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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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UFO Beam appears in strange orange sky over Stockholm, Sweden
UFO Beam appears in strange orange sky over Stockholm, Sweden
Soheila Nickros was looking outside 3 am yesterday, Mach 31, 2018, when she saw a very strange sky that appears to be orange/reddish but even more strange was an object with a beam of light that seemly stands motionless in the sky.
Soheila already surprised by the strange colored sky wonders whether the object is a UFO or not.
Besides the strange colored sky that is currently being observed around the world, especially in the US, is it possible that the UFO Beam is a reflection of a street light or a camera reflection?
But comparing the UFO Beam with the outlines of the street light it is not the same, maybe a lens flare but since the camera moves a slightly, the lens flare must follow the motion of the camera, in this case the UFO beam still stays at the same spot.
Did you know the country has its own Area 51? Even Mulder and Scully would have a hard time solving some of these mysteries.
1. Molyobka Triangle
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The Molyobka anomaly zone - aka Molybka Triangle - in Russia’s Perm Region has a long extraterrestrial history. As far back as the early 19th century local peasants saw flying objects in the sky here. During the Soviet period the Molybka Triangle became one of the first areas in the country where UFOs were seen. Eyewitnesses spoke of mysterious flying objects of different sizes and forms, red and blue glowing balls, and huge black humanoid figures. Some even said that they had telepathic contact with these visitors.
Ancient stones in the steppe, 120 km from Rostov-on-Don, are so reminiscent of the famous British landmark that they were named Don Stonehenge. Locals are sure the formation is some kind of spaceport for extraterrestrial ships. People claim UFOs regularly appear here in the night - but never during the day.
Apparently the inhabitants of Alat village in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan are used to UFOs. They say a yellow spot always appears in the sky after sunset. Colorful rays come out of it, hang around for a while, and then disappear in different directions. Unfortunately, there are no photos of this mystery. Cameras can’t catch it, they say.
4. Kyshtym
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In 1996, the small Ural’s city of Kyshtym made the headlines when the body of a small unknown creature was found. Alyoshenka - or the Kyshtym Dwarf - as it was called couldn’t be attributed to a known species. Unfortunately, local police transferred the mysterious body to some unknown ufologists, and nobody has seen it since.
5. Olkhon Island in Lake Baikal
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The breathtaking beauty of Lake Baikal hasn’t escaped extraterrestrial guests - so they say. In 1971, near Olkhon Island, a huge pyramid was seen silently moving over the water’s surface. The same pyramid was seen again in 1984, 1990, and 1998.
6. Dalnegorsk, Height 611
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On January 29, 1986 dozens of inhabitants of the Far Eastern town of Dalnegorsk breathlessly watched a UFO in the form of a red-orange ball crash into the local limestone hill known as Height 611, before burning up. People managed to find some tiny remains of the material the object was made of. According to scientists who studied the evidence, the technique used to alloy the metals is not known to humanity.
7. Sasovo village
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The appearance of a UFO in Sasovo village in the Ryazan Region on Cosmonautics Day (April 12, 1991) didn’t go unnoticed. A huge explosion shook houses and broke windows - people thought it was a nuclear blast. Yet the reasons behind the event are not known. Some said they saw big white balls cross the sky soon after. The blast happened again a year later, but it was much weaker.
8. Medveditsky Ridge
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UFO hunters say aliens often land their spaceships on Medveditsky Ridge in the Volgograd Region. Areas of scorched earth can sometimes be found, while grass nearby remains totally untouched. Broken down lawn mower or aliens?
Located near Yekaterinburg, the Sverdlovsk Triangle is the place where most UFO sightings occurred in the USSR during the 1980s and 1990s. Ufologists say the area spanned the prefered flight paths of aliens. Nowadays, it seems the extraterrestrial highway isn’t so busy, but locals sometimes claim they see spaceships flying past from time to time.
10. Okunevo village
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Residents of the Siberian village Okunevo say that spaceships land on the lake located near their settlement before diving into its depths. The water then apparently emits a green light. Some people believe the ancient Khanumam temple is located on the lake’s bottom.
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A UFO researcher spots two mysterious unidentified objects on the lunar surface
A UFO researcher spots two mysterious unidentified objects on the lunar surface
People around the world have been reporting sightings of UFOs and existence of extraterrestrial life on Earth, Moon and in the universe. In rather mysterious photographs scanned and analyzed by George Graham, a Scottish UFOlogist pointed out few photos calling them aliens on the moon. From among the plethora of videos posted on his YouTube channel StreetCap1, there are two distinct videos which show anomalies. According to George, the images were taken by Chinese lunar probe Chang’e 3 where a humanoid structure and a hidden alien spaceship can be seen.
In the first video, the UFOlogist explains a bizarre image that shows a humanoid creature. Although this can be a case of pareidolia where human brain creates an image between unrelated patterns to create a recognizable image. He states that the humanoid creature, probably an alien is wearing a helmet and a visor which can be clearly recognized. Also, the body parts are in the right proportion with the distance between shoulders to the head similar to any humans which are quite shocking.
In another video, he shows a UFO being hidden by a rock. The photo was captured by Chang’e 3 which shows a flying saucer-like creation hidden behind a rock which can be clearly seen. George’s channel on YouTube has plenty of videos referencing to aliens on the lunar surface with more than 70,000 subscribers and more than 44 million hits on his channel.
In another instance, people living in the SW part of Bristol, United Kingdom got to see an unidentified object with the moon as the background which has sparked speculations among people who believe in UFOs and aliens. According to a witness present at the moment, the incident took place on March 30 in Bristol street when suddenly, a strange glow hue was seen across the moon which took a flight at high-speed along with few other smaller objects accompanying it.
On January 31, 2018, when the first Super Blood Moon took place, it was live broadcasted by various news channels and websites for the viewers across the globe. During the feed, a bright flashing dot can be seen flying from the left side of the moon from flying at a high-speed from top to the bottom of the screen. What’s more bizarre was a seemingly beaming flash accompanying the bright dot and it flashed at regular interval. This spark debates and discussions between alien buffs and Ufologists regarding the existence of extraterrestrial life which NASA is trying to hide. A similar object was seen during the last moon on November 14 when a David McCarty, a YouTuber spotted the object flying at a great speed across the moon.
UFOlogists have spotted bizarre objects of the moon such as two missiles in the military formation on the moon or when a video of a circular UFO passing over the Moon was discovered. Conspiracy theorists believe that moon is not our satellite but a base created by aliens to keep a watch on humans and spy on us etc. A study conducted by NASA and published in 1962 states that the density of moon is lower in the inner surface as opposed to its outer surface which is dense. According to a theory, since the inside of the moon is hollow, aliens use it as a base keeping an eye on the activities done by people on Earth.
WETENSCHAPWetenschappers hebben de verste ster ooit ontdekt. Die staat op maar liefst 9 miljard lichtjaar afstand van de Aarde. Tot nu toe waren er wel complete sterrenstelsels en supernova’s (ontploffende sterren) gezien op zulke afstanden, maar geen individuele, normaal schijnende sterren.
Individuele sterren zijn vanaf een afstand van ongeveer 100 miljoen lichtjaar niet meer van elkaar te onderscheiden. Het licht is daarvoor niet fel genoeg. Dat het nu wel kan, komt door de hulp van sterrenstelsels die tussen de ster en de aarde staan. Zij werkten als een soort loep en ‘vergrootten’ de ster meer dan tweeduizend keer. Dat licht werd opgevangen door de Amerikaans-Europese ruimtetelescoop Hubble.
De ster heeft de wetenschappelijke naam MACS J1149 LS1 gekregen, maar de ontdekkers noemen hem liever Icarus. Het is een zogeheten blauwe superreus. Zulke sterren zijn veel groter, zwaarder en heter dan onze zon, en ze kunnen een miljoen keer zo fel schijnen. De ontdekking staat in het wetenschapsblad Nature Astronomy.
According to experts, the African continent may have just started spitting apart.
A massive crack in Kenya, which caused the Nairobi-Narok highway to collapse, is a dire warning of a worrying fact. Geologists claim that it is a manifestation of a phenomenon that is occurring slowly: Africa is splitting in two.
The massive rupture, stretching several kilometers found by experts in Kenya suggests that the African continent could soon split into two, changing Earth’s geology again.
Terrifying.
As noted by researchers, the massive crack which is still growing, caused parts of the Nairobi-Narok highway to collapse and was accompanied by seismic activity.
This process began to become evident in the year 2005 when, after the eruption of the Dabbahu volcano, in Ethiopia, a colossal crack of sixty meters in length was opened in the area of the horn of Africa.
The Topography of the Rift Valley. James Wood and Alex Guth, Michigan Technological University.
Basemap: Space Shuttle radar topography image by NASA
And scientists even know who is responsible behind all of this: The Great Rift Valley, a large geological fracture whose total extension is 4830 kilometers in a north-south direction.
It began to form in southeastern Africa about 30 million years ago and continues to grow today, both in width and in length, the expansion that will eventually become an ocean basin.
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A crack that opened up in Kenya’s Rift Valley, damaging a section of the Narok-Nairobi highway, is still growing...
In an article for the Conversation, Lucia Perez Diaz, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Fault Dynamics Research Group, London‘s Royal Holloway, explains how this could happen.
Our planet’s lithosphere, formed by the Earth’s crust and upper parts of the mantle, is in fact composed of a number of tectonic plates. The tectonic plates aren’t static, and move relative to each other at different speeds, causing them to ‘glide’ over a viscous asthenosphere.
A number of different forces move the plates around but also causes them to break apart, forming a ‘rift’ and leading to the creation of new plate boundaries.
The constant tremors of earth and emersions of lava contribute to this growth and, to continue at this rate, the bottom of the valley will be flooded by the marine waters within 10 million years.
With this, Africa will have broken into two different continents that will proceed to separate further to form a new ocean.
The continent will become smaller and on the other hand, there will be a large island in the Indian Ocean made up of parts of Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, including the Horn of Africa, and could look something like this:
Tabby’s Star Mystery: ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star Dims Again
Tabby’s Star Mystery: ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star Dims Again
Just when we thought the mystery behind Tabby’s star was finally solved, the ‘alien megastructure star’ has given experts a run for their money.
A team of astrophysicists studying the star called KIC 8462852, popularly known as Tabby’s star,has reportedthat the star recently dimmed again, and did so quite dramatically. As noted by experts, the star’s brightness dropped abruptly, recording the biggest change in KIC 8462852 since 2013.
Just a few days later, the light returned to normal.
The light curve recorded for Tabby’s Star.
Credit: Where’s the Flux?
This star, better known as “the Tabby star” in honor of its discoverer Tabetha Boyajian, faded at least 5% last month, reported this week Boyajian, an astrophysicist at Louisiana State University (USA), who has been studying the star KIC 8462852 for years now.
As noted by Universe Today, on March 19th, Tabetha and her team started reporting how the brightness of Tabby’s star started fading again.
Using data obtained by the Las Cumbras Observatory‘s Teide, McDonald and Haleakala Observatories (in Spain, Texas, and Hawaii, respectively), Tabetha and her colleagues began posting regular updates on its light curve. As they wrote on their blog at the time:
“On Friday (2018 March 16) we noted the last data taken were significantly down compared to normal. 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!!”
Six days later, astronomers provided an update saying how the star was returning rapidly to its normal brightness.
They wrote: “The profile of the new dip having a slow decline with a more rapid increase is again reminiscent of that of a backward-comet.”
Confirmations of the star returning rapidly to normality were obtained on March 23rd, after observations by the Catalonia Institute for Space Studies‘ (IEEC) Montsec Astronomical Observatory.
Then, on March 26th, an update indicated how the star’s flux had dropped by a total of 5%, a discovery later confirmed by John Hall – an astronomer with the American Association of Variable Star Observers.
As noted by experts, this constituted the greatest dip since the 22% reported in 2015.
Its mysterious dimming patterns are considered atypical since it is a star that slightly exceeds the size of the Sun and should have a more or less constant brightness.
In Kepler’s observations of 2011, it decreased by up to 22%.
Throughout 2017 there were also important changes in its attenuation.
Among the theories about this strange dimming pattern, one suggests the existence of an alien megastructure orbiting the star.
However, a recent investigation led by Tabetha points out that the luminosity changes in KIC 8462852, which is more than 1,000 light years from Earth, would be due to dust particles blocking some wavelengths of light, and not as a result of blocking a giant object.
However, not everyone is convinced by the ‘dust’ explanations, and UFO hunters will certainly see the new dimming pattern as a hope that a mighty alien structure may still exist orbiting Tabby’s star.
Tiangong-1’s reentry has been confirmed as April 2 at 00:16 UTC (April 1 at 8:16 p.m. EDT). Reentry occurred in the Pacific Ocean, northwest of Tahiti.
China’s first space station, Tiangong-1, reentered Earth’s atmosphere on April 2 at 00:16 UTC (April 1 at 8:16 p.m. EDT; translate UTC to your time). The reentry was over the Pacific Ocean. Did any pieces of the space station survive reentry, and did any strike land? Some pieces almost certainly survived the fall, and, at this time, we’ve heard no reports of pieces striking land.
What were the chances a piece of Tiangong-1 would strike someone or something? Vanishingly small, according to experts, but not zero. Read Guy Ottewell’s blog for his thoughts on the statistical chances a piece of Tiangong-1 would strike you.
So, at present, it’s unknown if any pieces will be found on land, although it seems unlikely. Space experts warn that if you think you have found a chunk of Tiangong-1, you should not pick it up or breathe in any fumes emanating from it. The space junk may be contaminated with hydrazine, a toxic rocket fuel.
Several organizations tracked predicted reentry times, including the U.S.-based analysis group Aerospace Corporation, the U.S. Strategic Command’s Joint Force Space Component Command (JFSCC), the European Space Agency and scientists around the world with the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee. These experts tracked it carefully, quite accurately, until the end.
Tiangong-1 was school-bus-sized. Its main body was approximately 34 feet (10.4 meters) long.
China launched its space station in 2011, and, originally, it planned a controlled reentry. But, in March 2016, the Tiangong-1 space station ceased functioning. Ground teams lost control of the craft, and it could no longer be commanded to fire its engines. It was, therefore, expected to make an uncontrolled reentry.
Tiangong-1 was not designed to withstand reentry, as some spacecraft are. The extreme heat and friction generated by its high-speed passage through Earth’s atmosphere would have caused the spacecraft to burn up, at least mostly, over the Pacific.
Experienced amateur sky observers also caught video of Tiangong-1 last week as it sped across our sky on its way to a fiery demise this weekend. We know of at least two who succeeded in this demanding observation. See their videos below. Brian Ottum posted his view of the space station – from early in the day on Wednesday – on Instagram:
The Virtual Telescope Project in Rome and Tenagra Observatories in Arizona provided an exciting livestream of their successful attempt to view Tiangong-1, also earlier in the day on Wednesday. Check this out! It’s really fun to hear Gianluca Masi‘s commentary as he searches for – and finds – the space station.
Tiangong-1’s major goal was to test and master technologies related to orbital rendezvous and docking. One uncrewed and two crewed missions – executed by the Shenzhou (Divine Craft) spacecraft – took place during its operational lifetime. ESA explained:
Following launch in 2011, the Tiangong-1 orbit began steadily decaying due to the faint, yet not-zero, atmospheric drag present even at 300 or 400 km altitude [about 200 to 250 miles altitude]. This affects all satellites and spacecraft in low-Earth orbit, like the International Space Station, for example.
Tiangong-1 potential reentry area. Map showing the area between 42.8 degrees north and 42.8 degrees south latitude (in green), over which Tiangong-1 was predicted to reenter.
Lessons you should take away: 1) Science isn't about predicting things precisely. It's about knowing how big your uncertainty is. 2). The Pacific Ocean is big. Always bet on the Pacific.
Scientists Warn—Our Universe Could Be Destroyed Abruptly
Scientists Warn—Our Universe Could Be Destroyed Abruptly
According to a new study, the universe we reside in could be abruptly destroyed in a cataclysmic collision with a bubble of ‘negative energy’ say, Harvard scientists, warning that this process may have even already begun without us even noticing.
Scientists explain how a fundamental particle that gives mass to all mater held within the universe could one day cause its destruction.
Astrophysicists warn that our universe may be abruptly destroyed, as it started in a bubble of negative energy, thought to have been created by the Higgins Boson, aka the God Particle. The famous Higgs boson particle, discovered in 2012 after more than fifty years of scientific persecution, has the power to end the existence of the Universe in which we live.
Not only that, but the process could have already started without us even noticing it.
In fact, there is a possibility that this particle has collapsed on itself in a far corner of the cosmos, producing an expanding vacuum energy bubble that would end up swallowing us all.
This authentic cosmic apocalypse is described in a recently published article in Physical Review.
The end of space and time is not a concept alien to Physics.
The observable universe.
The Standard Model, in effect, the theory that describes all known forces and particles, predicts that, just as the Universe had a beginning, it will also have an ending.
As the dark energy continues to accelerate the expansion of the Universe, the matter in it will become increasingly dispersed and move further and further away, until the last star is extinguished and the entire cosmos is nothing more than an unfathomable, cold and black abyss bigger and scarier than ever, where nothing shines anymore.
The most accurate calculated estimate for the cosmic doomsday, based on the logical development of the four fundamental interactions of Nature, tells us that the end of the Universe will occur in around 10×139 years.
The new model of the “killer Higgs” developed by a team of researchers at Harvard University is much more unpredictable and dramatic.
In it, the Universe would end with a bang, and it would do so in a much shorter period of time.
“We wanted to correct all previous approaches and obtain a date as accurate as possible,” says Anders Andreassen, Harvard University and lead author of the study.
To achieve this, he and his colleagues used everything we know about the masses and interactions between particles, including the mass of the Higgs boson, the carrier of the force that confers its mass to all other particles, and which turned out to be 125 gigaelectronvolts.
And it is here, say researchers, in the mass of the Higgs boson, where the problem resides in.
The reason is that the mass recorded for the boson might not be the lowest possible for that particle, but simply a temporary value, which remains stable at present but could change one day.
The most careful calculations, in effect, suggest that our Universe could actually be a “false vacuum”, very different from the “true vacuum” that we would have in the lowest possible energy configuration.
To understand this concept, you can think of the Higgs as a ball that is trapped in the bottom of a shallow valley that represents its mass.
But on the other side of the hill, there is another much deeper valley that corresponds to a mass with less potential.
As the Higgs can not roll up the hill, it is “stuck” in its current configuration.
The image covers about 1/20th of the sky, a slice of the Universe 6 billion light-years wide, 4.5 billion light-years high, and 500 million light-years thick. Color indicates the distance from Earth, ranging from yellow on the near side of the slice to purple on the far side.
Image credit: Daniel Eisenstein and the SDSS-III collaboration.
However, all subatomic particles, the Higgs boson among them, have the possibility of behaving like waves, and therefore do not have well-defined positions.
And there is always the possibility that the Higgs creates a “tunnel” through the hill and reaches the lower valley, which would result in a mass lower than what scientists have observed.
It would be precisely here where things would start to get really ugly, say experts.
In fact, due to the fact that the Higgs field provides mass to all other particles, a change in their properties would wreak havoc on the “building blocks” of our universe.
Chemistry, and therefore life, depends on these values, so that our current way of being would be completely nullified by this reorganization.
Since the universe we can observe from Earth is only a small portion of the total, the likelihood of extremely improbable things happening in places we cannot see increases considerably. And in such a large and hidden Universe, there exists the possibility of this “Higgs collapse” having happened in a place beyond our visibility, producing a bubble of negative energy that expands rapidly and in whose interior is a universe of crazed properties, according to our point of view.
This bubble can travel across the universe.
And one day, that bubble could reach us and also swallow our region of the cosmos.
According to Einstein’s theory of Relativity, information can not move faster than light, so it would be impossible for us to realize its arrival.
In the words of Andreassen “we would not even see it coming”.
As the physicist writes in his article, “it is very worrying to imagine this bubble, with its wall of negative energy, throwing itself at us at the speed of light”. For the researcher, instead of a slow stretch towards nothingness, our Universe could be on its way to an abrupt collision with one of these destructive bubbles.
TIANGONG-1 FIRST REENTRY VIDEO | china chinese Space Station falling April 1st || LIVE 2018 || Tiang
It's almost crash time for China's falling space station Tiangong-1. As school bus-sized space station began what should be its last day in orbit today (April 1), experts weighed in on the possibilities of space debris – and whether this situation should have happened in the first place
China says space station burns up over South Pacific
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the earth’s atmosphere and burnt up over the middle of the South Pacific on Monday, the Chinese space authority said.The “vast majority” of the craft burnt up on re-entry, at around 8:15 a.m.(0015 GMT), the authority said in a brief statement on its website, without saying exactly where the remnants might have landed.Earlier, it had said the craft was expected to re-enter the atmosphere off the Brazilian coast in the South Atlantic near the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.The United States Air Force 18th Space Control Squadron, which tracks and detects all artificial objects in Earth’s orbit, said it had also tracked the Tiangong-1 in its re-entry over the South Pacific.
It said in a statement it had confirmed re-entry in coordination with counterparts in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Britain.The remnants of Tiangong-1 appeared to have landed about 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Tahiti, said Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at Australian National University.“Small bits definitely will have made it to the surface,” he told Reuters, adding that while about 90 percent would have burnt up in the atmosphere and just 10 percent made it to the ground, that fraction still amounted to 700 kg (1,543 lb) to 800 kg (1,764 lb).“Most likely the debris is in the ocean, and even if people stumbled over it, it would just look like rubbish in the ocean and be spread over a huge area of thousands of square kilometers.”Beijing said on Friday it was unlikely any large pieces would reach the ground.
The 10.4-metre-long (34.1-foot) Tiangong-1, or “Heavenly Palace 1”, was launched in 2011 to carry out docking and orbit experiments as part of China’s ambitious space program, which aims to place a permanent station in orbit by 2023.It was originally planned to be decommissioned in 2013 but its mission was repeatedly extended.China had said re-entry would happen in late 2017, but that process was delayed, leading some experts to suggest the space laboratory was out of control.Worldwide media hype about the re-entry reflected overseas “envy” of China’s space industry, the Chinese tabloid Global Times said on Monday.“It’s normal for spacecraft to re-enter the atmosphere, yet Tiangong-1 received so much attention, partly because some Western countries are trying to hype and sling mud at China’s fast-growing aerospace industry,” it said.
Farewell, Tiangong-1: Chinese Space Station Meets Fiery Doom Over South PacifiC
An artist's concept of China's Tiangong-1 space station prototype burning up in Earth's atmosphere during its fiery fall back to Earth overnight on April 1-2, 2018.Tiangong-1 is no more.China's prototype space station, whose name translates as "Heavenly Palace 1," met a fiery end in Earth's atmosphere today (April 1), breaking apart and burning up in the skies over the southern Pacific Ocean at about 8:16 p.m.EDT (0016 April 2 GMT), according to the U.S.Strategic Command's Joint Force Space Component Command (JFSCC)."The JFSCC used the Space Surveillance Network sensors and their orbital analysis system to confirm Tiangong-1's re-entry," U.S.Air Force officials wrote in a statement.[Tiangong-1: China's Falling Space Station in Pictures] Some pieces of the school-bus-size Tiangong-1 almost certainly survived the fall, but the odds that they caused any damage or injury are extremely small: You had a less than 1-in-1-trillion chance of getting hit by a flaming chunk of the heavenly palace, according to experts with the Aerospace Corporation.By the way, if you do manage to find such a chunk of Tiangong-1, don't pick it up or breathe in any fumes emanating from it.The space junk may be contaminated with hydrazine, a toxic rocket fuel, experts have said.Tiangong-1 was about 34 feet long by 11 feet wide (10.4by 3.4meters), and it weighed more than 9 tons (8 metric tons).
The space lab consisted of two main parts: an "experimental module" that housed visiting astronauts and a "resource module" that accommodated Tiangong-1's solar-energy and propulsion systems.The craft launched without anyone aboard on Sept.29, 2011, to an orbit about 217 miles (350 kilometers) above Earth.That's slightly lower than the orbit of the much larger International Space Station, whose average altitude is 250 miles (400 km).Tiangong-1's main mission was to help China master the technologies required to assemble and operate a bona-fide space station in Earth orbit, a goal the nation aims to achieve by the early 2020s, the country has said.On Nov.2, 2011, the robotic Shenzhou-8 spacecraft visited Tiangong-1, executing China's first-ever orbital docking.Another big milestone came in June 2012, when a crew of three spaceflyers linked their Shenzhou-9 vehicle to the heavenly palace and came aboard for a spell.Three more "taikonauts," or Chinese astronauts, visited in June 2013, traveling on the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft.Each of these crewed missions lasted about two weeks.Tiangong-1's design lifetime was just two years, and the space lab's work was mostly done after Shenzhou-10 departed.The empty space lab continued to do some Earth-observation work, however, and researchers and engineers kept in touch with it until March 2016, when data transmission between Tiangong-1 and its handlers stopped, for reasons that China never explicitly specified.At that point, an uncontrolled atmospheric re-entry was apparently inevitable.This is the view of outside researchers.But Chinese space official
NASA-Funded Study Says There Could Be Alien Life On Venus
NASA-Funded Study Says There Could Be Alien Life On Venus
As noted by a recent report, extraterrestrial could inhabit our solar system, and they could be living within the acid clouds of Venus, notes a NASA-funded study, recently published in the Journal Astrobiology.
The study backed by NASA indicates that Aliens (although not fully developed aliens, but bacteria) could call the hazardous clouds on Venus their home.
Scientists believe the sulfur dioxide-rich upper atmosphere of Venus may be where tiny Venusian aliens are hiding.
Exerpts came to this conlcusion after using space probes to detect dark areas around the rust-colored body, which resemble the light-absorbing properties of bacteria here on Earth.
As noted by experts, these mysterious dark spots on Venus could be blooms of alien bacterial, similar to those found on Earth in lakes and ponds.
Because the clouds of Venus are composed of sulfuric acid, they reflect around 75 percent of the sunlight that hits them, causing them to appear nearly entirely opaque.
Venus has been dubbed as Earth’s Evil twin by a number of astrophysics and astronomers because of the hazardous, and inhospitable conditions reigning on its surface, where it rains Acid, and the temperature is around 462 degrees Celsius.
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The research, suggesting tiny Venusian alien may inhabit the clouds of Venus, was recently published in the Journal Astrobiology, and it infers how alien microbes may survive by being blown around by extreme winds in the cooler cloud tops of Venus.
The researcher explains that the cloudy, highly reflective and acidic atmosphere of Venus is composed mostly of carbon dioxide and water droplets containing sulfuric acid.
However, this isn’t the first time someone has suggested there may be life on Venus.
In fact, the habitability of Venus’ clouds was first raised in 1967 by noted biophysicist Harold Morowitz and famed astronomer Carl Sagan. Following this theory, the idea that Venus’ clouds may bear alien life was expanded by planetary scientists David Grinspoon, Mark Bullock and their colleagues.
“Venus shows some episodic dark, sulfuric rich patches, with contrasts up to 30–40 percent in the ultraviolet and muted in longer wavelengths. These patches persist for days, changing their shape and contrasts continuously and appear to be scale dependent,” says Limaye.
I was recording the glitch, which is a 10-30 second cycle that varies in time, but was made by NASA to deliberately cause frustration to the public so the viewers would give up watching the space station. However, as I was recording, I was surprised to see a UFO come from behind the station. I forgot to turn on my mic, so I had to remake the video again. This looks like a round disk. The disk flips at one point in the video, which was cool to see. This does look like an alien craft to me.
Multiple UFOs seen from the ISS live stream March 31st 2018
Multiple UFOs seen from the ISS live stream March 31st 2018
The stills in this video were taken from a brief 30 minute recording from the ISS live stream. The objects show for a split second, appearing as a small flash of light but when zoomed in more details become visible.
Countdown: Burning space station to hit Earth in ‘next 12 hours’
Countdown: Burning space station to hit Earth in ‘next 12 hours’
A Chinese space station that is spiraling out of control is predicted to hit Earth in only half a day. It is also understood that Scientists tracking the space station are unsure of the landing spot once it hits Earth. This is in contradiction to previous analysis that claimed to understand of the landing spot of the out of control space station.
Burning Space Station Predicted to Hit Earth in Twelve Hours
The space station is known as Tiangong-1 and was put into orbit in 2011. Tiangong-1 was the first space station to be put into space by the Chinese. Tiangong-1 was originally put into space as a guide mission in preparation for Tiangong-2, which was to be a laboratory space for the Chinese. Problems with Tiangong-1 had delayed those plans since 2016 when Tiangong-1 started losing altitude due to malfunctions within the space station in 2016.
The deorbit of #Tiangong1 is expected to look something like this. First, the solar panels will rip off, then the body will break apart. Most will burn up in the atmosphere but some debris could make it to the ground. We'll know better about when and where tomorrow.
In November, European scientists believed that Spain, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, and Greece were among countries that represented possible crash sites for Tiangong-1. This is assuming the space station does land indeed, as scientists have stated that it could burn up in the atmosphere before crashing into the Earth. However, updates on April first have confirmed less certainty concerning the site of the crash. The area of the crash is now predicted to encompass a much larger zone. Included in possible crash sites for Tiangong-1 are now the continents of Africa, Australia, South America, and the whole Indian subcontinent.
Space engineering entities for the Chinese seem certain that Tangong-1 will not cause severe damage. It is expected that the space station will disintegrate at an altitude of 80km. Aerospace Corporation has set up a tracking center for Tiangong-1. This tracking center currently reveals that Tiangong-1 has a current orbit above the South Atlantic Ocean. Authorities for the United States Air Force are making claims that a portion of Tiangong-1 will re-enter the Earth within the next twelve hours.
In the quest to answer whether we’re alone, scientists have found that the clouds of venus may help solve the mystery of whether life outside of Earth exists.
Published March 30 in the journal Astrobiology, a new paper says the clouds of Venus may host extraterrestrial microbial life. As the authors state in the paper, whether Venus’ clouds could support life has been discussed for decades, spurred by research indicating that its chemical and physical properties, moderate temperatures and pressure could make it possible for life to exist.
The team was intrigued by dark patches found on the planet's clouds that are made of sulfuric acid and light-absorbing particles similar to those found on Earth. In fact, they theorized the patches could be similar to algae blooms found in our lakes, noting that particles in the patches have similar dimensions to bacteria here on Earth.
The team believes this could make Venus vital in the search for other life forms, however, the planets’ clouds would need to be sampled and tested first.
WETENSCHAPOost-Afrika zal zich afsplitsen van de rest van het continent, voorspellen geologen. Hoewel het een proces is van miljoenen jaren, zijn de eerste tekenen zichtbaar. Zoals een breuklijn in Kenia, en die wordt steeds dieper.
Vorige week stortte in het zuidwesten van Kenia een deel van de drukke Mai Mahiu Road deels in nadat er een vulkanische breuklijn ontstond. Door de scheur zijn delen van de weg verzakt en ontstond een groot gat dat het water opslokte. Dat leidde vervolgens tot nog meer barsten. Op sommige plaatsen is de breuk inmiddels meer dan 50 meter diep en 20 meter breed.
Wetenschapper Lucia Perez Diaz, verbonden aan de Royal Holloway universiteit van London, ziet hierin het bewijs dat het oostelijk deel van Afrika een nieuw continent zal vormen. Kenia, Tanzania, Somalië en een deel van Ethiopië zullen uiteindelijk worden afgescheiden, schrijft The Mirror naar aanleiding van haar publicatie in het blad Conversation.
In het artikel beschrijft ze hoe dit geologisch proces zich voltrekt diep in de aarde. Afrika bestaat nu nog uit één tektonische plaat: de zogeheten Afrikaanse plaat. Alleen, die wordt in het oosten geleidelijk uit elkaar gespleten, ter hoogte van Somalië.
Daardoor zullen er op termijn twee platen ontstaan: de Somalische plaat (de oostelijke plaat) én de Nubische plaat (de westelijke plaat). Het uit elkaar schuiven van (nieuwe) tektonische platen wordt ook wel ‘riftvorming’ genoemd. Doordat breuken in ondergrondse platen in tegenovergestelde hellingsrichting bewegen, ontstaat een soort van vallei tussen twee hooglandgebieden of bergketens.
Die ‘vallei’, ook wel een slenk genoemd, wordt verder uitgediept door erosie én door hitte die gevormd wordt door vulkanische activiteit die uit de kern van de aarde naar de oppervlaktekorst komt. De breuk gaat heel langzaam: jaarlijks gaat het om een verschuiving van zo’n 45 millimeter.
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Over zo’n 10 miljoen tot 50 miljoen jaar zal Oost-Afrika zich daardoor hebben afgescheiden van de rest van Afrika, zegt wetenschapper Diaz. In de geschiedenis van Afrika is zoiets overigens wel eerder gebeurd. Zo heeft Madagaskar zich zo’n 110 miljoen jaar geleden losgemaakt van Somalië door middel van een zeer brede slenk.
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This Week's Top Space Stories
This Week's Top Space Stories
By SPACE.com Staff
Photo Credit: P. van Dokkum/R. Abraham/STScI, Space Telescope Science Institute
The Week's Top Space Stories
A "cannonball-like" exoplanet could shed light on Mercury's dramatic history, the last blue moon until the year 2020 will shine this weekend, researchers study a ghostly galaxy that has almost no dark matter and a space station will soon crash into Earth, mostly burning up in the atmosphere. These are some of the top stories this week from Space.com.
Photo Credit: The Aerospace Corporation/CORDS
1. Tiangong-1 satellite is tricky to track
The altitude of the now defunct Chinese space station Tiangong-1 is decreasing, and experts believe the craft will re-enter Earth's atmosphere in the next few days — possibly on April 1. The air resistance, or "aerodynamic drag," that will interact with the spacecraft is tricky to predict because Tiangong-1 is a complex shape. The density of the atmosphere can also change when the sun is at a certain point in its periodic cycle, which would also affect reentry. However it's worth noting that most of Tiangong-1 will burn up in the atmosphere and not make it to Earth's surface
Photo Credit: National Institute of Aerospace/Lunar and Planetary Institute
2. Apollo 17 leaders discuss Mars
Three figures of American spaceflight history — lunar module pilot Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, Apollo 17 flight director Gerry Griffin and backroom scientist Jim Head — spoke at the 49th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. The event commemorated the 45th anniversary of Apollo 17, which made the last crewed mission to the moon in December 1972. When speaking on the challenges of Mars exploration, the panelists emphasized the need for more research on the moon before attempting the cross-planetary trip, as well as highlighting the backroom science needed to handle communication delays.
The James Webb Space Telescope, often referred to as the successor of the Hubble Space Telescope, will launch about a year later than previously planned. NASA announced on March 27 that the new space observatory, designed to peer deep into the universe to seek out new planets and study early stars, is now slated to launch no earlier than May 2020. The delay is necessary because of difficulty testing of some of the telescope's parts such as its tennis-court-size sun shield, which developed small tears when deployed.
NASA's acting administrator, Robert Lightfoot, recently announced that he will retire from the space agency on April 30. If Congress does not appoint a permanent chief or deputy administrator before then, the leadership role will go to the third person in line: associate administrator Steve Jurczyk. Lightfoot's resignation comes at an interesting moment, because the NASA budget for the upcoming year is typically worked on over the summer; it's therefore likely that Lightfoot's successor will work on NASA's budget policy for 2019.
Photo Credit: P. van Dokkum/R. Abraham/STScI, Space Telescope Science Institute
5. See-through galaxy has little dark matter
Galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 seems to have 400 times less dark matter than it should for its size. The lead author of a recent study suggests this means dark matter is not an essential ingredient to form galaxies, and this finding could also explain the odd nature of this galaxy: it lacks the signature spiral arms that many galaxies have, it is see-through and although it's about the size of the Milky Way, it has roughly 200 times fewer stars.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is tweaking the design of a mission from an environmentally friendly innovation program called e.Deorbit. Rather than going ahead with its mission to send a satellite into low Earth orbit in the year 2023 to retrieve a defunct satellite, ESA has chosen to study whether the mission should be modified to make the vehicle more flexible and capable of performing other space-junk services. E.Deorbit is part of ESA's Clean Space Initiative.
A flat-Earth conspiracy theorist took off aboard a self-made rocket on March 24 and survived the landing after two parachute deployments. The steam-powered rocket reached an altitude of 1,875 feet (572 meters) above the Mojave Desert. The launch comes after two failed attempts, one of which was brought to a halt by the Bureau of Land Management. There are several ground-based ways to tell that the Earth is a sphere, and not a "frisbee," but Mike Hughes' ultimate goal is to see the curvature of the planet for himself by attempting another launch in the future.
Make sure to catch the Blue Moon on Saturday (March 31) because the next one will not happen until Halloween night of the year 2020! One definition of a blue moon is the second full moon to land within a calendar month, and it has nothing to do with the color. But it is a unique treat since blue moon periods happen once every 2.7 years on average. The last blue moon occurred at the end of January this year.
9. Air-inhaling technology could provide almost indefinite spaceflight
An air-breathing electric thruster underewnt its first test by the European Space Agency. Designed to collect molecules in the atmosphere to later use as onboard propellant, this thruster could allow near-Earth orbiting satellites to stay in space almost indefinitely. The thruster works by turning the air molecules it collects into plasma, and the technology could potentially be extended one day for use on Mars satellites as well.
10. Earth-size "Cannonball" exoplanet may share similarities with Mercury
Researchers spotted an alien world that could shed light on the history of Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet. Mercury is mostly metallic, making it quite different from its rocky brethren in the solar system. Since the exoplanet, called K2-229 b, has a different composition than its parent star, it is possible that it went through drastic changes throughout its life that could help us understand Mercury's formation, too.
We May Have Uncovered the First Ever Evidence of the Multiverse
We May Have Uncovered the First Ever Evidence of the Multiverse
For many years, scientists have been very much baffled by a weird anomaly far away in space: a mysterious “Cold Spot” about 1.8 billion light-years across. It is cooler than its surroundings by around 0.00015 degrees Celsius (0.00027 degrees Fahrenheit), a fact astronomers discovered by measuring background radiation throughout the universe.
Previously, astronomers believed that this space could be cooler simply because it had less matter in it than most sections of space. They dubbed it a massive supervoid and estimated that it had 10,000 galaxies fewer than other comparable sections of space.
But now, in a recently published survey of galaxies, astronomers from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) say they have discovered that this supervoide could not exist. They now believe that the galaxies in the cold spot are just clustered around smaller voids that populate the cold spot like bubbles. These small voids, however, cannot explain the temperature difference observed.
To link the temperature differences to the smaller voids, the researchers say a non-standard cosmological model would be required. “But our data place powerful constraints on any attempt to do that,” explained researcher Ruari Mackenzie in an RAS press release.
While the study had a large margin of error, the simulations suggest there is only a two percent probability that the Cold Spot formed just randomly.
“This means we can’t entirely rule out that the Spot is caused by an unlikely fluctuation explained by the standard model. But if that isn’t the answer, then there are more exotic explanations,” said researcher Tom Shanks in the press release. “Perhaps the most exciting of these is that the Cold Spot was caused by a collision between our universe and another bubble universe.”
If more detailed studies support the findings of this research, the Cold Spot might turn out to be the first evidence for the multiverse, though far more evidence would be needed to confirm our universe is indeed one of many.
Blenus Green, a retired B-1 pilot who now flies for American Airlines, sounded amazed and couldn't seem to help smiling as he described seeing a UFO last month over Arizona.
News coverage of the astonishing sight blew up this week, a few weeks after Phoenix New Times — following a TheDrive.com story — published an article and Federal Aviation Administration audio recordings on March 9.
On Wednesday, the first interview of the Abilene, Texas, pilot aired on his hometown TV station, KTAB/KRBC-TV, describing what he saw from his American Airlines cockpit. New Times also interviewed the vice president of Phoenix Air Group, whose Learjet pilot also saw the weird object.
As reported previously, the Learjet pilot reported to Albuquerque Center air traffic control on the afternoon of February 24 that he saw something bright and inexplicable fly over him, which would have put the object at about 40,000 feet.
Kassahun reported that Green has been flying for 20 years and displayed a photo of him in an Air Force uniform. On that day, American Airlines Flight 1095 was flying from San Diego to Dallas. Somewhere over the Sonoran Desert between Picacho and Mammoth, Green saw what the Learjet pilot had seen.
"So sure enough, I was looking out the windscreen to see if it was there, and yeah, I did. I saw it!" Green said in the interview. "It was very bright, but it wasn't so bright you couldn't look at it. You almost really wanted to look at it, to try to figure out what it was. It didn't look anything like an airplane."
In the FAA tape, an Albuquerque Center official asks Green to describe the object. He said it was flying several thousand feet above his Airbus and going "in the opposite direction."
Someone then asked the pilot if it was a "Google balloon."
Blenus Green, a pilot for American Airlines, describes the weird and bright object he saw over Arizona on February 24 in an interview with Texas TV news reporter Pheban Kassahun.
"What was weird about it, (is) normally if you have an object, you know, and if the sun's shining this way, the reflection would be on this side," he told Kassahun, using his hands to help him describe the object. "But this was bright all the way around. It was so bright, you couldn't make it out, what shape it was."
Earlier this week, American Airlines spokeswoman Katie Cody said she could add no further details about the incident.
However, Bob Tracey, vice president of Phoenix Air Group, Inc., which is based in Atlanta, said on Thursday that after receiving a "full debriefing" from the pilot of the Learjet, he's left wondering, "what the hell was it?"
Phoenix Air uses Learjets for a variety of contract work, including as air ambulances for the military's Air Mobility Command. That's what the Learjet pilot and his co-pilot were doing on February 24. Tracey couldn't say if a patient was on board at the time, but assumed it had no passengers because it was on its way back to Georgia from California.
The pilot realizes the public is interested in his story, but he and the company are worried he'll be overwhelmed by the publicity.
"I'm not naming him," Tracey said. "He's going to get buried with phone calls."
The pilot is a 15-year veteran with Phoenix Air, and is a "seasoned captain" with more than 14,000 hours of flying time.
At about the same time that afternoon, the pilot and his co-pilot noticed something flying outside and above them.
"What's that — what the hell is that?" the pilot remembered both of them saying.
Like Green, they mostly noticed the intense bright light of the object. The Learjet pilot described it as "like you woke up in the morning and stared at a bright light," Tracey said.
The brightness didn't fill the whole windshield, though — it was definitely a spot of light, and seemed to come from a source that was flying west at high speed, toward the eastbound Learjet but high above it.
The pilots put their fingers on the window to estimate how high in the sky it was. They concluded it might have been flying at nearly 50,000 feet, or more than 10,000 feet above them.
Then it raced past them. The pilot, knowing that another airplane likely would be coming near the area soon, put in his call to Albuquerque Center to alert air traffic controllers.
The pilot was concerned that "someone's going to whack into this thing."
When the pilot got back from the trip, he gave a casual briefing of the incident to the company's flight operations.
"He didn't think much of it," Tracey said. The pilot has seen many balloons in sky, he said. Sometimes they're sent up by amateurs with expendable GoPros. Like a balloon, it wasn't tracked by radar, and the Learjet's Traffic Collision Avoidance System didn't sound any alarms.
Yet in his full debriefing, he described something that didn't sound at all like a balloon, Tracey acknowledged.
"He said that it passed him at maybe a similar speed that an airliner would," Tracey said. That would be roughly 500 mph each, for a combined speed of "well over Mach 1," or the speed of sound.
Balloons, of course, may travel at high speeds on a vertical line, but not very fast horizontally.
China’s out-of-control, defunct space station is hurtling toward Earth and currently expected to enter the atmosphere sometime in the next 24 hours.
The 8.5-ton space lab, known as Tiangong-1, is likely to burn up upon re-entry, which is expected to happen about 37 miles above ground, so it only poses a small risk to people and property.
However, the exact timing of when the craft, which is about the size of a school bus, will fall back to Earth is uncertain due to how quiet the sun has been. The European Space Agency says it will happen between today and early Monday, while the Chinese Space Agency extends the potential landfall window to Wednesday.
A rogue Chinese space station that weighs 8.5 tons is hurtling toward Earth.
(European Space Agency)
According to Space.com, if the sun is active, its energy pushes more strongly against Earth’s atmosphere. The atmosphere then balloons and becomes denser at higher altitudes, and the density impacts the drag against Tiangong-1’s orbital speed.
Most of the U.S. appeared to be outside the likely landfall area, but a senior member of Aerospace Corp. told Space.com that all predictions are subject to change based on new information.
In this June 13, 2013, file image released by China's Xinhua News Agency, the Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft is seen while conducting docking with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space module.
(AP)
Although the Chinese station has received intense media coverage, each year around 1,000 large objects such as lost satellites and rocket stages fall back to Earth. These numbers are projected to increase over the coming years as more and more satellites are placed into orbit.
Experts say there is also an economic risk that Tiangong-1 could present to air traffic as it hurtles toward Earth.
This undated file photo shows researchers installing China's first space station module Tiangong-1 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province prior to its launch on Sept. 29, 2011. (AP)
“The problem here is less the probability for an aircraft to be directly hit by space debris (which is low, but not zero), but the difficulty to predict precisely the area of possible impacts and their exact time of occurrence, because of uncertainties resulting from variations of solar activity,” Dieter Isakeit, chair of the information and communication committee for the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety, told Fox News in a statement.
Air traffic controllers could take a more conservative approach, Isakeit says, and “totally close” large areas to air traffic for several hours if they don’t have more reliable data about where the station is headed.
That type of closure has happened during other events, such as volcanic eruptions.
In this June 18, 2012, file image released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese astronauts, from left, Liu Wang, Liu Yang and Jing Haipeng wave while aboard the orbiting Tiangong-1 space station.
(Xinhua News Agency/AP)
The good news is that it’s very unlikely that anyone will be hit with debris from the rogue space station.
“When considering the worst-case location, the probability that a specific person will be struck by Tiangong-1 debris is about one million times smaller than the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot,” the nonprofit Aerospace Corporation told the Sun. “In the history of spaceflight, no known person has ever been harmed by re-entering space debris.”
Indeed, only one person is known to have been hit by falling space debris: American woman Lottie Williams, who was struck but not injured by a falling piece of a U.S. Delta II rocket while exercising in an Oklahoma park in 1997.
Most famously, America's 77-ton Skylab crashed through the atmosphere in 1979, spreading pieces of wreckage near the southwestern Australia city of Perth, which fined the U.S. $400 for littering.
WE COULD ALL BE PETS IN AN ELABORATE ALIEN ZOO, CLAIMS NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
WE COULD ALL BE PETS IN AN ELABORATE ALIEN ZOO, CLAIMS NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Planet Earth could be an elaborate zoo created by a hyper-intelligent alien civilisation, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has claimed. And such aliens, he added, might even be inflicting “weird politics” on us as a form of entertainment.
Tyson, who was among the guests at the Starmus conference in Tenerife, Spain, said he remained pessimistic about humanity making contact with intelligent alien life, arguing our relative lack of intelligence could either be bad news for discovery or allow us to exist in blissful ignorance.
“I fear the day we come upon a species such as that. Maybe I don’t fear it, I just hope that all they would do for us is create a zoo where we are happy. And maybe that is what they call Earth.”
Tyson was in part responding to statements made by Stephen Hawking in July last year. At the time Hawking said the discovery of alien life could destroy humanity but we should keep searching for it anyway.
But Tyson said the likelihood of that happening were low. “A sufficiently intelligent civilisation would have positively no interest in us at all,” he said. “In the same way as when you’re walking down a street and there’s a worm there.”. And even if you wanted to kill all the worms, he continued, you’d soon get bored and do something else.
“Maybe our biggest protection against being killed by alien civilisations is their conclusion there’s no intelligent civilisation on Earth,” Tyson continued. “Suppose in fact intelligence has come to the galaxy. Who are we to then decide that we are intelligent? We define our intelligence. Of course we’re intelligent because we define it.” he said.
“The microbes in our lower gut would think of humans as dark, anaerobic pockets of faecal matter in the service of their life. That’s the purpose of human life to them.”
Tyson also argued the tiny genetic difference between a human and a chimp made it likely alien intelligence, if it does exist, is already way beyond our on. “We would not be able to comprehend their simplest of thoughts any more than a chimp can understand ‘Let’s go have dinner at the buffet later I’m going to have some carbohydrates and protein because I’m on a low fat diet’. What would that sentence mean to a chimp?” he joked. To a hyper-intelligent alien race, Tyson continued, Stephen Hawking’s intelligence might be the equivalent of an alien toddler.
He also had a word of warning for those that would have humanity become an interplanetary species. “Yes, being a multi-planet species I think that looks good on paper. Put your eggs in more than one basket. If one basket gets smashed the species is preserved. In practice it is completely unrealistic. Let’s terraform Mars, turn Mars into an Earth-haven, ship four billion people there,” he said.
“Are we really going to do that?” It would be far cheaper and easier, he added, to work out how to deflect the asteroid or defeat the pandemic that could spell our early demise. “It plays well as a news headline,” he continued. “I want the solar system to be our backyard, but the motivation should not be to stop everyone dying from a cosmic event.”
Tyson isn’t the only one making bold claims about the reality of life on Earth. Earlier this month Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk said there was only a “one in a billion” chance we weren’t living in a simulation. His proof? Advancements in gaming since Pong was released in 1972.
“Now, forty years later, we have photo-realistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it’s getting better every year. Soon we’ll have virtual reality, augmented reality,” said Musk.
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