UFO Cloaked In Cloud Caught In Santos City Philippines. July 10, 2018, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 10, 2018

Location of sighting: General Santos, Philippines 

 

This awesome UFO was hiding above a cloud during sunset and for a few minutes the cloaked craft was visible to the naked eye. Such beautiful colors and notice the round disk edge of the craft. This looks to be at least 500 meters across. 

Scott C. Waring

 

Eyewitness states: 

Unfortunately, I had only one phone at hand, the "good" HD Camera is currently defective. The colors were actually much more intense ...

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06-08-2018 om 20:00 geschreven door peter  

World's first floating nation begins selling its own 'Vayron' cryptocurrency ahead of 2022 launch in the Pacific Ocean

• The £37m ($50m) Floating Island Project is a pilot program in partnership with the government of Polynesia 
• The project, bankrolled by PayPal founder Peter Thiel, will see a floating nation built off the island of Tahiti
• The sea-bound city state will feature 300 homes as well as a handful of hotels, restaurants and offices 

By MARK PRIGG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM 

The world's first independent floating nation, which will launch in the Pacific Ocean in 2022, has begun selling the cryptocurrency people will need to use to buy property.

Backed by Peter Thiel, the plans will see the sea-bound city state, with 300 homes as well as a handful of hotels, restaurants, offices and more, built in the Pacific Ocean off the island of Tahiti.

Investors can now take part in a presale of Vayron, the cryptocurrency the Seasteading Institute, the organisation behind the plan, will use.

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The world's first independent floating nation that operates outside of government regulations using its own cryptocurrency is set to launch by 2022. The plans will see the sea-bound city state (artist's impression), with 300 homes as well as a handful of hotels, restaurants, offices and more, built in the Pacific Ocean off the island of Tahiti 

The scheme is the creation of the nonprofits Seasteading Institute and Blue Frontiers, which alongside Thiel's investment fund the project through philanthropic donations via tokens of their own cryptocurrency, Vayron.

The radical plans are expected to be completed by 2022 and cost as much as £37 million ($50 million).

'Varyon (VAR) is expected to be required to purchase seasteads, fractional ownership of seasteads and seastead residency from Blue Frontiers,' it said.

'The presale is available today for the first 4,000 ETH with bonuses from 5% to 15%. The public sale date is yet to be determined.'

Varyon says  a billion of the tokens will be issued, and says 'No more tokens can ever be created'

The funds raised from the crowdsale will be used to implement the radical plans, with proceeds from the token sale are expected to be divided among the following activities: Design & Engineering SeaZone Legal & Administration Community growth General Administration.

'We plan and expect that Varyon will be usable to purchase seasteads, fractional ownership of seasteads, seastead residency, and other products and services from Blue Frontiers,' organisers said.

'As an easily exchangeable token, Varyon will also be tradable and usable beyond just Blue Frontiers.'

Bankrolled by PayPal founder Peter Thiel, the £37 million ($50 million) project is a pilot program in partnership with the government of Polynesia and is championed by a movement of academics, philanthropists and investors.

Building work on this isolated 'utopia' will begin next year following the signing of an agreement with French Polynesia's government in 2017.  

Joe Quirk, president of the Institute, told Business Insider that his team's vision has evolved beyond its initial vision to include a focus on climate change.

The group now also sees the city as a way to live with rising sea levels, which are expected to increase more than six feet by the end of this century.

In an interview earlier this year, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, a political scientist and researcher for the Floating Island Project, says the island's residents will be free of 'fluctuating geopolitical influences and trade issues' and claimed the nation could one day house refugees displaced by climate change.

Speaking to CNBC, Ms Mezza-Garcia, a researcher at Warwick University, said: 'There is significance to this project being trialed in the Polynesian Islands. This is the region where land is resting on coral and will disappear with rising sea levels.

'Once we can see how this first island works, we will have a proof of concept to plan for islands to house climate refugees.'

The island's structures will feature 'green roofs' covered with vegetation and construction will use local bamboo, coconut fibre, wood and recycled metal and plastic.

Bankrolled by PayPal founder Peter Thiel, the £37 million ($50 million) project is a pilot program in partnership with the government of Polynesia and is championed by a movement of academics, philanthropists and investors 

It could see the creation of an independent nation that floats in international waters and operates within its own laws to 'liberate humanity from politicians', according to the Seasteading Institute.

A number of the island's dozen non-residential buildings are designed to function as business centres, allowing companies to work outside of government regulations.

'This means there is stability, outside of fluctuating geopolitical influences, trade issues and currency fluctuations - it's the perfect incubator,' Ms Mezza-Garcia said.

She added that the project is an exciting prospect for those disenchanted with the politicial sphere of today. 

The scheme is the creation of the nonprofit Seasteading Institute, which hopes to 'liberate humanity from politicians'. This image shows how the artificial island will blend in with nature

Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, a political scientist and researcher for the Floating Island Project, says the island's residents will be free of 'fluctuating geopolitical influences and trade issues'. The island has been designed to take into account swell, the wind, sunlight and even the position of the stars

'If you don't want to live under a particular government, 'people will be able to just take their house and float away to another island,' Ms Mezza-Garcia said.

The Seasteading Institute, co-founded by Paypal founder Peter Thiel, has spent the past five years creating designs for 'permanent, innovative communities floating at sea', joining up with Blue Frontiers - a new startup that specialises in building floating islands - last year.

Blue Froniters released concept images of the French Polynesia project in December 2017.

The scheme is the creation of the nonprofits Seasteading Institute and Blue Froniters, which fund the project through philanthropic donations via tokens of their own cryptocurrency, dubbed Varyon. This artist's impression shows how dwellings on the island might look

Hills and mountains, the shape of reefs and other underwater landmarks, as well as the rising and setting of the sun, moon and stars are reflected in the design. This image shows how the floating island will look from the shore of nearby Tahiti 

The world's first floating city is set to appear in the Pacific Ocean off the island of Tahiti

In a written statement, a spokesman for the Seasteading Institute said: 'During several visits to French Polynesia and after getting acquainted with the environment and the local contexts, one thing was sure, the project has to blend into its environment.

'To achieve this, local environmental characteristics, climate, ecology and cultural context have all been studied and play a major role in the process.

'The project, however, doesn't only want to not hurt the existing environment, the vision of the Blue Frontiers [is to] facilitate the development of more conscious and balanced settlements at sea where humans can peacefully coexist with the environment and with each other.'

The overall shape of the construction reflected the pattern of a fish hook, an ancestral tool that symbolises the actions of the demigod Maui.

The radical plans, bankrolled by PayPal founder Peter Thiel, could see the creation of an independent 'start-up country' that will float in international waters and operate within its own laws 

Hills and mountains, the shape of reefs and other underwater landmarks, as well as the rising and setting of the sun, moon and stars were reflected in the design.

Small platforms with villas would be aligned to the path of the stars of the Sirius, or Rua faupapa, star system, according to the plans.

Larger platforms with mixed-use buildings aligned to the celestial pillar Pou, starting from the main platform, the 'star headlight' or Ta'urua, and ending by the guide star Avei'a, passing through the zenith of the floating island. 

Other elements of navigation were taken into account in the urban planning. 

French Polynesia, a collection of 118 islands in the southern Pacific, is interested in the project as the area is at risk from rising sea levels

Draft legislation will be drawn up this year and construction is expected to begin in 2019. Floating islands would feature aquaculture farms, healthcare, medical research facilities, and sustainable energy powerhouses

The larger platforms would be oriented according to the prevailing wind direction, in order to create calmer wave conditions behind them.

The project aims to include Polynesian culture in the design and detailing of buildings and other structures. 

Local construction techniques and materials would be blended with modern technologies to fulfil contemporary needs while preserving continuity with tradition.

Speaking in November, Joe Quirk, president of the Seasteading Institute, said he wanted to see 'thousands' of rogue floating cities by 2050, each of them 'offering different ways of governance'.

The first city would be built on a network of 11 rectangular and five-sided platforms so the city could be rearranged according to its inhabitants' needs like a floating jigsaw, Joe Quirk, spokesman for the project explained last year

A feasibility report by Dutch engineering firm Deltasync in January 2017 said the square and pentagon platforms would measure 164ft (50metres) in length and they would have 164 ft-tall (50 metre) sides to protect buildings and residents

'Governments just don't get better,' Mr Quirk told the New York Times.

'They're stuck in previous centuries. That's because land incentives a violent monopoly to control it.'   

First revealed in January, the plans have been approved by the French Polynesian government, which is now creating a special economic zone so the floating nation can operate under its own trade laws.

The tiny nation, a collection of 118 islands in the southern Pacific with a population just over 200,000, has granted the Seasteading Institute 100 acres of beachfront to operate from.

French Polynesia is interested in the project as the area is at risk from rising sea levels. 

The feasibility report supported the idea that the project is economically feasible, with each platform costing less than $15 million (£10 million) which works out at a similar price as land in London or New York

Read more:

• Floating City Project - The Seasteading Institute
• Floating Cities, No Longer Science Fiction, Begin to Take Shape - The New York Times
• www.cnbc.coQ/201...
• Floating island is planned with government, cryptocurrency and houses
• Designs for the floating city planned by the Seasteading Institute - Business Inside

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06-08-2018 om 01:01 geschreven door peter  

Are you tired of the same old scenery? Do you look up at the sky and think, “Man I’m tired of all this blue!” ? Has your wanderlust exhausted Earth’s options? Or maybe you’re feeling a little Farnsworth and you just don’t want to live on this planet anymore?

https://youtu.be/nXgMo4iy8QI

10 Recently Discovered EARTH LIKE PLANETS

Well if any of those situations sound like you, then this list is worth checking out. So grab your space suit, fuel up the shuttle, and strap in for an intergalactic tour of the best exoplanets that humanity has discovered so far.

#10: TrES-2b — The Dracula Planet

Our first stop is the pitch black planet TrES-2b. This gas giant’s atmosphere is less reflective than coal, but as hot as the hottest Earth-born lava. These two odd properties give the planet an eerie red glow, so if you’re a fan of horror stories and Lovecraftian lore, then this might be the perfect stop for you.

Pros: It’s the perfect setting for any of your spooky Halloween parties or vampire cult get-togethers.
Cons: While the red glow may deliver the spooky vibe you’re after, it will also reduce your party to ash as soon as you arrive.

#9: Kepler-36c/b — That’s no moon!

Second on this journey are the two planets Kepler-36 C and B. These celestial bodies pass by each other at a distance that’s roughly four times the distance between Earth and the Moon — thereby providing a remarkable view of either planet from the other’s surface.

Pros: A beautiful view of either planet as they pass each other like ships in the night.
Cons: This view will likely be your last, as neither planet is anywhere near hospitable.

#8: OGLE-2005-BLG-390 — Love the snow? This one is nicknamed ‘Hoth’

Are you a fan of the snow, always looking for the freshest slope? Then OGLE-2005-BLG-390, nicknamed ‘Hoth’, is the exoplanet for you! At negative 220 degrees Celsius, this planet is in a perpetual deep freeze — presumably creating endless slopes for you to carve up.

Pros: It’s an entire planet of slopes for you and your crew to cruise down on your space skis.
Cons: On the other hand, the lack of atmosphere an precipitation means it’s likely solid ice — just like you’d be shortly after arrival.

#7: PSR B1257+12 system — A light show to die for

The Aurora Borealis is one of Earth’s greatest sights, but it’s a firefly in the night compared to the light shows caused by PSR B1257+12. This pulsar is the remnants of a star gone supernova, which constantly whips the planets around it with tendrils of radiation — causing planet-wide lights in the sky.

Pros: This place boasts the most impressive auroras you’ll ever see.
Cons: Your DNA would immediately be scrambled and fried by the astronomical levels of radiation.

#6: 55 Cancri e — An intergalactic prospector’s dream

Are you a more adventurous type, lusting for the days of old when you could make your fortune on the frontier? Then get your gear together and head to 55 Cancri e, a planet whose composition is largely carbon. This makeup results in the planet being almost entirely made of precious metals, both inside and out.

Pros: The potential to become a space mining tycoon with zillions of blemflarcks (or whatever currency we use in the future)
Cons: All those precious metals are hot as hell and currently in liquid form, so good luck with that!

#5: Kepler-16b — Where your shadow will never be lonely

Kepler-16b itself is not especially interesting, but what it’s orbiting definitely is. This exoplanet orbits two stars. That’s right folks, not one, but TWO stars. Look forward to never before seen sunsets and sunrises, and a pal for your shadow.

Pros: A one in a million sky. Woo any potential partner with a romantic picnic beneath a double sunset.
Cons: Unfortunately the planet itself is VERY cold, even with two stars. Let’s just say you’re going to need a LOT of picnic blankets.

#4: Wasp 12 b — A crumbling planet being eaten by its sun

For those of you looking for a bit more of an extreme sightseeing experience, Wasp 12 b is everything you could ask for. This planet is slowly being “eaten” by its star, and the side facing the star is crumbling and forming a ring of debris along its orbit. If you’re into those high budget scenes in apocalypse movies, you’re going to LOVE this.

Pros: Probably the most metal thing you will ever see in your life.
Cons: This should be obvious, but if the planet is dissolving, you’re not going to do too well yourself.

#3: Kepler-452b — Earth’s bigger, older cousin

So death defying sights and experiences aren’t your thing, and you’re looking for a new place or a summer home? Welcome to Kepler-452b: Earth’s bigger, older cousin. With a 385 day orbit, a rocky exterior, and 60% more mass than Earth; it’s a new frontier that’s both vast and vaguely familiar.

Pros: Finding your own special place won’t be hard with all this space, and the years are just about the same length as Earth’s.
Cons: Aside from that, the place is pretty boring. As far as we know, it’s the only planet orbiting this star, and has no moons. It’s also 1400 light years away, so say goodbye to your fam here on Earth.

#2: Proxima B — Only a hop, skip, and four light years away

Unlike our last home away from home, Proxima B orbits Proxima Centauri: the closest star to our Sun, which sits just a few short light years away. With a rocky red exterior like our neighbor Mars and a member of the infamous Alpha Centauri system, this could be your summer getaway to your own red skied paradise.

Pros: It’s only four light years away, making it the best candidate for potential colonization. There’s also a red landscape that gives it that homey Mars feel, and multiple nearby stars in the sky,.
Cons: Unfortunately, signs for this planet being habitable are slim. Its star is old and radioactive, and its orbit takes only 11 days. Not to mention that it is likely tidally locked like our moon. Bummer.

#1: Trappist-1 System — A fistfull of Earths

Welcome to the Trappist-1 system, seven tightly bundled planets orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star, and are all suspected to harbor rocky surfaces. Due to the nature of this system’s sun, it’s possible that the majority of these planets harbor liquid water as well — making this system a treasure trove of habitable planets.

If that isn’t enough to wet your whistle, these planets are also VERY close to each other. Close enough that while standing on any of them, other planets would be near enough that you could see clouds and large geological features with your naked eyes.

As most of these planets are potentially habitable, you’d get your pick of the litter when it comes time to settle down and build a colony. For these reasons, the Trappist-1 system comes thundering into first place on our list of Top Ten Exoplanets.

Pros: Multiple planets to settle, liquid water, non gaseous planets, and close interplanetary proximity. It also has a really neat sky, and isn’t near anything that’s going to kill you — like a black hole or a radiation-spewing pulsar.

Cons: Two big things: this system is 39 light years away, and it’s suspected that all of these planets are tidally locked due to their proximity to their star — meaning the weather on each planet would be wildly unlike Earth’s.

Editors' Recommendations

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06-08-2018 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

A Radar Blip, a Flash of Light: How U.F.O.s ‘Exploded’ Into Public View

By Laura M. Holson

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05-08-2018 om 23:13 geschreven door peter  

Deze astronauten vliegen voor het eerst naar de ruimte met privéraket - HLN.be

Bron: belga

Sinds het einde van het spaceshuttleprogramma in 2011 heeft de NASA geen astronauten meer de ruimte ingestuurd vanop Amerikaanse bodem. De Amerikaanse organisatie werkte de voorbije jaren samen met Rusland voor haar ruimtereizen. 

NASA-directeur Jim Bridenstine zegt dat de aankondiging hopelijk een nieuw tijdperk inluidt voor het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartprogramma. 

Lees ook

“De maan werd waarschijnlijk ooit bewoond door aliens”

Boeing en SpaceX

Het nieuwe team, zeven mannen en twee vrouwen, zou volgend jaar al de ruimte ingestuurd worden. Daarvoor wordt gebruikgemaakt van raketten van twee privébedrijven, Boeing en SpaceX. De NASA laat weten dat de eerste testvlucht met de nieuwe bemanning in april zal plaatsvinden met een SpaceX-Dragoncapsule.

Voor die testvlucht zijn twee astronauten geselecteerd: Michael Hopkins en Victor Glover. Hopkins heeft al 166 dagen doorgebracht aan boord van het ISS, maar voor Glover is het de eerste ruimtereis.4

NASA names crews for first Boeing, SpaceX launches to space station

Astronauts picked for SpaceX, Boeing capsule test flights

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05-08-2018 om 22:50 geschreven door peter  

UFO-shaped cloud appears over tower block – people in FRENZY

BIZARRE footage of a flying saucer-shaped cloud has appeared, sparking speculation of alien life.

By Warren Muggleton 

In the footage, a circular cloud can be seen over a tower block. 

"This is the end, isn’t it,” they said.

But meteorologists put these claims to bed very quickly. 

The UFO cloud is believed to have been an unusually-shaped cumulus, a fluffy low level cloud.

Some observers speculated that it might have been a lenticular cloud. 

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05-08-2018 om 22:32 geschreven door peter  

05-08-2018 om 22:15 geschreven door peter  

WAT IS DIT VREEMD WEZEN LANGS DE KANR VAN DE WEG? ( VIDEO )

Een Canadees gezin rijdt langs de weg en stopt om een grazende eland in de berm te filmen. 

Terwijl ze dit doen, komt er plotsklaps een vreemd wezen tevoorschijn uit de begroeiing langs de kant van de weg. 

Enkele dagen geleden rijdt de Franstalige Canadees Audrée Tanguay Fréchette samen met zijn gezin in de buurt van de plaats Gaspésie in Quebec. 

Ze zien vanuit hun auto opeens een eland langs de kant van de weg en stoppen om deze te filmen, wanneer er plotseling iets tevoorschijn komt uit de begroeiing langs de kant van de weg. 

Het ziet er als volgt uit:

Volgens sommigen hebben we hier te maken met wat men een alien creature pleegt te noemen. Een voor ons mensen onbekend iets dat grote overeenkomsten vertoont met eerder waargenomen wezens.

De maker van de video heeft naar eigen zeggen geen flauw idee wat het is en vraagt het publiek om hulp bij het oplossen van het raadsel. 

Hier is de door hem gemaakte videoclip. 


Omdat de video vrij kort is en het allemaal nogal snel gaat, hierbij een tweede video over hetzelfde met daarin de nodige slow motion opnamen. 

 

Niet iedereen die bovenstaande opnames heeft gezien is er van overtuigd dat het een alien is. 

Er zijn een aantal mensen die suggereren dat het een vuiltje is op het raam van de auto. Daarentegen lijkt het wezen in het begin van de video heel snel te bewegen. 

Iemand anders merkt op dat het niet echt kan zijn, omdat de eland niet schrikt en gewoon door blijft grazen. 

Het is in ieder geval dermate interessant dat de Engelse krant Daily Mirror dit wil publiceren. 

Hello, I work for the Mirror Online and I was wondering if we could use this video in our player, please? 

Echt? of een vuiltje of reflectie?

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05-08-2018 om 21:56 geschreven door peter  

One of the formative experiences of my childhood which I credit with launching my interest in aerial phenomena and astronomy was the 1997 visit of comet Hale-Bopp. For a few magical weeks, my father would walk me to the end of our street each night where we had a perfect view of the eerie fireball hanging in the night sky. I credit that comet (along with a healthy dose of pop culture) with instilling in the much younger me a sense of wonder about the universe and what might lie unseen just at the edges of our knowledge.

The Hale-Bopp Comet.

For others, the comet represented something else entirely. For a few dozen seekers in California, the arrival of the comet was seen as the coming of a spacecraft meant to take their souls to a new life on some non-terrestrial plane. The only hitch was they would have to commit suicide in order to board this “spacecraft.” Between March 24 and 26, 1997, thirty-nine members of the Heaven’s Gate cult led by Marshall Applewhite asphyxiated themselves with the aid of Phenobarbital-laced applesauce and vodka, believing their souls would then travel to the Hale-Bopp comet/spacecraft en route to a new level of existence. All were found with a five-dollar bill and three quarters in their pockets and were wearing identical black sweat suits and brand new black-and-white Nike Decades.

Not exactly the kind of press Nike looks for. But hey – no press is bad press. But maybe this was bad press.

Whether or not the cultists reached their cult-y space nirvana aboard the comet is anyone’s guess (spoiler alert: they didn’t). Two of the Heaven’s Gate members survived though, choosing not to participate in the suicide pact for unknown reasons. Today, the strange and unfortunate story of Heaven’s Gate has become a recurring topic in pop culture.

Which is why Heaven’s Gate is suddenly back in the news. The two anonymous surviving members of the suicidal UFO cult are currently threatening legal action against trap rap artist Lil Uzi Vert. Lil Uzi Vert (real name Symere Woods) recently released artwork on Instagram for his upcoming album Eternal Atake, featuring a design quite reminiscent of Heaven’s Gate’s keyhole-in-space logo. In response, the two surviving Heaven’s Gate members issued the following statement:

He is using and adapting our copyrights and trademarks without our permission and the infringement will be taken up with our attorneys. This is not fair use or parody, it it a direct and clear infringement.

It turns out Lil Uzi Vert has even changed his Instagram username to “Marshall Applewhite” in the past. Is this merely a case of pop culture appropriation done in poor taste, or has Lil Uzi Vert bought one too many pairs of black-and-white Nike Decades? The courts will decide.

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05-08-2018 om 21:40 geschreven door peter  

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s reputation as the number-one resting place for alien entities with distinctly bad flying skills is legendary in UFO research circles. Insiders and whistle-blowers talk about off-limits hangars and the The Blue Room. Supposedly, they are rooms, buildings, and underground bunkers that are home to the carefully-preserved remains of numerous dead extraterrestrials – if one has the correct, high-level security. If the stories are true, of course.

It turns out that, for years, Puerto Rico allegedly had its very own equivalent: the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station. But it wasn’t alien bodies that were cryogenically housed at Roosevelt Roads. Nope: it was a bunch of dead chupacabras. There just might even have been a couple of living ones there, too. So, at least, I was told on several of my excursions to Puerto Rico, between 2004 and 2015. I was not surprised to find that sifting fact from fiction, and legend from rumor, proved to be a very difficult job when it came to trying to unravel the controversial truth about Roosevelt Roads’ chupacabra stash.

The origins of Roosevelt Roads date back to just one year after the end of the First World War. It was 1919 when the then Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy visited Puerto Rico. That man was none other than a future American president: Franklin D. Roosevelt. The visit was no vacation, however. Roosevelt was there on a secret mission. He was focused on finding a suitable location where a military facility could be constructed, one that could act as a strategic outpost for Uncle Sam in the Caribbean. Roosevelt toured the island, finally pinpointing a northeast town called Ceiba, which was founded back in the 1830s, and that, today, has a population of around 13,000.

At the time, while the creation of such a base – with an airfield – could have been beneficial, it was not perceived as absolutely crucial. Things changed dramatically, however, when crazed, evil nutcase Adolf Hitler came to power in 1930s-era Germany. The world was soon to face complete and utter carnage, the likes of which it had never before seen, or since. Steps had to be taken to combat the Nazi threat. One of those steps was the creation of Roosevelt Roads, which began in 1940, one year before the terrible events at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii occurred. Roosevelt Roads ultimately became the biggest U.S. Navy base on the planet and the headquarters of the U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command (NAVSO). It remained so for decades.

On our visit to Puerto Rico in July 2004 with a crew from the SyFy Channel, monster-hunter Jon Downes and I heard a story of a UFO crash in the hills of Canovanas in 1957, one which reportedly, and quickly, led to gross mutations in the local populace. On his first trek around the island, back in 1998, Jon himself was given a number of independent accounts of this 1957 event. One of Jon’s sources was a man named Reuben, a Puerto Rican brought up in New York, but who returned to the island as an adult. Arguably, Reuben was Jon’s most significant source, since he personally took Jon and a team from the U.K.’s Channel 4 TV crew to the very spot in Canovanas where, he claimed, the craft from another world slammed into the ground, back in 1957.

Jon told me that they came to a big clearing where the path became narrow, and, on one side, disappeared altogether, into a huge saucer-shaped arena. This, according to what Reuben had to say, at least, was where the UFO had crashed. Admittedly, there was a huge indent in the side of the mountain, said Jon. No trees grew there, and it did look as if some huge object had crashed into the mountain, scooping out trees and vegetation and leaving a bare area intermittently covered with patchy grass. Returning to 2004…

While on Puerto Rico, Jon and I met with a woman named Norka, a Chupacabra witness and someone who had heard of this 1957 tale, too. This was not surprising, given that it’s hardly an unknown case among the people of Puerto Rico. Norka told us that most people identified the location as a steep hillside in Canovanas, one that military forces quickly sealed off, for a period of around three weeks. Time constraints unfortunately prevented us from taking Norka to the location identified by Reuben back in 1998, but Norka’s description of the place strongly suggested they were one and the same. There was something else too: most of those that had commented on the incident – specifically when I returned to Puerto Rico in 2008 – said that when the UFO was accessed by the military they found within it the dead bodies of a number of unearthly creatures: Chupacabras.

I had to remember that although the crash report had been around for decades, the Chupacabra aspect of the story surfaced specifically post-1995, when the Chupacabra phenomenon began in earnest. The Chupacabra link to the 1957 crash was fascinating, but it would have been even more fascinating had it surfaced prior to the 1995 outbreak. That it specifically didn’t, kept me very mindful of the possibility (maybe even the probability) that this was an elaboration, a new twist, on an old tale.

There is also a story of a UFO crashing in the heart of El Yunque in February 1984. I know that, because the basics of the account have reached me on three occasions over more than the past decade. It was early one morning when a large, circular-shaped object slammed into the ground, immediately after flying over the rain forest in a decidedly erratic fashion. To prevent people from learning the truth of the matter, a diversionary tactic was put into place that the UFO was a meteorite. Military personnel were soon on the scene – in part, to scoop up the pummeled body-parts of a couple of dead chupacabras, whose lives came to sudden and bloody ends when the alien craft hurtled violently into the forest at high speed. That’s how the story goes, anyway.

To this day, I don’t really know what to make of all this. Some of the people I spoke with came across as completely truthful and credible. Others admitted that their stories were not just second-hand, but third- and even fourth-hand, which is definitely not a good thing. I still find the stories interesting, but it will take a hell of a lot more to convince me that there are dead Chupacabras secretly hidden somewhere on Puerto Rico. Or deep below it…

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05-08-2018 om 21:34 geschreven door peter  

NASA Announces First Astronaut Crews to Fly on Boeing and SpaceX Spaceships

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05-08-2018 om 01:37 geschreven door peter  

Un habitant de Tamarac filme plusieurs OVNI lumineux

Le mardi 31 juillet 2018, dans la mâtinée, un témoin s’est réveillé et a vu un objet non identifié planer dans le ciel pendant plus de 45 minutes dans son quartier de Tamarac, une ville de l’État de Floride.

Miguel Rodriguez, qui vit dans le village de Vanguard, a vu cette lumière apparaître dans le sud-est vers 5h35 du matin. Il a rapidement décidé de commencer à la filmer entre 5h50 et 6h00 du matin. La lumière est restée dans le ciel et 30 minutes plus tard sa femme lui a envoyé une vidéo de cet OVNI qui planait toujours au même endroit.

« Il y a avait des orbes rouges et oranges qui tournaient autour de cet objet volant. Celles-ci semblaient être indépendantes de l’objet lui-même. De plus, il y avait un autre objet moins visible au-dessus », a déclaré Rodriguez.

Il a dit que l’activité entre Tamarac et Coral Springs a été étrange ces dernières années et ce n’était pas la première fois qu’il observait une telle activité surnaturelle.

Il possède une vidéo prise il y a quelques années quand il vivait à Coral Springs. Ces images montraient des orbes rouges / oranges volant à très grande vitesse dans le ciel. Toute sa famille avait été témoin de ce phénomène inexpliqué.

Rodriguez aimerait maintenant savoir si d’autres personnes ont vu cet objet ou possèdent de meilleures images.

Il conclut :

« Je crois que c’est un OVNI. J’en suis vraiment persuadé. Il n’y a pas d’autre explication. »

Source: TamaracTalk, le 1er août 2018

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05-08-2018 om 01:09 geschreven door peter  

Lorraine Marlisa, 

Business Insider Nederland

 Universal

• Data from US-based NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) shows UFO reports have been in decline since 2014.
• Alex Griffioen of the Netherlands' UFO Disclosure Office said fewer UFO sightings may be due to people attributing them to drones.
• But Head of the National UFO Reporting Center Peter Davenport suggested reports could be being intercepted too.

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Reports of UFO sightings has been in massive decline for the past few years. According to data from US-based NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) the slump started in 2014, after years of increased sightings.

Since the 1990s, the overall number of UFO observations steadily increased, reaching a peak of 8,670 reports in 2014. After that, it all went quickly downhill, as this infographic from Statista.com shows.

Statista / National UFO Reporting Centre

NUFORC didn't have a website in the 1990s, so it makes sense that there were fewer reports received at that time, but since 2014, the number of observations at NUFORC fell to 5,500 in 2016. This figure fell again to 4,500 in 2017, and — while 2018 isn't over yet — it now stands at 1,329 reports .

Although this is still considerably more than any figure recorded in the 90s, it must be stressed that that period was pre-internet, so reports weren't yet being received via the website. This only makes the decline after 2014 all the more striking.

It's true that such incidents are more commonplace than in the 90s, but why the number has fallen so sharply after 2014 remains a mystery. Have extraterrestrial beings lost interest in us? Are we not looking carefully enough? Or is there a better explanation?

It's largely a case of guesswork but there are possible theories

"The significant decrease in the number of reports has baffled everyone investigating within the UFO field," founder and director of NUFORC Peter Davenport said to Business Insider. He's previously discussed the decline with members of the Mutual UFO Network. "They see the same trend and they're all confused by it."

According to him, there are many possible explanations. "It could just be that there are fewer and fewer incidents, but it's also possible that reports to UFO organisations are being intercepted electronically. Who would do something like that is a mystery, but if it's happening, my first suspicion would be government organisations. It's quite risky for a government to do that, but you can't rule it out, I think."

Reports of UFOs peak in 2012 due to the end of Mayan calendar

According to Alex Griffioen, one of the founders of the UFO Disclosure Office in the Netherlands, it's difficult to draw a conclusion from the NUFORC figures.

"That's just one source. A decrease in the number of reports doesn't actually equate to a drop in the number of UFO sightings. It may also mean the NUFORC website has become more difficult to find or perhaps less useful," suggested Griffioen.

The quantity of reports in the Netherlands doesn't seem to have dropped in the same way, according to Griffioen, who says the number of observations at the UFO Disclosure Office in the Netherlands peaked in 2012.

"In 2012, of course, we had the upcoming apocalypse as the end of the Mayan calendar approached," laughed Griffioen.

"The peak in our statistics around 2012 is also possibly due to certain sections of the public — who were anticipating some form of alien apocalypse — being overly alert to extraterrestrial encounters," he said.

Drones could be a likely culprit for the decrease

If the number of observations has decreased worldwide, there could be two main reasons for this according to Griffioen: "Drones are becoming cheaper and more popular, and are taking on stranger and stranger shapes every day. This applies to both military UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), professional drones for video as well as for recreational drones."

"We hear and read that they can do more and more, so people now respond to seeing strange moving lights with: 'it'll be a drone'."

Laws around commercial drones in the US have relaxed

In 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began allowing companies to send drones into the air, provided they comply with certain guidelines. Amazon, for example, started delivering via drones and CNN began using UAVs to film from the air. Until 2015, this was prohibited, unless you'd received a special exemption to carry out such flights.

In December 2015, the FAA also stipulated that drones weighing over 250 grams had to be registered with the organisation, in anticipation of the holidays when it was estimated that 700,000 drones would be purchased.

According to the Consumer Technology Association, more than 2.4 million drones were sold in the US alone in 2016, more than double the figure for 2015.

Fighter jets can sometimes look strange in the sky

The chance of encountering a drone has grown considerably, which could account for people identifying what previously would have been considered a UFO as a drone.

But in fact, there's a whole plethora of things that could be mistaken for extraterrestrial objects in the night sky, ranging from fighter jets and natural phenomena like lenticular clouds, to dirt on camera lenses and unusually-shaped kites.

Still sure you've definitely seen a UFO? For extraterrestrial visits wherever you are, you can always contact NUFORC or MUFON to log a report.

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05-08-2018 om 01:02 geschreven door peter  

New Radio Telescope Just Detected A Mysterious Signal From Space

Newly built radio telescope finds a mysterious signal coming from space.

An observatory located in Canada may have already found clues to a new astronomy mystery. The new radio telescope has already picked up mysterious signals from deep space, which are known as "Fast Radio Bursts", or FRBs.

First FRB Below 700MHZ Frequency

The radio telescope, named Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) located in British Columbia, has detected the first ever FRB at a frequency below 700MHZ. The signal was located on July 25th and is named FRB 180725A.

FRB's are milliseconds-long bursts of radio signals that come from somewhere unknown in the universe. They are one of the newer cosmic discoveries, and mysteries, first being detected only a decade ago. There are some possible explanations that have been thought up already which include, bursts from magnetars, exploding black and holes and of course, advanced alien civilizations.

Not From Earth

CHIME has only been operational for less than a year, and it is designed to gather data on FRBs and other anomalies. The discovery of FRB 180725A is very preliminary. "Astronomer's Telegram" announced the discovery, attempting to encourage other astronomers to search for FRBS at all wavelengths. This announcement also states that other FRBs have been found in the last week, at frequencies even lower (400MHZ and lower) and it seems that they are not coming from Earth.

To this day, only one FRB has been found to be repeating. Known as FRB 121102, it was first discovered in 2012 and was found to repeat again in 2015. It has been traced to a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light-years away. Researches say that whatever is emitting the signal across the universe must be immensely powerful. Could it be alien life?

Maybe a lost ancient civilization that left something turned on. Whatever it is, we may not know for a while. FRB research is still fairly new to astronomers, but hopefully, astronomers across the globe can work together to try and solve these mysterious signals.

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05-08-2018 om 00:35 geschreven door peter  

Monstrous rogue planet spotted lurking outside our solar system

A unique and strange rouge planet has been just discovered outside of our solar system.

According to The Astrophysical Journal, this loner planet has an astounding and powerful magnetic field that is over four million times that of Earth. Additionally, the planet creates visually stunning auroras like nothing we have ever seen.

A planet with amazing magnetism and very close to Earth discovered by astronomers

This planet, known as SIMP, was first discovered two years ago. Initially, SIMP was categorized as a brown dwarf. However, recent findings suggest that SIMP is just small enough to be considered a planet.

SIMP is very hot when compared to other planets, with a surface temperature of over 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. This is double the heat of any planet in our solar system.

The most impressive aspect of SIMP is a magnetic field that is millions of times stronger than Earth

This magnetic field contributes to the creation of stunning light shows on SIMP. However, the auroras are generated differently than on Earth.

Jupiter produced amazing auroras as well, which occurs because electrically charged particles accelerate along the magnetic fields of the planet before crashing into atoms in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter at roughly 3,000 miles per second. A similar process occurs on Earth, which we label the northern and southern lights. The process is different from Jupiter’s in that the charged particles that create the auroras on Earth come from the Sun in the form of solar wind.

Researchers believe that the creation of auroras on SIMP is more similar to that of Jupiter’s. This indicates that SIMP may have a moon.

Astronomers are excited about the discovery of SIMP, which is located just twenty light-years from the Sun because the study of the incredible magnetic force of SIMP can provide new insights regarding how magnetic fields are created in exoplanets.

The finding of SIMP also indicates new ways of discovering exoplanets, including rogue planets such as SIMP that has not been detectable in the past.

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05-08-2018 om 00:28 geschreven door peter  

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05-08-2018 om 00:15 geschreven door peter  

THE NEW YORK TIMES

A headline in The New York Times from July 1952 regarding several UFO sightings in Washington. Sightings of the whatever-they-were garnered headlines around the world and caused so much concern that the government was forced to speak out.

By Laura M. Holson, New York Times News Service

In the early morning of July 20, 1952, Capt. S.C. “Casey” Pierman was ready for takeoff at Washington National Airport when a bright light skimmed the horizon and disappeared. He did not think much of it until he was airborne, bound for Detroit, and an air traffic controller told him two or three unidentified flying objects were spotted on radar traveling at high speed.

The controller told Pierman to follow them, the pilot told government investigators at the time. Pierman agreed, and headed northwest over West Virginia where he saw as many as seven bluish-white lights that looked “like falling stars without tails,” according to a newspaper report.

The sighting of whatever-they-were garnered headlines around the world. And in the decades since, UFOs have become part of the pop culture zeitgeist, from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” to “The X-Files.” In September, a star of that long-running series, Gillian Anderson, will appear in “UFO,” a movie about a college student haunted by sightings of flying saucers. A “Men in Black” remake is in the works. And the History Channel plans to air “Project Blue Book,” a scripted series about the government program that studied whether UFOs were a national threat.

And the topic is back in the headlines. Last year, The New York Times wrote about a little known project founded in 2007, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, to investigate UFO sightings. A search of The Times’ historical archives reveals a rich bounty of UFO sightings, lore and explanations since the 1950s. And who can forget in 2016 when Hillary Clinton said she would reopen the real X-files if she were president?

Pierman’s 68-year-old daughter, Faith McClory, said in an interview last month that her father became something of a celebrity as reports like his in the summer of 1952 fueled fear of a space alien invasion.

“My sister has memories of men coming to our home,” said McClory, who grew up in Belleville, Michigan. (She said they were reporters.) “People were enthralled with the flying saucers,” she added.

Researchers say government officials have sought to publicly debunk the existence of alien evidence ever since the Washington sightings.

“Unidentified flying objects exploded into the public consciousness then,” said Mark Rodeghier, scientific director for the Center for UFO Studies, a group of scientists and researchers who study the UFO phenomenon. “There was concern in a way you hadn’t seen before.”

It should be noted that the term UFO, as used by the government, does not mean extraterrestrials from outer space. It means any object in the sky that has not been identified. When asked recently about the 1952 Washington sightings, Ann Stefanek, chief of media operations for the Air Force, wrote in an email that the objects had posed no threat to national security.

In the spring of 1952, though, numerous mysterious sightings had captured the Air Force’s attention. It created “Project Blue Book” that March — the third investigative government project of its kind and the one that lasted the longest, until 1969.

The Washington sightings centered on events that started around 11:40 p.m. July 19, as air traffic controllers at Washington National Airport noticed blips speeding near Andrews Air Force Base, according to government accounts. The unidentified aircrafts fanned out, flying over the White House and the U.S. Capitol. Pierman saw them that night. They vanished around 5 a.m.

It was a second sighting a week later, though, that caused the wave of hysteria that forced the government to speak out. Albert Chop, then a spokesman with the Pentagon who was given the job of answering questions about UFOs, said he was awakened by a call on the evening of July 26.

Chop described the events in a 1999 oral history to the Sign Historical Group, an association of archivists and amateur researchers who held a workshop that year to study UFO history. He said the new objects were spotted on radar at Washington National Airport and he was told to get there right away.

The Air Force dispatched jet fighters from New Castle, Delaware, to intercept the flying objects. But every time one of the jets closed in, they disappeared. When the jets backed off, they reappeared.

“It was frightening,” Chop said. “I think everybody in the room was very apprehensive.”

At one point, a pilot found himself in the midst of four unidentified aircrafts and asked what to do. “I didn’t say anything,” Chop told the interviewers. “Nobody said anything. All of a sudden these things began to move away from him and he said, ‘They’re gone!’” The pilot returned to his base.

“These things hung around all night long,” Chop added.

The next day, almost every major newspaper wrote about the UFOs. “‘Objects’ Outstrip Jets Over Capital,” was the headline in The Times.

Worse, no one could explain the phenomenon to President Harry Truman, according to press reports. One theory promoted by the Air Force was that a layer of hot air in the sky, called a temperature inversion, caused radar to mistake a weather event for flying objects. “Nobody had any answers,” Chop told the interviewers. “That’s why General Samford had the press conference.”

On July 29, 1952, Maj. Gen. John Samford, director of Air Force intelligence overseeing the inquiry, held a news conference at the Pentagon to reassure the public. He dismissed the Washington sightings as a temperature anomaly. Still, the general conceded that not all the details could be explained by natural causes. Witness reports “have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things,” he said at the time. “It is this group of observations that we now are attempting to resolve.”

The news conference was front page news, including in The Times, which ran the headline “Air Force Debunks ‘Saucers’ as Just ‘Natural Phenomena.’”

Case closed? Not quite.

“I don’t think temperature inversion had much to do with it, but the news media accepted that explanation at the time,” said Kevin Randle, a former lieutenant colonel in the Army who has studied the events of July 1952 and is the author of the 2001 book, “Invasion Washington: UFOs Over the Capitol.”

In January 1953, spurred by the Washington sightings, a scientific committee led by Howard Robertson, a well-known mathematician and physicist, was formed by the government to explore the phenomenon. “One of the conclusions was that they needed to debunk UFOs,” Randle said.

The committee, called the Robertson Panel, suggested in its report that the government conduct a mass media education campaign to “reduce the current gullibility of the public and consequently their susceptibility to clever hostile propaganda.”

The campaign to re-educate Americans did not work — UFOs have persisted as a fixture in pop culture. Besides, the government’s explanation was not that convincing anyway. McClory, Pierman’s daughter, said her father did not believe that the bluish-white lights he saw were weather-related.

“I don’t want to use the words ‘cover up,’” she said, of her father’s view. “But it was very clear. He saw it. Everything was seen on radar.”

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05-08-2018 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

The Beginning: UFO Encounters over Washington D.C. - Open Minds Magazine

Open Minds Magazine #1

The Beginning: UFOs Encounters over Washington D.C.

Welcome to Open Minds Magazine. In this new monthly UFO news magazine show (view above), we will take a closer look at the mystery posed by Unidentified Flying Objects, in hopes to gain a better understanding of the nature of the phenomenon and how the government, including the military, and the public react to it.

Perhaps the most thorough examination into the UFO issue was conducted by the U.S Air Force. They began their investigation in 1948. It was called Project Sign, then changed its name to Project Grudge, and finally changed its name once again to Project Blue Book.

As for the results, the Air Force states:

"As a result of these investigations and studies and experience gained from investigating UFO reports since 1948, the conclusions of Project BLUE BOOK are:(1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security;(2) there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and(3) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" are extraterrestrial vehicles."

However, upon closer examination of the thousands of files released regarding the Blue Book investigations, it becomes apparent that the Air Force's conclusions were not shared by everyone involved in the investigation, and that there were some truly fascinating cases that remain unsolved.

Often people say they will not believe in UFOs until they land on the White House lawn. Well, one of the most famous and mysterious Blue Book cases came close.

UFO sightings over Washington, DC in July 1952 made worldwide headlines and left the U.S. Air Force dazed and confused. The events spanned several days and included multiple radar identifications of unknown aircraft, some of which were correlated by witnesses on the ground. Many of the sightings caused the air force to scramble jet fighters, and in each of these cases, the UFOs outmaneuvered the jets. This all culminated into what may be the most important official U.S. Air Force UFO investigation of all time.

Read more here: http://www.openminds.tv/the-beginning...

Correction: In the July 13th incident, the craft was at 11,000 feet, not at 100,000 as mentioned in the video.

Links to the experts:

John Alexander: http://www.johnbalexander.com/

Nick Pope: http://www.nickpope.net/

Paul Dean: http://ufos-documenting-the-evidence....

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04-08-2018 om 23:56 geschreven door peter  

A large number of different types of signals comes from outer space – relic radiation, radiation of quasars, pulsars, neutron stars, etc. But there is a type of radio signals, the origin of which scientists can not explain until now.

“Fast radio bursts” – single bursts of high-frequency oscillations lasting several milliseconds. Such radio signals throw colossal energy into space. For comparison, the Sun needs more than ten thousand years to manifest such resultant activity!

The first rapid radio burst was found by Professor Duncan Lorimer in 2007. The signal came across accidentally – when analyzing the results of observations 6 years ago. The source of the radio burst is a point located three degrees from the Small Magellanic Cloud. What did the specialists come across? Nobody could explain.

A curious fact: during a detailed analysis of the data obtained by Professor Lorimer in 2007, it was found that the “rapid radio bursts” discovered by the scientist were nothing more than ordinary artifacts. Interference was caused by violation of the rules of operation of the microwave oven. The early opening of the microwave door and the specific position of the telescope are the causes of these artifacts.

However, it is still unknown what the nature of the other fast radio bursts is? The main assumptions supported by the scientific community are:

• Interference of terrestrial instruments or the development of so-called peritones that distort the signal;
• The fusion of two neutron stars, the evaporation of a black hole, as well as other exotic events of extragalactic sources;µ
• In certain circles a version is expressed that the signal is a consequence of the activity of extraterrestrial civilizations.

Strange signals from Space : What's sending mysterious repeating "Fast radio bursts" in space?

Is ET real? Mysterious radio blasts from a distant galaxy draw attention of alien hunters

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04-08-2018 om 23:44 geschreven door peter  

Wetenschappers ontdekken exoplaneten waarop aards leven mogelijk is - HLN.be

Bron: Science Daily

UV-licht zou op de recent ontdekte exoplaneten eenzelfde chemische reactie kunnen veroorzaken als bij het ontstaan van onze planeet. De temperaturen zouden gunstig genoeg zijn, waardoor ook meteen de aanwezigheid van vloeibaar water op de exoplaneten tot de mogelijkheden behoort volgens de onderzoekers. “Deze studie stelt ons in staat om de beste plaatsen voor onze zoektocht naar leven te vinden,” zegt dr. Paul Rimmer, hoofd van het onderzoeksteam.

Hetzelfde onderzoeksteam voerde eerder al een reeks experimenten uit om te achterhalen wat er gebeurt als waterstofcyanide en waterstofsulfietionen worden blootgesteld aan UV-licht. Uit de resultaten bleek dat dit proces bouwstenen opleverde om leven te vormen. Zonder UV-licht was dit niet mogelijk. 

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Bouwstenen

“Ik onderzocht vervolgens welke lichtdeeltjes er in de lampen zaten”, vertelt dr. Rimmer. “In een volgende stap zal dat licht vergeleken worden met het licht van verschillende sterren. Op dit moment hebben we maar één voorbeeld - de Aarde - en dus is het logisch dat we eerst naar vergelijkbare plaatsen zoeken,” verklaart de wetenschapper.

“De frictie die ontstond en nog zou kunnen ontstaan, waardoor het begin van leven mogelijk is, fascineert ons eindeloos”, zegt Sutherland, een medewerker van het onderzoeksteam. “We weten nog steeds niet precies hoe het leven is ontstaan, hoewel we al veel weten over de gunstige omstandigheden.”

Zoektocht

Bovendien is er volgens de onderzoekers een belangrijk onderscheid tussen wat “noodzakelijk” en “voldoende” is. “Bouwstenen zijn noodzakelijk, maar misschien niet voldoende: het is best mogelijk dat je de bouwstenen mixt en dat er niets zal gebeuren. Maar hoe dan ook, moet je wel zoeken naar de plekken waar de noodzakelijke bouwstenen aanwezig zijn”, klinkt het. 

Dat blijkt een aartsmoeilijke opdracht voor wetenschappers. Ons waarneembaar universum telt immers zo’n 700 miljoen triljoen planeten. 

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04-08-2018 om 22:58 geschreven door peter