Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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13-05-2018
Parker Solar Probe: deze nieuwe ruimtesonde gaat de zon aantikken
Parker Solar Probe: deze nieuwe ruimtesonde gaat de zon aantikken
Jurjen de Jong
De ruimtesonde wordt deze zomer gelanceerd en zal dwars door de hete atmosfeer van de zon vliegen.
Onze zon bevat 99,86% van alle massa in ons zonnestelsel en toch zijn we nog nooit zo dicht bij deze gigantische massa geweest. Binnenkort gaan we een record verbreken door met de Parker Solar Probe(PSP) dichterbij dan ooit te komen. Daarnaast hopen we uiteraard op nieuwe interessante ontdekkingen over de zon!
Parker De Park Solar Probe is vernoemd naar de wetenschapper Eugene Parker. Deze Amerikaanse astrofysicus heeft veel bijgedragen aan onze kennis over de zon en met name de zonnewind. Desondanks weten we eigenlijk nog verrassend weinig over beiden. Laten we eerst kijken wat we wel al weten.
De zon De zon staat op een afstand van ongeveer 150 miljoen kilometer en met een leeftijd van 4,59 miljard jaar is ze essentieel voor ons leven op aarde. Als we astronomen moeten geloven is onze zon een vrij gemiddelde ster, op ongeveer de helft van haar leven. De zon bestaat in de buitenste lagen voor 70% uit waterstof en voor 28% uit helium. De kern bestaat voor 35% uit waterstof en 63% uit helium. De overige percentages zijn zwaardere elementen. De dichtheid en temperatuur zijn in de kern hoog genoeg voor kernfusie, zodat de zon door middel van dit proces waterstof omzet naar helium. Hiernaast zie je hoe de zon er schematisch ongeveer uitziet. De zon lijkt voor sommigen misschien op een soort grote vuurbal, maar in feite is de zon niets anders dan een gigantische bal plasma. We kennen allemaal gasvormig, vloeibaar en vast als aggretietoestanden. Deze toestanden zijn afhankelijk van de temperatuur. Als we nu een gas nog verder verhitten, zullen de elektronen van de atomen van dit gas losraken van de kern. Fysici noemen dit ionisatie. Een verzameling van deze geïoniseerde deeltjes is niet meer elektrisch neutraal en wordt daarom ‘geladen’ genoemd. Deze deeltjes vormen samen nu een plasma. Dat de zon een bal plasma is, is niet vreemd als we kijken naar de temperaturen die zich hier bevinden. De kern van de zon heeft een temperatuur van 15,5 miljoen graden Celsius. Dit neemt af tot 6000 graden Celsius aan het oppervlak en tot ongeveer 4300 graden Celsius in de atmosfeer van de zon. Daarna gebeurt er iets opvallends in het buitenste gedeelte van de atmosfeer van de zon: de corona. In dit gedeelte wordt de temperatuur weer heel hoog. Het kan hier rond de 2 tot soms wel 20 miljoen graden Celsius zijn. Overigens kunnen we de corona op aarde waarnemen bij een zonsverduistering als de ring die nog zichtbaar blijft als de maan zich voor de zon bevindt. Vervolgens gaat de corona over in de zonnewind. Deze ‘wind’ bestaat vooral uit restproducten van waterstof en helium (elektronen, protonen en alfadeeltjes), die de ontsnappingssnelheid van de zon bereiken en daardoor het zonnestelsel ingeblazen worden. Dit gebeurt zo frequent dat de zonnewind daarom een constante stroom is. Op aarde worden we deels afgeschermd tegen deze zonnewind door ons aardmagnetisch veld. We kunnen de zonnewind indirect waarnemen door middel van de poollichten (aurora borealis en aurora australis). Dit licht ontstaat na een interactie van de zonnewind met ons aardmagnetisch veld, waardoor er botsingen van geladen deeltjes in de hoge atmosfeer van de aarde optreden. Voor satellieten is de zonnewind ook belangrijk, want deze kan flinke verstoringen veroorzaken als de zon erg actief is.
Activiteit De activiteit van de zon is zichtbaar door: zonnevlekken, zonnebevingen, zonnevlammen en protuberansen. Zonnevlekken nemen wij waar als zwarte vlekken op de zon. Dit zijn plekken waar veel magnetische activiteit is, waardoor het energietransport van de binnenkant naar de buitenkant wordt verhinderd. Dit resulteert in lagere oppervlakte temperaturen. Dan heb je zonnebevingen. Deze zijn vergelijkbaar met aardbevingen, maar hebben andere oorzaken. Dit wordt bestudeerd in de helioseismologie. Protuberansen zijn wolkachtige verschijnselen aan de zijkant van de zon in de atmosfeer van de zon, welke we niet direct kunnen waarnemen, maar wel met een coronograaf of een speciaal filter. Deze protuberansen bestaan uit een veel kouder plasma dan de corona. Als een protuberans uiteenvalt, kan dit een zonnevlam veroorzaken. Dit is een explosie die ontstaat als er veel energie vrijkomt, die eerst vastgehouden werd door het magnetische veld van de zon. Zo’n zonnevlam gaat vaak gepaard met een plasmawolk. Op aarde kunnen we het goed merken als er een sterke plasmawolk ons aardmagnetisch veld bereikt, aangezien de poollichten dan over een groter gebied op aarde zichtbaar zijn. Zo is het in de geschiedenis enkele keren voorgekomen dat van de polen tot aan de evenaar de poollichten zichtbaar waren.
Deze zojuist genoemde fenomenen zijn sterk afhankelijk van de 11-jarige zonnecyclus, waarin er een minimale en maximale activiteit van de zon is. Hoe actiever de zon, hoe meer zonnevlekken waarneembaar zijn en groter de kans op zonnevlammen en andere activiteit. Aangezien zonnevlekken met het blote oog waarneembaar zijn (ga nu niet in de zon kijken!), worden deze al lang door de mens bestudeerd. De oudste gedocumenteerde waarnemingen komen uit 364 v.Chr. uit China. Tussen 1826 en 1843 kon Samuel Heinrich Schwabe bevestigen dat de zon een 11-jarige cyclus doormaakt, aan de hand van zonnevlek waarnemingen. Echter houdt de zon zich niet altijd zo strikt aan deze cyclus. Soms duren cycli namelijk een stuk korter of langer. Het is daarom van belang dat we de zonneactiviteit beter leren begrijpen en daardoor beter kunnen voorspellen.
PSP Nu komen we op het punt dat de PSP belangrijk wordt. Dit ruimtevaartuig gaat namelijk tussen 31 juli en 19 augustus 2018 gelanceerd worden vanaf Cape Canaveral Air Force Station door een Delta IV Heavy draagraket en heeft als doel ons meer te leren over de zon. Zo moet de PSP onder meer de structuur en dynamica van de magnetische velden waaruit de zonnewind ontstaat, ontrafelen. Er wordt door fysici gebruik gemaakt van de wiskunde van de magnetohydrodynamica, maar helaas is dit niet voldoende, omdat het chaotische gedrag van de zon moeilijk te vatten is. Daarom kan de PSP ons met nieuwe metingen en observaties hopelijk weer verder op weg helpen om de magnetische velden en het ontstaan van de zonnewind beter te begrijpen. Zoals we al zeiden, zijn er in de corona enorm hoge temperaturen. Dit is al sinds de jaren veertig van de vorige eeuw bekend, maar een sluitende theorie, die beschrijft hoe dit kan, bestaat nog niet. Er wordt gedacht aan verhitting door energietransport vanuit de kern van de zon door middel van magnetohydrodynamische golven. Ook zijn er theorieën waarbij heet plasma de warmte transporteert vanuit de kern van de zon. De hoop is er dat de PSP fysici zal helpen een keuze te maken tussen de verschillende theorieën, of helpt met het opzetten van een betere/nieuwe theorie. Een ander doel van de PSP is het begrijpen van de mechanismen die de versnelling en transport veroorzaken van deeltjes met een hoge energie. Dit soort deeltjes kunnen een sterke en vooral negatieve invloed hebben op aarde en op satellieten rond de aarde. Het is daarom goed om beter te begrijpen hoe deze deeltjes onze aarde bereiken en wat de rol en relaties precies zijn van verschillende elementen van de zonneactiviteit.
Voor het eerst vernoemt NASA een ruimtevaartuig naar een nog levende wetenschapper. Hier krijgt Eugene Parker (in het midden) uitleg over de ruimtesonde die zijn naam draagt.
Afbeelding: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Instrumenten De wetenschappelijke experimenten worden gecategoriseerd aan de hand van de volgende afkortingen: FIELDS (Fields Experiment), IS☉IS (Integrated Science Investigation Of The Sun), WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar PRobe) en SWEAP (Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons). Met FIELDS zal PSP metingen doen aan de elektrische en magnetische velden en golven, de plasma dichtheden, de temperaturen van de elektronen en radio emissies met behulp van twee magnetometers. IS☉IS is een instrument om deeltjes, zoals protonen en zware ionen die flink versneld worden, te meten in de atmosfeer van de zon en in het binnenste gedeelte van de heliosfeer (het gebied waarin de zon invloed uitoefent). WISPR is een telescoop die simpel gezegd foto’s zal maken van de corona, het binnenste gedeelte van de heliosfeer, de zonnewind en andere fenomenen die PSP passeren. Deze foto’s kunnen dan bestudeerd worden. Dan is er nog SWEAP, waarmee de meest voorkomende deeltjes van de zonnewind (de elektronen, protonen en alfadeeltjes) bestudeerd zullen worden aan de hand van metingen van hun snelheid, dichtheid en temperatuur.
Ingewikkelde weg Om de zon te bereiken zal de PSP een lange ingewikkelde weg afleggen. Allereerst zal het ruimtevaartuig naar Venus vliegen om daar zeven scheervluchten te doen. Op deze manier kan door middel van zwaartekrachtsslingers de PSP in de juiste richting versnellen en dichterbij de gewenste baan rond de zon te komen. De PSP zal 24 maal rond de zon vliegen en de kortste afstand tot het oppervlak van de zon zal 6.2 miljoen kilometer zijn. Daardoor is het mogelijk om voor de eerste keer door de corona heen te vliegen. De missie van de PSP zal zeker zo’n zeven jaar duren.
De PSP nadert de zon.
Afbeelding: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Steve Gribben.
Het is een enorme uitdaging om zo dichtbij de zon te vliegen, aangezien de enorm hoge temperaturen in de nabijheid van de zon afgeweerd moeten worden. Hiervoor is een hitteschild dan ook een vereiste. Het schild van de PSP is 11.43 cm dik en gemaakt van een licht en sterk koolstofvezelcomposiet, zodat schade van hoge temperaturen tegengehouden kan worden. Op deze manier kunnen de meetinstrumenten en de computerystemen blijven functioneren. Erg belangrijk is de energievoorziening. Hiervoor wordt gebruikgemaakt van zonnepanelen. Echter, wanneer de PSP te dichtbij de zon komt, zullen deze zonnepanelen moeten worden ingetrokken, zodat ze afgeschermd worden door het hitteschild. Vervolgens worden dan een paar kleinere zonnepanelen uitgeklapt. Deze panelen hebben een speciaal ingebouwd koelsysteem, zodat ze niet oververhit raken. De nadering van PSP tot de zon zal toch niet schadeloos zijn. Naar verwachting zal straling van de zon toch zorgen voor lichte schade in het materiaal en een verslechterde werking van de elektronica. Ook zal de communicatie onderbroken worden als de PSP dichtbij de zon komt. Daarom zullen de banen heel erg elliptisch moeten zijn, zodat er ook lange perioden zijn dat de PSP ver genoeg is om bij te komen en zich op te laden met de grote zonnepanelen.
De Parker Solar Probe kan, net als Eugene Parker, onze kennis over met name de corona en de zonnewind enorm vergroten. Laten we daarom hopen dat de missie met succes gelanceerd zal worden en dat de weg naar de zon vlekkeloos zal zijn, zodat we over een tijdje weer over nieuwe inzichten over het gedrag van de zon en de zonnewind kunnen schrijven.
Jurjen de Jong (1993) is masterstudent Space Studies aan de KU Leuven. Daarvoor heeft hij een propedeuse werktuigbouwkunde in Breda, een bachelor wiskunde en een bachelor natuurkunde in Utrecht behaald en afgelopen juli een master in de wiskundige natuur-en sterrenkunde in Gent afgerond. Jurjen leest graag over de verschillende ontdekkingen ontwikkelingen op wetenschapsgebied en door er over te schrijven hoopt hij zijn kennis te delen met een groter publiek. Later hoopt hij een baan in de ruimtevaartsector te krijgen. Eerder verschenen van Jurjens hand al dit interessante artikel waarin hij uitzoekt of het nodig is dat ook de ruimtevaart groener wordt. Ook zocht hij voor Scientias.nl uit of de ruimtelift werkelijk toekomst heeft. Recent publiceerde hij ook twee artikelen over de quantumcomputer die voor een revolutie kan gaan zorgen.
Bronmateriaal:
NASA, link: http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/, geraadpleegd op: 4/22/2018 N.J. Fox et al. (2016). “The Solar Probe Plus Mission: Humanity’s First Visit to Our Star”. Space Sci Rev 204:7-48. DOI: 10.1007/s11214-015-0211-6 A. Hanslmeier. (2007). “The Sun and Space Weather”. Springer
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Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Seizoensgebonden verandering in atmosfeer kan wijzen op buitenaards leven
Seizoensgebonden verandering in atmosfeer kan wijzen op buitenaards leven
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Een veelbelovende biosignatuur!
De afgelopen decennia zijn er duizenden exoplaneten ontdekt. En verschillende van deze planeten lijken op het eerste gezicht geschikt voor buitenaards leven. Maar hoe kunnen we erachter komen of op die planeten daadwerkelijk leven is? Vaak wordt dan allereerst gekeken naar de atmosfeer. Zo weten we dat de samenstelling van onze aardse atmosfeer voor een groot deel bepaald wordt door de aanwezigheid van leven. Zo ligt leven bijvoorbeeld ten grondslag aan het zuurstofrijke karakter van onze atmosfeer. Zuurstof zou dus een biosignatuur kunnen zijn: een aanwijzing dat er leven is op een andere planeet.
Biosignatuur Maar in het blad The Astrophyscial Journal Letters komen wetenschappers met een nog veelbelovendere biosignatuur op de proppen. Ze pleiten ervoor om te kijken naar seizoensgebonden veranderingen in de samenstelling van de atmosfeer.
Noordelijk halfrond De onderzoekers wijzen erop dat de seizoenen niet alleen veranderingen in weer en de lengte van de dagen met zich meebrengen. Ook de samenstelling van de atmosfeer verandert. Zo zorgt plantengroei er in de zomer voor dat de hoeveelheid CO2 in de atmosfeer boven het noordelijk halfrond – waar de meeste vegetatie te vinden is – afneemt. Tegelijkertijd neemt de concentratie zuurstof hier in de zomer toe.
Beter Op vergelijkbare manier zouden seizoensgebonden veranderingen in de samenstelling van buitenaardse atmosferen ook kunnen wijzen op de aanwezigheid van leven. Het zoeken naar dergelijke veranderingen is misschien nog wel effectiever dan de zoektocht naar bijvoorbeeld hoge concentraties zuurstof in de atmosfeer. Want wie zegt dat die aliens net als sommige levensvormen op aarde zuurstof genereren? Bovendien kan zuurstof ook geproduceerd worden in de afwezigheid van leven. “De aanwezigheid van leven afleiden op basis van seizoenen vereist geen gedetailleerd begrip van de buitenaardse biochemie, omdat het ontstaat als een biologische reactie op seizoensgebonden veranderingen in de omgeving en dus geen consequentie is van specifieke biologische activiteit die wel eens uniek kan zijn voor de aarde,” stelt onderzoeker Stephanie Olson.
Hier op aarde ontstaan seizoenen doordat de as van onze planeet wat schuin staat. Betekent dat dan dat de aanpak van Olson alleen werkt op exoplaneten met een schuine as? Zeker niet. Ook exoplaneten met een ovaalvormige baan kunnen seizoenen kennen, doordat ze het ene moment dichter bij hun moederster staan dan op andere momenten. Meer onderzoek moet uitwijzen welke veranderingen we in buitenaardse atmosferen kunnen verwachten en wat voor telescopen we nodig hebben om die veranderingen waar te kunnen nemen.
In a mission scheduled for the summer of 2020, NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars, the organization announced Friday.
The Mars 2020 mission, or the Red Planet rover mission, scheduled to launch in July of that year, will include the Mars helicopter, which NASA described as a “small, autonomous rotocraft.”
“NASA has a proud history of firsts,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “The idea of a helicopter flying the skies of another planet is thrilling. The Mars Helicopter holds much promise for our future science, discovery, and exploration missions to Mars.”
The use of the helicopter is designed to show Mars’ ability to handle heavier-than-air vehicles. It will fly as an attachment to the belly pan of the Mars 2020 rover.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the CDC) says:“Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease. It is caused by the poliovirus. The virus spreads from person to person and can invade an infected person’s brain and spinal cord, causing paralysis.” So, you may well ask, what relevance does that have to the kinds of things that get discussed here at Mysterious Universe? Well, I’ll tell you. It’s a strange story which has its origins in the late 1940s, specifically July 1, 1949. That was the date on which a still-unknown doctor and his wife encountered a UFO of the Flying Saucer kind while they were on vacation in Canada.
So impressed and amazed by what they saw, the pair – whose names are blacked-out in the now-declassified U.S. Air Force files on the affair – decided to contact the military and share their experience. The Air Force stated in its 1949 files, prepared by agent Elbert W. Farris, of Scott Air Force Base, Illinois: “Dr. and Mrs. [Deleted] of Decatur, Indiana, were interviewed on August 15, 1949, and stated that they had seen an unidentified aerial object which they thought to be a flying saucer. The sighting took place July 1, 1949 on Highway 70 about 50–70 miles north of Ft. Francis, Ontario, Canada, and near the east side of Lake of the Woods, Canada.”
That was far from being the end of the story, though. From documentation forwarded to staff at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, we learn that: “The object was described as silvery gray in color, flying in a westerly direction and was in sight for about 5 seconds. No vapor trails or protruding objects were noted. The object pursued a straight path of flight with an erratic motion comparable to that of an oblong object being thrown through the air. The aerial anomaly appeared to be faster than an airplane. It did not hover and was likened to a small aircraft at two thousand feet. Dr. [Deleted] observed no fins, no vapor trail and heard no sound. After passing across his line of vision, the object was lost from view behind the trees. The day was bright and sunny, and Dr. [Deleted] emphasized that he had definitely observed an object in the air unlike any other known to him. Mrs. [Deleted] corroborated her husband’s statements.“
It wasn’t just the Air Force that looked into the matter. It was the FBI, too. Indeed, the FBI’s office at Indianapolis addressed the issue because the doctor “found himself in the midst of a polio epidemic and that as a result he had read as much literature as possible with respect to polio, its symptoms, diagnosis, etc. Dr. [Deleted] told that in his opinion, the cases which were thought to be polio in the vicinity of Decatur, Indiana, were not polio, but possibly the result of uranium poisoning and that he felt the presence of flying saucers had direct bearing on the polio epidemic.”
Aliens spreading the polio virus? Or contaminating people with uranium? The FBI also recorded: “[The Doctor] pointed out that flying saucers were observed in the Carolinas in 1948 and there was a polio epidemic in the vicinity at that time. Dr. [Deleted] stated he had consulted one of the physicians at the Benjamin Harrison Air Base and had also checked the records with reference to allegations concerning the sighting of flying saucers and had done a little research with respect to correlating the presence of flying saucers and any polio epidemic.”
The documentation shows that personnel at the Indiana University Medical School considered the whole thing to be a waste of time – a huge joke and nothing else. That didn’t stop the Air Force from taking a careful and close look at the available data, however. On this aspect of the story, the Air Force files reveal the following: “Tabulation of flying saucer sightings from the available sources of the Indianapolis Starand the Indianapolis News, reveals that the majority of sightings took place in July and August for the years 1947, 1948 and 1949,” agent Farris recorded.
Farris added: “A responsible medical authority, confidential informant, CI-1, advised that the theory is ‘interesting’ and worthy of further research. [The Doctor] produced membership cards which show him to be a member of the Masons, Scottish Rite, Knights of Pythias, Loyal Order of Moose and the Eagles. He served as a Naval officer for 14 months and also held a commission in the United States Public Health Service. He is an associate member of the Association of Medicine, Bloomington, Indiana, and he is an associate member of the Association of Military Surgeons. He is a physician and surgeon.“
The uranium angle, brought up by the doctor, was also addressed. Agent Farris contacted, in his own words, “a reliable medical authority at Benjamin Harrison Air Force Base, Indiana,” who could hopefully “determine whether the possibility of uranium poisoning, as expounded by Dr. [Deleted] had any basis in fact.” Farris had more to say on this matter: “The authority, who preferred to remain anonymous, is hereinafter known as Confidential Informant CI-1. Informant CI-1 advised the writer that the Polio period extends from April to October, with the peak months of the disease being reached in July and August. Informant CI-1 was doubtful if the answer to the question of uranium poisoning could be readily answered, and he was of the opinion that the possibility and its connection with the Polio epidemic prevalent throughout the United States had never been explored.”
Personnel at the Aero Medical Laboratory Research Department at Wright-Patterson were also questioned by Farris: “Does [the] uranium element produce any physiological reaction in human beings corresponding to symptoms applicable to many of the so-called Polio clinical and sub-clinical conditions?” “Are topographical areas where so-called Flying Disc are predominantly seen (or known uranium deposits) pinpoints of endemic areas of clinical symptoms resembling Polio?”
On October 6, 1949, another Air Force report was prepared, this one revealing the following: “While it is true that some of the clinical symptoms of poliomyelitis may be similar to uranium poisoning, the over-all clinical syndrome is quite different. Progress in the case of uranium poisoning is very dismal, with recovery unlikely. Besides the heavy metal poisoning effect of uranium poisoning, there is also the prolonged and continuous radiation effect of uranium which cane be detected in the broad picture.”
The report adds: “This is quite a distinctive clinical feature of uranium poisoning which any physician should readily be able to recognize. It is also a feature which does not diminish with time and, hence, the patient does not recover. This results because the uranium is a long-lived radioactive isotope, which becomes fixed in the body and cannot be eliminated to any appreciable extent. Because of the above considerations, it is the opinion of this office that there is little, if any, ground for the theory that the annual poliomyelitis epidemics are related to radioactivity in any way. It is also to be noted that the annual outbreak of poliomyelitis during the summer months has been prevalent for many years prior to flying saucers and the widespread use of radioactive isotopes.”
The strange saga of a Flying Saucer, a doctor and his wife, the polio virus and the matter of uranium poisoning, was finally over. The file was closed on what was undeniably one of the weirdest UFO-themed investigations that the U.S. Air Force found itself involved in.
Red Glowing UFO spotted in the Constellation Canes Venatici
Red Glowing UFO spotted in the Constellation Canes Venatici
A skywatcher from Aztec New Mexico observed the constellation Canes Venatici by using his telescope when he captured an amazing red glowing object that travelled an enormous distance in space in just three minutes.
The skywatcher states:
On May 8, 2018 I was in my backyard doing astrophotography. My subjects that night were a pair of galaxies in the spring sky, NGC4631 and NGC4656 in the constellation Canes Venatici.
My equipment was a 103mm apochromatic refractor and a Canon EOS 6d DSLR.XX I was shooting 3 minute sub frames at the time. The object appeared on one of my subframes as it crossed thru the field of view.
My first impression was that it was some satellite or high flying aircraft. One of my submitted photos shows how far the object moved across the frame during this particular 3 minute exposure.
I just continued shooting more 3 minute frames of the galaxy field with the intention of deleting this frame from my total set of 15 frames to be stacked later for the final picture.
The object never appeared in any of my other frames and I did not see anything like it again that night.
The dimensions of the galaxy the object flew by ( NGC4631 ) is approx. 10' x 1.5' of arc. So, the object would have been quite small. Its astronomical magnitude was estimated at 8.0 - Mufon case 91964.
Astronaut Scott Kelly said he saw things out in space while he was onboard the space station. He of course keeps with his signed contract with NASA to keep quiet about what he believes it to really be. He talks about having doubts about if it was stars or unidentified flying objects that he witnessed. Its clear that Scott Kelly wants to hint to the public the truth of seeing extraterrestrial craft while in orbit around earth, but he is still afraid of the repercussions from the US government, which in essence could strip him of his retirement.
Scott Kelly is not the only astronaut to see things in space. Over 15 astronauts from Russia and America have witnessed strange flying objects that cannot be explained. So if so many experience astronauts say they have seen UFOs while in space, why are the public still doubting the existence of aliens? Scott C. Waring
News states:
“Flying in airplanes and flying in space, you know, I have had experiences where if I let my imagination run wild. I could say, ‘Wow. That’s an alien spaceship,’” Kelly explains. “Even on the space station. I mean, I would often see something, and I would be like, ‘That’s not behaving like a star or a satellite.’”
Kelly says he also experienced this when flying jets, especially over the water at night.
Astronomers have begun searching for signals from extraterrestrials in the Galaxy
Astronomers have begun searching for signals from extraterrestrials in the Galaxy
On the radio telescope CSIRO Parkes in Australia began a large-scale search for messages from extraterrestrial civilizations. Astronomers survey a fair part of the Galaxy, and now they are hoping to find signals from aliens.
The idea of interstellar radio communication was expressed long ago. In the end, in the universe there are not so many ways to transfer information over long distances. Almost the only opportunity to learn something about the distant cosmos is to receive and analyze the electromagnetic radiation of celestial bodies. So, if a certain civilization has astronomy in general, that is, telescopes. And surely these tools cover all possible types of radiation, from radio waves to gamma rays. For any serious astronomy, this is simply necessary, given how different the sky looks in different ranges. And from the receiver (telescope) one step to the transmitter. Why radio waves, not, say, visible light or X-rays? They have a number of advantages. For radio communication is not an obstacle interplanetary dust and atmosphere of almost any composition. Radio waves are best focused, which allows you to choose where to send the signal and where to wait for it. The radio signal is most easily changed if it is necessary to put information into it. Finally, radio emission requires less energy, which is also very important. The first searches for such signals were made back in the 1960s and have since been repeatedly renewed on an increasingly advanced technical basis. Although no one received a greeting from the brothers by reason, or in any case did not notice, humanity does not lose hope and is ready to try again and again. “Vesti.Nauka” (nauka.vesti.ru) already talked about the project Breakthrough Listen, founded by Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner. One of the tools involved in this initiative is the Australian telescope. The search for alien messages with his help began in 2016. But then it was about “listening” to a few stars in the immediate vicinity of the Earth. Now the work came out literally to the galactic level. This was facilitated by the modernization of the telescope, carried out with the help of a Russian billionaire. The radio telescope nowadays simultaneously looks at 13 directions in the sky. This allows him to survey the entire area of the Milky Way, visible from this point on the globe. It covers the galactic latitudes from minus 6.5 to plus 6.5 degrees and longitudes from minus 174 degrees to plus 60 degrees. The total area is 3000 square degrees, which is 15,000 times larger than the full Moon. Astronomers expect to “hear” a transmitter sent to Earth, equivalent to only 20 Arecibo locators, even if it is not closer to Earth than the center of the Galaxy. True, if aliens radiate radio waves not in a narrow cone, but evenly in all directions, they will need more impressive power at this distance: 1014 watts. But a populated planet may be closer, and who knows what energies are subject to the brothers in the mind? New high-speed receivers perceive 130 gigabits of information per second. Only in 2018 it is planned to spend 1500 hours of observations and accumulate almost 100 petabytes of data. This is one of the most ambitious projects to search for extraterrestrial civilizations (SETI). The main task in processing information is to identify signals of artificial origin. Developers use for this purpose their own mathematical algorithm and invite everyone to participate in its improvement. In addition, it is necessary to reject the interference of terrestrial origin. Among the sources of such signals are satellites, airplanes and so on. This will help the fact that the telescope now receives radio waves from several directions at once. The fact is that terrestrial and near-Earth radio sources are quite powerful (because they are close). They break through even into those petals of the radiation pattern, which “look” is not at all on them. Therefore, such a signal, unlike a truly cosmic signal, looks outgoing from several directions at once.
“We hope to find evidence that our planet is not the only one among the hundreds of billions in the Galaxy where a reasonable life has arisen,” concludes Danny Price of the University of California at Berkeley. Of course, astronomers are not going to spend the observational time of the instrument, which has become so perfect, solely on the search for a hypothetical “Ay, earthlings!”. In parallel, in the same data, specialists will look for rapid radio bursts – mysterious outbursts, of which we have talked a lot.
Le SETI travaille sur de nombreux projets différents et l’un d’eux a pour but d’utiliser une intelligence artificielle afin de nous aider à rechercher et à trouver une forme de vie extraterrestre. Comment ? Tout simplement en lui apprenant à penser différemmentde nous.
L’Institut est un organisme sans but lucratif. Créé au milieu des années 80 par Thomas Pierson et Jill Tarter, il a pour but d’explorer, de comprendre et d’expliquer l’origine et la nature de la vie dans l’Univers.
En tout, le SETI compte une cinquantaine de chercheurs différents et il a également eu de nombreux mécènes tout au long de son histoire.
Le SETI, une histoire très mouvementée
Parmi les plus connus se trouvent Carl Sagan, David Packard ou encore les incontournables William Reddington Hewlett et Paul Allen.
L’institut finance plusieurs programmes différents et l’un d’entre eux a pour but de chercher des signaux d’une vie extraterrestre intelligente en utilisant des télescopes et des radiotélescopes.
Et tout le problème est là, finalement. Le SETI, comme tous les organismes du même genre, cherche des signes d’intelligence en se focalisant sur des techniques et technologies de communication semblables aux nôtres.
Toutefois, cette stratégie a bien entendu ses limites. Si une civilisation extraterrestre existe réellement, alors rien ne dit qu’elle utilise les transmissions radio pour communiquer.
Prenez notre propre planète par exemple. Contrairement à ce que pensent beaucoup de gens, l’être humain n’est pas la seule espèce intelligente à vivre sur ce monde. Les fourmis, par exemple, vivent elles aussi en société et elles ont même développé des techniques d’agriculture semblables aux nôtres… et ce avant même que nous en ayons l’idée.
Or justement, pour communiquer entre elles, les fourmis n’utilisent pas les ondes radio. Elles font appel à une forme de communication olfactive.
En toute logique, si une vie extraterrestre intelligente existe quelque part dans l’Univers, alors sa technologie a de fortes chances d’être très différente de la nôtre. Dans ce cas, les observations menées par le SETI ou même par le Breakthrough Listen sont loin d’être suffisantes.
Une IA pour penser différemment
Le SETI en a parfaitement conscience et l’organisation a ainsi monté un nouveau groupe de travail intitulé Decoding Alien Intelligence, un groupe piloté par Nathalie A. Cabrol, la directrice du Centre Carl Sagan.
La première session s’est déroulée entre le 14 et le 16 mars dernier et plusieurs scientifiques multidisciplinaires se sont ainsi réunis pour débattre de l’intelligence extraterrestre et tenter de déterminer les formes qu’elle pourrait potentiellement revêtir.
Nathalie A. Cabrol s’intéresse depuis longtemps à cette délicate question et elle avait même écrit un article entièrement dédié à la chose en 2016, un article dans lequel elle disait en substance que l’être humain allait devoir apprendre à penser en dehors de ses propres connaissances pour espérer découvrir une forme de vie extraterrestre.
Plusieurs pistes sont bien entendu envisageables et l’une d’elles en particulier semble dotée d’un fort potentiel. Graham Mackintosh, un consultant travaillant en collaboration avec le SETI et spécialisé dans toutes les questions liées à l’IA, pense en effet que l’intelligence artificielle pourrait jouer un rôle décisif dans la recherche d’une forme de vie extraterrestre intelligente en cherchant des signaux bien différents de ceux envisagés par nos propres scientifiques.
Compte tenu de sa nature, une IA n’est pas limitée par son vécu ou par son expérience et elle a donc la possibilité d’aborder des problématiques sous un angle très différent de celui de l’esprit humain.
En conséquence, Graham Mackintosh pense que la clé de la recherche d’une forme de vie extraterrestre réside peut-être dans l’IA.
Bien sûr, rien n’est encore acté pour le moment, mais il faut avouer que cette piste semble assez prometteuse
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How Cold War anxiety and citizen science fuelled Canada's massive UFO report files
How Cold War anxiety and citizen science fuelled Canada's massive UFO report files
Canadian government quietly collected thousands of citizen reports of UFO and alien sightings
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From the 1950s to the mid-1990s, the Canadian government quietly collected and documented thousands of citizen reports detailing UFO sightings or alien encounters.
(Ben Shannon/CBC)
Flying saucers. Little green men. Mysterious flashes in the sky.
They're all common elements in reported sightings of paranormal phenomena from around the world.
One might wonder who would take the time to listen to accounts of aliens from people who were otherwise going about their daily business.
It turns out that, for decades, the Canadian government did just that.
Matthew Hayes, a PhD student at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., has been looking into nearly 15,000 pages of documents detailing UFO sightings that the Canadian government had collected between the 1950s and 1990s.
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Matthew Hayes, a PhD student at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., has been looking into nearly 15,000 pages of documents detailing UFO sightings. They're publicly available in an online database run by Library and Archives Canada.
"I'm not out to prove it one way or the other: whether aliens exist, or whether UFOs exist. I'm really just interested in it as a social phenomenon," he told Ideas.
"What did UFOs mean to scientists and politicians, and to the military in Canada? What did they do about it, and how do they understand it?
The earliest recorded UFO reports date back to shortly after the end of the Second World War. During the war, Canadians might have looked to the sky worried they would spot incoming enemy aircraft. Some people reported sightings to the RCMP.The government came up with a formal questionnaire for investigators to use when people reported a UFO sighting.
(Ben Shannon/CBC)
Many of the documents Hayes is studying come from the results of this questionnaire. Others are memos between government officials debating what to do with the questionnaire responses.
Among some of the encounters described in the files:
Four separate witnesses in Peterborough described an aircraft about 50 feet (15 metres) long travelling at high speeds at high altitudes. They didn't know what it was, only that it did not look like any kind of airplane they were familiar with.
While cleaning the dishes in her home on the Bloodvein First Nation, Man., a woman observed a three-foot-tall creature with an egg-shaped head, sharp pointy ears and wrinkled eyes. She didn't see a nose or a mouth.
In 1967, mechanic Stefan Michalak described seeing a flying saucer-like object while prospecting around Falcon Lake, Manitoba. The object somehow severely burned and injured him. It's arguably the best-known and most extensively documented encounter with a so-called UFO in Canada.
By 1990, the government's documentation of UFO sightings slowed considerably, according to Hayes. In 1995, Canada shut down the program altogether.
But back in the '50s, officials were much less ready to dismiss UFO reports as crazy stories.
A witness's drawing of an unidentified object found in the archive of UFO reports. (Library and Archives Canada)
As historian Edward Jones-Imhotep explained, paranoia around the unidentified in that era was very real, fuelled in part by stories of aliens but also by more immediate anxieties regarding the Soviet Union.
"If you take a globe of the world in 1950 and you look down on the North Pole, you realize very quickly that the shortest line between the Soviet Union and the United States," he explained.
"So the line that Soviet bombers would take to attack U.S. cities with hydrogen bombs, for instance, passes directly over Canada."
Cold War anxiety, fear
Canada became, rather incidentally, an area of "intense interest" during the Cold War. Its skies had to be monitored constantly and extensively.
That ended up including any citizen reports about unusual phenomena, which may describe anything from a possible Soviet attack to the product of a child's overactive imagination.
But it could also be partly attributed to basic fear: not of actual aliens, for the most part — but fear of the unknown.
"The real fear, it seems, is the fact that these things are simply unidentified," said Jones-Imhotep.
Historian Edward Jones-Imhotep explains that the paranoia around aliens in the late 21st century can be partially explained by real-world anxieties of the Cold War.
(Angela Lewis)
"It's the idea that perhaps they're aliens, perhaps are extraterrestrials, but more threatening than that is just the idea that there are things that you don't know about — the things that you can't identify."
From a political viewpoint, fear of the unknown can percolate down to colour citizens' perception of the unknown. The language about aliens in popular culture at the time, which could reflect intrigue or xenophobia, could just as easily be applied to a hostile foreign power.
If you can create or stoke this kind of fear of aliens ... you can also end up translating that same language into fear of the Soviets.-
Edward Jones-Imhotep
"They have hostile motives. They can't be trusted. They're up to these secret projects," said Jones-Imhotep.
"If you can create or stoke this kind of fear of aliens, there's a way that you can also end up translating that same language into fear of the Soviets."
Citizen science
Whatever one may think of the veracity of the UFO reports — or of the reliability of the people who made these reports — it's hard not to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of the files that currently live in the government's digital archives.
And while the approach might seem scattershot at first glance, it was in fact done with a purpose in mind.
Lorraine Daston, executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, describes the project as "an involuntary exercise in citizen science" that covered more ground than any single scientific mission could.
(Ben Shannon/CBC)
"It's often very difficult to detect patterns unless you have an enormous haul of data," she explained.
"Even though 15,000 [pages] sounds like a large number, if you're scanning the sky every night for a decade, it's not that many. So they're [relatively] rare."
There aren't enough scientists or government inspectors interested in possibly paranormal events to cover all that ground — so they turned to volunteers.
Professional skepticism
In the end, none of the reports gathered by the Canadian government — or any other government, as far as we're aware — provided undisputed proof that aliens have ever made contact with humans.
But they still provide some insight into the intelligence-gathering strategies of the time. They also provide some entertaining reading.
An excerpt from a 1990 report out of Bloodvein First Nation, Man., where multiple community members alleged to have witnessed 'a U.F.O. and little men.'
(Library and Archives Canada)
Take this note that Hayes found, of a meteorological officer from the Department of Transport describing a 1968 report of an unidentified flying object over Frobisher Bay.
"[The officer] is of the opinion that the object was an experimental or weather balloon at a height of well over 100,000 feet."
It continues: "There have been no reports of landing by little green men or other weird non-world creatures. Furthermore, there have been no reports that all our women are pregnant."
Written by Jonathan Ore. This episode was produced by Nicola Luksic and Tom Howell.
Our guests for this program:
Matthew Hayes is a PhD student in Canadian Studies at Trent University. His thesis centres on the roughly 15,000 pages of UFO-related documents archived by the Canadian government from the early Cold War to 1995.
Edward Jones-Imhotep is an associate professor of history at York University. His work centres on the social and cultural life of machines. He is the author of The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War.
Stan Michalak's father Stefan experienced Canada's most famous UFO sighting at Falcon Lake in 1967.
Chris Rutkowski co-authored the book about the Falcon Lake incident with Stan Michalak. He is a science writer with a special interest in UFO sightings.
Lorraine Daston is the director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She is the author of numerous books on the history of science and co-editor of Biographies of Scientific Objects.
Massimo Pigliucci is a professor of philosophy at City University New York and author of Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk.
‘UFO’ haalt energie uit bliksemschicht. Dit opzienbarende filmpje is zojuist viraal gegaan
‘UFO’ haalt energie uit bliksemschicht. Dit opzienbarende filmpje is zojuist viraal gegaan
Een bizar YouTube-filmpje van een UFO die energie uit een bliksemschicht zou onttrekken, is viraal gegaan. De video is geplaatst door het kanaal SecureTeam10, meldt Fox News.
Het filmpje toont naar verluidt een object bij een bliksemschicht in de lucht boven Tsjechië. De video is enkele dagen geleden geplaatst en al meer dan een half miljoen keer bekeken.
Natuurlijke energiebronnen
Een ‘driehoekige UFO’ zou de schicht met gemak volgen. Sommigen zeggen dat het inderdaad om een UFO gaat, terwijl anderen denken dat het een hoax is.
“Ze laden duidelijk hun ‘batterijen’ op door gebruik te maken van natuurlijke energiebronnen,” schreef iemand.
“Aliens zijn niet echt, ze zijn in de jaren veertig verzonnen door Hollywood,” schreef iemand anders.
Back to the Future
Meerdere mensen trokken een parallel met de filmreeks Back to the Future omdat een bliksemschicht ervoor zorgde dat de auto van Marty McFly kon vliegen.
“Doc Brown deed het in Back to the Future en nu gebruiken aliens bliksemschichten om hun vaartuigen aan te drijven,” klonk het.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Over een paar jaar vliegt er een helikopter rond op Mars. De Verenigde Staten bouwen een klein vaartuigje, dat rond 2020 naar de rode planeet moet vertrekken en daar in 2021 moet aankomen. Het is de eerste keer dat een machine zelfstandig gaat rondvliegen op een ander hemellichaam.
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft de plannen vandaag aangekondigd. De Mars Helicopter moet samen met een onbemand karretje, Mars 2020 genaamd, worden gelanceerd. De helikopter weegt net geen twee kilo en de wieken draaien 3000 rondjes per minuut, ongeveer tien keer zo snel als op aarde. Dat is nodig omdat de lucht op Mars veel ijler is dan de lucht hier.
De helikopter moet helemaal zelf zijn vlucht plannen en beslissingen nemen. Elke opdracht van de vluchtleiding op aarde zou pas een paar minuten later aankomen op Mars, te laat om in te grijpen als dat nodig is.
De helikopter is een experiment. Als het niet lukt, is er niets aan de hand, zegt de NASA. Maar als het wel werkt, kunnen ‘marskopters’ gebieden verkennen waar karretjes niet naartoe kunnen rijden.
It was in August 1951 that renowned mountain-climber Eric Shipton embarked upon his fifth expedition to Mount Everest, along with climbers Sir Edmund Hillary, Earle Riddiford, Mike Ward, Sherpa Sen Tensing, and several others. As the expedition neared its end, and while the team explored an area to the southwest of Everest known as Gauri Sankar, mysterious footprints were found – and photographed. Shipton stated: “It was on one of the glaciers of the Menlung basin, at a height of about 19,000 feet, that, late one afternoon we came across those curious footprints in the snow.” He continued: “I have in the past found many sets of these curious footprints and have tried to follow them, but have always lost them. Sen Tensing, who had no doubt whatever that the creatures – for there had been at least two – that had made the tracks were ‘Yetis’ or wild men, told me that two years before, he and a number of other Sherpas had seen one of them at a distance of about 25 yards at Thyangboche.”
Shipton added that: “He [Tensing] described it as half man and half beast, standing about five feet six inches, with a tall pointed head. Whatever it was that he had seen, he was convinced that it was neither a bear nor a monkey.” And the idea that the prints were made by the famous Yeti was bolstered in the minds of Shipton, his colleagues, and the media of the day, as a direct result of the startling fact that they were an impressive 13 inches long and 8 inches wide.
Not everyone was convinced, however. Dr. T.C.S. Morrison-Scott of the Natural History Department of the British Museum was certain that Shipton had been fooled by nothing stranger than the tracks of a langur monkey – an animal that is common to the Himalayas, and that is not unlike the creatures reportedly seen by Sherpa Tensing. The flaw in this theory, however, was that the langur is five-toed and generally walks on all-fours; whereas the creature that made the prints in the Shipton photographs was clearly four-toed, massive, and appeared to walk exclusively on two feet.
Langur Monkey
Indeed, Shipton himself recognized the problems with the langur theory when he stated in The Six Mountain Travel Books: “Of the various theories that have been advanced to account for these tracks, the only one which is in any way plausible is that they were made by a langur monkey, and even this is very far from convincing, as I believe those who have suggested it would be the first to admit.” Perhaps not surprisingly, the controversy was never firmly resolved to everyone’s satisfaction and, as a result, has rumbled on at a steady pace in monster-hunting circles ever since. Moving on from the Shipton photographs, further intriguing evidence exists that leads many modern-day Yeti-seekers to conclude that the Abominable Snowman is far more than just the stuff of legend, fantasy and misidentification.
The creature has a long history in both Nepal and Tibet, and tales of encounters with the hairy animal have been reported for centuries. As far back as 1832, for example, explorer B.H. Hodgson reported in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal that the existence of a large, ape-like creature of the Himalayas had long been known to the people of Nepal. Similarly, in 1889, in the pages of Among the Himalayas, writer and adventurer L.A. Waddell recorded that he had heard countless stories of the legendary giant ape from those who lived among the mountains. Most feared of all by the locals of Tibet and Nepal centuries ago was the Nyalmo: a fierce and gigantic beast said to be related to the Yeti that reputedly inhabited the mountain-tops and supposedly grew to an astonishing height of fifteen feet.
The Yeti takes its name from the ancient Tibetan word yeh-teh, which literally translates as “rock bear.” For many Tibetans, however, the Yeti is not a physical animal. Rather, it is perceived as being a paranormal creature: a spectral animal that is most successfully seen while the witness is in a trance-like, altered state. The far more evocative term of Abominable Snowman originated in 1921, with Henry Newman, a writer for the Calcutta, India-based Statesman newspaper. It was in 1921 that Britain’s Royal Geographical Society launched an expedition to the Himalayas that was led by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Howard-Bury. During the course of the expedition, Howard-Bury came across unusual footprints that the local Sherpa guides claimed originated with what they called the metoh-kangmi – or “the man-bear snowman.”
When the story was told to Henry Newman of the Statesman, however, Newman mistakenly interpreted the word “metoh” to mean “filthy.” And while the term “filthy snowman” sounded merely amusing, Newman eventually came up with the far more headline-grabbing and ominous name of the Abominable Snowman. And, thus, the monster of the Himalayas quickly became a household word and sightings of the beast abounded. In 1925, Greek photographer N.A. Tombini claimed to have seen a Yeti high on the Himalayas. “Unquestionably, the figure in outline was exactly like a human being, walking upright and stopping to uproot or pull at some dwarf rhododendron bushes,” he said, adding: “It showed up dark against the snow and, as far as I could make out, wore no clothes.”
Sir Edmund Hillary
In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary reported finding large, unknown footprints while he climbed Mount Everest; and in 1970 British mountain-climber Don Whillans watched through binoculars as a hairy, ape-like animal apparently searched for food a short distance from his camp on Annapurna, a series of 55-kilometre-long peaks in the Himalayas. In January 1987, a small Yeti was said to have attacked a young boy in northern Kashmir, who reportedly proceeded to hit the creature on the head with a pot until it released him. And, in 2000, a woman claimed to have seen a giant, hairy, man-like animal roaming her land in Medog County, which can be found in southeast Tibet. Since then, sightings have dramatically declined.
There’s only one way to know for certain if Congress is behind something … if it opens its wallet (well, our wallet) and pays for it. Congress has proposed a new “National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2018” bill and buried in its 53 pages is a recommendation to spend $10 million on the “search for technosignatures, such as radio transmissions” per year for the next two fiscal years. This is the first time in 25 years that Congress has considered using tax dollars to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Those who believe the US government (or any government) has already been in contact with – and is possibly working with – aliens will wonder why it would be spending money for something it has already done. OK, governments do that all the time – it’s called “keeping your constituents happy.” But why suddenly spend money again on SETI? Is this a coverup or a distraction?
“You need to remember that this is an authorization bill, not an appropriations bill. Even if it passes, the appropriators may not provide any SETI funding in their bill. But if they do, that would be a very big deal.”
That’s astronomer Jill Tarter, the former director of the SETI Institute and inspiration for Ellie Arroway in Carl Sagan’s novel “Contact” and played in the movie by Jodie Foster, explaining to Live Science what kids would already know if they still watched Schoolhouse Rock’s “I’m Just a Bill.” As someone who has fought all her life for funding, Tarter is obviously excited about the possibility of getting $20 million from the government. But what are the REAL chances of the bill being passed and SETI getting the money?
The answer starts with the sponsor of the bill – Texas congressional representative Lamar Smith. That booing and hissing you hear when his name is mentioned comes from those who know he’s the Head of the House Science Committee and a climate change denier who has taken contributions from the oil and gas industries. On the positive side (most politicians really do have both sides), Smith has an interest in astronomy and is willing to put his name on a bill that actually spends money on NASA – not exactly a popular cause in Washington these days.
However (there’s always a ‘however’), Smith is retiring at the end of his term and will not run for re-election in 2018. Knowing he won’t be around to fight for it, is Smith sponsoring this bill just for show? Also, this comes at the same time President Trump’s administration ended funding for NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) which tracked carbon dioxide and its role in … you guessed it … climate change.
If this is a serious proposal to fund NASA in future attempts at communications with ETs, that’s great. But is it? Why is SETI funding being proposed to a Congress and administration that is clearly not a fan of the parts of NASA that have to do with the planet we live on? Is this a distraction to cover up a contact that has already occurred? Does this bill have any chance of passing?
Strange UFO with blue light caught over Orange County, California
Strange UFO with blue light caught over Orange County, California
Ashley McAdams has filmed a strange UFO in the sky over Orange County, California on May 10, 2018.
While driving on the highway she saw a strange object with a blue light flying parallel with the highway.
The UFO is certainly not a reflection in the window because the object disappears behind the trees and at a certain moment the object even speeds up. Could it be a drone or is it something else.
I found another figure on Mars today. I think this makes the total around 15 or so. This figure is similar in appearance to a human and is an ancient statue of a intelligent species that once lived in this area of Mars. As you can see, it has arms and legs, and even a pointed hat. The statue is about 12-16 inches tall. I wonder if this statue was once a real person who was petrified by some unknown type of weapon. When it comes to governments...they like weapons that instill fear into its enemies...what does this more than a weapon that turns the flesh to stone...to stand as a symbol for thousands of years to warn others.
This figure is close to another discovery I made today...a large Greek style face. The face is large and on the edge of a structure.
Ancient Structure On Mars Is 1.8 KM Long! Found On Google Mars Map, May 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Ancient Structure On Mars Is 1.8 KM Long! Found On Google Mars Map, May 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: May 9, 2018
Location of discovery: Mars
Google Mars coordinates: 10°20'41.53"S 75°11'31.99"W
I found this ancient structure on Mars using Google Mars Map. According to Google ruler, the structure is .35 km tall and 1.84 km long. That is one massive building. There are also two roads or ramps that lead away from the structure. The building has a flat smooth top, possible for landing something on top of. Defiantly gives astronomers a lot to think about with this one.
UFO Hunters Discover Apparent Alien Warrior Statue On Mars
UFO Hunters Discover Apparent Alien Warrior Statue On Mars
UFO researchers believe they have finally discovered proof of life on Mars after finding what they think to be a hat of an ancient warrior after scouring photos of the Red Planet’s surface.
Bristol space video journalist Joe White claimed he had found images of a fallen statue from Curiosity Rover images. The images appear to show the head of an ancient warrior woman.
Mr White uploaded the images to his YouTube channel ArtAleinTV – MARSZOO. He said in the video descriptions that he found a seemingly small feminine statue head in Gale Crater on Mars in the Curiosity image from NASA.
He said that it seemed to only have a few inches in size or less.
The statue looks like a female warrior with a helmet from the middle ages on Earth. It has an apparent emblem on the forehead and with facial features similar to an Egyptian.
Mr White claimed that this is one of the hundreds of similar artefacts he has discovered on Mars in recent years, which he believed may go further to show that Mars had an ancient and artistic civilisation in the past.
How long ago is the question.
Some followers of Mr White believed it was a statue. However, many others thought it was just a part of pareidolia phenomenon.
Pareidolia is when the eyes are tricked by the brain into seeing familiar shapes or objects, such patterns, textures, faces, animals, clouds, the surface of a rock, etc.
One viewer wrote that was most likely a rock that looks like a face. They don’t believe it was something unusual in any way.
Showers of high energy particles occur when energetic cosmic rays strike the top of the Earth's atmosphere. Most cosmic rays are atomic nuclei: most are hydrogen nuclei, some are helium nuclei, and the rest heavier elements. Although many of the low energy cosmic rays come from our Sun, the origins of the highest energy cosmic rays remains unknown and a topic of much research. This drawing illustrates air showers from very high energy cosmic rays.
Credit: Simon Swordy (U. Chicago), NASA
Cosmic rays are atom fragments that rain down on the Earth from outside of the solar system. They blaze at the speed of light and have been blamed for electronics problems in satellites and other machinery.
Discovered in 1912, many things about cosmic rays remain a mystery more than a century later. One prime example is exactly where they are coming from. Most scientists suspect their origins are related to supernovas (star explosions), but the challenge is that for many years cosmic ray origins appeared uniform to observatories examining the entire sky.
A large leap forward in cosmic ray science came in 2017, when the Pierre Auger Observatory (which is spread over 3,000 square kilometers, or 1,160 square miles, in western Argentina) studied the arrival trajectories of 30,000 cosmic particles. It concluded that there is a difference in how frequently these cosmic rays arrive, depending on where you look. While their origins are still nebulous, knowing where to look is the first step in learning where they came from, the researchers said. The results were published in Science.
Cosmic rays can even be used for applications outside of astronomy. In November 2017, a research team discovered a possible void in the Great Pyramid of Giza, which was built around 2560 B.C., using cosmic rays. The researchers found this cavity using muon tomography, which examines cosmic rays and their penetrations through solid objects.
History
While cosmic rays were only discovered in the 1900s, scientists knew something mysterious was going on as early as the 1780s. That's when French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — best known for having a unit of electrical charge named after him — observed an electrically charged sphere suddenly and mysteriously not being charged any more.
At the time, air was thought to be an insulator and not an electric conductor. With more work, however, scientists discovered that air can conduct electricity if its molecules are charged or ionized. This would most commonly happen when the molecules interact with charged particles or X-rays.
But where these charged particles came from was a mystery; even attempts to block the charge with large amounts of lead were coming up empty. On Aug. 7, 1912, physicist Victor Hess flew a high-altitude balloon to 17,400 feet (5,300 meters). He discovered three times more ionizing radiation there than on the ground, which meant the radiation had to be coming from outer space.
Among the products of these star explosions are gamma-ray photons, which (unlike cosmic rays) are not affected by magnetic fields. The gamma-rays studied had the same energy signature as subatomic particles called neutral pions. Pions are produced when protons get stuck in a magnetic field inside the shockwave of the supernova and crash into each other.
In other words, the matching energy signatures showed that protons could move at fast enough speeds within supernovas to create cosmic rays.
Current science
We know today that galactic cosmic rays are atom fragments such as protons (positively charged particles), electrons (negatively charged particles) and atomic nuclei. While we know now they can be created in supernovas, there may be other sources available for cosmic ray creation. It also isn't clear exactly how supernovas are able to make these cosmic rays so fast.
Cosmic rays constantly rain down on Earth, and while the high-energy "primary" rays collide with atoms in the Earth's upper atmosphere and rarely make it through to the ground, "secondary" particles are ejected from this collision and do reach us on the ground.
But by the time these cosmic rays get to Earth, it's impossible to trace where they came from. That's because their path has been changed as they travelled through multiple magnetic fields (the galaxy's, the solar system's and Earth's itself.)
Scientists are trying to trace back cosmic ray origins by looking at what the cosmic rays are made of. Scientists can figure this out by looking at the spectroscopic signature each nucleus gives off in radiation, and also by weighing the different isotopes (types) of elements that hit cosmic ray detectors.
The result, NASA adds, shows very common elements in the universe. Roughly 90 percent of cosmic ray nuclei are hydrogen (protons) and 9 percent are helium (alpha particles). Hydrogen and helium are the most abundant elements in the universe and the origin point for stars, galaxies and other large structures. The remaining 1 percent are all elements, and it's from that 1 percent that scientists can best search for rare elements to make comparisons between different types of cosmic rays. The Pierre Auger Observatory collaboration found some variations in the arrival trajectories of cosmic rays in 2017, providing some hints about where the rays could have originated.
In 2016, a NASA spacecraft found most cosmic rays likely come from (relatively) nearby clusters of massive stars. The agency's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft detected cosmic rays with a radioactive form of iron known as iron-60. Since this form of cosmic ray degrades over time, scientists estimate it must have originated no more than 3,000 light-years from Earth — the equivalent distance of the width of the local spiral arm in the Milky Way.
An experiment called ISS-CREAM (Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass) launched to the International Space Station in 2017. It is expected to operate for three years, answering questions such as whether supernovas generate most cosmic ray particles, when cosmic ray particles originated, and if all the energy spectra seen for cosmic rays can be explained by a single mechanism. The ISS also hosts the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET), which searches for the highest-energy types of cosmic rays. CALET launched there in 2015.
Cosmic rays can also be detected by balloon, such as through the Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (SuperTIGER) experiment that includes participation from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several universities. It has flown several times, including a record 55-day flight over Antarctica between December 2012 and January 2013. "With the data from this flight we are studying the origin of cosmic rays. Specifically, testing the emerging model of cosmic-ray origins in OB associations, as well as models for determining which particles will be accelerated," the SuperTIGER website said.
Citizen scientists can also participate in the search for cosmic rays by registering at the website crayfis.io. There, they will join the CRAYFIS experiment run by the Laboratory of Methods for Big Data Analysis (LAMBDA) at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Russia. Researchers there are examining ultra-high energy cosmic rays using mobile phones.
Space radiation concerns
Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere shields the planet from 99.9 percent of the radiation from space. However, for people outside the protection of Earth's magnetic field, space radiation becomes a serious hazard. An instrument aboard the Curiosity Mars rover during its 253-day cruise to Mars revealed that the radiation dose received by an astronaut on even the shortest Earth-Mars round trip would be about 0.66 sievert. This amount is like receiving a whole-body CT scan every five or six days.
A dose of 1 sievert is associated with a 5.5 percent increase in the risk of fatal cancers. The normal daily radiation dose received by the average person living on Earth is 10 microsieverts (0.00001 sievert).
The moon has no atmosphere and a very weak magnetic field. Astronauts living there would have to provide their own protection, for example by burying their habitat underground.
Mars has no global magnetic field. Particles from the sun have stripped away most of Mars' atmosphere, resulting in very poor protection against radiation at the surface. The highest air pressure on Mars is equal to an altitude of 22 miles (35 kilometers) above the Earth's surface. At low altitudes, Mars' atmosphere provides slightly better protection from space radiation.
In 2017, NASA made some upgrades to its Space Radiation Laboratory (located at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York) to do more studies into how cosmic rays may affect astronauts on long voyages, including to Mars. These upgrades allow researchers to alter types of ions, and the intensity of energy, more easily due to software control.
Look up, way up when you are outside at night. What do you see? If you are fortunate enough to live in a low light pollution area you should see many, many tiny points of light. Each of those tiny specks of light represents varying degrees of our universal collective past. Most of those little specks of light are in actuality stellar mass objects, all fusing hydrogen and depending on its place on the main sequence of stars will fuse Helium into heavier elements. Humanities best and technologically advanced eyes can see millions if not billions of light years away. Everywhere stars, everywhere vast emptiness of one particle per meter density in interstellar space. The Universe essentially looks the same in every direction. There is no center of mass or center of the Universe. No specialty, no regions of space are any more or less special than the rest. Our 90’ish billion light years wide Hubble volume does not play favorites.
Most of these crucibles of helium are not sufficiently different than our closest crucible the Sun. These crucibles come in a vast range of sizes but all function generally the same. Science has gathered irrefutable evidence over the past decade that most stars have planetary systems. Seems to the rule to have planets as opposed to the exception. The grand homogenous appearance of the Universe is key.
Stars come and go in varying degrees of subatomic crunch or mammoth nebula creating explosions. Our Sun is at least a second generation star in this local region of our galaxy. The first star in our neighborhood lived its life and died. It went supernova creating all the elements that make up our periodic table and beyond. Our planet was formed through the powers of accretion. We are supernova detritus. Our planet itself and all life owe everything to that first generation star that gave up the fusion.
Through the mystic arts of chemistry, physics, and of deep time chemical and cellular organization occurred. Life the most basic of life came to be. Life on Earth is an incredibly strong and resilient thing. Our ancient ancestors have survived at least 7 mass extinction events. Yet we persevered and thrived. We have survived very long odds indeed. Every living thing represents a very long unbroken line of winning organisms. Those are the ones that survived to divide and multiply themselves. We are all winners of a very dangerous and very prolonged game of life.
That makes us, all life on Earth, a very improbable very unlikely thing in the grand scheme of things. But yet here we are. When the totality of all the real estate, vast emptiness of interstellar space, and deep time is considered we are of value in our uniqueness. Our uniqueness in our life expressions is vast. There are over 12 million different forms of life spanning all kingdoms, phyla, classes, orders, families, genera, and species. Our tree of life is fractal in nature when you look back through the eons.
NHI – Non-Human Intelligence
Whether you believe that this phenomenon is just machine constructions from some distant off-world construction yard or if you believe that they come from a different reality than ours may not matter. Our limited monkey brains may not be able to discern the two apart. Either what we are seeing is sufficiently advanced technology or of a high strange nature, or both. In this day and age Clarke’s three laws need a new interpretation:
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Being a scientist since the zygote I realize that our human expression of what we call science is woefully incomplete. When you see a scientist speaking in absolutes you can assume that some form of tunnel vision is going on. We just do not know all that much about how the Universe works. We have had science for only a couple hundred years. Only a few hundred rotations around the sun seem to give some people the idea that the current understanding of the Universe is somehow complete. We only think we know a lot about the Universe in comparison to our complete ignorance of centuries past. Our knowledge is an asymptote that approaches zero. Think of it this way, we do not even know what makes up 84.5% of the universe’s mass and thus its corresponding gravity fields. Not a single living human can claim to know what dark matter is. I hate that name “dark matter”. It is not physical matter at all it is something completely different. It is not any of our know states of mater nor energy. It is something that our science has no accepted hypothesis to explain it’s shadowy influence. Dark matter is permeating YOU at this very moment. You can’t see it, can’t feel it, but its there. It is a very real phenomenon that our 5 senses can not perceive. Our best instruments cannot even directly see it, we can just see it indirectly through its influence.
Being a logical being I can not be so arrogant or narrow-minded in my belief that I or any other dominant primate have it all figured out. I would have to be self-deluded to think I or anyone else was an expert or last word on anything in which 84.5% of the problem is completely unknown. But that is what science does. It is great at analyzing and making all the cool gadgets we all use. But it is the wrong toolbox to truly understand the Universe. Our primate logic and anthropomorphic belief systems make us think we are mighty. We are just children in the Universe. We are the problem children.
Last year I had a series of very high strange events. What happened to me shook me out of my closed-minded science only view of the Universe. I am still an atheist to any and all religions. But, I do now know that there is much more to all this then we can see and observe, or ever will observe with our very human consensus reality. In an offhanded way, I publicly asked for it to happen to me. Be careful what you ask for with conviction sometimes something is listening. Some of my readers certainly noticed a different tone in my articles. There was a reason for that.
I started to research the voluminous accounts of Non-Human Intelligence contacts.
I feel it safe to assume that anyone that is reading this and has made it thus far believes that UFO’s/UAP’s are more than just misidentifications and earthy high-tech constructions. I have seen an up-close triangular UFO at no more than 100 meters in broad daylight. That was about 5 years ago. So I know something is here. No belief required. Many of you have had similar experiences.
Now, this is where you, my dear reader may take what follows in whatever form that you can digest.
They communicate in our consciousness. I do not refer to dreams in any way. Anything that happens in dreams cannot possibly be subjectively analyzed or ever be separated from internal imagery, those accounts I dismiss (but not invalidate) for my analysis. The Universe is not that simple where we can expect Klatu to tool up in a shiny new saucer get out and speak English. A true alien will have truly alien communication methodology.
If you investigate the myriad of accounts of high strange events it soon becomes evident that there are common threads of experience from people that are separated in both distance and time. This intelligence may be the occupants of those crafts in the sky or it could be something we have not thought of yet or could think of.
There appears to be some sort of mass contact going on.
People from all walks of life are having experiences they cannot explain during wakeful hours. I do realize that the majority of people who read this are not going to be in this minority that has had high strange contact… Yet! If it helps you think about this take it as science fiction. Just remember that science fiction becomes accepted reality as we develop and solve previously insurmountable problems with new eyes and dedication. To meme it.. science fiction becomes science fact more often than not.
This is a “First Contact” situation for people that have had it.
To hypothesize an intelligence that is either billions of years more evolved, from dimensions andor regions unfathomable to us, or some high powered version of Carl Jung’s “Collective Unconscious” may not ultimately matter in this equation. We are the limiting factor in this communication. The contact modalities vary greatly like human minds vary greatly.
This communication of contact is traumatic to some and exalting to others. But it is clear when you see all the commonalities and synchronicities that something has taken great interest in us. By us, I mean all life on Earth, not just us dominant primates. It is a communication that has no parallel in colloquial life. Words do not describe it to any sufficient degree.
To me, it looks like there is a Planetary Disaster Recovery Plan (P.D.R.P.) being executed. It is a process or set of procedures to recover and protect a concern in the event of a disaster. That disaster is one we humans are causing willfully every day when we support the status quo. This intelligence being possibly masters of time and space from our perspective may know our planetary fate. Something is being done about it. If you are familiar with the canon of UFOlogy this idea fits better than any other hypothesis to explain what we are seeing. Some people are being educated, some people are being abducted, some people are having a much less violating experience. But without exception, a contactee is profoundly changed by the experience. They are shaking us out of our slumber in a way. A slumber that we can no longer afford.
I have no idea as to the criteria of contact. There does not seem to be any geographic, socio-economic, or ethnic correlations that I can find. No one is more likely to have it than any other at least statistically. There must be other aspects of us humans that are being identified as worthy of contact. It probably comes down to the ability to perceive them. Possibly some peoples neurology and psychology makes this contact impossible or at least improbable.
There is an organization that has done ultimately more research in all this than I. I would like to introduce you to FREE.
FREE was formally incorporated as a not for profit academic research institute on July 15, 2015, by various retired Ph.D. physicists, scientists and lay researchers to research “WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS” by undertaking cross-comparative research on individuals who have had various types of contact with non-human intelligence via diverse paranormal “Contact Modalities”. The majority of our FREE Board of Directors hypothesize that all of these “Contact Modalities” are interconnected through what is commonly called “CONSCIOUSNESS” and that advanced physics, in particular, the Quantum Hologram Theory of Physics and Consciousness, as developed by Dr. Edgar Mitchell and Dr. Rudy Schild can possibly describe how all of these diverse paranormal “Contact Modalities” are interrelated.
FREE and Experiencer.org are what UFOlogy and phenomenology have been waiting for. UFOlogy has always been in dire need of academics, doctors, and scientists to get involved. You will be amazed at all the respected scientists involved in this effort.
Well, here it is. This is UFOlogy 2.0.
Just remember that we know nearly nothing about the Universe and how it operates. It is a way too early in our collective quest to understand the unknown to be sure about anything. It would be intellectual laziness to think that what we see is all there is.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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