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...
20-06-2018
Mysterious Mars rock formation explained - and it doesn't involve UFOs
Mysterious Mars rock formation explained - and it doesn't involve UFOs
The cause of a mysterious rock formation on Mars that NASA deemed "an enigmatic pile of eroding sediments" and UFO hunters strongly believe is an extraterrestrial spacecraft was likely caused by volcanic activity on the planet billions of years ago, researchers say.
The Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) was first observed in the 1960s via the Mariner spacecraft, but NASA scientists could not explain what caused it. Now, a group of researchers have published a study in the Journal of Geophysical Research that suggests it was formed by volcanic eruptions more than 3 billion years ago.
“This is a massive deposit, not only on a Martian scale, but also in terms of the solar system, because we do not know of any other deposit that is like this,” said Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in a statement.
The scale of the Medusae Fossae Formation is enormous, at roughly one-fifth the size of the U.S. It's also 100 times more massive than the largest explosive volcanic deposit on Earth, which would make it the largest known explosive volcanic deposit in the solar system.
The study's abstract notes that the MFF is a "a relatively porous unit" and thought its origin is uncertain, "several processes including volcanic, eolian, and ice‐related mechanisms have been proposed in its formation."
The researchers were able to use data from various Mars orbiter spacecraft in order to measure the Medusae Fossae’s density for the first time, calling out its porous nature (it's approximately two-thirds as dense as the rest of the Martian crust) and theorized that it was caused by "explosive volcanic eruptions."
"The eruptions that created the deposit could have spewed massive amounts of climate-altering gases into Mars’s atmosphere and ejected enough water to cover Mars in a global ocean more than 9 centimeters (4 inches) thick," Ojha said.
Because of the high levels of carbon dioxide and water that have been released from the MFF, the MFF has "substantially contributed to the Martian atmosphere and hydrosphere," the study's abstract added.
NASA doesn't know if aliens exist.Creative Commons
In December 2017, Pentagon confirmed that they have carried out a secret program called 'Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program' (AATIP) to unravel the mysteries surrounding UFO sightings.
Since the acknowledgment of the $22 million annually funded program, conspiracy theorists strongly argued that the statement from the US government is an indirect admission proving the existence of alien life. These conspiracy theorists even claim that the increasing number of UFO sightings all over the world as an indication of alien life which exists in deep space.
IB Times India presents you five most authentic UFO sightings which could turn out to be an irrefutable proof of alien existence.
1. Mysterious UFO which defied all laws of physics
An eerie incident which happened in 2004 was the prime reason which compelled the Pentagon to carry out the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. The UFO was spotted by US Navy officials, and when they trailed the bizarre object, it flew in such an erratic manner defying all laws of modern physics.
A few months back, Leslie Kean, the investigative journalist who shed light on Pentagon's AATIP revealed that none of the modern aircraft on earth could fly in such a manner like that object did when it was tracked down by Navy fighter jets.
However, Pentagon confirmed that the UFO search program was stalled in 2011.
2. UFO with aliens on the deck
On May 13, 2009, at around 02.20 AM, a bizarre UFO appeared in the night skies of Turkey. The video of the incident soon went viral, and many people thought that an alien invasion was imminent. The video showed two alien-like beings sitting on the UFO's deck, and it was clearly visible in the eerie footage.
To check the authenticity of the clip, the Council for Scientific and Technological Research analyzed the footage for nine long years, and finally, a month back, they confirmed that the clip was not subjected to any kinds of editing.
3. UFOs spotted flying between the Moon and Earth
Many conspiracy theorists consider this video one of the most concrete proofs of alien life. The video was apparently shot by an amateur astronomer on April 22, 2018. The video shows the astronomer trying to film the half-moon with a 4K camera. As he tries to zoom in the moon, the craters on the lunar surface become visible, and suddenly, he noticed three disc-shaped UFOs flying across.
Out of the three UFOs, two were flying very closely, while the third one was trailing them behind. Upon closer analysis, it was revealed that these objects were flying in a formation.
4. Galactic War In the skies
In March 2018, a motorist filmed an eerie incident on the skies of Nevada just a two-hour drive from Area 51, widely considered by conspiracy theorists as a UFO hotspot. The video showed two bright star-like objects moving erratically in the day skies, and their movement indicated that they were fighting each other. The man who witnessed the incident claimed that the apparent galactic war lasted for more than twenty seconds.
However, skeptics claimed that the objects spotted in the video were mere reflections of cars' headlights passing nearby. But still, the dilemma continues...Who will switch on the lights and drive in broad daylight?
5. UFO spotted during Lunar Eclipse
On January 31, 2017, space buffs all around the world were busy watching the lunar eclipse. When all the eyes were on the disappearing moon, a section of conspiracy theorists noted an eerie flying object zooming past the moon. The UFO was seen flying in a dramatic speed, and alien buffs soon concluded that it was an extraterrestrial spaceship from deep space.
MUFON is probing the reason behind the strange shape in the sky.
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A series of images submitted to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) for investigation is now the hottest debating point between weather experts and UFO enthusiasts. The image shows a saucer-shaped UFO cloaking behind the clouds, and many people claim that it is an irrefutable proof that aliens are monitoring human activities.
Lenticular clouds or alien UFO?
The creepy incident apparently happened in the United Kingdom on June 08, 2018, and the image was captured by a local resident when he stepped out of his home to smoke a cigarette. He was stunned to see a gigantic mothership hidden under the clouds, and he quickly captured the image with his smartphone.
The captured images soon went viral on online space, especially after conspiracy theory YouTube channel 'UFOmania' shared it. After seeing the video, many skeptics started arguing that the object spotted might be actually lenticular clouds which is completely a natural phenomenon.
However, alien enthusiasts objected to the claims of skeptics and made it clear that lenticular clouds will not have those defined edges which the object showed in the photo has. As per conspiracy theorists, aliens have been visiting the earth for hundreds of thousands of years, and most of the time, they use clouds to hide from the earthly beings.
Paul Courtney, a YouTube user argued that these alien spaceships might be using advanced cloud cloaking technology to hide their presence. Some other YouTubers argued that alien ships have shapeshifting abilities.
A section of other users claimed that these sightings are all holographic images beamed in the skies as a part of 'Project Blue Beam'.
"Nice holographic display viewed to deceive us into believing in aliens from another planet. The only problem is that they are interdimensional beings cast out of heaven to earth that ones where angels who rebelled against God and are fallen angels know," commented Ruben Janbroers, another YouTuber.
In the meantime, a section of conspiracy theorists has connected this weird sighting to weather control programs. They believe that the government is running a secret weather control program in the sky, and the bizarre shapes of clouds are indicating that the program is going on steadily.
Shrouded in mystery
The creepy sighting was reported just a few days after another UFO appeared in the skies of Wycombe, UK. The video which was released showed a UFO flying erratically in the skies leaving a white trail behind. Interestingly, this sighting happened in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, an area nearer to the Royal Air Force base. It should be noted that the UK military had used this Air Force base to probe UFO activities in the country.
Filer’s Files #24 – 2018 Flying Shields, Ancient UFOs - PART I
Des Moines, Washington at 9:15pm on June 11, 2018 (lightened)
Filer’s Files #24 – 2018 Flying Shields, Ancient UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Top-Secret UFO Memo by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Book of Ezekiel Craft, Flying Shields, Ancient Civilizations, Wanaque, New Jersey Vortex, and Opioid Crisis Is Mostly Mexican Drugs Killing Americans
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Brazil, Canada, France, Ireland, Korea, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
George A. Filer III and wife Janet
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Major George Filer Editor of The National UFO Center, would like to invite join him in Mt Shasta this summer July 27-29th 2018. He will present a wonderful program at the “From Venus with Love” conference.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
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Top-Secret UFO Memo by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 5, 1942
“(I’m)…coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life in the universe.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s memo on White House stationary to ‘The Special Committee on Non-Terrestrial Science & Technology’. Concerning the Cape Girardeau UFO crash of 1941, Roosevelt went on to state that we will, “take every advantage of such wonders that have come to us” after we have won the war.’ Feb 22, 1944
“Before we could do any more, the Army, after conferring with (U.S.) officials, ordered the investigation stopped.”
Dr. Paul Santorini, on UFOs over Greece in 1946
Book of EzekielCraft
Sources of information about flying machines should be considered, such as the Bible.
The Bible seems to be describing the close encounter of a man from a non-technological culture several thousands of years ago with a device which to him must have been miraculous. We have to put ourselves into his shoes to comprehend his astonishment and the other worldness of his encounter. The limited scope of knowledge of the world around him, his primitive environment, dictated the language and conceptual framework with which he tried to capture his encounter for fellow tribesmen. For him it seemed that he encountered The God, with his suite of angels, because in his simple world, there was no other interpretation. Ezekiel encounter bears uncanny similarity to the modern-day encounters with UFO’s
There are numerous legends which claim the exact opposite, that “gods” came from the skies. Their appearances were frequently accompanied by fire, smoke and thunderous noise; their influence on man was, mostly, beneficial. If the source of this information is the ’ primitive’ peoples’ we call it a fable; if the origin lies in religious scriptures of the more developed civilizations, we interpret the tales in a more spiritual or even holy manner.
Josef F. Blumrich a NASA engineer studied Ezekiel in detail and concluded the over-all result, then, is a space vehicle technically feasible beyond doubt and very well designed to suit function and purpose; its technology is in no way fantastic but, even in its extreme aspects, lies almost within our own capabilities of today.
The results indicate, moreover, that Ezekiel’s spacecraft operated in conjunction with a mother vessel orbiting the earth. We have no point of firm reference for an exact determination of the dimensions of the landing craft, but we can approximate these within the range I investigated analytically. The illustration above shows the shape and proportions.
The diameter of the central body would be about 18 meters, that of the rotor of a helicopter unit would be 11m, total weight from the time of lift-off from the earth for the return flight to the mother ship would be 100,000 kg, the engine’s specific impulse would be 2,080 seconds, and the craft would carry two or three passengers.
Josef F. Blumrich states, “ Determining the form, dimensions and functional capabilities of what Ezekiel saw makes understandable a number of passages in his text that are otherwise meaningless; it also aids considerably in separating the prophetic or visionary parts of Ezekiel’s book from those concerning encounters with spaceships. I confined my study to the latter.”
Flying Shields
Hopi sky god
The Hopi Indians of Arizona (who are distant relatives of the Aztecs 52) record three previous Suns, each culminating in a great annihilation followed by the gradual re-emergence of mankind.
Gary A. David writes, “The sky god Sotuknang, took them on his flying shield up into the sky so that they could see for many miles around.” Feeding the hungry children ripe melons, he told them that they must have faith in him and in his teachings that would later arrive through their dreams. Finally he landed a short distance from the village in which their mother and father had settled, bid the young ones farewell, and flew up again into the clouds. Forever grateful to the sky god, the brother and sister walked into the village to be reunited with their parents.
Kachina dolls are objects made in human or humanlike shape, and they are common in Native American ritual, often referred to sky gods. Although sold as objects of art, the spectacular kachina dolls retain a valued religious role, particularly in educating children. Hopi Native Americans use kachina dolls to instruct their children in the ways of Hopi tradition and belief. Kachina dolls are passed out to children in ceremonies representing spirits that act as mediators between gods and humans.
On Second Mesa near Mishongnovi an ancient petroglyph depicts a dome-shaped object resting on an arrow which represents travel through space, and the head of a Hopi maiden who represents pristine purity. As the Hopis believe that other planets are inhabited, this petroglyph represents a paatuwvota or a ‘flying shield’ similar to a ‘flying saucer’ that came here in the Beginning. So now at the End the sacred ones will arrive in UFOs from the planet Venus,. Many Hopi traditionalists recently have reported seeing flying saucers, all piloted by beings they call Kachinas.”
Because the Hopis had no such thing as a saucer, flying or otherwise, they named it after the cultural accouterment closest to that shape, namely, the warrior’s shield. The word tuwvota specifically signifies this type of shield. Oddly, the concept of war is connected in Hopi ideology with the stars. The use of tuwvota rather than the more common word for ‘disk’ or ‘circle’ thus suggests a celestial origin for the paatuwvota.
Since the Hopi term paa means ‘water’, paatuwvota possibly refers to the expanding concentric rings in water. This might be a metaphorical description for the way the peculiar airborne device appeared to function. The related word patuka, or ‘spindle’, may also describe the shield’s spinning motion. In addition, the prefix pa- denotes wonder or awe. For the people of the desert, water equals wonder, but pa- perhaps suggests the reaction to this extraordinary means of transportation.
The tradition of the flying shield also appears in rock art. The photo at left is an ancient petroglyph, or rock carving, found near Winslow, Arizona, apparently showing a triangular craft.
.The more correct spelling is katsina. The Hebrew word for “officer” in the Bible is katsin. Much like the fallen angels (or the Watchers) of the Bible (see Genesis 6:1-4), the kachinas were sometimes known to mate with Hopi women. This prefigures the contemporary theme of alien abduction for the purpose of reproduction.
One Hopi myth tells of a young bride who accompanies her handsome Kana kachina husband back to her Second Mesa village of Mishongnovi on a flying shield.
” Book called Earth Fire states.” As the shield lifted off, the kachinas all gave out a boisterous yell. All of a sudden as the couple flew along, flashes of lightning were visible in the air and the rumble of thunder could be heard. When the shield rose higher, drizzle began to fall. The kachinas were now accompanying them… [Her] parents had headed to the edge of the mesa at this time to look out. Looking down from the rim of the mesa, they saw an incredible number of people coming across the plain. To their great amazement all were kachinas, singing and crying out their calls in a pandemonium.”
Eototo, chief kachina and Aholi, his lieutenant Hopi kachina dolls at Museum of Northern, Arizona.
The Hopis sometimes refer to kachinas as ‘the beautiful creatures.’ This designation emphasizes not only their esthetically pleasing appearance but also their role as actual entities in a kinship system.
Some Hopis believe that Kachinas still maneuver these mysterious aircraft. In his book The Terra Papers, the Hopi/Apache author Robert Morning Sky describes how his grandfather and five other men were camping in the desert in August of 1947, shortly after the infamous Roswell incident, when a flying disk streaked across the night sky and crashed. From the wreckage they recovered a silvery alien, unconscious but still alive, whom they named the Star Elder. After they nursed it back to health, the ET then telepathically described by means of a crystal the Galactic war raging above which had downed its spacecraft. This X-Files material with a Native American twist remains unconfirmed.
Unexplained sightings continue, however. In the summer of 1970 hundreds of UFOs were seen about 125 miles southwest of the Hopi villages near the town of Prescott, Arizona. On the evening of March 13th, 1997 in the same vicinity a delta-winged craft perhaps as large as a mile across with lights on its leading edges was spotted drifting silently overhead before speeding off toward the south. It later became known as the Phoenix Lights.
Kana kachina doll.
“All this contributes to the creation of a confused and jumbled picture. The myths of the Hopi, however, stand out for their straightforwardness and simplicity. What they tell us is this:
The first world was destroyed, as a punishment for human misdemeanors, by an all-consuming fire that came from above and below. The second world ended when the terrestrial globe toppled from its axis and everything was covered with ice. The third world ended in a universal flood. The present world is the forth. Its fate will depend on whether or not its inhabitants behave in accordance with the Creator’s plans. Much of what Graham Hancock relates has been available to researchers for centuries, but has been ignored by modern anthropologists and archaeologists, who seem to have their own linear agenda, inherited in part from Darwin. The concept that humankind could not have reached a high level of technological development without leaving recognizable artifacts of their accomplishments can only be supported if one misinterprets the evidence according to preconceptions and a rigid and erroneous belief system, or simply ignores contravening evidence and information preserved in myth (cf. West, 1993).Joseph Jochmans (1995) notes that “there is a growing number of ‘anomalies’ surfacing from the distant past which do not in any way fit the ‘established’ concept of linear history.
Ancient Civilizations
There They are called ‘anomalies’ because they reveal an inherent sophistication very much out-of-place from the contemporary ancient or prehistoric remains among which they were discovered. These artifacts demonstrate that, either they were the product of another more advanced culture of unknown origins that once lived side by side with the less sophisticated but more recognized culture (just as we today in the technological 20th century live alongside certain tribal peoples of New Guinea, Africa and South America), or the artifacts are remnants of an older, forgotten yet more advanced civilization that was destroyed and lost to us, except for these few tantalizing remains that were passed down through the later survivors. Several scientists examining the water erosion on the Giza pyramid claim it was built in 10,000 BC. as does Edgar Casey.
Jochmans discusses evidence, ignored by Egyptologists, which impliesearscient Egyptians knew how to build and fly airplanes: ” “In 1889 a curious object was discovered in the tomb of PaJochmans discusses evidence, ignored by Egyptologists, which implies that ancient Egyptians knew how to build and fly airplanes:-di-Imen in north Saqqara, Egypt dated to about 200 B.C. At the time of its discovery, however, the birth of modern aviation was still several years away. As a result, when the strange artifact was sent to the Cairo Museum, it was catalogued and then shelved away among other miscellaneous items to gather dust unrecognized for what it really was.
“In 1969, over 70 years later, Dr. Kahlil Messiha – an Egyptologist and archaeologist – was examining a particular Museum display in Room No. 22, labeled “bird figurines.” The other contents of the display were clearly bird sculptures, but the Saqqara artifact was certainly not. It possessed characteristics not found on birds, yet which are part of modern aircraft design. Dr. Messiha, who as a youth had been a model plane enthusiast, immediately recognized the aircraft features and persuaded the Under Secretary of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture to form a committee in order to investigate the model. In the meeting of the committee in late 1970 and early 1971, the participating historians and aviation experts were so impressed with their findings that it was recommended that the model be placed in the Central Hall of the Cairo Museum of temporary exhibit. Today it is still housed in Room No. 22, on the second floor.
“The small craft is made of very light sycamore wood and weighs 39.12 grams, or 0.5 oz. The only markings on it is a faint eye painted on the nose and two red lines under the wings. The model’s wings are straight and aerodynamically shaped, with a span of 18 centimeters, or about 7 inches. Its pointed nose is 3.2 centimeters (1.5 inches) long. The body of the craft totals 14 centimeters (6 inches), tapered, terminating in a vertical tail fin. A separate slotted piece fit onto the tail precisely like the back tail wing on a modern plane.
Precolombian Airplane Models
Whatever the object is supposed to be its remarkable similarity to a modern aircraft or spaceship is uncanny.
The concept of an airplane in ancient times is not limited to Egypt. Gold aircraft models were found in an area covering Central America and coastal areas of South America, estimated to belong to a period between 500 and 800 CE, but since they are made from gold, accurate dating is impossible and based essentially on stratigraphy which may be deceptive. However, we can safely say that these gold objects are more than 1000 years old.
As seen from the pictures, the shape of the sample object is rather ambiguous. The archaeologists labeled these objects as zoomorphic, meaning, animal shaped objects. The question is, what animal do they represent? When we compare these with other objects from the same cultures depicting animals, a curious facet of the comparison would be obvious: the other objects are recognizable, rendered usually with a great accuracy and attention to realistic detail.
“Dr. Messiha, interviewed in the May 18, 1972 London Times, made these comments on the ancient plane’s shape and sophistication: “It is the tail that is really the most interesting thing which distinguishes this model from all others that have been discovered. No bird can produce such a contortion at the rear of its body to assume anything that looks like the model. Furthermore, there is a groove under the fin for a tail-plane (crosspiece) which is missing. This is no toy model – it’s too scientifically designed and it took a lot of skill to make it.”
“Several aerodynamic experts and pilots agree with Dr. Messiha’s assessment. Flight engineer Guirguis Messiha, a relative to Dr. Messiha, observed: “The negative dihedral angle fulfills the same requirements as the positive; a section shows that the surface of the wing is part of an ellipse which provides stability in flight; the aerofoil of the body lessens the drag, a fact which was discovered only after years of experimental work in aeronautics.” A full-scale version of the plane could have flown carrying heavy loads, but at low speeds, between 45 and 65 miles per hour. What is not known, however, is what the power source of the ancient craft was. Several engineers did note that the model makes a perfect glider just as it is. In fact, it would have taken only the efforts of a small catapult to get a life-sized model in the air. Simply by using the rising heat currents off the Egyptian deserts on either side of the Nile, such a craft would have been able to stay in the air indefinitely. The little model itself, even though over 2,000 years old, will soar a considerable distance with only a slight jerk of the hand. Fully restored balsa replicas will travel even farther.”
The unsolved item remains—the spirals on the both wings and the nose. According to Amerindian iconography, these spirals have discernible meaning—they represent ascending and descending, depending on whether they are right-oriented or left-oriented, respectively. As the spirals are not only on wings but also on the nose, the meaning is fairly obvious—the wings and the nose (as much) were the features which were directly involved in ascent and descent.
There are other cultures which mention flying vehicles of some sort or another. The most known of these sources are Indian epics, especially the Mahabharata and other Vedic sources as Bhágavata Purána and Rámáyana.
The flying devices were called vimanas and were extensively discussed in Vaimánika Shástra, describing multitude of machines with different purposes and capabilities. Thanks to Joseph Jochmans.
Opioid Crisis Is Mostly Mexican Drugs Killing Americans
This drug crisis is ravaging our country and more than 300,000 Americans have died from it since 2000. Now President Trump is fighting back, and has declared it a National Emergency under federal law and Congress kas approved $6 billion to answer this growing threat. Death from opioids was 20,000 last year but the major killer of 45,000 Americans was illegal drugs such as cocaine. Of note, the greatest decline in treatment volumes in 2017 was for prescription opioids; the highest doses of prescription opioids declined by over 33% during the past two years. Mexican Cartels export significant quantities of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and fentanyl into the U.S. annually. More than 70% of all illegal drugs come from Mexico.
A judge in Atlanta on Monday sentenced a former Texas border high school football player who rose through a bloody power struggle for control of a Mexican drug cartel to serve nearly 50 years in federal prison. Edgar Valdez Villarreal 44, was accused of bringing trucks full of cocaine from Mexico to the eastern United States and shipping millions of dollars in cash back to Mexico. He was arrested in Mexico in 2010 and was among 13 people extradited to the U.S. from Mexico in September 2015 to face charges.
Edgar Valdez Villarreal (born August 11, 1973) also known as La Barbie (“The Barbie”), is a Mexican American suspected drug lord and leader of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, a criminal group based in Sinaloa. He was arrested near Mexico City in August 2010 on charges related to large scale drug trafficking. Valdez worked for several years as a cartel lieutenant before rising to a leadership position in an enforcement squad called Los Negros. Following the death of cartel boss Arturo Beltrán Leyva in late 2009, Valdez fought a bloody and protracted gang war for control of the cartel resulting in over 150 deaths. He employed techniques such as videotaped torture and decapitation. He pleaded guilty in January 2016 to charges of conspiring to import and distribute cocaine, and conspiring to launder money. U.S. government reports allege that Los Negros are known to employ local gangs such as MS-13 and Mexican Mafia to carry out murders and conduct illegal drug and female slave trade activities.
PUSH AND PULL New research has shown that Venus’ thick atmosphere, shown here in an image from the Japanese space agency’s Akatsuki spacecraft, can speed up the planet’s rotation.
DAMIA BOUIC, DARTS, ISAS, JAXA
Time is out of joint on Venus. The planet’s thick air, which spins much faster than the solid globe, may push against the flanks of mountains and change Venus’ rotation rate.
Computer simulations show that the thick Venusian atmosphere, whipping around the planet at 100 meters per second, exerts enough push against a mountain on one side and suction on the other side to speed the planet’s rotation rate by about two minutes each Venus day, according to a study in Nature Geoscience June 18.
Mysterious mountain waves in Venus's atmosphere put new spin on a day
That’s not much, considering that the planet rotates just once every 243 Earth days. By comparison, Venus’ atmosphere rotates about once every four Earth days. Precise measurements of the planet’s rotation rate have varied by about seven minutes, however. The push and pull of the air over the mountains could help explain the mismatch, with some other force — possibly the gravitational influence of the sun — slowing the planet’s spin back down.
DRAW BACK The motion of Venus’ atmosphere over mountains on the planet’s surface raises a bow-shaped wave that stretches from pole to pole in this image from Akatsuki.
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The simulations by UCLA planetary scientist Thomas Navarro and colleagues are the first to account for a 10,000-kilometer-long wave in Venus’ cloud tops, spotted in 2015 by the Japanese space agency’s Akatsuki spacecraft (SN: 2/18/17, p. 5). Similar waves are launched into the atmosphere on Earth when air flows over a mountain, but they normally dissipate quickly as opposing winds break them up. Venus’ atmosphere rotates so much faster than the planet and in such a uniform direction that the waves could persist for a long time.
“This work is very interesting,” says planetary scientist Tetsuya Fukuhara of Rikkyo University in Tokyo, one of the researchers who discovered the atmosphere wave. The work helps explain where the wave comes from and addresses how Venus’ surface features affect the atmosphere, “which is the most important issue in the Venus atmospheric science.”
More detailed measurements of Venus’ rotation, possibly taken with a future lander(SN: 3/3/18, p. 14), could eventually help reveal details of Venus’ interior, such as the size of its core.
“Venus is the closest thing to Earth that we know of,” Navarro says, and yet its hot, thick, toxic atmosphere makes it utterly alien. “We’d like to know what’s inside.”
WTF Planet Venus ? What Caused the giant Atmospheric Bulge?
Robot helpers from The Jetsons to Star Wars have always been shiny and metallic, but robots in the real world may be altogether more fleshy.
Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology have created a new synthetic skin that could be a future of fleshy robots that can touch and feel, as well as opening the door to some pretty high tech bandages in the meanwhile.
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Engineers created the Silly Putty-like substance by fusing together water-containing hydrogel and an incredibly thin metal compound, known as MXenes. This ultra-stretchy material has shown the potential to be used as a touch-sensitive coating for robots, wearable electronics, and even bandages that help heal wounds faster.
“The material’s differing sensitivity to stretching and compression is a breakthrough discovery that adds a new dimension to the sensing capability of hydrogels,” first author, Yizhou Zhang, said in a statement.
One of the major breakthroughs with this one-of-a-kind material is its ability to sense changes on the surfaces it is applied to and translate those changes into electronic signals.
The team tested the material by attaching a strip of it to a user’s forehead. They had the subject smile and frown and found that the strip could identify these distinct facial expressions. Then, they stuck another slice of robo Play-Doh to the neck of another subject and found that it was also able to convert into electronic signals.
Both of these successful proof-of-concept experiments have shown that this material may some day be able to tap into the body’s subtle signals and transform them into something that other observers we can understand, a potential game-changer for those suffering from paralysis or speech-impediments.
Just like you can mold pretty much anything you want with some Silly Putty, researchers say the potential uses for this high tech artificial material seem almost endless: creating robotic exoskeletons, more tactile A.I. applications, and even a material capable of patching up a life-threatening wound are all possibilities.
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Black Holes Could Actually Be Colliding Wormholes
Black Holes Could Actually Be Colliding Wormholes
By Marcus Woo, Live Science Contributor
When two wormholes collide, they could produce ripples in space-time that ricochet off themselves. Future instruments could detect these gravitational "echoes," providing evidence that these hypothetical tunnels through space-time actually exist, a new paper suggests.
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has already detected space-time ripples, called gravitational waves, emanating from merging black holes — discoveries that led to the Nobel Prize in 2017.
Black Holes Could Actually Be Colliding Wormholes
But while LIGO's detection was just one of many observations supporting the existence of black holes, these exotic objects still pose theoretical problems. For instance, they seem to be inconsistent with the laws of quantum mechanics. One way to resolve these problems is if black holes were actually wormholes.
Point of no return
One of the main features of black holes is the event horizon, a region of space-time beyond which nothing can escape, not even light. If you throw anything into a black hole, it's lost forever — to an extent. Stephen Hawking discovered that, thanks to a phenomenon known as quantum tunneling, black holes could actually produce a tiny bit of radiation, which would come to be known as Hawking radiation. Over a long time, black holes could even evaporate away due to this radiation.
"But what comes out is random," said Amber Stuver, an astrophysicist at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the new research. The radiation contains no clue as to what went into the black hole. [Stephen Hawking: A Physics Icon Remembered in Photos]
"In quantum mechanics, if you know everything about a particular system, then you should be able to describe its past and its future," she said. But because any information that goes into a black hole is gone for good, an event horizon doesn't jibe with quantum mechanics.
To resolve this so-called black hole information paradox, some physicists have suggested that event horizons don't exist. Instead of abysses from which nothing can return, black holes actually could be a host of speculative black-hole-like objects that lack event horizons, such as boson stars, gravastars, fuzzballs and even wormholes, which were theorized by Albert Einstein and physicist Nathan Rosen decades ago.
Black holes could actually be colliding WORMHOLES - fox news
Black hole look-alikes
In a 2016 study in the journal Physical Review Letters, physicists hypothesized that if two wormholes collided, they would produce gravitational waves very similar to those generated from merging black holes. The only difference in the signal would be in the last phase of the merger, called the ringdown, when the newly combined black hole or wormhole relaxes into its final state.
Because wormholes don't have event horizons, gravitational waves that hit these objects could bounce back, producing an echo during the ringdown.
"The interior of the object is a sort of cavity where gravitational waves are reflected," the researchers of the new study told Live Science in an email. "The production of gravitational echoes is not very different from ordinary sound echoes in a valley."
In the paper, published in January in the journal Physical Review D, the team of physicists from Belgium and Spain analyzed wormholes that rotate, which are more realistic than the non-spinning variety studied in the 2016 work. They calculated what the resulting gravitational-wave signal would look like if the wormholes merged. [The 18 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics]
Because the strength of the signal drops during the ringdown, that section of the signal would be too weak for LIGO's current configuration to detect. But that could change in the future, as researchers continue to upgrade and fine-tune the instrument, the researchers said.
"By the time we are running at full design sensitivity, I believe it may be possible to resolve the ringdown phase where these echoes are predicted to be," said Stuver, who's also a member of the LIGO team.
Still, wormholes are less science fact than science fiction, often used in movies and books as intergalactic highways. For wormholes to be traversable, however, you would probably need some unknown exotic matter to keep them open. Last December, physicists came up with traversable wormholes that don't need exotic matter, but, like all wormholes, they're highly speculative. "On the other hand, the repercussions of a detection of echoes would be of dramatic importance in physics," the researchers wrote in an email to Live Science. "So, given that an actual experimental test will be available soon, it is worth exploring them."
"Now it's the time to take seriously the possibility that there are other objects which can be as massive and compact as black holes," said Vitor Cardoso, a physicist at the University of Lisbon in Portugal, who was part of the earlier study on nonspinning wormholes. "This is one of the most exciting things we can do with gravitational waves."
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CubeSats: Tiny Payloads, Huge Benefits for Space Research
CubeSats: Tiny Payloads, Huge Benefits for Space Research
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
CubeSats are miniature satellites that have been used exclusively in low Earth orbit for 15 years, and are now being used for interplanetary missions as well. In the beginning, they were commonly used in low Earth orbit for applications such as remote sensing or communications. As of mid-2018, a pair of CubeSats has been deployed on a mission flying to Mars, and other CubeSats are being considered for the moon and Jupiter.
Tiny Payloads, Huge Benefits for Space Research
The CubeSat design was first proposed in the late 1990s by two professors: Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University and Bob Twiggs of Stanford University. They were trying to help students gain engineering experience in satellites, which are traditionally expensive to build and launch. The idea for the CubeSat came in part from the miniature toy craze of the day, Beanie Babies, according to Spaceflight Now. Inspired by the individualized stuffed animals, Twiggs' idea was to allow students to build their own miniature satellites.
The basic design of a CubeSat is a 10-centimeter (4-inch) cube with a mass of less than 1.33 kilograms (2.93 lbs.), the article added. But variations on the theme are possible. CubeSats can also be designed to encompass two, three or six 10-centimeter units for more complicated missions.
CubeSats reduce launch costs in two fundamental ways. They don't weigh that much, which means a rocket doesn't need a lot of fuel to heft them. In most cases, they also share a rocket with a larger satellite, making it possible to get to space on the coattails of the heavier payload.
There are some design challenges with CubeSats, however. The electronics are smaller and are therefore more sensitive to radiation. Because they are small, they cannot carry large payloads with them. Their low cost also means they are generally designed to last only a few weeks, months or years before ceasing operations (and for those in low Earth orbit, falling back into the atmosphere.)
Brief history
The first six CubeSats were launched in June 2003 from Russia's Plesetsk launch site. At the time, according to a 2004 Space.com article, the going rate for a CubeSat's launch was about $40,000, which is a bargain compared to a typical satellite (many are millions of dollars.)
CubeSats were made possible by the ongoing miniaturization of electronics, which allows instruments such as cameras to ride into orbit at a fraction of the size of what was required at the beginning of the space age in the 1960s.
"Peep inside a CubeSat and you'll spot off-the-shelf circuitry in the familiar form of microprocessors and modem ports, and other microchip devices typically used in cell phones, digital cameras and hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite navigation units," wrote Space.com insider columnist Leonard David in 2004.
For the first decade, most CubeSats that flew came from university or research applications. Only a handful of satellites launched every year; then in 2013, the number of launches suddenly numbered in the dozens. It was in that year that the commercial sector began to launch satellites, according to SpaceDaily.
There have been more than 2,100 CubeSats and nanosatellites as of mid-2018, according to nanosats.eu. Among the prominent uses of Earth-orbiting CubeSats today:
Planet Labs, an Earth observation company, has dozens of CubeSat-sized Dove satellites in orbit, as well as a few RapidEye CubeSats. The CubeSats are used in everything from disaster response to climate monitoring.
The NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer on the International Space Station launches CubeSats after they have been hauled to orbit aboard a visiting ISS vehicle.
NASA's CubeSat Launch initiative provides launch slots for CubeSats aboard traditional rocket launches.
Starting in 2018, CubeSats began to venture outside of Earth orbit. Here are some of the projects under way, or still being planned:
Mars Cube One (MarCO) — the first CubeSats to leave Earth — launched on May 5, 2018, along with NASA's InSight lander. InSight is expected to land on Mars on Nov. 26, 2018; it is currently en route and the CubeSats are flying just behind it, as they separated independently from the rocket during launch and are running on solar power.
The CubeSats are nicknamed "WALL-E" and "Eve" after the 2008 animated Pixar movie "WALL-E," which follows the adventures of robots in space. When InSight lands, the CubeSats will attempt to send data back to Earth about its descent. This is a test flight and the information will not be critical, as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will do the same job. MarCO's mission will end shortly afterwards.
NASA's first Space Launch System test launch in 2019 will pioneer the rocket expected to bring humans out of low Earth orbit for the first time since the 1960s. The initial, uncrewed launch will include up to 13 microsatellites. Concept ideas include Lunar Flashlight, which reflects sunlight to peer into permanently shadowed craters on the moon, and NEA Scout, which will use a solar sail to fly to near-Earth asteroid 1991VG.
NASA is considering a mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa in the 2020s or 2030s. In 2014, NASA said it was considering including CubeSats on the mission, which would carry out functions including "reconnaissance for future landing sites, gravity fields, magnetic fields, atmospheric and plume science, and radiation measurements." NASA confirmed the CubeSats would be included in May 2018, and asked the science community for their ideas.
The European Space Agency and NASA previously considered a joint mission to investigate the asteroid 65803 Didymos and try to move its moon via an impactor. The mission wass called Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission. For the European part, they considered including two CubeSats to do supplemental observations. The Europeans elected not to fund their part of the mission in 2016 to give more money to the ExoMars rover mission, but NASA is continuing development on its part. The launch has been delayed into the 2020s.
While Opportunity is beset by the worst Martian dust storm we’ve ever seen, Curiosity is busy taking selfies.
Image credits NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill, via Kevin M. Gill / Flickr.
Last week, we’ve told you about the massive dust storm that’s battering Mars and the hapless Opportunity rover. The solar-powered bot is in danger of freezing to (electronic) death, as its solar panels can’t generate any charge in the night-like conditions inside the dust. The venerable rover (already 15 years old) shut down most activity on June 10 to conserve battery charge.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity is enjoying a leisurely life complete with the selfies to show for it.
The fortunate son
“The storm is one of the most intense ever observed on the Red Planet,” NASA said in a statement last week. “As of June 10, it covered more than 15.8 million square miles (41 million square kilometers) – about the area of North America and Russia combined.”
“It has blocked out so much sunlight, it has effectively turned day into night for Opportunity, which is located near the center of the storm, inside Mars’ Perseverance Valley.”
In a twist of martian irony, the storm isn’t nearly as intense half a planet away from Opportunity. While the dust storm’s effects can still be felt there, the sunlight is enough for solar panels to generate energy. A twist of irony because Curiosity, which is currently roving about Mars in this area, doesn’t really need the light — it’s powered by a nuclear reactor.
The car-sized rover first landed on Mars in 2012, and, unlike its older cousin, relies on plutonium-238 instead of solar cells for energy. It’s currently camping in the Gale Crater, a 96-mile-wide valley that researchers once believed housed a giant lake.
Also unlike its older cousin, Curiosity seems to be having a whale of a time. NASA recently released some selfies it beamed back Friday, showcasing the rover’s activity on Mars, while Opportunity braves the storm.
The images were taken with an instrument called the Mars Hand Lens Imager. This instrument — probably the most expensive selfie stick humanity ever produced — is a robotic arm that sports a camera. It can’t capture all of Curiosity in one shot, however, so it sent back several — around 200 images. Over the weekend Kevin M. Gill, a NASA software engineer who likes to process spacecraft photos in his spare time, collaged all the images together into a single panorama.
The final image shows Curiosity and its Martian surroundings, including a rock the rover drilled and a smattering of orange dust.
Curiosity, the rock it drilled (lower left), and the resulting dust (the lower middle bit of the image). Image modified after NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill, via Kevin M. Gill / Flickr.
Beyond helping us keep tabs on Curiosity’s adventures, the image also showcases its recovery. Back in 2016, its drill instrument was taken offline due to mechanical problems. As the picture shows, however, NASA’s efforts to work around the issue have paid off. The agency first tested the drill in May 2018, when Curiosity bore a two-inch-deep hole in the rock. In a subsequent test, it dropped the drilled dust on the ground, so the agency could get an idea of how much dirt the drill could collect for sampling.
Not everything is rosy for Curiosity, though. The image also shows the damage its aluminum wheels incurred after five years’ time of roving around Mars. It could also probably stand to benefit from a thorough scrubbing.
Curiosity still has some fight left in it, however. Last week, it made headlines around the world by discovering organic molecules, billion-years old, on the Red Planet. In 2013, a rock sample collected by the vehicle revealed that ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. In 2014, the rover measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it. At that time, the robotic laboratory also detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by its drill.
UFO Filmed During The World Cup Match Of Germany Vs Mexico
UFO Filmed During The World Cup Match Of Germany Vs Mexico
This sphere shape object was spotted hovering over the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow During the Mexico vs Germany first round match of the world cup on June 17, 2018.
A conductor records an interdimensional portal in the skies of Alabama
A conductor records an interdimensional portal in the skies of Alabama
by Aditya
It seems that lately a lot of dimensional portals are opening in many parts of our planet. Last month, we published as in the Scottish council of Midlothian, near Edinburgh, a mysterious blue circular light appeared in the night sky. And in case it was not strange enough, a UFO passed close to what appeared to be an interdimensional portal before it closed.
This and other similar phenomena throughout the years demonstrate what throughout our history have been considered myths and legends. Many ancient cultures speak of portals to other worlds and doors to star systems where their "creators" live . But there are more, declassified files of the FBI said that our Earth has been visited by beings from other planets and dimensions. In fact, NASA announced that there are "energy portals" hidden within the Earth's magnetic field, which makes some wonder if the legends about stellar portals and wrmholesThey can have a basis of truth. But returning to the present, they have now recorded what appears to be the opening of an interdimensional portal in the skies of Alabama, United States.
An interdimensional portal in Alabama
The YouTube channel "MrMBB333" has published an amazing video that shows a seemingly interdimensional portal in the skies of the city of Gulf Shores , Baldwin County in the US state of Alabama. The strange phenomenon was recorded on June 8, 2018 by a driver named Nicholas during a thunderstorm.
In addition, in the video you can see what appears to be a UFO very close to a bright form in the sky that would be the interdimensional portal. And the truth is that the unidentified flying object is no less impressive than what happens at that moment. It is a dark form that plans and does not move. It is not a stain on the windshield, it is still in the same place after Nicholas leaves his vehicle to have a better view. When you move the camera to record a different area of the sky and refocus toward the "portal" , the UFO has disappeared.
After analyzing the video, MrMBB333 suggests that it could be a previous extraterrestrial UFO from other worlds accessing our planet through a dimensional portal. This would be because portals like the one in Alabama act as channels between two different worlds, and extraterrestrial civilizations use it to travel through different planets at great speed.
"June 8, 2018: A video of a very unusual thunderstorm in Gulf Shores, Alabama, by Nicholas, who witnessed this spectacular event," reads the video description. "In the video, you can clearly see a ship observing what looks like a portal."
The video has been widely disseminated through social networks and media, with hundreds of Internet users speculating on the origin of such a mysterious phenomenon. Both believers in the paranormal and conspiracy theorists agree that the electrical storm was activated due to the opening of the portal . But other conspirators offered a really interesting theory, that these thunderstorms are the result of the arrival of Nibiru , the wandering planet that would already be in our solar system. The also known as Planet X would be in the direction of the Earth, and in the near future will pass extremely close or impact against our planet causing massive destruction.
However, skeptics have another opinion about the strange phenomenon and question the veracity of the video. Apparently, the images were taken while it was getting dark, and you can see that since the sky is completely dark and the street lights are on, it was night. In the video of MrMBB333 it is also mentioned that Nicholas was driving west. For those who travel constantly, they know that this is the cardinal direction in which the sun sets.
The western sky is the last direction in disappearing the blue color of the sky. Then, against the dark clouds, a dark blue sky would look brighter than normal. In addition, Nicholas is using the camera of a mobile phone. When a Smartphone is recording at night in automatic mode, its ISO aperture is adjusted to let in more light. Because the camera is calibrated for the average light level of the image, the residual light between the sun's storm clouds would appear brighter than normal.
Well, this is the explanation offered by the skeptics to say that it is a montage. But apart from all the theories, it is definitely a video worth seeing and analyzing.
What do you think about the mysterious phenomenon in Alabama? Is it an interdimensional portal? Or do you have a logical and rational explanation?
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Is NASA conducting a secret black project? Strange UFO spotted above Texas sparks debate
Is NASA conducting a secret black project? Strange UFO spotted above Texas sparks debate
A Texas resident has captured the eerie sighting of a UFO in the skies of Houston, and many people believe that it is operated by NASA for a black operation.
A strange UFO recently spotted by a Texas resident named Shaun is now taking the internet by a storm. The clip, which was apparently shot above Houston, on June 16, 2018, shows a UFO flying thousands of feet above the ground, even higher than the jet planes flying passing above.
After shooting the video of the incident, Shaun soon uploaded it on his YouTube channel named 'Paranormal Shaun'.
"I caught this today over Houston Texas using my full spectrum Sony Handycam. I zoomed in and out often to give you guys some perspective. It had some odd movement and I had to zoom in pretty far so keeping the camera still was a task," wrote Shaun in the video description.
Shaun also argued that there is an airport very near to this area, and speculated that something strange might be going on there.
"We actually have an airport really close which is not an international airport – it is out in the woods and I think there is some strange stuff going on up there," said Shaun.
The airport located in the vicinity is actually Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, a shared military facility of the US Air Force and the NASA.
The clip shot by Shaun was later shared by conspiracy theory YouTube channel 'Third Phase of Moon' where it has already racked up more than 31,000 views.
As the video went viral, conspiracy theorists started speculating that the strange object spotted in the skies might be developed either by the NASA or the US Air Force to conduct black operations in the skies. In the meantime, alien buffs believe that the bright UFO which appeared in the skies might be actually an alien mothership came from deep space.
However, skeptics assured that there is nothing fishy about the UFO which appeared in the Texas skies, and they make it clear that the bizarre object is actually a drone.
Are we alone in the universe? It’s a question that has rankled philosophers and scientists for ages, but for the last half-century answering this question has been the exclusive purview of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a scientific enterprise dedicated to looking for traces of alien intelligence in the universe. Since the beginning of modern SETI in 1960, things have seemed hopeful. There are something like a billion trillion stars in the universe, and we now know that most of these stars probably host planets. The odds that at least one of these planets was home to an alien civilization seemed good—it was just a matter of finding them.
Yet nearly 60 years after Project Ozma used a radio telescope to search the universe for alien messages for the first time, we have yet to find any evidence that we’re not alone. Some SETI researchers like Seth Shostak are optimistic that first contact will happen any day now, but according to new research from Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute, it might never happen because there’s a good chance we’re the only intelligent creatures in the observable universe.
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Cosmic Solipsism?
In 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi was busy developing a hydrogen bomb at Los Alamos National Laboratory, but he still found time to contemplate the universe when he wasn’t working on one of the most destructive weapons ever built. Considering how big the universe is, Fermi assumed that it must be swarming with intelligent life. How odd, then, that not a single extraterrestrial civilization had ever made contact with Earth or left even the faintest trace of its existence.
The improbable silence in the universe has since become known as the Fermi Paradox. Yet Fermi never pursued the notion beyond an initial thought experiment, and to paraphrase Lord Kelvin, it ain’t science until it has some numbers. Fortunately, only a decade later the planetary scientist Frank Drake turned the Fermi Paradox from parable to physics with the now famous Drake equation, which is used by SETI researchers to estimate the probability of life in the Milky Way.
To get an estimate of the number of intelligent civilizations in the universe, the Drake equation combines the rate of star formation per year, the fraction of stars with planets, the number of these planets that are habitable, the fraction of habitable planets with life, the fraction with life that develop intelligence, the fraction of intelligent civilizations that are detectable and the longevity of detectable civilizations.
When Drake presented this equation to his colleagues at the 1961 Green Bank conference following the end of Project Ozma, they ended up with estimating that the Milky Way was populated with somewhere between 1,000 and 100,000,000 intelligent civilizations. (Drake himself estimated there to be around 10,000 intelligent, communicating civilizations in our galaxy.) This is a big spread, but that’s because most of the values in the equation are best guesses. The only values that scientists have real data on is the rate of star formation and the number of exoplanets.
Outside of that, the results of the Drake equation mostly depend on whether you’re optimistic about life forming and surviving its own intelligence. (At this time many of the most talented physicists in the world were working on nuclear weapons, after all.) As the astronomer Steven J. Dick has pointed out, “perhaps never in the history of science has an equation been devised yielding values differing by eight orders of magnitude. Each scientist seems to bring his own prejudices and assumptions to the problem.” Drake himself admitted the shortcomings of the equation, which was only devised as a way to articulate research directions in SETI rather than provide a concrete number on the prevalence of extraterrestrial life in the universe.
Scientific SETI
In a paper published to arXiv earlier this month, researchers from Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute argue that if anything, the fact that estimates from the Drake equation only vary by eight orders of magnitude is surprising. Due to the biases of scientists using the equation, this range should be much larger. In order to understand the Fermi Paradox, the researchers argue that the values in the Drake equation should not be concrete values, but ranges or probability distributions. By looking using distributions of values, they find that the Fermi Paradox isn’t much of a paradox at all because the odds are actually pretty good that we’re all alone in the galaxy, and perhaps even the entire observable universe.
The problem, according to the researchers, is that plugging numbers into the Drake equation as a ‘best guess’ implies certainty and results in misleading estimates. Probability distributions, on the other hand, allows for uncertainty to be captured in the equation.
To estimate the likelihood that we’re alone in the galaxy and/or the observable universe, the researchers used two different methods. One of them surveyed the current state of scientific knowledge about different variables in the Drake equation (for example, the probability of life emerging from a roiling prehistoric soup). The other method sampled published scientific papers that used the Drake equation to quantify the uncertainty about each variable according to current scientific knowledge.
The result of these methods were comparable and both suggested that there is a substantial probability that we’re alone. According to the researchers, there is between a 38 and 85 percent chance we’re alone in the visible universe and between a 53 and 99.6 percent chance we’re alone in our galaxy.
These are sobering results, but the researchers caution against any kneejerk cosmic pessimism. “This conclusion does not mean that we are alone, just that this is very scientifically plausible and should not surprise us,” the researchers wrote. “It is a statement about our state of knowledge, rather than a new measurement.”
In other words, there’s no reason to despair—yet. The more we learn about the universe and our own planet, the more we will decrease the uncertainty latent in the Drake equation. For example, our inability to detect extraterrestrial civilizations over the decade can increase our certainty that we’re alone, but then again, the universe may be awash in extraterrestrial signals and we simply haven’t learned how to recognize them yet. For now, however, the researchers suggest that if there are aliens, they are “probably extremely far away and quite possibly beyond the cosmological horizon and forever unreachable.”
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is a monumental achievement of human ingenuity, creativity and perseverance — to say the least.
While one might reasonably argue that there were several people on the planet in the early 20th century who were as brilliant as Einstein, nobody could think the same way he did. His seven-year journey to develop a new theory of gravity was filled with leap after startling intuitive leap — with pregnant pauses in between as he worked out the consequences of those new thoughts. And the result of all that labor was our modern understanding of how gravity works, unchanged in the century since Einstein. [Einstein's Theory of General Relativity: A Simplified Explanation]
Let's a take a peek into the mind of a true gravitational master.
The Special Theory of Relativity - Einstein's Thought Experiment on the Addition of Velocities
Free, free falling
Einstein's first insight into the nature of gravity was to put a new twist on an old idea. In Isaac Newton's original mathematical description of gravity ("OG"?), there's an odd coincidence when it comes to the concept of "mass." In one famous equation, F = ma, mass is your inertia — how much oomph it takes to shove you along. In Newton's other equation on gravity, mass is more like gravitational charge — the level of attraction you might feel toward the Earth, for example.
Objects with twice the mass feel twice the attraction toward the Earth, and should therefore fall twice as quickly. But years back, Galileo Galilei had conclusively shown that they don't: Neglecting air resistance, all objects fall at the same rate regardless of their mass.
Thus for Newton's theory to work, inertial mass had to be the same as gravitational mass, but only by sheer coincidence: there was no reason for this equality to hold. For an object with twice the mass, the Earth may pull on it twice as strongly, but this is perfectly canceled out by the fact that it's now twice as hard to get the object moving. Inertial and gravitational masses move in perfect lockstep.
This odd correspondence had long been a puzzle in gravitational circles, but in 1907, Einstein took it one step further. The physicist imagined what would happen if you were to fall from a great height. Again neglecting air resistance, your inertial and gravitational masses would cancel, making you feel perfectly weightless, as if there were no gravity at all. But zero-gravity environments are precisely the playground of Special Relativity, the theory he had cooked up just a couple years prior that wove our conceptions of space and time into the unified fabric of spacetime.
To Einstein, this was a major clue. Lurking in the shadows of gravity was his precious special relativity and the essential concept of space-time, and what made that realization possible was the elevation of the equivalence between inertial and gravitational masses into a fundamental principle, rather than the awkward afterthought it had been.
Up, up, and away
Then, Einstein took it another step further. Suppose that in the middle of the night, we relocated your bedroom to the interior of a rocket, launched the craft into space (you're a heavy sleeper) and sent it flying away with the engines purring, providing a constant 1 g acceleration, the same acceleration you would feel on the Earth.
Let's further assume that the rocket is perfectly quiet, so there's no immediate giveaway that you're on that spaceship. Unless you looked outside and noticed that only a worryingly thin piece of glass separated you from the vacuum of space, you would have no idea that you were part of some grotesque science experiment.
Drop an apple — it falls to the floor. Drop a jug of milk — it falls to the floor at the exact same rate. From outside the spaceship, it's easy to see why: The apple and milk aren't really moving, but the rocket is accelerating forward, "meeting" the dropped items. If we removed the floor altogether, the apple and milk would simply stay put as the rocket zoomed away.
But inside the rocket ,you would just think it's normal gravity: Objects are falling, as they are wont to do, and all at the same rate.
The implication is clear (or at least, it was clear to Einstein): Gravity causes acceleration, and acceleration causes gravity. They are absolutely identical.
Round and round we go
Einstein had to make one more big leap to get us to modern gravity. It's such a big leap that he spent five years just tinkering around with the implications of gravity = acceleration before he could make the next jump. And to do it, you could almost say, he had to think in circles.
Imagine a specially designed merry-go-round, with all the horses lined up nose to tail, forming a perfect circle around the perimeter. Now, accelerate the ride such that it's rotating at close to the speed of light. What happens?
Let's assume, first of all, that the ride can actually stay together. As the horses pass in front of your view, they appear shorter. Why? At those speeds, Einstein's special relativity teaches us that moving objects contract along their direction of motion.
That means the horses aren't perfectly nose-to-tail anymore; you can squeeze more seats into a rotating ride than you could in a stationary one. But the total width of the ride hasn't changed; the entire ride isn't powering across your field of view, so you don’t observe any relativistic length-contraction funny business to the entire structure, just to the horses as they pass by. This combination means that our old familiar relationship between diameter and circumference (C = pi * d) no longer applies to the rotating ride.
The geometry that describes this relationship simply isn't the normal Euclid-derived stuff that we were taught in high school. It's non-Euclidean, or the geometry of curved spaces.
Einstein's Time Travel Thought Experiment
TIME is an ILLUSION said EINSTEIN - (the space-time continuum)
Supreme general
So here are the puzzle pieces that Einstein had in 1912: a) Space-time must be involved somehow, b) acceleration and gravity are intimately linked, and c) some accelerations need to be described by curved geometries.
While it's easy enough for us, a hundred years later, to simply say, "Gravity is the curvature of space-time," it took Einstein another two years of feverish work to make all the mathematical pieces fit and give us what we know as general relativity.
Learn more by listening to the episode "Seriously, What Is Gravity? (Part 1)"on the "Ask A Spaceman" podcast, available on iTunes and on the web at http://www.askaspaceman.com. Thanks to Andrew P., Joyce S., @Luft08, Ben W., Ter B., Colin E., Christopher F., Maria A., Brett K., bryguytheflyguy, @MarkRiepe, Kenneth L., Allison K., Phil B. and @shrenic_shah for the questions that led to this piece!
A hand drawn short about Albert Einstein's most famous thought experiment, one that he stated was, "The happiest moment in my life," and soon lead to his General Theory of Relativity.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETDe opwarming van de aarde gaat sneller en verder dan tot nu toe gedacht. Dat blijkt uit een uitgelekt rapport van de Verenigde Naties (VN). De huidige afspraken zijn niet voldoende om ernstige klimaatverandering tegen te gaan. De internationale organisatie komt daarom met de krachtigste waarschuwing tot nu toe.
“Als de uitstoot in het huidige tempo doorgaat, zal de door de mens veroorzaakte opwarming rond 2040 boven de 1,5 graden Celcius komen”, stellen de onderzoekers van het Intergouvernementeel Panel over Klimaatverandering (IPCC). Dat zou verstrekkende gevolgen hebben, ook voor de economische groei.
In het Klimaatakkoord van Parijs, dat in 2015 werd opgesteld, stond een maximum van 1,5 graden opwarming als streven aangemerkt, met een uitloop tot 2 graden. Om dit doel te halen, werd onder meer vastgelegd dat het gebruik van fossiele brandstoffen volledig in de ban moest worden gedaan.
Waterstijging
Het verschil tussen 1,5 en 2 graden opwarming zou volgens het rapport een waterstijging van 10 centimeter betekenen. Bij het hogere waterniveau zouden tien miljoen meer mensen geraakt worden door overstromingen, stormen en zout water-schade aan gewassen.
174 landen ondertekenden het akkoord, wat als een groot succes werd gezien. Vorig jaar trokken de Verenigde Staten zich echter terug, omdat economische belangen volgens president Donald Trump voor het klimaat moesten gezet worden. Hij zei daarbij Amerikaanse fossiele brandstoffen een nieuwe impuls te willen geven.
Het rapport gebruikt de nieuwste wetenschappelijke inzichten. Het concludeert dat de doelen niet worden gehaald tenzij er “snelle en verstrekkende” veranderingen worden doorgevoerd in de wereldeconomie.
Het is volgens het rapport dus nog niet te laat om de doelen te halen. Tussen 2020 en 2050 zou er dan wel 60 procent meer wind-, water- en zonne-energie bij moeten komen. Hernieuwbare energie zou in dit scenario in 2050 tot 67 procent van het totaal toenemen.
Bomen bijplanten
Ook zou energie van kolen met tweederde teruggebracht moeten worden, en moet uitstoot die al in de lucht zit opgenomen worden. Hiervoor moeten overheden massaal bomen bij gaan planten, als het aan de onderzoekers ligt.
Op dit moment is de temperatuur al 1 graad gestegen ten opzichte van het ijkpunt. Elk decennium komen er zo’n 0,2 graden bij.
Het document zou pas dit najaar gepubliceerd worden, maar lekte vandaag uit naar persbureau Reuters.
YouTube users believe the unidentified object could be evidence of Donald Trump's 'Space Force'
A SCOTTISH UFO researcher’s video of a mysterious triangle on the surface of the moon has gone viral on the internet.
Uploaded to his Streetcap1 channel on YouTube, George Graham’s video had attracted well over 12,000 views by last night, just a few hours after it was first shown.
It had also elicited a bizarre theory that the object could be the TR-3B anti-gravity craft which conspiracy theorists say is the ‘Space Force’ threatened by president Donald Trump.
YouTube user Dane Masie commented: “The Space Force is alive and well.”
Just 24 hours previously, Graham, who has made claims of alien inhabitation of the moon in the past, uploaded pictures of what he called “lunar anomalies” which some viewers interpreted as alien craft.
Graham himself makes no such claims in the latest video which clearly shows a triangular object without any other identifying features.
The footage comes from a lunar probe and was shot from 65 miles above the moon.
Intriguingly, all three sides are sharp and straight and have no indentations, which they would have were it a rock subject to normal lunar erosion.
Graham says in the video: “I don’t know what the odds are of spotting a triangle on the lunar surface but this is definitely triangular in shape.
“What it is, I don’t know. It’s from the same photograph I used last night to upload the lunar anomalies and the alien sign, or whatever I called it.
“It is a bit strange, isn’t it? It could be a craft. I believe it has landed next to a habitat.”.
Celeste Nova, another YouTube viewer, commented: “It does look like a craft of some kind and appears to be lit up at its cockpit with more lights on top, whatever it is, it certainly does not look natural! What a find.”
Another viewer commented: “Brilliant find once again and that sure is something extraordinary, with such defined lines and with the picture being taken from 60 or more miles up, the object has to be really quite large.”
Driehoekig object vastgelegd op maan. UFO-onderzoeker doet stof opwaaien met maanbeelden
Driehoekig object vastgelegd op maan. UFO-onderzoeker doet stof opwaaien met maanbeelden
Een filmpje van een Schotse UFO-onderzoeker dat een mysterieuze driehoek op het oppervlak van de maan toont, is viraal gegaan op internet. Dat schrijft de Schotse krant The National.
De beelden, die op YouTube zijn gezet door George Graham, zijn inmiddels zo’n 30.000 keer bekeken.
Volgens sommigen is in het filmpje de zogeheten TR-3B te zien, een vaartuig dat gebruikmaakt van antizwaartekracht en onderdeel uitmaakt van de ‘ruimtemacht’ waar president Trump voor waarschuwde.
Vreemde structuren
Gebruiker Dane Massie reageerde: “De ruimtemacht is levend en wel.”
Eerder plaatste Graham beelden van andere vreemde structuren op de maan op YouTube, waar sommigen buitenaardse schepen in zagen.
In zijn nieuwste video is een driehoekig object te zien. De beelden zijn op zo’n 100 kilometer hoogte gemaakt door een maansonde.
Geen inkepingen
Alle zijden van het object zijn recht en hebben geen inkepingen, iets wat je zou verwachten bij rotsen.
“Ik weet niet hoe groot de kans is om een driehoek op het oppervlak van de maan te spotten, maar dit is zeker weten een driehoekige vorm,” zei Graham. “Ik weet niet wat het is.”
Lichten
“Het ziet er nogal vreemd uit,” vervolgde hij. “Het zou een schip kunnen zijn. Mogelijk is het naast een habitat geland.”
“Het lijkt op een schip en rond de cockpit en bovenop zijn lichten te zien,” reageerde Celeste Nova. “Wat het ook moge zijn, het ziet er niet natuurlijk uit! Wat een vondst.”
Gisteravond ontvingen wij veel foto's van een bijzondere wolkenlucht die boven Friesland werd waargenomen. Sommige mensen parkeerden hun auto om het weersverschijnsel vast te leggen. Het leverde spectaculaire plaatjes op.
UFO boven Friesland
Foto Carolien de Boer-Wolf Sneek
Nee, een UFO was het natuurlijk niet maar het was wel een verschijnsel dat met deze uitmuntende kwaliteit niet vaak wordt waargenomen. Wat we zien is onschuldig maar zeer mooi. Dus geen UFO, tornado, of ander noodweer, maar een onschuldige wolk die als het ware zijn ei niet kwijt kan, of beter gezegd zijn kop.
Wat zien we?
Collega Wilfred Janssen en ik kwamen eigenlijk allebei tot dezelfde conclusie. We zien hier een forse stapelwolk die wil doorgroeien naar hogere sferen. Dat lukt echter niet omdat er een inversie aanwezig is. Dit is een warme luchtlaag boven een koude luchtlaag. Lucht kan opstijgen zolang de omgevingslucht kouder is, maar als de omgevingslucht warmer wordt lukt dit niet meer.
Anneke Janson, Sandfjirden (Friesland)
Op de foto's is te zien dat er al over heel het gebied een dunne laag bewolking aanwezig was die 'onder' de inversie hangt. Deze grijze laag bewolking noemen we stratocumulus.
"Eigenlijk zien we een wolk die zijn ei niet kwijt kan, of beter gezegd, zijn kop niet kwijt kan."
Raymond Klaassen
Naast deze lage bewolking was er plaatselijk ook een sterke opwaartse stroming aanwezig. Dat is feitelijk het centrum van de ronde wolk, de pannenkoek. Als er geen inversie was geweest was dit een grote stapelwolk geworden of misschien wel een bui. De opwaartse luchtstroom botst ook tegen de inversie (de warme luchtlaag) en wordt naar buiten afgebogen.
De luchtstromen in de top van de wolk
Subsidentie leidt tot opklaringen
De stijgende lucht botst dus deze tegen de inversie aan. De lucht stroomt horizontaal weg vanuit het centrum van de opwaartse beweging en begint verderop uiteindelijk weer te dalen. Tijdens dit dalende proces (subsidentie) warmt de lucht iets op en lossen de wolken op. Dit is precies wat er gebeurt aan de rand van de wolk. Op de foto's zien we het streepje blauwe lucht rondom de wolk en hierdoor ontstaat het spectaculaire aangezicht. Het lijkt wel een beetje op een platgeslagen buienwolk. In jargon een Cumulonimbus waarvan het aambeeld niet op 10 tot 15 km aanwezig, maar op stratocumulusniveau, 3 tot 5 km hoogte.
Iedereen hartelijk dank voor al de foto's die we hebben mogen ontvangen van dit weersverschijnsel. Meer foto's zijn te zien op onze foto-pagina's.
Friesland in de ban van spectaculaire UFO-wolk. Ooggetuigen stuurden massaal foto’s in
Friesland in de ban van spectaculaire UFO-wolk. Ooggetuigen stuurden massaal foto’s in
Een grote UFO-wolk hield zondagavond de gemoederen bezig in Friesland. Sommige mensen parkeerden hun auto om het verschijnsel vast te leggen, schrijft Weerplaza.
De site ontving veel foto’s uit Friesland van het spectaculaire fenomeen. Onder meer vanuit Sneek, Bolsward en Sandfirden werden beelden doorgestuurd.
Volgens Weerplaza wordt het fenomeen met deze uitmuntende kwaliteit niet vaak waargenomen. De wolk ziet er misschien onheilspellend uit, maar is onschuldig.
Zeer mooi
“Wat we zien is onschuldig, maar zeer mooi,” klinkt het. “Dus geen UFO, tornado, of ander noodweer, maar een onschuldige wolk, die als het ware zijn ei niet kwijt kan, of beter gezegd zijn kop.”
Wat was het dan wel? “We zien hier een forse stapelwolk die wil doorgroeien naar hogere sferen,” stelt de site. “Dat lukt niet omdat er een inversie aanwezig is.”
Een soort UFO
“Dit is een warme luchtlaag boven een koude luchtlaag. Lucht kan opstijgen zolang de omgevingslucht kouder is, maar als de omgevingslucht warmer wordt lukt dit niet meer.”
De lucht stroomt horizontaal en licht dalend weg. Doordat de lucht tijdens het dalen enigszins opwarmt, lost de wolk aan de randen op en zo vormt zich in de lucht een pannenkoek of een soort UFO.
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