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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24-03-2018
Mysterious 'alien megastructure' star is DIMMING again: Experts say Tabby's Star is experiencing the 'deepest dip' in brightness since 2013
Mysterious 'alien megastructure' star is DIMMING again: Experts say Tabby's Star is experiencing the 'deepest dip' in brightness since 2013
Tabby's star, also called KIC 8462852 dims at a much faster rate than other stars
Its dips in brightness has sparked countless theories since its discovery
Many suspected an ‘alien megastructure’ could be behind the phenomenon
Recent studies, however, suggest the real cause of the dimming is dust
A mysterious celestial object known as Tabby’s Star has baffled astronomers for years since it was first observed.
Every so often, the star experiences dramatic ‘dips’ in brightness – but, it’s unclear what exactly is causing the phenomenon.
It has sparked countless possible explanations, from claims of an ‘alien megastructure’ to the more mundane hypothesis that now leads the discussion, which says its light is simply being blocked by dust.
Now, a team monitoring Tabby’s Star says it has dimmed to the lowest levels seen since in five years, offering a new opportunity for scientists to observe the bizarre behaviour.
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While the stars of most exoplanet systems are seen to dim by a few per cent, KIC 8462852 (artist's impression) dimmed by more than 20 per cent over periods of months. The mysterious celestial object known as Tabby’s Star has baffled astronomers for years. (artist's impression)
Tabetha Boyajian, the astrophysicist for whom the star is nicknamed, said the most recent dipping event began last Friday.
‘Here we go again! Yippee!!’ the expert tweeted this week.
In a blog post about the activity, Boyajian explains this is the most dramatic fluctuation seen in years.
‘On Friday (2018 March 16) we noted the last data taken were significantly down compared to normal,’ the researcher wrote.
‘Due to poor weather conditions at all 3 sites we weren’t able to observe the star again until last night.
‘This is the deepest dip we have observed since the Kepler Mission in 2013! WOW!!!’
In an update yesterday, Boyajian revealed the star is still ‘not quite back up to normal’ brightness.
Tabby's Star, known officially as KIC 8462852 but named for Tabetha Boyajian who first discovered it in 2015, has baffled experts for years.
While the stars of most exoplanet systems are seen to dim by a few per cent, KIC 8462852 dimmed by more than 20 per cent over periods of months.
But, scientists may finally be closer to solving the mystery.
Tabetha Boyajian, the astrophysicist for whom the star is nicknamed, said the most recent dipping event began last Friday. In a blog post about the activity, Boyajian explains this is the most dramatic fluctuation seen in years. It is plotted above, compared to past events
WHAT IS TABBY'S STAR?
Tabby's Star, known officially as KIC 8462852 but named for Tabetha Boyajian who first discovered it in 2015, has baffled experts ever since.
Observations revealed its light dimmed regularly, as do distant stars when their planets pass in front of them.
But while the stars of most exoplanet systems are seen to dim by a few per cent, KIC 8462852 dimmed by more than 20 per cent over periods of months.
Previous studies have claimed the strange dimming could be evidence of a Dyson Sphere (artist's impression pictured)
Some have claimed this dimming could be evidence of a Dyson Sphere – a hypothetical structure which could be used by an advanced alien race to harness the energy of a star.
But now, scientists say the real cause of the dimming seen at Tabby’s Star may be far more mundane.
Experts believe dust is why it appears to dim and brighten as different colours of light are blocked by different intensities.
Previous studies have claimed the strange dimming could be evidence of a Dyson Sphere – a hypothetical structure which could be used by an advanced alien race to harness the energy of a star.
The mystery of Tabby's Star is so compelling that more than 1,700 people donated over $100,000 (£73,800) through a Kickstarter campaign in support of dedicated ground-based telescope with the aim of observing and gathering more data on the star.
As a result, a new body of data has been collected by Dr Boyajia and colleagues from the Lousisiana State University Department of Physics & Astronomy in partnership with the Las Cumbres Observatory.
'Dust is most likely the reason why the star's light appears to dim and brighten', said Dr Boyajian.
Scientists closely observed the star through the Las Cumbres Observatory from March 2016 to December 2017 (artist's impression)
The new data show that different colours of light are being blocked at different intensities', she said.
'Therefore, whatever is passing between us and the star is not opaque, as would be expected from a planet or alien megastructure,' Dr Boyajian said.
Scientists closely observed the star through the Las Cumbres Observatory from March 2016 to December 2017.
Beginning in May 2017 there were four distinct episodes when the star's light dipped.
Supporters from the crowdfunding campaign nominated and voted to name these episodes.
The first two dips were named Elsie and Celeste. The last two were named after ancient lost cities - Scotland's Scara Brae and Cambodia's Angkor.
It has baffled astronomers since it was first discovered in 2015, but now experts believe they may be one step closer to solving the mystery of Tabby's star (artist's impression pictured)
The authors write that in many ways what is happening with the star is like these lost cities.
'They're ancient; we are watching things that happened more than 1,000 years ago', the authors wrote in the paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
'They're almost certainly caused by something ordinary, at least on a cosmic scale.
'And yet that makes them more interesting, not less,' the authors wrote. 'But most of all, they're mysterious.'
WHAT IS A DYSON SPHERE?
An artist's impression of a Dyson Sphere is shown
A suggested method for harnessing the power of an entire star is known as a Dyson sphere.
First proposed by theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson in 1960, this would be a swarm of satellites that surrounds a star.
They could be an enclosed shell, or spacecraft spread out to gather its energy - known as a Dyson swarm.
If such structures do exist, they would emit huge amounts of noticeable infrared radiation back on Earth.
But as of yet, such a structure has not been detected.
Another team of researchers from the University of Arizona, Tuscan, found similar results in a study released in October.
Researchers collected observational data of Tabby's star from two Nasa telescopes – Swift, which takes X-ray and UV measurements, and Spitzer, which measures objects in infrared.
They found that from UV, throughout the visible spectrum to IR, the star is dimming at every wavelength.
The researchers also discovered that the dimming rate of Tabby's star differed between UV and infrared.
The team suggested that 'micro-sized dust screens' are to blame for this irregular dimming, and not an alien megastructure.
Ster met ‘buitenaardse megastructuur’ vertoont diepste dip in vijf jaar. Sterrenkundigen staan voor een raadsel
Ster met ‘buitenaardse megastructuur’ vertoont diepste dip in vijf jaar. Sterrenkundigen staan voor een raadsel
Tabby’s ster stelt astronomen al jaren voor een raadsel. Eens in de zoveel tijd vertoont deze ster helderheidsdipjes, maar het is onduidelijk wat de oorzaak is van dit fenomeen.
Mogelijke verklaringen variëren van een ‘buitenaardse megastructuur’ tot stof afkomstig van kometen.
Een team dat Tabby’s ster in de gaten houdt laat nu weten dat de ster sinds 2013 niet zo zwak is geweest als nu.
Diepste dip
Astrofysicus Tabetha Boyajian, naar wie de ster is vernoemd, zei dat het hemellichaam vorige week vrijdag begon af te zwakken. “Daar gaan we weer!” tweette ze.
Ze sprak van de meest drastische fluctuatie in jaren. “Op vrijdag zagen we dat de ster veel zwakker was dan normaal,” schreef ze.
“Dit is de diepste dip die we sinds de Kepler-missie in 2013 hebben gezien!” voegde ze toe.
Vreemde gedrag
Tabby’s ster, die eigenlijk KIC 8462852 heet, scheen binnen enkele maanden 20 procent zwakker. De meeste sterren worden slechts een paar procent zwakker.
Volgens eerdere studies kan het vreemde gedrag van de ster worden verklaard door een Dysonbol, een structuur die door een buitenaards ras kan worden gebruikt om energie op te wekken.
Astronomen vermoeden echter dat kosmisch stof ervoor zorgt dat de ster af en toe zwakker wordt.
Space Invaders: WATCH Alleged UFO Battle Near US' Classified Area 51
Space Invaders: WATCH Alleged UFO Battle Near US' Classified Area 51
Describing a recent incident in the skies above Nevada's second-largest city of Henderson, an eyewitness referred to the emergence of up to ten bright dots which looked like stars and which started to attack each other.
A video of what looked like a "battle" between unidentified flying objects (UFO) has emerged in the Internet, prompting users to scratch their heads.
The incident took place on February 19, when a driver in Nevada's second-largest city Henderson was in his car for "just a short drive from Las Vegas", according to the Daily Express.
"I was waiting in the car while my buddy went into the store. I noticed about 9 to 10 bright dots in the sky that looked like stars. The dots were in a line at approximately a 45 degree angle. All of a sudden they started to move upward on that same angle and it looked like they were attacking each other," the eyewitness said.
Citing "many bursts of energy", he said that the incident, which took place not far from the notorious Area 51, lasted just 20 seconds.
Commenting on the video, some users called the incident an authentic UFO battle, while others claimed that all this was nothing but "the reflection of cars' lights."
"If they were shooting lasers like that, something would have clearly been destroyed. I believe in UFOs but not this!" user Carlos Urquides added.
Area 51 is a highly classified US Air Force base is located within the Nevada Test and Training Range.
It continues to add substantially to the spread of numerous UFO legends, including that of the Roswell incident in 1947, when a US Air Force balloon crashed at a ranch in New Mexico.
The US military insisted that it was just a conventional weather balloon, while ufologists claimed in the 1970s that it was a crash of one or more alien spacecraft.
Vreemd tafereel waargenomen in de omgeving van Area 51. Zijn dit UFO’s die elkaar aanvallen?
Vreemd tafereel waargenomen in de omgeving van Area 51. Zijn dit UFO’s die elkaar aanvallen?
In de lucht boven de stad Henderson in de Amerikaanse staat Nevada zijn een aantal UFO’s waargenomen die elkaar leken aan te vallen.
Een filmpje van de onbekende vliegende objecten is al bijna een half miljoen keer bekeken.
De bollen zijn op 19 februari jongstleden vastgelegd door iemand die op weg was naar Las Vegas, schrijft persbureau Sputik.
Sterren
“Ik zat in de auto toen ik negen of 10 heldere stippen in de lucht zag die op sterren leken,” zei de man.
“Plotseling bewogen ze naar boven en het leek alsof ze elkaar aanvielen,” voegde hij toe. Het hele voorval duurde volgens hem slechts 20 seconden.
De stad Henderson bevindt zich niet ver van de beruchte basis Area 51, aldus het persbureau.
Bewijs
Sommigen zien de beelden als bewijs voor UFO’s, terwijl anderen claimden dat het slechts reflecties waren van de autolampen.
“Als dat laserstralen waren, zou er iets moeten zijn vernietigd,” reageerde Carlos Urquides. “Ik geloof in UFO’s, maar niet hierin!”
Roswellincident
Area 51 is een geheime Amerikaanse vliegbasis die is gelegen in de Nevada Test and Training Range.
Er gaan geruchten dat er UFO’s en zelfs aliens worden bewaard. Volgens het leger worden er alleen experimentele vliegtuigen getest.
De basis is al vaak in verband gebracht met het Roswellincident. Hoewel het leger claimt dat er in 1947 een weerballon is neergekomen bij het plaatsje, zeggen ufologen dat er een buitenaards schip is gecrasht.
Large Structures In The Clouds At 10,000 Feet High?
Large Structures In The Clouds At 10,000 Feet High?
Airplane passenger states: On February 18, 2018 I was on a flight heading towards ft Lauderdale near Louisiana and when flying over the Gulf I saw something interesting after one and half hours into flight at an altitude of about 39,000 ft.
The pilot told me that the clouds below us in the plane are 6-10 thousand high up.
So here what’s weird, I saw some sort of large structures with giant antenna or smoke stacks, something large enough to be making the clouds look like a wake from a boat in going through them.
At first I thought the structures are oil platforms but these platforms are only 200-400 ft above sea level but I could see oil platforms further on in my trip and they were tiny in comparison. So I'm ruling that explanation out
If we know that the tallest man-made structure is the 2,717 feet Burj Khalifia tower in Dubai then I wonder what are these extremely tall structures above the Gulf, massive enough to make large wakes in the cloud patterns? Mufon case 90956.
Golden UFO Disk Near International Space Station Caught On Live Cam, March 24, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Golden UFO Disk Near International Space Station Caught On Live Cam, March 24, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 24, 2018
Location of sighting:Earths Orbit, at space station on live cam
This alien disk was seen near the space station today. I was looking at the live cams and was lucky enough to capture this craft. As I saw the craft coming into focus, NASA apparently noticed it too and turned the live cam to blue screen in order to hide it. Clearly they were a little slow, and most likely messing around on their cell phone and didn't notice the UFO until it was too late. It just goes to show what you can accomplish if you only believe and try.
UFO INVASION: What is this mysterious alien DEATH CLOUD choking out the sky?
UFO INVASION: What is this mysterious alien DEATH CLOUD choking out the sky?
FEARS of alien invaders spraying poisonous chemicals in the sky were triggered after a mysterious cloud of brown gas appeared in the skies out of nowhere.
An unidentified object releasing a thick cover of dark brown smoke was seen over the skies of Switzerland.
The arrival of the mysterious object, potentially of alien origin, was photographed leaving a long trail of brown gas over Littau in Lucerne, Switzerland.
UFO observers who have seen the staggering footage of the ‘death cloud’ are stumped as to the origin of the smoke.
According to local media reports, the young woman who witnessed the object in person, saw the UFO from her kitchen window in the late revving hours.
But the young woman, who has not been named, said the object did not fly through the sky.
Instead the witness said she picked up her camera to film the object as it motionlessly chugged out the smoke before vanishing into the sky.
She told 20 Minuten: “The object with the tail just stood in the sky and it did not move for two or three minutes.”
The object then rapidly reared back into life and “turned to the right and disappeared” the witness recounted.
20 MINUTEN
UFO EVIDENCE? Is this choking cloud of thick smoke from alien spacecraft
Several minutes later the alien cloud was back and eerily repeated the same movements.
The witness said: “But this time the phenomenon was not as long as the first time.”
The woman who lives on Benneneggstrasse in Littau, said the mysterious object then took off towards Neuenkirch.
She added: “I have no idea of the distance.”
However despite the mind-boggling nature of what she saw, the woman did not think she witnessed an alien UFO invasion.
Despite the mind-boggling nature of the bizarre object, the witness did not think she saw the hallmarks of an alien invasion and instead tried to rationalise it.
Initially she assumed it may have been a streaking meteorite, but was puzzled by the object remaining motionless.
However experts at Skyguide, Switzerland’s leading air navigation service and airspace monitor, has since confirmed the object was indeed a UFO – an unidentified flying object.
20 MINUTEN
UFO sighting: The alleged alien cloud was spotted over Switzerland
Press spokesman Vladi Barrosa who saw the incredible pictures, confirmed that for the time being, Skyguide is treating the object as a UFO but not necessarily as a flying saucer.
The object with the tail just stood in the sky and it did not move for two or three minutes
Alleged UFO witness
Mr Barrosa said: “In technical jargon, this is a UFO, so to the present state of knowledge it is an unidentified flying object.”
He added: “We always get such pictures sent. In general, we can answer what's on it.
“If we have date and time of day, we can use radar images to find out what was in the sky at a certain point in time.”
20 MINUTEN
UFO identified: Skyguide officials are treating it as an unidentified flying object
As a general rule of thumb, the company treats any such UFO sightings as planes.
Mr Barossa underlined that given time a simple enough explanation will emerge.
Some online UFO hunters who analysed the startling pictures suggested the streaking cloud could have come from an erupting airplane engine.
Other simply suggested it was an airplane contrail tinted a dirty brown by the sunset.
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UFO hoax? Alien sceptics believe it is airplane contrails during sunset
In fact on March 14 when the pictures were taken, the sun set over Switzerland just after 6.30pm local time – shortly before the alleged UFO was spotted.
But not everyone was convicted by the plausible suggestions.
Redditor Hiking425 speculated: “The described behaviour could be for a secret test aircraft.
“Unfortunately no one has told me what all the secret aircraft around the world can do.
“If intelligent extraterrestrial were able to develop that kind of technology it seems plausible humans would be able to figure it out eventually.”
Hi, this is Eric Benson from New York Magazine. Hi, Eric. Why do you want to talk to me?
Well, because of the New York Times article and the program that you helped bring about. Well, I’m happy to talk to you. Just let me preface this by saying this, if we’re here to talk about little green men or stuff that you want to look at that was found in New Mexico or something, I’m not interested. If you’re here to talk about science, I’m happy to do that. I’m really glad to do that. I’m glad somebody is interested, because it’s a subject that is being terribly neglected, so I’m happy to talk to you.
Great. Well, I don’t want to talk to you about little green men. Okay.
One thing I am curious about, though, is just where your interest in this subject comes from. That’s pretty easy. When I first got out of law school many, many years ago, in the mid-’60s, I worked with three other lawyers. A big case we had was a case involving a bunch of rich Las Vegas businessmen. They went into L.A. International Airport, tried to take off, and the plane crashed and killed them all. It was a very interesting case. It went to Supreme Court, a mistrial declared, hung jury, went on for years.
One of the people who was killed in that plane crash was a guy by the name of Bigelow. He was not as wealthy, but he was a wealthy man in Las Vegas who ran a carpet company, Bigelow Carpet. His son was 18 years old when that crash occurred. He’s a central figure in all this. I didn’t know him, but when he was a young man, he heard a story from his grandparents about driving down from Mt. Charleston — that’s a 12,000-foot mountain just ten miles out of Las Vegas — where they saw something in the air. This so-called flying saucer, for lack of a better description. It piqued his curiosity.
He became a very wealthy man. I mean extremely wealthy. During the time that he had some money, he said, “I would like to know more about this.” He would have, several times a year, at his big office here in Las Vegas — knew how to make money buying and selling real estate. He would pay for these seminars, these conferences, and he would bring in scientists, academics, and a few nut cases. That’s a bad way of talking about some people, but, you know — people who were really, in my opinion, kind of on the fringes.
Probably the No. 1 TV journalist in Nevada was a guy by the name of George Knapp. He and I were friends. He had known me for years. He said to me one day, “Hey, I know this guy Bigelow, he’s interested in a subject, I don’t know if you have any interest in it all, but you should get to know him. He’s got a lot of money. He’s kind of an interesting guy. I’ll introduce you. You’ll go to one of those little deals and spend a few hours with him.”
I did that. It was really fascinating quite frankly because there were people trying to figure out what all this aerial phenomenon was. Bigelow knew I was interested.
I’ve always been a voracious reader. I blinded myself in one eye — I used to read really, really fast, and I can still read fairly fast with only one eye; not nearly as fast as I used to. Just a little side note: I took the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics course here in Las Vegas, and I was told I was the fastest reader they ever had in Nevada. I can read so fast.
How fast are you? Is there a number that represents — I don’t know. I don’t know. But anyway, to make a long story short, he started sending me tons of stuff. I mean tons of stuff. I read it. A lot of it was nothing that interested me. It was, they reexamined and examined and reexamined the crash in New Mexico that happened down there that everybody knows about that knows anything about this subject. It was repetitive, and I didn’t care. But there was some stuff that interested me. Mainly what interested me is so many people had seen these strange things in the air. That was interesting to me.
I’m in the Senate now and one day was joined by John Glenn, who I thought was just such a wonderful human being. I said to John, “Hey John, I’ve been reading all this stuff, do you have any interest in it?” He said, “I’ve always had an interest in it.” You get the picture so far, right?
Yeah. I’m in Washington in the Senate and Bob Bigelow called me — I kept in touch with him over the years. He called me and he said, “I got the strangest letter here. Could I have a courier bring it to you?” I said, “Sure.” He didn’t want to send it to me over the lines for obvious reasons.
I read the letter. The letter was from a federal national-security agency. Okay? The letter said, “I am a senior, longtime member of this security agency, and I have a Ph.D.” — I can’t remember in what, in physics for sure, maybe math also. “And,” the letter said, “I’m interested. I’m interested in talking to you, Mr. Bigelow. I have an interest in what you’ve been working on. I want to go to your ranch in Utah.”
Bigelow had bought a great big ranch, a 70-, 100-acre ranch in Utah that was in a basin for more than a century.
Was that the Skinwalker Ranch? Yeah, that’s it. I called Bigelow back and said, “Hey, I’ll meet with the guy.” I called the guy. He said, “I don’t want to meet at my office, I don’t want to meet at your office. Where can we meet?” I said, “Come to my home.” The two of us met and I was terribly impressed with him. Very low-key scientist. He told me of his interest. I called Bigelow and I said, “This guy, I’ve checked him out and he seems like a pretty nice guy and his credentials are as he says.”
He went, met Bigelow, and after I don’t know how much time went by, he came to me and said, “Something should be done about this. Somebody should study it.” I was convinced he was right. I said, “Well, if you were me, what would you say to people in power in the United States Senate who have huge control over the spending of defense money?” And here’s what he said: “What I will do is prepare something for you that anyone can look at it that wants to, it’s strictly science.” He put it in scientific language — what the study should consist of.
I, at the time, was the leader of the Senate, and I called two of my friends who for many, many years were like brothers. One a Democrat, one a Republican. They controlled for quite a number of years the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. It was Stevens and Inouye.
As I said in the New York Times article, it was the easiest meeting I ever had. I walked in and I knew so much and Ted Stevens interrupted me and said, “I’ve heard enough.” He said, “Since I was a pilot in World War II, I’ve been tremendously curious, concerned about stuff that we don’t know anything about.” He said, “I was in my airplane alone and off to my left was an object. I could see it. It was so close to me. I would veer up, down, sideways. Wherever I went, it was there. I was starting to get low on fuel, went and landed, and went to the air-traffic controller. I said, ‘Was there anybody up in the air with me?’ The guy said, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’”
That’s why it was an easy sell for him. He, Ted Stevens, when he was in the military, didn’t go to his superior and say, “I saw the damnedest thing in the air.” Why? Because the work we did, pilots would almost refuse to report this stuff. Why? Because it would hurt them in their promotions and make them look like goofballs.
What we decided to do — it would be black money, we wouldn’t have a big debate on the Senate floor over it. They would put in their defense appropriation bill, 11 million bucks. The purpose of it was to study aerial phenomena. The money was given, a directive was given to the Pentagon, to put this out to bid, which they did.
People may be inquisitive: “How did Bigelow win that bid? Why?” Because he had spent his own money first. For two years, the federal government helped him. Thousands of pages were gathered, just like I told you, of things that had happened. There was no central location where all this stuff was gathered — that’s what he did. He built his building for it. For two years, when we got financial help — but there was a change in leadership and it didn’t work. So the federal government dropped out of the project.
As you’ve heard from a few people since this story came out, Luis Elizondo, for example, he quit, because they wouldn’t do anything seriously. He was terribly interested in this. They’re all mad because the federal government has done nothing. The guy that came to me, his job was in jeopardy because he tried to do something he felt was appropriate. He said to me first time we met, “I don’t know why we’re not doing anything.” He said, “I’ll bet the Chinese are.” He said, “I’ll bet the Russians are. I’ll bet the Japanese are. Why aren’t we doing anything?”
That’s the story. You’ve got in a nutshell, that’s how I got involved in this.
Great. I’m curious: Before you met Bigelow and went to his conferences, probably in the 1990s, were you a science buff? Were you just interested in things like space and aeronautics? Zero. I’ll give you a couple of facts to support that. I took a math class in high school, geometry. I had to go beg the teacher to give me a D so I could play football. That’s not my strong suit, math and science. But that doesn’t take away the fact that I’m terribly interested. Some of my friends were really interested in science fiction. It bores me. I was never interested in it. Just didn’t care.
Not even the Mercury program, Apollo program? Was that something — Zero. I mean I read the news. I saw it. That was nice, but it never piqued my curiosity about how they got a rocket into space, that kind of stuff. That was never my interest.
After it became something you were interested in and you got to Congress and the Senate, was it something you discussed with other members, other than Senator Glenn? No, no, no. Because, Eric, you have to understand, this is a subject people are interested in, but they’re all … how to say this … they’re all afraid of the issue just like the pilots who won’t report these strange things. They’re afraid somebody will think they’re some kind of a wacko. With me, everybody always knew I was a wacko anyway. I didn’t care. I felt everybody knew who I was and it was something I was interested in. If you, or members of the press, want to criticize me, I didn’t care. I found this true because I felt I was doing something for our country.
What was different about talking with Senator Glenn about it? Hey, listen, this is an ace in World War II and Korea. He’d already been into space, was a wonderful human being. I just cared so much about him. He was truly an American hero.
I traveled with him when I was a relatively new senator. Take, for example, we had to go over the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia, and the train stops at the border, and we get out of the train, the whole delegation. They have dogs, and they search us. With Glenn, two of the Russians, or they were Czechs or whatever they were, asked if they could have his autograph. He was a world-famous man.
I felt totally at ease, and he was interested. Did he say to me, “Let’s sit down sometime and have a long talk about this?” Neither of us had time to do that. But he was interested, and that was good enough for me. It helped me not feel like I was some kind of a goofball.
Yeah. Did he recount anything from his astronaut career? No, he did not go into detail like Stevens did.
You know something interesting? Here in Las Vegas is an Air Force pilot — Joe Biden mentions him in his book, his name is Flynn. He was a colonel in the Air Force. I had gotten to know him. He’s a super-nice guy. I said, “Hey, you ever seen any of these things?” He said, “Of course.” You know, people just don’t talk about them.
I read somewhere, and I don’t know if this is really true at all, that you talked to President Clinton about aerial phenomenon and UFOs during his presidency. Yes, I did. I did do that. Of course, you could talk to Bill Clinton about oranges. He had such an overwhelming curiosity that he would talk to you about oranges. This was a very passing conversation, but he was interested, of course. That’s just who he was. As you know, one of his No. 1 staffers, John Podesta, who worked for him at Walmart, has publicly supported all this stuff.
Have you talked with John Podesta about this? Oh sure, he’s called me. Of course he has. He’s glad I did it.
Yeah. Just since the Times article publicized it, or was this something you talked about before? We had talked about it before.
Why, if you want these things to be more public and more accepted now, why did you feel the need [for it] to be kept secret then? Because I wanted to get something done. I didn’t want a debate that no one knew what the hell they were talking about on the Senate floor.
Makes sense. When the program was running, was this something that you would be briefed on frequently? Were you briefed on it ever? No, I left everybody alone. Nope.
You were never briefed? That’s not my style, nope.
You just weren’t, in terms of reading the reports that they compiled or visiting the facilities? Let me give you something that the press has totally failed and conjured. We have hundreds and hundreds of papers, pages of paper, that have been available since this was completed. Most all of it, 80 percent at least, is public. You know something? The press has never even looked at it. Not once. That’s where we are. I wanted it public, it was made public, and you guys have not even looked at it.
So, in short, it’s my belief you guys kind of want to be spoon-fed. You don’t want to do any work on your own. I’ve been around you guys my whole adult life, and on something this big, it’s too bad that the press has been so hammered and don’t have the staff they once had that somebody can be assigned to this. If they give you six months to work this, come back with some work on it. Nobody does anymore. They don’t have the resources, I think.
If the press did read those reports … Let me put it this way, I saw you tweeted “we don’t know the answers but we have plenty of evidence to support asking the questions.” To you, what’s the most compelling evidence to support asking a question? Read the reports. Read the reports. We have hundreds. Eric; two, three weeks ago, maybe a month now, up in Montana, they had another strange deal at a missile base up there. It goes on all the time.
The sightings, those — There are reports that are in writing that talk about all of this.
Do you know things about this program that you can’t discuss publicly? Yeah, but there’s plenty that can be discussed publicly, and I’ve tried to do that. I’m interested only in research. I’m interested in science, and in helping the American public understand what the hell is going on. You know at this stage in the reports, we have thousands of people who have seen this stuff. Not hundreds — thousands.
*A version of this article appears in the March 19, 2018, issue of New York Magazine. Subscribe Now!
The footage, taken in 2016, has been uploaded to YouTube where it has so far been viewed 27,000 times.
Excited viewers speculated over what the aircaft could be.
One said: 'It's two planes travelling at different altitudes, one creating a vapour trail.'
The UFO then speeds ahead of the flight - ruling out it being a helicopter
The person who took the footage claims there are rumours military aircraft fly in these skies
The footage, taken in 2016, has been uploaded to YouTube where it has so far been viewed 27,000 times
Another user wrote: 'I am actually baffled. This looks legit, as to why - who knows.'
While one viewer is convinced the object was extraterrestrial.
They said: 'I was very excited and anxious.
'I felt I had witnessed something very hard to dismiss as a "weather balloon" or some obvious type of aircraft.
'Shortly after the jet and object left my range of sight I saw three more jets and 1 helicopter going the same direction (in my opinion chasing the UFO).'
ERICH VON DÄNIKEN SAYS HE BELIEVES EZEKIEL WAS DESCRIBING UFOS IN THE BIBLE
ERICH VON DÄNIKEN SAYS HE BELIEVES EZEKIEL WAS DESCRIBING UFOS IN THE BIBLE
By: Gaia Staff
Of the many accounts in the Bible of strange happenings and otherworldly occurrences, the story of Ezekiel is one of the more fascinating, especially when looked at through the lens of modern technology. When biblical texts are interpreted through this perspective in general, an interesting picture emerges of the possibility that our ancient ancestors were actually visited by an advanced race, rather than gods. This idea, known as the ancient astronaut theory, sees Ezekiel’s “vision” of the Merkabah, or wheeled chariot, as more likely to be a spaceship or space shuttle used by an advanced species to reach out to humans.
Erich von Däniken is one of the biggest proponents of this theory, providing a very compelling argument for an alternative interpretation of the Book of Ezekiel. So, compelling that his theory even reversed the entire thesis of a NASA scientist’s book aimed at disproving his claim.
ALIENS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
ERICH VON DÄNIKEN’S CHARIOTS OF THE GODS
In the 1970s, Erich von Däniken was invited to a secret speech at NASA where he met Josef F. Blumrich. The two spoke about von Däniken’s ancient astronaut theory from his book, Chariots of the Gods, notably the idea that Ezekiel’s vision was that of a space shuttle, rather than a divine chariot. This conversation led Blumrich on a mission to disprove von Däniken’s seemingly absurd theory, so he did some research of his own and started writing a book. However, the evidence was overwhelming and Blumrich had an epiphany. Ezekiel was undoubtedly describing an advanced spacecraft. Blumrich even used Ezekiel’s description of the craft to patent his own version of an omnidirectional wheel.
THE ANCIENT ASTRONAUT THEORY
Ezekiel is a key figure in Judaism and is also prominent in other Abrahamic biblical texts. Ezekiel was brought to Babylon in the first captivity of Israel and is described as a prophet. One of the interesting characteristics of The Book of Ezekiel as a biblical text is that it is written using the pronoun, I, clearly showing it being written by Ezekiel himself as a first-person account, unlike many biblical texts written in the third person. This seems to lend a little more credit and personality to the story as it is told shortly after its occurrence.
Ezekiel describes seeing a wheeled chariot descend toward him from the sky, piloted by beings with the “likeness of a man.” While many biblical versions of the story describe this being on the chariot as God, von Däniken points out that the original Hebrew version never mentions God, this word was added later.
Ezekiel’s description of the wheeled chariot landing sounds much like that of the landing of a spacecraft. The windstorm, flash of lightning, and brilliant lights are reminiscent of a spacecraft coming down for a landing and kicking up dirt in a spectacle never before seen by someone of such a primitive era. Ezekiel even describes the fire powering the chariot as appearing as ‘glowing metal.’
“4I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal,5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human,6 but each of them had four faces and four wings.7 Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze.8 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings,9 and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.”– Ezekiel 1
There is clearly some discrepancy between this description and much of the way Ezekiel’s vision is portrayed in biblical artwork. Pictures often leave out the details involving the fire, omnidirectional wheels, and the vaulted crystal encasing over the heads of the human-like creatures.
“15 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.17 As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went.18 Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around… 22 Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked something like a vault, sparkling like crystal, and awesome.” – Ezekiel 1
These creatures with the ‘likeness of man,’ then take Ezekiel with them in their craft, bringing him to a ‘temple’ on top of the highest mountain. During his flight there, Ezekiel mentions feeling the hand of God on him, which could be interpreted as the force of gravity, or g-forces, felt when lifting off. He is taken to these beings’ ‘temple,’ which is likely a staging area or city where they reside.
CORROBORATING EVIDENCE
Throughout an array of biblical stories, the Ark of the Covenant presents itself as an artifact of interest for von Däniken’s theory. But it’s mention in the Kebra Nagast, an account of Christianity in Ethiopia under King Solomon, is where he sees the most relevancy. In this account, he says that it was known that King Solomon had flying machines that weren’t mentioned in the Bible as well as possession of the highly coveted Ark. These texts note that people were afraid of the Ark, as it often killed those who were in close contact with it. Was this because it was radioactive or electrically charged? Was the Ark of the Covenant a plutonium reactor?
Erich Von Däniken says he believes there are other bible verses that fit into his ancient astronaut theory, including some that hint at similar ‘temples’ or landing areas for spacecraft, much like the one Ezekiel was brought to. One such temple known as, Chavin de Huantar can be found in Peru, sitting thousands of feet high on a mountain from a culture of which little is known. The temple is decorated with winged figures and sculpted heads that appear to be wearing helmets. Von Däniken says he believes these to be of similar origin to those described by Ezekiel in the Bible. Is this actual evidence of ancient astronauts or an imaginative theory?
STEVENAGE, England — A space harpoon test went off without a hitch in a lab of European aerospace company Airbus last Thursday (March 15), suggesting that the technology could be on track to help clean up the ever-growing cloud of orbiting debris.
Engineers at Airbus' site here in Stevenage, a small town north of London, fired the 3.3-foot-long (1 meter) harpoon at about 56 mph (90 km/h) into a breadboard placed 5 feet (1.5 m) away. By the end of this year, the team plans to demonstrate a full-scale setup, firing a harpoon at a target 82 feet (25 m) away, as if it were capturing a real satellite in space.
"We are trying to demonstrate that we can successfully capture a piece of spacecraft with our harpoon design," said Alastair Wayman, advanced projects engineer at Airbus Defence and Space. "We have a really good basis for a flight design here to go to the next steps with the harpoon. It's one of the technologies that is easier to make next steps for." [Space Junk Cleanup: 7 Wild Ways to Destroy Orbital Debris]
The project is part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Clean Space initiative, which, in the mid-2020s, aims to carry out an ambitious mission that would remove the defunct Envisat, the largest Earth-observation satellite ever built.
The harpoon is one of the technologies ESA is considering for tackling Envisat, an 8.8-ton (8 metric tons) monster that died in 2012 after 10 years of service. Envisat is now one of the largest and most troublesome pieces of space junk threatening spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO), experts say.
"To capture Envisat, the harpoon would have to be about a meter and a half long and [weigh] 2.5 kilograms [5.5 lbs.]," Wayman said. "In comparison to Envisat, it's pretty small."
The chaser spacecraft carrying the harpoon would attach itself to its target using the harpoon and then use its thrusters to drag Envisat into Earth's atmosphere for a controlled re-entry.
ESA's Luisa Innocenti, who leads the Clean Space program, said last year that the agency is currently more inclined to use a robotic arm, as this technology could also be used for in-orbit servicing.
However, Wayman said that commercial opportunities for the harpoon technology will likely be plentiful even if it isn't used to deorbit Envisat.
"We are designing the harpoon around Envisat because it's the largest piece of debris," Wayman said. "If you can capture Envisat, you can capture everything. Active space-debris removal is getting more and more important. Every year that we don't achieve the target of deorbiting five large pieces of space debris, the situation gets worse, and we are more likely to have more collisions."
The world's space agencies agree that five large defunct satellites need to be removed from LEO every year to help prevent the Kessler syndrome, the unstoppable cascade of orbital collisions predicted by NASA scientist Donald Kessler in the late 1970s.
Wayman and his colleagues also designed and built a smaller harpoon system for the RemoveDEBRIS mission, an active debris-removal demonstration to be launched next month. As part of the mission, the harpoon will be fired into a fixed target extended from the main spacecraft on a boom. Wayman said the harpoon test is expected to take place in late 2018 or early 2019.
InSight is the next NASA lander scheduled to head to Mars. It will be a stationary mission, not like NASA's famous Opportunity, Spirit and Curiosityrovers,. Staying in place is necessary for its major science goals, which include learning more about the Martian composition, and how tectonically active Mars is. The mission will also be notable for its CubeSats, which will be the first time such tiny spacecraft fly beyond Earth.
InSight is expected to launch sometime between May 5 and June 8, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on an Atlas V vehicle from United Launch Alliance. If successful, the mission will land on Nov. 26, 2018, at the Martian Elysium Planitia, an equatorial zone just south of an ancient volcanic area. InSight will send back data about the Red Planet's interior for about 1 Mars year, or 728 Earth-days (a little more than two Earth years).
Brief development history
InSight was one of 28 submissions for NASA's next Discovery-class mission in 2010. This type of mission is a lower-cost explorer of the solar system. During InSight's selection round, individual proposals weren't allowed to exceed $425 million, excluding the cost of the launch vehicle.
InSight – then known as the Geophysical Monitoring Station (GEMS) – and two other finalists (Titan Mare Explorer and Comet Hopper) each received $3 million in May 2011 to perform a concept study. InSight was tapped in August 2012 for the next launch. Construction began on InSight in May 2014. Its manufacturer is Lockheed Martin Space Systems.
In December 2015, NASA announced it could not launch as planned in March 2016 because of a leak in one of the craft's instruments, the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS). At the time, agency officials said the mission might be removed entirely from the launch manifest. One limitation the agency cited was concern about exceeding the $675 million cost of the mission that included launch, data analyses and scientific operations. (At the time, they had spent $525 million.)
By the following fall, in September 2016, NASA announced a revised launch date for InSight. The announced delay to spring 2018 was no large surprise to the community, because the orbits of Mars and Earth only align favorably for a spacecraft flight every 26 months; outside of that window, it takes too much fuel to easily get to the Red Planet.
"The instrument redesign and two-year delay add $153.8 million" to the $675 million mission cost, NASA said in a statement. "The additional cost will not delay or cancel any current missions, though there may be fewer opportunities for new missions in future years, from fiscal years 2017-2020," it added.
Science goals and instruments
InSight has two major science goals, according to NASA. The first is to examine the interior — what it is made of, and what processes occur. The lander will provide information on the size and composition of the Martian core, crust and mantle. It also will show "how warm the interior is and how much heat is still flowing through," NASA said. The second goal is to learn if Mars is tectonically active (including where seismic activity is located), and how frequently meteorites slam into its surface.
"Previous missions to the Red Planet have investigated its surface by studying its canyons, volcanoes, rocks and soil. But the signatures of the planet's formation can only be found by sensing and studying its vital signs far below the surface," NASA said.
InSight has three instruments that are designed to look at the deep interior of Mars and learn about the planet's geological activity, warmth and elements of its evolution, according to NASA.
The Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) will detect seismic waves from meteorite impacts, magma movements inside the planet, or marsquakes.
The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe, or HP3, will burrow about 5 meters (16 feet) into the surface. Its main job is to sense heat underground.
The Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment, or RISE, will aim to provide more information about the composition of the Martian core. It will keep careful track of where the lander is located, and from that information, discern any wobbles in the orbit of Mars as the planet orbits the sun. The composition of the core will influence the degree and type of oscillation Mars experiences.
InSight has a robotic arm that is more than 7 feet (2.4 m) long. This arm will place the seismometer and heat-flow probe on the surface for their measurements. The arm also features a camera that will take "color 3D views of the landing site, instrument placement, and activities," according to NASA. In addition, InSight has sensors to provide information on the weather, and any changes in the local magnetic field nearby the lander.
Riding along with InSight will be the first CubeSats to fly beyond Earth. The experiment, which encompasses two spacecraft, is called Mars Cube One. The CubeSats will fly behind InSight during its journey to Mars. If successful, once InSight begins its entry into the Martian atmosphere, the CubeSats will send information back to Earth about the spacecraft's last few minutes flying to the Red Planet's surface.
ETATS-UNIS UN OVNI A-T-IL POURSUIVI PUIS DÉPASSÉ UN AVION DE LIGNE?
ETATS-UNISUN OVNI A-T-IL POURSUIVI PUIS DÉPASSÉ UN AVION DE LIGNE?
Sur une vidéo datant de 2016, on peut voir un engin lumineux voler à grande vitesse derrière l'avion rempli de passagers. Puis le dépasser sans problème, sans laisser de trace.
Une vidéo datant de 2016 et publiée le 17 mars dernier sur YouTube interpelle les réseaux sociaux, ces dernières heures.
On peut, supposément, y voir un avion de ligne suivi par un engin lumineux mystérieux qui finit par le dépasser sans le moindre problème, selon le Daily Mail
En zoomant sur les images, l'objet volant non identifié semble avoir une forme de soucoupe, ce qui n'a pas manqué de faire réagir les ufologues.
Le phénomène s'est manifesté au-dessus de la ville étasunienne de Lincoln, dans le New Hampshire
L'auteur de la vidéo - un observateur assidu du ciel - s'est confié au Sun: «On m'a dit que des pilotes militaires s'entraînent dans les montagnes. Mais là, j'ai immédiatement pensé que ce que je voyais était étrange.»
«L'OVNI allait aussi vite que l'avion de ligne puis l'a dépassé, sans trace. Ca ne peut pas être un hélicoptère ni un autre avion à réaction. J'ai été époustouflé! J'ai pu heureusement sortir mon téléphone à temps pour prendre une vidéo», poursuit-il.
Des spécialistes se sont penchés sur les images mais n'ont pas détecté d'effet spécial particulier, pour le moment. Dès lors, libre à chacun d'imaginer de quoi il peut s'agir...
China's Tiangong-1 Space Lab Expected to Fall to Earth Over Easter Weekend
China's Tiangong-1 Space Lab Expected to Fall to Earth Over Easter Weekend
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
China's Tiangong-1 space lab will likely fall to Earth between March 30 and April 2, according to the latest prediction by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany.
This window is "highly variable," not ironclad, Space Debris Office representatives stressed in the updated forecast, which was issued yesterday (March 21).
Tiangong-1 was lofted in late September 2011, to help test the docking and rendezvous technologies required to build a bona fide space station, which China aims to do by the mid-2020s. [China's Tiangong-1 Space Lab in Pictures]
The first Chinese orbital docking occurred between Tiangong-1 and an unpiloted Shenzhou spacecraft on Nov. 2, 2011. Two piloted missions were subsequently completed to visit Tiangong-1: Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10, in June 2012 and June 2013, respectively.
Test campaign
Meanwhile, ESA will serve as host and administrator of a test campaign regarding the re-entry of Tiangong-1, conducted by the Inter Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC).
IADC comprises space-debris experts and other researchers from 13 space agencies and other organizations, including NASA, ESA, European national space agencies, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Russia's Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration.
IADC members will use the fall of Tiangong-1 to conduct their annual re-entry test campaign, during which participants will pool their predictions of the time window, as well as their respective tracking datasets obtained from radar and other sources. The aim is to cross-verify, cross-analyze and improve the prediction accuracy for all members.
Where on Earth?
It's unknown where exactly Tiangong-1 will fall back to Earth. But given the spacecraft's inclination, it will re-enter somewhere between 43 degrees north and 43 degrees south latitudes.
Owing to the Chinese station's mass and construction materials, there is a distinct possibility that some portions of Tiangong-1 will survive the fiery journey through Earth's atmosphere and reach the surface, experts say.
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," published by National Geographic. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel series "Mars." A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. This version of the story published on Space.com.
New footage depicting a UFO was released by former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge’s extraterrestrial research institute To The Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences (TTSA) on Friday.
The video, which was taken in 2015 but only recently declassified by the Department of Defense (DoD), shows footage taken by a U.S. fighter jet pilot. “The unaltered footage was captured by a Raytheon advanced targeting forward-looking infrared (ATLFIR) pod, which contains the most advanced sensors and powerful tracking systems on the market,” a statement from TTSA says.
In the video, obtained by TTSA through a Freedom of Information Act request, the pilot locks his tracking system onto a small, white object flying above the ocean (in infrared vision, white means the object is hot) for around 30 seconds.
Clearly, the pilot doesn’t know what he’s looking at, a fact that delights more than frightens him. “What the fuck is that thing?” he asks with a chuckle.
In this case, the question provides the answer — it’s a UFO. Or, to use government parlance, it’s an “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” a euphemism perhaps adopted to shed the stigma of the UFO moniker.
TTSA has some rationale behind its excitement about the footage. One peculiar thing pointed out in the statement is that there are no discernible wings or tails on the object. “Even [infrared] imagery of a cruise missile, would have visible wings at this range,” the statement says.
In addition to the UFO’s shapelessness, TTSA notes there are no exhaust fumes picked up by the infrared sensors. By contrast, a typical fighter jet has an easily recognizable exhaust stream even when traveling at low speeds.
Friday’s video is just the latest piece of evidence released by DeLonge’s research institute to back up his long-held conviction that aliens definitely exist. DeLonge was awarded UFO Researcher of the Year by UFO-focused media company Open Minds in 2017.
Founded by DeLonge and former CIA official Jim Semivan in 2015, To The Stars Academy gathers scientists and researchers to study “exotic technologies,” aka what intelligent life may exist beyond our own planet. The new footage might seem like pretty tenuous evidence if TTSA wants to claim the object in the video is,,,, in fa,,ct,, an extraterrestrial craft. But when it comes to discovering the truth about aliens, it’s all the small things that really matter.
Some 7,600 years ago, human civilization in Southeastern Europe suddenly came to a halt. New research sought answers as to why this happened, and the findings paint a stark reminder of the toll rising seas can inflict on our society.
Coccolithophore Emiliana huxleyi.
Image credits Jörg Bollmann.
The Neolithic revolution was the first major transformation humanity had paused — the transition foraging to farming. Spreading out from the Middle East, this wave of change took peoples used to hunt and forage wherever they pleased and tied them down, hoe in hand, to sedentary — but oh so lucrative — farms and fields.
Can’t till the sea, though
Around 7,600 years ago, however, the revolution paused — no new agricultural settlements seemed to pop up in Southeastern Europe around the time, existing communities declined, and the progress of civilization as a whole came to a standstill. Up until now, we didn’t have any inkling as to why this happened, but new research from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, the Goethe University in Frankfurt, and the University of Toronto sheds some light on this mysterious period.
According to their findings, this lull in progress was due to an abrupt rise in sea levels in the northern Aegean Sea. Evidence of this event was calcified in the fossils of tiny marine algae preserved in seafloor sediments.
The impact this event had on societal dynamics and overall development during the time highlights the potential economic and social threats posed by sea level rise in the future, the team says. Given that climate-change-associated changes in sea level are virtually unavoidable, the team hopes their findings will help us better prepare for the flooding ahead.
“Approximately 7,600 years ago, the sea level must have risen abruptly in the Mediterranean regions bordering Southeastern Europe. The northern Aegean, the Marmara Sea and the Black Sea recorded an increase of more than one meter. This led to the flooding of low-lying coastal areas that would have been ideal areas for settlement,” says lead author Professor Dr. Jens Herrle.
The findings are based on a sediment core retrieved from the sea floor of the northern Aegean Sea. Herrle and his team used this core to reconstruct salinity levels in this part of the Mediterranean from 11,000 and 5,000 years ago. However, the core was also rich in tiny, calcified fossils of Emiliania huxleyi, a coccolithophore (a species of photosynthesizing plankton that’s ubiquitous even today).
Analyzing them under a scanning electric microscope, the team observed significant size changes in these algae — which indicate a change in the salinity of surface water in the Aegean during their lifetime.
“These calcifying algae evidence two rapid decreases in the salt content, at approximately 8,400 and again 7,600 years ago, which can only be explained by the fact that a higher volume of low-saline surface water flowed from the Black Sea into the northern Aegean at these times,” Herrle explains.
Such a rapid rise in sea levels would need a source, and the team says, surprisingly, it can be traced back to North America:
“The source of this may have been Lake Agassiz in North America. This glacial meltwater lake was enclosed in ice and experienced a massive breach during this period, which emptied an enormous volume of water into the ocean.”
The evidence supports a link between the two timeouts in the Neolithic revolution and the flooding events. The event 8,400 years ago coincides with archaeological findings suggesting that settlements in low-lying areas were under significant hardship from encroaching seas and other associated climatic changes. The renewed rise just 800 years later likely amplified these communities’ woes, keeping them from making the transition to agriculture.
Past fluctuations in sea levels have already had a significant effect on human history during the early days of agriculture, the authors note, warning that it would be unwise to dismiss the challenges it will place in our path in the future.
“Due to climate change, we expect global sea levels to rise by up to one meter over the next 100 years,” Herrle adds. “Millions of people could thus be displaced from coastal regions, with severe social and economic consequences.”
The paper “Black Sea outflow response to Holocene meltwater events” has been publishedin the journal Scientific Reports.
This Is What the Entire Known Universe Looks Like in a Single Image
This Is What the Entire Known Universe Looks Like in a Single Image
Written byJoanie Faletto
The farthest manmade thing from Earth is Voyager 1. Though this 1970s-era spacecraft is pretty far out there by now and still sending back information, it'll never be able to take a snapshot of the Solar System. Or the Milky Way. And definitely not the entire observable universe. But with a little math and artistic prowess, we can cobble together what we may look like from way, way, way out there.
You Are Here
In 2012, musician and artist Pablo Carlos Budassi created the illustration of all illustrations: a full-scale view of the entire observable Universe. The resulting image looks like a giant eyeball, with humanity square in the middle. In the image above, you'll see our sun and Solar System in the center, as you move outward you'll see the outer ring of the Milky Way, the Perseus arm of the Milky Way, a ring of nearby galaxies like Andromeda, the rest of the cosmic web, cosmic microwave background radiation leftover from the Big Bang, and, lastly, the Big Bang's leftover ring of plasma.
Art and Science
You may notice that the Earth looks weirdly large in comparison to pretty much every other object depicted. The reason is that Budassi created this image on a logarithmic scale, not the linear scale you usually see in astronomy images. If he didn't, the image would be impractically humongous — this is the entire universe we're talking about, after all. To get a better understanding of the scale, think of this flat image as a cone pointed straight at you. The sun is at the tip. Each section of the cone further away from you represents a field of view several orders of magnitude larger than the one before it.
Budassi was able to do this by collecting maps, photographs, and data from Princeton researchers and NASA. In 2005, a team of Princeton researchers published a collection of logarithmic maps of the Universe in Astrophysical Journal (you can see them here). While they look more like charts than they do rich photographs, the researchers were able to accurately "display the entire range of astronomical scales from the Earth's neighborhood to the cosmic microwave background" to a logarithmic scale. Using this information, Budassi put together "Photoshop using images from NASA and some textures created [on] my own." The final result? Our weirdly eyeball-looking, not-exactly-to-scale-but-maybe-the-best-we-can-do-for-now Universe.
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New spy plane can travel at five times the speed of sound
New spy plane can travel at five times the speed of sound
By Sean Keach, The Sun
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Boeing has finally unveiled a successor to the legendary Blackbird SR-71 spy plane, capable of traveling at five times the speed of sound.
The new “Son of Blackbird” was revealed at an event in Orlando, Florida, but it’s only a concept design for now.
The new aircraft will be a direct competitor to Lockheed Martin’s upcoming SR-72.
These rival firms are racing to create a hypersonic aircraft that’s capable of stealthy recon assignments — and strike missions, too.
Speaking to Aviation Week Aerospace Daily, Boeing’s hypersonics chief described how Boeing was planning a two-step development process for the new warplane.
The first stage would involve flight tests of an “F16-size, single-engine” precursor vehicle that acts as a “proof of concept.”
The second stage is the creation of a “twin-engine, full-scale operational vehicle” that has roughly similar dimensions to the 107-foot-long SR-71.
Boeing’s end goal is an aircraft that can travel at speeds beyond Mach 5 — that’s five times the speed of sound.
The speed of sound — or Mach 1 — is around 767 miles per hour. So hitting Mach 5 would mean the Son of Blackbird would have to travel at an incredible 3,836 miles per hour.
For comparison, a Boeing 747 passenger jet typically reaches cruising speeds of just 549 miles per hour.
The tricky part is that the SR-71 replacement needs to be able to take off, accelerate, slow down and land all on its own — just like the original 1964 model.
Boeing is looking at using a conventional turbojet to hit Mach 3, then switching to a different configuration to boost beyond Mach 5.
Sadly, there’s no guarantee when Boeing will have a sky-ready model, so we’ll just have to drool over concept renderings for now.
Kim Wilde said an encounter with a UFO in 2009 inspired her to make a music comeback.
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“Kids in America” singer Kim Wilde said an encounter with a UFO in 2009 was one of the reasons she decided to return to music and make a comeback.
Wilde told the BBC after leaving the music business she got married and raised her children. However, two events pushed her to come back and give music a second chance.
Wilde claims she had an encounter with a UFO in 2009. She said she was sitting in the garden at her home with a glass of wine when she saw something.
"Then I looked up in the sky and saw this huge bright light behind a cloud. Brighter than the moon, but similar to the light from the moon,” she said.
"I said to my husband and my friend, 'that's really odd,' so we walked down the grass and looked to see if there was any source. All of a sudden it moved, very quickly, from about 11:00 to 1:00. Then it just did that, back and forth, for several minutes,” Wilde recalled.
"Whenever it moved, something shifted in the air - but it was silent. Absolutely silent."
The singer said she thinks about the moment every day and it gave her an idea for her new album, “Here Comes the Aliens.”
She sings on the album that maybe the aliens will “save us from the apocalypse.”
"Perhaps that's completely naïve," she laughs. "Why wouldn't they be angry with us and fling us off this beautiful earth that we're ruining? I can't deny we haven't been a terrible disappointment,” Wilde said.
She said her career started to flatline in the 1990s when she became older and felt she could not keep up.
"I'd been in it since I was 20, then I was 36 and everyone, I felt, was doing it a lot better than I was. They had the ambition that I didn't have any more. When Madonna came along, I didn't feel I could compete, so I said, 'You know what? You're best off being who you are, and that's going to have to be enough,’” Wilde told the BBC. "Sometimes it was, and a lot of the time it wasn't."
Wilde announced she would be starting her comeback tour on March 30.
STRAP YOURSELVES IN FOLKS, WE’VE GOT A DOOZY OF A TALE FOR YOU THIS MORNING.
STRAP YOURSELVES IN FOLKS, WE’VE GOT A DOOZY OF A TALE FOR YOU THIS MORNING.
After all, it’s Friday and what better way to end the week than with a big old spooky conspiracy story.
A video has emerged on Youtube of a UFO just casually following an aeroplane.
Yep, we’re in the deep end now, my friends.
The UFO not only follows the plane but overtakes it then disappears.
Why?
Who can tell.
Are we now totally convinced that aliens walk amongst us?
you betcha.
The sighting took place in Lincoln, New Hampshire, according to News.com, and was captured in 2016 but only surfaced on Youtube earlier this week, since racking up almost 96,000 views.
The person who captured the footage said they were home reading when they noticed the strange object close to the aircraft.
“I am told that military pilots train in the mountains around where I live and I’ve always enjoyed seeing them fly through,” they can be heard saying.
“So I naturally saw the jet and did a double take, because there was something following it.”
“I immediately thought I was witnessing some strange aircraft, possibly military but it was not a jet.”
“THE UFO WAS GAINING ON A JET. NO HELICOPTER COULD DO THAT. I WAS BLOWN AWAY AND LUCKILY GOT OUT MY PHONE IN TIME TO TAKE A VIDEO”
Lucky indeed.
One commenter on Youtube suggests what we’re seeing is two planes travelling at “different altitudes, creating vapour trail”, but the witness filming has other ideas.
“Shortly after the jet and object left my range of sight I saw three more jets and 1 helicopter going the same direction (in my opinion chasing the UFO),” the witness said.
That last part wasn’t captured on video for some reason, but we DEFINITELY believe them.
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