The Oumuamua cigar-shaped interstellar asteroid may not have been a space ship disguised as an asteroid, but the root of that idea – using a hollowed-out space object to travel between stars – is getting serious scientific consideration … and the concept actually sounds feasible. Should Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos be spending their money on corralling a comet?

“In light of our insatiable appetite for exploration, it is inevitable that the human species will ultimately travel outside of the known solar system. It is the next step in human evolution. My research concerns solutions that unite the biological, technological and social dimensions. And it is about spaceships that evolve during their journey.”

Well, it would be nice to get humans beyond the orbit of the Moon first, but it’s always good to think big and that’s what Angelo Vermeulen is doing. He’s the founder of the Delft University of Technology Starship Team (DSTART) and the Evolving Asteroid Starships project, which is working with the European Space Agency (ESA) on designing a regenerative life-support system called MELISSA (Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative).

“MELiSSA, short for Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative, is an artificial ecosystem to recover food, water and oxygen from waste (faeces and urine), carbon dioxide and minerals. The laboratory will help in the development of technology for a future regenerative life support system for long-duration human space exploration missions, for example to a lunar base or to Mars.”

To Mars … and beyond. In an announcement, ESA revealed the goal of DSTART is to “perform advanced concepts research for a resilient interstellar space vehicle, to be constructed from a hollowed-out asteroid.” While it sounds like the asteroid is just a big vehicle, it’s also a supplier of minerals and more to MELISSA, which is a giant self-sustaining, self-evolving, closed-loop life support system … and more. The details will be revealed at the first joint AgroSpace-MELiSSA workshop on May 16-18 in Rome. The topics will include:

Organic wastes processing and refinery
Edible biomass production
Food quality, processing and human nutrition
Physical, chemical and microbial contaminants
Flight experiments and space technology demonstrators

While they haven’t captured and hollowed out an asteroid yet, the MELISSA teams have successfully demonstrated sealed, closed loop, life-support systems for algae on the International Space Station and for rats at Spain’s Autonomous University of Barcelona – that one has a bioreactor powered by light and oxygen-producing algae to keep rats alive and producing carbon dioxide and waste to keep the algae alive to produce … you get the idea.

What will it take to take these tiny ecosystems to the scale of an asteroid? The first simulation will be on display at the May AgroSpace-MELiSSA workshop. How close are we to capturing an asteroid to test it on? OSIRIS-REx is on its way to Bennu to pick up a 30 foot (9 meter) in diameter chunk and drag it to the Moon, where it will be placed in orbit for future missions with astronauts to analyze.

Thirty feet doesn’t sound like a big space ship, but Oumuamua was only 230 by 35 meters (800 ft × 100 ft) and it managed to travel between stars. Is the MELISSA idea crazy enough that it just might work? Or should space engineers stick with trying to build conventional space ships?

To put it another way … would you rather live for years inside a rock or the Enterprise?

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30-04-2018 om 22:00 geschreven door peter  

Nearly 60,000 UFO sightings MAPPED: Does this finally prove mystery link to US military?

UFO investigators have mapped nearly 60,000 flying saucer sightings in the USA with staggering results that could show why there is an alleged link between UFOs and the military.

30-04-2018 om 21:46 geschreven door peter  

UFO Sighting Video Apparently Reveals A Secret Alien Base In Russia

Footage shows a strange light beneath the clouds captures from a plane window. The bright light reportedly travels over a vast empty part of Russia.

The light remains utterly still like it is coming from a fixed area on the ground as the jet speeds up over the top.

The video was uploaded to a YouTube account Stan on April 22. The video went viral and gained popularity on different conspiracy channels.

YouTube user thirdphaseofmoon shared the footage on his profile, stating on the title that “Russia probably doesn’t want you to see this.”

He said the light was seemed out of the middle of nowhere and emitted a strange bright orange glow. It could be a crashed UFO or UFO experiments that were happening, he added.

The video has gained popularity with more than 6,000 hits just a few hours after he uploaded it.

UFO enthusiasts were quick to give their speculation about the strange light.

Many viewers think that the light is very unusual as it is too concentrated and uniformed. Others speculate that it could be a UFO below the clouds. Some claim that Russia has a vast UFO base. However, many others offer a simple explanation saying the light is a lens flare or a natural weather event.

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30-04-2018 om 21:19 geschreven door peter  

Airplane passenger films strange rotating phenomenon when flying over China’s Xi’an - Take a look!

While on a flight the airplane passenger noticed strange lights for about 20 minutes and at some point the lights seem to be rotating before disappearing into the clouds below.

The event happened on April 12, 2018 – The lights are not connected to each other and it seems they are floating free in the sky.

The airplane passenger who reported the strange phenomenon to Mufon case 91673 states:

• Astigmatism lasts about 20 minutes
• Constant astigmatism
  
• Astigmatism will rotate
• It feels strange
• Into the cloud disappearsµ

  

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30-04-2018 om 21:11 geschreven door peter  

The Canadian UFO Fragment Was Proven Authentic

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30-04-2018 om 01:40 geschreven door peter  

Multiple UFOs & strange purple Beams of Light filmed over Arizona

A strange video on YouTube is getting a lot of attention for showing multiple UFOs and weird purple beams of light in the skies over Arizona.

The footage was recorded on a panoramic 360-degree live camera feed recently.

Commenters on the video hint evidence of extraterrestrial visitation, while others think the strange sky phenomenon is a clandestine HAARP project.

NOTE: 

• That purple beam is what used to be referred to as a ROD, they turned out to be bugs of some kind that fly to fast for the cameras processing ability.
• The Purple Rods, swirls, beams might very well be moths, insects. The patterns strongly suggest moths from the way that moths and butterflies have been studied in labs using high-speed cameras. And the UFO's definitely could just be local air traffic. Is this in or near Phoenix, Arizona? Then it could be air traffic from Sky Harbor...or a small, local, municipal airport.

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30-04-2018 om 01:34 geschreven door peter  

Sophisticated laboratories aboard probes like the Curiosity Rover and the upcoming Insight Mars Lander can tell us much, but samples of Martian soil in terrestrial laboratories would open new worlds of exploration for scientists. To that end, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) just revealed a bold plan to retrieve soil samples from the surface of the red planet and transport them back to Earth.

In a statement of intent released last week, the two agencies outlined their proposal, which would require multiple missions and some tricky maneuvering in orbit around Mars.

“There is no question that for a planetary scientist, the chance to bring pristine, carefully chosen samples of the Red Planet back to Earth for examination using the best facilities is a mouth-watering prospect,” said David Parker of the ESA. “Reconstructing the history of Mars and answering questions of its past are only two areas of discovery that will be dramatically advanced by such a mission.”

The Mars 2020 rover, which has already begun assembly at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, California, will land on Mars via a rocket-powered sky crane. It will collect about 30 soil samples in small test-tube-sized containers and place them in a location for later retrieval.

The next mission will utilize a “fetch rover” to collect the samples and then return to its lander, which will launch the small payload into orbit using a Mars Ascent Vehicle. Such a launch has never been done before, and it will require extensive coordination between the agencies to pull it off.

Finally, a third spacecraft launched from Earth will rendezvous with the Mars Ascent Vehicle and retrieve the samples. Upon returning to Earth, a module containing the samples will enter the atmosphere and land somewhere in the U.S.

All the details of the cooperative venture haven’t been finalized; a more complete proposal will be submitted by the two agencies later this year.

Thomas Zurbuchen of NASA speculated that this mission could finally answer the question about whether there was ever life on Mars. “A sample would provide a critical leap forward in our understanding of Mars’s potential to harbor life,” he said. “I look forward to connecting and collaborating with international and commercial partners on tackling the exciting technological challenges ahead — that would allow us to bring home a sample of Mars.”

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30-04-2018 om 01:24 geschreven door peter  

North Wales X File special - Berwyn Mountains 'UFO crash' map revealed

Does the old chart shed light on what really happened in 1974 'Welsh Rosewell' incident?

The red dot shows where the incident is said to have happened. Black dotted lines leading to dot from the west show the alleged path of RAF jets and UFO. Black dotted lines from the north show jet flight path

A map claiming to chart show a UFO crashed in one of North Wales’ greatest mysteries has been revealed for the first time.

Russ Kellett has spent years researching the 1974 Berwyn Mountains incident.

Now he has come forward with an old map which allegedly shows the flight paths of RAF jets and a flying saucer - with some theorists claiming the latter crashed.

On the map pictured below the red dot shows where the incident is said to have happened. Black dotted lines leading to dot from the west show the alleged path of RAF jets and UFO.

Black dotted lines from the north to the red dot show the flight path jets are said to have taken.

Mr Kellett claims the document was given to him by five men who witnessed the incident and undertook their own investigations afterwards.

“The five saw a strange object and got out to have a look, but the military were there and told them to leave,” Mr Kellett said.

“They moved to a better position and started to take photos.

“They were all friends and four were in the military during World War Two.

“Afterwards they started doing their own research and the map is a result of what they found out and shows the flight paths.

“When I was giving a talk in Bala to a packed audience around the late 1990s, early 2000s, I was given a package by them after and there were these maps in them which they had drawn up based on what they had found out from their research.

“It was very strange and I was a little bit spooked.”

Dubbed the Welsh Roswell, at about 8.30pm on January 23, in 1974, people reported hearing a huge bang, earth tremors were felt amid claims of a brilliant light in the sky above the mountain range.

At the time families in the villages of Llandderfel and Llandrillo were settling down to watch TV when an explosion was heard and the ground shook which measured 3.5 on the Richter scale.

Police arrived in the area and a RAF search and rescue team was scrambled from Anglesey.

There were even claims other military personnel arrived at the site.

Documents seen by the Daily Post showing numerous calls on the night were put into Gwynedd police who logged “a large explosion in the area and there is a large fire in the mountainside.”

One witness who saw on object on the hillside said in a statement at the time: “Saw bright red light, like coal fire red. Large perfect circle. Like a big bonfire.”

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However, sceptics maintain the activity can be explained by a meteor shower, an earthquake and poachers on the mountain side, triggering the noise and lights.

“I’ve carried the map around for a long time as part of my research,” said Mr .

“I’m getting older now and just wanted to put it out there to see what people make of it and if there was anybody else who could shed light on what happened.”

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30-04-2018 om 01:07 geschreven door peter  

Prohodna, The Bulgarian Cave And The Eyes Of God

If we travel through the north of Bulgaria, and its Lovech province, we’ll find there is a beautiful gorge called Iskar, very close to the village of Karlukovo, and in it, piercing a mountain of limestone, we find the so-called Eyes of God.

It’s a fascinating cave that’s perfect for photography lovers, but also those who want to witness first hand, the so-called Eyes ofGod.

The region where the cave is located has been subject for millennia to karstic action, that is, the chemical weathering produced by water on certain types of soluble rocks, that have shaped the landscape and dug underground galleries and natural grottos producing a characteristic landscape, unlike any other anywhere in the world.

The Prohodna Cave.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

While we find many other caves, in this article we take a look at the Prohodna cave, which is up to two hundred and sixty-two meters long and happens to be the largest in Bulgaria.

The cave has two entrances which lie opposite one another, known respectively as the Small Entrance and the Big Entrance.

The caves of the Geological Park of Iskar-Panega, are one of the most extensive karst regions of the country. It is believed to have arisen in the Quaternary Era, and it is a true paradise for caving enthusiasts since it is home to hundreds of caves.

Another view of the eyes of God. 

Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Prohodna is one of the most accessible caves in Bulgaria.

But the cave is special. It’s different.

Also known as Oknata, the mysterious cave is unique as it contains a fascinating feature in the ceiling of its middle chamber.

And… another view of the Eyes of God.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The cavern contains enormous cavities, one next to the other with two massive almond-shaped openings at the top, given the viewer from below an appearance almost as if the cave was looking down, through a pair of mysterious eyes.

According to experts, the ‘Eyes of God’ formed through erosion, let in light into the cave.

While the cave is a popular tourist destination today, experts have found traces of prehistoric habitation in the cave, which testify that humans lived in the cave during the Neolithicand Chalcolithic.

The entrance of Prohodna cave can be seen even from the National cave house.

Image Credit:Wikimedia Commons.

The most fascinating time to visit the cave is at night when the sky is clear and the moon is full. Then, with a bit patience and luck, you can see the moon through the two cavities on the ceiling of the cave.

When rainwater enters both holes and falls down the walls of the cave; locals often say then that God’s Eyes Are Crying.

As noted by sendeirsmoeurope.com, the “eyes” of the Prohodna cave have a hypnotic effect and watch them for a while from inside the cave is very relaxing.

Featured image credit: Reddit.

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29-04-2018 om 23:28 geschreven door peter  

These Are The Rare Ancient Maps, Used By Ancient Explorers To Travel The Earth

These are the rare ancient charts used by ancient navigators to explore the Earth, and they are about to be sold in an auction in London and could sell for millions.

Thousands of years ago, explorers used whatever maps they could find to travel to places no one else had been.

Many explorers, including Cristopher Columbus, used rare maps to navigate Earths’ ocean and travel to different continents.

These maps have a mighty history behind them, as many of them were used by some of the most influential explorers from our history books.

Curiously, as noted by the MailOnline, many of these ancient charts are about to go on sale in an auction house in London, UK, and experts warn they could sell for millions, as people will recognize their incredible value.

The auction in London will feature around 400 maps. Among the hundreds of maps is a 1472 ‘T-O’ map, considered the first printed atlas of the planet, displaying how Earth was arranged, according to Christian beliefs.

The map seen here below is one of several ancient charts created by famed geographer and astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus.

An ancient Chart created by famed geographer and astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus.

Image Credit: Sotheby’s

The map was published in an atlas from 1482 and is considered by experts as one of the earliest global maps ever created.

The map is especially known for being the first map to make use of latitude and longitude. According to experts, the origins of this map date back to the known world in the 2nd Century and, according to the MailOnline, it could sell for £80,000 ($110,000). The map shows three sections which are a representation of the world’s oceans and are believed to indicate the belief the Earthwas spherical, and not flat.

The ancient chart shows the Mediterranean separating Europe from Africa, and the Red Sea and the River Don separating both from Asia. In addition to offering an extremely detailed map of our planet, the map also features the sons of Noah on Each Continent.

This sensational ancient map was created by Peter Goos in 1666.

An Italian artist called Francesco Berlinghieri helped create the map and providing ‘considerable artistic appeal’ with the addition of the 12 wind-heads surrounding the ancient chart. This map is believed to have played a crucial role in Cristopher Columbus’ accidental ‘discovery of the new world.’

Although it is noteworthy to mention that Columbus was NOT the first explorer to reach to American Continent, and he didn’t have to discover anything, as the continent was long inhabited by different cultures. If anything, Columbus ‘introduced’ America to the rest of the world.

This map depicts the world from an unusual point of different view. We see the planet from the poles. This ancient chart was created by Cornelius De Jode, a cartographer from Antwerp in the 1500’s.

Image Credit: Sotheby’s

Speaking about the auction, and the different ancient maps, Cecile Gasseholm, Sotheby’s specialist, told MailOnline:

“Ptolomy made his calculations on the size of the Earth when creating the map with regards to dimensions of the world.”

“The measurements were widely taken as gospel for centuries and into the middle ages. Christopher Columbus, when he set sail in 1492 from the Spanish port of Palos, used these calculations to inform his navigation. To his dismay and later great reward, they turned out to be wildly inaccurate and resulted in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.”

Source: MailOnline

For more about the maps, visit Sotheby’s.

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29-04-2018 om 23:04 geschreven door peter  

ASTRONOMERS SEARCH FOR ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURES IN SATELLITE DATA

The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite has been helping map the billions of stars in the Milky Way, and a group of astronomers is using the spacecraft’s stunning new star catalog to search for signs of highly advanced alien civilizations.

A team of scientists from Sweden’s Uppsala University and the University of Heidelberg in Germany combed Gaia’s first data release of a billion stars from September 2016. They then cross-referenced it with observations from the Australia-based Milky Way-watching RAVE project looking for differences in how far away the two observatories place certain stars.

Simply put, the Gaia data shows how far away a star is by watching it move across a background of far more distant stars, an effect called parallax. RAVE data, on the other hand, estimates the distance of a star based on the properties of its brightness. So the scientists looked for stars observed by both Gaia and RAVE where the data seemed to disagree on the distance of a star.

The idea is that the disparity in distance measurements by the different instruments could be explained by the presence of a partial Dyson sphere, a structure that envelopes or partially envelopes a star to harvest its energy.

Science fiction has long envisioned huge alien megastructures like planet-size artificial spheres or rings or swarms of energy-collecting spacecraft. They’ve also been floated as a possible explanation for the strange dimming and re-brightening behavior of the now famous Boyajian’s Star, also known as Tabby’s Star or KIC 8462852.

Cross-referencing the data sets revealed a handful of stars in Gaia data that may possibly be circled by such alien megastructures. However, upon closer examination, the team determined that errors in the data could account for differing measurements in the case of all but one star named TYC 6111-1162-1.

The researchers used a third observatory to take a closer look at the star. They didn’t find evidence of alien megastructures, but instead of an unseen companion star, which could also account for the discrepancies in measurements. 

While they haven’t discovered advanced aliens just yet, the team maintains that their method of searching for possible Dyson spheres is still sound. They say the search will become even easier with future releases of Gaia data, which will provide both types of distance measurements for many stars. 

“We estimate that Gaia Data Release 3, currently scheduled for late 2020, should allow the technique to be applied to samples of (about 1 million) stars,” they write in a report uploaded to Cornell’s Arxiv repository of scientific papers.

Meanwhile, the second Gaia Data Release dropped on Wednesday, with a fresh batch of 1.7 billion stars to check for ambitious alien construction projects. If anyone finds anything, please notify Elon Musk. He’s always looking for fresh inspiration. 

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29-04-2018 om 22:46 geschreven door peter  

XS-1: DARPA's Experimental Spaceplane

29-04-2018 om 22:16 geschreven door peter  

Time travel cracked? Secret code in ancient Mayan calendar ‘reveals’ time portals

A SELF-titled archaeologist has shockingly claimed to have cracked the secret code of an ancient calendar to reveal a “divine” time travel map.

By Joy Basu 

The Mayan Tzolkin calendar has often been at the forefront of conspiracy theories and doomsday predictions but Timothy Alan has now claimed it also contains the secrets of time travel.

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29-04-2018 om 20:43 geschreven door peter  

Scientists Peer Across the Universe and Find an Ancient Galactic Collision

29-04-2018 om 20:18 geschreven door peter  

Is this proof aliens are watching us? UFO crosses paths with Epsilon 3 rocket launch travelling at 25,000mph

Conspiracy theorists believe a UFO overshadowed the launch of the Japanese rocket

By Mirror.Co.Uk

A £255million satellite that will monitor the Earth's atmosphere has successfully launched into space.

But conspiracy theorists believe something overshadowed the 'perfect' launch on Kyushu Island in Japan.

They claim an unknown 'mysterious craft' passed closely by the rocket as it travelled at 25,000mph - and some think it could be aliens monitoring our technological advances.

Thousands of people gathered to watch Japanese Space agency Jaxa launch its Epsilon 3 rocket at 6.06am on January 18.

Video shows that shortly after the craft engaged its secondary boosters a UFO , allegedly flying at the same altitude as the rocket, appeared.

The object was made up of three white lights and a red blinking beacon that appear to swoop close to the rocket.

Many viewers have pointed out that the lights look like they belong to a plane.

But conspiracy theorists insist a no-fly zone was in place during the launch.

UFO Today posted footage of the launch on its YouTube page.

The caption read: "Many will say this is an airplane, but the area had a no fly zone at the time of the rocket launch.

"The launch went perfectly, but during the launch a strange mysterious craft was filmed. This UFO was flying at the same altitude as the rocket.

"It was moving along with the rocket as it started it's orbit around earth. What was this object?"

But not everyone was convinced the lights were extra-terrestrial in origin.

One viewer wrote: "It's got an FAA light blinking...so....it's human made."

Anther added: "That's an airplane, there's a blinking light on it and UFOs don't normally have blinking lights."

The third Epsilon rocket was carryin the ASNARO-2 radar-imaging satellite into orbit.

Almost 45 minutes after lift-off the 570-Kilogram radar satellite separated from the rocket. 

The satellite, developed by the Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer, will take images of the Earth to monitor the atmosphere.

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29-04-2018 om 19:43 geschreven door peter  

ALIEN CONCEPTS AN INTERVIEW WITH DR JOHN MACK

John Mack’s research into alien abductions has thrust him far out of the academic mainstream, yet the Harvard psychiatrist and his Program for Extraordinary Experience Research soldier on, constructing a “science of the sacred.”

“Virgin area — exciting,” John Mack wrote in a 1964 note to himself. He was referring to an opportunity to develop new ways of delivering mental-health services at a Massachusetts hospital. But that spirit of enthusiasm and risk-taking is a neat summation of the Harvard psychiatrist’s long and controversial career as a scientist and activist.

Mack has never shied from exploring frontiers. While most of his colleagues toiled away quietly in Harvard’s ivory tower, Mack protested nuclear tests in Nevada, flew to war-torn Lebanon to try his hand at Middle East diplomacy and drank toasts with Soviet colleagues in cold war Moscow. And most famously, he listened to people who told him tales of alien visitations and abductions-and believed them.

His behavior, unusual for an Ivy League academic, has made the lanky 71-year-old a figure of fun for the mainstream, a well-meaning modern-day Don Quixote to those with progressive leanings and a knight on a white horse to those who believe aliens are among us. Yet even those friends and colleagues dismissive of Mack’s abduction theories acknowledge his deep-seated commitment to tackling problems at all levels — personal, social and spiritual. “His really important insight is that people can change, that they can crack open,” says one academic friend.

Another friend says that at Mack’s core is a passion to understand and ease human suffering. Ironically, Mack’s unusual journey into the alien realm has reaped him his own share of suffering, from damage to his professional credibility to loss of old friends and the breakup of a long marriage.

Mack himself seems at a loss to explain why he is who he is, given a background lacking in either social activism or spiritual matters. A self-described introspective child, he was born into a family of prosperous German Jewish academics in New York. His father read the Bible, but only as literature in that atheistic household.

But suffering was not an abstract concept in his early life. Mack’s biological mother died of a ruptured appendix when he was only eight months old. His mother’s sister later married a Holocaust survivor, a man who became an expert in group process and psychotherapy. Another uncle was mentally ill and eventually lobotomized. “That was a big factor in my choosing to go into psychiatry,” he says. The dark-brick insane asylums that he and his family passed during trips to the country haunted him. By age 12, he was hunting out psychology books in his school library.

After finishing medical school and marrying Sally Stahl in 1959, they left for Mack’s two-year stint in Japan as an Air Force psychiatrist, where the first of their three sons was born. The culture shock was intense. Life there, he recalled later, taught him how “fantastically ethnocentric and ecologically destructive we Americans can be.” The family returned to the United States, and Mack plunged into Harvard psychiatry in the 1960s, when ideas about mental health were being overhauled. He played a key role in creating a novel psychiatric clinic for both in- and outpatients at a derelict Cambridge city hospital that Harvard University had taken over.

But ever the intellectual peripatetic, Mack’s fascination with T. E. Lawrence led him to write an in-depth biography of the enigmatic man who played a key role in Middle East politics, and in 1977 the effort earned him the Pulitzer Prize. Lawrence lived out a creative vision of changing the world that intrigued — one of his friends says obsessed — Mack.

By the early ’80s, when he had entered what for most tenured professors would be comfortable middle age, Mack, at the urging of his children, was drawn into two more virgin territories — the realm of spiritual questing and the world of political activism. He experimented with holotropic breathwork, est and psychedelic drugs. And he was drawn into Middle East politics, meeting solo with Yassir Arafat in Beirut to discuss prospects for peace. Next he threw himself into the growing antinuclear effort during the Reagan years, exploring the psychosocial aspects of the nuclear-war threat and testifying before Congress on such issues as children’s nightmares of an atomic holocaust. Eventually he turned to a more active role; his entire family was arrested in 1986 at the government’s Nevada Test Site for protesting underground nuclear detonations.

His breathwork in particular set the stage for his interest in aliens. “I was open to the possibility that there was a world beyond that which could be seen,” he recalls. Mack began seeing patients who described a variety of alien encounters, and then he created the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research (PEER) within Harvard’s Center for Psychology & Social Change. (Currently neither the center nor PEER is affiliated with Harvard.) His 1994 book on the subject (Abduction), which focuses on interviews that detail the experiences of a handful of the 70 people who said they were abducted, provoked ridicule and outrage in the mainstream media and a Harvard investigation into his scientific methods. Undaunted, Mack has soldiered on, gathering more data and interviewing people from all over the world, publishing Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters in 1999, which focused on alien-related myths and experiences in native cultures, from the Amazon to southern Africa.

In person, Mack has the cautious traits of a scholar, the wariness of a maligned media figure and the innocent enthusiasm of a young college student discovering himself. During a lengthy interview at PEER headquarters — a nondescript Cambridge walkup that resembles a postdoc’s apartment — Mack talked with New Age about his latest frontier. What follows is a much-shortened and edited transcript.

Q. What was your first encounter with the alien phenomenon?

A. I read an article that treated the phenomenon as a spiritual emergency, and a colleague in my breathwork training program took me to see Budd Hopkins [author of several alien-related books] in January 1990. At first I didn’t believe it was possible to encounter beings from beyond the Earth, but it became apparent that I didn’t have any other way to explain what was happening: If different people who are not connected have the same detailed experience, then you are not dealing with an internally generated effect. So I got curious.

Q. How do you test the reliability of these claims?

A. I do a careful psychological evaluation of their mental states, take their psychological history — the standard clinical exam and, in some early cases, batteries of psychological testing. I will get character witnesses to assess whether they embellish the truth. And there is something more, which I’m still struggling with. It is feeling that a person is speaking as if they’ve been there — this comes from body language, the look in their eye, from having no other agenda. I’m working to better define this.

Q. So do you see what you are doing as science?

A. I have to be open to the fact that there are realms or dimensions of reality that I don’t know about. Knowing is not the same when you can’t create a controlled experiment, but there still can be reliable ways of knowing. I can’t create an experiment that brings a bunch of UFOs together. But I do believe there is a quality of openness of mind and rigor we can apply. We can develop standards of authenticity, reliability, multiplicity of witnesses. This might be considered a science of the sacred or of human experience.

Q. What kinds of standards do you envision for such a science?

A. We have an anomalous-experiences project at PEER, which came out of a 1999 workshop on the topic that included theologists, anthropologists, astrophysicists and philosophers. We are looking not just at the abduction phenomenon, but near-death experiences and other such phenomena that don’t fall into a single discipline. And we want to explore traditions where there are, if not standards, witnessing and truth-telling traditions — that is, methods of how you decide who to take seriously. The Buddhist and Catholic traditions deal with this in detail, for example in determining what is a miracle and what is not.
Father Corrado Balducci, a retired gentleman close to the Vatican, once shocked me by saying that the Church takes very seriously these reports of UFOs and abduction encounters because there seem to be so many reliable witnesses. The Church has a tradition of determining who is a reliable witness. I began to think about this notion of the sacred witness, or the witness of the sacred. We don’t want to take on, for example, Catholic or Buddhist standards wholesale, but they can be guides.

Q. So these standards could be applied to all sorts of anomalous experiences?

A. The new age world is filled with people working on everything from alien experiences to channeling, but there are no real criteria to tell you what to take seriously. There’s been appropriate criticism of a lot of new age work. Just because someone says he or she channels something doesn’t make it truthful. The scientific method has ways of deciding on the reliability of physical evidence. But if there is no physical evidence — no physical marks on the body, for example — there has to be a way to take data and determine its validity.

Q. Are you trying too hard to drag science into an area that is the domain of religion?

A. Barbara McClintock, a Nobel Prize winner in genetics, described her way of knowing as highly subjective. She would fall in love with ears of corn; she fused with what she was working with. Of course, after you’ve learned in that interconnected subjective way, then you use your rational mind to add it up and make sense of it. But your instrument of knowing is your whole self, your intuitive self, your full consciousness. What really good scientists and those who take us “beyond the veil” have in common is full engagement with that other self, with the matter at hand.

Q. You say breathwork opened you up to other worldviews. How did this unfold?

A. I realized I was not stuck in my academic, psychoanalytic tower — I expanded out of my shell. I had this sense of connection with all these people that was unexplainable to me. This sense that each of us were in some way open and loving people — and the same, that we were one in a way, and under natural conditions that we can connect in a way that is quite different from the usual competitive isolation in which we live.

Q. How does this relate to aliens?

A. We are spiritual beings connected with other life forms and the cosmos in a profound way, and the cosmos itself contains a numinous intelligence. It’s not just dead matter and energy.

Q. Are your ideas about abduction more accepted now by the mainstream than in 1994?

A. No, on the contrary. There are those who fear what they see as a danger of the return of the irrational. But on the fringes there is also a growing excitement and interest in understanding reality not known by the traditional scientific method. So there is a kind of heating up, not of a paradigm war, but a not-very-friendly discourse between contending worldviews.

Q. Alien “experiencers” are considered crazy by the mainstream. Do you see them as an oppressed minority?

A. The ridicule of these individuals and the dismissal of their stories has profound moral implications. A society cannot long survive if its truth tellers are rejected. I believe these witnesses are truthful, regardless of the fact that what they are talking about can’t be true from the dominant materialist worldview. And their dismissal does make them a kind of suppressed minority. I began to see that the outright dismissal of the testimony of reliable witnesses was because what they reported wasn’t consistent with the dominant worldview.

Q. How do you react to the weird varieties of aliens abductees describe?

A. The whole business of the demographics of alien beings is quite humorous in a way — blond ones, reptilian ones, insectlike ones, praying mantis-like ones and of course the grays. The whole thing in a way is comical. And then you get into what star system are they from. It’s almost like a cosmic joke. . . . When a culture become sterile and complacent and locked into a limited worldview, the trickster shows up and shakes up the whole system.

Q. So do you personally believe in this phenomenon?

A. It’s a no-brainer. It can’t be accounted for in purely interpsychic ways. Many people are having these experiences around the world, spontaneously. It has to come from somewhere, what William James called a “provocation from without.” I see it in the context of the global ecological crisis. The Earth is a source of creation and life, and out of ignorance, greed and aggression, we are destroying it. I see an awakening of consciousness about this, a spiritual reconnection with the sacred, with the divine.

Q. Has the personal and professional toll taken by delving into abductions been too high?

A. I don’t have regrets. Although there have been critics and attacks, I’ve met so many incredible people who are open to new knowledge. I’ve probably gained more colleagues and friends since I began this than I had in the period before — they are just different. I don’t resonate in the same way with a number of other people. Life is short, and one tends to gravitate to people one is in tune with. It’s been more of an expansion of my horizons and an opening to exciting connections and possibilities than it has been a suffering. What’s enabled me to feel on the whole pretty good is that people are starting to research other anomalies of other kinds. And there have been a lot of pioneers before me.

Q. Do you want to have an abduction experience?

A. I don’t think so. One reason is it is often scary, but I think I could handle that. Second, my reliability and role as a witness of the witnesses depends on my being clean on that score. I’ve seen examples in which investigators who had experiences or acknowledged their experiences really lost credibility as investigators. I feel myself to have a different role. I don’t even let myself think of that too much.

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29-04-2018 om 19:23 geschreven door peter  

Universe Is Too Big For Extraterrestrial Life To Get Here… Wrong!

In our daily mundane lives, we are oblivious to much of the Universes grand weirdnesses. Our neurology has evolved to react to and manipulate its environment. To survive. Our minds and our intellect are forever separate and silent witness to the Universe. Many of science’s grandest and profound discoveries go against all those billions of years of evolutionary programming.  On the surface, they do not make colloquial sense. Our sense which is a product of a long line of evolutionary winners, the ones that managed to survive to breeding age. Each and every one of us is the product of a very long unbroken line of winners.

The Universe has no obligation to make sense. The advanced science of the last century began to shed light on some of the more intriguing and profoundly bizarre physical characteristics of the Cosmos. It is one of these counter-intuitive bizarre physical characteristics that can if not destroy the old argument that the “Universe is too big for extraterrestrials to get here” it will put a huge kink in it.

We all have heard about light speed. It is an old staple in TV and Movies. The true implications of Special Relativity on what happens at light speed are not usually discussed with any actual substance on TV shows or documentaries. For some people, my explanation and supposition will be a new interpretation.

We must consider several aspects of Albert Einstein’s magnum opus “Special Relativity”.

Note: The following is an import part to understand to follow my suppositions later on.

One of the bizarre characteristics is what is called “Time Dilation”. A good example that some people have heard of is called the “Twin Paradox”. Embracing the twin paradox is an important first step as you dip your toe into the nonintuitive world of special relativity. If you dig a little deeper into the links given here (and show a little determination), hopefully, you’ll begin to be more comfortable that Einstein really was right.

One must be very careful. The “relativity” in the theory’s name comes from the absolute core premise of Einstein’s idea, which is that nothing is absolute. If you are standing on a train platform and a train whizzes by, you would say that a person on the train is moving. On the other hand, a person sitting on the train would say that he is stationary and that you are moving. Relativity says that both of you are right. Who is moving and who is stationary is just a matter of perspective, and the laws of physics must work equally well for both people.

But this raises a conundrum when applied to the question of moving clocks. How can moving clocks tick more slowly than stationary ones if the question of who is moving is a matter of opinion? If I can say you are moving and your clock is slow, and if you can say I am moving and my clock is slow, something is inconsistent.

This longstanding question about special relativity is called the twin paradox. Suppose one in a set of twins sets off in a spaceship, travels to a distant star and then returns. On both legs of the trip, he accelerates to high velocity and then coasts for most of the journey. According to the “moving clocks tick slower” premise, the twin who stays on Earth will have experienced one duration, while the traveling twin will have experienced another, slower duration. The spacefaring twin will return to Earth younger than his homebody brother.

“But wait,” says the traveling twin, “according to my definition, I was just sitting there on my stationary spaceship while the Earth zoomed away from me and then zoomed back. By all rights, Earth twin should be younger!”

The solution to this seeming paradox has to do with the idea of a reference frame, which is central to special relativity. “Reference frame” is just a fancy term that means “the world according to me,” putting each person at the center of his or her universe. All “inertial” observers — those who don’t experience any acceleration — will agree that the homebody never changed his reference frame. He just sat there. Similarly, all observers will agree that the traveler lived in two reference frames, one moving away from Earth and one returning. Any third observer coasting through space will see that the homebody’s velocity doesn’t change while the traveler’s velocity does.

The law of relativity takes the traveler’s two reference frames into account. Thus the so-called paradox isn’t really a paradox. While the question of who is moving is a matter of opinion, the question of who has experienced two reference frames is not.

This is not just unfounded claims, it has been proven way back in 1971. In 1971, American physicists Joseph Hafele and Richard Keating verified time dilation at low relative velocities by flying extremely accurate atomic clocks around the Earth on commercial aircraft. They measured elapsed time to an accuracy of a few nanoseconds and compared it with the time measured by clocks left behind. Hafele and Keating’s results were within experimental uncertainties of the predictions of relativity.

If in the “Twins Paradox” one twin zooms off in a rocket at 90% of the speed of light. Time on the spaceship would be running 44% as fast as his twins on Earth. If the spaceship kicked it into overdrive and traveled at 99.9% of light, the brother’s clock on the spaceship would be running at 4.5% as fast as the Earthbound one now. What this means is if the twin (from his reference frame) went on a trip for 5 years at 99.9% speed of light, he would age 5 years. But his brother would have aged 110 years on Earth.  This is a fact.

That is interesting but not my point. Using the laws that we know to be true. It is what happens when 100% light speed is achieved. Only one thing that I am aware of travels at light speed and that is a photon. If time slows down as we approach the speed of light the equations tell us that at the speed of light time stops. That means that if you were a photon time does not pass for it at all. That has some freaky consequences and is the crux of my assertion.

The instant that a photon is emitted anywhere in the Universe, typically they come out of atoms or get sent out by a star. The instant it gets emitted it gets absorbed at its destination. If you are the photon. For the rest of us, we observe it trundle through the Universe at light speed. But, for the photon time does not elapse. Hundreds of millions or billions of years of our time are zero time for the photon. From its unique point of view, the Universe goes by in an instant. From the point of view of the photon distance as we know it does not matter. It can traverse a googolplex squared in zero time. It can be everywhere, from its reference frame. For the rest of us, we bask in the time it takes to get to its destination. If time is the fire in which we burn, we burn incredibly slow. With this built-in infinite transit ability in our Universe, is it so unfathomable that someone somewhere in the vast regions of darkness has figured out how to utilize it and become truly pan-universal? The power of infinity is a strong pull.

Think about that for awhile…

Now hypothesize about a highly advanced alien civilization that has solved the light speed barrier and can traverse space at the speed of light. They have mastered an ocean of unimaginable technology. Not the least of which is Mass cancellation.

What they would have to have figured out is how to cancel Mass. We do not have any clue at all at this time in our scientific pursuits how to do that. But who knows if an intelligence that is a million or a billion of years advanced has not figured this stumbling block out.  If they can make their ships or crafts massless they could be everywhere and I mean everywhere at will at any time. Shades of Douglas Adams “Infinite Improbability Drive”. It is only us primitives that think distance is an issue, a showstopper for alien visitations.  But that is not the case.

This alien race could act like the photon. Instantaneous Universal transport. Zero time for them to cross from one side of the Universe to the other.  As soon as they turn on the light drive they are already at their destination. This, of course, would require some amazingly high and unfathomable abilities in which we have no human analog. The reason that mass is an important factor in this hypothesis is that it is integral to the properties of light speed. Nothing with mass can travel at the speed of light.

No need for such human contrived nonsense such as warp drive. No need for such things if they could cancel the physical property of Mass (there are other issues as well to consider which are beyond this article). As soon as the turn on the light drive they are already at their destination no matter where it is in the Universe. This, of course, would require some amazingly high and unfathomable abilities in which we have not discovered so far.

The aliens that were left at home would age as we do but their emissaries on the craft are timeless. For a civilization such as this, I would hypothesize that they bring their entire culture with them on civilization ships. Otherwise, the forces of relativity would disjoint the two factions of the civilization severely.  Makes sense to bring them all with you to keep the temporal differential to an absolute minimum.

It must be noted that us primitive humans have already begun the quest towards Mass cancellation.  It is startling to ponder that we newcomers to the pantheon of galactic intelligence’s have already had an inkling, a beginning success,  a baby step, a beachhead in our sciences. Our cutting-edge scientific frontiers have identified and have been able to quantitatively gather information on what is referred to as the “Higgs Boson”. This tiny elusive subatomic particle is believed to a high degree of certainty to be the harbinger of all Mass in the Universe. It and its corresponding “Higgs Field” is the reason and method the Universe uses to create the phenomena of Mass. We can see it using billions of dollars of technology in infinitesimally small slices of time. We are nowhere anywhere near being hands-on with it at all. But if we hairy primates even can fathom it, it must not be that difficult in the grand scheme of things.

I get tired of the same old rhetoric that spouts such unfounded certainty in UFOlogy. We must open our minds to unconventional thoughts. No one knows what is possible in the Universe. Our knowledge is woefully incomplete. I do not know of course if any of this supposition is true or not. We must have this type of intelligent dialogue or UFOlogy will fall stagnant and be taken over by the UFO lunatic fringe. I wish that part of the human condition that is in each and every one of us contained the drive towards logical truths. It has manifested in many, many of us but not nearly enough. The real and verifiable Universe is more fascinating, wondrous, and awe-inspiring than we can handle. No need to play make believe with UFOlogy.

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.”

~ Albert Einstein (The World As I See It, 1930)

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29-04-2018 om 18:22 geschreven door peter  

'Humans are ALIEN hybrids' Shock claim ancient astronauts 'engineered mankind'

HUMANS were genetically engineered by advanced aliens, according to a wild theory in a new book.

By Paul Harper 

She added: "According to a NASA study the resulting liquid glass (containing around 80% silica from melted quartz crystal) formed spheres in space which then instantly froze and began to fall into our atmosphere.

"As they entered they heated and melted to form unique button shapes before landing right across Australasia.

"These Australite tektite buttons are unique in the 4.5 billion year history of our planet and remain a total mystery to science because they can’t understand how they formed."

The Hybrid Human theory also believes the alien astronauts arrived from the Pleiades star cluster, thought to contain several thousand stars.

It is among the nearest star cluster to Earth and the one which is most visible to the naked eye.

It is believed one planet could exist around the star HD 23514 due to the exceptional number of hot dust particles surrounding it.

Mrs Fenton points to how Pleiades has been referenced repeatedly by various cultures.

She said: "All around the world ancient cultures talk about ancestral beings from the Pleiades and portals that connect those stars with this planet, this includes mythology in Japan, Indonesia, Mexico, American Indians, ancient Egypt, Sumeria and Aboriginal Australia."

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29-04-2018 om 18:08 geschreven door peter  

Can Hyper Dimensional Alien Life Forms Exist In Our 3rd Dimensional Reality

There are many stories in UFOlogy that reference aliens that originate in the higher dimensions. Some believers have mentioned 4th-dimensional beings all the way up to 11th dimensional. It is the intention of this article to show how 11th or any advanced dimensional creatures can not exist in our 3-dimensional world. Or at least not have their fractional representation represent anything that resembles life.

In UFOlogy the vast number of people believe in what is known as “the nuts and bolts” hypothesis of ufos. UFO’s are real solid crafts from some distant star system. Technology analogous but completely different than our own. Advanced intelligence’s using science in ways we do not understand…yet. Advanced spacecraft just not from planet Earth.

There is another faction of UFOlogists that think our visitors are from higher dimensions in our Universe. It extends to the idea that they could even be from parallel Universes. The granddaddy of this line of reasoning is the brilliant scientist Dr. Jacques Vallée. His books are required reading for anybody interested into the serious investigation into the UFO enigma.

Many UFO experiencers describe experiences that are labeled “high strangeness”. “high strangeness” refers to a global phenomenon so strange and foreign to our daily terrestrial mode of thought, which it carries with it many implications of the existence of intelligence’s other than our own. It describes UFO cases that are not only peculiar but that can often be utterly absurd. In some cases, there are events before, during, and after the “sighting proper” imbued with elements of time and space distortion, bizarre synchronicity’s, strange states of consciousness, beings that act absurd, strange “creatures” associated with the sighting, but not necessarily part of the sighting, anomalous phone calls, electronic glitches, Immensely powerful Déjà vu episodes, and paranormal events including poltergeist-type activity.

The high strangeness aspect of many UFO experiencer’s experiences is hard to attribute to the “Nuts and Bolts” hypothesis.

What most people do not consider is that something or someone that exists nativity in say the 11th dimension also exists in all the lower dimensions below it. Some form of fractional representation will exist or display in the lower dimensions. So an 11th-dimensional alien will have some form of fractional representation in the 10th, 9th, 8th,7th,6th,5th,4th, 3rd (ours), 2nd, and single dimensional geometry.

If you are imagining additional spatial dimensions, it makes sense to understand those primarily as mathematical attributes that are necessary to make the math of the world work out. It’s not really that special. It’s just math, as far as our experience is concerned. It’s not even math that can give us special powers since the effects of these other dimensions are likely to be very, very small.

If you take a two-dimensional plane, and pass a three-dimensional sphere through it, the appearance on that plane would be a circle. Similarly, if you would take a single line, and try to pass a sphere through it, the image would be at most two points, though at the ends, potentially one point. The point of all this is that a higher dimensional object when it passes through a lower dimensional object presents the portions of the object according to the dimensions of the lower dimensional object.

In the picture below a human falls through the 2nd dimension. All the human would appear like is a series of expanding and contracting circlesoblongsellipsesetc. Hardly a representation of a person we are familiar with. This humans fractional representation is just variations of circles.

Let’s say that one of the extra dimensions, or maybe all of them, confer an ability to travel through time. To us, they would appear to be here with us when they were elsewhere. We couldn’t perceive them moving forward or backward in time. Some of the higher dimensions may not be spatial ones. You can think of a dimension as an axis of freedom. There are undoubtedly axes of freedom that is unknown and unfathomable to us.

I have worked out and conceptualized the 4th dimension. I’m talking about four macroscopic dimensions. Obviously, it’s impossible to be sure. But given what we know and guess about the conditions propitious for life, we could speculate. Here are a few ideas of why it might not be possible:

Stable orbits.

The question puts no restrictions on how physics could operate in the 4D universe. So in many ways, it could be anything. However, in order to have life as we understand it, one necessity is time; that is, physics which has some conservation laws and time symmetries so that the statistical laws of thermodynamics can be applied. In such a universe, life is happiest standing next to a fire; for instance, there’s us, with a burning sun on one side, and a cold vacuum of space on the other. The reason we can stay here is that the gravitational field of a point mass spreads in three-dimensional space with a flux proportional to the surface area of a sphere; that is, gravity is proportional to 1/r². That happens to allow for stable orbits, as the 4D equivalent, 1/r³, would not.

Surface to volume

At the simplest level, a surface to volume ratio always grows linearly with r, no matter what the number of dimensions. But as soon as that surface has some thickness, that is no longer true. In enough dimensions, the volume of an arbitrarily thin eggshell will be arbitrarily larger than the volume inside the egg. There’s no particular reason to believe this would be an insurmountable problem for 4D life, just one dimension up from us, but it would be a drag. Even here in 3D, our skin is already our largest organ.

Losing your car keys

It would also be really annoying in 4D space to leave something somewhere, then have to search for it later. Even if you were on the “surface” of a “hyperplanet”, you’d have to search in at least 3 dimensions; and 3D random walks, unlike 2D ones, are not recurrent. On the other hand, this same phenomenon would help when you wanted to throw out the garbage or move away from your parents. It’s hard to say for sure if on balance this would be a good thing or a bad thing for life or for intelligent life, but I suspect it would be bad.

In a universe with four spatial dimensions, life would be impossible on Earth—indeed, the Earth would not exist. In a universe with four spatial dimensions, atoms could not form: the orbits of the electrons around the nucleus of any atom would be unstable.

These extrapolations of the 4th dimension are sort of a randomizing factor. There may be many other randomizing factors in the higher dimensions but as before that is beyond my primate brain. The filtration through the 4th dimension will filter out anything that will be recognizable to us as anything particular. This does not necessarily mean that a higher dimensional creature has no controllable influence here in our limited 3 spatial dimensions. This is what I hypothesize is the cause of the “high strangeness” mentioned at the start of the article.

Since M-Theory became well known the UFO accounts now contain accounts of 11th-dimensional aliens. The other higher dimensions simply would not be apparent to us, unless they chose to present the results of their multidimensional behavior in a form we can perceive.

It is my hypothesis that “Any sufficiently advanced hyper dimensional creature will appear in our 3D world as background noise, unidentifiable, and indistinguishable from nature”. They would influence you in the form of your reality. Which your mind and all your collective past experiences have experienced, filtered through intellect and level of intelligence. All that in totality makes you. Your perceptions would be influenced (or modified) in the most ephemeral and conscious way. Your experience of these entities would be different for everyone as everyone has had a different experiential past and different neurology. The proof would be in the experience as no evidence as us primitive monkeys would expect would be possible. Perception and awareness are what it is all about.

If the reported “high strangeness” that is reported by so many UFO experiencers is caused by higher dimensional creatures. It can be surmised that they do not completely understand our perceptions completely. They do not understand how cause and effect work in our 3D worldview. They may have totally benevolent intentions in their manipulation but it turns out to be highly freaky and startling to us. Communication filtered through the mostly unknown higher dimension realities could account for what we call “high strangeness”.

Keep an open mind and consider that the Universe is stranger than we imagine, and is stranger than we can imagine.

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29-04-2018 om 12:50 geschreven door peter  

A MASSIVE HEAT SOURCE WAS JUST DISCOVERED UNDER ANTARCTICA, DRIVING ICE MELT AND VOLCANISM

Recent discoveries have revealed just how volcanic Antarctica really is, despite being hidden underneath massive ice sheets. However, up until now, there remained significant debate as to what is causing the unusual amount of volcanic activity under an area covered in ice.

Recent research found the source of magma that is fueling the volcanoes underneath Antarctica. The source, a massive upwelling of mantle magma, also known as a hotspot. This is a similar mechanism that produced the Hawaiian Islands and fuels volcanic and geothermal activity in Yellowstone.

There were two key reasons this discovery was difficult to come by, despite significant research.

• The first is the difficulty of measuring anything underneath kilometers of ice. Typically geoscientists gain a better understanding of the Earth’s inner workings by sending sound waves into the ground and measuring the time and angle at which they return to the surface. Using complex mathematical algorithms, geophysicists are able to reconstruct a three-dimensional picture of the subsurface. However, this was difficult to do when any acoustic signal has to travel through kilometers of chaotic ice, causing significant noise in the subsurface “picture” beneath Antarctica.
• The second is the counterintuitive nature of having a massive heat source underneath an area that is covered with kilometers of ice. With an average ice sheet thickness of 2.16 km and a maximum thickness of around 4.7 km, it’s hard to believe there is a massive heat source similar to the one in Yellowstone sitting beneath the ice. How has the heat source not prevented ice build up?

To tackle these questions the research team used a numerical model to help constrain the heat required to produce the melting we currently measure in Antarctica. While direct measurements underneath Antarctica are difficult and few, there are numerous measurements of meltwater outflow. This allowed the research team to constrain their model.

Depiction of the water pathways under the Antarctic ice sheet. Blue dots are lakes, whereas lines show rivers. Marie Byrd Land, the source of the mantle plume, is located near the Antarctic Peninsula.

It is well known that there are rivers and lakes beneath Antarctica that drain meltwater to the ocean. Some lakes are as large as Lake Erie and can rapidly drain into the ocean, causing a sudden sinking of the overlying ice.

The numerical model, using constrained melt rates, were able to predict heat sources underneath Antarctica. The team found that the heat coming from beneath Antarctica is constrained to 150 milliwatts per square meter, with a higher heat rate causing too much melting as compared to what is measured. To compare that with other areas, the average heat flux from the Earth is 40-60 milliwatts per square meter and it reaches an average of 200 milliwatts beneath Yellowstone National Park.

Interestingly, the team found one location where the heat flow required jumped to 150-180 milliwatts underneath Antarctica. This area is the presumed source of the massive mantle upwelling and heat source. The Marie Byrd Land mantle plume appears to be the primary driver of volcanic activity in Antarctica. Geologists believe the mantle plume formed 50 to 110 million years ago when Antarctica was not covered in ice. Since then, the mantle plume has continually worked to heat up Antarctica, continually working to melt the overlying ice.

 

Source www.forbes.com

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29-04-2018 om 12:32 geschreven door peter