Aevum's New Rocket-Drone Airplane Duo Could Launch Satellites Every 3 Hours

"The typical turn time, from landing to takeoff, for a commercial aircraft can range from 30 to 80 minutes," said Skylus, an aerospace engineer who worked at NASA and Boeing. "Ravn operates just like a commercial aircraft would."

Aevum is focused on launching multitudes of tiny satellites into space. Such constellations of satellites could enable advances such as "wireless internet everywhere," Skylus said.

The key to Ravn's planned launch rate is its unmanned nature, which "simplif[ies] ground operations considerably," Skylus said. "Ravn takes off and lands horizontally on any standard runway. Ravn is engineered to be autonomous from the moment it leaves the hangar from taxi, takeoff, launch, landing and taxi return to the hangar."

As such, Ravn may need a ground crew of as few as six people, Skylus said. "Compared to the ground- crew needs of other launch systems, Ravn requires at least an order of magnitude less ground-crew personnel," he said. 

Aevum isn't the first company to develop an air-launch system. Northrop Grumman's Pegasus rocket has lofted dozens of satellites, and Stratolaunch Systems and Virgin Orbit are both working on rocket-carrier plane duos of their own. But these other systems all employ piloted aircraft.

The first stage of Ravn consists of a reusable, fully autonomous unmanned aircraft system designed for atmospheric flight. "The overall aerodynamic design of the vehicle has been optimized for the rocket separation," Skylus said. "The maximum speed of the Ravn first stage is Mach 2.85 [2,186 mph, or 3,519 km/h]." 

This aircraft carries an expendable two-stage rocket engineered for spaceflight. The first stage of this rocket uses a proprietary fuel approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation, while the second stage relies on liquid oxygen. "The rocket engines have already been hot-fire demonstrated," Skylus said.

Skylus was inspired to ramp up the rate of satellite launches when he came across a story of U.S. soldiers killed in action in Afghanistan in 2005.

"With my own brother serving in the U.S. Army and away from home during that time, the news felt personal to me," Skylus said. "Upon research, I gained insight that communication failure was partly responsible for the losses we suffered in Afghanistan. I recall being furious that, while I could instant-message readily, people who were fighting to protect our country struggled with communication challenges."

"Determined to figure out exactly why, I dug into communication technologies and found out that, in locations where geography is the limiting factor, the communication technologies were not necessarily faulty. We just needed better satellite-revisit times and positioning — more satellites," Skylus said. "However, the cost of deploying those satellite assets was stifling progress."

In flight simulations, "Minnie, Aevum's autonomous flight software, has already completed nearly 640 flights," Skylus said. This work included the successful simulated launch "of a 30-satellite constellation in less than 3 hours," he added.

Aevum has designed, built and tested both its aerodynamic components and a prototype unmanned aircraft system. "Aevum's currently building a proto-flight Ravn vehicle and aims to complete the ground qualification of the entire proto-flight Ravn vehicle this year," Skylus said.

Aevum's customers can use the company's web app or call or email to deliver their cargo. In this sense, Aevum wants to be "the UPS or FedEx of space," Skylus said. "We take care of all the logistics and offer mission design at no cost to you, and you can book launches and track your satellite through our app."

Aevum is working toward beginning flight testing in 2019. If the entire flight test campaign goes according to plan, Aevum has three launches planned for the fourth quarter of 2019, Skylus said. "We're always seeking to connect with more customers — there's still some capacity on these three launches," he said.

"Ravn is unlike any other launch system known today," Skylus said. "Aevum's focused on providing a delivery service that will directly enable the solutions that address global challenges that cause pain every day, which include communication and connectivity."

Skylus described Aevum's work on June 2 at the Dawn of Private Space Science symposium in New York.

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18-06-2018 om 23:36 geschreven door peter  

A Disc In The Sky: Someone Is Watching Us From Above

YouTuber MrMBB33 examines several celestial phenomena in this video. These are videos and photos sent to him by his fans.

1. A City In The Clouds

The first phenomenon is a photo showing a group of clouds with a strange shadow. The shadow almost looks like a skyline of a big city.

2. A Disc In The Sky

Starting at 16:23 a photo is shown of a disc floating in the sky half covered by clouds. What could that be?

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18-06-2018 om 23:19 geschreven door peter  

18-06-2018 om 23:11 geschreven door peter  

What If We Are The First Civilization?

What if we actually do inhabit a Universe where life, at least complex life is unbelievably rare. So rare that in the immense dark fathoms of deep time, with near infinite real estate, intelligent life arose exactly once. Us. There is no pantheon of intergalactic minds. “We’re first” is one of the three classes of answers to the Fermi Paradox, the other two being “we’re rare” and “we’re fucked.”

If Wakanda can stay hidden, could a past civilization have escaped discovery?

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Few scientists I’ve spoken to take “we’re first” answers seriously. It seems statistically unlikely; the Galaxy is filled with planets very much like ours orbiting stars very much like ours, and this planet is actually about two billion years younger than average in our galaxy, giving plenty of other places a considerable head start on developing life.

I tend to agree with that understanding but what if? What if it is not true.

What if we are the first? The first (and so oldest) aliens, the first in the time stream who will time travel or the first in the universe who will discover interstellar travel. This would explain why there have not been visitors from the future because we are the very first to invent the time machine and do that. I love author Larry Niven’s thoughts on this: If time travel is possible, the universe will keep being changed (by time-travellers) until a state is reached where time travel is never invented. That universe will not change. And we’re living in it.

It would also explain why we haven’t seen aliens, maybe it’s because WE are the first “aliens” to travel interstellar and colonize the galaxy, only to discover other species who are just a couple million or a couple of thousand years behind us.

I think people (scientists are just people who know science) tend to dismiss the “we’re first” position too easily because it seems born out of hubris, wishful thinking, dreams of exceptionalism, or religious nonsense.

Archaeological Site of Harappa.

Image via Wikipedia.

I can see a more plausible scenario, goes like this:

• Resources needed to sustain a growing population are always limited to the planet the species is on. Space exploration is great, but it will not produce the additional water, air, carbon dioxide or space needed to grow.
• Technology consumes resources, as does population growth.
• Societies like ours that are dedicated to growth and consumption eventually deplete their resources and vanish. That kind of conscious, then, might well be deemed an aberration, cosmically speaking.
• That tendency is clearly due to a particular kind of “consciousness” that humans have evolved. But rather than being an unequivocally good thing, that kind of consciousness may ultimately be self-defeating.
• Societies that thrive are those that learn to live in a mildly-adjusted “harmony” with nature–or homeostasis, really–where they are not taking more from the environment than they are giving back.
• A population that is living in that manner (whether consciously, as we know of consciousness), or in a more automatic way, like other species on this planet) do not (or unable to) do much in the way of space exploration or technology development–and in any case they are liable to be limited to a relatively small area, given the size of the universe.
• So there are likely to be a relatively large number of planets containing life that have never ventured out looking for others.
• Of those that have ventured out, their “visitation possibilities” are extremely limited.
• Any such visitation would probably be limited to say, a probe containing automated-interaction systems of some kind. The best design would probably limit the probe’s life to 1,000 years, at most. (Even were it totally self-sustaining, jungle overgrowth, earthquakes, and other natural disasters would inevitably overtake it, in time.) Or it might touch down, stay a few years, and then move on. Either way, any such contact would be fleeting and ephemeral, recorded only in myth and legend.
• Any records of such contact would be irretrievably lost by a species such as ours, with the kind of consciousness that goes around burning each other’s libraries on the theory that if what they say is in our religious texts, they’re redundant, and if not, they’re heretical.

But let’s consider the alternatives. If intelligence is common in the Universe, we would have seen signs. Even with interstellar distances what they are, some narcissistic and evangelical civilization would have sent, at the very least, unmanned probes to other stars to bring knowledge of their existence and/or spread their knowledge and principles. There’s no reasonable counter-argument; even if most civilizations destroy themselves before they reach that stage, it is hugely unlikely that all would. Even if most civilizations prefer navel-gazing, it is hugely unlikely that all would.

So intelligence is not common (the only other possibility is that we are under some sort of pointless quarantine). It is really not hard to believe this rarity. It took more than a billion years since life evolved for intelligence to arise. Our Galaxy has roughly 100,000,000,000 stars. If only 1 in 1,000 has planets with conditions to make life possible, and life only starts in 1 out of 1,000 potential incubators, and intelligence only arises in 1 out of 1,000 cases where life starts, well, that makes 100 intelligent civilizations arising in the Galaxy at some point. Say the propensity to self-destruct or navel-gaze accounts for 95% of them (not that unlikely)–now it’s not that hard to begin that of the remaining handful we may be either the first or far enough away for expanding probes of the others to not have reached us.

What about the other 100,000,000,000 galaxies? Here, distances are so immense that almost certainly nobody would attempt to travel or communicate. We can’t know if we’re first. We know we’re rare. So if we self-destruct, it will be a real pity…

Bottom line: The probability that is life out there is enormous. That probability that it evolved technology (and still exists) is very much smaller. The probability that they are within hailing distance is smaller yet. The probability that any such “hailing” would be recognized, and then remembered, is smaller still.

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18-06-2018 om 22:50 geschreven door peter  

For all of you that don’t know, the Bermuda triangle is defined by three points: Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. Any of its sides stretches about thousand miles and besides all the obvious evidence that it exists, the US Navy says that there is no such thing as Bermuda triangle.

However, there is numerous evidence that proves its existence and the great and supernatural things that are hiding underneath the water. Some even believe that this triangle is the existing proof of the extraterrestrial activity on our Planet yet some choose to stay blind.

There are people that don’t believe the existence of Bermuda triangle even though it had been swallowing up ships and airplanes and even water.

The latest and most interesting thing that has been discovered at the Bermuda triangle are two beautiful and mesmerizing pyramids made out of glass. Also, there was a great technology, a great mystery for modern science revealed underneath the ocean of the triangle.

Unfortunately, the army has stopped researching this place and never got to understand what is really happening underneath.

This well-known oceanographer Mayer Verlag,  believes that the discovery of the two glass pyramids have shed light on all those missing airplanes and ships which is why the US Navy tries to hide what was discovered and keep it away from the public.

These pyramids are located right in the center of the Bermuda triangle and they are made of some form of crystal which may be the reason why there are disappearances right where they are located.

Today the truth about the existence and the importance of these pyramids is not yet proven to be wrong or right because the Us Navy tries to hide it all away from the eyes of the public. There were many researchers that tried to discover if there is something underneath the Bermuda triangle and most of them have found anomalous structures made out of crystals which were the cause of all the disappearances.

When it comes to the Pyramids, there are now photographs or actual proof that they exist yet it is believed that they are twice as big as the Pyramids of Giza.

After this very important discovery, the Us Military marked the area under their control and no other researchers or oceanographers can investigate and prove their theories.

However, if there is nothing there underneath the Bermuda triangle, why would the Us Military protect the zone and keep it under their control? Maybe they are protecting something truly valuable and some kind of “alien” technology that is far more advanced than today’s modern science.

Which leads to the point that it is up to you if you believe or not these mysterious discoveries even though there are no hard evidence that proves what is really going on underneath the Bermuda triangle?

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18-06-2018 om 22:36 geschreven door peter  

18-06-2018 om 21:44 geschreven door peter  

If all this is true, then the conversations between the astronauts and the Command Center become understandable too.

Ten years after, one of the creators of the radio apparatus for an expedition to the Moon, Maurice Chatelain, confessed that he was a witness to the previously mentioned radio conference.

He said that the radio session Armstrong was talking about mysterious cosmic ships which have come to rest on the crater’s periphery.

The transmission was heard by many radio amateurs because somehow, Edwin Aldrin managed to lead the transfer.

The commander of Apollo 11, in a way, confessed that they have seen something weird. However, he dodged to give a proper answer.

The truth is that almost every astronaut on the mission was part of the Military Air Forces and they were aware of the Ministry of Defence’s rule:

 “The military members spreading any UFO information are subjected to The Espionage Act”.

Violation of the rule brings with up to ten years in prison and $10,000 fine.  And that is why they didn’t speak.

In the fall of 1973, NASA Chief Information Officer received a formal notice: “During the cosmic flights in the Apollo program, astronauts noticed the objects whose origin is hard to explain.”

In 1968, during their flight, the Apollo 8’s crew who first flew around the Moon, saw two unknown different objects in the shape of a disk and caught a radio transmission in an unknown language.

Two dazzling UFO’s followed Apollo 12 too. With the help of telescopes, it was observed they were flying in the front and in the back. The astronauts informed the Command Center as soon as they noticed them, but they said: “Good, we will consider them as friendly objects.”

There is an impression that the whole terrestrial cosmic program was under control of unknown reasonable force, and the Heads of the states likely knew about it, state the Russians.

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18-06-2018 om 21:31 geschreven door peter  

Namely, he materialized the extraterrestrial world with electronic creatures which will have succeeded their original masters.

Rees said that the alien beings will have no connection nor resemblance with humanity. On the contrary, when they take over the world, they will even overthrow their own creators.

“My guess is that if we do detect an alien intelligence, it will be nothing like us,” he said.

The 74-year-old astronomer said that it would be “extremely unlikely” to find aliens that resemble humankind.

He defined “organic intelligence” as a “thin sliver” between the earliest degrees of life and the powerful period of machines.

Aliens are ‘ROBOTS who have overthrown masters’ Incredible claim by QUEEN’S astronomer!

Even the famous scientist Stephen Hawking has made some warnings. He mentioned the danger aliens pose to Earth if we ever reach an alien contact. He also warned about the impact artificial intelligence will have on humanity.

“My guess is that if we do detect an alien intelligence, it will be nothing like us. It will be some sort of electronic entity,” said Lord Martin Rees in an interview at Trinity College.

“In other words, the period of time occupied by organic intelligence is just a thin sliver between early life and the long era of the machines.

“Because such civilizations would develop at different rates, it’s extremely unlikely that we will find intelligent life at the same stage of development as us.”

The status of having an astronomer in the British royalty started existing in 1675 and was modeled by King Charles II. Furthermore, the royal astronomer is an official member of the Royal Household.

Lord Rees has made some warnings in the past too. He said that Earth requires an asteroid to defend humankind from a mass destruction.

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18-06-2018 om 21:22 geschreven door peter  

A retired Navy Commander released his official statement about that one time he had a UFO encounter, witnessing a bizarre craft rising out of the ocean and flying past his plane.

On February 10, 1951, Navy pilot and officer Graham Bethune, along with his crew, was flying in a mission from Iceland to Newfoundland.

While finishing the mission, they experienced something rather inexplicable. This event marked the whole life of the ex-Navy commander and the rest of the crew as well.

Namely, the members of the mission noticed a bizarre light on the ocean’s watery surface around 300 miles from Newfoundland.

These lights were so eminent and scattered throughout a large area hence the men felt like they were flying over a city.

During the Disclosure Project Conference in Washington DC in 2001, ex-commander Bethune explained his weird  UFO encounter.

“As we approached this glow it turned to a monstrous circle of white lights on the water. Then we saw a yellow halo, small, much smaller than whatever it was launched from, about fifteen miles away.”

In only a matter of seconds, the gleaming UFO equaled their altitude. Thus, Bethune had to free the autopilot and draw the plane’s nose down in order to dodge a crash. But soon, the object shifted going towards them.

Bethune’s drawing of the UFO encounter

“As the UFO approached my plane and flew alongside it, we could see the domed craft which had a corona discharge,” he said.

At the same time, certain plane instruments started failing due to the powerful electromagnetic disruptions the UFO generated.

The plane had 31 passengers, a psychiatrist and of course, the crew aboard. All of them watched as the event was unrolling.

As soon as the plane landed, the witnesses were questioned and pressured on signing a non-disclosure form. Their testimonies, however, were upheld by radar data from an Air Force station in Goose Bay, Labrador.

Do you believe Mr. Bethune and his crew really experienced a true UFO encounter? Tell us your opinion.

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18-06-2018 om 21:14 geschreven door peter  

18-06-2018 om 21:04 geschreven door peter  

Roswell That Ends Well – Dr. Kevin Randle Man Of Character

A truly rare event has recently occurred in UFOlogy. I think a Leprechaun, a rabbit’s foot, and a four leaf clover just gave birth to a horseshoe. We have expectations that once in every billion years we should be able to detect a neutrino. But never, and I mean never could we have expected this.

In this world where it seems, that man’s inhumanity to man rules along with all the morals and scruples that follow such a disposition. People get polarized and stay polarized for life. Plasticity of thought is a withering characteristic. This is a time where the classic adage ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’ has lost all meaning. People are so touchy and easily hurt. Words are the new sticks and stones. Thoughts proceed words. Thoughts have consequences and can take purchase. Sometimes thoughts and beliefs are wrong.

There has been a mutiny in UFOlogy, in regards to the Roswell Incident.

Just picture a bunch of nerds beating the hell out of each other with their pocket protectors and fake lightsabers. Not really, but something even more unexpected has occurred around the black mailbox. One of the grand masters of the “Roswell Incident” is Dr Kevin Randle. He has done the unforgivable. He publicly stated that he believes that the Roswell Incident is better explained by the prosaic then by proclaiming aliens.

Blogger Robert Sheaffer wrote in his blog:

“I asked Randle, if he no longer thinks that the Roswell incident was extraterrestrial, what does he think it was? He said he really doesn’t know. It wasn’t E.T., but it wasn’t a Mogul balloon, either. Randle then launched into a critique of skeptics being unskeptical because they insist that the debris found was from the once-secret Mogul spy balloon project, when the evidence supposedly proves that it was not. Thus skeptics are, he says, as illogical as the ET believers.”

Randle is not the first to regain his senses in all this Roswell stuff, UFO researcher Curt Collins posted the following information to Facebook:

“Roswell Incident” co-author William Moore bailed out in 1997… I wish to advise anyone who might be interested that I no longer am of the opinion that the extraterrestrial explanation is the best explanation for this event.”

Saucer Smear newsletter, Aug. 5, 1997

I have always thought Roswell was a waste of time. It is a gigantic “Hail Mary” pass that stretches across the minds of the true believers.  The odds that a civilization sent a spaceship to Earth and then to have it crash is quite extraordinary. Extraordinarily unlikely.

I commend Dr Kevin Randle for his “mea culpa”. He spent 30+ years researching the Roswell Incident. He authored books about it and spoke at innumerable conferences, podcasts, and radio programs. It takes a big person to admit when they were wrong. To change one’s mind in light of new evidence is a virtue, not an issue. Imagine spending your whole life dedicated to a cause and then one day openly admitting you were wrong. I have respected him for what he has accomplished in the past, now I respect him for the content of his character. In the sciences, these things happen more often than in other pursuits. It is part of the scientific method and one of its great strengths, self-correction.

I quote Gordon Bonnet, host of the blog called ‘Skeptophilia’:

“If the truth (my conclusions based ONLY on the evidence), turns out to be different than I thought it was, then my viewpoint on the subject MUST alter/change to reflect this, that is the skeptic’s code”.

This reminds me of much of the sceptical wisdom that I gained from Kevin Randle’s writing in some of his books.

I do agree that Kevin has, in effect, shot himself in one foot at least, and is now in a sort of suspended, neutral, position of being neither pro or con. This is quite a turnaround from his previous books which were all very much pro-ET. He may lose a few friends because of this, but that is a risk one takes in ufological debates. Karl Pflock did a partial turnaround with his two books, his second repudiating much of his first. Bill Moore seems to have recanted long ago. Is there anyone left (Stan Friedman or David Rudiak maybe?) who can revive this Roswell ET corpse, or is it time to finally cremate it?

Let’s now move along…

Can this please be the end of all this Roswell business. Let’s chalk it up to being an unknowable unknown. If there is agreement that Roswell doesn’t involve a crashed spacecraft or pickled aliens, does the incident warrant much further attention? This has gone from a Cosmic Watergate to 1940s balloon identification. If it was Mogul, we have misidentified sky trash. If it’s not Mogul, we have someone else’s misidentified trash. There’s not much to be gained by either side in winning this debate.

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18-06-2018 om 20:31 geschreven door peter  

Ufo-wolk gespot boven Friesland -  HLN.be

Bron: AD.nl

Het was natuurlijk geen ufo, maar wat was het dan wel? De Nederlandse meteorologen Wilfred Janssen en Raymond Klaassen geven uitleg: “We zien hier een forse stapelwolk die wil doorgroeien naar hogere sferen. Maar dat lukt niet omdat er sprake is van inversie: een warme luchtlaag boven een koude luchtlaag. Lucht kan opstijgen zolang de omgevingslucht kouder is, maar als die warmer wordt, lukt dit niet meer.”

Lees ook

Die vreemde speciale wolk van gisteren? Zo heet het fenomeen

Geen ufo dus, maar een grote wolk die graag wil opstijgen. De lucht, die niet verder omhoog kan vanwege de warme luchtlaag, stroomt horizontaal en licht dalend weg. Doordat de lucht tijdens het dalen een beetje opwarmt, lost de wolk aan de randen op, met als resultaat deze spectaculaire pannenkoekvorm, die ook veel weg heeft van het ruimteschip uit de film ‘Independence Day’.

 Tim Gruizinga, Bolsward.

 Tjits Keuning, Nijheizum.

Carolien de Boer-Wolf, Sneek. .

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18-06-2018 om 17:12 geschreven door peter  

Waarom NASA de haarscherpe versies van de eerste maanfoto’s niet wilde prijsgeven -  HLN.be

Bron: NASA, World of Indie

De satellieten Lunar Orbiter I tot V, die in 1966 en 1967 gelanceerd werden, moesten gegevens verzamelen om de perfecte landingsplaats te vinden voor de Apollo-missies. De foto’s die dat opleverde, waren zo scherp dat ze vergroot konden worden tot 16 bij 12 meter. 

Na gebruik werden de beelden achter slot en grendel bewaard, ver weg van het publiek. De reden? Als de foto’s wereldkundig gemaakt werden, zouden ze de superieure technologie verraden van de camera’s op de Amerikaanse spionagesatellieten, waarop de apparatuur van de maansatellieten gebaseerd was.

Aan het einde van de jaren 60, na het Apollo-tijdperk, werden de gegevens op analoge tapes opgeslagen in Maryland. In de jaren 80 werden ze overgebracht naar het Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Californië, om in de jaren daarop van de ene na de andere plaats te verhuizen. Tot Nancy Evans, medestichter van het Planetary Data System (PDS) van NASA, besliste de beelden te digitaliseren.

McMoon

Haar team kreeg een leegstaand McDonalds-restaurant ter beschikking, dat voor de gelegenheid ‘McMoon’ werd gedoopt. Het doel was de tapes te digitaliseren voor ze onbruikbaar geworden waren of de technologie waarmee ze uitgelezen konden worden niet meer bestond.

De bestanden die dat opleverde waren gigantisch, zelfs naar huidige normen. De beste beelden zijn tot twee gigabyte groot en kunnen zonder kwaliteitsverlies uitvergroot worden tot een enorm aanplakbord. Toen de NASA-ingenieurs ze in de jaren 60 afdrukten, moesten ze de foto’s in een kerk ophangen omdat ze zo enorm waren. 

Mozaïek

Het Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) heeft in totaal tweeduizend beelden van 1.500 analoge tapes gerecupereerd. Naast de allereerste foto van een ‘aardopkomst’, de aarde die opkomt aan de horizon van de maan (zie boven), bevat de verzameling bijzonder gedetailleerde foto’s van Orbiter IV. 

Die had als opdracht één groot beeld te schetsen van de volledige voorzijde van de maan. Tussen 11 en 25 mei 1967 nam de Orbiter een reeks foto’s die het hele gebied van de noord- tot de zuidpool en van de west- tot de oostzijde omvatten. Dat leverde een mozaïek op van 12 bij 13 meter. 

De toenmalige ingenieurs legden het beeld als een plattegrond op de grond en alle onderzoekers – ook de astronauten – moesten hun schoenen uittrekken om het te verkennen. Zelfs op deze grootte waren de beelden zo goed dat de onderzoekers met vergrootglazen aan de slag konden.

Dit gigantische beeld werd gebruikt om de locaties te bepalen die Orbiter V in nog hogere resolutie ging fotograferen. De beelden van Orbiter V leidden uiteindelijk tot de definitieve locatie waar Apollo 11 zou landen.

Meer beelden kunt u bekijken op de website van het project

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18-06-2018 om 17:01 geschreven door peter  

 ARCHEOLOGEN VINDEN 800 JAARMOBIELE TELEFOON ( UPDATE )

Tijdens opgravingen in de buurt van het Oostenrijkse Salzburg is door archeologen een bizarre ontdekking gedaan. 

Er is een object gevonden van minstens 800 jaar oud dat als twee druppels water lijkt op de tegenwoordige mobiele telefoon. 

Eerder dit jaar waren archeologen bezig met opgravingen in Fuschl am See, een dorp in de Oostenrijkse deelstaat Salzburg. 

Zij vonden daar iets dat verdacht veel lijkt op de tegenwoordige mobiele telefoon. 

Het is een oude kleitablet die eruit ziet als een mobiele telefoon met in plaats van onze moderne tekens, een soort spijkerschrift. Hierdoor lijkt het alsof dit voorwerp oorspronkelijk uit Mesopotamië komt omdat daar het spijkerschrift voor kwam. 

Het is niet bekend waar de archeologen in Oostenrijk precies naar op zoek waren, maar waarschijnlijk niet naar kleitabletten voorzien van spijkerschrift. 

Toch dat is wat ze hebben gevonden en het leek op de mobiele telefoon waarmee ze waarschijnlijk de volgende foto’s hebben genomen.

Men heeft de kleitablet gedateerd op rond de 13e eeuw. Dat is een tijd waarbij het al duizenden jaren geleden was dat het Soemerische spijkerschrift was ontdekt. 

Kleitabletten met daarop spijkerschrift zijn op zich niet ongewoon. Er zijn er in totaal ongeveer twee miljoen opgegraven. Deze schrijftaal was een groot mysterie tot in de 19e eeuw toen de code werd ontcijferd.

Desondanks is de kleitablet uit Oostenrijk bijzonder vanwege een aantal redenen. 

Eén is dat het niet gevonden is in de streek waar je het zou verwachten; in Oostenrijk en niet in Iran of Irak. 

Er is slechts ooit één keer eerder een object met spijkerschrift ontdekt buiten het bekende gebied en dat is Fuente Magna schaal. 

Deze werd ontdekt in het moderne Bolivia. Deze schaal is een raadsel want voor zover bekend zijn de Soemeriërs nooit in Zuid Amerika geweest en dus is de vraag hoe die schaal daar terechtkwam.

De tweede reden waarom de Oostenrijkse vondst opzienbarend is, is natuurlijk omdat deze kleitablet als twee druppels water lijkt op een hedendaagse Nokia telefoon. 

Je ziet de twaalf toetsen net zoals op de moderne telefoon, een display en spreek- en menuknoppen.

De overeenkomsten met een moderne telefoon lijken teveel om nog toeval te kunnen zijn. 

Anderzijds is er uiteraard toch enige voorzichtigheid geboden omdat de vondst eigenlijk te mooi is om waar te zijn. 

Daarom heb je mensen die het wel geloven en zij die zeggen dat het wel nep moet zijn omdat het niet kan.

Voor zover ons bekend staan op dit moment alle mogelijkheden open.

Waar komt dat object vandaan? 

Is er misschien een tijdreiziger geweest zo’n 800 jaar die zijn telefoon ergens in Oostenrijk is verloren? 

Is het toch een bizar toeval en is het gewoon een kleitablet welke toevalligerwijze op een moderne telefoon lijkt, met toevallig ook nog eens al de knoppen op de juiste plek? 

Is het toch een grap van de archeologen zelf misschien? 

Zijn er buitenaardsen geweest die deze telefoon op één of ander manier zijn kwijtgeraakt? 

Voorlopig alleen vragen en geen antwoorden.

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18-06-2018 om 16:34 geschreven door peter  

MEER EN MEER AANWIJZINGEN VOOR ONBEKENDE PLANEET ( VIDEO )

De afgelopen tijd zijn er veel berichten geweest over de alsmaar heftiger wordende aardveranderingen en er komt nu zoveel informatie los dat het nog nauwelijks bij te houden is. 

Vooral ook informatie over onbekende planeten die nu op zoveel verschillende plaatsen en door zoveel verschillende mensen worden waargenomen dat er geen ontkennen meer aan is. 

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18-06-2018 om 16:08 geschreven door peter  

Security Unit Of PM Narendra Modi Receives Report About UFO Sighting Near His Residence

A senior security official said that a report about a sighting of a round UFO hovering over the residence of the Prime Minister on Lok Kalyan Marg in New Delhi briefly fazed security personnel in the VIP area but put their suspicions to rest after the immediate search discovered nothing.

The Perimeter Security Officer gave an “OK Report” to Delhi Police after the search ended.

Dependra Pathak, a Delhi police spokesperson and special commissioner of police, affirmed the sighting but said the inside information of the event could not be disclosed. Pathak explained the sighting was reported but not alarming, and keeping security reasons in mind; more details cannot be shared.

An unnamed officer cited in the first instance said that Special Protection Group (SPG) sent information about the sighting to PM’s security unit of Delhi Police and the Delhi airport operations control centre, which received the report around 7:30 pm. The Delhi airport operations control centre comprises staff from the Delhi International Airport Ltd, Central Industrial Security Force, and the air force.

Immediately, the alert was communicated to the National Security Guards and the Intelligence Bureau. Also, put on high alert was the Delhi Air Traffic Control (ATC).

According to the officer cited above, the Delhi Police was also roped in, which assured a temporary extra deployment on the fringe of the PM’s residence, while other security agencies performed the drill to hunt down the suspected menace.

Such an incident taken place is not the first time. Around 10 pm, on September 17, 2017, the Delhi police security control room received a report about a drone-like object sighting around the Parliament area. However, an ACT’s radar, which cannot capture small flying objects in any case, caught no object.

In the same month, ATC was informed by the Delhi Police control room about the drone-like flying object sighting above a hospital in a southern suburb. However, authorities found nothing.

In November, draft regulations for the use of drones in the country were unveiled. The guidelines for the use of drones will be finalised when the Directorate General of Civil Aviation receives a response from the ministry of home affairs and the ministry of defence.

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18-06-2018 om 15:49 geschreven door peter  

High Speed Horseshoe UFO Filmed Over France

On Jun 14, 2018 a high speed horseshoe-like UFO has been filmed over France.

The footage shows the UFO speeding through the clouds where it looks like the UFO changes to a horsehoe-like shape but that can be an optical illusion.

Besides the possibility that the witness has caught a UFO, the object could be a drone or a fighter jet and the white shape is the air stream over the wings as it travels super sonic.

  

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18-06-2018 om 15:32 geschreven door peter  

Scientists discover over 100 planets that may host habitable life

Researchers have identified over 100 planets beyond our solar system that may have moons capable of supporting life.

Using data from the Kepler space telescope, scientists identified 121 planets that orbit within the habitable zone of their star.

Each are estimated to be more than three times the width of Earth, and likely all host several large moons, according to the Daily Mail.

The new research is a collaboration between scientists at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Southern Queensland.

"There are currently 175 known moons orbiting the eight planets in our solar system," says Stephen Kane, an associate professor of planetary astrophysics and a member of the UCR's Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center.

"While most of these moons orbit Saturn and Jupiter, which are outside the sun's habitable zone, that may not be the case in other solar systems.

"Including rocky exomoons in our search for life in space will greatly expand the places we can look."

Kepler launched back in 2009 and has since detected thousands of worlds outside of our solar system.

While scientists are primarily looking for terrestrial – or rocky – planets, Jupiter-like planets that sit in the habitable zone are also considered to be promising, as they may host habitable moons.

According to the researchers, exomoons may even be more favorable for life than Earth, as they receive energy from both the star and radiation reflected off the planet.

But, scientists have yet to confirm the existence of an exomoon.

The new work could help to narrow the search down, with 121 giant planets that may contain such moons.

"Now that we have created a database of the known giant planets in the habitable zone of their star, observations of the best candidates for hosting potential exomoons will be made to help refine the expected exomoon properties,' said Michelle Hill, an undergraduate student at the University of Southern Queensland who is working with Kane and will join UCR's graduate program in the fall.

"Our follow-up studies will help inform future telescope design so that we can detect these moons, study their properties, and look for signs of life."

WHAT IS THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE?

The habitable zone is the range of orbits around a star in which a planet can support liquid water.

This habitable zone is also known as the "Goldilocks" zone, taken from the children's fairy tale.

The temperature from the star needs to be "just right" so that liquid water can exist on the surface.

The boundaries of the habitable zone are critical.

If a planet is too close to its star, it will experience a runaway greenhouse gas effect, like Venus.

But if it's too far, any water will freeze, as is seen on Mars.

Since the concept was first presented in 1953, many stars have been shown to have a Goldilocks area, and some of them have one or several planets in this zone, like "Kepler-186f", discovered in 2014.

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18-06-2018 om 01:49 geschreven door peter  

Heldere vuurbol te zien zaterdagnacht

door edm 

Bron: BELGA

Heel wat mensen keken zaterdag iets na 23.00 uur vreemd op. Aan de hemel was een heldere vuurbol was te zien. Ook dinsdagnacht was dat al het geval. ‘Uitzonderlijk zijn vuurbollen niet, zeldzamer is dat ze worden waargenomen’, klinkt het bij volkssterrenwacht Mira.

De vuurbol of heel heldere meteoor werd waargenomen in grote delen van Europa, maar toch vooral in België en Nederland. Onder meer tijdens een optreden van de Amerikaanse rockgroep Foo Fighters tijdens het Nederlandse muziekfestival Pinkpop was de vuurbol te zien. Een van de toeschouwers die het optreden filmde, kon het fenomeen vastleggen op video.

Volgens Philippe Mollet van de volkssterrenwacht Mira zijn vuurbollen heel heldere meteoren of vallende sterren. Het zijn stofdeeltjes van een paar centimeter groot van kometen of planetoïden die in de dampkring terechtkomen en de lucht daarrond laten oplichten. Volgens de eerste schattingen zou de vuurbol de atmosfeer zijn binnengekomen in de regio van Luik en de Hoge Venen, klinkt het bij de volkssterrenwacht.

Zeldzaam zijn zo’n vuurbollen niet. ‘Meestal worden ze niet waargenomen. Maar tijdens de zomer, als mensen buiten zitten, worden ze soms wel waargenomen’, aldus Mollet. Wie een vuurbol wil melden, kan dat op de website van de Vereniging voor Sterrenkunde. Daar hebben ze negentig meldingen binnengekregen over de vuurbal van zaterdag.

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18-06-2018 om 01:34 geschreven door peter  

Are aliens visiting the World Cup? Mysterious 'UFO in shape of stingray' lights up night sky over Russia

Footage has emerged of a "giant stingray" lighting up the skies over Nizhny Novgorod where England play on 24 June.

By Will Stewart

Interest in the World Cup may stretch beyond the stars, it has turned out - after reports of a UFO arrival in Russia.

Footage has emerged of a "giant stingray" lighting up the skies over northern Russia.

A nervous woman who spotted the mystery lights in the city of Kirov wrote: “What the hell was that? It doesn’t look like anything I’ve previously seen."

Many suggested an extraterrestrial phenomenon over Russia.

“The aliens have arrived for the World Cup,” said one.

The spooky display was visible from Nizhny Novgorod where England play on 24 June.

Stunning footage shows a stingray-shaped object in the sky over northern Russia 

(Image: east2west news)

Some suggested it was aliens arriving for the World Cup 

(Image: east2west news)

“Is that a rocket, a fireball or a UFO over Nizhny Novgorod? Talk to me comrades, I'm worried!,” posted Andrey.

The spectacular footage had another explanation, according to Russian space officials.

The eerie light show coincided with a Soyuz-2.1.B launch from Plesetsk cosmodrome in the country’s sub-Arctic Arkhangelsk region.

The rocket with a Glonass-M satellite was at 00.46 Moscow time on Sunday, 17 June.

Stunning footage has been viewed thousands of times online 

(Image: east2west news)

The spooky display was visible from Nizhny Novgorod where England play on 24 June 

(Image: east2west news)

The satellite was safely delivered to target orbit by a Fregat upper stage rocket, said military officials.

While the Ministry of Defence reported a successful launch, some people on Russian social media went into a panic mode after seeing the spectacular visual display.

“I’ve seen alien life and it looks like a stingray,” said one.

As it developed, it morphed into a jellyfish in the night sky, said another.

“What an mazing display.”

Glonass is Russia’s own global satellite navigation system.

{ https://www.mirror.co.uk/ }

18-06-2018 om 00:30 geschreven door peter