NASA is Preparing the World for Extraterrestrial Contact

BY JUSTIN DESCHAMPS 

This is an excellent follow up article to the post on disclosure of life Everywhere in the Universe, which demonstrates an increased level of Scientific acceptance and it’s dissemination into the public domain. 

– Justin

Source – Humans Are Free

A couple of months ago top US astronomers gathered in front of congress to let them know that extraterrestrial life exists without question. 

Their main argument was the size of the universe, emphasizing that there are trillions of stars out there, with one in every five most likely harboring an Earth-like planet. 

It’s also important to keep in mind that planets do not have to be “Earth-like” in order to harbor life. 

“The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven’t even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion.”

– Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at California’s SETI Institute (source

This time, NASA and the Library of Congress have teamed up bringing together scientists, theologians, philosophers and historians from around the globe for a two day symposium in order to discuss how to prepare the world for extraterrestrial contact, whether it be microbial organisms or intelligent beings.

“We’re looking at all scenarios about finding life. If you find microbes, that’s one thing. If you find intelligence, it’s another. And if they communicate, it’s something else, and depending on what they say, it’s something else!

“The idea is not to wait until we make a discovery, but to try and prepare the public for what the implications might be when such a discovery is made. I think the reason that NASA is backing this is because of all the recent activity in the discovery of exoplanets and the advances in astrobiology in general.

“People just consider it much more likely now that we’re going to find something — probably microbes first and maybe intelligence later. The driving force behind this is from a scientific point of view that it seems much more likely now that we are going to find life at some point in the future.”

– Astronomer, symposium organizer and former chief NASA historian, Steven J. Dick. (source)

One of the theologians present was Brother Guy Consolmagno, who is the new president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. This is what he had to say:

“I Believe [alien life exists], but I have no evidence. I would be really excited and it would make my understanding of my religion deeper and richer in ways that I can’t even predict yet, which is why it would be so exciting.” (source)

He is urging the public not to be so surprised when extraterrestrial life is discovered, because it will be discovered. He even said that he would be happy to baptize them, if it’s intelligent extraterrestrial life that’s discovered. The Vatican has been very open to the idea of intelligent extraterrestrial life, and they’ve expressed these views for a very long time.

Earth is not the center of the universe, it’s not flat, and it’s looking very likely that the next major paradigm shifting revelation will be the fact that we are not alone in the universe.

It’s great to see the mainstream world gather, discuss and prepare for this possibility and ultimate reality, and it’s a great seg-way to create more awareness about the world of secrecy, the world’s within our world that deal with projects the human race knows nothing about.

The Other Probability – Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life is Already Here

All of the information I’ve provided below is probably old information for CE fans that regularly visit our site. This information is from a previous article I wrote earlier in the year, I thought it would be fitting to cut and paste it here for our new readers. You can find more CE articles on the UFO/Extraterrestrial topic by visiting our exopolitics section HERE.

In the United States alone, at least half of all Americans say that we’re not alone in the universe. Fifty percent of Americans already believe that there is some form of life on other planets, while only seventeen percent think that there isn’t. A quarter of Americans believe that intelligent extraterrestrial visitors have already come to Earth and have been doing so for a long time. (source)

Here’s one of them:

“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.”

(source) (source) – Apollo 14 Astronaut, Air Force Captain and Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Dr. Edgar Mitchell

There are multiple reasons why the extraterrestrial question continues to gain popularity. People are starting to ask questions about the world around them, utilizing critical thinking and investigation. After thoroughly investigating this topic your conclusions will be similar to the conclusions of the majority, we are not alone, and we are being visited.

1. The Size of the Universe

How often do you look up into the night sky and wonder just how many stars, planets, galaxies and more are out there? Space has been a high area of interest that has always fascinated scientists, philosophers, musicians and pretty much just about everyone. 

What is it about deep space that grabs our attention so much? To think about just how big the universe is can really put things into perspective.

Counting the stars in the universe  is like trying to count the number of sand grains on a beach, not possible. 

Although estimates vary among different experts, the general consensus is that there are at least between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies in our universe. Think about that for a moment, and now throw in billions of stars in each galaxy! (source) This number could very easily be in the trillions for all we know.

Take the Milky Way Galaxy for example, which measures to about 120,000 light years across (it would take light that many years to travel across the galaxy), and contains up to 400 billion stars. Again, that’s billions of galaxies that contain billions of stars. (source)

Scientists estimate that at least 10 billion habitable Earth-sized planets exist in the milky way alone ( one galaxy out of billions), but it’s important to keep an open mind as to what type of conditions and environments some unknown extraterrestrial like forms could thrive in. They all don’t necessarily have to be Earth-like.

Given our estimation of the size of the universe, or multiverse (whatever you want to call it), odds are we are not alone.

2. Whistle Blowers

The past few years have seen a surge of whistle-blowers that’ve come out and said some remarkable things. Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have received the most attention, but the reality is that there are hundreds of whistle blowers who have come forward with verified credentials and backgrounds. 

Mass surveillance and the security state is not the only thing shocking people around the world, it’s the fact that many of these whistle blowers claim that we are not alone in the universe. It wouldn’t be so hard to ignore if it wasn’t for the backgrounds these people have in their respected fields. 

The first one that comes to mind is Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defence Minister, the man responsible for unifying the Canadian Air Force, Army and the Navy into one united force now known as the Canadian Forces.

For someone with such a background to come out and make these extraordinary claims definitely grabbed the attention of many people.

“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. Trillions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have deliberately been kept in the dark.” (source)

Read more about “black projects” HERE.

”In one of the cases during the cold war, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying South from Russia across Europe. The supreme allied commander was very concerned and was about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole. They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided that with absolute certainty that four different species, at least, have been visiting this planet for thousands of years. There’s been a lot more activity in the past two decades, especially since we invented the atomic bomb.” (source)

Paul Hellyer isn’t the only one making extraordinary statements, at least a dozen NASA astronauts have done the same. Just like Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s quote, other astronauts have said some remarkable things. Let’s take a look at a few (out of many) examples.

“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon” (source) – Dr. Brian O’leary, Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor

“In my opinion I think they were worried that it would panic the public so they started telling lies about it. And then I think they had to tell another lie to cover their first lie, now they don’t know how to get out of it. Now it’s going to be so embarrassing to admit that all these administrations have told so many untruths, it would be embarrassing getting out of it. There are a number of extraterrestrial vehicles out there cruising around.”

(source) – Gordon Cooper, Former NASA Astronaut, Aeronautical Engineer and test pilot. One of the seven original Astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States

The list goes on and on, the latest in NASA Astronaut statements about UFOs came from the 2005 International Space Station (ISS) Commander, Leroy Chiao. You can read more about that HERE.

Here is a video of John Podesta who was recently appointed as councilor to Barack Obama supporting UFO disclosure.

Some of the most extraordinary statements about UFOs and extraterrestrials come from persons who have held some of the highest positions known. Those who would be in a position to ‘know’ about possible extraterrestrial encounters.

“Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense”

Former head of CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1960 (source)

“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.”

(source) – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee

“Everything is in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world. The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data.” – General Carlos Castro Cavero (1979). From “UFOs and the National Security State, Volume 2″, Written by Richard Dolan

The list of military whistle blowers is huge, there are hundreds of them and hundreds of quotes to choose from. To view military whistleblowers (with verified backgrounds) give a press conference at The National Press Club about UFOs deactivating nuclear weapons, click HERE. You can also look up Dr. Steven Greer and the disclosure project.

The list of quotes from all fields, from many people is outstanding. I could literally fill pages upon pages so I’ll stop here, I think you get the picture. These quotes by whistleblowers and people with prestigious backgrounds leads perfectly into the next point as to why almost everybody knows that we are not alone in the universe.

“There is another way whether it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way.”

(source) – Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Nebraska

In this clip, it seems he (Dr. Jack Kasher)  is referring to FREE ENERGY. 

“This thing has gotten so highly-classified…it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified”

– Senator Barry Goldwater , Chairman of the Senate intelligence committee (source)

3. The Evidence of UFOs

Within the past few years, dozens of governments admitted to allocating resources and having programs to study the UFO phenomenon. For instance, in Canada the RCMP, Transport Canada, and the Department of National Defence recently admitted to tracking UFOs and investigating them. (source) 

They’ve been doing it for years, accumulating thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents. Many of these documents have since been officially released.

HERE is the latest batch of UFO files released from the United Kingdom.

Documents released by the National Security Agency (NSA) reveal what is recorded when a UFO is being tracked on radar. HERE is one example. HERE is a four page U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and NSA report describing a particular encounter in great detail.

“As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4. ”

You can read more about the radar tracking of UFOs HERE. 

HERE is a Wikileak cable that describes how some politicians already know we are not alone in the universe. You can read more about that HERE.

Again the list goes on and on and thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents are now available in the public domain. 

For a summary of more documents that have been declassified and made available, a video done by UFO Richard Dolan does a great one in 10 minutes. To watch it click HERE and see what type of information is out there.

4. Mass Mainstream Media Attention

Media outlets of all kind are covering the topic, almost every movie that comes out these days has something to do with space or some kind of extraterrestrial intelligence. We’ve been bombarded with the topic for a while now so it’s not hard to see how it’s on the minds of many.

The most recent case of mainstream extraterrestrial ‘noise’ was made when scientists recently spoke to the house Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Dan Werthimer of the SETI Research Centre at the University of California, Berkeley, recently called for more funding to be allocated to the search for extraterrestrial life since he is “close to 100 percent” certain that we are not alone. (source)

In mid 2013, the same committee held a hearing about exoplanet discoveries, but perhaps one of the largest UFO/extraterrestrial hearings came at the National Press Club, which also took place in Mid-2013.  

At this event, hundreds of researchers, activists and military/ agency/ political witnesses representing ten countries gave UFO/extraterrestrial testimony to six former members of the United States Congress about events and evidence indicating an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

Former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), and 2008 presidential candidate said that there is “an extraterrestrial influence that is investigating our planet. Something is monitoring the planet and they are monitoring it very cautiously.” You can learn more about the citizens hearing here.

Apart from these events, UFOs are constantly a topic of interest in today’s mainstream news. Unfortunately, most mainstream media outlets that cover the topic seek out to ridicule it rather than investigating it properly.

 To view military whistleblowers (with verified backgrounds) give a press conference at The National Press Club about UFOs deactivating nuclear weapons, click HERE.

HERE is a clip on the same topic on CBC news.

5. Personal Experience & Video Footage

There are millions of people out there claiming to have contact with extraterrestrial beings. This has played a large role in spreading the influence of extraterrestrial interest across the world. All of us seem to be naturally fascinated with the unknown, especially when it comes to space. It seems  like human nature.

Neuroscience can now explain what happens to our body when we meditate, but it’s something we all knew to be beneficial before the science. Is extraterrestrial life similar? Is it something we all feel deep down inside, something we don’t need proof for? (Even though the proof is there).

Besides the thousands of videos available on YouTube, there is some very fascinating officially documented UFO footage available for us to see. Click HERE to see raw footage of a UFO showing up in Norway for scientists at their observatory.

Click HERE and HERE to see film from the 1991 NASA STS-48 Discovery Space Shuttle mission. It’s some of the best, officially documented UFO footage that’s out there today.

HERE is a video that made headlines once released. It came from straight front the Mexican Air Force. Do a quick UFO search on youtube and you’ll see many fakes, but many real videos of unknown aerial objects.

Final Thoughts

A few years ago the question was “Do UFOs exist?” Today that question has been answered, and the presence of UFOs performing maneuvers that defy our laws of physics has been well documented. The question has more so shifted to, “Is that an extraterrestrial space craft?”

It’s nothing to fear, in my opinion they’ve been around forever. They have been aware of us long before we have been aware of them. As speculated with our ancient civilizations in Earth’s brief past, perhaps they will one day interact with humanity again. I guess we will see.

Perhaps some groups are concerned about our planet, and come here further pushing the idea that we need to start changing the way we are doing things here. Perhaps one day soon we will find out.

I definitely believe that a good chunk of these UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin. I also believe that many of these crafts are “ours.”

Source:

http://humansarefree.com/2015/02/nasa-is-preparing-world-for.html

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16-04-2018 om 22:33 geschreven door peter  

7 Ways to Discover Alien Planets

Photo Credit: Lynette Cook

Finding Alien Worlds

Scientists have discovered nearly 2,000 alien planets since spotting the first ones orbiting a star beyond our sun back in 1992. Here's a brief rundown of the main techniques they use to find these far-flung worlds.

Photo Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech

1. Old Faithful: The Transit Method

This technique watches for the tiny, telltale dips in a star's brightness caused when a planet crosses (or transits) the star's face, blocking some of its light. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has employed this method to great effect, spotting more than 2,700 potential planets since its March 2009 launch.

Astronomers also look for variations in the timing of a particular planet's transit, because these can reveal the presence of additional worlds orbiting the same star.

Photo Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

2. Wobbling Stars: Radial Velocity

The radial velocity method picks up on the tiny wobbles an orbiting planet induces in its parent's star's motion toward or away from Earth. This technique is also known as the Doppler method because it measures shifts in the star's light caused by these gravitational tugs. 

Several teams of astronomers have discovered many exoplanets using this method and such Earth-based instruments as the HARPS spectrograph, on a telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile, and the HIRES spectrograph, on Hawaii's Keck telescope.

Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt

3. Gravitational Microlensing

In gravitational microlensing, astronomers watch what happens when a massive object passes in front of a star from our perspective on Earth. The nearby object's gravitational field bends and magnifies the light from the distant star, acting like a lens. 

This produces a light curve — a brightening and fading of the faraway star's light over time — whose characteristics tell astronomers a lot about the foreground object, which is often a star. If this star has any planets, these can generate secondary light curves, alerting researchers to their presence. 

Gravitational microlensing is less biased toward planets that orbit relatively far from their stars than the transit or radial velocity methods. Researchers have even used it to find so-called "rogue planets," which cruise through the depths of space without a parent star.

Photo Credit: NASA/ESA/T. Currie, U. Toronto

4. Say Cheese! Direct Imaging

This one is pretty self-explanatory. Powerful telescopes get actual images of distant worlds, using instruments called coronagraphs to block out the overwhelming glare of their parent stars. 

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted planets by direct imaging, as have Hawaii's Keck Observatory, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Array in Chile and several other telescopes.

Photo Credit: Lynette Cook

5. Pulsar Timing

This one is specific to planets around pulsars, tiny, superdense remnants of exploded stars that emit radio waves at regular intervals as they rotate. 

Anomalies in the timing of these radio pulses can reveal the presence of orbiting planets. The first worlds ever discovered beyond our solar system were found using this method back in 1992.

Photo Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)

5. Harnessing Special Relativity

In this new technique, astronomers watch for a star to brighten as it's tugged by an orbiting planet, causing photons to "pile up" in energy and light to be focused in the direction of the star's motion due to relativistic effects.

The planet Kepler-76b (also known as "Einstein's planet") was discovered via this method, then confirmed by radial velocity measurements. More such detections are likely to follow as researchers hone the technique.

Photo Credit: ESA.

7. Astrometry

Astrometry relies on the ultraprecise tracking of a star's movements on the sky to spot the gravitational tugs of orbiting planets. (It's similar in principle to the radial velocity method but doesn't measure the Doppler shifts in a star's light.) 

Scientists have searched for alien planets using astrometry for decades, with very limited (and debatable) success. But the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, set to launch in October 2013, could spot tens of thousands of exoplanets using the technique, researchers say.

16-04-2018 om 22:05 geschreven door peter  

NASA to launch satellite looking for 20,000 new exoplanets

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will analyse about 200,000 stars and is expected to find thousands of new planets.

Exoplanets are planets that orbit a star other than the sun. 

TESS will be sent into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the launch of which is slated to take place at 10:30 GMT at the Cape Canaveral station in Florida. 

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It will take two weeks for the satellite to get in its planned orbit and will eventually be closer to the Moon than to Earth.

After two months of testing and calibrating its systems, TESS will start a two-year mission examining 200,000 stars looking for exoplanets.

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Based on the light emitted by the stars, the satellite will be able to catalog thousands of planets, NASA said. 

Combining that information with data gathered by telescopes on Earth scientists will be able to determine the make-up and mass of those planets.

The satellite, which cost about $200m, will build on work done by the Kepler telescope, which was able to catalogue about 2,300 exoplanets to date.

However, TESS will examine a much larger portion of the sky, about 85 percent in total. This is about 350 times more than Kepler, which has a similar mission to TESS but is only focused on a small part of the sky.

TESS will also look at stars that are much closer, about 30 to 300 lightyears away, than those examined by Kepler, which studied stars 300 to 3,000 light years away.

The planets found by TESS will be studied in depth by both scientists on Earth, as well as future space missions. 

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The launch of the James Webb telescope, the most powerful space telescope to date, is currently slated for 2020 and will continue research done by TESS.

One of the most important aspects of these exploratory space missions is for scientists to identify more planets that could potentially support life.

Based on Kepler's data, our galaxy alone could potentially have 10 billion planets that could be habitable. 

In total, scientists estimate there are about 100 billion galaxies in the Universe.

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16-04-2018 om 21:36 geschreven door peter  

China will grow flowers, potatoes, and silkworm on the dark side of the Moon

BY MIHAI ANDREI

The Soviet Republic was the first country to send a man into outer space. The US landed the first man on the Moon. Now, China wants to check its first as well: they want to grow plants (and silkworm) on the Moon.

The image is shot by Chinese Chang’e 3, an unmanned lunar exploration probe, and Yutu rover.

Image credits: Xinhua.

According to a new announcement, seeds of potatoes and Arabidopsis — a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard, often used in research — will be planted on the Moon. Along with silkworm cocoons, the seeds will be launched with Chang’e-4 lander and rover. China’s first probe to the far side of the moon is currently scheduled for December.

The seeds will be placed inside a cylindrical tin made from a special aluminum alloy. The tin is 18 cm tall, with a diameter of 16 cm, a net volume of 0.8 liters and a weight of 3 kilograms. It also contains water, air, and a special nutrient mixture, as well as a camera and a data transmission system. If everything goes according to plan, the seeds will be planted, they will grow and blossom and the entire process will be captured on camera.

While potatoes and Arabidopsis have been grown before on the International Space Station and the Tiangong-2 space lab, growing them on the moon will be much more difficult. Maintaining the temperature in an acceptable range will be particularly tricky.

“We have to keep the temperature in the ‘mini biosphere’ within a range from 1 degree to 30 degrees, and properly control the humidity and nutrition. We will use a tube to direct the natural light on the surface of Moon into the tin to make the plants grow,” said Xie Gengxin, chief designer of the experiment.

Liu Hanlong, chief director of the experiment and vice president of Chongqing University, which spearheads the project, says it will offer much-needed insight about how plants can be grown on the Moon.

“Why potato and arabidopsis? Because the growth period of arabidopsis is short and convenient to observe. And potato could become a major source of food for future space travelers,” said Liu. “Our experiment might help accumulate knowledge for building a lunar base and long-term residence on the Moon.”

China reportedly plans to start a ‘mini biosphere’ as part of its efforts to develop a research station and perhaps even a permanent base on the dark side of the Moon. The dark side of the Moon is an excellent place for a research base as it is shielded from electromagnetic interference from Earth and it’s an excellent vantage point to study solar bursts and the deeper parts of space.

Of course, it’s also a great place to study the feasibility and challenges of an out-of-Earth research base.

“Our experiment might help accumulate knowledge for building a lunar base and long-term residence on the Moon,” Professor Liu Hanlong, chief director of the experiment and vice president of Chongqing University, told Xinhua news agency.

The far side of the Moon photographed by Apollo 16, April 1972.

This particular project was chosen over more than 200 candidates. If it succeeds, it will be an important landmark of China’s space ambitions. China spends some $3 billion a year on its space projects, significantly less than America’s $21 billion — but even so, China is catching up fast.

16-04-2018 om 21:24 geschreven door peter  

Mike Wehner @MikeWehner

We know our galaxy is huge, and that there’s an untold number of other galaxies out there in the unimaginably large universe. We also know that there’s bound to be plenty of planets in those galaxies, and at least a portion of them are bound to be habitable by some form of life. So, why haven’t we detected, spotted, or at least heard the faint whispers of another intelligent civilization outside of Earth? A planetary scientist from Colorado’s Southwest Research Institute believes he might have the answer, and it’s literally chilling.

Speaking at a meeting of the American Astronomy Society Division for Planetary Sciences Division, Alan Stern proposed an incredible answer to the question which has long puzzled astronomers and first contact hopefuls: aliens aren’t living outside.

It sounds like total bunk to us since humans are spread across just about every nook and cranny of planet Earth, but there’s a very real possibility that life could form, evolve, and even gain advanced intelligence without ever seeing the surface of their own planet. This would be most likely on frigid ocean worlds where underwater thermal vents would provide the heat energy to sustain life, and with the sheer number of frigid ocean worlds we already know exist, there’s no shortage of opportunities for this to happen.

If an intelligent alien civilization evolved in the depths of an icy ocean world, it would be incredibly difficult for humanity to detect it, and even harder for them to contact us. In fact, even venturing to the surface of their own planet would be an incredibly difficult task, and as Stern notes, doing so would essentially be the equivalent of mankind venturing into space — a mysterious, frigid, and dangerous place.

It’s obviously very difficult for us to imagine an entire civilization of intelligent creatures living deep within the ocean, but our understanding of the requirements for life mean that it’s entirely possible. The only question is whether or not it exists somewhere out there in the vast number of unexplored worlds.

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16-04-2018 om 20:40 geschreven door peter  

16-04-2018 om 20:35 geschreven door peter  

EUROPEES PARLEMENT OVERWEEGT MENSENRECHTEN VOOR ROBOTS? (VIDEO)

We zijn 1 april met alle grappen en grollen reeds enige tijd voorbij, maar bovenstaande titel had heel goed op die dag gebruikt kunnen worden.

De Europese Unie is echter bloedserieus over dit onderwerp en overweegt echt om robots mensenrechten te geven. 

In een toenemend tempo krijgt onze wereld te maken met robots. Robots die steeds beter en slimmer worden en wel eens het einde van de mensheid kunnen betekenen volgens de onlangs overleden wetenschapper Stephen Hawking.

Toch waarschuwde Hawking voor de problemen en gevaren die steeds slimmer wordende kunstmatige intelligentie met zich meebrengt. In 2014 sprak hij duidelijke taal in een interview met de BBC: "De ontwikkeling van kunstmatige intelligentie kan het einde van de mensheid betekenen."

Hawking waarschuwde voor de consequenties als AI uiteindelijk even intelligent of zelfs slimmer wordt de mens. "De techniek verbetert zichzelf op een steeds hoger tempo", zei hij. "De mens kan die groei niet bijhouden, omdat biologische evolutie hen tegenhoudt. De mens wordt dan voorbijgestreefd."

Hoe lang het nog duurt voordat dit kantelpunt is bereikt, is niet bekend. Hawking zei in 2015 tijdens een conferentie in Londen dat computers "ergens binnen de komende honderd jaar" slimmer worden dan mensen.

Maar, we leven nog altijd in een wereld waar de mens het uiteindelijk voor het zeggen heeft en het zal volgens velen wel allemaal niet zo’n vaart lopen. Toen de eerste auto’s op de weg verschenen zagen mensen dat ook vaak als duivelse apparaten waar nooit iets goeds uit voort kon komen. 

Echter, met robots en kunstmatige intelligentie is het toch een iets ander verhaal, want dit fenomeen is in staat om de controle over de wereld over te nemen. Daarom is het absoluut noodzakelijk dat er paal en perk wordt gesteld aan de verdere ontwikkeling van robots. 

Maar, de wereld is dat niet van plan en het gaat zelfs nu zover dat het Europese Parlement, dat voor een derde in handen is van Soros medewerkers,  overweegt om mensenrechten te geven aan robots. 

In een rapport dat begin dit jaar verscheen, schreef het parlement dat robots - gedeeltelijk of geheel - aansprakelijk moeten zijn voor hun daden. Als het wetsvoorstel wordt aangenomen, kunnen robots in rechtszaken optreden als aanklager en ondervraagde. De meer ontwikkelde robot heeft weliswaar een elektronische persoonlijkheid, maar alsnog recht op een menselijke behandeling, oordeelde het parlement. 

Voorstanders van de wet willen denkende machines op deze manier juist verantwoordelijk stellen voor hun acties. Omdat robots die zelf leren en beslissingen nemen veel minder voorspelbaar zijn, wordt het veel ingewikkelder om verantwoordelijkheid voor eventuele schade neer te leggen bij de producent, de eigenaar, de programmeur of degene die het apparaat de opdracht heeft gegeven waaruit de ellende is ontstaan. Door ze een menselijke status te geven, te registreren en verplicht te laten verzekeren, zou het veel makkelijker worden om schade door robots vergoed te krijgen. 

Het klinkt als een slechte science fiction film, maar het is bittere werkelijkheid. Natuurlijk zit er een andere agenda achter deze redenatie, want het Europees Parlement zal zich echt niet druk maken over schadevergoedingen als een machine iets verkeerds doet. 

Het aannemen van deze nieuwe wet is natuurlijk wel een relatief gemakkelijke horde om te nemen, omdat het lovenswaardig klinkt dat men iets wil doen voor gedupeerden als iemand schade lijdt door zo’n machine. 

Maar, wanneer ze eenmaal de status hebben van rechtspersoonlijkheid, gaat het verhaal natuurlijk verder. Want als ze een rechtspersoonlijkheid hebben, zullen ze ook een burgerservice nummer krijgen, recht hebben op een symbolisch loon, waar dan natuurlijk wel loonheffing over wordt gerekend. 

Net zoals de bijtelling van een auto, wordt er straks een fictief loon voor de robot bepaald, waar degene die de robot commercieel exploiteert loonbelasting over moet betalen. 

Ondertussen komen er protesten van bezorgde wetenschappers en andere prominente figuren: 

Maar veel deskundigen op het gebied van robotica, kunstmatige intelligentie, recht, medische wetenschappen én ethiek raden het voorstel sterk af. ,,Nachtmerriescenario's worden op deze manier werkelijkheid. Allerlei fabrikanten zijn bezig met het bedenken en produceren van zelflerende mechanische poppen. De vraag is: hoe lang blijven mensen nog aan de knoppen zitten?'', staat onder meer in hun open brief van afgelopen weekend. 

Wat al deze mensen niet begrijpen is dat de Rothschild/Soros medewerkers opdracht hebben gekregen om deze wetgeving erdoor te loodsen zodat hun meesters straks wel verzekerd blijven van een permanente stroom belastinggeld. 

Het is niet voor niets dat eerder de robot Sofia al staatsburgerschap kreeg van Saoedi Arabië. Hierna volgt een deel van een eerder artikel waarin dit nader wordt beschreven en ook de reden van dit alles. 

Eind oktober gebeurde er ogenschijnlijk iets grappigs, een AI robot Sophia genaamd, werd een staatsburger van Saudi Arabië(SA). Dat dit nu uitgerekend in SA moest gebeuren lijkt wel een grap, een land waar de vrouw amper rechten heeft en streng islamitisch is, juist daar krijgt een "vrouwelijke" robot het staatsburgerschap.

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16-04-2018 om 20:30 geschreven door peter  

Phoenix-like Lights appear over Baja, Mexico

On the Livestream of Sarah Adams Facebook page suddenly a series of lights appeared in the night sky over Baja, Mexico on april 12, 2018.

She witnessed the lights which are similar to the Phoenix Lights in front of her condo.

It is always the question whether the lights are UFOs, drones or flares.

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16-04-2018 om 20:19 geschreven door peter  

All Systems 'Go' For Launch of NASA Exoplanet Mission Monday

16-04-2018 om 11:50 geschreven door peter  

Large Triangle UFO Sighting reported 4/10/18 Plainsboro NJ

 

UFO Sighting reported on 6/10/18 of a very Large Triangular UFO craft with three bright lights one light is white lights with a red dot in the center, was silent, stopped and changed direction. I sighted a strange formation of lights on 04/18/18 (3 defined white lights in a triangle with a red dot in the center) while walking my dog in a South Brunswick, New Jersey park.

From my perspective, the UFO lights I saw where approx. 2 inches apart, while all other aircraft in that were in the sky were about 2 centimeters apart; so I assumed that the aircraft was either close or really big. The UFO triangle lights were moving at about or maybe a little faster than the other aircraft in the sky (and any aircraft nearby were headed towards the Newark Int Airport. The UFOtriangle of lights was flying towards Newark but a less frequented direction north-south and there was no sound coming from the aircraft. After flying at the same speed of the aircraft the UFOsuddenly stopped at a quick speed hovered for a second and took off in the opposite north east (after heading north-south) direction from Newark. thought this was strange so because the whole time I could not see the aircraft itself, and when the triangle of lights changed their direction the lights remained at the same place and did not seem to change angles or anything, which is why know I saw a Triangular UFO that was VERY LARGE. It looked like they stopped only for a second and kicked in in reverse essentially and took off at the in a north east direction and the same speed. Also, my dog did not seem to act strange.

((NUFORC Note: We assume that the UFO sighting occurred at 20:30 hrs., in the evening, and not at 08:30 hrs., in the morning. We have attempted to contact the witness to confirm that fact, but we have been unable to reach him. We have amended the time above. PD))

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16-04-2018 om 11:36 geschreven door peter  

ONLINE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS ARE MORE DIVERSE (AND ORDINARY) THAN MOST ASSUME

Conspiracy theories are known for connecting apparently unrelated events. Consider the X-Files’ Fox Mulder holed up in his office, frantically joining seemingly random dots. Or the American radio host Alex Jones connecting leaked Clinton emails and fuzzy rover pictures to conclude that NASA is running a child slave colony on Mars.

Cognitive psychologists have often claimed that conspiracy theorists possess a “monological” belief system, in which belief in one conspiracy leads to belief in others. Eventually, they explain every significant event, however unrelated, through the same conspiratorial “logic”.

On such a view, conspiracy theorists are fundamentally irrational, perhaps even pathologically so. But is this an oversimplification?

So-called “big data” approaches to psychology can give a unique perspective on these questions. By using large datasets gathered from social media websites, one can look at people interacting in everyday settings. Importantly, these approaches can capture everybody, not just the most vocal members of a community.

In a recent paper we used online comments to examine individuals who are interested in these types of ideas. We examined a complete set of comments over eight years from the conspiracy forum of reddit.com.

Our dataset included 2.2 million comments from roughly 130,000 distinct user names. Our analyses used topic modelling, a type of linguistic analysis that tries to find common themes across a large collection of documents.

We were able to identify 12 distinct subgroups of individuals who used language in different ways and who varied widely in their interests and their posting habits. What they talked about strongly suggested that they held different beliefs and attitudes about a range of conspiracies.

Eleven of these had consistent enough interests to be readily interpretable. We assigned each of them a name and created aggregate sample comments, as shown in this diagram.

We found that there were posters who fit the “monological” pattern (we dubbed them True Believers), writing at length on a wide variety of different topics. However, they were only the tip of the iceberg. Most posters had more specific interests.

Indeed, many seemed to be attracted as much to the social aspects of discussing conspiracies as the content of specific conspiracies. The group we called the Meta-redditors, for example, was most notable for their discussion of other forums on Reddit and complaints about moderation policies.

Similarly, there were subgroups (the Downtrodden) who appeared to be communicating about conspiracy theories as a way of expressing general frustration with authority.

Some were suspicious of US foreign policy (Anti-imperalists). Others may be using conspiracy topics as a way to express racist or otherwise socially unacceptable ideas (Anti-semites). There was even a distinct subgroup who appeared to be posting primarily in order to debunk conspiracy beliefs (Sceptics).

This suggests that individuals involved with conspiracy theories may have quite different motivations, beliefs and attitudes. It may not be useful to consider them as a homogeneous group.

What does all this mean for the study of conspiracy theories? It’s complicated.

On the one hand, it has long been known that online conspiracy theorising can have a variety of negative social effects, from political disengagement to actual violence. These are effects we should aim to mitigate.

On the other hand, our study also reveals something more surprising. The vast majority of posters were no more active in the conspiracy forum than they were on other reddit forums. This suggests that, for most individuals, conspiracy theories are not an all-encompassing obsession that overrides other interests, but just one interest among many. Even the most obsessed posters also spend a lot of time discussing Star Wars and trading cute cat photos on other parts of the site.

As noted, many members of online forums appear to use conspiracy theories to express legitimate doubts about structures of power, even if the details may appear striking to us. Reddit’s conspiracy forum links on its front page to a “list of confirmed conspiracies”, many of which are historically accurate. In the 1960s, for instance, the US FBI did infiltrate domestic protest groups to disrupt and discredit them. The public health service in Alabama did conduct long-term medical experiments on African American men.

Hence, we think that conspiracy theorising may be best understood as a symptom of a breakdown of trust in institutions like government and the media. Rebuilding that trust is, alas, a difficult proposal. However, our work suggests that recognising the varied and complex motivations and attitudes of conspiracy believers is an important step forward.

Source theconversation.com

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16-04-2018 om 11:24 geschreven door peter  

Experts waarschuwen Europa: “Geef robots geen mensenrechten” -  HLN.be

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In een rapport dat begin dit jaar verscheen, schreef het parlement dat robots - gedeeltelijk of geheel - aansprakelijk moeten zijn voor hun daden. Als het wetsvoorstel wordt aangenomen, kunnen robots in rechtszaken optreden als aanklager en ondervraagde. De meer ontwikkelde robot heeft weliswaar een elektronische persoonlijkheid, maar alsnog recht op een menselijke behandeling, oordeelde het parlement. 

Maar veel deskundigen op het gebied van robotica, kunstmatige intelligentie, recht, medische wetenschappen én ethiek raden het voorstel sterk af. “Nachtmerriescenario’s worden op deze manier werkelijkheid. Allerlei fabrikanten zijn bezig met het bedenken en produceren van zelflerende mechanische poppen. De vraag is: hoe lang blijven mensen nog aan de knoppen zitten?”, staat onder meer in hun open brief van afgelopen weekend. 

Tegelijkertijd stellen robotica-experts dat de EU zich teveel laat beïnvloeden door sensationele berichtgeving over kunstmatige intelligentie. “Het wetsvoorstel is gebaseerd op een perceptie van robots vervormd door science fiction en een paar recente sensationele nieuwsberichten.”

Menselijke status

Voorstanders van de wet willen denkende machines op deze manier juist verantwoordelijk stellen voor hun acties. Omdat robots die zelf leren en beslissingen nemen veel minder voorspelbaar zijn, wordt het veel ingewikkelder om verantwoordelijkheid voor eventuele schade neer te leggen bij de producent, de eigenaar, de programmeur of degene die het apparaat de opdracht heeft gegeven waaruit de ellende is ontstaan. Door ze een menselijke status te geven, te registreren en verplicht te laten verzekeren, zou het veel makkelijker worden om schade door robots vergoed te krijgen.

Onlangs was Sophia de eerste robot die staatsburgerschap kreeg. ”Ik ben heel trots en vind het een grote eer”, sprak ze nadat ze zichzelf officieel burger van Saoedi-Arabië mocht noemen. Kort daarna riep Japan een algoritme tot inwoner uit. Nu lijkt Sophia bij lange na niet intelligent genoeg om voor een persoon door te kunnen gaan, maar dat geldt wel voor toekomstige robots.

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16-04-2018 om 11:12 geschreven door peter  

This Is Our First Glimpse of a DARPA Gremlins Drone Being Launched or Recovered From A C-130

The short clip shows a contractor-operated Hercules reeling out a single tethered prototype drone from its cargo bay.

A brief clip of an official video from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has appeared online, showing what looks to be a C-130 Hercules-type aircraft deploying or recovering a prototype unmanned system as part of the Gremlins drone swarm program. This is the first actual footage to emerge regarding the project, which is focused on demonstrating the feasibility of having groups of low-cost, air-launched, reusable drones perform a variety of roles.

The clip is presently available through the public hosting service Giphy, but it is unclear how long it has been online. We first noticed it earlier in April 2018 after Twitter user @MIL_STD posted it along with a quote from Eric DeMarco, who is President and CEO of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions.

Kratos, along with Dynetics, General Atomics, and Lockheed Martin, took part in the first phase of the Gremlins program, which ended in March 2017. DARPA subsequently awarded additional contracts to Dynetics and General Atomics, but Kratos continued to be involved in the project as a subcontractor to the former firm.

“We have consistently demonstrated our success in rapidly designing and delivering low-cost, high-performance unmanned jet aircraft, and we see this as critical with respect to the Gremlins requirement,” DeMarco said in a press release in March 2017. “Our strategic focus is consistent with the Department of Defense's Third Offset Strategy, which emphasizes the need to rapidly prototype innovative technologies to counter emerging threats and provide the United States with an asymmetric advantage over our adversaries.”

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Gremlins, which first began in August 2015, envisions a cheap, short-life drone swarm that one or more aircraft can release in flight and another set of planes can then retrieve in mid-air after a mission. The basic concept of operations envisions a C-130-type aircraft – as seen in the video – as well as combat aircraft, such as fighter jets and bombers, releasing the swarm of Gremlins at a stand-off distance from enemy defenses.

The drones would then conduct this missions and another C-130 would retrieve them and return to base with them, where ground crews would be able to have them ready for another sortie within 24 hours. The minimum threshold requirement is for the low-cost unmanned systems to remain functional for just 20 missions.

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An artist's conception of Gremlins in heading out to a target area, while others return to a separate mothership.

DARPA says the primary tasks it envisions for Gremlins, at least at present, are intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and as a platform for other “non-kinetic” payloads, which could include electronic warfare systems. This would make sense since swarms offer significant potential as distributed sensor nodes and as a means of overwhelming enemy integrated air defenses ahead of a strike.

But this is just a small portion of the potential mission sets for swarms of small drones able to act autonomously or semi-autonomously, based on a fixed set of parameters and potentially in concert with other, larger unmanned or manned systems. As I wrote in a piece detailing Chinese swarm developments in January 2018:

Future swarms of small drones might also be able to carry electronic warfare jammers, emitters that mimic the signals of larger aircraft, equipment capable of conducting cyber attacks, or other systems to confuse or overwhelm an opponent’s defenses ahead of or during a more complex operation. A swarm of drones with small electro-optical or infrared cameras might be able to rapidly search a broad area for targets of interest discreetly and, with miniaturized data links, feed this information to other aircraft or other assets where it can be fused and exploited, giving their friendly force a more complete view of the battlefield and any potential hazards or targets of opportunity.

Even a swarm of small drones each with different modular capabilities installed could potentially conduct a broad array of tasks at once and in a resilient manner. Navigation system carrying types could help guide armed versions over long distances. Some armed variants could be capable of homing in on certain types of radiation—like radar emitters, air defense nodes, or even individual communications devices, while others can be capable of attacking prescribed targets that visually match images in their memory database. In this way, developments may be able to reduce the overall size and complexity of the basic underlying aircraft. This is an especially important consideration since the cost of launching dozens, or even hundreds of drones, could otherwise become prohibitive quite quickly, especially if the user doesn't expect some or even all of them to necessarily survive.

Systems that are ostensibly for scientific research purposes, but that have sensors designed to monitor visual or other changes across a wide area could easily have military applications, too, acting as early warning nets or helping guard borders.

Drones swarms might even be able to eventually attack targets directly with small munitions or launch suicidal strikes against ground vehicles or ground-based elements of an integrated air defense system, such as radar arrays. When it comes to Gremlins in particular, a modular strike package of some sort, with a combination of sensors and a kinetic payload, could squeeze extra capability out of the aircraft on their last operational flights.

The clip does not appear to show Kratos’ Gremlins prototype, though. A public affairs representative for DARPA confirmed that the clip was from an official video, but said that it had been released yet and declined to comment further.

We do know that it is not General Atomics’ design. The company is, so far, the only one to publicly display its offering, which it simply calls the Small Unmanned Aerial System, or SUAS.

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The unmanned system in the DARPA video has a distinctly different and more bulbous planform with four fins at the rear. General Atomics’ SUAS only has two rear fins in a completely different arrangement.

The rear fins on the vehicle in the animated picture have what appears to be of a grid or lattice design. This point towards Dynetics, which produces the GBU-69/B Small Glide Bomb, a precision-guided munition that has three fins of a similar shape. Kratos’ existing target and multi-purpose drone designs feature traditionally shaped control surfaces.

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The GBU-69/B Small Glide Munition.

In addition, the C-130 visible in the video appears to be one that belongs to International Air Response. This firm offers a variety of specialized air services, including making their aircraft available for flight tests, and is a member of Dynetics Gremlins team.

Of course, grid fins are a well-established technology at this point and, among other benefits, offer a relatively easy way to fold control surfaces near flush against the cylindrical body of a missile, rocket, or other types of projectiles. This can help make the weapon or air vehicle more compact for storage and carriage before launch, which would almost certainly be an important consideration for the Gremlins project.

The video itself is almost certainly from the first phase of the project, which was supposed to include tests to examine methods for both launching and recovering prototypes from the rear of a C-130-type aircraft. The clip appears to show a winch system with a physical tether to the drone, but it is not clear whether this is part of the launch or recovery process, or if that system performs both functions. Reeling the vehicle in either direction would be good test points.

But while a tether could offer a low-cost means of releasing the unmanned systems, it might present greater difficulties in attempting to recover them and do so rapidly. It is possible that there is a secondary arm or another mechanism to quickly snag a returning aircraft that is not visible in the clip. General Atomics' Gremlins’ concept art has depicted underwing pylons releasing drones via a fixed line, but with a more complex robotic arm for retrieving them afterward.

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Concept art showing a full-configured C-130 mothership for the Gremlins drones.

The complicated nature of this proposition is not entirely new. During the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency employed the Fulton Recovery System, also known as the Skyhook, to catch the parachutes on falling film canisters from spy satellites and early reconnaissance drones in mid-air, as well as snatch up downed aviators, special operators, and secret agents right off the ground.

This arrangement consisted of an aircraft with a large V-shaped frame at the front to snag the parachute or a line attached to a balloon. The object would then trail behind the aircraft, where personnel at the rear would use a separate line and winch to haul it aboard. The C-130 was the primary Fulton platform until the Air Force retired the system completely in 1996.

Physical hooks that allow one aircraft to retrieve another are an even older concept, dating back to the 1930s with the U.S. Navy airship USS Akron. This massive dirigible could launch and release Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk biplane fighters from a large internal hangar.

During the 1950s, the Air Force experimented with a number of air-launched and recovered aircraft schemes, both to provide fighter escort for long-range bombers and to extend the range of small reconnaissance aircraft. Modified B-29 Superfortress and B-36 Peacemaker actually flew experimentally carrying modified F-84 jet fighters and RF-84 reconnaissance aircraft, as well as the purpose-built XF-85 Goblin "parasite fighter."

In the 1970s, Boeing revived the concept, suggesting that it could convert 747 airliners into flying Airborne Aircraft Carriers (AAC). In addition to being able to launch and recover 10 "microfighters," the modified airliner would've be able to refuel them in flight, at least in theory. 

So there is definitely a significant amount of existing history out there with launching and recovering aircraft in mid-air that Dynetics and General Atomics could tap into as they proceed with the Gremlins project. It will be fascinating to see what concepts they ultimately propose as the program moves forward.

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Boeing's 747 AAC concept.

DARPA’s first phase also included studies to examine ways to keep the individual drones cheap and easy to modify in order to accept new systems as necessary. There was also work on developing digital flight control systems to enable the aircraft to work together as a swarm.

The second phase, which began in 2017, is working toward maturing the experimental components into more functional prototypes for full-scale tests of a complete system. DARPA hopes that demonstration, phase three of the Gremlins program, will begin in 2019.

And though the agency said it couldn’t tell us anything more about the video, they did say there’s a new announcement about Gremlins coming soon. So it might not be long before we get more details about the project’s actual progress.

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16-04-2018 om 00:56 geschreven door peter  

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16-04-2018 om 00:30 geschreven door peter  

Psychologists explained the impossibility of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations

Psychologists at the University of Cadiz in Spain have come to the conclusion that mankind can not recognize signals from alien civilizations, since the latter can use communication on unknown physical principles. Scientists also criticize researchers involved in the SETI project, because they are focused only on the search for radio signals. The article of scientists is published in the Acta Astronautica journal.

Experts believe that mankind can not detect extraterrestrial intelligence because of the analogue of the blindness of inattention. This psychological phenomenon is the inability to discern an object that has fallen into the field of view, because of the presence of other objects on which human attention is concentrated. In the opinion of the authors of the article, instead of looking for other possible communication channels, the scientists involved in the SETI project are concentrating on the registration of extraterrestrial radio signals.

In support of their point of view, psychologists conducted a cognitive test involving 137 volunteers, which consisted of several parts. The first was a test for cognitive reflection, which consists in assessing a person's ability to correctly solve a problem, a quick intuitive response to which is incorrect. After that, participants were given aerial photographs of artificial and natural objects. In one of the pictures was inserted a small image of a man in a gorilla costume (a hint of a famous experiment with an invisible gorilla).

It turned out that those who are inclined to impulsive behavior and were in a hurry to give the wrong answer, were more likely to notice the gorilla in the pictures. At the same time, people with an analytical mindset are more prone to a "blindness of inattention". Such results, according to psychologists, suggest that scientists may not notice other evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations.

In addition, psychologists criticized the Kardashev scale, used to assess the technological development of a hypothetical civilization based on the amount of energy consumed by it. Thus, the civilizations of the first type use all available resources on their native planet, the second type - the energy of the star, and the third type - of the entire galaxy. Scientists offer an alternative scale based on the ability to change environmental conditions.

In their opinion, humanity is in a transition stage from the first to the second type. It remains dependent on the Earth's natural conditions, vulnerable to global catastrophes and is influenced by biological evolution. At the same time, people are relatively close to becoming cosmic colonists and enjoying the achievements of genetic engineering and nuclear physics, while the third type of civilization is super-developed and capable of manipulating space-time, dark matter and dark energy. Thus, the search for radio signals makes it possible to find only the first type of civilization.

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16-04-2018 om 00:21 geschreven door peter  

Breakthrough Discuss turns spotlight on search for life elsewhere in solar system

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15-04-2018 om 23:46 geschreven door peter  

Weird Suffolk: Hollesley - the UFO hotspot

Stacia Briggs and Siofra Connor

But there are claims that Hollesley had extra-terrestrial visitors of its own – three years after Rendlesham and, in a further incident, again in 2017.

The autumn of 1983 was colder than usual and by the time Halloween was on the horizon at the end of October, there had been several sharp frosts and even some wintry showers – but the weather didn’t deter some very unusual day-trippers who paid an unexpected visit to Hollesley at the tail-end of the month.

Late one evening, in a clear dark sky, villagers reported seeing a large, dark-coloured, silent, triangular-shaped aircraft hovering above Hollesley for around 15 minutes: they were astonished to see that three lights on the base of the craft which lit up the ground spectacularly.

Ron Macro told the press: “We froze. The lights were in a triangle and remained perfectly still. Whatever was in the sky flew over us. The lights beamed down and we heard a high-pitched whine.”

Debbie Foreman and Pauline Osborne were driving in Hollesley when the UFO appeared: as they drew close to it, the engine of Debbie’s car began to splutter, the headlights faltered and then the engine cut out completely: “Until then the car had behaved quite normally,” said Debbie, “but everything seemed to go wrong.”

Many attributed the craft to nearby RAF Woodbridge – one resident, John Button, said: “If they are experimenting then we ought to be told. And if there’s something flying around here which comes from outer space, we ought to be told about that, too.” The answer from Woodbridge was concise: “Nothing was seen on radar. I cannot say more than that.”

Fast forward almost 35 years and there was a repeat visit from an unidentified flying object.

In a submission to BEAMS, the British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society, a witness offered an account of a strange occurrence which happened as they was driving in the Hollesley area which, they said, included an inexplicable time slip. The sighting happened on August 31 2017 between 11pm and 12.30am.

“I was picking my daughter up from work and when driving past Sutton Heath with Rock Barracks on the left, I saw a flash line of bright white light above the trees ahead and to the right: I asked what that was and my daughter thought maybe streak lightning. I was doubtful as it didn’t look like that to me,” said the witness.

The lights appeared every few minutes. The pair drove towards Hollesley Bay Prison and saw a ball of stationary white light above a building which then suddenly disappeared before another light sphere appeared to the left, then darted into a garden above a low bush before vanishing again.

Perplexed, the pair drove towards Bawdsey but, interest piqued, headed back to where they had seen the lights, driving on a single track tree-lined road where they saw another ball of light which disappeared in a flash. They immediately found themselves outside Hollesley’s village shop.

“It takes at least 10 minutes to get to Hollesley shop from the road leading to Bawdsey where we turned in the road - if we were driving fast, but we were crawling - and we would have had to turn left at the crossroads and drive through Alderton... but we never reached the crossroads, didn’t drive through Alderton or take any turnings…it was as though we’d just been teleported from one place to another!

“The light was like a vibrating wave in the air…(we) saw it twice more, this time above sea to the left where no planes or boats were.”

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15-04-2018 om 23:34 geschreven door peter  

13 of Ireland's most notorious UFO hotspots

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15-04-2018 om 22:56 geschreven door peter  

VIDÉO: UN OVNI A ÉTÉ FILMÉ LORS DE LA MISSION STS-77 DE LA NASA

PAR VINCENT DEROY

Sur des images rendues publiques par la NASA, des ufologues pensent avoir découvert une preuve qu’une civilisation extraterrestre nous surveille depuis l’espace.

Récemment, il a été révélé que Buzz Aldrin et trois autres astronautes de renom avaient passé des tests au détecteur de mensonges. Au cours de cette expérience, ils avaient été interrogés sur leurs rencontres avec de prétendus extraterrestres.

Aldrin, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell et Gordon Cooper avaient tous pris part à cette étude. Des experts sont dorénavant « complètement convaincus » que des signes de vie extraterrestre ont bien été observés à bord de la mission Apollo 11 en 1969 sur la Lune.

Des images nouvellement diffusées pourraient prouver les affirmations de ces célèbres et respectés astronautes.

La vidéo en question nous montre une rencontre avec un OVNI, faite par des astronautes installés à bord d’une navette spatiale au cours d’une mission en 1996.

Dans ces images, on peut entendre un astronaute communiquer par radio avec le centre de contrôle de la mission de la NASA pour signaler l’observation.

Mario Runco Jr, l’homme qui a filmé le phénomène – raconte à ses collègues sur Terre qu’ils observent cet objet volant non identifié depuis un certain temps.

Il signale ensuite qu’il peut voir une autre lumière passer dessus, admettant que cela pourrait être une étoile.

Toutefois, alors que l’astronaute décrit l’incroyable OVNI qu’il est en train de regarder, le centre de contrôle ne semble pas s’enthousiasmer et paraît vouloir changer rapidement de sujet.

Ces images ont été capturées lors de la 77ème mission de la NASA baptisée STS-77.

Elle a été lancé en 1996 à partir de la rampe de lancement 39B du Kennedy Space Center en Floride. Elle a duré 10 jours.

La vidéo a été plus tard diffusée par la chaîne YouTube UFO Today. Ce dernier croit désormais que la NASA essaie de nous cacher quelque chose.

Sources: Le nouvel ordre mondial, Daily Star, le 9 avril 2018

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15-04-2018 om 22:40 geschreven door peter  

October 27, 1954–The Day A UFO Stopped a Football Game

As fascinating as it may sound, it’s true.

The ‘event’ happened in Florence, Italy, on October 27, 1954.

In October of 1954, a match involving the Italian team Fiorentina was interrupted by mysterious visitors hovering above the stadium. The Fiorentina UFOs were part of a wave of mass-sightings across Europe – and it remains a mystery to this day.

On that occasion one of the most massive UFO sightings in history took place: around 10 thousand people who were in theArtemio Franchi stadium watching the encounter between Fiorentina and Pistoiese witnessed the appearance of unidentified flying objects in the skies above the stadium.

Image Credit: Giornale Del Mattino

Eventually, the match had to be suspended “because the spectators saw something in the sky” according to the official report of the match referee.

According to the testimony of one of the players present in that match, defender Ardico Magnini, who was something of a legend at the club and had played for Italy at the 1954 World Cup.

“I remember everything from A to Z,” he says. “It was something that looked like an egg that was moving slowly, slowly, slowly. Everyone was looking up and also there was some glitter coming down from the sky, silver glitter.

“We were astonished we had never seen anything like it before. We were absolutely shocked.”

He also remembered that a strange sticky and shiny material fell on the ground.

Other testimonies relate the presence not of one but of several strange objects in the sky.

La Nazione’s headline reads: Glass fibers fall on Tuscan cities after globes and flying saucers pass by. Lower headline: The sighting over Florence (with a photograph, now lost, of the UFO).

In the following days, numerous other UFO sightings were recorded in the towns near the stadium.

That unknown substance did not only fall on the court, but it covered a good part of Florence before evaporating.

Those who came into contact with this material describe it as similar to cotton but ungraspable as it disintegrated on contact.

An explanation, rare but scientific, of this phenomenon, arrived many years later: it could have been large networks of connected webs, which appeared in the sky as globes, shining by the reflection of the Sun since that is how spiders migrate.

Curiously, October coincides with the time of migration of the northern hemisphere spiders.

However, the material found simultaneously with the appearance of UFOs was analyzed in the laboratory and the elements found do not coincide with those that are part of spider webs.

Therefore, until this day, whatever the spectators and players saw floating above the Artemio Franchi stadium remains a profound mystery, and one of the best documented UFO cases in history.

Source: The day UFOs stopped play

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15-04-2018 om 22:30 geschreven door peter