2,000-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Underground Mummification Temple Discovered

Experts have found 35 Mummies and a 2,000-Year-Old abandoned Mummification Temple In Egypt.

Mummy burial site uncovered in Egypt

The new discovery leaves the secrets of the ancient Egyptian mummification in the open, offering unprecedented details not only about the mummification process but the oils used by the ancient Egyptians thousands of years ago to mummify their deceased.

Egyptian archaeologists have confirmed they’ve discovered an ancient Egyptian cemetery and a mummification temple located thirty meters below the surface near the necropolis of Saqqara, south of Cairo.

Dr. Ramadan Badry Hussein, Director of Saqqara Saite Tombs Project and Professor at Tübingen University describes the discovery as “rare”.

The amazing underground mummification workshop will provide, according to experts, a new vision of the chemical composition of the oils used by the ancient Egyptians to mummify their dead. It is thought that the funerary well, which is believed to be more than 2,000 years old, dates from the Saita-Persian period (664-404 a.C.).

According to reports, the discovery of the 35 mummies and the abandoned mummification workshop was made in April of this year and includes a number of stone sarcophagi.

“The discovery will offer experts a couple of things but most importantly the type of oils used (in mummification) and their chemical composition, so we can identify the exact types of used oils, “said Ramadan Badry Hussein, head of the Egyptian-German mission that discovered the site.

Among the many discoveries on the site, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has pointed out that the most important artifact experts have come across is a Gilded Silver Mummy Mask, the second discovery of this kind ever made. The mask was found in one of the burial chambers of the main shaft attached to the Mummification Workshop reports the Ministry of Antiquities via their official Facebook page.

It is believed that the mask belonged to a person who held the title of ‘the Second Priest of Mut and the Priest of Niut-shaes’.

The Ministry has revealed that preliminary tests have revealed the mask is composed of gilded silver, and that the eyes of the mask are inlayed with a black gemstone (most likely onyx), calcite and obsidian.

“the Mummification Workshop also includes an embalmer’s cachette with a 13.00 m. deep shaft that ends with a rectangular subterranean chamber, where a large corpus of pottery was found. This pottery included vessels, bowls and measuring cups inscribed with names of oils and substances used in the mummification. The Mummification Workshop has also a large shaft (K 24) in the middle, which is used as a communal burial place. It measures 3.00 x 3.35 m x 30.00 m. Shaft K24 uniquely has several burial chambers, including a complex of burial chambers, cut into the bedrock on a depth of 30.00 m,” explained Dr. Ramadan Badry Hussein.

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15-07-2018 om 23:53 geschreven door peter  

The circumgalactic medium has been hard to observe, but new tools now make it possible.

BY LISA GROSSMAN 

 

COSMIC CLOAK  Whirls of cold and hot gas billow in this simulation of a circumgalactic medium surrounding a galaxy. With new tools and simulations, researchers have learned that the CGM helps a galaxy recycle its materials. 

There’s more to a galaxy than meets the eye. Galaxies’ bright stars seem to spiral serenely against the dark backdrop of space. But a more careful look reveals a whole lot of mayhem.

“Galaxies are just like you and me,” Jessica Werk, an astronomer at the University of Washington in Seattle, said in January at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. “They live their lives in a constant state of turmoil.”

Much of that turmoil takes place in a huge, complicated setting called the circumgalactic medium, or CGM. This vast, roiling cloud of dust and gas is a galaxy’s fuel source, waste dump and recycling center all in one. Astronomers think the answers to some of the most pressing galactic mysteries — how galaxies keep forming new stars for billions of years, why star formation abruptly stops — are hidden in a galaxy’s enveloping CGM.

“To understand the galaxies, you have to understand the ecosystem that they’re in,” says astronomer Molly Peeples of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

Yet this galactic atmosphere is so diffuse that it’s invisible — a liter of CGM contains just a single atom. It has taken almost 60 years and an upgrade to the Hubble Space Telescope just to begin probing distant CGMs and figuring out how their constant churning can make or break galaxies.

“Only recently have we been able to really, truly, observationally characterize the relationship between this gaseous cycle and the properties of the galaxy itself,” Werk says.

Armed with the first extragalactic census, astronomers are now piecing together how a CGM controls its galaxy’s life and death. And new theoretical studies hint that galaxies’ stars would be arranged very differently without a medium’s frenetic flows. Plus, new observations show that some CGMs are surprisingly lumpy. A better understanding of CGMs, enabled by new telescopes and computer simulations, could change how scientists think about everything from galaxy collisions to the origins of our own atoms.

“The CGM is the part of the iceberg that’s under the water,” says astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski of ETH Zurich, who studies the more conventional parts of galaxies. “We now have good measurements where we’re sure it’s important.”

Frenetic fog

Researchers use a bright source of background light, like a quasar, to learn about a galaxy’s circumgalactic medium, a diffuse cloud of gas and metals (pink in the illustration) surrounding a galaxy. Gas is recycled between the galaxy and the CGM. 

C. CHANG

Sources: J. Tumlinson, M.S. Peeples and J.K. Werk/Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 2017; M.S. Peeples/Nature 2015

Waiting for Hubble

That 2009 Hubble telescope upgrade, which made the CGM census possible, almost didn’t happen.

In a cosmic coincidence, the Hubble telescope’s chief champions were also the first astronomers to figure out how to observe a galaxy’s CGM. Lyman Spitzer of Princeton University and John Bahcall of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and other astronomers noticed something strange after the 1963 discovery of quasars (SN Online: 3/21/14), bright beacons now known to be white-hot disks surrounding supermassive black holes in the centers of distant galaxies.

Everywhere astronomers looked, quasars’ spectra — the rainbow created when their light is spread out over all wavelengths — were notched with dark holes. Some wavelengths of light weren’t getting through.

In 1969, Spitzer and Bahcall realized what was going on: The missing light was absorbed by gas at the edges of galaxies, the same stuff that would later be called the CGM. Astronomers had been peering at quasars shining through CGMs like headlights through a fog.

Not much more could be done at the time, though. Earth’s atmosphere also absorbs light in those same wavelengths, making it difficult to tell which light-blocking atoms were in a galaxy’s CGM and which came from closer to home. Knowing that a CGM was there was one thing; taking its measurements would require something extra.

Spitzer and Bahcall knew what they needed: a space telescope that could observe from outside Earth’s atmosphere. The pair were two of the most vocal and consistent champions of the Hubble Space Telescope, which launched in 1990. Spitzer’s colleagues called him Hubble’s “intellectual and political father.”

Bahcall never stopped advocating for Hubble. In February 2005, six months before his death at age 70 from a rare blood disorder, he cowrote an article in the Los Angeles Times urging Congress to restore funding for a mission to fix some aging Hubble instruments, which NASA had canceled after the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster.

“What is at stake is not only a piece of stellar technology but our commitment to the most fundamental human quest: understanding the cosmos,” Bahcall and colleagues wrote. “Hubble’s most important discoveries could be in the future.”

His plea was answered: The space shuttle Atlantis brought astronauts to repair Hubble for the last time in May 2009 (SN Online: 5/19/09). During the repair, the astronauts installed the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, which could pick up diffuse CGM gas with 30 times the sensitivity of any previous instrument. Although earlier spectrographs on Hubble had picked out CGMs a few quasar-beams at a time, the new device let astronomers search around dozens of galaxies, using the light of even dimmer quasars.

“It blew the field wide open,” Werk says.

Gas flows out from M82, the Cigar galaxy, to its invisible circumgalactic medium in this Hubble image.

NASA, ESA, HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM

The circumgalactic census

A team led by Jason Tumlinson of Baltimore’s Space Telescope Science Institute, Hubble’s academic home, made a catalog of 44 galaxies with a quasar sitting behind them from Hubble’s perspective. In a 2011 paper in Science, the researchers reported that every time they looked within 490,000 light-years of a galaxy, they saw spectra dappled with blank spots from atoms absorbing light. That meant that CGMs weren’t odd cloaks worn by just a few galaxies. They were everywhere.

Tumlinson’s team spent the first few years after Hubble’s upgrade like 19th century naturalists describing new species. The group measured the mass and the chemical makeup of the galaxies’ CGMs and found they were huge cisterns of heavy elements. CGMs contain 10 million times the mass of the sun in oxygen alone. In many cases, the mass of a CGM is comparable to the mass of the entire visible part of its galaxy.

The finding offers an answer to a long-standing cosmic mystery: How do galaxies have enough star-forming fuel to keep going for billions of years? Galaxies build stars from collapsing clouds of cool gas at a constant rate; the Milky Way, for example, makes one to two solar masses’ worth of stars every year. But there isn’t enough cool gas within the visible part of a galaxy, the disk containing its stars, to support observed rates of star formation.

“We think that gas probably comes from the CGM,” Werk says. “But exactly how that gas is getting into galaxies, where it gets in, the timescale on which it gets in, are there things that prevent it from getting in? Those are big questions that keep us all awake at night.”

Werk and Peeples realized that all that mass could help solve two other cosmic bookkeeping problems. All elements heavier than helium (which astronomers lump together as “metals”) are forged by nuclear fusion in the hearts of stars. When stars use up their fuel and explode as supernovas, they scatter those metals around to be folded into the next generation of stars.

But if you add up all the metals in the stars, gas and dust in a given galaxy’s disk, it’s not enough to account for all the metals the galaxy has ever made. The mismatch gets even worse if you include the hydrogen, helium, electrons and protons — basically all the ordinary matter that should have collected in the galaxy since the Big Bang. Astronomers call all those bits baryons. Galaxies seem to be missing 70 to 95 percent of that stuff.

So Peeples and Werk led a comprehensive effort to tally all the ordinary matter in about 40 galaxies observed with Hubble’s new spectrometer. The researchers published the results in two 2014 papers in the Astrophysical Journal.

At the time, Werk reported that at least half of galaxies’ missing ordinary matter can be accounted for in their CGMs. In a 2017 update, Werk and colleagues found that the mass of baryons just in the form of cool gas in a galaxy’s CGM could be nearly 90 billion solar masses. “Obviously, this mass could resolve the galactic missing baryons problem,” the team wrote.

“It’s a classic science story,” Schawinski says. The researchers had a hypothesis about where the missing material should be and made predictions. The group made observations to test those predictions and found what it sought.

In a separate study, Peeples showed that although metals are born in galaxies’ starry disks, those metals don’t stay there. Only 20 to 25 percent of the metals a galaxy has ever produced remains in the stars, gas and dust in the disk, where the metals can be incorporated into new stars and planets. The rest probably ends up in the CGM.

“If you look at all the metals the galaxies ever produced in their whole lifetime, more of them are outside the galaxy than are still inside the galaxy,” Tumlinson says, “which was a huge shock.”

Recycling centers

So how did the metals get into the CGM? Quasars’ spectra couldn’t help with that question. Their light shows only a slice through a single galaxy at a single moment in time. But astronomers can track galaxies’ growth and development with computer simulations based on physical rules for how stars and gas behave.

This strategy revealed the churning, ever-changing nature of gas in galaxies’ CGMs. Simulations such as EAGLE, or Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments, which is run out of Leiden University in the Netherlands, showed that metals can reach CGMs through stars’ violent lives: in powerful winds of radiation blowing away from massive young stars, and in the death throes of supernovas spraying metals far and wide.

 

This EAGLE simulation shows that, over time, metals (colors) move away from the center of a galaxy to the circumgalactic medium.

J. TUMLINSON, M.S. PEEPLES AND J.K. WERK/ANNUAL REVIEW OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS 2017

Once the metals are in the CGM, though, they don’t always stay put. In simulations, galaxies seem to use the same gas over and over again.

“It’s basically just gravity,” Peeples says. “Throw a baseball up, and it’ll come back to the ground.” The same goes for gas flowing out of galaxies: Unless the gas travels fast enough to escape the galaxy’s gravity altogether, those atoms will eventually fall back into the disk — and form new stars.

Some simulations show discrete gas parcels making the trip from a galaxy’s disk out into the CGM and back again several times. Together, CGMs and their galaxies are giant recycling devices.

That means that the atoms that make up planets, plants and people may have taken several trips to circumgalactic space before becoming part of us. Over hundreds of millions of years, the atoms that eventually became part of you traveled hundreds of thousands of light-years.

“This is my favorite thing,” Tumlinson says. “At some point, your carbon, your oxygen, your nitrogen, your iron was out in intergalactic space.”

How galaxies die

But not all galaxies get their CGM gas back. Losing the gas could shut off star formation in a galaxy for good. No one knows how star formation shuts off, or quenches. But the answer is probably in the CGM.

Galaxies come in two main forms: young spiral galaxies that are making stars and old blobby galaxies where star formation is quenched (SN Online: 4/23/18).

“How galaxies quench and why they stay that way is one of the most important questions in galaxy formation generally,” Tumlinson says. “It just has to have something to do with the gas supply.”

Reading what's not there

Using light from a quasar (QSO), researchers can “see” CGMs. In this example, spectra from two galaxies, G1 and G2, have certain wavelengths missing (red, in bottom boxes) where the CGM atoms are absorbing light.

J. TUMLINSON ET AL/SCIENCE 2011

One possibility, suggested in a paper posted online February 20 at arXiv.org, is that sprays of supernova-heated gas could get stripped from galaxies. Physicist Chad Bustard of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and colleagues simulated the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, and found that the small galaxy’s outflowing gas was swept away by the slight pressure of the galaxy’s movement around the Milky Way.

Alternatively, a dead galaxy’s CGM gas could be too hot to sink into the galaxy and form stars. If so, star-forming galaxies should have CGMs full of cold gas, and dead galaxies should be shrouded in hot gas. Hot gas would stay floating above the galactic disk like a hot air balloon, too buoyant to sink in and form stars.

But Hubble saw the opposite. Star-forming galaxies had CGMs chock-full of oxygen-VI — meaning that the gas was so hot (a million degrees Celsius or more) that oxygen atoms lost five of their original electrons. Dead galaxies had surprisingly little oxygen-VI.

“That was puzzling,” Tumlinson says. “If theory told us anything, it should have gone the other way.”

In 2016, Benjamin Oppenheimer, a computational astrophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder, suggested a solution: The “dead” galaxies didn’t lack oxygen at all. The gas was just too hot for Hubble to observe. “In fact, there is even more oxygen around those passive galaxies,” Oppenheimer says.

All that hot gas could potentially explain why those galaxies died — except that these galaxies were full of star-forming cold gas, too.

“The dead galaxies have plenty of fuel left in the tank,” Tumlinson says. “We don’t know why they’re not using it. Everybody’s chasing that problem.”

Grabbing at the elephant

The chase comes at a good time. Until recently, observers had no way to map a single galaxy’s CGM. Researchers have had to add up dozens of quasar beams to understand the composition of CGMs on average.

“We’ve been like the three blind people grabbing at the elephant,” says John O’Meara, an observational astronomer at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt.

Teams using two new spectrographs — KCWI, the Keck Cosmic Web Imager on the Keck telescope in Hawaii, and MUSE, the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer on the Very Large Telescope in Chile — are racing to change that. These instruments, called integral field spectrographs, can read spectra across a full galaxy all at once. Given enough background light, astronomers can now examine a single galaxy’s entire CGM. Finally, astronomers have a way to test theories of how gas circulates into and out of a galaxy.

The European Southern Observatory’s Medusa-like MUSE instrument was installed on the Very Large Telescope in Chile in 2014 to take spectra across a full galaxy.

ERIC LE ROUX/SERVICE COMMUNICATION/UCBL/MUSE/ESO

A Chilean team, led by astronomer Sebastian Lopez of the University of Chile in Santiago and colleagues, used MUSE to observe a small dim galaxy that happens to be sandwiched between a bright, distant galaxy and a massive galaxy cluster closer to Earth. The cluster acts as a gravitational lens, distorting the image of the distant galaxy into a long bright arc (SN: 3/10/12, p. 4). The light from that arc filtered through the CGM of the sandwiched galaxy, which the team called G1, at 56 different points.

Surprisingly, G1’s CGM was lumpy, not smooth as expected, the team reported in the Feb. 22 Nature. “The assumption has been that that gas is distributed homogeneously around every system,” Lopez says. “This is not the case.”

MUSE makes a mark

Light from a source galaxy is deflected and magnified by an intervening galaxy cluster to form the bright arc seen in the projected image at far right. Unlike a quasar’s narrow beam of light, the extensive arc lights up a large area of galaxy G1’s CGM, showing it is surprisingly lumpy. 

CARLOS POLANCO, ESO

O’Meara is leading a group that is hot on Lopez’s trail. Last year, while KCWI was being installed, O’Meara got an hour of observing time and was able to see hydrogen — which is associated with cool, star-forming gas — in the CGM of another galaxy backlit by a bright lensed arc. He’s not ready to discuss the results in detail yet, but the team is submitting a paper to Science.

FOGGIE computer simulations improve CGM resolution. In these renderings of the same galaxy, the bottom shows FOGGIE at work. The galaxy’s shape and size change dramatically.

M. PEEPLES, G. SNYDER ET AL/FOGGIE PROJECT

Meanwhile, Peeples’ team is revisiting how computers render CGMs. “The resolution of the circumgalactic medium in simulations is, um, bad,” she says. Existing simulations are good at matching the visible properties of galaxies — their stars, the gas between the stars, and the overall shapes and sizes. But they “utterly fail at reproducing the properties of the circumgalactic medium,” she says.

So she’s running a new set of simulations called FOGGIE, which focus on CGMs for the first time. “We’re finding that it changes everything,” she says: The shape, star formation history and even the orientation of the galaxy in space look different.

Together, the new observations and simulations suggest that the CGM’s function in the life cycle of a galaxy has been underestimated. Theorists like Peeples and observers like O’Meara are working together to make new predictions about how the CGM should look. Then the researchers will check real galaxies to see if they match.

“Molly will post a really amazing new render of a simulation on Slack, and I’ll go, ‘Holy crap, that looks weird!’ ” O’Meara says. “I’ll go scampering off to find a similar example in the data, and we get into this positive feedback loop of going ‘Holy crap! Holy crap!’ ”

While future circumgalactic studies will focus on gathering spectra from full CGMs, Tumlinson is hoping to squeeze more information out of Hubble while he still can. Hubble made CGM studies possible, but the telescope is 28 years old, and probably has less than a decade left. Hubble’s spectrograph is still the best at observing certain atoms in CGMs to help reveal the gaseous halos’ secrets. “It’s something we definitely want to do,” he says, “before Hubble ends up in the ocean.”

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This article appears in the July 21, 2018 issue of Science News with the headline, "A Galaxy's Ecosystem: The circumgalactic medium is an invisible cloak that controls how galaxies live and die."

Citations

• S. Lopez et al. A clumpy and anisotropic galaxy halo at redshift 1 from gravitational-arc tomography. Nature. Vol. 554, February 22, 2018, p. 493. doi: 10.1038/nature25436.
• Jason Tumlinson, Molly Peeples and Jessica Werk. The Circumgalactic Medium. Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Published online June 28, 2017. doi:10.1146/annurev-astro-091916-055240.
• J. X. Prochaska et al. The COS-Halos survey: Metallicities in the low-redshift circumgalactic medium. The Astrophysical Journal. Vol. 837, published March 15, 2017. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6007.
• J. Werk et al. The COS-Halos survey: Physical conditions and baryonic mass in the low-redshift circumgalactic medium. The Astrophysical Journal. Vol. 792, published August 8, 2014. doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/792/1/8.
• M. Peeples et al. A budget and accounting of metals at z~0: Results from the COS-Halos survey. The Astrophysical Journal. Vol. 786, published April 16, 2014. doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/786/1/54.
• J. Tumlinson et al. The large, oxygen-rich halos of star-forming galaxies are a major reservoir of galactic metals. Science. Vol. 334, November 18, 2011, p. 948. doi: 10.1126/science.1209840.

Further Reading

• A. Yeager. Half of the Milky Way comes from other galaxies. Science News. Vol. 192, August 19, 2017, p. 6.
• C. Crockett. Andromeda reaches out to touch Milky Way. Science News. Vol. 187, June 13, 2015, p. 8.
• G. Popkin. Galaxies’ missing mass may hide in gas clouds. Science News. Vol. 185, February 8, 2014, p. 6.

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15-07-2018 om 23:12 geschreven door peter  

Severe Drought Reveals Massive Ancient Monument That Predates The Pyramids And Stonehenge in Ireland

Severe Drought Reveals Massive Ancient Monument in Ireland

As severe droughts swipe across Britain, new aerial images of a crop field in Ireland have revealed what appears to be a gigantic monument similar to Stonehenge,  reports the Irish Times.

June of 2018 was one of the top five warmest Junes across the UK, according to the UK Met Office, dating back to 1910.

Aerial images taken this week from a drone reveal the presence of a circular monument 200 meters in diameter buried under a field in Ireland.

The circle is located around one kilometer from Newgrange.

A thousand years older than Stonehenge, and 500 years older than the Pyramids of Giza, Newgrange is an ancient monument that consists of approximately 200,000 tons of rock and other materials. It is 85 meters (279 ft) wide at its widest point.

It is believed that the discovered site is at least 500 years older than Newgrange, so it was most likely built at the end of the Neolithic or beginning of the Bronze Age, say experts.

Interestignly, Newgrange remained ‘lost’ during more than 4,000 years due to a decrease of the mound until it was discovered in the XVII century by people who looked construction stones and described it as a cave.

The true purpose of Newgrange remains a mystery, although experts believe it was a religious center of some sort.

The new discovery–not far from Newgrange–is hailed as ‘extremely significant’

The image of the new archeological site was snapped by historian and author Anthony Murphy.

Speaking to the Irish Times Mr. Murphy said: “the weather is absolutely critical to the discovery of this monument. I have flown a drone over the Boyne Valley regularly and have never seen this.”

“So when that crop is harvested all surface traces of this monument will vanish and we may not see this monument again for 2 or 3 decades depending on when we get another prolonged dry spell like this.”

The discovery could be the beginning of something bigger.

According to archeologists, the fact that the massive monument is located not far away from Newgrange means that we are most likely looking at a much larger ancient landscape filled with monuments.

As explained by Archaeologist Dr. Gerladine Stout:

“I believe Newgrange is just the center of a much larger sacred landscape and I think there was a whole series of facilities built for the pilgrims coming to Newgrange in prehistory.”

“Generally we believe these henge monuments were built up to 500 years after the main use of Newgrange and in a lot of cases they actually enclose the area of monuments.”

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15-07-2018 om 22:55 geschreven door peter  

The Secret Space Force & Astronauts You Never Even Knew Existed

Astronauts Discuss Secret Military Space Station Spy Program

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15-07-2018 om 22:43 geschreven door peter  

Astronauts explain why nobody has visited the moon in more than 45 years — and the reasons are depressing

15-07-2018 om 22:34 geschreven door peter  

Two Chinese launches in 24 hours deliver Pakistan satellites, Beidou backup to orbit

by Andrew Jones 

China sent a new navigation satellite into orbit from southwest China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center, at 04:58 on Tuesday.

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15-07-2018 om 22:12 geschreven door peter  

PUERTA DE HAYU MARCA: THE GATE OF THE GODS

In the mountains of Peru stands a gateway shrouded in mystery and attributed with capabilities of mythic proportions. Many ancient sites on Earth are believed to hold special powers and emit unique frequencies of energy, lights, or sounds that otherwise seem impossible. Others hold stories of people, cities, and even entire ships vanishing without leaving a trace.

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15-07-2018 om 22:00 geschreven door peter  

Crop circle reveals ancient ‘henge’ monument buried in Ireland

By Josh K. Elliott Global News

Crop circle reveals ancient ‘henge’ monument buried in Ireland WORLD
Experts believe a 5,000 year old Neolithic site has been discovered in a field in Ireland s Boyne Valley, after a summer drought deadened the grass enough for the monument to be revealed.

U.K. archeologists are crediting a drought and a drone for the discovery of an ancient structure in Ireland, which first appeared as an outline under a parched farmer’s field.

The structure was spotted this week by drone enthusiasts recording footage over the Newgrange historic site in Boyne Valley, County Meath. The UNESCO World Heritage Site is home to several 5,000-year-old circular structures from the Neolithic era, many of which remain buried underground.

• READ MORE: Massive sarcophagus found in Egypt — and archaeologists don’t know what lies inside

Photos from the air show the structure as a circular outline under a farmer’s field, with the ditch-and-upright architecture of a prehistoric henge, such as Stonehenge.

“Nobody knew it was there,” said archeologist Stephen Davis.

The monument was likely built around 3000 BCE along with the other structures at the site, according to Davis, who teaches at University College Dublin. He’s also been studying the site for several years.

“When it was standing, what you would’ve seen was two large rings of timber posts, and maybe a very low bank, and then this segmented ditch,” Davis said.

Ireland has been suffering through a historically hot, dry summer, which helped expose the structure where it lay hidden beneath a farmer’s tilled field.

• READ MORE: Hidden prehistoric monument discovered near Stonehenge; believed to be 4,500 years old

Davis says the buried structure caused the drought-stricken plants above ground to ripen at different rates, because the earth was deeper in some places than in others. This created a green-and-brown pattern in the plants that corresponded to the buried ruins.

“The detail we’re seeing is pretty unprecedented, and it might not happen again for decades,” Davis said.

“You wouldn’t see this from the ground,” he added. “You’d only see it from the air.”

The most famous structure at Newgrange is the stone-rimmed, grass-domed mound known as Site P. The structure is centred around an ancient stone tomb, although the tomb predates the rest of the monument.

The newly-discovered monument was close to Site P.

The Newgrange UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ireland is home to several monuments, including this mound.

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Newgrange is believed to be about 100 years older than Stonehenge, although the newest discovery might have been built slightly later.

• READ MORE: Historians are furious over plans to build a tunnel under Stonehenge

Many of the structures at the Newgrange are over 200 metres wide, and may have been used as festivals or marketplaces, Davis said.

“You could put … thousands of people in them, but we just don’t really know what they were doing here,” he said.

He adds this latest discovery will stay buried for the foreseeable future, out of respect for the farmer who owns the land.

Davis suspects there are other structures in the area that have yet to be found.

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Thrilled to have discovered a previously unknown "new" henge monument near Newgrange last night. Archaeologists tell me that this is a very major find. It appears to be similar in design and size to the nearby Site P, a recorded henge. Exciting times! http://bit.ly/newhenge 

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15-07-2018 om 21:26 geschreven door peter  

Graancirkel onthult ‘nieuw Stonehenge’ in Ierland. Waar werd dit monument voor gebruikt?

In Ierland is in een weiland een duizenden jaren oude ‘henge’ ontdekt. Anthony Murphy maakte met zijn drone al vaker beelden van het gebied, maar vanwege de aanhoudende droogte was er dit keer iets opvallends op te zien.

De henge, net als Stonehenge een cirkelvormig monument, wordt omringd door grafheuvels en andere henges.

Murphy vermoedde dat er meer henges te vinden moesten zijn, maar kon tot dusver niets vinden. Hij hoopte dat de droogte meer geheimen zou blootleggen en had geluk.

Niet bekend

De henge bestond uit hout en hoewel het materiaal is weggerot, is de grond altijd iets anders van samenstelling gebleven, waardoor de aarde beter in staat is vocht vast te houden en dus langzamer uitdroogt.

Hierdoor was Murphy in staat om het monument vanuit de lucht vast te leggen.

Het is niet bekend waarvoor de henges precies werden gebruikt. Ze stammen uit de periode 11.000 tot 2500 voor Christus. Geschat wordt dat de Ierse henge 5000 jaar oud is.

Mythical Ireland@mythicalireland

Thrilled to have discovered a previously unknown "new" henge monument near Newgrange last night. Archaeologists tell me that this is a very major find. It appears to be similar in design and size to the nearby Site P, a recorded henge. Exciting times! http://bit.ly/newhenge 

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15-07-2018 om 21:11 geschreven door peter  

Last week, paranormal researcher and inventor of The Wishing Machine Joshua P. Warren made international headlines with his announcement that he had discovered a “time warp”outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. Warren says he detected a spot in the desert in which time itself was observed to slow down by 20 milliseconds. Warren reports the discovery was made using a device called a DT-Meter, or differential time meter, claimed by its inventor to be able to “detect and measure the effects of technology that is able to bend space-time.” According to inventor Ron Heath’s website, “examples of this technology would be a UFO that bends space-time, or uses gravity as part of it’s propulsion system.”

Joshua P. Warren

Naturally, I was skeptical about this discovery. A single anomalous measurement is hardly conclusive proof of anything, particularly one using an unknown device which appears to have been made in some dude’s basement and sold on eBay. However, as someone who writes about the paranormal and unexplained, I am open to all possibilities – given sufficient evidence. 

To that end, I recently spoke with Joshua P. Warren about his discovery and the device he used. To start, I asked Warren if he has been able to reproduce the same result at the same site:

This result is truly an anomaly. I have tested the same site three times, but this only happened for a moment on one occasion. However, I have used the DT-Meter all over the desert, between Vegas and Area 51, and it has always been easily, and reliably, calibrated and operated just as intended. In fact, the inventor of the device, Silicon Valley engineer Ronald Heath, has had two of them running on property in California for months, logging results 24/7, and he has never seen one anomaly. When he saw my reading he said ‘WOW! Incredible!!!’

Warren says he is the first individual to one one of these devices after they only became available in the last month. One thing I immediately wondered about the device after reading this story is if it was calibrated against a control, to which Warren replied that while he did not perform such a control calibration himself, he’s sure the DT-Meter’s inventor calibrated it and that he followed the onboard calibration instructions with each use. Thus, while Warren admits that a malfunction is indeed a possibility, he considers it to be the least likely of all of the possible explanations for the time anomaly he detected given the impeccable performance of the device in every other test:

Since humans are imperfect, no scientific results can be truly conclusive. But there is no direct evidence that the meter performed any differently that day, at that spot, than it has on any other occasion. Given all the variables, since the DT-Meter has worked reliably in every other case, and we know from mainstream science that spacetime anomalies exist, I think this reading is most likely an accurate recording of one such anomaly, and the first of many we will discover, on a civilian level, in the coming years.

In another post on one of his sites, Warren cites that this anomaly could be due to a black hole approaching Earth, or perhaps some type of gravity or spacetime-bending technology nearby. Warren pointed out that there are several well-known areas nearby where exotic or extraterrestrial technologies are rumored to be tested or de-engineered by the likes of Robert Bigelow and others – not to mention the infamous Area 51. I asked Warren if he suspects the nearby installations at Groom Lake/Area 51 might have something to do with the time anomaly. While Warren says he is open to the possibility, he says the readings he took at locations much closer to the facility came back normal:

The Groom Lake facility is so huge that one can conceivably tie any weird phenomenon in Nevada to conspiracies regarding their work. However, I cannot say that this particular result was directly related to Groom Lake. I traveled hundreds of miles testing spots in the desert, about every 20-30 miles, between Las Vegas and past Rachel, Nevada (near Area 51). Surprisingly, the land around Groom Lake/Area 51 tested as completely normal. It was only this one site, about 20 miles north of Vegas, in the desert, where I got the anomalous reading.

What might be the cause of this anomalous reading Warren took with the DT-Meter? Ultimately, it’s difficult to say given just one reading. However, within the field of physics there is some precedent for such anomalies. For one, there’s the the phenomenon of time dilation as proven by the famous Hafele-Keating experiment and other studies, in which working clocks have been found to report different times after being travelling at different velocities. Clocks on the International Space Station, for example, run .014 seconds slower per year than clocks on Earth. However, since Warren discovered the time anomaly while stationary on the surface of Earth, these types of effects normally shouldn’t apply.

The gravitational effects of blackholes can actually distort spacetime.

Of course, as Warren notes, there are other documented cases of physical anomalies here on Earth, such as inconsistencies in the Earth’s gravitational field detected by space agencies. Given that gravitational effects can also lead to time dilation, could the site of this Las Vegas time warp be home to some type of unknown gravitational anomaly? Much more data from a variety of sources would need to be collected to even begin approaching such a conclusion.

For now, Warren says his plans for the DT-Meter and the time warp going forward are to collect more data and look for any other locations which display similar time distortions in order to determine if there might be a correlation or pattern among other sites.

Like many of us, I hope to someday discover or be shown be conclusive proof of higher mysteries, extraterrestrial intelligence, or the paranormal. As most of us seekers who grew up on The X-Files, I truly want to believe. However, I also feel that unsubstantiated claims or premature conclusions can sometimes do harm to the paranormal research community and reinforce common stigmas levied at the study of anomalous phenomena. Where does this discovery stand? We’ve got a well-known paranormal researcher and inventor reporting a single anomalous reading taken with a homemade device. Is this conclusive proof of a time warp?

You decide.

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15-07-2018 om 20:58 geschreven door peter  

In 1997 a controversial U.S. Air Force document was published. It’s title: The Roswell Report: Case Closed. In a foreword to the report, the USAF stated: “The ‘Roswell Incident’ has assumed a central place in American folklore since the events of the 1940s in a remote area of New Mexico. Because the Air Force was a major player in those events, we have played a key role in executing the General Accounting Office’s tasking to uncover all records regarding that incident. Our objective throughout this inquiry has been simple and consistent: to find all the facts and bring them to light. If documents were classified, declassify them; where they were dispersed, bring them into a single source for public review.”

Roswell Deputy Sheriff: I Saw Four Dead Aliens and 100ft Flying Saucer at UFO Crash Site

The USAF continued: “In July 1994, we completed the first step in that effort and later published The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert. This volume represents the necessary follow-on to that first publication and contains additional material and analysis. I think that with this publication we have reached our goal of a complete and open explanation of the events that occurred in the Southwest many years ago.

“Beyond that achievement, this inquiry has shed fascinating light into the Air Force of that era and revitalized our appreciation for the dedication and accomplishments of the men and women of that time. As we celebrate the Air Force’s 50th Anniversary, it is appropriate to once again reflect on the sacrifices made by so many to make ours the finest air and space force in history.”

Deputy Sheriff Charlie Forgus recalls Roswell UFO crash & Alien bodies

On its decision to finally address the matter of the bodies allegedly found on the Foster Ranch, the Air Force began as follows: “The July 1994 Air Force report concluded that the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army Air Forces, did indeed recover material near Roswell in July 1947. This 1,000-page report methodically explains that what was recovered by the Army Air Forces was not the remnants of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and its alien crew, but debris from an Army Air Forces balloon-borne research project code named Mogul.

“Although Mogul components clearly accounted for the claims of ‘flying saucer’ debris recovered in 1947, lingering questions remained concerning anecdotal accounts that included descriptions of ‘alien’ bodies. The issue of ‘bodies’ was not discussed extensively in the 1994 report because there were not any bodies connected with events that occurred in 1947. The extensive Secretary of the Air Force-directed search of Army Air Forces and U.S. Air Force records from 1947 did not yield information that even suggested the 1947 ‘Roswell’ events were anything other than the retrieval of the Mogul equipment.”

The Air Force then got to the point: “Subsequent to the 1994 report, Air Force researchers discovered information that provided a rational explanation for the alleged observations of alien bodies associated with the ‘Roswell Incident.’ Pursuant to the discovery, research efforts compared documented Air Force activities to the incredible claims of ‘flying saucers,’ ‘aliens’ and seemingly unusual Air Force involvement. This in-depth examination revealed that these accounts, in most instances, were of actual Air Force activities but were seriously flawed in several major areas, most notably: the Air Force operations that inspired reports of  ‘bodies’ (in addition to being earthly in origin) did not occur in 1947. It appears that UFO proponents have failed to establish the accurate dates for these ‘alien’ observations (in some instances by more than a decade) and then erroneously linked them to the actual Project Mogul debris recovery.”

The Air Force explained: “Air Force activities which occurred over a period of many years have been consolidated and are now represented to have occurred in two or three days in July 1947. ‘Aliens’ observed in the New Mexico desert were probably anthropomorphic test dummies that were carried aloft by U.S. Air Force high altitude balloons for scientific research. The ‘unusual’ military activities in the New Mexico desert were high altitude research balloon launch and recovery operations. The reports of military units that always seemed to arrive shortly after the crash of a flying saucer to retrieve the saucer and ‘crew’ were actually accurate descriptions of Air Force personnel engaged in anthropomorphic dummy recovery operations.”

It’s worth noting that in the immediate years before the Air Force’s “bodies report” was published, rumors were already quietly floating around to the effect that a report on the bodies angle would indeed soon be surfacing. On this very matter, and in a recent article for MU titled “The Many and Varied Balloons of Roswell,” I wrote the following (QUOTE):

“In 1997, Jim Wilson – writing for Popular Mechanics – said that the magazine’s staff had been told of a forthcoming government report that would explain the matter of the bodies said to have been found on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in July 1947 – and that it would all revolve around a secret program involving Japan. Such a report did not ultimately surface. What did surface was the Air Force’s controversial report suggesting the bodies were actually crash-test dummies. But, apparently, Popular Mechanics were onto something. Wilson wrote that magazine staff suspected  ‘…the documents scheduled for future release will tell of a Japanese counterpart to Operation Paperclip. One of its purposes was to determine if the Japanese had constructed a suicide-piloted version of the Fugo  [balloon] incendiary bomb.'”

I added in my article: “Wilson continued it was the opinion of Popular Mechanics that ‘…the craft that crashed at Roswell will eventually be identified as either a U.S. attempt to re-engineer a second-generation Fugo, or a hybrid craft which uses both Fugo [balloon] lifting technology and Horten-inspired lifting-body. In either case, Japanese engineers and pilots brought to the U.S. after the war to work on the project could have been the dead ‘alien’ bodies recovered at the crash site.’ This is verysimilar to many of the stories provided to me of a Japanese/balloon connection to Roswell.” (END OF QUOTE).

Of course, the “bodies” report that Popular Mechanicssuspected might surface never did appear. The Air Force stuck by its crash-test dummy theory and had no time for secret programs involving Japanese personnel. Jim Wilson and the staff of Popular Mechanics, however, were not the only ones to have heard rumors of a “bodies report” surfacing – and to have heard of such rumors years before the publication date of the Air Force’s report on such matters.

All of this brings us to the little-known matter of a man named Charles Moore. As is noted at Wikipedia: “Moore was recruited as a project engineer for Project Mogul in 1947 by New York University geophysicist Athelstan Spilhaus, who headed the Balloon Group within the project. Project Mogul, led by Dr. James Peoples and his assistant Albert P. Crary, made use of Moore’s work in materials science allowing the construction of balloons which could better withstand cold temperatures and safely rise to significantly greater altitudes. A balloon that Moore helped launch in New Mexico on June 4, 1947, was later identified as the source of the debris found on the Foster ranch which led to UFO conspiracy theories and claims surrounding the Roswell incident.”

Indeed, Moore championed the idea that the debris found on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in July 1947 was from a Mogul balloon array. There is, however, a story concerning Moore, the Air Force’s report, and the “bodies” angle, which many are not aware of. In 1997, Tim Shawcross’ book, The Roswell File, was published. In his book, Shawcross notes that a few years before the Air Force’s crash-test dummy report was published, he chatted with Moore about the matter of the Roswell bodies. Moore gave Shawcross a somewhat intriguing and carefully-worded response: “True – people reported…but that I think is another story and something there may be more on later but it had nothing to do with what we were flying.”

Moore also told Shawcross that a new report – one which would finally explain the matter of the bodies – was likely to surface in either 1995 or 1996. How did Moore know this? From contacts in the Pentagon, that’s how. There is, however, a very interesting aspect to this saga of Moore and his knowledge of a “bodies” report. Moore reacted in a very strange fashion to Shawcross’ questions. Indeed, Moore, as Shawcross noted, “became increasingly agitated…” and “ended the conversation rather abruptly.” Shawcross noted that the next time he spoke to Moore on this same matter, he (Moore) “was even more curt and seemed distinctly worried that he had mentioned as much as he had.”

Why Moore got so worried and deeply concerned about discussing a looming Pentagon report that would explain the Roswell bodies as being nothing stranger than dummies, is hard to fathom. If the report Moore had heard of was focused on the likes of the highly controversial things that Popular Mechanics anticipated (namely, a secret program involving Japanese personnel) I could easily understand why Moore might have been concerned about what he had revealed to Shawcross. But, just a few snippets of material on nothing stranger than a few dummies? Where is the harm in revealing that?

This all makes me wonder if – when Moore spoke with Shawcross – he, Moore, had come across controversial data that closely mirrored Popular Mechanics‘ data on the bodies. If that was the case, I can well understand why Moore regretted sharing a few words on the matter with Shawcross. Perhaps, in light of all this, it’s time for us to take a closer look at what Charles Moore may really have known about the Roswell bodies…

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15-07-2018 om 20:51 geschreven door peter  

Beginning with the 1895 publication of the H. G. Wells novella The Time Machine, popular culture has been fascinated with the idea of inventing machines capable of sending humans through time. Despite our best efforts and a whole lot of dubious claims, though, true time travel seems as if it will remain the stuff of science fiction.

Who knows, though? Science and technology occasionally undergo paradigm shifts which make the impossible a reality, after all. The concept of devices which enable people to instantaneously see and hear other people on the opposite side of the world would have seemed like outlandish fantasy just a century ago, yet here you are watching live footage of cave rescues in Thailand while on the toilet and sending pictures of your naughty bits to that Czech girl you met on the train while backpacking through eastern Europe, all with a machine that fits in your pocket.

Will advances in technology someday allow us to travel back in time and make sure that mustard gas finishes off Hitler during World War I this time or, more importantly, fix all those embarrassing faux pas we made in middle school? One University of Connecticut physicist might thinks he may be able to some day make that all possible. Professor Ron Mallett recently met with interviewers the BBC’s Horizon science series to discuss a time machine design he believes might soon make time travel a reality.

I think of myself as being an ordinary person with a passion, and my passion is the possibility of time travel. If I could build a time machine, then I could go back into the past and see my father again and maybe save his life and change everything.

That’s how Mallett describes his quest to someday achieve time travel and save his father from an untimely death at age 33. Mallett has spent his life dreaming of saving his father ever since reading The Time Machine when he was just eleven years old. After researching the concept of time travel for decades, Mallett now believes he has a design that could theoretically work – with one hitch: the device would need an unbelievable, as yet impossible amount of energy to power. And a working shrink ray. But a man can dream, can’t he?

Mallett’s design centers around a vortex of incredibly intense lasers which generate a rapidly swirling beam of light. If that light could be spun fast enough, Mallett believes spacetime itself could become twisted “like stirring a cup of coffee:”

If space is being twisted strongly enough, this linear timeline is going to be twisted into a loop. If time all of a sudden is twisted into a loop that allows us the possibility of travelling into the past.

Several recent discoveries in quantum physics have suggested that affecting matter in the present can affect matter in the past, but quantum entanglement is one thing, and travelling back in time to attend Stephen Hawking’s funeral is quite another. Will a physics professor’s dream of swirling lasers one day enable use to right the wrongs of the past, or is this merely a case of one man’s obsession to bring his father back to life?

ABC TV - Time Travel: Fantasy or Science? Ron Mallett's Quest

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15-07-2018 om 20:42 geschreven door peter  

Mars is approaching Earth for a 15-year close encounter on July 27, 2018. The red planet now outshines every object in the sky except the sun, Moon, and Venus but is almost three times brighter than Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, and 30% brighter than the giant planet Jupiter.

Credit image: Peter Rosén.

Mars is not only outshines every object in the sky, it is doing things only very luminous objects can do--like produce a green flash, see below GIF animation, reports spaceweather.

GIF animation credit: Peter Rosén

On July 12, 2018 Peter Rosén of Stockholm, Sweden captured Mars in the early morning sky at a moment the turbulence was extreme, sometimes splitting the planet's disc in two or three slices and displaying a green and blue flash resembling those usually seen on the sun.

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15-07-2018 om 20:29 geschreven door peter  

Long UFO Over Farm Community Caught On Video, La Porte, Indiana ( July 13, 2018 ), UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 13, 2018
Location of sighting: La Porte, Indiana, USA
Source: MUFON #93311

Eyewitness states: 

I was driving my work truck heading west towards LaPorte on West 400 South as I came out of the trees I saw a reflective object about 200 feet up or so moving very slowly. I approached the intersection of West 400 South and long Lane I observed and began recording at that time. I wasn't sure what I was seeing but it was very abnormal how slow it was moving was fairly large as you can see in the video and also very shiny and reflective and made no noise it looked like a shiny egg or pebble. it moved very close to the high tension power lines . I watched as the object moved along the power lines from west to east then over the farm. I watched until it was out of my view. As I was driving away on West 400 South I could see it hovering above the farm in my side view mirror on my work truck. The whole incident lasted about 4 minutes I was nervous because I've never seen an aerial vehicle like that.

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15-07-2018 om 20:21 geschreven door peter  

Glowing UFO Over Melbourne, Australia On July 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 2018
Location of sighting: Melbourne, Australia

This UFO was caught by Youtube user Shaun Manne who's watchful eye caught this glowing orb in the distance. In the video we see it moving and the light appear and disappear sporadically, not in any pattern. Awesome catch down under. 
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

Eyewitness states: 

I went outside and looked straight up and saw this moving light. I always wait to see if it flashes like a plane but this one didn't. If it wasn't moving I would have said it was Venus, large and bright. No noise either. I'm located in Langwarrin, Melbourne.

A bright white ball floated slowly above my house. It made no noise what so ever, and didn't flash like a plane would. It was fairly low but could have easily been missed.

15-07-2018 om 20:17 geschreven door peter  

Glowing UFO Over Melbourne, Australia On July 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 2018
Location of sighting: Melbourne, Australia

This UFO was caught by Youtube user Shaun Manne who's watchful eye caught this glowing orb in the distance. In the video we see it moving and the light appear and disappear sporadically, not in any pattern. Awesome catch down under. 
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

Eyewitness states: 

I went outside and looked straight up and saw this moving light. I always wait to see if it flashes like a plane but this one didn't. If it wasn't moving I would have said it was Venus, large and bright. No noise either. I'm located in Langwarrin, Melbourne.

A bright white ball floated slowly above my house. It made no noise what so ever, and didn't flash like a plane would. It was fairly low but could have easily been missed.

15-07-2018 om 20:17 geschreven door peter  

Alien shockproof: Giant planet-sized UFO detected by NASA's Stereo spacecraft

The flying object spotted in the video is seemingly planet-sized, and it also has imprinted drawings on its body

YouTube Screenshot: UFOmania

'UFOmania', a conspiracy theory YouTube channel has uploaded an eerie video which has now emerged as the hottest debating point among conspiracy theorists and alien enthusiasts. The strange clip shows a spherical UFO moving across deep space, and interestingly, the flying object has imprinted drawings on its body. The conspiracy theory channel claims that they have spotted this bizarre object while researching the website of NASA's stereo mission.

"While researching the site of STEREO mission, I found this fantastic UFOthat as you can see has such a planetarium and seems to have a force field around it," wrote UFOmania on the video's description.

The uploader of the video reveals that the UFO spotted in the Stereo mission live feed is so gigantic, that it is of the size of a planet. As the video went viral, conspiracy theorists have started claiming that the bizarre object in the video might be an alien mega-ship from deep space.

The video which was uploaded a day ago has already racked up more than 4,100 views, and viewers were quick to speculate what the eerie object could be.

A YouTube user named Subrata Kundu commented that the gigantic object spotted could be a space station operated by aliens very similar to that of humans' International Space Station (ISS).

A section of other users claimed that Donald Trump has ordered to make a space force after understanding the threats posed by this alien mega-ship.

"Trump has called for an immediate formation of a space force, armies worldwide are prepared and at the ready for something, and the high strangeness occurring in our atmosphere...you have something big happening. The world as we know it may be about to change. Prepare yourselves," commented Snoot Dingo, a YouTube user.

"That thing has been out there for at least a year, moving around. NASA won't comment on it! No one says what it is. It can look pretty weird sometimes: like it is shooting a missile. Strange!," commented Corey Scott, another YouTuber.

Some other YouTube users argued that the object in the video might be the alleged killer planet Nibiru which is in its collision course towards earth.

15-07-2018 om 01:32 geschreven door peter  

IceCube: Unlocking the Secrets of Cosmic Rays

15-07-2018 om 01:22 geschreven door peter  

New findings suggest that some exoplanets will have stable axial tilts and climates, much as Earth does. This knowledge will help astronomers search for worlds similar to ours – the long-sought Earth 2.0.

Artist’s concept of Kepler-186f, the 1st of 2 studied planets now thought to have seasons and a stable climate.

Image via NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle.

We sometimes hear the term Earth-like in describing exoplanets that might be similar to our own world. The terms Earth-like or Earth analog conjure up visions of alien oceans and continents, teeming with life. But how similar to Earth might such distant worlds really be? We still don’t know the answer to that question yet, but a new research study – announced by the Georgia Institute of Technology on June 28, 2018 – shows that there might indeed be some alien worlds that are quite similar to Earth in terms of their seasons and stable climates.

The study focuses on two known exoplanets, one about the same size as Earth and the other a super-Earth(larger than Earth but smaller than the gas giants Uranus or Neptune). The researchers found evidence that both planets likely have seasons and stable climates, just as Earth does. Kepler-186f is less than 10 percent larger then Earth, 500 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus the Swan. It is one of five known planets in that planetary system and orbits within the habitable zone, even though its host star is a red dwarf. Kepler-62f is about 40 percent larger than Earth, 1,200 light-years away in the constellation Lyra the Harp.

The research team, led by Georgia Tech astronomer Gongjie Li and graduate student Yutong Shan from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, used computer simulations to determine the axial tilt of each planet. The results indicated that the axial tilts of both planets are stable, like Earth’s, meaning that the planets would experience regular seasons and stable climates. That is good news in terms of how habitable the planets may be, although there are other factors to account for also of course, such as water, composition, type of atmosphere, etc.

Kepler-186f was the 1st Earth-sized exoplanet to be discovered in the habitable zone of another star.

Image via NASA.

Artist’s concept of Kepler-62f, the 2nd planet found to have seasons and a stable climate.

Image via NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle.

Planets with highly variable axial tilts, like Mars, are less likely to have such stable environments. Mars’ axial tilt has been very unstable, swinging from zero to 60 degrees over billions of years, and is thought to be a key reason why Mars lost most of its water and turned into the cold, dry desert world we see today.

Earth’s axial tilt has been much more stable, varying from 22.1 to 24.5 degrees every 10,000 years or so. According to Li:

Mars is in the habitable zone in our solar system, but its axial tilt has been very unstable – varying from zero to 60 degrees. That instability probably contributed to the decay of the Martian atmosphere and the evaporation of surface water.

Mars is a good example, then, of what can happen when a planet does not have a stable axial tilt. A stable climate has been important for the continued evolution of life on Earth. The axial variations of Earth have been largely kept in check by the Earth’s large moon, which Mars doesn’t have. The moon and Earth strongly interact gravitationally with each other. If Earth had no moon, its spin axis would precess at the same rate as the orbital oscillation, which could cause large variations in the axial tilt. As Li explained:

It appears that both exoplanets are very different from Mars and the Earth because they have a weaker connection with their sibling planets. We don’t know whether they possess moons, but our calculations show that even without satellites, the spin axes of Kepler-186f and 62f would have remained constant over tens of millions of years.

View of Mars from the Mars Orbiter Mission (India). Mars’ wild axial changes prevented it from having a long-term stable climate.

Image via ISRO.

As it stands now, both Kepler-186f and Kepler-62f are candidates for having habitable conditions on their surfaces, but there is still more we need to learn about them. The mass, composition and density of Kepler-186f are still unknown, crucial factors in helping to assess habitability. As Li noted:

Our study is among the first to investigate climate stability of exoplanets and adds to the growing understanding of these potentially habitable nearby worlds.

Planets with stable climates would be more likely to be able to support life, at least as we know it on Earth. What about planets with ever-changing climates? Shan is optimistic about even those worlds:

I don’t think we understand enough about the origin of life to rule out the possibility of their presence on planets with irregular seasons. Even on Earth, life is remarkably diverse and has shown incredible resilience in extraordinarily hostile environments. But a climatically stable planet might be a more comfortable place to start.

Earth’s axial tilt has remained quite stable, thanks largely to the presence of our large moon. Our stable, habitable climate has enabled life to thrive.

Image via NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Jason Major.

A growing number of Earth-sized and super-Earth exoplanets have been discovered, including in the habitable zones of their stars, although it is too early to call any of them Earth-like yet specifically. This new research shows how some should have axial tilts and climates ideal for life to exist.

Bottom line: Finding other Earth-like planets is the holy grail of exoplanet research. The new findings showing stable axial tilts and likely stable climates on Kepler-186f and Kepler-62f are a big step in that direction. There is still much more work to be done, but scientists are now getting closer to discovering a world that is similar to ours – not only habitable, but perhaps, even teeming with life.

Source: Obliquity Variations of Habitable Zone Planets Kepler 62-f and Kepler 186-f

Via Georgia Tech News Center

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These two exoplanets might have seasons like Earth

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15-07-2018 om 01:11 geschreven door peter  

S01 E03 Ancient Aliens: The Mission - PART I

For centuries mankind believed that life only existed here on Earth, but today many scientists agree that we are not alone.

Practically every human civilization that has ever existed tells us we are not alone in the cosmos.

A long, long time ago, extraterrestrials came here, and through a targeted mutation of our genes, we became human.

We have, in theory, a worldwide civilization that has extraterrestrials interacting with it, and human beings, as we are today, who are possibly the genetic breeding of these aliens.

If we’re being visited, they’ve probably always been here.

Millions of people around the world believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

But what if it were true? Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? And if so, why did they come here? And just what was their mission? On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission reached its destination, and two men– Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin– actually walked on the moon.

They’ve got the flag up now, and you can see the Stars and Stripes on the lunar surface.

Beautiful, just beautiful.

It was the first time in history that beings left their home and traveled through space to an alien planet.

Or was it? Were we really the first creatures in the universe capable of traveling to another world? Given the vastness of the universe and the billions of years that it took to create our galaxy, is it so hard to imagine that such a thing might have happened before, perhaps thousands of times and over the course of millions of years?

The ancient alien astronaut theory presupposes that thousands and thousands of years ago– even before recorded history– Earth was visited by astronauts from another world.

But if alien beings did, in fact, travel to Earth, why? Did they come to explore, to plunder, to study, to hunt, or to breed? When Armstrong and Aldrin explored their incredible surroundings, they found the moon a barren landscape.

It seemed to offer little more than a lifeless oasis of rocks and dust.

But in 1986, further testing determined that the lunar landscape actually contains a high amount of helium-3, an extremely powerful nonpolluting, nonradioactive fuel source.

Experts estimate that a single space shuttle filled with this material could satisfy all the energy needs in the United States for an entire year.

Think of it.

Armadas of spaceships mining the moon and other planets for natural resources.

Could this help explain why Earth might have served as a destination for travelers from other worlds? We’d go out there with robot mining crews and eventually human mining crews, mine those planets, extract the ore.

Ships would come; they’d take the ore and bring them back.

Well, if we would do it, why wouldn’t extraterrestrials? But if alien excavators did come to Earth– perhaps thousands of years ago– wouldn’t there be evidence?

Here, in what is now known as Iraq, lies what is commonly regarded by historians and archaeologists as the “cradle of civilization.”

Between 3500 and 1900 BC, the fertile area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers was the home of the Sumerian people.

The Sumerians were one of the first cultures that built actual cities with streets and a street grid, almost like New York City, where you have, you know, a square street grid.

They invented cobblestones.

They had a sewage system.

They were taught in agriculture.

The Sumerians also invented the first known writing system by using the cuneiform script on clay tablets.

In the 19th century, archaeologists exploring the ancient ruins of Nineveh discovered When they were later translated, the texts described many stories similar to those found in the Judeo-Christian Bible.

Virtually every story that’s in Genesis– the flood story, the Adam and Eve story– they all have precedence with the ancient Sumerians.

In 1976 author Zecharia Sitchin published his own translations of the Sumerian texts in a series of books called The Earth Chronicles.

According to Sitchin, the clay tablets describe an alien race known as the Anunnaki who came to Earth to mine gold.

Zecharia Sitchin has essentially suggested that the reason why we were visited in the remote past is because the ancient astronauts’ home planet needed gold for their atmosphere and that their gold content in the atmosphere was depleted, so they came to Earth in order to mine gold and bring it back to their home planet.

But why gold? What are the unique properties of this precious metal that might make it important and worth traveling through the galaxy for? I think, for extraterrestrials, gold would be an important resource just as it is for us.

If it’s at all like our society, one of the major things it’s going to be built on is electricity, and gold really is one of the top conductors, and its malleability and its ability to make it into wires, use it in really small forms as nanoparticles are going to make it an incredible technological resource for any sort of life- forms that reach that level of dealing with electricity and technology as we do.

One of the exciting directions is possibly as an energy source through properties called thermoelectric effects, where it can take the heat and turn it directly into electricity.

This would be obviously a very nice clean energy source.

With its capacity to create energy and conduct heat, some scientists believe gold may also be an invaluable asset in the construction of spaceships.

Gold actually reflects infrared light.

Infrared is basically light that’s not quite red, and so you don’t see it, but we interact with it as heat.

The radiation will interact with your molecules and make them vibrate faster and you’ll feel that as heat, so it makes a great heat shield, partly because it’s so malleable.

You can make it very thin; it’s easy to work with, and it has great properties for reflecting and heat protection.

The only metal that really lasts is gold. Gold is indestructible. All gold from ancient times still exists today.

If you look at Zecharia Sitchin’s theories– that E.T’s came down from another planet in our solar system, which is on a 3,600-year elliptical orbit, that they were running out of minerals, and gold specifically, that they somehow needed to line their atmosphere with.

These extraterrestrials–they just first measure our planet. And they have the instrument to find out: where on this planet do we find raw material?

Through their incredible equipment, they find a planet that has this. It’s got gold.

So they decide “We’re going to go there and we’re going to mine.” So they send some expeditions to planet Earth.

All of a sudden they get here and the factions begin to say, “Well, there’s a lot of gold here, but we’re not digging it out. What are we going to do? We need workers.”

The story that came down to the Sumerians is that the Anunnaki were mining gold on the earth, and the run-of-the-mill workers complained, said: “This is really hard work and we’re tired. We don’t want to do this anymore.”

And so they had a big council and they decided to create a primitive worker called an Adamu.

So they look at what is on this planet, and that is Homo erectus, and they say, “Well, they’re not very intelligent and they’re not going to listen to us, so we’re going to genetically alter them.”

The Anunnaki created humans as a slave species. According to Zecharia Sitchin, the Adamu were the first modern humans.

They were created by the Anunnaki 450,000 years ago when they genetically mixed their DNA with that of prehistoric man.

They took one cell of one of these ancestors of us.

They changed the cell by an artificial mutation.

They changed the DNA code, what our genetics are doing every day.

It’s carved in their stone.

This is not something made up.

This is part of the Sumerian history.

They believed that the gods came down and created them, and they were their slave species.

They knew that, and they didn’t have any philosophical beliefs about the purpose of man or anything.

If you believe Sitchin’s theory that mankind was created by E.T’s for slave labor, all of a sudden it makes sense.

And then when you look at the biblical terms of what may have happened– Adam and Eve? Sure, they may have been two individuals back a long time ago, the beginning of time.

But perhaps Adam and Eve were the first of the genetically created human beings.

Closer comparisons between the Hebrew Bible and the Sumerian texts reveal many similarities, not only in their stories but also in their language.

“Adam” is Hebrew for “man.”

“Adamu” is what the Sumerians refer to as “first man,” the Anunnaki slaves.

But do the Sumerian tablets actually describe an alien race, a race that conducted mining operations on a global scale?

Thousands of miles away, on the African continent, ruins of ancient gold mines have recently been discovered.

The largest concentration can be found in South Africa, where some excavations, according to scientists, dating back some 150,000 years.

They’re in areas that have an abundance of gold right now, so it’s very possible that they could have mined it.

Now, the big question is, how do we know they weren’t human beings that simply did that? Why the E.T. theory?

In many languages in Africa, the native word for “star” means “bringer of knowledge or enlightenment.”

Some African cultures believe that extraterrestrial beings have been visiting the Earth for tens of thousands of years.

Zulu legends speak of a time when “visitors from the stars” came to excavate gold and other natural resources.

These mines were worked by “artificially produced flesh- and blood slaves created by the First People.”

Some ancient mines in Southern Africa are thought to be a hundred thousand years old or older.

If humans weren’t doing that mining a hundred thousand years ago, and making metals, then we would have to assume it would be extraterrestrials doing it.

Alien slave mines? Genetically engineered humans? To believers of ancient astronaut theory, these notions are not far-fetched fantasies or fairy tales, but facts, and they point to additional evidence of alien mining a half world away on the American continent.

Peru has long been known as “the land of gold.”

In ancient times, Incan rulers adorned themselves with it.

And when the Spanish explorers arrived in the 16th century, they sent shiploads of their plunder back home to Spain.

Gold was largely a valuable commodity because of being rare and easy to make jewelry, coinage.

And if you’re looking at, like, the ancient Incas, those people are using gold as a status symbol.

Many cultures thought it came directly from the gods.

People thought gold was so pure, so wonderful, it must heal, and they would actually occasionally ingest pure gold.

Certainly, we’re discovering more and more, as we get better at archeology and as we can look into these things, applications that people have used.

For instance, there is some evidence that ancient people had very primitive batteries, and this would be a place in which gold would be very useful because of its electrical properties and its conductivity.

It should not be surprising, then, to find archaeological evidence of ancient gold mines.

But some sites have recently been discovered that date back some 50,000 years.

All throughout areas in Peru, you see remnants of what could have been ancient mining operations.

It’s there.

They go down, in some cases, thousands of feet deep.

Gold turns out to be surprisingly easy to mine for, even though it’s relatively rare.

There’s a lot of common techniques ancient people used, and some of them were used, you know, well into recent times.

A lot of it, you know, involves using water, often, to change the properties of the rock around it.

A lot of heating and freezing and the gold will come loose.

In addition to gold, other ancient sites in Peru provide evidence that they were once mined for quartz hematite and red ochre.

They’re used for different things.

Quartz is incredibly common.

It’s basically silicone dioxide.

It’s kind of like glass.

It’s a great mineral; it’s hard, but it can be formed into pretty sculptures; you could make quartz statues; you could probably even use it for money before you discovered minerals and gold.

Hematite and ochre are much more valuable because of their iron oxide.

And particularly ochre is important as a pigment, so as soon as you’re gonna start having painting, cave drawings even, or any sort of artwork, you need to make colors.

And making color can be a challenge, and ochre is a great source of that.

Also located in Peru are the world-famous Nazca lines.

While the origins of these ancient geoglyphs remain a mystery, the area in which the lines are located suggests that a major excavation took place there, perhaps hundreds of centuries ago.

At Nazca, entire mountaintops have been removed.

I mean, this all requires machining.

And I’m not talking, you know, a little wheelbarrow and-and a pick.

I’m talking sophisticated machinery because we today would also need sophisticated machinery in order to achieve such feats.

Could the vast flat plain located in the Nazca Desert be evidence of a gigantic mining operation, one that took place hundreds of thousands of years ago? Whoever comes here in a spaceship, Nazca would be like a beacon, as in: “Come here.”

Because the moment you come to Nazca, you’re sort of confronted with a Cliff Notes to planet Earth, where you have all sorts of raw materials that exist in that one particular spot in very, very abundant quantities.

I think the Nazca lines aren’t evidence of the search for gold, but they’re evidence of some communication with possibly E.T’s, or gods, from above.

But despite the controversy, one thing is plain, and the lines that scar the surrounding countryside, are not natural formations.

But while scientists and ancient astronaut theorists remain divided about who, or what, created the Nazca lines, they are in agreement about one the so-called Band of Holes, located in the Pisco Valley, Peru, is a complete mystery.

In the mountains of Peru, we have what’s commonly referred to as the Band of Holes, and it is this Band of Holes that were carved or dug into the mountainside.

It’s a bunch of little, shallow holes, dug into the ground, and it’s had all kinds of explanations.

Some people say it was just pot hunters, you know, looting, looking for burials.

Some people think it looks like some kind of machine was running over the territory.

Some people think it was some kind of systematic mining operation.

They need raw material, be it gold, be it silver, be it uranium, whatever; they need something.

And they send something down like a shuttle.

It can be a robot.

No extraterrestrial is on board.

And this robot just caresses over the surfaces and collects and measures raw material, and disappears again.

The holes run about three feet apart and measure six to seven feet in depth, and number in the thousands.

Often we see regular structures like that and we assume either a person or an intelligent life had to make it, but there are lots of examples in nature where the natural processes lead to large-scale what we call “pattern formation.”

You see it on a small scale in animals.

You look at leopards and zebras– leopards have spots; zebras have stripes.

Surprisingly, on geological scales, some of the same processes that give you spots on a leopard could give you indentations in the ground and raised areas that would look like holes.

It would take a long time over geological scales, but we’ve had a long time, and that might be what they’re left over from.

Mainstream archaeologists suggest the holes were used to store grain, but ancient astronaut theorists reject that notion.

It’s a mystery because who in their right mind would go ahead and dig all these holes? For what? The other intriguing aspect of the Band of Holes is that you can only see it from the air.

When you stand down there, all you see is a couple of holes dug into the ground, and it doesn’t really mean much.

But if you’re up in the air, there is this long band with these individual holes that you can see, and you can conceivably create some type of message that can only be seen from the air.

But if ancient aliens came to Earth searching for gold, why did they leave? More gold still exists here, as do many other valuable minerals.

Could it be that ancient mining operations were just the means to another possibly greater end? Or perhaps the real alien mission on Earth was to hunt the greatest prey in the Man.

Alamosa, Colorado. September 7, 1967.

When a three-year-old horse named Snippy went missing, her owners grew concerned and went out looking for her.

Their search yielded a gruesome and mysterious discovery.

Snippy’s body had been mutilated almost surgically.

An examination of the carcass showed that her skin and flesh had been neatly cut; her heart and brain had been removed, and a formaldehyde-like odor emitted from the remains.

An autopsy also revealed that her spinal fluid had been removed.

The events of Snippy’s death stunned the community and remain shrouded in mystery, even to this day.

Since the mutilation, an estimated 50,000 similar events have been reported around the world, most of them involving cattle.

But it was not until about the middle of the 1970’s that cattle mutilations really entered into Ufology.

Farmers would come out and find some prize livestock that was alive and healthy the day before and then it was just suddenly dead.

And it looked like it had been cut up in a rather odd way.

That certain parts of the body looked like they were cut out in ways that seemed to be almost surgical.

Television producer and UFO investigator Linda Howe has been tracking the mystery of animal mutilation for over 30 years.

I began trying to get to the bottom of what was happening to all of these animals.

There were horses, cows, other domestic animals found with the same pattern of bloodless excisions.

The law enforcement called them animal mutilations, and the first thing I felt was anger.

And then I felt nervous, and then I felt afraid.

I sat across from sheriffs who told me, “Linda, we’re not dealing with predators, disease, and satanic cults. We’re dealing with creatures from outer space.”

There are several explanations for why aliens would want to experiment on cows.

One is that they’re just looking for food.

One that they’re looking for some kind of information about vertebrate organisms.

Another one is that they’re looking for some kind of genetic material for some reason.

The closest answer I’ve ever gotten was from a man who had had very upfront, and close and personal observations of nonhumans in his work for the government.

He told me– he said, “The best answer I can give you, Linda, It’s a genetic harvest.”

But once you have said, “a genetic harvest from Earth,” there’s even a bigger question.

Why a genetic harvest from Earth? What is being made with this genetic harvest? To what end? The answer to these questions might be found in our ancient past, in the bizarre, almost Frankenstein-like experiments that were practiced by early civilizations.

We have ancient descriptions from Egypt where it says specifically that the gods created these chimeras– mixed beings, or hybrids.

We find paintings where you have a human body with a cut-off head and a red tube coming out of it, and next to it, you have just the head of some animal.

And in the next picture– ’cause they’re like– they look like comic strips almost.

And in the next picture, you see the same human body with the animal head attached to the human neck.

Incredibly, examples of strange human-animal hybrid beings date back to a time even older than ancient Egypt.

According to mainstream archeology, ancient Sumeria is the earliest civilization of humankind.

And the interesting part is the fact that their earliest writings are filled with references to these bizarre beings that descended from the sky called the Anunnaki.

Anunnaki means “those who from the heavens came.”

But is there any physical evidence of these human-animal hybrids? If so, wouldn’t we have found skeletal remains? The answer may have been found in Saqqara, Egypt, home to that country’s oldest pyramid.

In 1851, French scholar and Egyptologist Auguste Mariette explored a deep tomb dedicated to the sacred Apis bull.

Inside were two sealed and intact sarcophagi. But when Mariette opened them, what they contained was shocking. They opened the sarcophagus and they didn’t find a bull. Instead, they found this black mass of what’s called bitumen, a type of asphalt.

And inside this stinking mass, they found the bone fragments of seven different types of animals crushed up.

According to the accompanying texts, some type of monsters existed during the time of the Egyptians.

And so who knows whether or not the priests instructed the people to destroy these beings, to rip them apart, to crush their bones, and put them inside this stinking mass, and put them underneath a lid in the sarcophagus weighing 80 tons.

I mean, all in all of Egypt we can find mummified remains of every single animal, but we find these sarcophagi that contain these crushed-up bones.

Doesn’t that mean the ancient Egyptians did not want for those creatures to ever return after their death? Of course, mainstream scientists and archaeologists believe ancient Greek and Egyptian stories of animal and human hybrids are just fanciful products of the imagination.

But are they? There is this period in pre-dynastic Egypt, where these demigods ruled.

We have not found human remains.

We do not know who they were.

But we do have scientific evidence that at least the ancient Egyptians believed firmly that they ruled.

As to whether they are just human beings, like you or I; or whether they come from somewhere else; or whether they are a hybrid being, we have no idea.

What if ancient civilizations possessed the advanced scientific knowledge of our own modern-day scientists?

What if they, too, had unlocked the mysteries of DNA: cloning and gene-splicing?

Why is this so fascinating?

Well, because if you look at this from a genetics aspect, we’re in the process right now today of being able to recreate creatures like that.

I mean, this is Frankenstein.

This is science fiction stuff.

Yet, in ancient Egypt, we have the exact same descriptions, the exact same depictions of some very bizarre, hybridization program which took place thousands of years ago.

They are mixing alien, animal and human DNA, not just for ten years or 20 years, but for thousands and thousands of years.

And that’s why there are so many alien abductions, and that’s why each generation is cyclically more advanced than the next until we get to the complete union of two cultures– the ultimate hybrid.

I think the answer clearly is, we’re not alone in this universe and we have nonhuman intelligence interacting with this planet for reasons that are still unknown to most of us.

It leaves you feeling a little nervous.

If alien beings came here, as some suggest, to perform strange mutation experiments on animals, could they have done the same on humans?

And if so why?

Life on Earth comes in a tremendous diversity of shapes and sizes.

It can be found from the depths of the deepest oceans to the peaks of the highest mountains.

But the vast array of life-forms we see today is only a small portion of what has existed on this planet during its millions of years of history.

In fact, scientists estimate that 97% of all the species that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct.

Most scientists today will tell us that there have been six major extinction events that have occurred during the history of life on Earth.

The most recent of these extinction events was the one that occurred 65 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs.

Paleontologists attribute these mass extinctions to natural causes such as meteor strikes floods and dropping sea levels.

But another theory suggests that these extinctions were not caused by nature, but by alien beings.

In the ancient Sumerian texts, they can control the weather, they can cause droughts, and they did this to humans.

They are capable of producing their own disasters.

But were now-extinct life-forms actually exterminated in order to make way for other, perhaps more docile or desirable species? Was the intent to clear the way for colonization? Or invasion? And if so, what sort of technology would be needed to effect such a widespread change? Some theories say that we have that technology now, called scalar technology.

We heat up to high, electrical impulses, a certain spot on the water, and that creates a hurricane.

And by making a path with that beam, you can track the hurricane.

Now if we can do that– and this is hypothetical– if we can do that, why can’t an alien culture say, “Let’s create an ice age on planet Earth?” It will kill off the dinosaurs, but pave the way for aliens to implant human beings on planet Earth.

Did alien beings come to Earth in order to stay?

Might they, as some believe, have seeded it with their own genetic offspring?

If so, where is the proof?

Some ancient astronaut theorists point to myths that describe gods coming down from the heavens in order to mate with humans.

Ancient texts talk about the fact that whoever visited the earth in the remote past, these gods, believed that Earth women were quite beautiful.

So, in many occasions, we find stories where those visitors essentially mated with Earth women.

It was misinterpreted, misunderstood as something divine that came here.

They were flesh-and-blood extraterrestrials.

Native American folklore refers to those beings who came down from the heavens to breed with Earth women as Star People.

The Star People are extraterrestrial people.

They are not from this earth. They visit. They are star ancestors.

There’s a great deal of, uh, of interaction between them.

Like some of the American Indian star husband tales where some woman sleeping outside at night looks up at a star and thinks it’s very beautiful and would like to go there, and winds up finding herself in the morning being pulled up into heaven and meeting with the supernatural being who was associated with that star in becoming the bride of the star husband.

According to Native American mythology, the brides of these alien beings would become pregnant and give birth to star children.

They would be raised by the native mother until the age of six when they went to live with their star father.

Similar stories of intimate encounters between celestial beings and humans can be found in ancient Hebrew and Judeo-Christian testaments often referred to as The Pseudepigraph, or what many refer to as the Apocrypha.

There are lots of instances in the Pseudepigraph– these are the books that didn’t make it into the Bible– where people are visited by beings that aren’t from this earth.

Before the Bible became the Bible of today, there were many additional books that used to be a part of the Bible.

They were removed in what was called the Council of Nicaea because those books contained too much information, dangerous knowledge.

In Genesis 6, where it talks about these watchers that are kind of angels that came down from heaven and had sex with the women of the earth.

These strangers had sex with beautiful young girls on our planet.

How can angels have sex? This is impossible.

In our point, in our view, angels were something spiritual, not something who has a body and has a feeling of sex.

But they had sex.

Our prehistoric ancestors could not understand, and they believe that these extraterrestrials are some kind of gods.

The conception of the Christ.

An angel comes to the holy mother, to the Virgin Mary, and tells her that she’s going to be blessed by God with a child.

And then, essentially, she finds herself pregnant.

There is an angelic reality point in the New Testament.

And whether it be at the birth of Jesus or his resurrection, we’ve got the possibility of other powers from another world being involved from the beginning to the end.

The more literal version is the idea that Jesus is strictly alien, which, of course, in a sense, he is as, uh You know, even if you take him as the son of God, then obviously, he is not of this earth.

I tend to believe that Jesus was a very spiritual human being who understood a lot of things that we’re beginning to learn today.

But it’s also very possible that he might have been an extraterrestrial who came down to teach us things.

That divine intelligence is very real in some form or fashion.

Tales of gods mating with humans are prevalent in everything from Greek and Roman mythology to Native American legends.

In China, at the end of the fifth century BC, the country was divided into seven states, each ruled by powerful warlords who battled for territory and power.

It was during this turbulent era when the legendary story of Huangdi first appeared.

A great god took the form of a dragon, came down to a hilltop where a young maiden was out gathering fruit.

And as this great dragon came near, the sky darkened.

It was like a storm.

She was terrified, and she passed out.

When she came awake again, uh, the sun had come out again, and the dragon was gone, and she was pregnant.

Much like the story of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, the story of Huangdi told of an earthling woman who would give birth to him– the legendary first emperor of China who ushered in a time of great change.

Gods deliberately bred with humans so that they could produce, they could get a race that they could trust and control a little bit better.

In my mind, legends and-and myths are based on something real– while they have been mythified and distorted and exaggerated, in many cases– but there is, in my mind, some core of truth here.

Another prevalent theme in ancient texts, myths, and religions is that of a cataclysm of some kind.

Usually, these come in the form of an intense flood, fire, or other devastating catastrophes.

In the Hebrew Bible, for example, God punishes mankind for their decadence and sinful ways.

He sends punishment in the form of a great flood which destroys nearly all living things on the planet, except for Noah, his family, and the animals rescued aboard his ark.

Similar stories can be found in numerous ancient texts.

Many of the mythical tales of most civilizations include some kind of idea that there are gods that came to Earth at some point.

One interpretation has been that these are literal descriptions of visitors from space.

Not gods, but some creatures of with advanced technology that came to Earth in times past, and either created mankind, brought culture to the Earth, brought civilization, and then, for some reason, departed, usually under some kind of breach between mankind and the gods.

Take the case of the once-thriving Mesoamerican cultures of the Aztecs and the Mayans.

By the year 1500 AD, they had all but vanished.

But why? Was there a natural disaster of some kind? Or is there another, more otherworldly explanation? At some point, it all crashed in a cataclysmic disaster.

And the world, as they knew it, came to an end. And tidal waves washed across continents. Areas of the planet went under later. And the megalithic building that was going on then, too, also completely stopped. And it’s what we see at certain areas.

Like in Peru, where giant blocks of granite have been quarried and partially moved to where they were going.

But then it all came to a sudden, complete halt.

For nearly 3,000 years, the Mayan civilization thrived in Central America.

Among their many accomplishments, the ancient Maya invented a remarkably complex and accurate calendar.

According to scholars, the calendar started on August 11, 3114 BC.

The first calendar cycle ends about 5,000 years later on December 21, 2012.

But why? Did the Mayans know something about mankind’s future– something we have forgotten or chosen to ignore? There’s a lot of excitement being generated now about the Mayan calendar ending in the year 2012, and if there is such a cataclysm or some massive Earth change that’s suddenly going to occur.

And so the idea that ancient people, like the Maya say, were somehow totally in tune with this and had knowledge of these kinds of vast cosmic cycles, which apparently led to cataclysmic changes on the Earth, that’s the kind of advanced knowledge that we wouldn’t expect them to have.

And where would they get that kind of knowledge? You would think that would have to come from extraterrestrials.

If we accept the notion that alien beings left behind the Mayan calendar as some type of ancient advanced warning device, might they have left other astronomical instruments here on Earth? And if so, why was it so important for ancient civilizations to track the stars? The stars.

Since the beginning of time, man has gazed in wonder at the night sky.

Stars became the stuff of legends, home of the gods and sometimes, man’s final resting place.

It is no surprise then that ancient man built monuments dedicated to these celestial wonders.

When we look at ancient monuments around the world– these Mesolithic structures– we find that many of them are aligned astronomically to the sun, to planets, to stars Numerous examples can be listed.

Stonehenge is essentially an ancient astronomical observatory.

Guess it may have been used for ritualistic purposes.

It may have been used for religious purposes.

But it’s very clear that it was also used for astronomical purposes, for observations.

We’re not surprised whether it’s Stonehenge, pyramids, or perhaps the Nazca Lines that ancient people understood events that were going to happen in the sky, and when they would repeat.

But why was the ancient man so fixated on the sky?

And why did they construct elaborate stone monuments and temples in order to track the movements of the stars?

Was it simply to help farmers know when to plant their crops?

Or might there have been another, perhaps more profound purpose? Could they, as some believe, have been constructed as a type of extraterrestrial GPS system?

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15-07-2018 om 00:49 geschreven door peter