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, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
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.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
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The green flash image at the top of this post was taken by Jim Grant, an EarthSky friend on Facebook. He captured it off the coast of Ocean Beach, California, and identified it a mock mirage green flash.
It’s not hard to see a green flash with the eye alone, when sky conditions are right, and when you’re looking toward a very clear and very distant horizon. That’s why those who live near an ocean tend to report green flashes most often. A sea horizon is the best place to see them.
The video below, posted to EarthSky by Vladek in 2016, is an excellent example of the experience of seeing a green flash:
Most people see green flashes just at sunset, at the last moment before the sun disappears below the horizon. Be careful and don’t look too soon. If you do look too soon, the light of the sunset will dazzle (or damage) your eyes, and you’ll miss your green flash chance that day.
But if you wait – looking away until just the thinnest rim of the sun appears above the horizon – that day’s green flash could be yours.
Of course, the green flash can be seen before sunrise, too, although it’s harder at that time of day to know precisely when to look.
Mock mirage and green flash seen from San Francisco in 2006. Image via Brocken Inaglory/Wikimedia Commons.
There are many different types of green flash. Some describe a streak or ray of the color green … like a green flame shooting up from the sunrise or sunset horizon.
The most common green flash, though – the one most people describe – is a flash of the color green seen when the sun is nearly entirely below the horizon.
Again … you need a distant horizon to see any of these phenomena, and you need a distinct edge to the horizon. That’s why these green flashes, streaks, and rays are most often seen over the ocean. But you can see them over land, too, if your horizon is far enough away.
Pollution or haze on the horizon will hide this instantaneous flash of the color green.
Jim Grant photographed this green flash on April 27, 2012, off the coast of San Diego.
And, of course, Les Cowley at the great website Atmospheric Optics devotes many pages to the green flash phenomenon. Notice the menu bar at the left side of the page; it’ll let you explore many different types of green flashes.
Green flash atop sun pyramid via astrophotographer Colin Legg in Australia.
Bottom line: The green flash is legendary, and some people have told us they thought it was a myth, like a unicorn or a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But green flashes are very real. You need a distant and exceedingly clear horizon to see them at the last moment before the sun disappears below the horizon at sunset.
Here's What We Know About Russia's Hypersonic Waverider Weapon
Here's What We Know About Russia's Hypersonic Waverider Weapon
By Edd Gent, Live Science Contributor
During a speech to lawmakers, Russian President Vladimir Putin showed images of a hypersonic weapon dubbed Avangard that can apparently reach Mach 20.
Credit: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Warnings of a Russian hypersonic weapon that the U.S. can't defend against may have had you running for the bomb shelter last week. But what, exactly, is this weapon, and how does it work?
The Russians have released few concrete details about the weapon, but from the information available, it appears the weapon is a so-called hypersonic glide vehicle, said Thomas Juliano, an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in hypersonic flight.
Rather than generating its own power to reach hypersonic speeds, the glide vehicle catches a ride atop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Typically, these rockets fly to space on an arcing trajectory before releasing warheads near the top of the parabola, and these warheads drop back down onto the target at hypersonic speeds under the power of gravity.
Rather than falling back to Earth, though, Avangard reenters the atmosphere at an angle and its aerodynamic shape generates lift that lets it glide down at hypersonic speeds, says Juliano, which allows it to travel further farther and maneuver as it descends.
Hyper engineering
The vehicle appears to follow a design known as a "waverider," Juliano said. Waveriders are hypersonic aircraft that have wedge-shaped fuselages specially designed to generate lift by surfing on the shock wave generated as its own aircraft punches through the air at a high speed.
This is important at higher altitudes, where air density is low, making it difficult to generate lift with conventional wing designs. And because it doesn't need large wings, the vehicle is more streamlined, and the reduced drag allows it to maintain its speed over a much longer distance, Juliano said.
Building a vehicle that can tolerate hypersonic speeds and the temperatures they generate is no easy feat, Juliano said. But the design the Russians have opted for circumvents one of the major challenges: propulsion. [Photos: Hypersonic Jet Could Fly 10 Times the Speed of Sound]
"Designing a successful propulsion system at Mach 10 or above is extraordinarily challenging," he said. "By putting the glider on top of an ICBM, you avoid the need to design a successful hypersonic air-breathing engine."
Controlling a vehicle at such high speeds is still incredibly tricky, though.The Russians claim that Avangard is highly maneuverable, and based on computer-generated video included in Putin's address, it appears to have several flaps similar to the aerofoils used by planes to change direction.
Adjusting the aerofoils at hypersonic speeds is not a trivial task, because the shock wave can have complex interactions with the air flowing over the vehicle's surfaces, resulting in "nonlinear" behavior, Juliano said.
That means tiny adjustments can have outsize impacts, which makes it very tricky to calculate how much to move a flap or aerofoil. "It has to be precise, it has to operate quickly and it's a much harder environment to predict," he said.
Nonetheless, Juliano thinks the Russian claims are credible, as the technology has been in development for some time. The U.S. tested its own version, dubbed Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, in 2010 and 2011, but both flights were failures. And China also has an experimental system, code-named DF-ZF.
What is it for?
Russian efforts to develop hypersonic glide vehicles are explicitly aimed at evading U.S. missile defense systems, said Pavel Podvig, an independent analyst who specializes in Russia's nuclear arsenal. [Could the US Stop Nuclear Weapons?]
Current U.S. defenses are designed to take out conventional warheads from ICBMs on predictable ballistic trajectories while they are still in space; these defenses are not well suited to intercept weapons coming in on a high-speed glide in the atmosphere, Podvig said. And unlike traditional warheads, the vehicles will be capable of maneuvering around defenses.
But Podvig said it's not clear if the weapons really provide useful additional military capabilities. "It has been described as a weapon in search of a mission," he told Live Science. "My take is, you don't really need this kind of capability. It doesn't really change much in terms of ability to hit targets."
Podvig pointed out that the ICBM that carried the Avangard during testing, the SS-19, normally carries six conventional warheads. If the goal is to counter missile defense systems, it would be just as easy to overwhelm them with a greater number of standard warheads, he said.
But such weapons could breed dangerous uncertainty, Podvig said, because they aren't covered by arms-control treaties such as New START, which require countries to report the number, type and location of nuclear-capable weapons like ICBMs. In addition, the capabilities and potential uses of hypersonic gliders are still unclear.
"These systemscreate greater risks of miscalculation," Podvig said, "and it's not clear if we can effectively deal with those risks."
In an effort to reduce some of that uncertainty, the Pentagon is reportedly considering fielding space-based sensors to spot hypersonic weapons, according to Space News. The approach would require a costly constellation of satellites, but would be better at spotting weapons gliding in the upper atmosphere and could also see farther than land-based systems limited by the horizon.
Podvig says a properly designed system of this kind should be able to detect hypersonic weapons in flight, but it's not clear this would make it any easier to intercept such fast and maneuverable vehicles.
Le mystère de Gemini 4 et de son Ovni crash en photos
Le mystère de Gemini 4 et de son Ovni crash en photos
Rédigé par internaaze et publié depuis Overblog
Au cours de la mission Gemini 4, les astronautes James McDivitt et Ed White ont fait le tour de la Terre 66 fois et ont laissé une marque dans l’histoire en tant que premier vol spatial sur plusieurs jours des États-Unis. Au cours de la mission, les astronautes ont photographié un mystérieux objet cylindrique que de nombreux auteurs considèrent comme l’une des meilleures photos d’OVNI jamais prises.
En juin 1965, le brigadier-général James McDivitt, commandant de la mission Gemini 4 et le pilote Ed White de la mission Gemini 4 ont pris part au premier vol spatial de plusieurs jours des États-Unis, conçu pour montrer qu’il était possible pour les humains de rester dans l’espace pendant longtemps.
La mission Gemini 4 est le DEUXIÈME vol spatial habité du projet Gemini de la NASA et est le dixième vol spatial américain habité.
Pendant quatre jours, les astronautes James McDivitt et Ed White ont fait 66 fois le tour de la Terre. La mission a marqué la première sortie dans l’espace jamais effectuée par un astronaute américain. Ed White a flotté librement à l’extérieur de l’engin spatial Gemini – relié à celui-ci – pendant environ 20 minutes.
En plus de ce qui précède, la mission Gemini 4 a également été l’une des toutes premières missions spatiales de la NASA au cours de laquelle un certain nombre d’expériences scientifiques ont été réalisées dans l’espace. Les astronautes James McDivitt et Ed White ont utilisé un sextant pour étudier l’utilisation de la navigation céleste pour le vol lunaire dans le cadre du programme Apollo.
Cependant, la mission deviendra célèbre plus tard en raison d’une image étrange prise par l’astronaute James McDivitt, alors que le vaisseau spatial Gemini était en orbite autour de notre planète.
L’OVNI de Gemini 4
Des millions de personnes dans le monde entier prétendent avoir été témoins de choses étranges dans le ciel.
Aujourd’hui, si nous effectuons une recherche rapide sur Youtube, nous trouverons d’innombrables vidéos et images d’objets volants présumés non identifiés, qui promettent d’offrir la preuve ultime des visites d’extraterrestres sur Terre.
Mais malgré cette abondance de preuves matérielles, la vérité demeure malgré tout un mystère… Eh oui !
Si nous devons chercher des observations d’OVNI et des preuves potentielles d’une “présence extraterrestre” sur Terre, alors les personnes les plus compétentes et les plus réputées auxquelles nous devrions poser ces questions sont probablement des astronautes.
Il existe des douzaines de rapports associant des astronautes à des rencontres d’OVNI. Qu’il s’agisse des missions Apollo de la NASA ou des missions antérieures à Apollo, il semble que nous finissons toujours par trouver quelque chose digne d`être mentionné.
De nombreux experts ufologues prétendent que l’une des meilleures photos d’un ovni a été prise précisément au cours de la mission Gemini 4 lorsque l’astronaute James McDivitt, pilote de commandement du vaisseau spatial Gemini 4, a photographié quelque chose en orbite basse autour de la Terre.
Cette image, selon un article d’UFO Evidence a même déconcerté le très sceptique Condon Committee en 1969 ; une photo prise lors de son vol a été largement saluée comme l’une des “meilleures photos d’OVNI jamais réalisées”.
Mais malgré le fait que de nombreux auteurs considèrent l’image prise par McDivitt comme l’une des meilleures images d’OVNI, l’ancien astronaute de la NASA n’a jamais fait grand chose de ses observations, suggérant qu’il a vu des débris orbitaux non identifiés mais qui ont été conçus par l’homme.
La NASA est toujours restée sceptique quant à l’observation d’objets bizarres comme celui que McDivitt a photographié. En fait, la NASA a insisté sur le fait qu’il n’y avait rien de mystérieux à propos de l’objet photographié par l’ancien astronaute et qu’il était clairement d’origine terrestre, et qu’il appartenait très probablement aux Américains ou aux Soviétiques.
Certains sceptiques ont même suggéré que c’était peut-être la fusée d’appoint de McDivitt.
Voici le récit de McDivitt sur cet OVNI, tel qu’il l’a résumé sur le Dick Cavett Showen novembre 1973 (tel que rapporté dans le magazine FATE, en juin 1974), “Je volais avec Ed White. Il dormait à l’époque, donc je n’ai personne pour vérifier mon histoire. Nous dérivions dans l’espace avec les réacteurs éteints, et toute l’instrumentation s’est éteinte (quand) soudainement (un objet) est apparu dans le hublot. Il avait une forme très précise – un objet de forme cylindrique – il était blanc – il avait un grand bras qui sortait sur le côté. Je ne sais pas si c’était un très petit objet de près ou un très grand objet très loin.”
“Il n’y avait rien pour estimer sa taille. Je ne pouvais pas savoir à quel point il était grand. Nous avions deux caméras qui flottaient dans le vaisseau spatial à l’époque, alors j’en ai pris une et j’ai pris une photo de (l’objet) et j’ai pris l’autre et j’ai pris une photo. Puis j’ai allumé les systèmes de contrôle de la fusée parce que j’avais peur que l’on ne heurte l’objet. A l’époque, nous dérivions – sans vérifier, je n’ai aucune idée de la direction dans laquelle nous allions – mais au fur et à mesure que nous dérivions un peu plus loin, le soleil brillait sur le hublot du vaisseau spatial”.
“Le hublot était sale – comme celui d’une automobile, on ne pouvait pas voir à travers. J’ai donc fait repartir les moteurs de contrôle de la fusée et déplacé le vaisseau spatial pour que le hublot soit à nouveau dans l’obscurité – l’objet avait disparu.”.
“J’ai appelé plus tard pour leur dire ce qui s’était passé, et ils sont retournés vérifier leurs dossiers sur les autres débris spatiaux qui volaient dans l’espace, mais nous n’avons jamais été en mesure d’identifier ce que cela aurait pu être. Le film a été renvoyé à la NASA et revu par des techniciens de la NASA. L’un des techniciens de la NASA a conclu que ce n’était pas un ovni mais le reflet de soleil sur la fenêtre.”
L’OVNI Gemini 5 et les photos du USS Trepand
Ce qui est curieux, c’est qu’en 2015 un grand nombre de photographies prétendument prises par le USS Trepang ont émergées sur internet.
Les photos présentent un objet non-identifié mystérieux, qui selon les nombreux ufologues ressemblent à l’objet qui a été photographié par James McDivitt dans le cadre de la mission Gemini 4.
Les images de l’OVNI ont été prises par l’USS Trepang SSN 674 en Mars 1971.
Les photographies sont désormais disponibles, merci à John Greenewald du “Black Vault” et Alex Mistretta du magazine “Top Secret”.
Voici quelques images, merci à l’utilisateur de Reddit SquizCat.
Les photographies ci-dessous sont la propriété du site TopSecret.fr.
OVNIS AU DESSUS DE LA CENTRALE NUCLÉAIRE DE FESSENHEIM
OVNIS AU DESSUS DE LA CENTRALE NUCLÉAIRE DE FESSENHEIM
Il me parait important de relayer ici une information qui nous a été transmise par un informateur digne de confiance, mais dont nous nous sommes engagés à taire l’identité, au sujet d’une observation d’ovnis particulièrement incroyable.
Nous sommes le jeudi 24 mai 2018 du côté de la centrale nucléaire de Fessenheim en Alsace. Durant presque 2 heures, de 22h40 à minuit passé, des civils et personnels militaires (7 ou 8 personnes en tout) ont été les spectateurs de ce qu’il convient d’appeler une véritable escadrille d’ovnis. En effet, ceux-ci auraient été les témoins d’un survol de la centrale par pas moins d’une quinzaine d’aéronefs de tailles, formes et couleurs diverses. Certains de ces ovnis étaient de forme triangulaire et de couleur noire, ou ronds de couleur orange quand d’autres présentaient une structure en losange.
Deux de ces engins ont notamment pu être observés de très près (à une distance d’environ 50 mètres) lors de leur survol à très basse altitude du bâtiment réacteur de la centrale. Leur vitesse de déplacement a été décrite comme étant très lente et, comme souvent dans pareille description, notre témoin relate un déplacement totalement silencieux.
La taille du plus imposant des ovnis qui composaient cette « armada », de forme triangulaire et observé à une distance d’une centaine de mètres, a été évaluée par les témoins à environ 20 mètres de longueur.
Nul doute que plusieurs témoins de cette observation (notamment le personnel de gendarmerie présent) ont été auditionnés par les services militaires et que ces derniers disposent de traces vidéo de ce phénomène (via les caméras de sécurité présentes sur le site). Nous pouvons aussi affirmer avec une quasi-certitude que tout ceci ne sera pas communiqué au grand public, cet épisode ayant rapport à la sécurité d’un site sensible. Par ailleurs, si cette information venait à être reprise dans les médias « mainstream », nous aurions très certainement droit à la version communément avancée dans pareille situation : « de simples drones ont survolé un site nucléaire »
Reste à poser les questions qui « fâchent » et à mettre le doigt sur les caractéristiques d’un phénomène au sujet duquel la majorité de la population et officiellement les services de l’Etat (je dis officiellement par que je suis persuadé à titre personnel qu’en interne il en est tout autre) s’entêtent à nier l’existence.
Quel appareil de type drone possède aujourd’hui les caractéristiques énoncées lors de cette observation : taille (20 mètres pour l’un d’entre eux), déplacement silencieux et capacité à effectuer un vol stationnaire ?
Pourquoi ce type d’observation est-il généralisé aux abords des sites nucléaires sensibles et ce depuis de nombreuses années (quelques recherches rapides sur le net vous permettront de réaliser à quel point les observations d’ovnis, depuis plusieurs décennies et sur toute la planète, sont effectuées autour de sites nucléaires, qu’ils soient civils ou militaires) ?
Pour aller un peu plus loin dans ce questionnement, pourquoi ce phénomène cible-t-il aujourd’hui la centrale de Fessenheim, site nucléaire civil particulièrement contesté de par l’ancienneté, la vétusté et donc la dangerosité de son infrastructure ?
Autant de faits et questions qui, encore une fois, ne seront pas ou peu abordées dans les médias nationaux et qui, s’ils ne sont pas traités à travers le prisme du dédain et de la moquerie, seront passés sous silence.
Que ce phénomène trouve une explication rationnelle ou pas, il souligne des problématiques sécuritaires qui ne peuvent être balayées d’un simple revers de main et soulève des questions que nous ne pouvons ignorées et sur lesquelles il est primordial à mon sens de se pencher :
Qui (ou quoi) se cache derrière ce phénomène ? A travers quelle technologie s’exprime-t-il ? Et enfin, doit-on interpréter ce phénomène comme étant l’expression d’un message relatif à notre utilisation irraisonnée d’une technologie que nous ne maitrisons pas et qui met l’humanité en danger ?
Le débat reste non seulement ouvert mais il mérite et doit susciter notre intérêt à tous. Si les grands médias qui occupent et monopolisent l’espace d’expression et de réflexion ne s’emparent pas de cette thématique, il nous appartient modestement à nous, simples citoyens curieux et responsables de la faire émerger dans le débat public.
Je joints à cet article un document émanant de Matthieu Wikkelmuller, directeur technique adjoint chez EDF-CNE Fessenheim :
WETENSCHAPDe planetoïde die 66 miljoen jaar geleden op de aarde insloeg, deed onze planeet 100.000 jaar lang met 5 graden opwarmen. Dat blijkt uit fossielen die werden opgegraven in Tunesië. Hieruit zijn veel lessen te trekken over de klimaatverandering waarmee we vandaag geconfronteerd worden, zeggen onderzoekers.
De onderzoekers van de eerste studie baseren zich op restanten van vissen die dateren van de tijd voor en na de inslag die onder andere de dinosauriërs fataal werd. Ze bestudeerden de verhouding tussen twee zuurstofisotopen in de resten, die afhankelijk zijn van de temperatuur. Bij de ontwikkeling van mineralen in de tanden, beenderen en schubben van vissen, bepaalt de temperatuur van het water hoeveel van deze isotopen gevormd worden.
Daaruit kunnen de onderzoekers besluiten dat de temperatuur na de planetoïde-inslag snel toenam van 20 tot 25 graden Celsius. Aan de polen was de opwarming wellicht nog groter dan in Tunesië. Bovendien duurde het zeker 100.000 jaar voor de aarde weer afkoelde, zo schrijven de onderzoekers in het vakblad Science.
Dat mag dan allemaal 66 miljoen jaar geleden gebeurd zijn, de plotse opwarming die toen plaatsvond is volgens de onderzoekers wel relevant voor wat er vandaag aan het gebeuren is. Ze kan ons een beeld geven van de impact die de huidige klimaatverandering in de toekomst op de planeet zal hebben. “Het tempo waarmee de systemen op onze planeet door de impact verstoord werden, is vergelijkbaar met de menselijke verstoring in de voorbije 200 jaar”, zegt professor Ken MacLeod van de universiteit van Missouri, hoofdauteur van de studie. “Zelfs als we onze levensstijl morgen drastisch veranderen, zal het nog 100.000 jaar duren om de veranderingen die we de aarde al hebben opgedrongen om te keren.”
De plotse opwarming die toen plaatsvond is volgens de onderzoekers relevant voor wat er vandaag aan het gebeuren is
Afkoeling
Deze theorie staat haaks op speculaties van sommige wetenschappers dat de inslag geleid zou hebben tot een enorme afkoeling van de aarde. Door de impact zouden er grote branden ontstaan zijn, die roet in de atmosfeer slingerden. Dat hield het zonlicht tegen, met een afkoeling van de aarde tot gevolg.
Toch sluit de nieuwe studie dat scenario niet volledig uit. Mogelijk koelde de aarde na de inslag kortstondig af, voornamelijk op plaatsen nabij de impactlocatie, meteen daarna gevolgd door een globale opwarming.
Vogels
De bekendste slachtoffers van de gevolgen van de inslag waren de dinosauriërs. Maar zij waren niet de enigen die uitgeroeid werden, zo stelt een andere studie die gepubliceerd is in Current Biology.Ook de bossen op onze planeet verdwenen, wat dan weer leidde tot het uitsterven van op zes na alle vogelsoorten.
De onderzoekers bestudeerden het fossielenbestand van Nieuw-Zeeland, Japan, Europa en Noord-Amerika. “De restanten tonen aan dat er een massa-ontbossing plaatsvond in de hele wereld”, zeggen de onderzoekers. En zonder bomen stierven ook alle vogels die in bomen leefden uit - ze hadden immers geen nestplaatsen meer.
De 11.000 vogelsoorten die we vandaag hebben, zijn allemaal ontstaan uit een handvol soorten
Enkel vogels die op de grond leefden, konden overleven. Fossielen van deze vogels tonen aan dat ze langere, stevigere poten hebben, net zoals de loopvogels die we vandaag kennen.
“Vandaag zijn vogels de meest diverse en meest verspreide groep gewervelde dieren”, zegt hoofdauteur Daniel Field van de universiteit van Bath. “Er zijn bijna 11.000 soorten. Die zijn dus allemaal ontstaan uit een handvol soorten die 66 miljoen jaar geleden de massa-extinctie overleefden.”
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Het wordt nog gekker. Rapport geeft details prijs over UFO die tot het onmogelijke in staat leek
Het wordt nog gekker. Rapport geeft details prijs over UFO die tot het onmogelijke in staat leek
Eind vorig jaar werd door het Pentagon een video vrijgegeven waarin te zien was hoe Amerikaanse marinepiloten een onbekend object volgden.
De New York Times publiceerde een artikel waaruit bleek dat de Amerikaanse overheid jarenlang in het geheim onderzoek had gedaan naar UFO’s.
Een nieuwsteam uit Las Vegas heeft nu de hand weten te leggen op officiële documenten die nog meer details bevatten over de waarneming.
Nog gekker
Het wordt allemaal nog gekker dan het al was, schrijft website BGR.
Het legerrapport verhaalt over een vreemd kat-en-muisspel tussen een vliegdekschip en meerdere UFO’s die tot het onmogelijke in staat leken.
De objecten werden vanaf 10 november 2004 meerdere dagen gezien. Ze verschenen gedurende korte tijd op de radarsystemen van het vliegdekschip, hingen stil in de lucht en schoten vervolgens met hoge snelheden weg.
Groot genoeg
De bemanning besloot een onderzoek in te stellen. Er werden twee F/A-18 Super Hornets op de vreemde signalen afgestuurd.
Het object dat de piloten zagen wordt in het rapport omschreven als ‘wit, glad en zonder randen of vleugels’.
Volgens het rapport was het object ongeveer 14 meter lang, terwijl de piloten schatten dat het 17 meter lang was. Het was in ieder geval groot genoeg voor tenminste één of meerdere individu(en).
Camoufleren
De piloten zeiden dat het object nooit een bedreiging was. In het rapport wordt opgemerkt dat de UFO leek te reageren op de aanwezigheid van de straaljagers.
Gedurende de dagen dat het object te zien was, bleek het in staat om zich te camoufleren en zich zo aan het oog te onttrekken.
Het feit dat het daalde van ruim 18 kilometer hoogte naar slechts 15 meter hoogte en vervolgens verdween doet de auteurs van het rapport vermoeden dat het ook onder water kon opereren.
On previous occasions, I have written here at Mysterious Universe on the subject of a U.S. Government UFO-themed program of the late 1940s to the early 1950s. It was called Project Twinkle. Its mandate was to investigate reports of strange, brightly lit, green fireballs. They were seen in close proximity to military installations and facilities involved in research concerning atomic energy (largely, but not exclusively, in the southwest of the United States). Many of the staff believed the fireballs were under intelligent control. While the program was ultimately closed and fell into a degree of obscurity, the now-available files offer an intriguing insight into the phenomenon. Take, for example, the following document of October 18, 1948, which tells a fascinating and intriguing story. It is one of many. Here’s how it starts:
“18 Oct 48 – CONFIDENTIAL Gen Holger Toftoy (US Army Ordnance/Rocket) daily log: Conference attended by Cols Toftoy, Roberts & Bainbridge (CC), Maj J.F. Gay & Dr. J. J. Grebe, (Chemical Corps), and Dr. Mugson. Chemical Corps reported analysis of fragments picked up from ‘flying saucer’ which vanished with a brilliant flash and bang near Midland, Michigan. Sand and clinker recovered from the locality contained nuggets of fairly pure silver and some thorium. The thorium was sufficient to give radioactivity approximately 10 times natural background which could possibly be ascribed to thorium coated filaments in electronic equipment, although the quantity seems excessive.”
The document continues: “There was evidence also of magnesium which had been completely oxidized. Dr. Grebe advanced his hypothesis that small missiles of the order of 1 to 3 feet in diameter might be responsible, coming from distant sources. He considered that a rapidly rotating disc of magnesium and /or aluminum might have enough energy if properly utilized to propel the disc several thousand miles, and might be completely destroyed by burning in air. Remaining traces of silver and thorium might be ascribed to electronic control system.”
We are then told: “After discussion, it was agreed that Col Roberts should request the Bur of Standards group to investigate some of the mechanisms which might conceivably propel discs of this general type and TU will keep in close touch with these calculations (CMH). A meeting next Monday, 25 Oct, can be arranged with Dr. Grebe if indications are favorable. Dr. Grebe also briefly described a theory of his that a fish-shaped object with a modified tear-drop cross section would take off along the long axis and change position in flight to fly at an angle more like a flying wing. No wings or other aerodynamic surfaces that produce drag would be required.”
Clearly, a great deal of time and effort went into resolving this matter, regardless of the origins of the fragments. The reference to such fragments possibly having come from a “flying saucer” is interesting. It’s important to note, though, the fact that those two words – “flying” and “saucer” – are contained within quotation marks. This suggests the military was using the term as one which was in popular, widespread use at the time, but not necessarily intended to mean “alien spacecraft.”
Whatever the truth of the affair described above, it’s notable that it was cases like this one which had the Project Twinklepeople more than a bit concerned. Consider the following: Three months later, the Headquarters 4th Army prepared a document titled “Unconventional Aircraft.” It began: “1. The inclosed Summary of Information: subject ‘Unconventional Aircraft’ (Control No. A-1917) dated 13 Jan 49, is forwarded for your information and any action deemed necessary. 2. Agencies in New Mexico are greatly concerned over these phenomena. They are of the opinion that some foreign power is making ‘sensing shots’ with some super-stratospheric device designed to be self-disintegrating. They also believe that when the device is perfected for accuracy, the disintegrating factor will be eliminated in favor of a warhead.”
The military continued: “3. Another theory being advanced as possibly acceptable lies in the belief that the phenomena are the result of radiological warfare experiments by a foreign power, further, that the rays may be lethal or might be attributed to the cause of some of the plane crashes that have occurred recently. 4. Still another belief that is advanced is that, it is highly probable that the United States may be carrying out some top-secret experiments. 5. It is felt that these incidents are of such great importance, especially as they are occurring in the vicinity of sensitive installations, that a scientific board be sent to this locality to study the situation with a view of arriving at a solution of this extraordinary phenomena with the least practicable delay. 6. It is further requested that this headquarters be informed of action taken on this and a previous report in order that reporting agencies may be advised.”
In view of all the above, it’s hardly surprising that, behind closed doors, people were restless. Additional records show that Project Twinkle never did resolve matters to the satisfaction of everyone. The green fireballs vanished into oblivion, leaving more than a few people both puzzled and alarmed as to what the truth really was.
Zonnestelsel in beginjaren geroosterd door supernova
Zonnestelsel in beginjaren geroosterd door supernova
Het zonnestelsel heeft in zijn beginjaren mogelijk flink te lijden gehad van een nabije supernova-explosie.
Tot deze conclusie komt een Nederlands/Hongaars team op basis van gedetailleerde computerberekeningen. Het supernova-scenario verklaart onder andere waardoor het baanvlak van de planeten gekanteld is ten opzichte van de evenaar van de zon en waarom het zonnestelsel aan de buitenkant abrupt ophoudt.
Het zonnestelsel kent verscheidene lastig te verklaren eigenaardigheden. Zo maakt het gemiddelde baanvlak van de planeten een hoek van 5,6 graden ten opzichte van de evenaar van de zon. Daarnaast houdt ons zonnestelsel al op bij 45 keer de afstand aarde-zon, terwijl er net daarbinnen een rijke ring van ruimtepuin is, de Kuipergordel. Bij veel andere sterren strekken dergelijke puinschijven zich doorgaans uit tot wel 400 keer de afstand aarde-zon.
Onderzoekers van de Universiteit Leiden en van de Hongaarse Academie van wetenschappen beargumenteren dat deze eigenaardigheden het gevolg zijn van een supernova-explosie dicht in de buurt van het jonge zonnestelsel. Onze zon bevond zich toen waarschijnlijk in een sterrenhoop van enkele duizenden sterren, waarvan er een als supernova ontploft kan zijn.
De onderzoekers hebben met in Leiden ontwikkelde simulatiesoftware berekend op welke afstand en in welke richting de supernova zich bevond. Ze komen uit bij een afstand van 0,5 tot 1,3 lichtjaar en een hoek van 35 tot 60 graden ten opzichte van de protoplanetaire stofschijf rond de zon.
Het afkappen en kantelen van de stofschijf om de zon werd volgens de onderzoekers niet veroorzaakt door de supernova zelf, maar door de nucleaire schokgolf van de gloeiendhete buitenlagen van de ontploffende ster die het zonnestelsel ramde. Er zat ongeveer dertig jaar tussen het ontploffen van de ster en het moment dat de nucleaire schokgolf het zonnestelsel bereikte. De aarde was toen nog niet gevormd, maar mogelijk zijn de sporen van de supernovaschokgolf nog wel zichtbaar in de chemische en isotopische samenstelling van de oudste gesteenten in het zonnestelsel.
With so many incredible, newly developing technologies, could we build a real-life Millennium Falcon? In short, no. But we're getting closer.
In the "Star Wars" universe, the Millennium Falcon is heralded as the coolest ship around. The cargo vessel that Han Solo originally won from Lando Calrissian in the Cloud City Sabacc Tournament, the Millennium Falcon lies at the center of some of the most incredible adventures in the series.
The Millennium Falcon's signature speed comes from its hyperdrive, a propulsion system that pushes the vessel to light speed — though Han Solo has famously boasted that the ship can travel even faster. The hyperdrive functions by using "hypermatter particles" to send the craft into hyperspace, an alternative dimension reached by traveling at or beyond the speed of light. This technique uses wrinkles in the fabric of space-time, or wormholes: pieces of the fabric that fold over to connect two otherwise-distant points.
Now, while the theory of general relativity does predict wormholes, they are still just a theoretical phenomenon. So, because we can't prove their existence, we certainly can't manipulate them for our own purposes. Stephen Hsu, a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Oregon, told our sister site Live Science, "You would need some very exotic type of matter in order to stabilize a wormhole, and it's not clear whether such matter exists in the universe."
Now, there is some excitement in the scientific community surrounding an engine called the EmDrive. This is not a hyperdrive, or a warp drive as some have suggested. But it bounces microwaves around a chamber as a substitute for propellant. Recently, researchers put the EmDrive to the testand found that the thrust it produced comes from some kind of electromagnetic interaction that is likely between the engine's power cables and Earth's magnetic field, according to their study This might not be the end of the EmDrive as a potential, future engine — but it certainly isn't a hyperdrive.
Illustrator Kemp Remillard detailed the interior of the Millennium Falcon.
Even if we suspend our disbelief and accept the ship's speed, another issue arises: g-forces. According to calculations from Wired, passengers aboard the Millennium Falcon could experience up to about 12 g's while traveling at the speeds portrayed in the films (though this might not be the case if they are traveling through hyperspace). This is comparable to being in a gravitational field 12 times higher than what we normally experience on Earth. ["Star Wars" Spaceships from a Galaxy Far, Far Away]
At 1 g, we can still push blood up to our brains, but as the g's increase, this becomes more difficult. Twelve g's is about the maximum that jet-fighter pilots can experience before passing out, but this assumes they're wearing g-suits, which squeeze the legs in high-g situations to prevent blood from being pushed down.
So, theoretically, without high-g suits, the human passengers aboard the Millennium Falcon would black out when the ship took high-g turns, even without traveling as fast as Han Solo has bragged it can.
Holochess
At Chewbacca's request, a hologram "chess," or holochess, table was installed on the Millennium Falcon so passengers could play Dejarik, a classic strategy game in the "Star Wars" universe. But while astronauts aboard the International Space Station won't be playing Chewie's favorite game anytime soon, hologram technology is inching its way into modern spacecraft.
In 2016, after some launch difficulties, two of Microsoft's HoloLens AR headsets traveled to the space station to aid crewmembers. Additionally, the innovators behind the Voxiebox have built an early version sort of holochess. You can't feel the pieces or move them with your hands — but this feature is not far off, and researchers have already gotten close.
Aboard most ships in the "Star Wars" universe, and throughout sci-fi stories, deflector shields are a staple security measure. Whenever conflict arises, deflectors go right up, keeping the ship intact despite enemy attacks. But is this just a well-worn science fiction trope? Not exactly.
Back in 2014, ExtremeTech profiled a team of students from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom who considered the possibility of using plasma to build such a deflector. The students took notice of the Earth's ionosphere, a part of the upper atmosphere that contains plasma.
Currently, we bounce communication signals off of the ionosphere's plasma to send them to different locations on Earth. This "invisible shield" around Earth was the inspiration for this team's suggestion that you could use and manipulate plasma to deflect electromagnetic radiation — such as that coming from an energy-based or laser weapon, possibly. Such a shield isn't technically feasible yet, but their general concept to use plasma to deflect radiation is certainly within the realm of possibility.
Additionally,in 2008, Ruth Bamford of the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in England and her colleagues studied the possibility of deflecting radiation using a portable magnetic shield. While it's not the battle-ready deflector we've seen in Star Wars, it's definitely a step in that direction.
Other than its description as a power source for starships like the Millennium Falcon, the Quadex power core is a fairly mysterious technology. The series never explains how the power core operates, so it is equally possible and impossible that we could build one.
Quad Laser Cannons
Some of the Millennium Falcon's most powerful and most-used weapons, its quad laser cannons are also relatively feasible. The U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has spent years developing the closest thing we have to a "Star Wars" style laser cannon. It can fit on a fighter jet but is still powerful enough to shoot a 150-kilowatt energy beam.
Additionally, researchers have suggested that a coherent amplification network (CAN) laser, a beam created from multiple small lasers, could get rid of space debris surrounding Earth by vaporizing a thin layer of matter off of the surface of the space junk. This would push the debris downward, where it would burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
Laser weapons may currently be large, dangerous and difficult to create, but they are certainly possible.
Hodgepodge Design
The technologies aboard the Millennium Falcon are not a constant. The ship is an ever-evolving amalgamation of assorted, stolen, customized and found parts. It might seem odd that a highly capable future ship could be assembled this way — but when you think about current spaceflight advances, it makes sense.
The Millennium Falcon has a lot in common with SpaceX's Dragon, whose reusable design is optimized for efficient, sustainable launches. Similarly, the Millennium Falcon's design relies on the reuse of found parts.
With long-term space travel, tech aboard a ship would occasionally break, become obsolete, etc. It might not always be possible to 3D print new items or make repairs with what is already available on a ship. Future space travelers might do what Han Solo has done and repurpose found parts to efficiently survive in the cosmos.
The Millennium Falcon boasts a seemingly endless list of gadgets and capabilities. From its oversize sensor dish to its Gigyrodyne sublight engine, thrust-pressure manifold and sensor-proof smuggling compartments, the tech aboard this ship ranges from highly plausible to entirely fictional.
So, humanity is not quite ready to build a Millennium Falcon. Still, many developing technologies could one day make onboard tech like laser cannons and invisible deflector shields a reality. Until then, we can always watch Han Solo and company zip through the galaxy on one of science fiction's most iconic ships.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Spectacular (and Weird) in This Juno Photo
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Spectacular (and Weird) in This Juno Photo
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter on April 1, 2018. Citizen-scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran processed data from Juno's JunoCam instrument into this stunning view.
A gorgeous photo by NASA's Juno spacecraft shows Jupiter as you've probably never seen it before.
"This new perspective of Jupiter from the south makes the Great Red Spot appear as though it is in northern territory," NASA officials wrote today (May 21) in a description of the image. "This view is unique to Juno and demonstrates how different our view is when we step off the Earth and experience the true nature of our three-dimensional universe."
The newly released photo is a composite of multiple images snapped by Juno's JunoCam on April 1, during the spacecraft's most recent close flyby of the solar system's largest planet. Juno took the constituent photos from a distance of 10,768 miles (17,329 kilometers) to 42,849 miles (68,959 km) above Jupiter's cloud tops, NASA officials said.
Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran then processed the raw JunoCam data into the finished photo that was released today. (Anyone can do such processing work; to learn more, go to the JunoCam site.)
The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011 and arrived at Jupiter in July 2016. The probe orbits on a highly elliptical path, zooming above the gas giant's poles once every 53 days.
The solar-powered Juno makes most of its scientific observations during these close approaches, gathering information about Jupiter's composition, structure and gravitational and magnetic fields. The probe's data should help researchers better understand how Jupiter, and by extension the solar system, formed and evolved, mission team members have said.
The April 1 encounter was Juno's 12th science flyby of Jupiter. The 13th will occur on Thursday (May 24).
In an attempt to solve the mystery of how a cluster of human cells orient themselves into a front, back, top and bottom of an embryo, a group of U.S. researchers avoided restrictions on using human embryos by doing something even more controversial – but apparently legal … they grafted human cells onto chicken embryos to create a form of human-chicken hybrid. Wait … what? Is this the first step to creating a real Chickenman? Who will play him in the movie?
“No one knew what happens after the ball of cells attaches itself to the uterus.”
Ali Brivanlou, a developmental biologist at the Rockefeller University in New York City, headed the research and is the lead author of the study published this week in the journal Nature. If you’re up on your developmental biology, you’ll remember Brivanlou’s name from a previous study in 2016 when he and a different team grew human embryos in a Petri dish for 14 days, breaking the previous record of nine days. U.S. laws forced the team to destroy the cells at that point, but there seemed to be no biological reason why they couldn’t have continued to grow. The team was frustrated because 14 days was not long enough to see the cells organize themselves into future body parts.
Have we seen this before?
Enter the salamanders.
Brivanlou already knew that the organization was done by special ‘organizer cells’ which were discovered in 1924 when German researchers Hilde Mangold and Hans Spemann transplanted cells from a salamander onto a salamander embryo and watched them grow into a second conjoined salamander. That sounds like the opening scene of a horror movie that could only be made better/scarier if the cells were human.
Enter the chickens.
Brivanlou also knew that chicken embryos mature sooner and grow faster than human embryos. Under his direction, the researchers avoided the 14-day restriction by growing human embryonic stem cells into embryo-like (what would that be?) “structures” called gastruloids that they then attached to 12-hour-old chicken embryos which they claimed are the chicken-equivalents of 14-day-old human embryos.
Enter the human-chicken hybrids.
The human organizer cells in the embryo-like (this still sounds fishy) structure organized the chicken embryo to form a second conjoined chicken embryo (sound familiar?) which Brivanlou claimed did not reach maturity and “hatch.”
Or were they destroyed by nervous or guilt-ridden researchers?
“Once you transplant the human organizer into a chicken embryo, the language it uses to instruct the bird cells to establish the brain and nervous system is exactly the same as the one used by amphibians and fish.”
I told you it sounded fishy. While Brivanlou claims that this is an ethical solution to studying early embryonic growth in order to potentially grow artificial organs or manipulate cells into regenerative tissues to combat diseases such as Alzheimer’s, he still prefers to use the real thing.
“There is no substitute for studying the real embryo. Everything else we do when we try to model kind of oversimplifies it. Human embryonic stem cells and eggs have all the information. Everything else is pushing the first domino.”
They’ve created a human-chicken hybrid. Are the dominoes already falling?
Would chickens falling like dominoes be a cool opening to the “Chickenman” movie trailer?
The search for alien life hasn’t been a fruitful one yet. NASA and other space agencies have greatly improved their abilities to detect new exoplanets, but identifying distant planets is a long way from discovering the first evidence of life outside of Earth. Scientists have identified some signs that a few nearby bodies may have the ingredients necessary to support life, but so far it seems as if we’re all alone in our neck of the cosmic woods.
Still, the search continues for planets which lie in the “Goldilocks zone,” or circumstellar habitable zone if you’re not into the whole brevity thing. This area is the orbital region surrounding stars which is the perfect distance to support life – not too hot, not too cold. Astronomers frequently discuss finding Earth-like planets out of the assumption that our planet must somehow by the ideal type of world to support life.
A “hot” eyeball planet.
However, a new theory proposed by astronomer Sean Raymond at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux in France says that perhaps we’re focusing too much on finding new Earths and we should turn our attention instead to discovering what he calls “eyeball planets.” These are a type of tidally locked planet, meaning the same side of the planet always faces towards its host star or planet. Raymond proposes that these orbits can result in two different types of eyeball-like planets in which there is a warmer side and a colder side. On a “hot” eyeball planet, the hot ‘pupil’ of the eye is composed of rock while the cold side is liquid; on a “cold” eyeball planet the ‘pupil’ is liquid while the dark side remains ice.
Raymond writes that the Milky Way “may be littered with wild varieties of eyeball planets” and that the search for alien life “will almost certainly start with these worlds.”
There is good reason to think that the first potentially life-bearing worlds that are now being detected around other stars probably look very different than Earth. Rather, these planets are more likely to look like giant eyeballs whose gaze is forever fixed on their host stars.
Raymond’s argument for prioritizing these types of worlds in our search for life is that “eyeball” planets can exist in a much wide range of circumstellar space than the Earth-like planets we seek out in stars’ Goldilocks zones. Thus, there could me many more of these eyeball planets out there in the universe than there are Earth-like planets, opening up further possibilities for discovering alien life.
The US Department of Defense funded a series of studies on advanced aerospace technologies, including warp drives.
The studies came out of a program that also funded research into UFO sightings.
One report describes the possibility of using dark energy to warp space and effectively travel faster than light.
However, a theoretical physicist says there's "zero chance that anyone within our lifetimes or the next 1,000 years" will see it happen.
Sometime after August 2008, the US Department of Defense contracted dozens of researchers to look into some very, very out-there aerospace technologies, including never-before-seen methods of propulsion, lift, and stealth.
Two researchers came back with a 34-page report for the propulsion category, titled "Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions."
The document is dated April 2, 2010, though it was only recently released by the Defense Intelligence Agency. (Business Insider first learned about in a post by Paul Szoldra at Task & Purpose.)
The authors suggest we may not be too far away from cracking the mysteries of higher, unseen dimensions and negative or "dark energy," a repulsive force that physicists believe is pushing the universe apart at ever-faster speeds.
"Control of this higher dimensional space may bе а source of technological control оvеr the dark energy density and could ultimately play а role in the development of exotic propulsion technologies; specifically, а warp drive," the report says, adding: "Trips to the planets within our own solar system would take hours rather than years, and journeys to local star system would be measured in weeks rather than hundreds of thousands of years."
However, Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at Caltech who studies and follows the topics covered by the report, had a lot of cold water to pour on the report's optimism.
"It's bits and pieces of theoretical physics dressed up as if it has something to do with potentially real-world applications, which it doesn't," Carroll said. "This is not crackpot. This is not the Maharishi saying we're going to use spirit energy to fly off the ground — this is real physics. But this is not something that's going to connect with engineering anytime soon, probably anytime ever."
James Т. Lacatski, a DIA official listed as a contact on the report, did not immediately to respond a query from Business Insider.
Where the warp-drive study came from
The Pentagon building in 2010.Mariordo Camila Ferreira and Mario Duran/Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The nature of this study is still making its way to the public.
What is known is that it's an "acquisition threat support" reference document, which helps the US military anticipate or describe new enemy technologies — apparently including (very, very) notional ones. It was also one work in "а series of advanced technology reports" for something called the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program.
The New York Times and Politico revealed AATIP's existence in December. The outlets said Harry Reid, the former US senator from Nevada, helped organize it and secure millions in secret government funding — sometimes called "black money" — for the effort.
A large share of this money reportedly went to Robert Bigelow, a real-estate mogul who's working to build private space stations through Bigelow Aerospace. Bigelow, a friend of Reid's, has for years funded his own UFO research.
The billionaire formed a separate entity, called Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, to secure the government funding and hired 46 researchers and "dozens of other support personnel," KLAS-TV said.
An anonymous senior intelligence official told Politico that AATIP began mostly to root out the existence of unknown Chinese and Russian military technologies. But after a couple of years, "the consensus was we really couldn't find anything of substance," the official said.
"They produced reams of paperwork," he added. "After all of that, there was really nothing there that we could find."
AAWSAP and AATIP reportedly ran out of funding in 2011 or 2012.
Scientists are also skeptical of UFOs, even after viewing spooky videos obtained by AATIP, one of which shows an undated encounter with "an aircraft surrounded by some kind of glowing aura traveling at high speed and rotating as it moves," The Times wrote.
Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, previously told Business Insider that after 50 years of reported alien visits, "the really good evidence that we're being visited still has failed to surface."
"It is a little odd that aliens would come hundreds and hundreds of light-years to do nothing," Shostak added.
The larger program that looked into the feasibility of warp drives, wormholes, and stargates is meeting similar scrutiny from established experts.
The physics of warp drives
An illustration of a warp field generated by a theoretical device called an Alcubierre drive. A spaceship inside might be able to move faster than light by contracting the fabric of space ahead of it and expanding the fabric of space behind it with negative energy.AllenMcC/Wikipedia (CC BY-A 3.0)
In the warp-drive study, the authors laid out several well-established ideas in physics.
Those concepts include dark energy; general relativity, pioneered by Albert Einstein, that predicted some bizarre yet real phenomena in the universe, like the warping of space-time and gravitational waves; the Casimir effect, which describes the existence of a quantum "vacuum energy"; and M-theory, the idea that perhaps seven extra dimensions — which a warp drive could exploit — may be wrapped up in the four we're familiar with, including time.
It then mashes this work together to lay out a potential use of these properties that'd circumvent Einstein's cardinal rule: Nothing can travel faster than light in a vacuum.
"If one is to realistically entertain the notion of interstellar exploration in timeframes of а human lifespan, а dramatic shift in the traditional approach to spacecraft propulsion is necessary," said the report, which goes on to suggest that a warp drive might be feasible.
Department of Defense via Public Intelligence
The study includes a table of various destinations and how quickly they might be reached by bending space-time to travel 100 times the speed of light.The way this might work, the report says, is by using a lot of dark energy to expand an extra dimension into a "bubble." Such a bubble would be made large enough to fit a spaceship of perhaps 100 cubic meters, roughly the size of a semitrailer truck.
A contracting region of space-time in front of the ship, plus an expanding region behind it, would then propel the bubble and ship down a sort of space-time tube without technically exceeding the speed of light.
Carroll also says the concept of a warp drive "is not crackpot" — Miguel Alcubierre, a Mexican theoretical physicist, invented the concept in 1994.
"You can't go faster than the speed of light, but what you can imagine doing is effectively twisting space-time so that it looks like you're moving faster than the speed of light," Carroll said. "If you want to go to Alpha Centauri, for example, you can ask yourself: 'Well, could I bend space-time so that Alpha Centauri is next to me, so that it takes a day to go there, rather than tens of [thousands of] years? Can I make the warping of space-time do that?' And the answer is sure, you can do that."
But Carroll says the DIA report goes too far in its analysis.
"There is something called a warp drive, there are extra dimensions, there is a Casimir effect, and there's dark energy — all of these things are true," he said. "But there's zero chance that anyone within our lifetimes or the next 1,000 years are going to build anything that makes use of any of these ideas, for defense purposes or anything like that."
The problems and perils of faster-than-light travel
An illustration of an Einstein-Rosen bridge, or wormhole in the fabric of space.Shutterstock
Carrol said warp drives were so removed from plausible reality because no one knows what negative energy is, how to make it, or how to store it, let alone put it to use.
What's more, the amount of negative energy you'd need to reach a place like Alpha Centauri — the nearest star system to Earth, at 4.367 light-years away — in a couple of years with a 100-cubic-meter ship is truly astronomical.
"If you took the entire Earth and annihilated it into energy, that's how much energy you'd need, except you'd need a negative amount of that, which no one has any clue how to make," Carroll said. "We're not taking the atoms of the Earth and dispersing them like the Death Star would do — we're making them cease to exist."
Then this energy has to be captured, stored, and used with 100% efficiency.
"It's completely crazy talk," Carroll said. "It's not something like, 'Oh, we need better transistors.' This is something that is not anywhere within the realm of feasibility."
The study says its conclusions are speculative, acknowledges the negative-energy figure "is, indeed, an incredible number," and adds that "a full understanding of the true nature of dark energy may be many years away."
However, it suggests that "experimental breakthroughs at the Large Hadron Collider оr developments in the field of M-theory could lead to а quantum leap in our understanding of this unusual form of energy and perhaps help to direct technological innovations."
Nearly a decade on, none of these developments have panned out. The LHC has yet to find any evidence of particles that'd crack the mysteries of dark energy, and experiments have not really advanced M-theory.
But assuming negative energy could somehow be extracted, a planet's worth of exotic matter could be fed into a spaceship's warp-drive engines, and a suitable destination could be picked, the crew might encounter numerous show-stopping problems.
Interstellar travelers may lose control of their ship the moment they start it because of the warping of space itself. Hawking radiation, theoretically found at the edges of black holes and other highly warped regions of space, might roast passengers while shutting down their warp field. And slowing down may be deadly — several light-years' worth of cosmic dust and gas between the origin and destination might turn into a dangerous shockwave of high-energy particles and radiation upon arrival.
"It's possible in the sense that I can't actually rule it out, but I don't think it's actually possible," Carroll said of warp drives and faster-than-light travel. "I think if we knew physics better, we'd just say, 'No, you can't do that.'"
Representational Image YouTube screenshot/ UFOmania - The truth is out there
A video apparently shot from Ireland on May 17, 2018, featuring two mysterious flying objects in the sky is now going viral on the internet.
The video shot in broad daylight shows two creepy objects in the sky above Saint Patrick Cathedral, blinking in regular succession. As the clip went viral, conspiracy theorists soon assumed that aliens have made a brief visit to Ireland.
However, some other section of conspiracy theorists argues that these UFOs are actually secret military crafts which might be using anti-gravity flying technology. Skeptics, on the other hand, clarified that the objects spotted in the skies are mere drones.
"It goes on a fair bit longer and they just disappear. There was a suggestion made that it may be drones, but if you watch the full footage, these objects do NOT land, simply vanish," said dmcresins, a YouTuber who originally uploaded the video.
As the video went viral, xX-EMMA-2017-Xx RAVER, a YouTube user revealed that she witnessed a similar sighting in Sunderland, United Kingdom.
"I have seen this exact same thing at around the same time! No one would believe me! I saw this in Sunderland UK yesterday," commented the YouTuber.
A section of people strongly believes that Ireland, especially Dublin is slowly emerging as a UFO hotspot. In the past two decades, there have been 19 recorded UFO sightings in the Irish capital.
A similar incident happened in England three days back when people spotted a triangular UFO with bright lights hovering in the sky. As the video grabbed public attention, conspiracy theorists argued that these vessels are actually the secretive TR-3B, developed by the US Air Force during the time of Gulf War.
As UFO sightings are dramatically increasing in all corners of the globe, conspiracy theorists are urging governments to reveal the exact truth behind these sightings. Some people even allege that the governments are working hand-in-glove with aliens.
Is Pluto stiekem een gigantische komeet? 24 mei 2018Caroline Kraaijvanger7 Onderzoekers suggereren voorzichtig dat de dwergplaneet is opgebouwd uit een miljard kometen. Aan de nieuwe theorie liggen twee datasets ten grondslag. De eerste bestaat uit gegev
Is Pluto stiekem een gigantische komeet?
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Onderzoekers suggereren voorzichtig dat de dwergplaneet is opgebouwd uit een miljard kometen.
Aan de nieuwe theorie liggen twee datasets ten grondslag. De eerste bestaat uit gegevens verzameld door New Horizons. Deze ruimtesonde scheerde in 2015 langs Pluto en gaf ons de eerste close-upbeelden van de dwergplaneet en onthulde over welke elementen Pluto beschikt. Daarnaast maakten de onderzoekers gebruik van gegevens verzameld door ruimtesonde Rosetta. Deze ruimtesonde cirkelde tussen 2014 en 2016 rond komeet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (ook wel 67P genoemd).
Gletsjer In hun studie richten de onderzoekers zich met name op Sputnik Planitia, een enorme gletsjer op Pluto. New Horizons heeft onthuld dat het ijs waaruit deze gletsjer is opgebouwd bijzonder rijk is aan stikstof. Grote vraag is natuurlijk waar dat stikstof vandaan komt. Onderzoekers van het Southwest Research Institute hebben daar echter verfrissende ideeën over. “Wij ontdekten een intrigerende consistentie tussen de geschatte hoeveelheid stikstof in de gletsjer en de hoeveelheid die we zouden verwachten als Pluto ontstaan is door het samenklonteren van grofweg een miljard kometen of andere Kuipergordelobjecten die een vergelijkbare samenstelling hebben als 67P, de komeet die door Rosetta is verkend,” zo stelt onderzoeker Christopher Glein.
Koolstofmonoxide Het is een interessante theorie. Maar kan die ook verklaren waarom er zo weinig koolstofmonoxide op Pluto te vinden is? De onderzoekers denken van wel. De beperkte hoeveelheid koolstofmonoxide in de atmosfeer zou verklaard kunnen worden doordat het zit opgeslagen in ijs aan het oppervlak óf doordat het vernietigd is door blootstelling aan vloeibaar water. “Ons onderzoek suggereert dat Pluto’s oorspronkelijke chemische samenstelling – geërfd van komeetachtige bouwblokken – veranderd is door vloeibaar water, misschien zelfs een ondergrondse oceaan,” stelt Glein.
Hier zie je Sputnik Planitia: een gletsjer die onder meer rijk is aan stikstof.
Afbeelding: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI.
Andere theorie De onderzoekers verkenden ook nog een tweede theorie omtrent de totstandkoming van Pluto. Deze theorie gaat ervan uit dat Pluto is ontstaan uit heel koud ijs met een chemische samenstelling die vergelijkbaar is met die van de zon. Deze theorie bleek wat we op Pluto zien, redelijk te kunnen verklaren. Maar de theorie dat de dwergplaneet uit talloze kometen is opgebouwd biedt meer opties om de verhouding tussen koolstofmonoxide en stikstof te verklaren. Vandaar dat de onderzoekers die theorie voor nu het voordeel van de twijfel geven.
Scenario Het leidt tot het volgende scenario: kometen rijk aan stikstof en koolstofmonoxide klonteren samen en vormen Pluto. Chemische processen in een ondergrondse oceaan zorgt ervoor dat grote hoeveelheden koolstofmonoxide worden vernietigd. Grote hoeveelheden atmosferisch stikstof ontsnappen aan Pluto’s greep en duiken de ruimte in. Het stikstof aan het oppervlak – in de vorm van ijs – houdt echter moedig stand en hoopt zich door de jaren heen op in de gigantische Sputnik Planitia-gletsjer. Komeetinslagen brengen nog wat extra koolstofmonoxide op Pluto en dat mengt zich met stikstof. “Dit scenario is zeker niet de enige mogelijkheid,” zo benadrukken de onderzoekers. Maar het is wel mooi in lijn met wat we op Pluto zien.
Of Pluto echt uit een miljard kometen bestaat, zal moeten blijken uit vervolgonderzoek. De wetenschappers benadrukken in hun paper dat er nog heel wat vragen zijn die beantwoord moeten worden alvorens we met zekerheid meer kunnen zeggen over hoe Pluto is ontstaan. Sommige van die vragen kunnen we beantwoorden aan de hand van de data die door New Horizons is verzameld. Andere vragen zullen pas een antwoord krijgen als een nieuw ruimtevaartuig langs de dwergplaneet schiet.
Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact Warmed Earth's Climate for 100,000 Years
Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact Warmed Earth's Climate for 100,000 Years
By Tereza Pultarova, Space.com Contributor
An artist's rendering from 1994, illustrating the Chicxulub asteroid impact that killed off most of the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago.
Credit: Donald E. Davis/NASA/JPL
Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere after the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid, which ended the era of dinosaurs some 65 million years ago, warmed the Earth's climate for 100,000 years, a new study has revealed.
The study, based on an analysis of fossil records, suggested that the Earth's overall temperature increased by 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) over that time.
Scientists have long theorized that after the piece of space rock with a diameter of 6 to 9 miles (7 to 14 kilometers) smashed into the Yucatan Peninsula near today's town of Chicxulub in Mexico, the temperature of the planet first rose sharply for minutes or hours, MacLeod said. After that, it plunged down for months to decades, because the huge amount of dust and soot thrown into the atmosphere by the impact blocked the sun's rays. Eventually, however, carbon dioxide released during the impact led to global warming.
MacLeod's study is the first to present empirical evidence of how long this greenhouse gas-related global warming lasted and how substantial it was.
"We thought that we could resolve this question by looking at fossilized bits of fish teeth, scales and bones from the El Kef section in Tunisia," MacLeod told Space.com, referring to a paleontological site in northwestern Tunisia known for having one of the world's best-preserved fossil records from the period before and after the Chicxulub impact
"This place is known for having a beautiful record across the interval that we are looking at — the so called Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary — the mass extinction event following the Chicxulub impact."
The researchers looked at the concentrations of different oxygen isotopes in the fossils. These isotopes differ in the number of neutrons in the oxygen atom and, according to MacLeod, behave slightly differently from one another.
"One of the differences is, as temperature increases, the amount of the light oxygen isotope, oxygen 16, in a mineral increases relatively," MacLeod said.
"We are measuring the ratio of oxygen 16 to oxygen 18. Every 1 part per 1,000 that the ratio changes correlates to an about 4.5- to 5-degree [C, or 8.1 to 9 degrees F] change in temperature."
The researchers analyzed 40 samples taken from the site in Tunisia: 10 samples from the 50,000-year period before the impact, 20 samples from the 100,000 years immediately after the impact and additional 10 samples from the following 200,0000 years.
"We found that there was a really big difference in oxygen isotopes between these three sets of samples — unambiguous," said MacLeod.
He said he and his team now want to look at fossil samples from other parts of the world and check for similar patterns.
"It's one thing to find 5 degrees [C, 9 degrees F] of warming in North Africa. It's even more impressive to find 5 degrees of warming in North Africa and perhaps 10 degrees [C, 18 degrees F] of warming off the coast of Australia," he said. "That would really strengthen the idea that it's a global signal and a greenhouse gas-related change."
The study, MacLeod said, not only sheds more light on what happened to the Earth's systems after the devastating collision, but it also raises questions about the consequences of current human activities.
"If I were to draw a line under the lessons of this study for the modern era, it would be to contemplate the idea that what we are doing in our lifetimes will affect the Earth for the next 100,000 years, which is pretty daunting," MacLeod said.
Planetoïde-inslag die dino's fataal werd, verstoorde het klimaat sterker dan wij nu doen
Planetoïde-inslag die dino's fataal werd, verstoorde het klimaat sterker dan wij nu doen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De aarde warmde rap 5 graden Celsius op.
Zo’n 66 miljoen jaar geleden klapte er een enorme ruimtesteen op de aarde. Het leidde tot een massa-extinctie, waarvan de dinosaurussen het bekendste slachtoffer zijn. Over de exacte oorzaken van die massa-extinctie is al veel gespeculeerd. Sommige onderzoekers denken dat de inslag leidde tot een enorme afkoeling van de aarde; de inslag zou grote branden hebben veroorzaakt waardoor roet in de atmosfeer werd geslingerd dat zonlicht tegenhield. Die afkoeling – recent onderzoek suggereert dat de temperaturen tot wel 26 graden Celsius daalden – zou een vernietigend effect hebben gehad op de aarde. Maar er zijn ook wetenschappers die stellen dat de inslag juist leidde tot opwarming. En wel doordat er na de inslag heel veel koolstof vrijkwam uit de aardkorst en ook de branden behoorlijk wat koolstof de lucht in slingerden. En die opwarming zou vervolgens heel wat plant- en diersoorten fataal zijn geworden.
Opwarming Beide scenario’s lijken heel aannemelijk. Maar er kan er maar eentje kloppen. Welke? Dat hebben Amerikaanse onderzoekers nu proberen vast te stellen. En ze komen tot de conclusie dat een rappe opwarming het meest aannemelijke scenario is.
Zuurstofisotopen Ze baseren zich op in Tunesië teruggevonden resten van vissen. Denk aan botten, maar ook tanden en schubben. De resten dateerden uit de tijd vóór en de periode na de planetoïde-inslag die onder meer de dino’s fataal werd. De onderzoekers richtten zich op de verhouding tussen twee zuurstofisotopen – zuurstof-16 en zuurstof-18 – in de dierlijke resten. Die verhouding is namelijk afhankelijk van de temperatuur en veranderingen in die verhouding kunnen dan ook wijzen op een temperatuurverandering. En jawel, na de planetoïde-inslag bleek die verhouding te veranderen, waarbij zuurstof-18 afnam. Het wijst op een temperatuurstijging van zo’n 5 graden Celsius. De resten onthullen bovendien dat de temperatuur lang hoog bleef; het duurde zeker 100.000 jaar voor de aarde weer afkoelde, zo schrijven de onderzoekers in het blad Science.
Het onderzoek geeft niet alleen meer inzicht in wat er 66 miljoen jaar geleden is gebeurd. Het heeft mogelijk ook implicaties voor de toekomst. Want net als 66 miljoen jaar geleden wordt het klimaatsysteem op dit moment flink verstoord. Niet door een inslag, maar door ons mensen. Door eerdere verstoringen in het klimaatsysteem te bestuderen, kunnen we een beter beeld krijgen van de impact die de moderne verstoring op onze planeet gaat hebben. Probleem is alleen dat de meeste historische verstoringen van het klimaatsysteem veel trager gingen dan vandaag de dag en daarom niet zo representatief zijn. Deze studie laat zien dat de klimaatverandering aan het einde van het Krijt – oftewel 66 miljoen jaar geleden – daarop een uitzondering vormt. Het is de enige klimaatverandering die sneller ging en ietsje heftiger was dan de klimaatverandering waar we nu middenin zitten. En daarmee kan deze klimaatverandering ons mogelijk een beter inzicht geven in hoe onze aarde onder invloed van onze uitstoot gaat veranderen. Erg rooskleurig lijkt het er op grond van die historische klimaatverandering – die maar liefst 100.000 jaar standhield – niet uit te zien.
Do Aliens Exist? The question still needs to be answered | Extraterrestrial Life
Do Aliens Exist? The question still needs to be answered | Extraterrestrial Life
Some people say that we all are not living alone in this entire universe. This means Aliens are real.
Some people also describe and narrate their own haunted experiences of aliensfollowing them in their night walks, mostly in the small town yards/fields in America.
All these things assembles our thoughts to think whether aliens exist or not. Also day by day increasing reports regarding the aliens evidence have increased our doubts much more.
Whatever you think you can relate to our thoughts below.
• Scientists are also confuse on the fact that is there any megastructure of alien orbiting a distant star ?
Flickering of a distant star was observed by scientists. Jason Wright, researcher was the first person to observe and suggest that aliens could be responsible for the flickering of the stars.
Tabby's Star
Last year in October new theory was explained behind the reason for a bizarre blinking of that distant star, i.e. Tabby's Star which caused it's light to dim eventualy. The light was being blocked by a huge object called a Dyson Sphere which is a theoretical structure built all around the star in order to harvest its energy. It was claimed that the behaviour of Tabby's Star was caused by a swarm of orbiting cometsthat block out the light or it could be result of complex phenomenon called avalache statistics. Also Read:-
• It is also believed that Alien Life (Extraterrestrials ) living in an ocean on Jupiter's moon
Europa, which is about the size of Earth's moon is believed by scientist that it has an ocean hidden beneath its frozen crust. It might be possible that scientist could find alien organisms if this turn to be correct.
Europa
Earlier it was thought that moon contain huge ocean as twice as much water as Earth's oceans.NASA also said that Europa, best place in solar system to look for present day life apart from our home planet.
They also believed it has found evidence vapour of water plumes becoming active on the surface of Jupiter's moon.
• There have been lots of evidences of ancient times regarding aliens and UFOs It was not easy or rather to say impossible for ancient people to find out the evidences of UFOand aliens. There is one ancient picture of The Madonna with Saint Giovannino which is also called UFO painting.
The Madonna with Saint Giovannino
It is a 15th century painting for which the debates continue till today. It depicts the Virgin Mary, in backdrop of the painting, a man and his dog staring at a disk-like object that is suspiciously familiar (ufo). This (painting) is not only the evidences of alien life in ancient times but the ancient cave paintings and Sanskrit Scrolls are also depicting alien life. It is also in the Bible in The Book of Ezekiel. •From the ancient evidences of aliens one more question rises is : Do the aliens trying to contact us ? Since number of strange signals from distant stars have been recieved in recent years so some of the scientists and experts believe that aliens could be trying to contact us. Now regarding this topic lots of debate gone on air and went off but ultimately none of us can get any satisfactory evidence about it.
Frank Drake
The likelihood of the existence of alien life was estimated by devising an equation by astronomer Frank Drake in 1961. And trust me or not there are around hundreds of thousands of such planets exist (technically). For More Info:
•Coming to the astronomers, many reports have been taken which indicates aliens life There have been many reports regarding the UFOs. Many of the astronomers, who got there in space claims the sightings. Edgar Mitchell, Dr. Brian O'Leary also calimed the same.
UFO
The calims got more stronger when Buzz Aldrin shared his on board experience of Apollo 11when they saw that something was flying alongside them. They thought it was the detached rocket's final stage but the thinking was wrong untill mission control confirmed that it was more than 600 miles away. •There are many several individual experience of aliens and their existence. Several exoplanets have already been spotted which are outside our solar system. Kepler-NASA planet finding Spacecraft, discovered more than 400 exoplanets since its launch in 2009.
According to the reports 216 Earth like exoplanets have been found within GoldilocksZone. Since it is located thousands of light years away they are out of our reach which is turning to be the main problem. Many dwarf planets have been found but still the doubts remained as doubts regarding theexistence of the alien and aliens life. Where they live ? Have aliens visited our earth? Question still to be answered...
That's all from this blog. Hope you like it. I upload this types of blogs regularly and all of us will reveal the mysteries of universe and space.
COUPLE SAW ’40 UFOS’ HOVERING OVER BRITISH BEACH BEFORE MAJOR MILITARY OPERATION
COUPLE SAW ’40 UFOS’ HOVERING OVER BRITISH BEACH BEFORE MAJOR MILITARY OPERATION
The husband and wife, aged in their 80s, who have not been named claim to have witnessed the phenomenal sight over Wilsthorpe Beach in East Yorkshire.
Paranormal investigator Paul Sinclair tells their story in a new book he is penning about the Wilsthorpe Incident, which has been branded Britain’s new Roswell due to the mysterious military activity seemingly connected to UFO sightings.
The couple’s bizarre claims concern the night of September 14 2009 at 11pm.
They lived in one of 30 flats that overlook the sea at Wilsthorpe.
The pair decided to go to bed, however, as the woman went to turn off the lights, she saw a glow outside.
Mr Sinclair said “something told her to look outside” before she opened the front door and looked out to sea where she was amazed to see several glowing UFOs above the coast.
Mr Sinclair said she described them as 15-feet long and eight-feet wide “spaceships over the sea”.
He said: “She said there was a huge circle of boomerang-shaped craft.
“She said there were loads – 30 to 40 and the sea below was bubbling, banging and crashing.
“They were silent, but there was electricity going into the sea.
“Ron (her husband) said it was like a blue and white Christmas tree over the sea. He was frightened and left after ten minutes and put his head under the pillow for the night.
“But, she told me she was not frightened and knew she was never going to see anything like it again in her life.”
She stayed for around half and hour before the objects began to “lift out of the circle in pairs at a 45 degree angle until just two were left which shot off straight up.”
Two Chinook helicopters full of RAF personnel landed at the beach by the remote hamlet.
Mr Sinclair also spoke with a man who runs a bait shop at Bridlington Harbour, who told him his bait diggers had seen “triangle” craft enter the sea in 2009 over the same period.
He said two of his bait diggers had been on Wilsthorpe Beach the day the couple saw the military operation.
They told of seeing “triangles entering the sea” and later “being surrounded by soldiers.”
Separately a man working on a boat at Blythe Park boat compound also confirmed the military presence, he said.
Mr Sinclair submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to find out why the operation took place on September 15.
However, the response he eventually received, said it was just a “routine military exercise” and few other details were provided.
The reply said “no live ammunition was used” and “any explosions heard were controlled detonations of simulated ammunitions.”
The response added that it was “one of a number of regular exercises” as part of work to defend the UK, and new locations would often be used with landowners’ consent.
Mr Sinclair continues to investigate the case and is trying to obtain historic coast guard reports from the period.
He believes it is connected to a high level of reported UFO activity along a 25-mile stretch of the East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire coast from Brandesburton in East Yorkshire to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, between May and September 2009.
High levels of military aircraft flying low and circling near his home in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, were also recorded that September.
Mr Sinclair said the case did not yet prove a UFO presence, but: “I think the military arrived because of the objects.”
In a post on his Truth Proof Facebook page about the case, he wrote: “Nothing found can prove with any certainty the UFOs were over the sea as an elderly couple claim, or that the black triangles entered the sea in September 2009 like the bait diggers described.
“All I can do is stack the evidence for and against, either side of the scale.”
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