-shaped beam of light would have been necessary for the images to have been produced by a projector," said the reporter.

"Ultimately, others said on account of that the thickness of the smoke in the air, the luminous effect was caused by the atmosphere itself, as it was a clear night."

[Translation (c) 2018 IHU with thanks to Luis Burgos, Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía]

Mystery solved: Luis Burgos writes - "A local witness tells me [the lights] were produced by a floodlight from a dance hall/bowling alley located a little more than 20 kilometers from the place, on Route 12. Given the density of the smoke-saturated air resulting from fires in the vicinity, this was the result."

27-02-2018 om 23:59 geschreven door peter  

The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than We Thought, Hubble Data Suggests

27-02-2018 om 23:50 geschreven door peter  

Humans Will Hear from Intelligent Aliens This Century, Physicist Says

27-02-2018 om 23:30 geschreven door peter  

12,000 Years Ago, A Mysterious Culture Built The First Temple On Earth

Located 2,500 feet above sea level at the top of a mountain ridge in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, some 15 kilometers (9 mi) northeast of the town of Şanlıurfa lie the breathtaking ruins of Göbekli Tepe; a Neolithic sanctuary built some 12,00 years ago by a mysterious people.

This ancient site was found by accident when an old Kurdish shepherd named Savak Yildiz discovered the ruins in October 1994. According got accounts, Savak Yildiz spotted something protruding from the ground, and as he brushed away the dust to expose the mystery object, he came across a large oblong-shaped stone. Little did he know that he had found a long-lost ancient sanctuary built thousands of years ago.

Later that year, news reached archaeologist Klaus Schmidt from the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut who traveled to the location and eventually inspected the site, soon realizing it was Neolithic in origin.

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Some called the discovery of Göbekli Tepe as the discovery of the century. Now we know that this ancient site is around 12,000 years old, it was built by an unknown population and was most likely buried on purpose by its builders. Archaeological surveys have shown that the ancient site is around 7,000 years older than Mesopotamia’s Fertile Crescent, which has long been heralded as the cradle of civilization.

The age of Göbekli Tepe is of great importance. Archaeologists firmly believe it is several thousand years older than Stonehenge and The Great Pyramid of Giza.

To get an idea of its importance, if we take a look at biblical tradition, the world began in 4000 BC, yet here we have a monument that was built more than 12,000 years ago. This points not only to the fact that 12,00 years ago advanced civilizations existed on Earth, but they were also capable of erecting some of the most impressive structures on the surface of the planet.

At Göbekli Tepe we have historic evidence that contradicts our normal understanding of the evolution of civilization and therefore mankind as we know it.

However, what is perhaps even more mind-bending is that after more than 20 years of excavations and research, archaeologists exploring the ancient site have failed to recover a single stone-cutting tool.

This makes you wonder, how can you create massive, 19-foot-tall, perfectly-sculpted columns that are up to 12,000 years old, and not find any evidence whatsoever of tools used to accomplish this?

The builders of Göbekli Tepe created a work of art in stone. At the site, we can find depictions of creatures like armadillos, wild boars, and geese, animals that are not indigenous to the region.

What is interesting is that located less than 350 Miles from Göbekli Tepe is the site many biblical scholars believe to be the resting place of Noah’s ark, so the animal carvings of Gobekli Tepe suggest a time in the region’s history when the indigenous animal population may have been of a different anthropological origin. We have to ask the question, could Göbekli Tepe and Noah’s ark be connected in a way?

After decades of exploration, we have learned very little about this archaeological site, and its builders. Despite the fact that progress has been made, we still do not know the answers to some of the most important questions like, who built Göbekli Tepe? To what purpose? And how was Göbekli Tepe preserved until today? Researchers point that Göbekli Tepe was “carefully” placed underneath the sand, as its builders made sure the whole site was buried. But… why would the builders bury such an incredible site? To protect it? To preserve it?

Why would ancient man build these massive structures around the world? Many of them are similar if not identical in design. Is there a connection? A pattern around the globe?

Göbekli Tepe is considered as an archaeological discovery of the exceptional importance since it could deeply change our understanding of a crucial stage in the evolution of human societies. “Göbekli Tepe changes everything,” says Ian Hodder of Stanford University. David Lewis-Williams, professor of archaeology at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, says that “Göbekli Tepe is the most important archaeological site in the world.”

At present, Göbekli Tepe raises more questions for archaeology and prehistory than it answers. We do not know how a force large enough to construct, augment, and maintain such an abundant complex was mobilized and rewarded or fed in the conditions of pre-sedentary society.

We cannot “read” the pictograms, and do not know for certain what meaning the animal reliefs had for visitors to the site; the variety of fauna depicted, from lions and bears to birds and insects, makes any single explanation problematic.

Is there something more to Göbekli Tepe? Could these ruins have an extraterrestrial connection? Was Göbekli Tepe built so that the “Sky Gods” could admire it from the sky? Or was Göbekli Tepe built to commemorate an important event in ancient man’s history?

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27-02-2018 om 23:14 geschreven door peter  

Scientists Find There May Be Water All Over The Moon, And Not Just At Its Poles

NASA researchers say that the water is distributed throughout the surface of our satellite day and night. Its presence can be fundamental for the future establishment of a human colony on the lunar surface.

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery after finding evidence that Earth’s Moon may be covered in water. New data analysis of two lunar missions has found evidence that the water on the Moon is widely distributed on the surface and not confined to a particular region or type of terrain, as was previously believed.

Also, water seems to be present day and night, although that does not mean that it is necessarily easily accessible.

The findings could help researchers understand the origin of water in our natural satellite, which is still a mystery and answer another important question: whether or not, future human settlers could use it as an accessible resource.

If the Moon has enough water, and if it is fairly convenient to access it, future human explorers could use it as drinking water or even turn it into hydrogen and oxygen to fuel their rockets.

“We find that it doesn’t matter what time of day or which latitude we look at, the signal indicating water always seems to be present. The presence of water doesn’t appear to depend on the composition of the surface, and the water sticks around,” said Joshua Bandfield, a senior research scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

The new results contradict previous studies, which suggested that there is more water in the polar latitudes of the Moon and that the strength of the water signal increases and decreases according to the lunar day (which lasts 29.5 Earth days).

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Taking this into consideration, researchers have proposed that water molecules can “jump” across the lunar surface until they enter cold traps in the dark reaches of the craters near the north and south poles.

In planetary science, a cold trap is a cold region, that water vapor and other volatiles that come into contact with the surface remain stable for a prolonged period of time, even up to several billion years.

However, debates continue due to the subtleties of how detection has been achieved so far.

The main evidence comes from remote sensing instruments that measured the strength of sunlight reflected off the lunar surface.

When water is present, instruments such as these collect a spectral fingerprint at wavelengths close to 3 micrometers, which is beyond visible light and in the field of infrared radiation.

But scientists have also found that the lunar surface can also be heated enough to “shine” or emit its own light in the infrared region of the spectrum.

The challenge is to disentangle this mixture of reflected and emitted light.

For this, researchers must have very accurate temperature information.

Bandfield and his team presented a new way of incorporating lunar temperature information and created a detailed model from the measurements made by the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment on board the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The team applied this temperature model to data previously collected by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, a visible and infrared spectrometer that NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, provided for India’s Chandrayaan-1 orbiter.

Scientists say that the water most likely is found in the Form of HO, instead of H2O. The difference is that H2O is composed of one hydrogen atom and one oxygen atom, whereas OH is considered more reactive, and attaches itself chemically to other molecules. In turn, this means that future colonists would most likely have to extract the element from minerals.

The study also hints that any H2 O present on the Moon is not loosely bound to the surface.

This discovery can also help experts understand water sources and their long-term storage in other cosmic bodies throughout the solar system.

At this point, experts are still debating what exactly the findings about the Moon’s water source are telling them.

So far, the results suggest that OH and/or H2O are created by the solar wind that impacts the lunar surface, although the team does not rule out that OH and/or H2O could come from the Moon itself, slowly released from minerals inside the moon where it has been stored since the Moon was formed.

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27-02-2018 om 22:47 geschreven door peter  

Do The Mysterious Statues At Temehea Tohua Depict An Ancient Alien Race?

There is an island in the Pacific Ocean that is home to a number of unusual statues left behind by its ancient inhabitants; The countless strange figures, carved in the distant past depict what many consider an otherworldly influence. Some of these statues depict what many refer to Reptilian Beings. Could these mysterious, yet beautiful statues be nothing more than mythological beings worshipped by the ancient inhabitants of Nucu Hiva, the largest of the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia? Or, is there a possibility that they depict representations of ancient alien beings?

Mysterious yet beautiful places plague our planet. Through our civilizations ancient history, countless cultures erected some of the most amazing places on the surface of the planet.

And while most of us fall hypnotized by ancient sites such as the Pyramids of Giza, The Great Sphinx, Teotihuacan, and Macchu Picchu, there are many other sites equally magnificent and puzzling.

One such site is located in Nucu Hiva, the largest of the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia.

There we find the ancient archaeological site of Temeea Tohua, home of a series of strange statues which many authors believe may depict otherworldly beings.

While other disagree and suggest the enigmatically caved statues are the result of the imagination of Polynesian settlers, others point towards a possible ancient alien encounter, which took place before written history.

As noted by recent studies, the first settlers arrived at the largest of the Marquesas in French Polynesia some 2,000 years ago, most likely from Samoa.

There, the ancient settlers of the island built a number of strange statues that depict beings that look completely different from humans. It’s almost as if the ancient settlers of Nucu Hiva worshipped some Reptilian deity. The statues look like something from an alien movie.

The question is, what did the ancient artists try and depict? Are these mysterious beings illustrations of their Gods? Or, as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest, are these mysterious statues evidence of an ancient alien encounter, thousands of years ago?

The statues look terrifyingly impressive. From afar they appear as beautiful carvings left behind by the ancients, but upon closer inspection, you notice fascinating details. The statues feature bigeyes, large elongated heads, small bodies, with a mixture of statues with huge bodies, and other several strange looking features that make you wonder what could have inspired the ancient inhabitants to carve such non-human features?

Reptilian ‘Gods’?

Is it possible that the ancient settlers of Nucu Hiva depicted Reptilian Gods?

In modern times, numerous conspiracy theories have risen from the stories of Reptilians or Lizard People. Various ancient cultures like the Ancient Sumerians, for example, depicted strange beings with reptilian features. These mysterious beings are believed to have been the Gods, who one day, came down from heaven and settled on Earth.

For example, if we take a look at the Ubaid Period, we will find that more than 7,000 years ago, the inhabitants of Ancient Mesopotamia worshiped the so-called lizard people. Curiously, evidence of this cult has been found at the Archaeological site of Al-Ubaid, where experts uncovered numerous pre-Sumerian artifacts dating back at least 7,000 years. Among these items, strange looking figurines have been discovered with a mixture of humanoid and lizard-like shapes.

At Nucu Hiva, far from Mesopotamia, we find similar Reptilian-like statues.

There are certain figures at the French Polynesian Island that even depict what appear to be strange Grey-Like aliens.

The ancient artists of the island left a message in stone. They carved strange figures with small bodies and huge elongated heads that have strange, over-sized eyes.

When looking at this from a certain archaeological view, it would be logical to assume that whoever carved those statues would have followed certain patterns when carving the statues, so how could it be possible that at the same location we find two types of statues that are not very similar.

In addition to the statues with huge bodies, over-sized heads, and mouths we find other figures with different aspects such as small bodies with over-sized eyes, relatively normal mouths but with an entirely different aspect when it comes to the nose.

While on the bigger statues the nose seems elongated and straight, the smaller statues feature noses that resemble a human nose.

This mixture of different styles of art raises numerous questions. What are these statues? Are these depictions of alien races that have visited this island at some point in the past, as some researchers suggest? Or, are these statues the result of a mixture of cultural influence?

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27-02-2018 om 22:29 geschreven door peter