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.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
12-06-2018
Inside Area 51 Bob Lazar
Inside Area 51 Bob Lazar
Area 51, flying saucers from another world – and the program to create a fierce technology. Bob Lazar has lived a wild life. He remains the singular most famous and controversial name in the world of UFOs. The reason you know about Area 51 is because Lazar came forward and told you about it. His disclosures have turned his life upside-down and he has tried to stay out of the spotlight. For this reason, he has never let any filmmaker into the private world of his daily life – that is – until now. Jeremy Corbell’s film will explore Lazar’s claims through the lens of thirty years – providing rare and never before revealed footage – guaranteed to alter the landscape of the debate. Bob Lazar feature length documentary coming December 2018!
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover identifies organic molecules within ancient Red Planet rocks, Jupiter's lighting is strikingly similar to the those seen on Earth and thousands of small space rocks could be behind evidence for the strange "Planet 9" be behind the dramatic orbit of a dwarf planet beyond Neptune. These are just some of the top stories this week from Space.com.
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
1. Curiosity spots building blocks of life
This week, researchers announced that NASA's Curiosity rover discovered the building blocks of life within 3.5 billion-year-old Martian rocks. According to one of two studies published on Thursday (June 7) about these findings, the rover identified carbon-based molecules in powdered samples drilled out of Mars' Yellowknife Bay. These results don't give evidence of life, but the possibility still exists the molecules could have come from an ancient life source.
Photo Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
2. Moon is slowing down Earth's days
A figure skater spins slower when his or her arms are stretched away from the body, and a new study published on Monday (June 4) suggests a similar phenomenon is causing longer days on Earth. In a recent study, astronomers found evidence that Earth days once lasted just 18 hours. The moon is slowly spirally away from Earth, and this causes Earth to take more time turning on its axis. µ
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider first confirmed the existence of a particle called the Higgs boson in 2013, which helps explain why some particles have mass. Their discovery filled in the last missing part of the Standard Model of physics, but left some unanswered questions about how the Higgs behaves. In a new paper published June 4, measurements from two new experiments may be able to fill in those gaps.
Two astronauts and one cosmonaut launched into space on Wednesday (June 6). NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to reach the International Space Station (ISS).
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CSS-Univ. of Arizona
5. Fireball over Southern Africa
A small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere over Botswana, the southern African nation, on June 2. The asteroid is called 2018 LA and astronomers first discovered it just hours before impact. Spectators in South Africa captured its fiery descent on video.
On Tuesday (June 5) China launched the 1.4-metric-ton Fengyun-2H weather satellite, marking the 17th Chinese launch of 2018. The Long March 3A vehicle carrying Fengyun-2H lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.
Photo Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/ LK Ward
7. Worldview of weather
Viewers can see almost two decades worth of weather patterns on their web browsers with NASA's new Worldview tool. Its imagery comes from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, which launched in 1999 and 2002, respectively.
Researchers have detected more than 1,600 instances of lighting on Jupiter, and the storms bear "astounding" similarity to those on Earth. Their new findings, taken by examining data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, suggest Jupiter's lightning storms also occur more frequently than once thought.
Small distant objects found beyond Neptune's chilly orbit may be behind the orbit imprint previously hypothesized to be evidence of a "Planet Nine". Researchers presented their results on June 4, stating that the collective pushing of these thousands of space rocks could be enough to send large bodies into extreme orbits.
A new set of six commemorative stamps will celebrate the 50th anniversary of UNISPACE 1, the first conference in which the world met about peaceful uses of outer space. The United Nations Postal Administration will release the stamps on June 20 in Geneva, New York and Vienna.
Lots of people claim to have seen UFOs. Does that make them ufologists?
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Nick Pope was a career civil servant with the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) when he got an odd assignment. It was 1991, two years before the premier episode of "The X-Files," but Pope was about to take on a job that would earn him the nickname "the real Fox Mulder." He was to investigate each and every UFO sighting reported to the British government.
More than 25 years later, Pope is one of the world's leading UFO experts and a fixture at UFO conferences like Contact in the Desert and the International UFO Congress, where he lectures on government-sponsored UFO investigations, conspiracy theories and the disclosure of classified government documents. But he wasn't always a UFO-head.
"I really started from a baseline of zero," says Pope, explaining that his four-year assignment to the "UFO desk" at MoD was one of many different posts at the agency, and was not based on any prior knowledge or personal interest in UFOs.
His office received between 200 and 300 sighting reports a year. His job was to call up witnesses, gather as much information as possible about the appearance of the mystery objects, as well as the precise locations and times of the sightings, and then get to work checking those facts against "the usual suspects."
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In 95 percent of cases, there was a simple earthly explanation for what the witnesses had seen -- maybe aircraft lights or weather balloons. But even in those rare cases where a sighting couldn't be rationally explained, Pope's job was to downplay its significance to the public, the media and British lawmakers. The message: "Move along, folks. Nothing to see here."
Pope felt it was his duty to read everything he could get his hands on about the history of UFO sightings and leading theories about their origins, including fanciful conspiracies. After he left the UFO desk in 1994, but while still at the MoD, he co-authored a book with some of the key witnesses in the Rendelsham Forest incident, known as England's Roswell.
The success of the book led to calls from TV and movie producers looking for insight from a real UFO investigator. Pope retired from the MoD and moved to America in 2012 to become a full-time UFO expert. In addition to writing and lecturing at conferences, he's a popular talking head on TV shows like "Ancient Aliens."
Pope would not call himself a ufologist, rather a UFO investigator. He admits that he came about his UFO expertise in an unconventional way. Most of his fellow UFO panelists, authors and TV commentators were either inspired by their own life-altering UFO sighting or drawn to the topic as lifelong fans of the paranormal.
"I'm an awkward fit at some of these [UFO] events, I have to say," Pope admits. "Some people, I suspect, think that I'm the bad guy, and I've heard a lot of people in the conspiracy theory community say that I'm still secretly working for the government, that I'm part of some disinformation campaign or whatever the theory is."
Becoming a Ufologist
No accurate figures exist on how many ufologists there are in the world. Ufology (the study of UFOs or unidentified flying objects) is considered a pseudoscience, though national governments have been involved in investigating UFOs. (The MoD UFO project closed down in 2009. The U.S. government is apparently still tracking them, according to the New York Times.)
As such, no traditional colleges or universities offer degree programs in ufology, but there are some online options. International Metaphysical University offers six courses in Ufology Studies, including Introduction to Ufology taught by Richard Dolan, a well-known expert who also has a history degree from Alfred University. The 12-lecture online course covers topics such as "What are UFOs?," "Theories of Ancient Visitation," and "The Early Cover-Up." Courses cost between $200 and $400 each.
Under a "Career Options" tab, the university website notes ufologists can seek work as lecturers, writers, movie consultants or even political activists "working toward disclosure or working in the political and government arena on the area of UFOs in preparation for contact or landings." Furthermore, "You can also set up a career as a life coach or hypnotist working directly with contactees and abductees." Whether these careers turn out to lucrative will no doubt depend on the circles you move in.
Two other online universities -- the Centre of Excellence in the U.K. and the IMHS Metaphysical Institute -- offer full degree programs in ufology. It's hard to imagine a better conversation-starter than, "I recently got my Ph.D. in Ufology with a specialization in abduction research." Cost for that "advanced" degree is under $2,000.
Another approach is to get out there and do some Fox Mulder-ing of your own as a trained UFO investigator. In the U.S., the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is actively recruiting field investigators to look into the dozen or more sightings reported to the organization every day. You must be 18 or older and pass a certification examination based on the field investigator manual. The British UFO Research Organization (BUFORA) offers a similar course for folks in the U.K.
Pope is a little skeptical of these training and certification programs, because he knows that most participants are true UFO believers who could let their biases get in the way of a clear-eyed investigation. Not that Pope himself wouldn't be psyched to find definitive proof that ETs exist.
"My view is the world would be more interesting with aliens in it than without, but that doesn't mean I'm going to try to prove that," says Pope. "I'm just going to go where the data take me."
NOW THAT'S COOL
Pope helped secure the release of all documents held by the British government related to UFO sightings and investigations dating back to when Winston Churchill first created the "UFO desk." The files are now available to the public at The National Archives outside of London.
The existence of aliens has long been a debating point among conspiracy theorists and space experts. Even though space agencies like NASA have long refuted claims of alien existence, they are still on the hunt to find extraterrestrials which may be living in the outer space.
However, conspiracy theorists strongly argue that aliens have been visiting earth for hundreds of thousands of years, and they are blaming the government and space agencies like NASA for covering up the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Here is a glance at five strong signs often put forward arguing that aliens have already been on earth.
1. Flying saucers everywhere
Surfing the internet using the word 'UFO' will populate too many videos showing unidentified flying objects hovering across the skies in various parts of the world. Even though many of these videos are being made using CGI, there are some authentic clips which still remain unanswered and mysterious.
As the video turned viral on the internet, the Council for Scientific and Technological Research set up a team to check the authenticity of the clip. After nine years of extensive research, the team found that the flying object spotted in the video did not have an earthly origin. The report also added that the video was not subjected to any kind of editing.
However, a section of people believe that these crafts are actually secret military crafts developed by the United States and Russia. The imminent question is -- Do these craft have an alien origin, or are they secretive military vessels like the alleged TR-3B?
2. Ancient cave paintings hide a million mysteries
A few years ago, archeologists in India discovered some bizarre cave paintings in rocks at Charama, Chhattisgarh. Interestingly, these rock paintings depicted alien-like figures wearing suits very similar to modern day space suits. The startling drawings also featured disc-shaped flying saucers, each with a fan-like antenna and three legs.
After analyzing the cave drawings, archeologists came to the conclusion that these cave drawings were painted before 10,000 years. For humans beings, space travel became a reality in the 20th century, then how can ancient Indians draw paintings featuring aliens and flying saucers?
Another popular depiction of aliens in cave paintings can be seen in Christina Lake, British Columbia, Canada. These paintings feature flying saucers with large wings hovering above a group of people.
Recently, renowned television anchor Giorgio Tsoukalos, known for presenting 'Ancient Aliens' in History Channel revealed that aliens used to visit humans in the ancient ages. The television conspiracy theorist also revealed that ancient humans have misrepresented alien visitors as deities and their advanced technology was interpreted as magic. Those who believe in this theory argue that aliens had brought these advanced knowledge and culture to the human civilization on earth.
3. Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
In December 2017, Pentagon shocked the entire world by admitting that they have conducted a UFO search program under the name 'Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program'. The million dollar project was carried out to unravel the mysteries surrounding UFO sightings.
The US Defense Department also released a video featuring an unidentified flying object being trailed by a US F-18 jet. Interestingly, the UFO spotted in the video flew across the sky defying all the known laws of physics, and it indicates that this object is made from advanced alien technology.
4. Impeccable ancient structures
There are several structures on the earth like Ancient Egyptian pyramids at Giza, Nazca lines, and Sacsayhuamán that are too big, too complex and too heavy for the ancient humans to build. Even in the modern days, humans will find it hard to build such marvelous structures with impeccable architecture. So, who built these massive structures? The answer still remains an enigma.
5. Admission from a top Canadian Minister
Last year, Paul Hellyer, the former Canadian Minister of National Defence, emerged out of nowhere to claim that aliens have been visiting earth for thousands of years. The former cabinet minister also said that the US Air Force has been using weapons and crafts made with alien technology since the 1960s.
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11-06-2018
Aliens kunnen zich mogelijk toch redden in het Alpha Centauri-systeem
Aliens kunnen zich mogelijk toch redden in het Alpha Centauri-systeem
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Alleen waarschijnlijk niet nabij de ster waarvan we weten dat deze ook daadwerkelijk een planeet bezit.
Alpha Centauri is het dichtstbijzijnde stersysteem. Het telt drie sterren: Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B en Proxima Centauri. “Omdat het relatief dichtbij staat, wordt het Alpha Centauri-systeem door velen ook gezien als de beste kandidaat in de zoektocht naar tekenen van leven,” aldus onderzoeker Tom Ayres. Dat enthousiasme over dit stersysteem werd verder aangezwengeld toen onderzoekers een paar jaar geleden een aardachtige planeet ontdekten die in de leefbare zone rond Proxima Centauri cirkelt.
Alpha Centauri A en B De laatste tijd wordt aan de leefbaarheid van deze planeet echter sterk getwijfeld. Observaties hebben namelijk uitgewezen dat Proxima Centauri een nogal opvliegende ster is die de omgeving regelmatig met levensgevaarlijke straling bombardeert. Men vreest dan ook dat aliens geen schijn van kans maken op Proxima b. Maar in een nieuwe studie pleiten onderzoekers ervoor om het Alpha Centauri-systeem op basis van die observaties toch nog niet af te schrijven. Want ja, rond Proxima Centauri is het waarschijnlijk heel onaangenaam, maar rond Alpha Centauri A en B ziet het er een stuk beter uit.
Chandra De onderzoekers trekken die conclusies op basis van waarnemingen van het röntgenobservatorium Chandra. Het observatorium bestudeerde Alpha Centauri A en B vanaf 2005 elke zes maanden. En op basis van de verzamelde data kunnen onderzoekers nu meer zeggen over de straling die beide sterren afgeven en wat dat betekent voor eventuele planeten in de leefbare zone. Zo suggereert de Chandra-data dat planeten die in de leefbare zone rond Alpha Centauri A cirkelen gemiddeld minder röntgenstraling ontvangen dan vergelijkbare planeten rond onze eigen zon. Eventuele planeten in de leefbare zone rond Alpha Centauri B krijgen slechts vijf keer meer röntgenstraling te verstouwen dan vergelijkbare planeten rond de zon. “Chandra laat ons zien dat het leven op planeten rond deze twee sterren een kans heeft,” aldus Ayres.
Een artistieke impressie van Proxima b.
Afbeelding: ESO / M. Kornmesser.
Proxima b Heel anders is dat echter voor Proxima Centauri – de enige ster in het systeem waarvan we op dit moment zeker weten dat deze een planeet in de leefbare zone bezit. Planeten in de leefbare zone van deze ster zouden gemiddeld een 500 keer hogere dosis röntgenstraling ontvangen dan de aarde. En wanneer Proxima Centauri flinke zonnevlammen produceert, kan de dosis röntgenstraling waarmee Proxima b gebombardeerd wordt zelfs wel 50.000 keer groter zijn dan de dosis die de aarde te verstouwen krijgt.
Tot op heden zijn rond Alpha Centauri A en B nog geen planeten ontdekt. Het is ook erg lastig om rond de heldere sterren naar planeten te zoeken, omdat hun baan ervoor zorgt dat ze momenteel vrij dicht bij elkaar aan de hemel staan. Maar astronomen houden moed en sluiten zeker niet uit dat de sterren nog wat te verbergen hebben. Mocht dat zo zijn dan kunnen die planeten uiteindelijk dus nog wel eens veel interessanter blijken te zijn voor de zoektocht naar buitenaards leven dan de bejubelde Proxima b.
Zware stofstorm kan de ondergang van Marsrover Opportunity worden
Zware stofstorm kan de ondergang van Marsrover Opportunity worden
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Zal de stokoude rover het onder die dikke stofdeken wel redden?
Niemand die het weet. Wat we wél weten, is dat de stofstorm – die op 1 juni voor het eerst werd gespot – alleen maar erger wordt. En inmiddels is de stofstorm zelfs heftiger dan de storm die Opportunity in 2007 ternauwernood wist te overleven.
Signaal Het goede nieuws is dat NASA gisterenavond – rond 22.00 uur Nederlandse tijd – nog een signaal van Opportunity heeft ontvangen. En daaruit bleek dat deze in dit stadium nog voldoende energie in de accu’s heeft zitten om te overleven. Maar duidelijk is wel dat deze stofstorm niet te lang stand moet houden.
Zonne-energie Marsrover Opportunity moet het hebben van zonne-energie. En dan is een stofstorm – waarbij stofdeeltjes in de atmosfeer worden gezwiept, alwaar ze zonlicht tegenhouden – natuurlijk geen goed nieuws. Vorige week woensdag bleek het energieniveau van de rover al zo laag te zijn dat NASA zich gedwongen zag alle wetenschappelijke instrumenten aan boord van de rover stil te leggen. Op dit moment stopt de rover alleen energie in zijn eigen overleven. Het betekent eigenlijk dat de rover voornamelijk bezig is om zijn accu’s – waar deze het momenteel van moet hebben – warm te houden. Dat kost echter behoorlijk wat energie. De vraag is dan ook of Opportunity voldoende energie heeft om deze storm uit te zitten.
Hier zie je de groeiende stofstorm op Mars. De blauwe stip geeft de locatie van Opportunity aan.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.
Duur van de storm Hoelang de storm gaat duren? Dat weet niemand. Martiaanse stofstormen kunnen vrij plotseling ontstaan en heel hardnekkig blijken. Soms blijven ze weken- of zelfs maandenlang hangen.
De storm van 2007 Zoals gezegd is het niet de eerste keer dat Opportunity een flinke stofstorm voor de kiezen krijgt. In 2007 was het ook al raak. Toen focuste de rover zich gedurende twee weken op zijn eigen overleven en was er zelfs een aantal dagen geen contact met aarde mogelijk, omdat er zoveel mogelijk energie bespaard moest worden. Uiteindelijk zwakte de storm af en kon Opportunity weer zonne-energie opwekken. Duidelijk is dat deze storm een stuk heftiger is. Zo had de storm uit 2007 een tau-waarde – dat zegt iets over de mate waarin de atmosfeer ondoorzichtig is – van 5.5. Deze storm heeft echter – op dit moment – een tau van 10.8.
Iets hogere temperaturen Maar: elk nadeel heeft zijn voordeel. Zo wijst NASA erop dat de rover zolang deze onder een dikke stofwolk gebukt gaat, ook minder te maken heeft met grote temperatuurveranderingen. Het stof dat zonlicht tegenhoudt, absorbeert namelijk ook warmte, waardoor de omgevingstemperatuur stijgt. En inderdaad, volgens de laatste metingen is de luchttemperatuur rond Opportunity zo’n -29 graden Celsius. Het betekent nog steeds dat de accu’s tegen de Martiaanse kou moeten worden beschermd, maar minder dan wanneer Opportunity niet midden in een heftige stofstorm zou zitten. Aan de andere kant; het verwarmen van de accu’s kost nog steeds heel veel energie.
NASA houdt de rover hoe dan ook goed in de gaten en houdt er serieus rekening mee dat Opportunity het niet gaat redden. Als de rover geen energie meer heeft om de accu’s warm te houden en dus te sterk afkoelt, is het gewoon klaar. Tegelijkertijd houd de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie moed. NASA wijst erop dat de rover – die oorspronkelijk 90 dagen mee moest gaan – in de vijftien jaar dat deze nu op Mars rondrijdt, keer op keer heeft aangetoond veel meer te kunnen hebben dan gedacht.
Nieuwe mysterieuze G-objecten ontdekt nabij het zwarte gat in onze Melkweg
Nieuwe mysterieuze G-objecten ontdekt nabij het zwarte gat in onze Melkweg
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Onduidelijk blijft hoe deze objecten precies zijn ontstaan.
De onderzoekers ontdekten de objecten in data die met behulp van het W.M. Keck Observatory op Hawaii gedurende een periode van twaalf jaar zijn verzameld. “Deze compacte, stoffige stellaire objecten bewegen extreem snel en vlak bij het supermassieve zwarte gat in onze Melkweg,” vertelt onderzoeker Anna Ciurlo. “Het is fascinerend om ze jaar na jaar te zien bewegen. Hoe zijn ze hier beland? En wat moet er van terecht komen? Ze hebben een interessant verhaal te vertellen.”
G1 en G2 Het is niet voor het eerst dat onderzoekers stoffige stellaire objecten – ook wel G-objecten genoemd – nabij het zwarte gat in het hart van onze Melkweg ontdekken. Zo werd er in 2004 al eentje ontdekt – deze kreeg de naam G1 – en in 2012 ontdekten de onderzoekers er nog één (G2). In eerste instantie leek het te gaan om stofwolken. Maar daar kwamen de onderzoekers op terug toen G1 en G2 het zwarte gat naderden en de ontmoeting met het zwarte gat – dat een enorme aantrekkingskracht heeft – wisten te overleven. “Als het gaswolken waren, zouden G1 en G2 niet intact zijn gebleven,” legt onderzoeker Mark Morris uit. “We denken dan ook dat G-objecten opgeblazen sterren zijn.” Die opgeblazen sterren zouden gigantisch zijn. En wanneer ze het zwarte gat naderen, kan het zwarte gat materie uit de atmosfeer van de ster, naar zich toetrekken. Maar op de kern van de ster zelf krijgt het zwarte gat geen grip; die kern is zo zwaar dat deze de ontmoeting met het zwarte gat kan navertellen.
“HET WORDT MET NAME INTERESSANT WANNEER G3, G4 EN G5 HET PUNT IN HUN BAAN BEREIKEN DAT HEN HET DICHTST BIJ HET ZWARTE GAT BRENGT”
Ontstaan En nu zijn er na G1 en G2 drie nieuwe G-objecten nabij het zwarte gat in het hart van de Melkweg ontdekt. Deze hebben de namen G3, G4 en G5 gekregen. Ze hebben dezelfde eigenschappen als G1 en G2 en dus rijst opnieuw de vraag: hoe ontstaan deze G-objecten precies? Hoe kan een ster zo gigantisch groot worden dat deze de aantrekkingskracht van een zwart gat – in ieder geval tijdelijk – kan weerstaan? Onderzoekers weten het niet precies. Maar ze hebben er wel een theorie over. Aangenomen wordt dat ze het resultaat zijn van een fusie in een dubbelstersysteem. In zo’n systeem cirkelen twee sterren om elkaar heen. Maar als zo’n dubbelster te dicht bij een zwart gat in de buurt komt, kunnen de banen van de twee sterren verstoord raken, waardoor ze uiteindelijk op elkaar klappen en fuseren. “In de periode na de fusie zou het daaruit voortkomende object langdurig – misschien wel een miljoen jaar – ‘opgeblazen’ of opgezwollen zijn, waarna het tot bedaren komt en eruit ziet als een ster van normale omvang,” aldus Morris.
De onderzoekers blijven de G-objecten goed in de gaten houden. Het wordt met name interessant wanneer G3, G4 en G5 het punt in hun baan bereiken dat hen het dichtst bij het zwarte gat brengt. Zullen de G-objecten die ontmoeting net als G1 en G2 overleven? Of worden ze opgeslokt? Pas op dat moment zullen we de objecten met zekerheid kunnen karakteriseren. Maar we moeten nog even geduld hebben. “We moeten nog een paar decennia wachten tot dit gebeurt,” vertelt Morris. “Ongeveer 20 jaar voor G3 en nog enkele decennia langer voor G4 en G5.”
Earth is a place dominated by water, mainly oceans. It’s also a place our researchers study to understand life. Trillions of gallons of water flow freely across the surface of our blue-green planet. Ocean’s vibrant ecosystems impact our lives in many ways.
In celebration of World Oceans Day, here are a few things you might not know about these complex waterways.
1. Why is the ocean blue?
The way light is absorbed and scattered throughout the ocean determines which colors it takes on. Red, orange, yellow,and green light are absorbed quickly beneath the surface, leaving blue light to be scattered and reflected back. This causes us to see various blue and violet hues.
2. Want a good fishing spot?
Follow the phytoplankton! These small plant-like organisms are the beginning of the food web for most of the ocean. As phytoplankton grow and multiply, they are eaten by zooplankton, small fish and other animals. Larger animals then eat the smaller ones. The fishing industry identifies good spots by using ocean color images to locate areas rich in phytoplankton. Phytoplankton, as revealed by ocean color, frequently show scientists where ocean currents provide nutrients for plant growth.
3. The ocean is many colors.
When we look at the ocean from space, we see many different shades of blue. Using instruments that are more sensitive than the human eye, we can measure carefully the fantastic array of colors of the ocean. Different colors may reveal the presence and amount of phytoplankton, sediments and dissolved organic matter.
4. The ocean can be a dark place.
About 70 percent of the planet is ocean, with an average depth of more than 12,400 feet. Given that light doesn’t penetrate much deeper than 330 feet below the water’s surface (in the clearest water), most of our planet is in a perpetual state of darkness. Although dark, this part of the ocean still supports many forms of life, some of which are fed by sinking phytoplankton.
6. In a gallon of average sea water, there is about ½ cup of salt.
The amount of salt varies depending on location. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean, for instance. Most of the salt in the ocean is the same kind of salt we put on our food: sodium chloride.
7. A single drop of sea water is teeming with life.
It will most likely have millions (yes, millions!) of bacteria and viruses, thousands of phytoplankton cells, and even some fish eggs, baby crabs, and small worms.
8. Where does Earth store freshwater?
Just 3.5 percent of Earth’s water is fresh—that is, with few salts in it. You can find Earth’s freshwater in our lakes, rivers, and streams, but don’t forget groundwater and glaciers. Over 68 percent of Earth’s freshwater is locked up in ice and glaciers. And another 30 percent is in groundwater.
9. Phytoplankton are the “lungs of the ocean”.
Just like forests are considered the “lungs of the earth”, phytoplankton is known for providing the same service in the ocean! They consume carbon dioxide, dissolved in the sunlit portion of the ocean, and produce about half of the world’s oxygen.
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Researchers say they figured out how the ancient people of Easter Island put 12-ton hats on the mysterious statues.
Experts have worked out how the ancient people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, were able to place massive stone hats on the island’s famous statues.
A team of researchers that includes experts from Binghamton University, State University at New York, worked out that the island’s inhabitants used a technique called “parbuckling” that uses ropes and a ramp.
"Of the many questions that surround the island's past, two tend to stand out: How did people of the past move such massive statues (moai) and how did they place such massive stone hats (pukao) on top of their heads?" said Carl Lipo, a professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, in a statement.
With limited resources at their disposal, archaeologists have wondered how the islanders were able to move the cylindrical pukao, which weigh 13.2 tons (12 metric tons), across long distances.
A moai adorned with a red pukao
(Sean Hixon)
After taking photos of the pukao, 3-D modeling was used to reveal key details of the giant stone hats, which are carved from red scoria, or volcanic rock.
Experts found that pukao were most likely rolled from the quarry to the location of the moai, and rolled up large ramps using the parbuckling technique.
"In parbuckling, a line would have been wrapped around the pukao cylinder, and then people would have pulled the rope from the top of the platform," said Lipo. "This approach minimizes the effort needed to roll the statue up the ramp. Like the way in which the statues were transported, parbuckling was a simple and elegant solution that required minimum resources and effort."
A restored statue platform with standing moai on the south coast of Rapa Nui. Note that one of the moai is adorned with a red scoria pukao.
(Sean Hixon)
Previous theories about pukao transport include sliding the stone hats up a ramp or gradually building a pile of stones beneath them.
"Easter Island is often treated as a place where prehistoric people acted irrationally, and that this behavior led to a catastrophic ecological collapse," said Lipo. "The archaeological evidence, however, shows us that this picture is deeply flawed and badly misrepresents what people did on the island, and how they were able to succeed on a tiny and remote place for over 500 years."
Experts from Penn State, the University of Oregon and the University of Arizona also participated in the research. The pukao studt was published in The Journal of Archaeological Sciences.
The remote Pacific island, which is located more than 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, continues to be a source of fascination for historians. In 2016, research conducted on artifacts from the island questioned the theory that the ancient civilization there was destroyed by warfare.
Experts, also from Binghamton University, studied hundreds of ancient items found on the shores of Easter Island. Previously, the artifacts were thought to be spear points, but analysis reveals that they were likely general purpose tools.
Carved from obsidian, or volcanic glass, thousands of the triangular objects, known as mata'a, litter the surface of the island.
Some scientists have estimated, that, at its height, Easter Island’s population may have been as high as 20,000, but fell over centuries after the island’s trees and palms were cut down to build canoes and transport its famous giant statues. One theory suggests that the deforestation led to soil erosion, impacting the island’s ability to support wildlife and farming, and the collapse of its civilization.
When the Dutch arrived at the island in 1722, its population was 3,000 or less. Only 111 inhabitants were living on Easter Island by 1877.
However, other experts have questioned whether Easter Island ever supported a large population, citing instead the arrival of Europeans, who brought diseases and took islanders away as slaves.
‘IT’S NOT AREA 51’: REAL US ‘SECRET BASE FOR HIDING UFOS’ IS REVEALED
‘IT’S NOT AREA 51’: REAL US ‘SECRET BASE FOR HIDING UFOS’ IS REVEALED
CRASHED flying saucers and dead aliens are NOT being stored at the top-secret US Airforce base Area 51, a top UFO expert has claimed.
But, Jan Harzan, executive director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), says UFOs HAVE been recovered and ARE being stored nearby.
Mr Harzan claims there is a secret underground facility built into the base of the Papoose Mountains, in Lincoln County, Nevada, where recovered alien space crafts and extra terrestrial beings are kept hidden away.
Ever since the legendary Roswell UFO crash of July 1947 alien conspiracy theorists have claimed the remains of a flying saucer, and even dead aliens, were secretly taken into storage – something the US Government denies.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since July 1947 when the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the “crashed craft”, which along with the wreckage were then taken away. There has been speculation the remains were taken to Area 51 in the Nevada desert, or the Wright Patterson Airforce base near Dayton, Ohio.
Last summer Express.co.uk revealed the claims of Andre Milne, founder of defence technology firm Unicorn Aerospace, that Area 51 did not house aliens, but was used for so-called “black projects” to develop new secret flying technology.
US-based MUFON is the world’s biggest organisation dedicated to UFO and alien research and keeps a global database holding tens of thousands of reported sightings and tip offs.
Mr Harzan appears to agree with Mr Milne about Area 51, but said alien technology was stored elsewhere.
He said: “Area 51 is a top-secret airbase for the CIA and military to test super-secret aircraft years ahead of what the general public is aware of.
“As best we know, there are no UFOs or aliens at Area 51.
“There is, however, an area just to the south and on the same Tonopah Test Range called S4.
“Based on insider information, this is where work on extraterrestrial recovered craft takes place.
“Those of extraterrestrial origin are very smooth and integrated with no seams or rivets showing, and no protrusions.
“At least that’s our hypothesis based on what we are seeing.”
He is also convinced that by now the US authorities would have been able to recreate a recovered UFO.
He said: “Based on the research I have done, and the people I have talked to, including first-hand witnesses, absolutely yes.
“It would be one of the highest priorities of the military and intelligence community to get their hands on a flying saucer of extraterrestrial origin.
“There are others who have come forward to share their stories, although as one might imagine our intelligence community does its best to attempt to discredit them.”
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NASA Satellites Make Magnetic Discovery in Turbulent Space Near Earth
NASA Satellites Make Magnetic Discovery in Turbulent Space Near Earth
By Samantha Mathewson, Space.com Contributor
NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft has detected magnetic activity occurring in a new and surprising way in the environment of near-Earth space.
Earth is surrounded by charged particles known as plasma. Most of these high-energy particles are deflected by the magnetosphere, which is the protective magnetic field that surrounds the planet. As Earth's magnetic-field lines absorb this energy, they stretch and eventually snap, releasing powerful bursts of particles toward Earth, which, in turn, can endanger satellites, spacecraft and astronauts in space.
This process, known as magnetic reconnection, is commonly observed in Earth's magnetosphere, generally under calm conditions. However, new data from NASA's MMS has shown for the first time that this process also occurs in the extremely turbulent near-Earth environment known as the magnetosheath, according to a statement from NASA. [NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission in Pictures]
Researchers used NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft to find a new type of magnetic environment in the near-Earth environment.
Credit: Joy Ng/NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
"In the plasma universe, there are two important phenomena: magnetic reconnection and turbulence," Tai Phan, lead author of the study and a senior fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, said in the statement. "This discovery bridges these two processes."
The magnetosheath is the boundary between the magnetosphere and the solar wind, the charged particles that stream from the sun. It is made up of turbulent plasma and is one of the most chaotic regions in near-Earth space, NASA officials said in a video announcing the discovery.
In fact, due to the turbulence in this environment, before this latest study, researchers were not sure if magnetic reconnection could even occur in the magnetosheath, according to the statement.
NASA's MMS, which launched in 2015, consists of a group of four identical satellites that orbit near Earth in a pyramid formation. The satellites are designed to capture a much more detailed view of magnetic reconnection than earlier spacecraft could provide.
The new 3D observations captured by MMS show that magnetic reconnection behaves differently in the magnetosheath, according to the study, published May 9 in the journal Nature.
"Compared to standard reconnection that occurs over tens of thousands of miles, this new magnetic reconnection spans only a couple of miles within turbulent plasma," NASA officials said in the video. Thus, these smaller reactions accelerate particles 40 times faster than standard reconnection observed in the magnetosphere.
"The more we understand how those particles are accelerated, the better we can protect our spacecraft and astronauts as we explore deeper into the solar system," NASA officials added.
However, MMS instruments cannot capture turbulent reconnection in action, because the particles move too fast along narrow field lines measuring only a couple miles wide. Instead, using one of the MMS instruments — the Fast Plasma Investigation — the researchers developed a new technique to gather extra data points from the magnetosheath, providing a better understanding of how turbulent magnetic fields dissipate energy.
"The smoking gun evidence is to measure oppositely directed electron jets at the same time, and the four MMS spacecraft were lucky to corner the reconnection site and detect both jets," Jonathan Eastwood, co-author of the study and a lecturer at Imperial College London, said in the statement.
Huge Dust Storm on Mars Hits NASA's Opportunity Rover
Huge Dust Storm on Mars Hits NASA's Opportunity Rover
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
A growing dust storm on Mars is seen blurring the planet's features in this photo taken on June 6, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The blue dot shows the location of NASA's Opportunity rover, which is in the dust storm.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
A massive dust storm on Mars has sidelined NASA's Opportunity rover, stalling the robot's science work as it waits out the still-growing tempest.
"As soon as the orbiter team saw how close the storm was to Opportunity, they notified the rover's team to begin preparing contingency plans," NASA officials said in a statement. "In a matter of days, the storm had ballooned." [The Greatest Mars Discoveries by Opportunity & Spirit]
As of Friday (June 8), the storm covers more than 7 million square miles of Mars (18 million square kilometers), according to NASA. That's an area larger than all of North America on Earth.
"Full dust storms like this one are not surprising, but are infrequent," NASA officials said in the statement. "They can crop up suddenly but last weeks, even months."
The area blanketed by the dust storm includes Perseverance Valley, Opportunity's current home on the vast Martian plains of Meridiani Planum.
Opportunity has been exploring Mars since 2004, but it runs on solar power. With the dust storm clogging up the sky, the amount of sunlight the rover can use to recharge has dropped. NASA compared the conditions to "an extremely smoggy day that blots out sunlight."
By Wednesday (June 6), Opportunity's power levels saw a major drop, forcing the rover to stop all science to conserve power. If the storm lasts too long, the main concern will be the Martian cold, a danger Opportunity has faced in the past, NASA officials said.
"There is a risk to the rover if the storm persists for too long and Opportunity gets too cold while waiting for the skies to clear," NASA wrote in the statement. Cold is thought to be what killed NASA's Spirit rover, Opportunity's twin, in 2010 after that robot got stuck in the Martian sand.
But Opportunity is a survivor. And it's seen dust storms bigger than the one it's experiencing now.
A self-portrait of NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars taken by the Microscopic Imager on the rover's robotic arm to celebrate its 5,000th Martian day in February 2018.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In 2007, a dust storm on Mars covered the entire planet and forced Opportunity to hunker down for two weeks in a sort of survival-mode of minimal operations. To save power, the rover went days without phoning home to its controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
It was during that 2007 storm that Opportunity's handlers worried about the rover's ability to power its vital survival heaters with the low power levels caused by that dust storm. But Opportunity survived.
In fact, Opportunity has been surviving for 15 years.
The rover (and its twin Spirit) launched separately to Mars in 2003 and landed in January 2004 for what was originally scheduled to be a 90-day mission. But like the dust storm now battering Opportunity, the rover's mission ballooned from 3 months to 15 years, 14 of them on the Martian surface.
Email Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com or follow him @tariqjmalik.
Spanish researchers have found not one but three alien planets that are roughly the size of Earth. The similarities might end here, however, since the exoplanets are orbiting toasty close to their parent star.
Illustration of an exoplanet.
Credit: NASA.
There’s only one place in the universe we know for sure life exists: Earth. Absent any other evidence, our safest bet for finding carbon-based life outside this planet is to look for characteristics that mirror conditions on Earth. The most important ones would be orbiting a star at just the right distance in order to allow liquid water to form at the surface, having an atmosphere and magnetic field that shields life from radiation, and having energy sources to sustain metabolism. We don’t know this for sure, but a planet’s size may also be important, which is why the latest announcements by researchers at the Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Oviedo are so exciting.
The new exoplanets were discovered by the K2 mission of NASA’s Kepler satellite using the transit method, which involves measuring the minute dimming of a distant star as a planet passes in front of it. According to the Spanish astronomers, the newly identified planets orbit a red dwarf star called K2-239, located about 160 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Sextans.
The most interesting part about this system is the fact that three of its rocky planets are remarkably similar in size to Earth. Specifically, their size is within 1.1, 1.0 and 1.1 times Earth’s radius, respectively. The system also contains two super-Earths, which are both roughly twice Earth’s size.
However, astronomers haven’t set their hopes high for the habitability of these planets, which all orbit dangerously close to K2-239. The three planets orbit their star every 5.2, 7.8 and 10.1 days. While it’s also true that a red dwarf is far less bright than the sun, which is classed as a yellow dwarf star, the close proximity suggests these planets’ surface is at least a couple tens of degrees warmer than on Earth.
Astronomers also don’t have much other information about these planets, such as their atmospheric composition. That’s a job for the upcoming James Webb space telescope, the $8.8-billion successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, which is expected to launch in 2020 — hopefully, if it’s not delayed once more. Meanwhile, observations performed with the Very Large Telescope (VLT), of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), will prove valuable in establishing the masses, densities, and other physical characteristics of the three planets.
The findings appeared in the journal Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (arXiv).
How Jupiter Is Helping the Hunt for Habitable Alien Worlds
How Jupiter Is Helping the Hunt for Habitable Alien Worlds
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
Jupiter's magnetic field channels charged solar particles to the poles, creating brilliant auroras.
Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble
DENVER — Jupiter itself isn't a great candidate to host life, but the gas giant is playing a significant role in the search for habitable worlds.
In a planetary-science first, astronomers used their knowledge of Jupiter's magnetic field to model what kinds of radio signals might be emitted naturally by the fields of smaller, rocky worlds.
"If we can get a handle on how to find direct radio emissions from large exoplanets, we can then eventually use these same techniques to study Earth-sized planets and determine which ones have magnetic fields," Jake Turner, a doctoral student in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Virginia, said in a statement. [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
"These magnetized Earth-sized planets would then be possible candidates to investigate further, looking for biological signatures, such as water vapor, in a search for life," he added.
Turner is using Europe's Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) to measure radio waves produced by Jupiter, to determine how radio waves could be separated out from background noise. He presented his results Monday (June 4) here at the 232nd meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
"The goal is to determine up to what distance, and with what strength, radio emission from exoplanets can be seen using LOFAR," Turner said.
This artist's illustration (not to scale) shows a cross section of Earth's magnetosphere (the protective shell created by the planet's magnetic field). The magnetic-field lines are in blue, and the solar wind is in yellow.
Credit: Emmanuel Masongsong/UCLA EPSS/NASA
"A giant force field"
Many of the planets in our solar system have magnetic fields generated by their iron cores. Mars once hosted a planet-wide magnetic field, and its loss resulted in the disappearance of most of the Red Planet's atmosphere and all of its surface water. In contrast, Earth's magnetic field protects our world from the sun's radiation and the charged particles of the solar wind, helping to keep it habitable.
"Earth's magnetic field acts like a giant force field," Turner said during a news conference here Monday. So finding other rocky planets that have held on to their magnetic fields can help researchers find potentially habitable worlds, he added.
To better understand how well today's technology could spot magnetic fields around other planets, Turner turned to Jupiter. He scaled the emissions from Jupiter's magnetic field to mimic those of distant exoplanets.
He found that LOFAR could spot an exoplanet 65 million light-years from Earth if the exoplanet's magnetic-field brightness were a million times stronger than the peak level of Jupiter's.
To generate a signal that bright, such a planet would need to be extremely large, Turner said. However, a world that shined so brightly in radio light could possibly have Earth-size moons, each with its own protective magnetic field. This is not such a far-fetched notion; after all, Jupiter has more than 60 known moons, several of which — especially the ocean-harboring satellite Europa — may be capable of supporting life.
"This finding is consistent with theoretical models that predict such strong radio emission can exist, and can be used as a guide to search for radio emission from exoplanets," Turner said in the statement.
Many believe it was an alien satellite in deep space, but nowdays we can say that there are many UFO sightings every year, many remain a mystery forever, while many others are recognized as hoax. In this article we will talk about a bizarre case.
The story begins that an astronomer who, pointing to the deep space with his telescope has captured an incredibly bright red UFO, so immediately after posting it on the web, the clip has become viral.
According to the astronomer, his photo would be the demonstration that alien life exists and that they are monitoring the Earth from the space.
The researcher was taking pictures in his backyard with a long-exposure lens when an object crossed his field of vision. At first he thought that it was an artificial satellite like the ISS, or an airplane, but looking in detail at the object he realized that it was definitely a bizarre object of extraterrestrial origin.
He made several shots and this points out that the UFO moved at great speed since the movement between the first and second shots shows a considerable distance. The witness then sent these notable shots to MUFON one of the most important organizations on the UFOs community.
By analyzing the image we can see 3 bright objects of red color, which the central one is spherical while the lateral 2 much thinner, this is a figure that is not entirely new, we have already seen phenomena with similar shapes. Another important observation is to understand the distance of the UFO, yes, we do not know how far it is from the earth but if we check well on the right there’s a galaxy and the mysterious object turns out to be bigger.
I doubt that ufo is as big as a galaxy, so surely it was an object much much closer, without risking too many hypotheses we can say that this will remain one of the many unsolved cases in the history of extraterrestrial sightings… What do you think? Let me know below!
UNIVERSITY IMPLEMENTS COURSE ABOUT ALIENS TO PREPARE PEOPLE FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT
UNIVERSITY IMPLEMENTS COURSE ABOUT ALIENS TO PREPARE PEOPLE FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT
With so much disclosure happening right now, it was only a matter of time before a university or college created a course to take the topic more seriously. It’s about time, and comes as no surprise given the fact that the topic is rapidly creeping its way into mainstream discussion.
Academia and extraterrestrial contact go hand in hand, and it started decades ago. For example, a declassified document from the CIA’s own electronic reading room shows that the agency actually tried to recruit renowned quantum physicist John Wheeler to look into their “flying saucer problem.” This was decades ago, and even further back, ever since President Truman went on live television and announced that the UFO problem is discussed at “every conference that they’ve had with the military,” many people have been paying attention.
Combined with all of these leaks over the years, there has no doubt been a campaign of official secrecy and ridicule,” where “many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” This is according to the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Roscoe H. Hillekoetter, speaking to the New York Times in 1960.
Today, we have physical evidence, papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and statements from some of the highest ranking military, political, and government personnel, with the latest examples coming from Tom Delonge, a former rock star who just brought forth recently retired Steve Justice, a director of Lockheed Skunkworks, to let the world know that these things are real. For more information on that, you can check out To The Stars Media.
“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, ETs, etc. . . . They are visiting Earth NOW; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking.”
– Theodore C. Loder III, Phd, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire
The course at the Turkish university will be called “Ufology & Exopolitics,” and the purpose of the class is to prepare students for the possibility of extraterrestrial contact.
A class tutor, Erhan Kolbasi, told the Dogan News Agency, “We believe representatives from the world and extraterrestrial civilizations will soon be making official contact with each other. We thinking they will be in an open and mass contact. . . . It will be the biggest change seen in the history of the world.”
The course will concentrate on the history of the UFO/extraterrestrial contact, and well as the implications of extraterrestrial contact and more. According to the Dogan, Kolbasi expects open extraterrestrial contact to happen within 15 years, and claims that extraterrestrials have been and are visiting our planet.
Again, he’s part of a long and growing list of people who seem to think so, and with all of the evidence that’s emerged over the past few years, it’s not hard to see why he feels that way.
Where is the evidence you say? Well, that depends on your definition of evidence. Many people don’t believe witness testimony to be credible, but when you have military generals, NATO generals, high ranking politicians, academics, and people who have and do hold high positions for several military contractors, like Lockheed Martin, making these statements, it should clearly be taken into consideration.
“There are objects in our atmosphere which are technically miles in advance of anything we can deploy, that we have no means of stopping them coming here … [and] that there is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.”
–Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (source)
There are also documents that detail objects travelling at tremendous speeds performing maneuvers that no known air craft can, and you can view some examples and links within this article to learn more:
“There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases —perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies — for which there is no explanation. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the Earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to.”
– Margaret Mead, “UFOs – Visitors from Outer Space?,” Redbook, vol. 143, September 1974
Below is one of many recent tweets about the exciting news in Europe.
Kolbaşi is currently the deputy chair of the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center in Istanbul. This is a big step for disclosure. The implications are tremendous, and will touch all aspects of human life as we know it, from history, science, and technology to our understanding about the nature of reality and more.
Of course, there is also the problem of beliefs, and our tendency to label things as “good” or “bad,” “angels” or demons.” ET disclosure has more implications than we can possibly imagine, and perhaps this was one out of several reasons for the cover-up.
There are a lot of questions to be answered, and still many who are in their infancy regarding knowledge of what’s really been happening .
Collective Evolution has covered this topic extensively with multiple heavily soured articles. Feel free to browse through them, as all of our articles are archived. You can do this by visiting the exopolitics section of our website.
Below is a great little speech by Richard Dolan, one of the world’s leading authorities on the topic. It provides a great introduction for those who are new to the topic. His work is a great place to start.
You can check out our exclusive interview in our Explorer Lounge where Richard discusses recent UFO related happenings – including Trump’s reformation of the Space Council.
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ANUNNAKI GENETICIST CREATED OUR BODIES, NOT OUR SOULS
ANUNNAKI GENETICIST CREATED OUR BODIES, NOT OUR SOULS
Approximately one half of the human beings on Earth (about 3.5 billion people) are organic portals, soulless human beings who keep real human beings in line with the status quo, on agenda with the matrix control system.
Organic portals form the backbone of the Matrix’s social control infrastructure. They are what keeps society running in a state of preoccupation with the mundane. From cradle to grave, souled humans are pressured to stay with the status quo and not ask dangerous questions.
Empty people. Puppet people. Cardboard cutouts. Drones. Organic Portals. Background characters. Why do these terms even exist?
Because out of necessity they had to be invented by those who independently noticed the same puzzling phenomenon, one for which there is no official name: some people seem to be missing something very important inside.
While they are not necessarily any less intelligent, successful, or physically healthy as anyone else, they nevertheless show no indication of having any higher components to their consciousness. Over the years some people came to this same conclusion.
They noticed that some people were strangely one dimensional and hollow inside. This observation is not hard to miss, but it is easy to rationalize away, especially with modern society being so heavily brainwashed with the politically correct but unrealistic concept that everyone is completely equal in every way, which ignores functional differences due to environmental, genetic, and most importantly, metaphysical factors.
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.
These are interesting times. On one hand there are changes happening on a global scale that can’t really be ignored much longer. On the other hand the majority of the population seem to live their lives as if everything is just as it always is and always will be, locked in a tunnel vision of personal and material interest.
While souled humans have a divine spark of consciousness that gives them the ability of individual self-awareness, Organic Portals lack this divine spark and are only dimly conscious in comparison. They belong to an animal like group soul that exists, evolves, and incarnates collectively rather than individually.
While each souled human has a relatively unique energy shaped by that person’s awareness, experience, and essence, the energy that animates one Organic Portal is the same animating any other. The human species on Earth is not a family, but rather is an aggregation (heterogeneous group) of beings with many different soul origins, that is, souls that came from many different planets.
And, of course, humanity is also made up of soulless organic portals, too. The Anunnaki merely created our bodies, not our souls (for those who have one, that is). Nor did the Reptilians create our spirits, but more on all of this later.
Anunnaki geneticists interacting with the tree of life, while supervised by King ANU (trans.: The Sky Father)
Everything in this Virtual Reality requires a consciousness, whether a True or an artificial consciousness to drive it. This means that even a grain of sand has a consciousness. Even things much smaller than grains of sand have consciousnesses. The consciousness must maintain the illusion of motion throughout its body during its entire lifespan.
Nothing exists in the Virtual Reality unless it upholds the illusion of motion. When the illusion of motion ceases, the organism dies and the consciousness driving the body leaves it. More and more people are now beginning to believe that there is life after death. This is true only to a certain point.
One could ask, If there is life after death, is there death after life?
There are three basic categories of consciousness in the Virtual Reality:
True-Light consciousness,
False-Light consciousness and, lastly,
Artificial consciousness.
Artificial consciousnesses encompass the ones created totally evil and the ones created like robots by Darkness.
The ones created of total Darkness include the ones I have referred to as the “soulless” ones. However, these are not to be confused with the artificial ones created by the Anunnaki alien scientists.
The False-Light consciousnesses created by Darkness have a mixture of True-Light particles in the consciousnesses.
True-Light particles trapped in this category of consciousness are the hardest to rescue, as it requires a very delicate operation to separate them from the Evil embedded along side of them with as little damage to the True-Light particles as possible.
When physical life terminates, the ones of artificial consciousness cease to operate until the artificial consciousness is put into another body to drive it. An artificial consciousness is akin to a replacement engine that is put into another body.
For all intents and purposes, it is like a spare part that does nothing until it is put into another body and reactivated by putting it into motion again. It is this “sleeping” phase when they are not in motion that characterizes these consciousnesses, because they lose their awareness of being.
Thus, an artificial consciousness is like a robot that is started and stopped by Darkness. For these,there is no afterlife.
However, the “soulless ones” amongst the artificial consciousnesses that are designed to promote and maintain absolute evil are usually allowed to continue in another process, which enables them to generate and maintain evil from the various levels of the astral planes. These are not the ones put on the shelf, so to speak.
These can sometimes appear to be good guys or spiritual masters in the astral realms. They are allowed to experience a form of “artificial” after-life in the astral world which in itself is an artificial reality. Hence, it is an artificial reality within an artificial reality.
In other words, they reside in a virtual world within the virtual world of the astral reality. Most of the inhabitants of the “normal” astral world do not have free access to their planes without the permission from Darkness’ astral administrators.
When a True-Light consciousness vacates its physical body at the time of physical death, it continues its awareness because its awareness does not depend upon motion, as in the case of an artificial consciousness.
The False-Light consciousness with a mixture of True-Light particles and False-Light particles also continues its awareness after physical death.
Therefore, Darkness has to develop special activities and things for these types of consciousnesses to occupy themselves with while in transition from one body to another in order to keep the charade going.
Exposing the Reincarnation Deception: Your Soul is Enslaved
It is important for Darkness to maintain the deception of the Virtual Reality and specifically of death so that the consciousness thinks it has died and been reborn.
Such ones usually reside in the astral world of the Virtual Reality until it is time for them to re-enter new physical bodies by the process called re-incarnation.
Reincarnation is really a very evil imposition on the consciousness. It is done under the false pretence that the process of death and rebirth is in the best interests of the consciousness for its own purification and advancement.
Reincarnation causes most people to lose almost all their memories of their past lives, it actually obstructs one from advancing in knowledge and awakening to Truth.
This, again, is by design to benefit Darkness. Unbeknown to many, the Akashic records in the astral world, the records of supposedly everything that has ever happened since the beginning of the universe, have been tampered with to suit Darkness.
As already stated, artificial consciousnesses are put to rest after the death of the body they were driving, and they require motion to be activated and re-inserted into another body.
However, motion is an anomaly for a True Divine consciousness. That which is natural to an artificial consciousness is intrinsically unnatural for True Divine consciousnesses.
Hence, the state of a True-Light consciousness that is being extinguished is even more pitiful than that of an artificial consciousness that is oblivious and will not re-awaken from its state of rest until it is re-activated by Darkness.
As stated before, a living body can be occupied by a True-Light consciousness, a False-Light consciousness or an Artificial consciousness.
However, the physical bodies housing all categories of all consciousness are made up of Matter and are influenced by the programming embedded in them. Horrible destruction of True Divine beings has been going on since Darkness created this putrid Virtual Reality.
No wonder the agents of Darkness hate anyone who tries to awaken the “slaves” of Darkness by taunting, persecuting and punishing them in all sorts of ways.
These days, the agents of Darkness employ cowardly ways to attack, defame, blackmail or threaten anyone who dares try to spread Truth. It gives Darkness and Its evil agents great satisfaction each time that It extinguishes a True Divine light.
Contrary to some beliefs, Light does not need Darkness to balance Itself. Nor does Light need Darkness to co-exist.
However, Darkness does need Light to sustain It. In fact, Darkness is a parasitic and vampiric energy that sucks the “life” out of True Light beings in order to survive.
Darkness has only been able to do this by erecting an elaborate house of horrors known as the Virtual Reality. Any True Light beings who enter this house of horrors are immediately preyed upon by agents of Darkness and “assassination” attempts commence as rapidly as possible.
This is what the war between Good and Evil is all about. The Light is about to rescue Its own from the clutches of Darkness, whilst Darkness fights to hold onto every one of Its “prisoners”.
“Assassination” occurs at the moment a True Light being gives over its Will to Darkness. This can be done by trickery, deception, temptation, bribery, punishment, torture or other means. Those who give over their Will are then “fallen” beings, and, for all intents and purposes, are beings of Darkness.
It should be understood that Darkness has not the power to take any True Light being’s Will by force. The Will can only be given over to Darkness by the True Light being.
The “Light” within a True-Light being is a permanent Divine spirit. It will “shine” forever if the Will is not given over to Darkness. But, if the Will is given over, Darkness seizes the permanent “Light” and drains it of its life force.
The True-Light being is then given a temporary artificial consciousness encased in a “soul” in exchange for its True Divine spirit. Thereafter, the being only has light that is generated by “perpetual” motion.
The Divine spirit shines by itself without depending on physical motion. There is no physical motion in the True Divine Realm.
As mentioned earlier, Darkness imposed Its illusion of “no-motion” upon Its Virtual Reality. By use of this illusion, beings think that they are stationary when they are moving very rapidly.
For instance, people on the Earth think that they are standing still even though the Earth is rotating daily and revolving yearly.
When the illusion of “no-motion” is broken, the illusion of motion will be impossible to maintain and all motion will cease. When nothing “moves”, only the viable True Light consciousnesses will shine.
Everything else in the Virtual Reality, including plants, animals, humans, planets, suns, galaxies, etc., will dissipate.
In effect, this is how it is assured that all of the viable True Light will be gathered and taken Home and none of the artificial or fallen consciousnesses will be. Thus, no artificial beings will be accidentally left behind and no non-viable beings will be mistakenly admitted to the Divine Creation.
Darkness dreads Its own demise. It fears that one day It could be extinguished by Its own handiwork. So, It prolongs Its existence by extinguishing the True Light beings.
Before It dies, It cruelly desires to take as many of the True-Light beings down with It by deceiving them into relinquishing their Will to It. This assassination of True Light beings cannot be allowed to go on any longer.
Darkness has created the illusion of time and slowed things down so it appears that this Virtual Reality has been in existence for eons, but this is an illusion. In fact, the Virtual Reality has only been in existence for a very short interval.
It is transitory and temporary and will soon be dissolved into nothingness. From the perspective on Earth, the Rescue Mission appears to be like a tortoise race due to the illusion of time that makes it appear to be a long time in occurring.
Further, death has so shortened human lifetimes that it was almost an impossible task for the Christ or any Divine Messengers to bring down sufficient information and fully awaken to their roles in one lifetime.
The Rescue Mission will be completed before the Divine will allow Darkness to self-destruct and dissipate into nothingness.
It is a time to rejoice for those who have held onto their Will. The time for liberation from Darkness is drawing closer and closer. Darkness will soon be unable to reactivate Its artificial consciousnesses.
Everything that is created by Darkness will cease to exist when the illusion of motion is fractured and Darkness’ empire will be no more. Death will disappear forever when this Virtual Reality self-destructs and vanishes.
It is undeniable that everything is a slave to motion. Without motion, everything stops, including the processes known as physical life and physical death. Death is so obvious in this world that everyone has encountered it one way or another.
Many fear it, some shun it, whilst others even deny its existence, but it continues inexorably to punish and chase us all. Everyone’s life is spent on avoiding death and delaying the encounter. Those who deny that death exists are seen as abnormal or as having some form of psychological disorder that causes them to deny death.
Since ancient times, people of all cultures and religions have ardently pursued a cure for physical death in the name of physical immortality. They are driven on this quest at the deepest level of their existence because they fear death.
Ironically, the deity responsible for death is the being most fearful of death of its own demise and annihilation. The deity has embedded and programmed this fear into everything that “lives” in this world of illusions.
Many humans who have explored the fear of death have concluded that all living things have a survival instinct. What has been referred to as a survival instinct is really the programmed fear of death that infects all living things, including plants, animals and humans.
This programming is deeply embedded into every particle of Matter because every particle of Matter has a thought form from Darkness that contains Darkness’ fear of death.
Darkness is so frightened of Its own demise that even the smallest building blocks of the physical universes (Matter) are thoroughly saturated with the instinctive fear of death. The fear of death is a morbid disease. It was created by a putrid, demented Mind. It is this fear that will eventually topple the entire virtual reality.
People pursue immortality even though almost everyone knows at the deepest level that the concept is absolutely absurd. Everyone knows that physical bodies ultimately decay and die. Yet the absurd quest for immortality continues.
It continues because the deity responsible for this Virtual Reality is insanely hoping against hope to find a cure for death, not to abolish it, but to use it to benefit Itself. The deity is afraid that one day It will die.
It wants immortality. It pretends to be god but it is not eternal and It seeks eternal life. The contradiction here is that when death is conquered, the True-Light’s Rescue Mission will be completed and the malevolent deity’s entire empire will collapse.
Ironically, death is the very tool Darkness invented and imposed on everything in Its domain, the Virtual Reality, to control and enslave Its creation and all that are trapped in it.
Death, amongst other things, wipes out memories to make it almost impossible for anyone to see through the lies and illusions of this Virtual Reality through the process of reincarnation.
To understand death one needs to first understand the beginning of “life” in the Virtual Reality. In the True Divine Creation there is no motion, there is no vibration in the way we know it here, there is no physical movement as we know it here.
Darkness invented motion, that was Its first illusion. From the illusion of motion, Darkness created everything in the Virtual Reality. This includes even the illusion of no motion, the illusion of things being stationary within the illusion of motion.
Darkness used the illusion of motion to form Matter by compressing spirals of Its thought-forms, which are the foundation of all things in the Virtual Reality.
The formation of Matter is the beginning of all life and death in the Virtual Reality. Everything created from Matter has a beginning and an end, a birth and death. This is by design of Darkness.
When all the illusions fall, Darkness will be fully exposed and those particles that comprise Darkness that have remained true to the Light and held onto the Will will shine.
All the others will dissipate into nothingness as Darkness fractures. So, even the prison known as the Evil Mind will shatter, and any particles within It that still hold onto the Divine Will will be released, freed from the self-imposed prison of Darkness.
The contradiction of Darkness is that it requires True-Light particles to exist, yet it also must assassinate True-Light particles to drive Its putrid Virtual Reality. Were Darkness to assassinate all the True-Light particles, It would self-destruct into nothingness.
The Rescue Mission was launched to free the imprisoned True-Light particles and halt the insane, self-destructive activity of Darkness founded upon death. Strictly speaking, in the end, even Darkness is being liberated from Itself and Its twisted creation based upon senseless wastage, suffering and death.
Soon, all the viable True-Light beings will be in their True Divine Home, where there are no sour notes and nothing can play out of key.
Everything in the True Home is in True Harmony, True Balance, Unconditional Love, Beauty, Power and True Light.
China's relentless cyber espionage campaign against the Pentagon has been one of the central reasons why that country's technological warfighting capabilities have aggressively matured over a relatively short period of time. In fact, we now see the fruits of their hacking operations on a daily basis via advanced 'indigenous' weapon systems, some which are nowentering into operational service. But a previously unreported intrusion into a Navy contractor's computer network has provided the Chinese military with information on the service's electronic warfare and threat library, cryptographic radio systems used on submarines, specific sensor data, and detailed information on a previously undisclosed and fast-paced initiative to field a supersonic anti-ship missile onto American nuclear submarines dubbed Sea Dragon.
Over half a terabyte of information was stolen electronically from the contractor's computer systems at Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Rhode Island. The installation is a focal point for development and testing of new systems related to sub-surface combat. The contractor's network was not deemed classified but the information on it in its totality was of a highly classified nature according to the Washington Post, which broke the story.
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NUWC in Newport Rhode Island.
The loss of the Navy's current electronic warfare library is especially troubling as that type of information is considered among the most sensitive data the Pentagon gathers and is critical to countering enemy defensive networks and allowing U.S. assets to survive in contested territory. This theft paired with information on sensor data that potentially collects that information is especially damning as the enemy can figure out not just what the Navy knows, but exactly how they have come to know it.
Yet the news that the Navy is rapidly looking to field a submarine-launched anti-ship missile capable of supersonic speeds is the biggest revelation from this report. Not only that but it is supposedly a weapon already in existence that is being adapted for submarine use. Quite honestly, in a vacuum, it's good news that the Navy is working on such a capability. Giving U.S. nuclear submarines long-range anti-ship capabilities that they can use while operating where no ship can is a critical ability that should be obtained, but what weapon could this be?
A shadowy cutting-edge weapons program
Little is known about the Sea Dragon program, as the Washington Post points out:
"The Sea Dragon project is an initiative of a special Pentagon office stood up in 2012 to adapt existing U.S. military technologies to new applications. The Defense Department, citing classification levels, has released little information about Sea Dragon other than to say that it will introduce a “disruptive offensive capability” by “integrating an existing weapon system with an existing Navy platform.” The Pentagon has requested or used more than $300 million for the project since late 2015 and has said it plans to start underwater testing by September.
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The introduction of a supersonic anti-ship missile on U.S. Navy submarines would make it more difficult for Chinese warships to maneuver. It would also augment a suite of other anti-ship weapons that the U.S. military has been developing in recent years."
Pentagon budget documents show that Sea Dragon, which began in the 2015 fiscal year, was one of many programs that the secretive Strategic Capabilities Office has managed and is listed in a specific line item covering "Advanced Innovative Technologies." By the following fiscal cycle, this same set of funding also paid for work on land-based railguns, advanced conventional guns and ammo, advanced navigation systems, unspecified enhanced munitions and unmanned aerial vehicle payloads, and a naval drone swarm project called Sea Mob.
In the 2016 fiscal year, the Sea Dragon program completed designs for an in-water test apparatus and the ejection body and its associated hardware, as well as successfully completed a test of the weapon system on land. Unfortunately, subsequent budget requests do not list further accomplishments for the program.
We do know that the Pentagon expected to start underwater static testing of some portion of the system, as well as begin planning for a "sea-based tactical demonstration," by the end of the 2018 fiscal year, which runs through Sept. 30, but its latest budget request for the 2019 fiscal year said that the new funds would go to continued planning for that live-fire test.
The Pentagon asked for nearly $150 million in total to support that work, as well finishing underwater static testing, building a sea-based launch support test site, and continued analysis of the conceptual kill chain associated with the weapon system. This is less than half of the money the U.S. military requested for Sea Dragon for the 2018 fiscal year, but the budget documents note that this was a product of cost savings they had achieved by buying extra long-lead time components in advance.
Russia, on the other hand, has focused for decades on developing supersonicand now even hypersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, which are seen as a major threat to American warships. China has also worked hard to independently perfect the anti-ship ballistic missile, with the medium-range DF-21D and a version of the intermediate-range DF-26 becoming one of some of the most potent anti-access threats to American Carrier Strike Groups operating in the Indo-Pacific Theater.
So if no supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles exist in the Pentagon's inventory, or are even deep in development, what is this 'existing' weapon?
Identifying the mystery weapon
This weapon could be one of a number of concepts we identify below. But to start, a submarine-launched version of the SM-6 multi-role missile seems like the most conventional possibility. This is not a cruise missile, but the designation stated in the Washington Post's article could be just a due to the writer's lack of knowledge of existing weapon systems and their capabilities or just a misinterpretation of what is clearly a fairly opaque program.
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SM-6 test launch.
The SM-6, which you can read all about in this recent profile we published on it, can be launched from the Mark 41 Vertical Launch Systems found on American destroyers and cruisers. In its latest form, it is fully networked, allowing it to receive targeting data from a variety of platforms, including airborne, ground-based, or surface-based sensor nodes. This concept is called Cooperative Engagement Capability/Naval Integrated Fire Control CEC/NIFC and it is one of the most important concepts the sea-going force is trying to implement at this time.
Although it was designed primarily as a surface-to-air weapon to be used against air-breathing threats and ballistic missiles during their terminal stage of flight, the SM-6 has an increasingly potent long-range anti-ship and a land-attack capability able to promptly strike targets over long distances. The fact that it flies at very high speeds on a ballistic-like track instead of a flat cruise missile like flight profile makes it especially hard for enemies to defend against.
Most of America's nuclear fast attack submarines and all its guided missilesubmarines have 'strike length' vertical launch cells similar to the Mark 41 VLS, that are used to house BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles.
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Los Angles class USS Santa Fe (SSN-763) with her VLS doors open.
A new arrangement, with two large hatches that cover a number of launch tubes and can be more easily adapted to different weaponry, is now being fielded on latest Virginia class submarines. Soon boats equipped with the Virginia Payload Module, which carries four of these large modular missile bays, will be under construction.
These same cells currently used for Tomahawk cruise missiles could be configured to house an altered SM-6-booster combination capable of launching the missile submerged without destroying the launch cell. If such an arrangement were developed and implemented, the variety and flexibility of firepower that America's submarine force would possess would greatly increase.
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USS John Warner (SSN-785) shows off her modular launch tubes, she was the first of her kind to receive the new setup.
Because the SM-6 is networked and doesn't rely on organic sensors installed on its firing platform for targeting, submarines could even act as clandestine launch platforms for anti-aircraft attacks. This would allow for more vulnerable assets, like E-2D Hawkeyes, MQ-4C Tritons, P-8 Poseidons, and powerful radar-packing surface combatants to stand off at long ranges, using their sensor's great reach—outside the range of their own or nearby weapons—to their advantage and remotely ordering up attacks on enemy ships and aircraft by surprise.
The unique list of information Chinese hackers stole from the Navy contractor also points to such a system, which would rely on electromagnetic threat libraries, crypto-communications, and a wide variety of sensors for detecting and engaging threats.
Raytheon, the company who makes the SM-6, has a long history of providing tailored weapons for American submarines, and some non-traditional programs have recently seemed to disappear into the realm of deep classification. For instance, the initiative to arm Navy subs with AIM-9X air-to-air missiles as a short-range last-line of defense against prowling anti-submarine warfare aircraft. That program went as far as being successfully tested before going dark, which you can read all about it in this past feature of ours.
It is also possible that the Washington Post article's author was wrong about the missile's supersonic capability, which would point to fielding an advanced anti-ship cruise missile like Lockheed's very stealthy and smart Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) aboard submarines. Yet this would probably be a less covert affair developmentally speaking. But such a weapon would be especially useful when combined with the SM-6—or another high-speed anti-ship weapon—allowing for long-range, multi-layer attacks on enemy flotillas. Also, the Navy, and its submarines will be getting a long-range, subsonic, anti-ship capability via the Block IV Tactical Tomahawk.
It's more likely that his weapon could actually be LRASM-B, or at least an evolutionary relative of it. LRASM-B was being developed alongside the subsonic LRASM-A around the turn of the decade and would have performance nearing Mach 3, operating in a similar fashion as theRussian-Indian developed BrahMosanti-ship missile.
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A model of Lockheed's supersonic LRASM-B concept.
Development work continued on LRASM-B until around 2013 when it was officially passed over. It is very possible that this design was brought back to life under the shadowy Sea Dragon program, with a focus on submarines as a launch platform, not ships. The budgetary dates and what was mentioned in the Washington Post article would certainly support this possibility as well.
Maybe even more promising is the possibility that this is actually the product of a supposedly defunct 2000s initiative to create a high-speed cruise missile dubbed Revolutionary Approach To Time-critical Long Range Strike, or RATTLRS for short. This weapon was all about hitting time-sensitive targets very quickly with little preparation, being able to fly at high altitudes and at speeds approaching Mach 4, obliterating its target with submunitions, a high-explosive warhead, or a penetrating warhead within about 30 minutes time at its maximum range.
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Elaborate mockups of the missile were being shown off by the mid-2000s.
This Lockheed-led initiative built on the Skunk Works' experience with the D-21 drone and was supported by the Office of Naval Research and NASA. It was funded throughout the 2000s, had successful payload delivery tests on the jet sled, its engine was built by Rolls Royce, and was approaching a complex flight demonstration phase when it disappeared. This could have been due to budget cuts that happened around the turn of the decade, but maybe it was revived in 2013, adapted for the anti-ship mission, and deep in development in updated form by 2015. It's also worth noting that a submarine-launched capability was part of the program's initial vision.
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A RATTLRS cruise-missile inlet undergoes testing at the High Speed Wind Tunnel at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Grand Prairie.
Adding to the case that RATTLRS may have been reborn in secret is this tidbit of information brought to us by our good friend Stephen Trimble's twitter feed. Apparently, the Navy has been showing off a model of this exact concept just months ago without any real explanation as to why:
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Lockheed hypersonic missile display at the Air Warfare Symposium a week ago and the Lockheed D-21 on display outside the Skunk Works.
Finally, the mystery missile could be a hypersonic missile, not a supersonic missile, for the Ohio class submarine, which the Navy is quietly developing and has test flown fairly recently. Still, the Pentagon has openly discussed these and other hypersonic tests recently, so it's not exactly top secret. Also, this wouldn't be a variation of an existing system as described in the Washington Post article. Fielding such a system operational by 2020 also seems remarkably ambitious, but it may be possible and certainly, China has an extreme interest in hypersonic technologies.
These are just the clearest possibilities for what this weapon could be. It's also possible that it is another weapon system clandestinely developed to a certain degree in the past, and brought back into development due to the changing nature of the world by the middle of this decade. During the mid-2000s, time-sensitive strike was such a big deal due to the Global War on Terror that numerous programs existed that never seemed to go anywhere—at least publically.
Loose bits sink ships
Regardless of the exact identity of this weapon system, the idea that the Navy—or at least one of its contractors—lost so much detailed information on what could be one of its most promising and critical weapon systems, as well as the infrastructure that supports it, couldn't have come at a worse time. China is pumping huge sums of money into its maritime warfare programs and fortifying its "fortress" like anti-access/area-denial strategy that will make it harder and harder for America's surface fleet to operate anywhere near striking distance of the Chinese mainland. With this in mind, submarines remain among the most important tools for breaking down this anti-access bubble so that more vulnerable assets can move closer to potential targets and strategic areas. What's worse is that with detailed info in hand, China is likely going to work hard to replicate this capability, not devise a defense against it.
Above all else, this is another terrible reminder about how the Defense Department and the industrial complex that feeds it remains its own worst enemy when it comes to securing highly detailed information about its most critical and costly weapon systems. At some point, the decision has to be made that networks that are not air-gapped and are connected to the outside world in some fashion are not secure enough to gamble such sensitive information on. Physical espionage is a big enough threat to deal with as it is, and the U.S. has failed miserably at defending against electronic espionage using convenient network architecture.
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USS North Dakota being rolled after assembly.
Coming to terms with this reality will mean it will become more time consuming, expensive, and tougher overall to develop new weapon systems. Distributing programs to sites located across the U.S. will instantly become a major issue. But what's the point in the U.S. developing any of these systems if in the end it is just developing them for its number one technological competitor as well?
And the fact that China doesn't have to pay billions upon billions of dollars for this intellectual property—they can steal for virtually nothing—isn't only a loss to American national security, but it actually provides the enemy with a major fiscal edge. And that edge is already being exploited in front of our very eyes on an increasingly unprecedented scale.
Incredible NASA Video Crams 20 Years of Earth's Weather Into 2 Minutes
Incredible NASA Video Crams 20 Years of Earth's Weather Into 2 Minutes
ByChelsea Gohd, Space.com Staff Writer
You can now watch almost two decades of weather patterns on Earth thanks to an incredible video from NASA.
The 2-minute, 17-second video, based on data from NASA's Worldview tool, shows how weather on Earth has changed between 2000 and 2018, highlighting some of the planet's most dramatic weather moments.
The imagery comes from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, which launched in 1999 and 2002, respectively, observing weather patterns on Earth for almost 20 years. MODIS became operational in 2000, and ever since, the instrument has provided imagery through NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), which can be viewed in NASA's Worldview tool.
Using the Worldview interactive interface, you can explore satellite imagery easily in your web browser. You can even specify within Worldview to see everything from fires to dust storms. Imagery from MODIS is now available in Worldview, which debuted in 2012 and has dramatically increased access to imagery data, NASA officials said in a statement.
Aboard NASA satellites, MODIS has captured almost 20 years of imagery of Earth's weather patterns.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/ LK Ward
Satellite images of weather patterns are helpful for a number of reasons, and in 2016 and 2017, they allowed researchers to observe the California wildfires, as you can see in the video above. Also seen in the video is how this technology allows us to observe air quality and dangerous levels of smoke and haze.
"In the '80s and '90s, if you wanted to look at, say, clouds off the coast of California, you had to figure out the time of year when it was best to look at these clouds, then place a data request for a specific window of days when you thought the satellite overflew the area," Santiago Gassó, an associate research scientist with NASA's Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research program at Morgan State University in Baltimore, said in the statement.
"You would get a physical tape with these images and have to put this into the processing system," he added. "Only then would you know if the image was usable. This process used to take from days to weeks."
The new imagery helps to overcome that challenge.
"Now, you can look at images for days, weeks and even years in a matter of minutes in Worldview, immediately find the images you need and download them for use," Gassó said. "It's fantastic!"
Love astronomy, but don’t like to stay up late? Here are 10 space objects you can see – under the right conditions – during the day.
Image via EarthSky Facebook friend Janet Furlong.
If you think that daytime sky nature-watching is limited to clouds and birds, you might be missing out. Observing space objects in the daytime has its limitations and difficulties, but, as with all skywatching, it also has its rewards. So here is a list of 10 surprising space objects to see in the daytime sky. Aside from the first three listed below, each of these daylight observations is relatively difficult, but straightforward if you’re prepared. On the other hand, the observations toward the bottom of the list aren’t possible to predict.
That said, here they are, in increasing order of difficulty: your top 10 space objects to see in daylight.
In addition to the 10 items listed here, there are atmospheric phenomena such as this beautiful solar halo and sun dogs. While not quite space related, they are sky related and well worth coming to know. Image via Rima Biswas in Baltimore, Maryland, December 2016.
1. The sun.
Obviously, you can see the sun during the day, but paradoxically, we’re told not to look, for fear of harming our eyes. And that is quite right. Gazing at the sun directly can damage your eyes.
If you do take precautions – and rig up a simple indirect viewing method for sun-watching, like the one shown here – what would you be looking for? Most people look for sunspots, which are sometimes quite large. It’s easy and fun to count the number of sunspots you see from day to day. That doesn’t take long, and, if you keep a record of what you see, you can notice profound changes over time. That’s because there’s an 11-year sunspot cycle, during which the dark spots on the sun’s surface wax and wane. We’re in an ebbing phase of the cycle now, but we still sometimes receive photos from people of sunspots, captured through telescopes with safe solar filters. And, in the coming years, the number of spots you see on the sun will gradually increase until the cycles peak.
If you’re interested in sunspots, we recommend following the website Spaceweather.com, which tracks them and offers mobile phone alerts.
And of course, the sun is the source of a whole range of atmospheric effects, which are beyond the scope of this post. Try searching here at EarthSky for words like “halo around the sun,” “rainbows,” “iridescent clouds,” “the glory.” Or browse Les Cowley’s great website Atmospheric Optics.
You can often see the moon during the day. Here’s an almost full moon, ascending in the east in evening twilight. Beautiful! Photo by Jenney Disimon in Sabah, North Borneo.
2. The moon.
I don’t have any survey statistics, but I’d be willing to bet that at least 75% of the public is unaware that the moon can be seen in the daytime sky. That’s not too hard to understand, since so many people nowadays spend so much time indoors and are unaware of the sky at all.
In addition, the moon is not in the daytime sky every day. Like the sun, it is below the horizon half the time. Add that to the fact that much of the time the moon is up during the day, it’s a thin crescent too close to the sun to be seen easily.
It’s easy to see why some people are surprised to discover the moon in the daytime sky. But voila. If you look up frequently, you’ll notice it often.
Daylight occultation of Venus by the moon, via John Ashley. He said it’s “… a composite of 6 photos taken at 1-minute intervals, photographed in August 2000 from Glacier National Park, Montana. It’s one of 100+ photos from my book, Glacier National Park After Dark.“
3. The planet Venus.
Anyone who is surprised that the moon can be seen in the daytime will be amazed that, under the right conditions, you can see the planet Venus with the sun also in the sky.
The image above shows Venus as a crescent, like a tiny crescent moon, but Venus appears as a crescent only at certain times in its orbit, and some optical aid is needed (in this case, a telephoto lens) to see it. More about that below. To the eye alone, though, Venus appears as the brightest planet, a tiny white dot that often seems to “pop” out at you in a daylight sky, once you find it.
Anyone who has seen Venus in a reasonably dark sky knows that it is usually truly brilliant. Observations in the daytime sky are more difficult simply because the surrounding sky is so bright during the day. The contrast between planet and sky is much lower during the day, making the planet harder to see. Imagine how easy it is to see a bright light at the top of a tower at night versus daytime. That’s similar to seeing Venus at night versus day.
In June, 2018, as seen from around the globe, Venus can be found easily in the west after sunset. It’s exceedingly bright, but not as bright as it will be later this year. What’s happening is that Venus is catching up to Earth in the race of the planets around the sun. It will pass between us and the sun on October 26, 2018. In the weeks before and after that event (which is called an inferior conjunction of Venus), the planet will be visible as a crescent in a telescope, much as you see in the photo by John Ashley above.
What, no telescope? Never fear. There’s another event that takes place in the weeks before and after Venus’ inferior conjunction. That is Venus’ greatest illuminated extent – when it appears brightest in the sky as seen from Earth. At such times, people frequently mistake Venus for a UFO! It is low in the sky, very bright and quite eerie-looking. Greatest illuminated extent for Venus will come on September 21 in the evening sky, then again on December 2 in the morning sky. Don’t miss it! The morning event, especially, is always a great time to see Venus in the daytime because you can just see it before sunup, and keep watching …
ISS is sometimes (and sometimes not) brighter than Venus. Here it is in a daytime sky. Image via Spaceweather.com/UniverseToday.com.
4. Earth-orbiting satellites.
Many folks are very surprised that satellites can be seen at all, but these days they are quite common in dark, nighttime skies. Seasoned observers are more surprised when an hour of nighttime observing goes by without seeing at least one! They look like steadily moving “stars” – silent – and very high up. So, at night, it’s very easy to see satellites. But how about during the day?
There are two sorts of satellites you’re most likely to see in daylight. One is the International Space Station (ISS), which is sometimes (but not always) the third-brightest object visible in our sky, after the sun and moon. Why only sometimes? The position and thus brightness of ISS in your sky is variable, depending, for example, on where the space station is with respect to you (i.e., passing overhead versus passing farther away, and nearer your horizon). Also, the brightness of Venus – which we also often describe as the sky’s third-brighest object – varies. Sometimes ISS is brighter than Venus, and sometimes Venus is brighter than ISS.
Still, ISS is a very bright satellite. If conditions are optimum, you might see it in daylight. Spotting ISS when it’s visible in your sky is a fun pastime. Eventually, you can get so experienced with these sightings that you’ll recognize when one will occur in daytime, over your location. Here’s an article that’ll help you get started.
But we said there were two sorts of satellites you might see in daylight. The second is an Iridium communications satellite, which also have very reflective surfaces. Under the right conditions, they can reflect enough sunlight to appear as bright dots moving across the sky for a few seconds. These flashes are known as Iridium flares.
Even some seasoned astronomers are surprised to learn that mighty Jupiter can be glimpsed with the unaided eye in a sunlit sky. I don’t want to mislead you, as this isn’t an easy observation. Jupiter is significantly dimmer than Venus, and finding it takes a good bit more effort (not to mention exceptionally good eyesight and excellent atmospheric conditions).
The best time to see Jupiter in daylight is when it’s near a “quadrature” when Jupiter is about 90 degrees away from the sun in the sky. This is similar to the arrangement of first quarter and last quarter moon. In fact, it is also very helpful to have a quarter moon nearby as a kind of sky landmark to guide you to Jupiter. Notice the quarter moon in the image above, for example.
And, by the way, the reason you want the planet at quadrature – about 90 degrees from the sun – is that the sky is slightly darker there, due to a phenomenon known as polarization.
When will Jupiter be at quadrature next? Pretty soon, as it happens, in early August, 2018.
Okay, it’s not quite daylight in this image, but close. See the bright triangle? Brightest is Venus. Mars just below it. Jupiter – second-brightest – above Venus. Bryan Goff took this photo on October 30, 2015 from the USCGC Stratton, deployed in the Pacific Ocean.
6. The planet Mars.
Only a relative few observers have caught Jupiter with the unaided eye the daytime, and even fewer have seen Mars. However, it is possible. And indeed 2018 is the year to attempt this observation because Mars will be briefly and very slightly brighter than Jupiter, for a few weeks around July 27, 2018.
Although I personally have not seen Mars in the daytime sky (I’ve seen Jupiter twice), a correspondent in the Middle East has reported to me an apparently genuine observation, and I have no doubt that it can be done.
Stars can be seen in the daytime sky, but this is a bit of a cheat. Stars, along with the brighter planets already mentioned, can be seen with the unaided human eye in a daytime sky (that is, when the sun is above the horizon) normally only during a total solar eclipse. Such observations are of historical significance, and in fact played a crucial role in one of the first confirmations of Einstein’s theories of relativity.
A few observers report that they have seen some bright stars, such as Sirius, with the unaided eye in the daytime sky. If indeed this is possible, it would require exceptional eyesight and exceptional sky conditions.
On the other hand, observers with telescopes can see certain bright stars (not to mention the bright planets) on any clear day, although the scientific reasons for doing so are few and far between.
Stefan Seip, in Stuttgart, Germany, captured Comet McNaught in broad daylight, with a blue sky and white puffy clouds on January 13, 2007, one day after the comet’s closest point to the sun (perihelion). He used an Astro-Physics 155mm aperture f/7 refractor working at f/14 with a 2x barlow lens and a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II DSLR and 1/500th of a second exposure (!) at ISO 100. 24 frames were stacked for the final image. Image via AstroPix.com.
8. Daytime comets.
Like the meteors with which they are sometimes confused, bright comets have been documented in the daytime sky. In fact, although not necessarily easy to observe, they are not all that rare. Comet McNaught became visible in daylight skies in 2007, and a bright daytime comet preceded Halley’s Comet in 1910.
Daytime comets are perhaps easier than daytime meteors because they sometimes can be predicted a short time ahead.
The Sutter’s Mill meteor – a daylight meteor – caught from near Reno, Nevada on April 22, 2012. Photo via Lisa Warren.
9. Daytime meteors.
Rare and unpredictable, very bright meteors – or bits of space debris vaporizing as they encounter Earth’s atmosphere – are sometimes seen in the daylight sky. Although they occur in the high atmosphere, they are included in this list because they are caused by small space objects, many which are known to be parts of comets or from the asteroid belt. One of the most famous incidents occurred over the western part of North America in 1972. It was seen and even filmed by observers from Utah to Alberta. Another recent daylight meteor was reported over California and Nevada on April 22, 2012. This meteor streaked across the daylight sky, creating a sonic boom that rattled windows. It was seen by thousands. Later, astronomers said the meteor began as a mini-van-sized asteroid, and they located a debris field containing fragments of the meteorite, which is now known as the Sutter’s Mill meteorite.
By the way, the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor also would surely have been seen in daytime, if the sun had been up over Russia when it penetrated the atmosphere, causing an exceedingly bright flash and powerful shock wave, and breaking windows in six Russian cities. Needless to say, the meteor caused a panic, and with good reason. It caused some 1,500 people to seek medical treatment, mostly from flying glass.
10. Daytime supernovae.
Last on our list of space objects (sometimes) visible in the daytime sky are supernovae, or exploding stars. Estimates vary as to the expected frequency of supernova explosions in our Milky Way galaxy from as many as once every 20 years to once every 300 years. We don’t have enough records of these infrequent phenomena to give much of an average. Many of these would not even be visible from Earth due to intervening gas and dust. In any event, the last supernova bright enough to be seen in the daytime sky was in 1572, and then only barely. The most likely candidate for a supernova explosion visible during daytime is the star Betelgeuse. Unquestionably it will be visible in the day sky when it explodes, but when that will be is still unknown. It could be tonight, but more likely in a few thousand, or tens of thousands, or maybe even a million years from now.
The supernova of 1006 was likely the brightest observed stellar event in recorded history, reaching an estimated -7.5 magnitude, and exceeding the brightness of Venus by roughly 16 times. Observers across China, Japan, Iraq, Egypt and Europe saw and described it. Astronomer Tunç Tezel offers this suggestion of how it might have looked (at night), based on a photograph he took in 1998 from a site overlooking the Mediterranean south of Antalya, Turkey. The image is described further in the Astronomy Picture of the Day for March 28, 2003.
Bottom line:A rundown of the top 10 space objects you can see – under the right conditions – with the unaided human eye during the day.
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