Playing God: Scientists Create Artificial Embryo And Successfully Insert It Into The Uterus

Genetic editing is like playing God.

A team of scientists from the University of Maastricht has developed an embryo using stem cells different from sperm and ovules and has managed to successfully transfer it to the uterus of mice. Researchers detail their study in a paper published in the journal Nature.

The researchers have managed to successfully go through the entire process for the first time ever, and hope that this work will help understand how the placenta is formed and how the embryo is implanted in the lining of the uterus.

When they are transferred in utero, the cell spheres, obtained from two types of rodent stem cell, activate adaptation mechanisms similar to those observed during implantation in the uterine wall.

While these early embryonic structures did not evolve to the state of mature embryos, they served as a model to study the development of the embryo at its inception, a stage still little understood in science.

A few days after fertilization, the mammalian ovule normally develops in a blastocyst, which corresponds to the embryo in the early stages of its development.

Artificial embryos grown in the laboratory.

It becomes a spherical structure composed of a layer of outer cells (the future placenta) that surrounds a cavity filled with fluid that contains a mass of embryonic cells.

The failure of the development of the embryo would be due to the absence of a third type of cell “that has an essential role in the structuring the embryo and is poorly produced by embryonic stem cells,” says Professor Robin Lovell-Badge.

Obtaining comparable results with human cells remains a great challenge for researchers who would like to create human embryos in this way.

However, this raises a number of ethical questions, raising doubts whether we, as a society, should venture out into the unknown.

It is also noteworthy to mention that mice and humans are very different, and this raises a number of questions like; Would a human uterus respond in the same way to these blastoids?

That’s an answer scientists are still looking for. Despite this, the discoveries it yields could potentially lead to great medical improvements.

Cloning Human Beings

Professor Nicholas Rivron of the University of Maastricht, leader of the research group, thinks that a developed embryo could be created in just three more years, however, a human embryo will take decades of tests.

“For the first time, we can study these phenomena in great detail and run drug screens to find medicines that could prevent infertility, find better contraceptives, or limit the appearance of epigenetic marks that appear in the blastocyst and lead to diseases during adult life,” Rivron told Research Gate.

“Embryos are very precious, but it is impossible to use them to detect drugs that could help with fertility without enough of them. With artificial blastocysts we can expand the numbers and eventually come to understand why some embryos are not implanted, “explains Rivron.

“I do not believe in the use of blastocysts for human reproduction. It would be to clone someone who is already alive. It is ethically very questionable, ” added Professor Rivron speaking to Mail Online.

Professor Robin Lovell-Badge of the Francis Crick Institute in London said that while development can be considered a breakthrough in science, it is a relief that cannot yet be used to create, for example, a batch of genetically identical humans. “It would even be illegal – at least in the United Kingdom – to implant embryos in a woman,” he concluded.

References: Research Gate, Nature

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07-05-2018 om 22:37 geschreven door peter  

Scientists Find Evidence Our Moon Has Water Below Its Surface

Another unprecedented discovery has been made by scientists. According to a new study published in science advanced, experts say that in the past liquid water existed on the surface of the moon, and it exists now beneath the surface.

And while scientists didn’t go to the moon to make the discovery, they turned to a lunar meteorite that was discovered in Africa some 13 years ago.

As it turns out, this lunar meteorite contains a mineral that can ONLY form in the presence of water, meaning that there’s probably abundant water beneath the surface of the moon.

The study published in Science Advances explains how researchers uncovered traces of moganite in the lunar meteorite.

Image Credit: Shutterstock

The discovery was made by a team of Japanese scientists led by Masahiro Kayama from the Department of Earth and Planetary Materials Science at Tohoku University.

“For the first time, we can prove that there is water ice in the lunar material,” said Kayama in an interview with Space.com.

“In a moganite, there is less water, because of moganite forms from the evaporation of water. That’s the case on the surface of the moon. But in the subsurface, much water remains as ice, because it’s protected from the sunlight.”

As they have explained, moganite forms in the presence of water, which indicates there could be abundant reservoirs of water on the moon’s surface.

Itz is noteworthy to mention that the lunar meteorite, dubbed NWA2727 is the only lunar meteorite in which moganite was found by the researchers.

As for the water on the moon, astronomers argue that it may have been ‘transported0 to the moon through asteroids and comets through billions of years of impacts.

Experts note that during this period, liquid water most likely existed on the lunar surface. Eventually, it became trapped after being soaked into the surface of the moon where it cooled down. Then, another asteroid or comet impacted the moon, sending water-soaked rocks into space, and Earth.

Scientists say that the moganite did not originate on Earth because of terrestrial weathering.

Furthermore, the meteorite was discovered in Africa, in a desert which lacks water.

Now, in order to understand exactly how much water there is beneath the lunar surface, future moon missions need to be launched.

In an interview with Gizmodo, lunar geologist Noah Petro says that lunar rock samples brought back to Earth by the Apollo missions should be studied using new techniques to look for the presence of moganite.

Petro says that the discovery of moganite on the lunar meteorite shows that scientists still have a limited understanding about the surface of the moon.

In the past, lunar missions found evidence of water on the moon.

The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite detected water in a shadowed crater near the moon’s south pole.

And India’s probe Chandrayaan-1 found evidence of water in the moon’s thin atmosphere.

However, Kayama argues that there’s still no evidence of water in the subsurface at mid and lower latitudes.

“Many people think that remote-sensing spacecraft only found the evidence of water around the poles simply because we can’t see under the surface below a few millimeters,” Kayama said. “This is the first insight into the water in the subsurface zone.”

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07-05-2018 om 22:20 geschreven door peter  

The Shigir Idol Was Crafted By Survivors Of Last Ice Age, And Is Twice As Old As The Pyramids

The results of a recent study performed on the Shigir Idol—considered the OLDEST monumental art in history—and published in the scientific journal Antiquity has determined that this incredible ancient statue was carved around 11,600 years ago, by the survivors of the last Ice Age.

This makes this enigmatic idol twice as old as Egypt’s pyramids — and 6000 years older than Stonehenge.

When it was crafted, nearly twelve thousand years ago, the enigmatic Shigir Idol is believed to have stood 16 feet tall and was covered in countless ancient symbols.

Many experts around the world refer to it as the oldest piece on monumental art, and it was crafted by a mysterious people who survived the last ice age, some 12,000 years ago.

The idol was crafted from a single trunk of Larchwood and was carved into a smooth plank. Covered with intricately engraved patterns, the Shigir idol was topped with a stylized, human-like head.

The statue may have been crafted by the survivors of the last Ice Age, some 11,600 years ago.

Image Credit: Antiquity.

The enigmatic idol was discovered in Russia in 1894 in Russia and survived a number of natural disasters including several fires.

It’s actually a miracle it was found.

Experts referred to the idol as the oldest evidence of monumental art, but experts weren’t one hundred percent sure as to exactly how old it was.

According to scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences and the University of Göttingen, a new analysis calculated that the idol is around 11,600 years ago.

What does this mean? Well, the last Ice Age ended some 11,700 years ago, which means that it was most likely crafted by people who survived the last ice age.

“Recent application of new analytical techniques has led to the discovery of new imagery on its surface and has pushed the date of the piece back to the earliest Holocene. The results of these recent analyses are placed here in the context of local and extra-local traditions of comparable prehistoric art. This discussion highlights the unique nature of the find and its significance for appreciating the complex symbolic world of Early Holocene hunter-gatherers.”

“We have to conclude hunter-gatherers had complex ritual and expression of ideas. Ritual doesn’t start with farming, but with hunter-gatherers,” Thomas Terberger said, via Science magazine, an archaeologist at the University of Göttingen in Germany and a co-author of the study.

It was reported initially that the first radiocarbon tests of the Shigir Idol revealed it was around 9,800 years old. This age caused quite a debate in the scientific community because experts refused to acknowledge that ‘hunter-gatherers’ at that time were able to create such a complex piece of art.

But the more experts dig into the matter, to more mysterious and fascinating it gets.

“The further you go inside, the older [the date] becomes—it’s very indicative some sort of preservative or glue was used” Olaf Jöris, an archaeologist at the Monrepos Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution—who wasn’t involved with the study—told Science magazine.

The statue is evidence that “Early Holocene hunter-gatherers clearly inhabited a symbolic world with richer and more complex forms of artistic expression than was previously believed,” the study’s authors wrote.

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07-05-2018 om 22:09 geschreven door peter  

18 Mysterious Satellite Images Spark Debate About Alien Symbols And Bases In Chinese Desert

They say the truth is out there.

The surface of our planet is plagued by mysterious ancient structures which date back thousands—and some even tens of thousands—of years back.

They are proof of incredibly complex ancient societies that build and erected fascinating structures without the use of modern technology.

The Nazca lines in Peru, for example, are a set of hundreds of mysterious symbols and animal figures, carved on the dry floor of the Nazca desert. No one knows for sure that they mean.

Halfway around the world, we find similar markings in Kazakhstan.

And while these ancient marvels were created thousands of years ago, satellite images have revealed modern counterparts located around the world.

This time we take a look at a remote desert in China, and wonder what on Earth do these mysterious structures and marks represent?

Some UFO experts and UFOhunters claim the mysterious marks are in fact traces of secret alien bases and secret alien symbols on Earth.

Recently, people took on Reddit to discuss 18 peculiar satellite images obtained from Google Maps.

People rushed to the topic asking what on Earth the mysterious alien-looking marks represent in the middle of China.

The images kick-started a hot debate, and several users wondered whether the Chinese Government, together with other world powers could be communicating with extraterrestrial entities, or even making use of technology not from Earth.

The topic on Reddit accumulated a wealth of comments:

“There’s no doubt governments are aware of this if it’s that easy to find…but damn if that’s not interesting as hell.”

“Whatever is happening behind the scenes it’s mostly just the masses that are being kept in the dark, the major governments and key players (especially in high military circles and intelligence agencies – possibly also some political players) all know what’s up.”

“Nowadays I’m kinda’ doubting that we ever made ET contact. IMO they just made some crazy discovery in quantum mechanics post WWII and kept it covered up. Or maybe the Nazis knew how to make UFO’s, then made them for us when we got their scientists.”

“I’d say if extraterrestrial contact has been made or their tech has been salvaged and reverse engineered, it’s likely that at least all major players (US, Russia, China, possibly Germany, France, UK…) and likely various minor players, have access to that tech and have had ET contact.”

And most commentators agreed on Reddit that there’s something going on behind the scenes. Something that society isn’t aware of. Something that is not only present in China but other parts of the world.

Another user wrote on Reddit: “I’d say if extraterrestrial contact has been made or their tech has been salvaged and reverse engineered, it’s likely that at least all major players (US, Russia, China, possibly Germany, France, UK…..) and likely various minor players, have access to that tech and have had ET contact. Whatever is happening behind the scenes it’s mostly just the masses that are being kept in the dark, the major governments and key players (especially in high military circles and intelligence agencies – possibly also some political players) all know what’s up.”

Check out the images:

So, what’s your pick?

Are these mysterious symbols some sort of alien code? Are the satellite images evidence of secret bases?

Secret Alien bases perhaps?

Or are we looking at just another military installation, constructed in a remote area to hide from curious eyes?

Some users on Reddit argue that the curious ‘alien’ mars are nothing more than markings for calibration and testing of spy satellites.

Seems like a plausible explanation, what do you think?

Source: 

• Reddit / These are pictures from the Chinese Desert, can someone please tell me wtf is going on here?

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07-05-2018 om 20:50 geschreven door peter  

Proof of Aliens? Viral video shows Triangular UFO travelling through lightning bolt

Rohit Raj Mishra

In an astonishing find, conspiracy theorists have come up with another UFO sighting where alien hunters have spotted mysterious triangular-shaped spacecraft travelling through the bolt of lightning. The alleged alien spacecraft is following the path of lighting with ease. Conspiracy theorists say that it cannot be human spacecraft as the object travelled through lightning and only extraterrestrial life source could have made such spacecraft.

Youtuber ‘Secoreteam10’ that constantly posts about alien findings and UFO sightings has also uploaded a video of the mysterious sighting where one can clearly see that a triangular shaped object is flying through the lightning. The Youtuber claims that either the alien spacecraft was using the light as its path or it came near lightning bolt to harvest the energy using the advanced techniques. Conspiracy theorists believe that the alien creatures are very advanced when compared to humans and have also decoded how to access massive energy stored in the lightning bolt.

Soon after uploading the video, it went viral on the social media and received thousands of likes and shares. The video received over 225,000 views on Youtube in less than 24 hours. In the video, the uploader has paused the video and zoomed the image to make it easy for viewers to see the mysterious object. He has also enhanced the image to increase the visibility of the UFO.

Search for alien life has gained pace in recent times and space agencies are working hard to find the proof of extraterrestrial life. Meanwhile, a team of scientists from the Plymouth University believes that we should take help of artificial intelligence to find the alien life. According to researchers, artificial intelligence has witnessed rapid developments and it can help us in predicting the probability of life on other planets.

For the study, scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks (ANNs) to classify planets into five types, based on the likelihood of supporting extraterrestrial life. Based on these groups, scientists will further conduct interstellar missions to find the alien life.

Lead study author Mr Christopher Bishop explains that planets in all the five groups have an atmosphere and possibility of life. Some planets are very similar to present day earth and are present in Goldilocks zone while some are more like Mars and Venus.

Mr Bishop comments, “We’re currently interested in these ANNs for prioritising exploration for a hypothetical, intelligent, interstellar spacecraft scanning an exoplanet system at range.”

He adds, “We’re also looking at the use of large area, deployable, planar Fresnel antennas to get data back to Earth from an interstellar probe at large distances. This would be needed if the technology is used in robotic spacecraft in the future.”

In addition, Extraterrestrial beings might soon make them known on Earth, according to an author and a conspiracy theorist named Graham Hancock. In fact, in an exclusive interview with a conspiracy theorist Graham Hancock, he has clearly mentioned that sightings have increased at a dramatic rate. He compared Earth with a large planet-sized lab for the aliens who might not be hostile. Aliens are believed to have advanced technology to travel massive distances and sophisticated technology and gadgets that are so advanced, they could wipe out the humanity in a blink of an eye.

Graham also hinted towards a possible treaty signed between world leaders on Earth and the extraterrestrial beings as per which, the aliens will make them known to the humanity in next fifteen years when the treaty ends. He believes that since we are still alive, there are chances that the aliens around us are peacefully and just want to connect with humans to offer their piece of technology rather than destroying the humans which is a strongly believed notion.

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07-05-2018 om 20:16 geschreven door peter  

700,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Point To A Mystery Human Ancestor In The Philippines

A mysterious human ancestor existed in the Philippines some 700,000 years ago, and used relatively advanced tools to butcher rhinos, experts have found.

The discovery of a new set of tools and other pieces of evidence has revealed that ancient human relatives lived in parts of South East Asia hundreds of thousands of years earlier than experts believed possible.

Researchers uncovered traces of more than 50 stone tools and a nearly complete rhino skeleton bearing clear marks of having been butchered in the distant past.

According to experts, the rhinoceros skeleton dates back 709,000 years.

The butchered rhino.

Image Credit: University of Wollongong,

The discovery comes as a surprise as previously, the earliest evidence of human habitation in the region—to the north of Luzon Island—had been a small foot bone found in a cave, dating back around 70,000 years.

Finding evidence of human occupation 700,000 years ago is a history-changer.

The tools discovered by experts consist of 49 sharp-edged stone flakes, six cores, and two pieces which are believed to be hammer stones.

Furthermore, scientists also discovered a number of skeletons at the site, including that of a Stegodon, brown deer, freshwater turtle, and monitor lizard.

However, the rhino skeleton was the most interesting.

Experts say that many of the rhino’s bones had clear traces of cuts consistent with butchering, and various bones had marks as if they were hit with a hammerstone.

This is very interesting.

However, even or fascinating is the fact that experts say that humans didn’t make the tools—and no, they weren’t made by aliens either.

According to experts, the oldest evidence of Homo sapiens is from about 300,000 years ago.

Part of the stone tools discovered by experts in the Philippines.

So if it wasn’t humans, who created the tools?

Scientists say that a close human ancestor crafted the tools, and the fact that they existed in the Philippines some 700,000 years ago means that we need to reconsider how and when humans and other hominins spread through the vast territories of South East Asia.

As noted by archaeologists Gerrit van den Bergh from the University of Wollongong in Australia, these mysterious hominins most likely spread across the area in a number of different migratory waves throughout various millennia.

Van den Bergh also believes that these mystery humans most likely traveled from north to south, from China and Taiwan, and not from West to East, from Borneo or Palawan through Indonesia, using ocean currents and settling as they went.

The rhino’s bones (pictured) have cut marks showing evidence the animal was butchered in the distant past.

Image Credit: Thomas Ingicco, Mission Marche aux Philippines.

Interestingly, van den Bergh believes that this curious migration may have taken human ancestors on the Indonesian Island of Flores, giving rise to the mysterious Homo floresiensis species, akathe “Hobbit,” because of their relatively small stature.

Previously experts have found traces of ancient humans dating back 700,000 years on the Indonesian island of Java. Furthermore, Homo floresiensis ancestors have been found on Flores from around the same time.

Previous theories proposed by experts suggested that early hominids did not have the ability to craft boats, meaning that they could not have traveled by water in order to reach Luzon and the other islands separated from the mainland by deep oceans.

However, discoveries are changing what we thought about early humans and their capabilities.

“If you look at the fossil and recent faunas you see that there is an impoverishment as you go from north to south. On Luzon, you find fossils of stegodons, elephants, giant rats, rhino, deer, large reptiles and a type of water buffalo.

“On Sulawesi, the fossil fauna is already impoverished; there’s no evidence of rhinos or deer ever entering there. Then on Flores, you only had stegodons, Komodo dragons, humans and giant rats, that’s all,” van den Bergh said.

“If animals did reach these islands by chance, by entering the sea and following the currents south, then you would expect the further south you go the fewer species you would find – and that’s what we see.”

Who exactly these hominins were, remains a profound mystery, and we will probably never know unless we discover remains of the species in order to study them.

Some experts hint, they may have been the mysterious Denisovans.

“There’s a lot of focus again in the islands of South East Asia because they are places where you find natural experiments in hominin evolution. That’s what makes Flores unique, and now Luzon is another place we can start looking for fossil evidence,” van den Bergh said.

[Nature]

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07-05-2018 om 16:18 geschreven door peter  

07-05-2018 om 10:07 geschreven door peter  

Dan toch geen verborgen kamers in het graf van Toetanchamon - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

“Onderzoek met scanners en detectoren binnenin het graf hebben aangetoond dat er geen kamers of sporen van deurkaders of drempels aanwezig zijn”, zei Mostafa Waziri in een communiqué van het ministerie van Oudheden. De nieuwe bevindingen spreken de theorie tegen over het bestaan van gangen of kamers naast of in het graf van Toetanchamon, klinkt het. 

De Britse egyptoloog Nicholas Reeves had eerder gezegd dat een gedetailleerd onderzoek van foto’s en scans van de noordelijke grafmuur suggereerde dat er een verborgen opening was die naar een andere kamer leidde. Reeves vermoedde dat in de verborgen kamer het graf van Nefertiti, de vrouw van Toetanchamons vader farao Achnaton, zou bevatten.

Uniek graf

Toetanchamon was een van de laatste farao’s van de 18^e dynastie van Oud Egypte. Hij stierf op 19-jarige leeftijd onder mysterieuze omstandigheden. Zijn graf, dat in 1922 werd ontdekt, was omwille van zijn rijkelijke inhoud een unieke vondst onder de faraonische graven in de Vallei van de Koningen in Luxor. In tegenstelling tot andere graven was het niet systematisch geplunderd in vroegere tijden.

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07-05-2018 om 09:58 geschreven door peter  

Sometimes you questioning yourself why technology has made such a big leap in the past 20 years, like computers, smartphones, world wide web, wireless communication and other similar technologies, well this document may provides the answer to that question.

Image: Alien Artifact with Alien Symbols.

People always ask when the American government will make an official statement about the existence of extraterrestrial life and UFOs but in fact disclosure has already happened.

Every day you are using and working with alien technology only you do not recognize it as alien technology and certainly the younger people who are growing up with these technologies experience it as ‘Normal’.

Image: Alien Artifact with Alien Symbols.

An interesting declassified document ‘Commercial applications research for Extraterrestrial Technology from Palo Alto, CA Research Facility’ which you can get on CIA website from a FOIA request (Filthstep Productions International, Apr 8, 2018) shows extremely detailed images of alien artifacts, anti-gravity generators, self-running, self-executed computer programs.

Below is a summary from the document:

Some key subjects, all of which were based on artifacts of extraterrestrial origin obtained from crash site recovery operations conducted during the last two decades are:

Personal antigravity generator (so-named for its small, portable size).

Three-dimensional image recorder/projector.

Complex systems of alien symbols and geometric constructs capable of both defining the functionality of certain artifacts as well as manipulating their behavior crudely analogous to a computer programming language, but without the need for a compilation or interpretation phase. 

They aim to translate personal antigravity into a product-oriented EP capable of direct application within the consumer market, but they want to start with downgraded versions of the original technology to soften the impact on integration.

This document not only is a confirmation that UFOs have been crashed on Earth, they have collected much material and information from the crashed UFOs; which they have translated into new secret projects as well as they have put some of these technologies in the consumer market, but as the document reads, they bring it slowly and phase by phase.

Link to the declassified document:

• http://www.theobjectreport.com/media/caret.pdf

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07-05-2018 om 09:27 geschreven door peter  

High Speed UFO emerging from the sea during Thunderstorm

On May 5, 2018 the witness filmed a thunderstorm/lightning over Saulkrasti, Latvia with his Sony rx100V HFR 500fps when he captured a black object that suddenly emerged from the sea (Golf of Liga) flying upwards at high speed until it disappears in the clouds.

The Golf of Liga is connected to the Baltic Sea known for its multiple UFO sightings as well as the Baltic Sea Anomaly.

  

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07-05-2018 om 09:20 geschreven door peter  

NADEREND MINI-ZONNESTELSEL DOET AARDKORST VAN BINNENUIT BARSTEN ( VIDEO )

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07-05-2018 om 01:26 geschreven door peter  

This Week's Top Space Stories!

Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Photo Credit: Ben Smegelsky/NASA

Photo Credit: Starry Night software

Photo Credit: Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Defence

Photo Credit: NASA

Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images

5. Moon once had melted insides.

Long ago, the moon may have been home to a subsurface magma flow. In a new study, two researchers suggest that a gooey interior between the moon's crust and its core could have triggered the ancient moon's lunar magnetic field.

[Full Story: Gooey, Magma Ocean May Have Once Roiled Inside the Moon]

[See also: Mineral Found in Lunar Meteorite Hints at Hidden Moon Water]

Photo Credit: NASA

6. Galileo sees Ganymede glow.

Jupiter is home to the largest moon in the entire solar system, Ganymede. Jupiter gives off radiation, and scientists recently used data from the Galileo spacecraft to do a fresh take of how plasma moves between the moon and the gas giant, a phenomenon which causes bright auroras at Ganymede's polar caps. Scientists also want to use this data to learn more about the existence of subsurface oceans on Ganymede.

[Full Story: Decades-Old Data Shows Auroras on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede in a New Light]

Photo Credit: Blue Origin

7. New Shepard's first 2018 flight.

Private spaceflight company Blue Origin recently launched its New Shepard 2.0 passenger vehicle on a test flight over the skies of West Texas. The April 29 launch marked the second successful flight of the company's New Shepard program, and this trip carried a dummy and a few NASA science experiments onboard.

[Full Story: Blue Origin Launches New Shepard Space Capsule on Highest Test Flight Yet]

[See also: China Launches 5 Commercial Remote-Sensing Satellites Into Orbit]

Photo Credit: Engine House VFX

8. Helium found around an exoplanet.

Researchers recently spotted helium in the atmosphere of a scorching planet around a distant star. This is the first time the element has been observed around an exoplanet, and although early models predicted that helium should be among the most easily detectable elements in their atmospheres, it has remained unseen until now.

[Full Story: An Exoplanet First! Helium Spotted on Bizarre Comet-Like World]

Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

9. Thermal shield gets a fracture.

The heat shield for NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission cracked during a weeklong test, according to the space agency. The damage occurred to the shield's outer edge, as the tests produced forces about 20 percent greater than what it would experience as the mission enters Mars' atmosphere. Fortunately, this incident won't seem to cause a launch date delay.

[Full Story: Heat Shield for NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Cracks During Test]

Photo Credit: CASIS

10. Cotton goes to space.

The Cotton Sustainability Challenge short-listed three new projects to operate on the International Space Station, with a goal of generating solutions for cotton production's high environmental cost. The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) announced the projects on Tuesday (April 24), which feature techniques like sequencing the genetic expression of cotton cultivars grown in the absence of gravity.

[Full Story: Softer Side of Space Science: Cotton Experiments Will Head to Orbit]

07-05-2018 om 01:07 geschreven door peter  

UFO spotted 'LEAVING Earth and heading for space' in astonishing video

BIZARRE footage has emerged that proves extraterrestrial life has already visited Earth, according to outrageous claims online.

By Callum Hoare 

Those videos shows several long cylinder-shaped objects captured across the night sky.

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06-05-2018 om 23:46 geschreven door peter  

Documents reveal how MoD played down ‘UFO thesis’ in X-Files study

Report was intended from outset to absolve MoD of responsibility for investigating sightings

Damien Gayle

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06-05-2018 om 23:29 geschreven door peter  

InSight Lander: Probing the Martian Interior

06-05-2018 om 23:13 geschreven door peter  

SCI-FI MOVIES ARE WRONG ABOUT ALIENS, E.T. HUNTER JILL TARTER SAYS

By SPACE.com Staff

Despite what the movies tell us, any aliens that visit Earth probably won't want to enslave or vaporize us, veteran E.T. hunter Jill Tarter says.

Hostile aliens abound at the multiplex these days, terrorizing our planet in films such as "Battleship" and "Men in Black 3." But science fiction is probably far from reality in its depiction of Earth-contacting extraterrestrials, said Tarter, who announced Monday (May 22) that she's retiring after spending 35 years scanning the heavens for signals from intelligent life beyond Earth.

"If aliens were able to visit Earth, that would mean they would have technological capabilities sophisticated enough not to need slaves, food or other planets," Tarter, who is stepping down as director of the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., said in a statement.

Tarter's confidence in aliens' benign intentions puts her at odds with famed British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who has warned that extraterrestrial civilzations may venture our way to strip-mine our planet for resources.

"While Sir Stephen Hawking warned that alien life might try to conquer or colonize Earth, I respectfully disagree," Tarter said. "If aliens were to come here, it would be simply to explore. Considering the age of the universe, we probably wouldn’t be their first extraterrestrial encounter, either."

Tarter, other scientists and a variety of artists and entertainers will gather next month in Santa Clara, Calif., to discuss such issues in depth. SETICon II, held June 22-24, will explore humanity's place in the universe and the future of the search for life beyond Earth, conference organizers said.

While Tarter, 68, is retiring from her long-held research role at the SETI Institute, she will continue to devote herself to the search for E.T. She'll fundraise full-time for the Institute, which had to shut down its alien-hunting Allen Telescope Array for seven months last year because of a budget shortfall.

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06-05-2018 om 22:49 geschreven door peter  

MAN CAMPING IN THE DESERT AND FILMING BRIGHT UFO IN AREA 51

In this curious video, a man narrates an impressive scene. During registration, this citizen who for obvious reasons does not identify himself, seems really enthusiastic while filming a well-lit and isolated area between the mountains, which the author of the record claims to be the well-known Area 51.

Area 51, as it is called the US Army base located about 130 kilometers northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada, where, according to many researchers and even ex-military, they claim to have reverse-engineered tests and experiments conducted through of UNV wreckage recovered by the military.

There are reports of many underground levels where humans and aliens would be working together. It is also speculated that there are several kilometer tunnels linking the base to many distinct US locations.

The recording man says he was camping some distance from Area 51 and a few days ago he spotted some lights in the sky that went up and down and flew around the area, lights like the ones he’s showing.

Satellite images of the supposed Area 51

Suddenly the object emanating a very intense blue light began to rise slowly as the witness narrated the scene. Quickly, the UFO moves to the right and fires to and to the left at an unimaginable speed for any terrestrial technology that has news. We know that nowadays, it is very easy to create fake videos that look realistic, it is often possible to perceive and others need a deeper analysis.

In the video in question, in a brief analysis, we can see that the landscape shown in the images really matches the location. The question of brightness and audio are things to watch out for. The way the light of the object hits the mountain and illuminates it subtly and the intonation in the cameraman’s voice helps to make the footage true.

The movement of the object in a perspective issue with regard to the environment is also faithful, since with the low resolution of the registry, it is even more difficult to accurately analyze and diagnose the authenticity, in addition to the absence of more data from the witness, but it has not nothing to contradict that this video can be real. What do you think?

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06-05-2018 om 22:37 geschreven door peter  

THIRD SNOWY PYRAMID RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN ANTARCTICA COULD REWRITE HISTORY

Though not everyone is willing to admit it, our planet is full of relics and monuments that prove Earth was once populated by extremely advanced civilizations. Point in case: the third ice-covered pyramid discovered in Antarctica!

Ever since the service was released, Google Earth been a boon not just for conspiracy theorists but also for anyone looking to uncover clues about what lies hidden beyond sight. If you need a good vantage point, you need good eyes and altitude. Satellites have both.

The latest in a group of three snow-covered pyramids was recently discovered through Google Earth satellite imagery and in a few days, the finding has taken the alternative history communities by storm. Two of the pyramids can be found approximately 10 miles inland while the third rests near the coastline.

The implications of this discovery are complex and if accepted, it could turn the scientific world on its head. No history book ever mentioned an Antarctic civilization with the skills and technology necessary to erect enormous pyramids. There is one apparent reason behind this situation and by the looks of it, it would suggest tech-savvy civilizations existed on Earth a long time before our own emerged.

Antarctica is now a frozen wasteland but it wasn’t always like this. It got to its current position through plate tectonics, inching closer to the geographic South Pole year after year. Millions of years ago, Antarctica’s climate was much warmer because its position was closer to the equator. This is established fact backed up by several accepted discoveries, not some wild speculation.

Some years ago, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) uncovered evidence that the antarctic climate was much different in the distant past.

Go back 100 million years ago,” BAS’s Dr. Vanessa Bowman said “and Antarctica was covered in lush rainforests similar to those that exist in New Zealand today.”

Another expedition –led by NASA and involving 11 other scientific organizations– discovered out-of-place microbial life forms in the depths of Antarctica’s Lake Vida, trapped under a sheet of ice 65 feet thick. The microbial colonies had been prospering in isolation for millions of years and scientists believe they are the descendants of microorganisms that lived in a much warmer climate. Who knows what other enigmas lay buried in ice, hopelessly waiting to be revealed.

Even with today’s technology, building structures as massive as the pyramids of Antarctica would be nearly impossible. There are simply too many problems relating to manpower and the logistics required for such a project. If building these mysterious monuments were to be a viable venture, it must have taken place in the past, when Antarctica was a favorable place for human life.

And this opens up a king-sized can of worms. The continent was habitable only in the very distant past, but mainstream science says the wheel wasn’t invented until some 6,000 years ago. At the same time, anatomically-modern humans are said to have mastered fire only 125,000 years ago. So where do these controversial pyramids fit in? Are they evidence of an ancient advanced civilization or do we need to stretch our imagination even further and regard them as proof of time travel? The mind boggles when we remain attached to our outdated beliefs.

Proponents of alternative history and fans of the ancient aliens hypothesis have no problem in accepting the parallel reality generated by such discoveries. It’s not hard to see and accept that we aren’t the first and though it may seem this way, we probably won’t be the last.

Thousands of years after they were built, we are still fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. The monuments left behind by their society have stood the test of time and in more than one way, they’ve granted their builders immortality. Keeping that in mind, what could be said about pyramids that are millions of years old? Does that put our own lives into perspective and make us see the bigger picture?

Or do we recoil in egotistic dismissal?

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06-05-2018 om 22:10 geschreven door peter  

THIRD SNOWY PYRAMID RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN ANTARCTICA COULD REWRITE HISTORY

Though not everyone is willing to admit it, our planet is full of relics and monuments that prove Earth was once populated by extremely advanced civilizations. Point in case: the third ice-covered pyramid discovered in Antarctica!

Ever since the service was released, Google Earth been a boon not just for conspiracy theorists but also for anyone looking to uncover clues about what lies hidden beyond sight. If you need a good vantage point, you need good eyes and altitude. Satellites have both.

The latest in a group of three snow-covered pyramids was recently discovered through Google Earth satellite imagery and in a few days, the finding has taken the alternative history communities by storm. Two of the pyramids can be found approximately 10 miles inland while the third rests near the coastline.

The implications of this discovery are complex and if accepted, it could turn the scientific world on its head. No history book ever mentioned an Antarctic civilization with the skills and technology necessary to erect enormous pyramids. There is one apparent reason behind this situation and by the looks of it, it would suggest tech-savvy civilizations existed on Earth a long time before our own emerged.

Antarctica is now a frozen wasteland but it wasn’t always like this. It got to its current position through plate tectonics, inching closer to the geographic South Pole year after year. Millions of years ago, Antarctica’s climate was much warmer because its position was closer to the equator. This is established fact backed up by several accepted discoveries, not some wild speculation.

Some years ago, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) uncovered evidence that the antarctic climate was much different in the distant past.

Go back 100 million years ago,” BAS’s Dr. Vanessa Bowman said “and Antarctica was covered in lush rainforests similar to those that exist in New Zealand today.”

Another expedition –led by NASA and involving 11 other scientific organizations– discovered out-of-place microbial life forms in the depths of Antarctica’s Lake Vida, trapped under a sheet of ice 65 feet thick. The microbial colonies had been prospering in isolation for millions of years and scientists believe they are the descendants of microorganisms that lived in a much warmer climate. Who knows what other enigmas lay buried in ice, hopelessly waiting to be revealed.

Even with today’s technology, building structures as massive as the pyramids of Antarctica would be nearly impossible. There are simply too many problems relating to manpower and the logistics required for such a project. If building these mysterious monuments were to be a viable venture, it must have taken place in the past, when Antarctica was a favorable place for human life.

And this opens up a king-sized can of worms. The continent was habitable only in the very distant past, but mainstream science says the wheel wasn’t invented until some 6,000 years ago. At the same time, anatomically-modern humans are said to have mastered fire only 125,000 years ago. So where do these controversial pyramids fit in? Are they evidence of an ancient advanced civilization or do we need to stretch our imagination even further and regard them as proof of time travel? The mind boggles when we remain attached to our outdated beliefs.

Proponents of alternative history and fans of the ancient aliens hypothesis have no problem in accepting the parallel reality generated by such discoveries. It’s not hard to see and accept that we aren’t the first and though it may seem this way, we probably won’t be the last.

Thousands of years after they were built, we are still fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. The monuments left behind by their society have stood the test of time and in more than one way, they’ve granted their builders immortality. Keeping that in mind, what could be said about pyramids that are millions of years old? Does that put our own lives into perspective and make us see the bigger picture?

Or do we recoil in egotistic dismissal?

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06-05-2018 om 22:10 geschreven door peter  

This Map Lets You Travel Back In Time And See What Earth Looked Like 600 Million Years Ago

A stunning new interactive map lets you travel back in time and see how our planet’s continents have changed through more than 600 million years.

The ancient Earth Globe lets viewers appreciate how Earth’s continents have transformed while ocean levels advanced and receded through 600 million years of our planet’s history.

The stunning map was built using research gathered by Northern Arizona University. According to one of the interactive map’s creators, a former Google engineer, it shows how humans are ‘just a blip in history.’

The stunning map allows you to travel through 600 million years of our planet’s history. To understand what occurred at a certain time, the map features a small description of the period you are currently viewing.

For example, if we decide to see what the Earth looked like 600 million years ago, the ancient Earth Globe map tells us that we are looking at the Ediacaran Period. Life is evolving in the sea, and multicellular life is just beginning to emerge.

Earth 600 million years ago.

Image Credit: dinosaurpictures.org

In the menu, we can scroll through different ages. 560 million years ago, we see the Late Ediacaran. Life is evolving in the sea, and multicellular life is just beginning to emerge.

A mass extinction is about to take place, tells the map while we see an unrecognizable Earth.

500 million years ago we traveled to the Late Cambrian. The interactive map explains how the ocean is teeming with life following a dramatic expansion of animal diversity in the sea, known as the “Cambrian explosion.” The forms of some animals show ancestry to modern animals.

Traveling further in time, we decided to stop by and see how our planet looked like 430 million years ago, during the Silurian Period.

The interactive map tells us that a mass extinction took place, wiping out nearly half of marine invertebrate species. The first land plants emerge, starting at the edge of the ocean. Plants evolve vascularity, the ability to transport water and nutrients through their tissues. Ocean life becomes larger and more complex, and some creatures venture out of reefs and onto land.

300 Million years ago we arrived at the Late Carboniferous.

Our planet as seen 300 million years ago. 

Image Credit: dinosaurpictures.org

Plants developed root systems that allowed them to grow larger and move inland. Environments evolved below tree canopies. Atmospheric oxygen increased as plants spread on land. Early reptiles have evolved, and giant insects diversify. Earth still looks unrecognizable.

If we travel to 200 million years ago, to the Late Triassic, we see a more familiar planet, although continents we see today have still not formed.

During the Late Triassic, an extinction event is about to happen, resulting in the disappearance of 76% of all terrestrial and marine life species and significantly reducing surviving populations. Some families, such as pterosaurs, crocodiles, mammals, and fish were minimally affected.

The first true dinosaurs emerge.

Earth, 105 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period begins to take a more familiar shape. During this period, Ceratopsian and pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs evolve. Modern mammal, bird, and insect groups emerge.

20 million years ago we see planet Earth during the Neocene Period where mammals and birds continue to evolve into modern forms. Early hominids emerge in Africa.

Check out the map and enjoy scrolling through Earth’s long history.

The map offers a unique educational experience that will surely help us understand not only how continents have shifted and changed through history, but it will also help us understand how they will continue doing so.

Continental Drift: 3.3 Billion Years

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06-05-2018 om 21:42 geschreven door peter