A desert discovery builds the case for humans’ early departure from Africa

BY  BRUCE BOWER 

ARABIAN POINTER  A human finger fossil found in a Saudi Arabian desert dates to between 95,000 and 86,000 years ago, researchers say. This find, shown here from different angles, strengthens the view that ancient humans expanded into Asia via Arabia.

IAN CARTWRIGHT

A single human finger bone from at least 86,000 years ago points to Arabia as a key destination for Stone Age excursions out of Africa that allowed people to rapidly spread across Asia.

Excavations at Al Wusta, a site in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud desert, produced this diminutive discovery. It’s the oldest known Homo sapiens fossil outside of Africa and the narrow strip of the Middle East that joins Africa with Asia, based on dating of the bone itself, says a team led by archaeologists Huw Groucutt and Michael Petraglia. This new find strengthens the idea that early human dispersals out of Africa began well before the traditional estimated departure time of 60,000 years ago and extended deep into Arabia, the scientists report April 9 in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

“Although long considered to be far from the main stage of human evolution, Arabia was a stepping stone from Africa into Asia,” says Petraglia, of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.

Don’t be misled by the vast deserts that dominate the Arabian Peninsula today. Geologic evidence indicates that Al Wusta lay within a well-watered, human-friendly area between around 95,000 and 86,000 years ago, the estimated age range for the human finger fossil, Groucutt and Petraglia’s team says. Dating relied on measures of the decay of a radioactive form of uranium in the human fossil and a nearby hippo tooth. Those results were combined with a measure of exposure to natural doses of radiation in the tooth. Another technique estimated the time since the finger bone and adjacent finds were buried by sediment.

FAR-FLUNG FINGER Excavations at Saudi Arabia’s Al Wusta site produced a human finger fossil dating to at least 86,000 years ago. This discovery provides the first fossil evidence for ancient human excursions from Africa to Arabia.

M. PETRAGLIA

The 2016 Al Wusta find is probably the middle bone from an adult’s middle finger, suspects Groucutt, of the University of Oxford. It’s unclear whether the bone came from a man or a woman, or from a right or left hand.

It’s definitely human, though. To establish the fossil’s identify, the researchers compared a 3-D image of the ancient finger bone with corresponding bones of present-day people, apes and monkeys, as well as Neandertals and other ancient hominids.

The newly discovered fossil fits into a rough timeline of Stone Age human departures from Africa. H. sapiens reached what’s now Israel as early as 194,000 years ago (SN: 2/17/18, p. 6) and East Asia by at least 80,000 years ago (SN: 11/14/15, p. 15). Humans arrived in Indonesia (SN Online: 8/9/17) and Australia (SN: 8/19/17, p. 10) shortly before 60,000 years ago.

How humans moved into Arabia is uncertain. Along with the finger, Al Wusta yielded 380 stone tools and 860 nonhuman animal fossils from the same time. Some of those animals, including hippos and gazelles, originated in Africa and no longer inhabit the Arabian Peninsula. Ancient groups of hunter-gatherers followed these grazing animals from North Africa into Arabia as climate fluctuations periodically turned deserts into grasslands with lakes and rivers, Petraglia proposes. When those landscapes dried out every 20,000 years or so, people could have returned to Africa or headed farther into Asia.

Al Wusta’s ancient human fossil — combined with comparably ancient stone tools found at other Arabian Peninsula sites (SN: 4/4/15, p. 16) — challenges the view that humans left Africa in one or a few major migrations, says paleoanthropologist María Martinόn-Torres. Instead, small groups of African H. sapienscontinually traveled into Arabia and beyond starting nearly 100,000 years ago or earlier, suggests Martinόn-Torres, who directs the National Research Center on Human Evolution in Burgos, Spain. Periods of increased rainfall may have provided “windows of opportunity” for human movements into Arabia, she adds.

Al Wusta stone tools differ in some ways from those at slightly older sites in Israel. Paleoanthropologist Donald Henry of the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma interprets those differences to mean culturally distinct African populations took a southern route into Arabia. To reach Al Wusta, East African travelers could have crossed a narrow sea channel from the Horn of Africa to Arabia’s southwestern corner before heading up to Al Wusta, Henry suggests in a comment published with the new report.

Petraglia doubts that scenario. Ancient humans could easily have followed grazing animals up the Nile River Valley into the Middle East and then south into Arabia, he says, adjusting their tools to new settings along the way.

Citations

• H.S. Groucutt et al. Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago. Nature Ecology & Evolution. Published online April 9, 2018. doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0518-2.

Further Reading

• B. Bower. An ancient jaw pushes humans’ African departure back in time. Science News. Vol. 193, February 17, 2018, p. 6.
• M. Temming. Humans first settled in Australia as early as 65,000 years ago. Science News. Vol. 192, August 19, 2017, p. 10.
• B. Bower. Ancient people arrived in Sumatra’s rainforests more than 60,000 years ago. Science News Online, August 9, 2017.
• B. Bower. Long before going to Europe, humans ventured east to Asia. Science News. Vol. 188, November 14, 2015, p. 15.
• B. Bower. Telling stories from stone tools. Science News. Vol. 187, April 4, 2015, p. 16.

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10-04-2018 om 23:11 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious Beam Of Light Spotted In Near Dallas

Residents of Rockwall near Texas were baffled when a mysterious beam of light was seen on the horizon which illuminated the stormy dark sky to the east on 6 April 2018.

Numerous Reasons Might Have Caused Mysterious Beam of Light

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There were many reasons given as to why people saw the strange sky phenomenon bear Rockwall in Texas. The official version for the beam of light was that the sun was shining through a hole in the clouds in the sky. However, if this was the case then the beam of light should have spread to the horizon and it did not according to witnesses.

A photo of the mysterious light was shown on Facebook and the photograph had been taken through the windshield of a car. Some people suggested that the light was a shadow on the windshield on the vehicle. But then this could not be the cause as the beam of light is seen in the background with other vehicles in-between it and the windscreen of the car. It was even said that perhaps it was a tornado but the beam of light was not changing shape nor moving.

If the strange light was a natural phenomenon then perhaps it is what is known as an anticrepuscular ray. This is a ray that is sharp at the horizon and then spreads out and widens as it goes up. If man made it could be a business spotlight or laser beam that has shown up against the dark background of the storm or a searchlight or fog light.

Some people even said that it was related to the Dark Book of Shadows by S. M. Brennan, a tale of dark witchcraft and sorcery. They said that perhaps the gates had finally been opened up and the ancient Gods had been set free upon the world along with the Dark Flame of Satanas. Others have suggested that it might be aliens and a UFO is about to land.

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10-04-2018 om 22:57 geschreven door peter  

Jupiter's Great Red Spot Captured by Juno in Stunning NASA Photos

By Mary von Aue

The latest photos from NASA’s Juno orbiter are getting up close and personal with Jupiter. Known as Perijove 12 – because it’s this mission’s 12th encounter with the giant planet – the images only add to the recent mysteries that have emerged regarding the Great Red Spot.

10-04-2018 om 22:42 geschreven door peter  

Everything we learned about (probable) aliens in 2017

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The truth is probably already here.

The evidence that aliens exist has been slowly mounting for decades and 2017 marks the most convincing year yet for the belief that life must exist beyond our planet.

And believing in the extraterrestrial is no longer reserved for conspiracy theorists in tinfoil hats. Nearly half of humanity believes aliens are out there, according to a recent study, and in June, the European Space Agency signed off on a $668 million mission that will hunt for other life forms 932,000 miles into space. Meanwhile, scientists continue to be baffled by a bunch of mysterious signals that keep emanating from faraway galaxies.

Here are five stories that prove it’s only a matter of time before we meet our celestial neighbors.

1. Scientists keep finding Earth-like planets

Scientists have long presumed that if we’re going to find life on other planets, we’re going to find them in the “Goldilocks zone” — spots throughout the universe where conditions are just right for water to exist.

The intergalactic search for our neighbors grew more promising in 2017 with dozens more “super-Earth” discoveries.

And even though we don’t yet have the technology to reach these planets, 2017’s “super-Earths” have included:

• Wolf 1061c: Discovered in January, located 14 light years away
  
• LHS 1140b: Discovered in April, located 40 light years away
  
• Ross 128b: Discovered in November, located 11 light years away
  
• K2-18b: Discovered in December, located 111 light years away

In June, NASA’s Kepler telescope found 10 “Goldilocks-zone” planets and in October, the telescope found 20 more “hiding in plain sight.”

“Are we alone?” Kepler scientist Mario Perez asked at a news conference following NASA’s June discovery. “Maybe Kepler today has told us indirectly, although we need confirmation, that we are probably not alone.”

2. Reported UFO sightings are at their highest ever

In February, a doctoral student found that UFO sightings have hit an all-time high and that most of the sightings come from the US.

Sam Manafort, who’s studying Human Factors and Applied Cognition at George Mason University, crunched numbers from the National UFO Reporting Center. In his report, he found that since the first recorded UFO flew over Portugal in 1905, there have been at least 104,947 sightings.

But the number of yearly sightings has spiked dramatically from about 5,000 in 1980 to about 45,000 in 2010. In the US alone, there are 2,500 sightings per 10 million people — something Manafort attributes to the fact that most of the US has access to the internet.

Most of the sightings have come from the West and Northwest, an area that lines up with America’s “UFO highway” — a latitude line across the US that a pair of sibling alien hunters believes is an entrance for extraterrestrial spacecraft.

The duo, whose book “37th Parallel” is being made into a movie, state that during years-long travels across the US, the most bizarre paranormal phenomenon took place along the 37th latitude line.

This line stretches from California through Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and across to Virginia.

3. Life may already be hanging out in our own solar system

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Pluto might have been demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet back in 2006, but the icy world could be holding a lot more than hurt feelings.

In November, NASA scientists revealed that ice planets, like Pluto and Neptune, could harbor life deep beneath their icy surfaces, thanks to their moons.

Dubbed Trans-Neptunian objects, these celestial bodies might benefit from tidal heating. This means that these icy planets have moons with enough gravitational pull to create energy beneath the planet’s surface — which generates heat and allows a sub-surface ocean to exist. The findings were published in Icarus.

“These objects need to be considered as potential reservoirs of water and life,” Prabal Saxena of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said in a press release. “If our study is correct, we now may have more places in our solar system that possess some of the critical elements for extraterrestrial life.”

A separate study published in May suggested that Pluto, Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Jupiter’s moon Europa may have life due to a different process known as radiolysis. And in December, the American Geophysical Union reported that tectonic activity on Europacould be feeding life to Jupiter’s icy moon.

4. NASA hired someone to protect us from aliens

In August, NASA posted a job listing that quickly went viral.

The space agency was looking to hire a planetary protection officer — someone in charge of making sure that spacecraft and astronauts don’t contaminate other worlds and don’t bring back anything that could contaminate our own.

“NASA maintains policies for planetary protection applicable to all space flight missions that may intentionally or unintentionally carry Earth organisms and organic constituents to the planets or other solar system bodies and any mission employing spacecraft, which are intended to return to Earth and its biosphere with samples from extraterrestrial targets of exploration,” the job description stated.

The job, which pays between $124,406 and $187,000, is only one of two full-time posts in the world. It became available after Catherine Conley, the former planetary protection officer, accepted a different position inside NASA.

NASA first created the position following the signing of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 — a UN-approved agreement that outlines international space law.

The application closed Aug. 14 and there’s been no update on who landed the extraterrestrial gig.

In November, a NASA scientist at Goddard Institute For Space Studies said he believes we’ll find alien life within the next 20 years.

5. The Pentagon has receipts

The footage, which was taken off the coast of California, was released after the Pentagon acknowledged the existence of the Defense Department’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. This program, which costs $22 millionbetween 2008 and 2012, was set up to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects. Some officials have said that parts of the program have continued. “It was a real object, it exists and I saw it,” Cmdr. David Fravor, one of the pilots who saw the UFO, told the Washington Post. Fravor said the object resembled a white Tic Tac and was “something not from the earth.”

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10-04-2018 om 22:09 geschreven door peter  

THE ULTIMATE ABYSS

It used to be thought that the world was flat. That beyond the horizon lurked a bottomless void, measureless to humans. As our ships got better and our navigators more confident, vessels that disappeared over one horizon began returning triumphant from the other. The Earth was curved, a sphere with no edges. We didn’t fall off because a mysterious force called gravity kept everyone and everything stuck to the planet’s surface.

Then Albert Einstein came along and told us that space itself was curved. Now we realise that if we sail off into the sea of curved space we call the Universe, there are indeed bottomless voids that the unwary traveler can fall into – and they are measureless to humans. They lurk on the other side of their own dark horizons, and we call them Black Holes.

FATAL ATTRACTION

A black hole is an astronomical contradiction – a dark star, an invisible nothing, a prison of light. Its boundary is marked by the so-called Event Horizon, a sphere of darkness that shrouds the inside and defines the point of no return. There is no solid surface beyond, just a bottomless gravitational whirlpool so strong that it sucks everything – even light – relentlessly inward. Oblivion waits at the centre in the form of the Singularity, Gravity’s fatal attractor.

Hidden eternally from view, the Singularity marks the spot where an immense gravitational force has been concentrated. All the mass, light and energy that has ever fallen into the black hole is compressed by its own overwhelming gravity into a point that is infinitely small and infinitely dense. The more a black hole swallows, the heavier it gets, yet the singularity never changes. Space has been squelched out of existence and Time has been squeezed to a stop. Step over the event horizon and for all intents and purposes you’ve fallen off the edge of the universe.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF GRAVITY

The concept of Gravity, this unseen force that dominates our lives and pulls us eternally towards the ground, has long challenged the greatest human minds. Even in Galileo’s day, the tower at Pisa had a good lean to it – perfect for dropping things off. Galileo wondered why no matter how heavy or light objects were, they all took the same amount of time to fall to Earth. He puzzled too about why the planets moved they way they did. His conviction that they orbited around the sun led to house arrest for heresy. He was still trying to put the gravity puzzle together when he died in Florence in 1642.

On Christmas Day that same year, the gravity baton was handed to Isaac Newton, born weak and premature in a Lincolnshire farmhouse. Twenty three years later, Newton returned to Woolsthorpe Manor to sit out the plague sweeping southern England. With 18 months quiet thought in the countryside he discovered calculus, unravelled the nature of light, and began formulating laws for the motion of the planets: discoveries that still underpin most of modern physics. One day when he was having a short break with a cup of tea, a falling apple interrupted his thoughts and led him to ponder gravity itself.

The reason the apple fell straight down was that it was trying to fall to the centre of the earth where gravitational attraction was focused. And the Earth wasn’t the only object that had gravity, so did the moon, the sun and the planets. In fact, Newton reasoned, every object in the universe – including ourselves – has gravity. The bigger and heavier, the greater it’s gravitational force. We are glued to the surface of the Earth – and not the other way round – only because it is has so much more mass. The Earth orbits around the sun for the same reason. Finally, Newton had found a reason for the heavens to move the way they do.

DARK STARS

In 1784, John Michell, Rector of Thornhill Church in Yorkshire and great forgotten 18th Century scientist, became intrigued with the idea of escape velocity – the minimum speed with which you need to travel upwards from a star or planet to escape its gravitational clutches. He knew that gravity depended upon mass and he knew the speed of light was fast but finite. How heavy, he wondered, would the sun have to become before its gravity would become so great that even light (which travels at 299,792 km/second) would be held back at its surface? The answer, Michell reasoned, was that if the sun was the same size but weighed 500 times more, the light from the Sun would not escape the Suns own gravity. The Sun would simply disappear from view. A few years later the great French mathematician Laplace came to the same conclusion independently. The concept of the Dark Star was born.

A UNIVERSE OF HOLES

Black holes remained an ignored theoretical curio until a young clerk in a Swiss patent office published his General Theory of Relativity in 1915. Albert Einstein realised that the universe was a fundamentally different place to the clockwork universe of Newton and commonsense. The three dimensions of space could not be separated from the fourth dimension of time. Together they form the ‘Spacetime’ continuum, a kind of invisible scaffolding that defines existence. Spacetime, though, is not an absolute, fixed thing. It can be warped, bent and curved.

Spacetime is ‘straight’ only when it doesn’t have anything in it. Wherever there is mass, there is gravity. Wherever there is gravity, space is curved. The curvature of space dictates how an object will move through it. The object will dictate how space bends around it. Gravity, according to Einstein, is the curvature of space.

Einstein’s thought experiment was to imagine space and time being squashed flat like a 2D rubber sheet. Put a massive object like the sun on the sheet and it will bend. The more dense an object is, the deeper the depression it makes in Spacetime and the stronger the gravity. Eventually a point is reached when the walls of the depression are stretched so steeply that nothing can climb out of it. It is, quite literally, a hole in the universe.

A STAR IS BORN

To understand the very large in the universe, you need to start with the very small. With the unlocking of the secrets of nuclear energy, scientists finally got a clue to how black holes might form in nature. Stars are born when enormous clouds of cosmic dust and hydrogen begin to clump and condense under their own gravitational weight. Gravity grows stronger by the hour as the increasing density of the protostar curves space more strongly. Faster and faster, the hydrogen gas falls in upon itself in the condensing core. The more it collides the hotter it grows. When the core reaches 10 million degrees, the hydrogen protons begin to fuse into helium. Some of the mass disappears, having being turned into energy and light. Like a giant cosmic light bulb, the star has switched itself on.

Every star we see in the heavens has a giant nuclear reaction raging at its core. It’s what makes a star like our sun shine so hot and bright. Gravity is still trying to pull the star’s gas tighter and tighter but is matched now by the energy pouring outwards from the nuclear reaction in the core. The star settles into a precarious balance that gravity will always win in the end.

THE BIG SQUEEZE

The ultimate fate of a star depends upon its mass. Our sun is middle-aged. It switched on 5 billion years ago and has enough fuel to burn for 5 billion more. But when, in that far distant future, the spent heart of the sun sheds its outer layers and shuts down, gravity will squeeze the core so tight it cannot be squeezed any more. It will become a ‘white dwarf’, a feeble ember the size of the earth but a hundred thousand times more dense.

The more massive the star is, the faster it burns its fuel and the shorter its life expectancy. A star 10 times as massive as the sun may survive only millions, not billions, of years. As it starts to collapse, the crush of in-falling matter slamming into the iron core sends the temperature rocketing to 50 billion degrees. The core has only seconds to respond – and it does so Supernova-style.

A supernova is a massive explosion. Huge quantities of material are blown into space, but only from the outer regions of the star. Most of the star has actually imploded, with the core being given a gravity bear hug so extreme that the protons and electrons have been squeezed into a ball of superdense subatomic particles called neutrons. The resulting ‘neutron star’ would weigh about one and a half times as much as the sun but would measure only about 20 kilometres across – about the size of Brisbane.

Astronomers can prove that neutron stars exist, because they give off a unique distress signal. Like a lighthouse warning of a dangerous shore, a neutron star sweeps space with a blinding beam of radiation, generated by a magnetic field more than a trillion times greater than the Earth’s. Such a neutron star is called a pulsar. To astronomers, the pulsing beam sweeping the darkness of space is an unmistakable warning that extreme gravity lurks nearby.

GRAVITY’S FINAL TRIUMPH

A neutron star resist the ongoing crush of gravity, only with its neutrons packed in like sardines in a tin. But if the remnants of the star after supernova weigh more than three times the mass of the sun, even neutrons cannot hold back the inexorable force of gravity. The neutrons are squashed into oblivion. The star’s core becomes so dense that gravity overwhelms space itself, distorting it so horribly that it, and time with it, is wrenched off from the outside universe. A darkness forms at the star’s heart and moves relentlessly outwards as the stars brilliance is sucked inwards. This is the hungry, growing maw of a black hole: gravity’s final triumph. There is no escape, no turning back, until the entire mass of the star has been swallowed and its brilliance completely extinguished.

A BLACKNESS BEYOND BLACK

Visible only by its invisibility, the margin of the black hole is marked by the event horizon, so-called because all events beyond are hidden from view. For a black hole like this the event horizon may be only a few kilometres in diameter but the void beyond impossibly deep to measure. The entire mass of the star has been reduced to a singularity – a point of infinite smallness and infinite density at the very centre of this black malevolence.

The singularity is where science ends and speculation begins. Space and time have ceased to exist, replaced by a seething chaotic mass we call quantum foam. This bizarre conjecture is where Einstein’s laws fail. This is where the laws of quantum mechanics fail. This is the realm of something called Quantum Gravity – one of the hottest areas of advanced mathematical research.

It is from a singularity that the Universe is believed to have begun. In many ways the collapse of a star to form a black hole singularity is the reverse of the Big Bang. Is this the way the Universe is going to end? Wilder speculation is that our entire universe might lurk inside someone else’s singularity. or even that universes can bud off from each other like this, like some sort of heavenly breeding organism.

It wasn’t until 1967 that John Archibald Wheeler slipped the term “Black Hole” into his paper at a scientific conference, and into the lexicon of the late 20th Century. They may have become a household name – but are they real?

BLACK HOLE OR WHITE ELEPHANT

Einstein himself couldn’t believe that such an invisible impossibility as a black hole could exist in the real universe beyond his theories. Today, his successors have no such problems. Astronomers not only think they have identified nearly 30 black hole candidates in our own Milky Way galaxy, they are now getting the proof that the holes behave in the relativistic way that Einstein’s theories predict.

A black hole is an elusive quarry with perfect camouflage: total blackness in the blackness of space. Searching for a black hole no bigger than Sydney’s CBD across hundreds or thousands of light years of space demands a sneaky approach. First you have to find a visible star that a black hole has trapped in orbit. Then you have to study how the star wobbles. John Wheeler described it as like looking for a pair of dancers on a dark dance floor. The heavy man dressed in black is invisible, but the bright white dress of a light women is an easy target as she is whirled around. Astronomers look for the bright stars that ‘orbit’ dark partners in the same way.

One of the best candidates is the star called V404 Cygni. Calculations shows V404’s dark partner is twelve times more massive than our Sun, yet totally invisible. But for every black hole orbiting another star, there must be many more solitary ones yet unseen. One of these could lurk quietly much closer to home.

THE COSMIC HOOVER

Although black holes have the power to hoover up anything and everything that strays too close, they can’t hunt. Contrary to popular belief, if you replaced our Sun with a black hole of the same mass the Earth wouldn’t get sucked in, there just wouldn’t be any sunlight. You could even orbit a black hole in a spacecraft just so long as you kept a safe distance.

Get too close though and strange things start happening. Space gets stretched longer and skinnier. You would find your feet being pulled miles away in front of you while your body is squeezed sideways. You will have become a piece of space spaghetti long before you reach the event horizon. Then you’d be ruptured into your own fundamental particles and disappear behind the veil of darkness.

It’d be a spectacular way to go but no-one would see it because time is being stretched as well. The photons carrying the image would struggle harder to leave your body the closer you fell. Even with a few million years to spare, an outside observer will see you slow to a halt above the event horizon, before slowly fading from view.

HEARTS OF DARKNESS

Most astronomers now concede that a black hole heavyweight lurks in the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. Latest estimates are that it weighs in at a whopping 2 million times the mass of the sun – a dwarf in comparison to some of the truly supermassive black holes that may lurk in the cosmos.

By the 1950s, astronomers began turning optical telescopes towards some of the strongest signals that the new radio telescopes were picking up. Source number 3C 273 was found to be a bright star-like object with a ‘jet’ of intense radiation sticking out of it. It was the first of a number of similar objects given the name of ‘quasar’ or ‘quasi-stellar radio source’, but their real identity remained hidden for decades.

Quasars have now been revealed to be the energetic hearts of very active galaxies: brilliant discs of superheated gas and ruptured stars swirling at nearly the speed of light. Great jets of charged particles are blasted thousands of light years into space from above & below – like an axle through a wheel. The central engine that is driving all this activity, though, is hidden deep inside. It has to be small and it must be extraordinarily dense. The mathematics demand that the only beast that can drive such a display of raw power is a supermassive black hole. The heavier the hole, the faster the gases whirl in orbit. Astronomers have observed speeds which tally with black holes weighing up to five thousand million suns.

The theory goes like this: a galaxy evolves from a vast rotating cloud of gas that begins to clump and condense under its own weight into billions of stars arranged like an enormous Catherine wheel, a Mexican hat or a bee swarm. In the centre, where the gas is concentrated, enough matter to make millions or even billions stars has undergone titanic gravitational collapse to make a supermassive black hole. While the hole is still actively feeding on the inner part of the new galaxy it manifests itself as a quasar. Later, when all nearby food has been consumed, the black hole becomes quiescent, leaving a relatively quiet galactic core like the one in the Milky Way. If this theory is correct, then supermassive black holes are present in all but the smallest galaxies.

TOWARDS THE WITHIN

For all their ferocity, these supermassive black holes are surprisingly gentle giants up close. You can fall into one without turning to spaghetti.

Suppose you or I were an astronaut about to step into such an abyss at the edge of the universe. As I approach the event horizon, blackness spreads upwards around me. The Universe shrinks to a bright point directly overhead. As I meet and cross the horizon the universe above disappears in a blinding flash of photons trapped in orbit around the hole.

I am now inside the black hole and falling towards the Singularity. It’s not dark like I expected. I see a ring of dancing light where the singularity should be. It must be spinning so fast that the centrifugal force has balanced out gravity. Now it’s a naked glowing hula-hoop of indeterminate size. Around it I see glimpses of heavens unimaginable to humans, universes within universes, time within time…

But hey! No matter what I might see or experience inside the black hole, I could never send a message out. The secrets I discover will die with me as I achieve oneness with the Universe, at the central Singularity.

Source www.abc.net.au

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10-04-2018 om 21:50 geschreven door peter  

Assuming E.T. Can Control Gravity What Other Capabilities Can We Expect Them To Have?

The actual way that the universe works is the same everywhere, however, every intelligent life form will have a different understanding of it. Not only have our laws of physics changed over time, even today, different people have different interpretations of how things work. The more advanced a civilization becomes the closer their model of reality will match the actual universe.

While eventually any two independently developed set of laws of physics should converge, Their current similarity will depend both on how different they were to start with and how much progress has been made.

We don’t understand how gravity works. We understand the effects. It is an attractive force in three dimensions. The ‘fabric’ analogy is a tool to help us visualize what is happening. Space-Time is not real. It is a tool to help us figure out reality. We say gravity bends space-time because we can understand that. In reality, nothing is bent, there is no ‘fabric’, and so far as we have discovered, there is no actual entity that we call ‘time.’ Time is another tool we use to help us figure out our reality and what is happening in our reality. Neither the time particle/wave nor the gravity particle/wave has been confirmed. It has been recently glimpsed but that is not confirmation. Only the effects have been seen or discovered. Like a shadow, when we see it, we know that there is something blocking the light, but in the cases of time and gravity, when we look, we can not find the actual entity that is causing the effect.

Gravity control and inertia suggest that they might possess some form of reactionless drive. A reactionless drive is a device to generate motion without a propellant, presumably in contradiction to the law of conservation of momentum. The name comes from Newton’s third law, which is usually expressed as, “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” A large number of infeasible devices, such as the “Dean drive”, is a staple of science fiction, particularly for space propulsion. To date, no reactionless drive has ever been validated under properly controlled conditions. Since we do not have a theory of quantum gravity it might be possible to construct such drive by an advanced intergalactic intelligence.

Since such feats would require a lot of understanding of basic physical laws we can assume that any race with such capability have a quantum theory of gravity and can exploit it to practical gains.

Having control over gravity permits interesting industrial processes to become possible. Assuming that one has not limitation over it. You can imagine that the aliens could create what is essentially a “matter furnace” using gravity to create something like accretion disk allowing conversion matter to energy – far safer than antimatter power.

To be a master of gravity means you are a master of time as well. Times fiery arrow relentless chugging forward can be stopped in its tracks. Time would be putty in the hands of these advanced intelligences. They could stop time, stretch it and make it their plaything. They may not age and they may be timeless.

To control gravity is to control the Universe at a level at this time we can only dream of. It brings sources of propulsion and energy that would appear as magic to us hairless apes.

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10-04-2018 om 21:31 geschreven door peter  

Bewijst leugendetectortest dat astronauten buitenaards leven zagen?

NASA De eerste ruimteselfie ooit werd in 1966 genomen door Buzz Aldrin, de tweede man op de maan

Bestaan er echt buitenaardse wezens? Ook bekende astronauten zijn overtuigd van hun reizen teruggekomen met verhalen over buitenaards leven. Nu zijn de verklaringen van vier astronauten, onder wie de 'tweede man op de maan', Buzz Aldrin, onderworpen aan een leugendetectortest. En blijkt dat ze deze allemaal hebben doorstaan!

Volgens experts laten de resultaten voor 100 procent zien dat de ondervraagden ervan overtuigd zijn tijdens hun ruimtemissies tekenen van buitenaards te hebben gezien of ervaren. Astronauten Aldrin, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell en Gordon Cooper deden mee aan de test, die tot de nieuwste technologie voor leugendetectie behoort. De test werd onder meer uitgevoerd op basis van stemanalyses.

Buzz Aldrin: 'Ik zag een ruimteschip'

Aldrin heeft altijd volgehouden dat hij tijdens zijn missie naar de maan een ruimteschip heeft gezien. "Er was daar iets dat dichtbij genoeg was om te kunnen zien, het had een beetje een L-vorm," aldus de astronaut. Worden claimt zelfs dat hij echte buitenaardse wezens heeft gezien. Voor de verklaringen van de inmiddels overleden NASA-pioniers Mitchell en Cooper werden oude stemopnames geanalyseerd. Zij claimen UFO’s te hebben gezien, en ook die informatie werd als betrouwbaar geacht.

Kritiek op organisatie

Ook wordt er kritiek geuit op de organisatie die de tests uitvoerde. De technologie die is gebruikt, de Computer Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA), zou zijn aangegrepen om 'new age'-denkbeelden geloofwaardiger te maken. Nick Pope, expert op het gebied van research naar buitenaards leven, noemt het nieuwe onderzoek 'pseudo-wetenschap'. 

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Despite claims Buzz Aldrin and other astronauts passed lie detector tests about having seen UFOs, the truth seems to be that a New Age institute is using CVSA (computer voice stress analysis) on old interviews to infer astronaut belief in aliens. Many regard CVSA as pseudoscience

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 Reuters Buzz Aldrin was de tweede man op de maan in 1969.

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10-04-2018 om 21:02 geschreven door peter  

10-04-2018 om 20:53 geschreven door peter  

Expeditie gaat op zoek naar verzonken menselijke nederzettingen op bodem Noordzee na vondst van fossielen en bewerkte botresten - HLN.be

Bron: Eigen berichtgeving

“Tijdens de IJstijd bevond heel wat zeewater zich in de vorm van ijs op het land en dat maakte dat de zeespiegel ongeveer honderd meter lager lag”, aldus dokter Jan Seys van het VLIZ in een interview op vrt. Dat betekent dat het Europese vasteland in die periode over land bereikbaar was vanuit Groot-Brittannië.

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Aan deze vreemde ziekte leed de prehistorische man van Cro-Magnon

Zeebodem

“Onze expeditie wil een 3D-kaart van de zeebodem maken en de interessantste plaatsen vinden om in detail te gaan zoeken naar nederzettingen van onze voorouders”, gaat Seys verder. “Ook toen vestigden mensen zich het liefste aan water – zoals meren en rivieren – zodat ze makkelijker aan voedsel konden geraken. Die zullen we proberen te lokaliseren.” (lees hieronder verder)

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Een van de plaatsen die de marine-experts en archeologen onder de loep willen nemen is de Bruine Bank, een 30 kilometer lange zandbank op de bodem van de zuidelijke Noordzee, halfweg tussen de Nederlandse en de Britse kust. Archeologen vermoeden al langer dat het ooit de thuis was van duizenden mensen, op basis van de toevallige vondsten van onder meer vissers.

“Die haalden er al bewerkte stenen en botresten boven”, vertelt dokter Tine Missiaen (VLIZ) vanop het terrein aan onze redactie. “Er werden ook al flink wat fossielen van dieren gevonden en waar dieren zijn, houden zich ook vaak mensen op. Vandaar onze interesse.”

Groot meer

De universiteit van Gent slaagde er ook in om vlakbij een gebied af te bakenen waar een groot meer gelegen moet hebben en een rivierensysteem. Wat het vermoeden dat er ooit ook mensen in de buurt leefden, nog versterkt. “Onze expeditie wil nu de blinde vlekken in kaart brengen in het zuiden van de Noordzee, zodat we een beeld krijgen van het vroegere landschap daar”, aldus nog Missiaen. (lees hieronder verder)

De zoektocht op de Bruine Bank zal vermoedelijk naar het einde van de week op gebeuren, omdat het weer het voorlopig niet toelaat. Momenteel wordt dichter bij de Belgische kust gewerkt.

Sporen

Als de bodem van de Noordzee over enkele maanden gereconstrueerd is op de interessante plaatsen, zal er geboord worden naar microscopische sporen die duiden op de aanwezigheid van mensen en dieren. Zo kunnen kiezelwieren ons bijvoorbeeld vertellen of er op een bepaalde plaats zoet of zout water voorkwam en ons een beeld geven van wat zich duizenden jaren geleden op een bepaalde plaats afspeelde.

De zoektocht wordt nu pas ondernomen omdat nu pas de technologie voor handen is om de expeditie uit te voeren. “We kunnen in vergelijking met bijvoorbeeld 10 jaar terug steeds beter en gedetailleerder speuren naar sporen op de zeebodem”, aldus nog Seys. “Ook met het oog op de toekomst kunnen we er nog iets van leren. Denk aan de opwarming van de aarde die ook een effect zal hebben op ons milieu en de zeespiegel.” 

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10-04-2018 om 20:46 geschreven door peter  

SpaceX sure knows how to stay in the news. I mean, they’re only reinventing spaceflight for a new age of exploration and commercial travel. It’s not all shiny red Tesla Roadsters and mysterious military launches, though. SpaceX launches all sorts of payloads into space, including scientific instruments for the International Space Station. A SpaceX Dragon made it into orbit earlier this month carrying a new scientific lab designed to track some of the most mysterious atmospheric phenomena: red sprites, blue jets, and ELVES.

The lab is called the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, or ASIM, and the data it could gather could help shine light on some of the least understood occurrences in the natural world. The ASIM is designed to detect and record upper-atmospheric lightning, also known as transient luminous events or terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. These are a broad category of atmospheric disturbances which include the rare red sprite and ELVES, or Emissions of Light and Very low frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic pulse Sources.

These phenomena have been observed for centuries, but it wasn’t until the development of high-speed cameras in the last few decades that they have been able to be photographed. Gamma-ray flashes weren’t discovered until 1994 and remain largely unknown to science aside from a few photographs taken from space.

Among the phenomena ASIM will study are blue jets, some of the least well known atmospheric electrical disturbances.” The jets are not very well studied because they’re very faint,” the University of Bath’s Martin Fullekrug told the BBC, “They’re mainly blue. Also they’re not necessarily associated with lightning. They pop up now and again and they’re very mysterious.” The ASIM will be turned on this Friday, April 13th and is led by the European Space Agency.

Red sprites last only a few milliseconds.

Stories like this always make me wonder what future generations will discover about our planet. Just a few hundred years ago, we hadn’t even mapped the entire globe, and we’ve only been able to observe the Earth from space for a few short decades. Who knows what natural phenomena we haven’t even a clue about yet because we don’t have the tools to observe them?

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10-04-2018 om 20:30 geschreven door peter  

While it seems longer, it’s been only seven years since the last Space Shuttle mission ended on July 21, 2011. That’s nothing compared to how long it’s been since the first humans to land on the Moon in July 1969. Yet both Apollo 11 and one particular shuttle mission – STS-77 in July 1996 – were back in the news this past week, and both for the same reason … UFOs.

“MOON walker Buzz Aldrin and three other astronauts have passed lie detector tests over claims they experienced alien encounters.”

That headline comes from a Daily Star article referring to a “lie detector test” conducted by The Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in Albany, Ohio, on astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper. All at one time or another claimed to have seen UFOs during their space missions. However, the so-called lie detector tests may be that in only the loosest sense of the word as this latest technology, as pointed out by Micah Hanks at Mysterious Universe, was actually conducted on voice recordings of the men talking about their alleged encounters since Mitchell and Gordon are both deceased and their stories cannot be tested using more conventional lie detectors.

“NASA releases video of ‘UFO’ from 1969 space mission sparking frenzy online”

That headline comes from a follow-up article the following day by the same Daily Star, which could use a proofreader as well as that “latest technology” lie detector. While the date says “1969,” which was the year of Buzz Aldrin’s alleged UFO sighting, the “video” it refers to is actually from the Space Shuttle mission STS-77 in 1996.

STS-77 crew

That apparent juxtaposition of the numbers in the year is not the only problem with this article. While it’s true that NASA released this video (seen here), it was not a recent release. It’s actually been around since 1996 and was the subject of a Popular Mechanics debunking in 2009 in which identified the UFO as the Passive Aerodynamically Stabilized Magnetically Damped/Satellite Test Unit(PAM/STU), whose launch and deployment was tracked by shuttle cameras and narrated by the astronauts, who often referred to it as the “target” – a common military term for just about everything being watched, not just enemies and UFOs.

It’s too bad we’re forced to look at these sensationalized clips when so much of what was studied on these Space Shuttle missions was only lightly covered at the time and not at all today. STS-77, the 77th of 134 missions, tested one of the early inflatable space structures so common today and performed experiments developed jointly by numerous countries. The astronauts even had some fun working with a Fluids Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus-2 (FGBA-2) to determine if separately stored carbon dioxide, water and thick liquids could be combined in space and consumed without bubble nucleation and resulting foam formation. In other words, they tried (successfully) to make Coca-Cola and Diet Coke in space.

Buzz Aldrin is still looking

Sure, exploration is the ultimate goal of all space programs, but the mundane groundwork and testing is crucial to future success. It’s also a place for many to be a part of the space program – while Neil and Buzz stepped onto the lunar surface, one of the most remembered videos was of the many people in the control room celebrating the success of the project so many had worked so hard to achieve.

It’s time to get back to developing new interest in space exploration, space science and space technologies instead of rehashing old (and misleading) events. As a different Buzz once said (and you don’t need a lie detector test to prove it):

“To infinity and beyond!”

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10-04-2018 om 20:22 geschreven door peter  

It’s spring in the Northern Hemisphere, which means anyone with a lawn will soon be spreading fertilizer all over their grass to make it grow long enough and green enough so they can walk on it barefoot for a few days before it turns brown from the drought and excessive heat. According to a new study, that stuff you’re spreading – or at least one element in it — may show aliens in other solar systems evidence that there’s life on Earth. Conversely, the fact that we can’t see it on planets orbiting other stars means they may not have life at all. That element is the ‘P’ in the NPK balance listed on the bag of fertilizer – phosphorus.

In a presentation at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool last week, astronomers Jane Greaves and Phil Cigan of Cardiff University, described what happened when they recently aimed the William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located just 6,500 light-years away in the Taurus constellation. The data, which they’ve only begun to process, showed that it contained what would be considered an average amount of phosphorous for the Milky Way – which surprisingly isn’t much. For comparison, Cassiopeia A – a supernova remnant in the constellation Cassiopeia – was found in 2013 to contain 100 times more phosphorous that the Milky Way average. Because it’s such an new and challenging process, these are the only two supernovae analyzed for phosphorus so far

Crab Nebula

Greaves and Cigan were studying supernova explosions because that is the source of phosphorus in the universe and phosphorus is one of the six chemical elements which all life on Earth depends on. (Can you guess the rest?) In an interview with phys.org, Greaves explains why the low level in the galaxy is a concern to astronomers looking for alien life.

“The route to carrying phosphorus into new-born planets looks rather precarious. We already think that only a few phosphorus-bearing minerals that came to the Earth—probably in meteorites—were reactive enough to get involved in making proto-biomolecules. If phosphorus is sourced from supernovae, and then travels across space in meteoritic rocks, I’m wondering if a young planet could find itself lacking in reactive phosphorus because of where it was born? That is, it started off near the wrong kind of supernova? In that case, life might really struggle to get started out of phosphorus-poor chemistry, on another world otherwise similar to our own.”

(Have you guesses the other five elements? Here’s a hint: Sponch.)

Greaves speculates that Cassiopeia A created more phosphorus because it was a bigger star (duh). It means that life forming on a planet may depend less on its location in a warm “Goldilocks zone” near its own star and more on its proximity to a massive supernovae explosion. That also means the search for life on other planets should focus on the amount of phosphorus detected, along with the other five elements for life – Sulfur, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon and Hydrogen. Thrown in P for phosphorous and their chemical symbols spell SPONCH – a good name for the first alien we find on a phosphorus-laden planet.

Based on the sparsity of phosphorus in the galaxy, will we find life? Should we forget about our lawns and start fertilizing outer space?

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10-04-2018 om 20:07 geschreven door peter  

Beams of light coming from the skies in Texas and Phoenix

On April 6, 2018 an unknown beam of light coming from the sky near Rockwall, Texas and it is almost impossible but two days later on April 8 another beam of light coming from the sky in Phoenix.

As with the Texas beam also the Phoenix beam has not the specific characteristics of a sun ray, it is clearly something different and it is hard to explain from where these beams come from.

  

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10-04-2018 om 19:47 geschreven door peter  

NASA Link: https://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025723_1950

Here is a very interesting discovery on Mars of many structures with clear signs of intelligence construction. These are ruins of an alien civilization. Had they been found on Earth, people would have no qualms about it. However this is Mars, and since knowing that alien life existed so close to Earth would really shake up the entire world. This is why NASA doesn't want the world to know about it. NASA wants to keep it secret to see if they could find any alien technology that could be useful to America. Imagine finding a broken computer on Mars...and bringing it back, only to discover the computer has an alien version of artificial intelligence in it. NASA downloads the program and integrates it into todays modern tech, using it to control the world. 

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10-04-2018 om 19:34 geschreven door peter  

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin 'pa sses lie detector test about his encounter with alien life, UFO Sightings News.

Awesome news! Buzz has passed his lie detector test. This means he never made up the story, its all true. The story of how he had seen UFOs on the opposite side of a moon crater is all true! Very cool and glad to hear he had no fear to take such a test. Just wish we had a video of the full test. 
Scott C. Waring

News states:
'There was something out there': Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin 'passes lie detector test after recalling his encounter with alien life' during the historic 1969 mission to the moon. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin has reportedly passed a lie detector test after recalling his encounter with alien life during the historic 1969 mission to the moon. Aldrin, 88, was a part of the test that also analyzed interviews from astronauts Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper.

10-04-2018 om 19:28 geschreven door peter  

VIDEO: Train causes strange 'blue UFO' across Bucks and Oxfordshire

The mystery of the strange blue glow seen moving through the skies over Buckinghamshire on Wednesday night appears to have been solved.

And is seems it was not down to aliens - despite a wave of rumours on social media.

Pictures emerged from across the county of an eerie blue light travelling slowly overhead.

Lots of theories have been put forward, including a UFO, blue alien eyes and light pollution.

The blue light moved across the sky and was spied from Chinnor and Thame to High Wycombe and Gerrards Cross, as well as in Oxfordshire. 

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However, a video has emerged which appears to show the cause of the blue glow.

This CCTV video, posted on Facebook by Shelley Ifill, captures a train moving at speed at 9.15pm on Wednesday with a blue light shining from the roof towards the sky.

It's not yet known exactly where the video was shot.

Rail companies have been contacted to establish which train was carrying the powerful beam, and why.

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10-04-2018 om 01:06 geschreven door peter  

Why Extraterrestrial Life May Be More Unlikely Than Scientists Thought

10-04-2018 om 00:47 geschreven door peter  

Space War is Here — And The U.S. Is Not Ready

A space war “is going to happen”, and the Pentagon is not ready to face it, warn several US experts and politicians.

As if we didn’t have enough problems here on Earth; Overpopulation, Diseases, Wars, Famine, etc., it seems that we need to be worried about a potential war in space.

An article published in Politico notes that Russia and China are “far ahead” of the United States when it comes to space militarization and in the development of means capable of destroying or rendering inoperative the satellites on which the US Army depends: from gathering intelligence to guiding precision bombs, missiles, and drones.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon is trying to catch up after years of underinvestment, injecting “billions of dollars” to bolster its defenses against antisatellite weapons, train troops and refine means to retaliate in a new form of combat that until now has only been present in Hollywood movies.

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“We are now approaching a point where ‘Star Wars’ is not just a movie,” said Steve Isakowitz, CEO of The Aerospace Corp., a government-funded think tank that serves as the military’s leading adviser on space.

According to Isakowitz, the U.S. can no longer afford to take its dominance for granted.

“That supremacy in space has enabled us to have the world’s greatest war-fighting capability … whether it is our soldiers on the field, our drones that fly overhead, our bombers that travel around the world, intelligence we collect,” he told POLITICO. “More and more every day, literally, we become more dependent on it.

“And our adversaries know that,” he added in an interview.

Unsurprisingly, US President Donald Trump recently called for the creation of a “space force”: a separate military branch responsible for guaranteeing US supremacy in space (a role now played mainly by the Air Force).

Likewise, Trump’s new National Security Strategy designated space as “vital interest” for the first time, and ordered the Armed Forces to consider space as “a priority domain,” Politico explains.

But that may not be enough.

Congressman Mike Rogers, who chairs the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Armed Forces of the House of Representatives, predicts that war in space will “happen,” and that “it’s just a matter of whether it happens in the next two years or in the next five or six years.“

In this sense, Rogers is worried about whether the US Air Force is paying enough attention to space.

“They always say, ‘We got this, we’re planning for this in the future,’” Rogers said. “But when you ask them to prioritize space this year, they say they can’t. People have to remember when it comes to fighting a war, our eyes and ears are in space. We can’t let adversaries take our eyes and ears out.”

Other specialists urge the Trump Administration to think more carefully about its military space policy. Thus, Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor of national security at Naval War College, doubts that space can be treated like any other battle zone.

“You can not control all the space all the time,” he says, explaining that “simply the physics of space is different than the others.”

On the other hand, Cassandra Steer, acting executive director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, warns that “an armed conflict in space would be catastrophic for all players,” including “Neutral States.”

Source: Space war is coming — and the U.S. is not ready

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10-04-2018 om 00:32 geschreven door peter  

Buzz Aldrin ‘Passes UFO Lie Detector Test’ Leaving Experts ‘Convinced’ Aliens Exist

The former American astronaut and the second man to land on the moon, Buzz Aldrin has passed a lie detector test for claims that he saw Aliens on his trip to the moon.

Along with Buzz, three other astronauts, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper, also underwent the test and the results were positive.

In an interview for the Science Channel in 2005, astronaut Buzz Aldrin said the crew of the famous Apollo 11 mission saw a UFO on its way to the Moon.

Later, Aldrin would say that his words were taken out of context, even though his story was supported by Dr. David Baker, principal scientist of Apollo 11.

However, over the years Aldrin has also made other strange statements which seem to indicate that he knows more about the extraterrestrial presence in space than he would like to share.

Buzz Aldrin deploys a seismometer in the Sea of Tranquility.

Credit: NASA

Even in 2014, the famous NASA astronaut clarified what he saw had seen in a series of questions on Reddit.

While speaking about his ‘alien encounter‘ Aldrin said;

“On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world – it was either the rocket we had separated from or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft.”

“So in the close vicinity, moving away, were 4 panels. And I feel absolutely convinced that we were looking at the sun reflected off of one of these panels. Which one? I don’t know. So technically, the definition could be ‘unidentified’. We well understood exactly what that was. And when we returned, we debriefed and explained exactly what we had observed. And I felt that this had been distributed to the outside world, the outside audience, and apparently, it wasn’t, and so many years later, I had the time in an interview to disclose these observations, on another country’s television network.”

“And the UFO people in the United States were very, very angry with me, that I had not given them the information. It was not an alien.”

“Although there were many theories about it, none of the crew of Apollo 11 could find a logical and rational explanation for the strange phenomenon.”

Apparently, the Apollo crew quickly concluded that what they had seen on route to the moon was sunlight reflecting off an adapter panel – one of four ‘hatches’ that enclosed the Lunar Module and were jettisoned once that stage of the rocket detached.

“It was not an alien. Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence. That’s what Carl Sagan said,” Aldrin concluded in a Reddit AMA in 2014.

But now, new information reveals that Aldrin has passed the lie detector test on his encounter with a UFO during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

The investigation has also analyzed astronauts Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper.

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin poses with the American flag on the surface of the moon in July 1969.

Image Credit: NASA

The experts confirmed that their results show that they were “completely convinced” that they had encountered extraterrestrial life during their trip to the Moon.

According to reports, the ‘Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in Ohio’ analyzed the voice of the astronauts proving that when speaking of alien life and strange encounters on the moon, the astronauts were not lying.

Speaking to controversial news outlet ‘The Daily Star’—known for publishing bizarre UFO stories— the ‘Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in Ohio’ explained that the recordings show that Aldrin was ‘completely convinced’ of the truth of his story.

Aldrin has claimed that he saw ‘something out there that was close enough to be observed, sort of L-shaped,’ on his journey to the moon – although he has since dialed back on the idea it was aliens, reports Metro.

However, Buzz wasn’t the only one to have allegedly spoken the truth about encountering aliens. Another astronaut, Edgar Mitchell – the sixth man to walk on the moon – also claimed to have witnessed aliens on his trip to the moon, and his voice, just as Aldrin’s, reveals he is also ‘telling the truth,’ the Institute has claimed.

However, as noted by experts, we have still no idea what the he Institute of BioAcoustic Biology is basing this on – as the company makes some rather outlandish claims for its technology.

The Institute says, ‘As a bridge between ancient ideas of sound healing and the futuristic, Star Trek, protocols that the institute provides, it is now possible to reverse diseases and traumas previously thought to be incurable, to reveal the secrets of our true nature, to enhance our lives, to predict what may be our fate through the frequencies of our voice.’

However, Science Alert has taken a swing at the tests, the results and the company itself saying that that’s not even remotely science.

Scient alert explains that while Bioacoustics is a legitimate branch of science, in this case, however, the institute’s line of study bears the hallmarks of pseudoscience.

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10-04-2018 om 00:21 geschreven door peter  

The Great ‘Ancient Alien’ Gallery Of Utah

The Southwestern United States is home to countless ancient figurines, depicting beings with elongated heads, halos, antennas, almond-shaped eyes, and even what some interpret as beings in astronaut-like space suits. These figurines were created around 4,000 years ago.

Holy Ghost panel in the Great Gallery, Horseshoe Canyon.

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In the southwestern United States, mainly in the state of Utah, there is a great concentration of places where thousands of years ago, early inhabitants depicted strange beings with elongated heads, massive height, and helmet-like objects, as well as a number of depictions of what many authors have identified as cosmic maps.

The enigmatic figures date back 1,500 and 4,000 years ago, although some could be older, while others figurines could have been created as recently as one thousand years ago.

But it doesn’t matter whether they were created four thousand years ago, or two thousand years ago, what matters is the message that the ancients tried conveying.

One of the greatest enigmas that experts have tried solving is the meaning of the figures painted on countless rocks in Utah.

Are these mysterious representations the result of ancient man’s ingenuity? Imagination? Are these figures depictions of ancient abstract art? Or is it possible, as some authors suggest, that these mysterious beings were the so-called sky people?

The most famous of all panels is located in the Horseshoe Canyon, formerly known as Barrier Canyon, west of the Verde River in the state of Utah.

The rock art at horseshoe canyon is known as Barrier Canyon Style (BCS) rock art.

The Great Gallery

Part of the Great Gallery.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The Great Gallery is a spectacular ancient art panel of more than 60 meters in length by about 5 of height in which are represented some 20 anthropomorphic images of natural size, the largest of which exceeds 2 meters in height.

The so-called great gallery is divided into two differentiated areas, so that the most separated representations, on the left, are known as the Panel of the Holy Spirit, due to the presence of an unusual-looking figure that some identity with a spirit and others with some shamanic ritual.

The Holy Ghost panel of the Great Gallery has been dated to between 400 A.D. and 1100 A.D. by dating two rockfall events of which one exposed the rock face the panel was made and the second damaging part of the panel

This gallery offers the largest and best-preserved collections of Barrier Canyon Style rock art in the United States.

The Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

This panel has been dated by optically stimulated luminescence between 400 and 1100 AD.

According to experts, the pictograms of the Great Gallery were made using ocher-red color to represent more than 80 figures, whose meaning remains a profound enigma.

The creation and dating of the figurines is also a problematic issue for experts because the pigments used by the ancients lacks organic material and cannot be analyzed by radiocarbon dating.

The rock art of the great gallery is believed to have been the product of the Desert Archaic culture, a nomadic group of hunter-gatherers predating the Fremont and Ancestral Puebloans.

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10-04-2018 om 00:12 geschreven door peter