Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
09-08-2018
Severe Drought That Collapsed the Mayan Empire Finally Measured
Severe Drought That Collapsed the Mayan Empire Finally Measured
What causes civilizations to collapse? Surely, it has to be something as monumental and awe inspiring as the civilization itself: the arrival of a strange alien invading force from beyond the ocean, mass outbreak of disease, the turning of the cosmic clock signaling the changing of the ages. Maybe sometimes. Sometimes, however, it’s a lot more mundane, banal, and terrifying in its own right. That seems to be the case with the collapse of the Mayan empire, the mysterious and often misunderstood empire that dominated the Yucatan peninsula for thousands of years. According to a paper published in the journal Science, scientists say they’ve finally been able to measure and quantify one of the main factors in the slow decline of the mysterious classical Mayan civilization: just not enough water.
Mayan pyramid.
The first Maya villages formed around 2,000 BCE, from there a massive and singular empire grew for the next 2,800 years. The Maya developed their own hieroglyphic system, calendars, and astronomical measurement systems. They built pyramidsand developed a time-keeping system not just for their growing seasons but for the passing of whole ages. Remember that part about the Mayas being misunderstood? Exhibit A is a film you might remember called 2012 (starring John Cusack). The Maya reached the height of their power between 600 and 800 CE. Huge city-states filled with pyramids and temples sat flourishing in the middle of the jungle, with populations between 50,000 and 120,000 and a political climate akin to classical Greece or renaissance Italy. It was a true force of civilization. Then, around 800 CE, something happened. The next 150 to 200 years saw the Mayas disperse from their city-states and a quick crumbling of an Mesoamerican empire. To be perfectly clear, this did not end Mayan civilization, the same way that the collapse of the Roman empire didn’t end Roman civilization, but it did mark the end of an era and a point of no return for the opulence and power of the classical Mayan civilization.
Severe drought has long been held as a probable cause of the Mayan collapse, but it’s only now that scientists have been able to measure how severe that drought was. The paper, titled Quantification of drought during the collapse of the classic Maya civilization details how, by looking at the water isotopes in the gypsum—a mineral found in lake beds and other water sources—in Lake Chichancanab, Mexico, researchers were able to track the course of the long drought and plot it against the period of rapid decline in Maya power during what is known as the Terminal Classic period of the Mayan empire.
Gypsum forms in lake and river beds and water in incorporated directly into the structure of the mineral. In periods of drought, the lighter water isotopes evaporate faster, leaving the heavier water isotopes behind. By measuring which isotopes of water are left behind in a source of gypsum, it’s possible to calculate the rate of evaporation and annual rainfall from a given period. Looking at the gypsum from 800-950 CE, the Terminal Classic period, scientists say that Mayas experienced a 41-54% decrease in rainfall during those years, with periods of up to 70% reduced rainfall. This, they say, was a key factor in the collapse of the Mayan empire.
We take fresh water for granted. Half the average rainfall over the course of a century is all it can take to dramatically change a society. Sure, we have have water purification and reclamation technology now. We’re in a totally different technological era than they Mayas, it’s true. It’s just something to think about.
The Westall UFO incident remains one of Australia’s most infamous and mysterious events involving anomalous aerial phenomena. On the morning of April 6, 1966, over 200 students and teachers at two different schools in Melbourne witnessed a bizarre object nearly the size of a car descend from the sky and hover motionless near a stand of trees near the Westall State School.
The object was described by the 200+ eyewitnesses as saucer-shaped, either grey or silver, and featuring a rod or antenna on its top. Some of the students reported it had a slight purple hue, while other witnesses thought it appeared greenish. The object hovered for nearly twenty minutes, leaving a circle of yellow flattened grass, before launching back into the sky at a high rate of speed after five other unidentified aircraft began circling the object. Several children reportedly collapsed from fright.
Of course, no records of any civilian aircraft in the area were found, while the Royal Australian Air Force also reported no flights in that area. Newspapers at the time reported that it “might have been a weather balloon.” Of course.
It’s always a weather balloon.
To add to the mystery of the Westall incident, just this week a rare and seemingly long-lost audio recording surfaced on YouTube in which Australian UFO researcher and photographer James J. Kibel describes his initial interview with Andrew Greenwood, a science teacher at Westall High School (now Westall Secondary College) who witnessed the event. Kibel recorded his recollection of the interview to send to American physicist and UFOlogy pioneer James. E McDonald.
Kibel recounts to McDonald how Greenwood recalled the object’s movements as the “most amazing flying he had ever seen in his life.” When students first alerted Greenwood to the object, Kibel notes, he was initially skeptical until he saw it for himself:
Greenwood told me the UFO was first brought to his attention by a hysterical child who ran into his classroom and told him there’s a flying saucer outside. He thought this child had become deranged or something so he didn’t take any notice, but when the child insisted that this object was in the sky he decided to go out and have a look for himself.
The object’s flight behavior described by Greenwood sounds eerily familiar to anyone who’s read reports of UFOs being pursued by traditional aircraft:
The planes were doing everything possible to approach the object and he said how they all avoided collision he will never know. Every time they got too close to the object it would slowly accelerate, then rapidly accelerate and then move away from them and stop. Then they would take off after it again and the same thing would happen.
Greenwood told Kibel that the school’s headmaster eventually told students and staff to return to their classes and to never speak of the incident again or face strict disciplinary measures. Several students and staff refused to speak to Greenwood about the incident in the days following.
While this audio recording doesn’t offer up any new information about the Westall incident, the audio offers a new near-first-hand account of the incident from one of the principal witnesses. It is also disturbing to hear that students and staff were threatened to never speak of the incident again – what did the headmaster know? Or what did he notwant to know?
To this day, the mystery of the Westall incident remains unsolved. The site of the encounter is now a memorial park complete with a flying saucer-shaped playground. Many former Westall students who witnessed the event met at a reunion in 2006 to commemorate the sighting, and time had done little to alter their recollections. For skeptics, it has been suggested that the object was likely either an off-the-books experimental military craft or a drogue towed behind aircraft for target practice. For believers, the incident remains one of the most compelling UFO events given the large number of eyewitnesses and the fact that they all gave nearly the same testimony.
As the scientific community continues to speculate about whether intelligent extraterrestrial life exists on exoplanets being discovered throughout our vast galaxy, military insiders have come forward to reveal that national governments are hiding a stunning truth. Extraterrestrials who look just like us not only exist throughout the galaxy, but tens of thousands of them have infiltrated communities all over the planet as neighbors, co-workers, teachers, doctors, humanitarians, etc.
Emery Smith and Corey Goode claim to have worked on highly classified extraterrestrial related programs that are run by the U.S. and other military forces, which are under the authority of transnational corporations.
Smith says that he encountered human looking extraterrestrials living among humanity while working at highly classified facilities such as Kirtland Air Force Base, Sandia National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and other military facilities.
In a series of interviews completed on the popular online streaming show “Cosmic Disclosure,” Smith says that while working at these facilities he encountered human looking extraterrestrials who are indistinguishable from modern humans. In the August 7 episode, he responded as follows to a question about whether extraterrestrials live among us:
Well, extraterrestrials also come to watch over us and look at things on the Earth. And they’re here to gather information to make sure we don’t blow up the Earth or kill each other.
So they’re here just to get information and have it and to also experience the life of a human, which is quite preferably like a vacation for them.
So it’s a very interesting scientific job for an extraterrestrial to have. It’s kind of an honor to come here, live amongst us, and do things, just living like a normal human being, actually, and interacting with human beings. . . It’s like a universal Peace Corps.
He says that in addition to encountering such extraterrestrials in classified projects run by corporations on U.S. military facilities, he was also recently briefed that up to 100,000 of them are presently living all over the planet.
In past interviews, Smith has discussed completing tissue extractions from the bodies of deceased human looking extraterrestrials, and also working alongside some live ones who participated in autopsies of their deceased compatriots. In his August 7 interview, Smith furthermore described what he knew from briefings about extraterrestrials who had infiltrated human civilization.
Smith said that around 1997, he left the classified program when he realized that the bodies of the extraterrestrials that were being autopsied were still warm. He became suspicious that some of them had only recently died, presumably tortured and killed by the corporations that were running the programs.
Goode’s experiences were different, but very consistent with what Smith described. Goode said that he served in an “Intruder, Intercept, and Interrogate program” where he was part of a covert team whose job it was to capture and interrogate extraterrestrials that had infiltrated human society.
In the August 7 interview, he responded to a question by David Wilcock about whether the extraterrestrials had come to Earth with permission or not:
[Corey] It’s both. Some of them are from other star systems far away that are paying very close attention to what’s going on here, including the Draco conquest of star systems. So they’ll send people in to do a little reconnaissance.
Emery: Sure.
Corey: And when they come in, and they come in without permission, if they get caught, it’s not a good thing for them at all.
Emery: No, right.
Corey: There’s actually a program that I was a part of called the Intruder, Intercept and Interrogation Program. And we ran into quite a few different species that were here without permission.
Goode and Smith then went on to describe how the human looking extraterrestrials were able to blend into societies all over the planet:
Corey: What was interesting is: in the Intruder, Intercept and Interrogation program, only about 10% to 15% of the beings that we processed were what we would call “alien-looking”.
Emery: Right.
Corey: Most of them were very human-looking. And they weren’t augmented to look human. They were humans –
Emery: Right.
Corey: . . . just from a different planet. And they would normally be picked up in countries where they would most likely blend in.
Emery: Sure.
Corey: Like there were some Polynesian-looking ones.
Emery: Right. The Nordics and all this. Right.
Photo taken by August C. Roberts at the New Jersey home of Howard Menger in 1959 allegedly showing three human looking extraterrestrials – Valiant Thor and his companions Dunn and Jill.
Goode described one example of an extraterrestrial who had infiltrated a company and over the course of a decade had risen to a senior executive position:
Corey: And I was there when some – it was a high-level executive – was pulled out of a high-rise building in the middle of the day.
They delta-waved everyone there, went in, and ingressed-egressed from the roof, took him out, and brought him up for interrogation. And he had been on the Earth for well over a decade and had blended in, had created an identity, and was now at a high position in a corporation.
David: Wow!
Emery: Yeah, they prepare these extraterrestrials to come to this planet, so there is some genetic, you know, inoculations going on like what we do here as far as frequency goes, how they survive here – and even as far as getting certain procedures done on their body so they can digest our food and things like this.
It’s worth pointing out that the recently deceased aerospace engineer, William Tompkins, says that he worked with “Nordic” extraterrestrials that had infiltrated companies such as Douglas Aircraft Company, North American Aviation, etc., in the 1950’s and 1960’s, who had helped the U.S. Navy develop its secret space program.
Goode says that the “Intruder Intercept and Interrogate” program could be brutal in how captured extraterrestrials were treated.
He says that those who were captured but belonged to human looking groups that had permission to be on Earth, were released as stipulated in agreements. Those that were here without permission, were harshly interrogated, and turned over to a transnational corporate entity called the Interplanetary Corporate Conglomerate (ICC).
Some of those that were turned over to the ICC, ended up dead and were examined in classified facilities similar to where Smith had worked.
Smith and Goode’s accounts were very consistent with one another, and gave different perspectives on a similar covert process set up to deal with off-world visitors. The key question that arises is whether their information is true or not?
Aside from documents corroborating their respective military and employment histories, there is no hard evidence provided either by Smith and Goode to directly substantiate their claims. However, others have interacted with human looking extraterrestrials that have infiltrated human society, and have been allowed, even encouraged, to take photos of their spacecraft.
One example is my anonymous source JP who has met with human looking extraterrestrials that are part of secret agreements reached with the U.S. Air Force (USAF). He says that he has met with them in remote areas of Tampa and Orlando, Florida, where they have worn USAF uniforms, and communicated with him. He has taken photos of their craft which have been published on my website.
JP is a civilian and has never served with the U.S. military or been a worker in any classified government/corporate facility. He has no professional background that supports his claims, which is perhaps why he is being allowed to take photos of these craft and disseminate them.
I will be discussing JP’s photos and his experiences at my upcoming lecture on the “US Air Force Secret Space Program and Shifting Extraterrestrial Alliances” at the Dimensions of Disclosure Conference from August 17-19. JP plans to be in the audience as an anonymous guest of the Conference Organizers.
If you would like to contribute to a GoFundMe campaign to fund JP’s travel and other expenses for attending the conference, you can do so here.
In addition to the photographic evidence provided by JP that human looking extraterrestrials are on Earth as part of secret agreements with the U.S. military, there is also testimonial evidence from highly credible sources that are available.
Undoubtedly, the most significant comes from the former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, who says that he was given a top secret file about human extraterrestrials that live among us, and an international organization that monitors the off world visitors:
Along with the briefcase with nuclear codes, the president of the country is given a special ‘top secret’ folder. This folder in its entirety contains information about aliens who visited our planet… Along with this, you are given a report of the absolutely secret special service that exercises control over aliens on the territory of our country… I will not tell you how many of them are among us because it may cause panic.
The “absolutely secret special service” described by Medvedev, appears very similar to Goode’s “Intruder Intercept and Interrogate” program, which was fictionalized in the Men In Black movies.
Robert Dean, who reached the rank of Command Sergeant Major with the U.S. Army, says that in 1964, while stationed at the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers in Europe (SHAPE), he read a Cosmic Top Secret Assessment that described human looking extraterrestrials living among us.
There was a human group that looked so much like us that that really drove the admirals and the generals crazy because they determined that these people, and they had seen them repeatedly, they had had contact with them…. These people looked so much like us they could sit next to you on a plane or in a restaurant and you’d never know the difference. And being military and being primarily paranoid, that bothered the generals and the admirals a little bit. That the fact that these intelligent entities could be involved with us, walking up and down the corridors of SHAPE, walking down the corridors of the Pentagon. My God, it even dawned on a couple of them that these guys could even be in the White House! Of course, as I said, being paranoid in those years it really shook things up a little bit.
Earlier, in the 1950’s, famed contactees such as George Adamksi, Howard Menger, and Daniel Fry say that they encountered human looking extraterrestrials who sought their assistance in infiltrating human society. While the general public and UFO researchers widely ridiculed such claims at the time, Smith and Goode said that such a process has indeed been underway for decades involving tens of thousands off world visitors.
David: Well, we’ve talked about this before, Corey, but I also think it’s important to reiterate. And I know you don’t have really specific data, but do we have any sense as to how many approved immigrants there are on this planet that are not from here that are blending in our society?
Corey: It was . . . Back in the ’90s, it was many, many tens of . . . I mean, many thousands.
Emery: 100,000 was the numbers I’m recently getting in the past six months.
Corey: Yeah. And it was probably a smaller number when I was in, but it was a . . . And it was in just about every country. It’s well known that they were integrated.
Smith and Goode’s testimonies provide a stunning perspective on what is really happening on Earth when it comes to the existence of extraterrestrials who appear indistinguishable from modern humans. They also discuss how other non-human looking extraterrestrials can blend in using advanced technologies, and what happens to them if discovered by programs such as Goode’s “Intruder Intercept and Interrogate”.
While scientists speculate and argue over the possibility of extraterrestrial life existing on exoplanets discovered in distant regions of the galaxy, it is stunning to think that all this time many thousands of human looking extraterrestrials have been interacting with us on Earth for decades, and infiltrated societies all over our planet.
[Note: Emery Smith’s interviews on Cosmic Disclosurecan be found here.]
[Author Note: On Saturday, August 11, I will be conducting my first online Webinar on “Antarctica’s Hidden History and Secret Space Programs.” Please click here or banner to learn more.]
A location on Mars associated with the best-selling novel and Hollywood movie, "The Martian" This area is in the Acidalia Planitia region and in the novel and the movie, it is the landing site of a crewed mission named Ares 3. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Curiosity has spent all of its time in the Gale Crater, where it's traveled just over 12 miles, yet the rover has captured plenty of stunning images. NASA has also collected photos of the Martian surface using spacecraft and other rovers like Opportunity, which is more than 15 years old .
At times, photos of the surface of Mars depict the prototypical idea of the red planet: rocky, dry, dusty, and not unlike a desert you might see on Earth. Yet other formations of craters and canyons are completely different from anything on our planet — there are patches of dark and light colors, carbon dioxide dry ice, and otherworldly patterns.
There's weather too, like the huge dust storm that recently covered the entire planet.
Here are some of the images that show how stunning the surface of Mars really is, though there's still far more to be discovered, of course. Just recently, scientists announced that they think there might be a 12-mile-long lake of liquid water hidden underneath one of the red planet's ice caps.
Curiosity captured this selfie on the Vera Rubin Ridge at the beginning of 2018. The rover's arm has been edited out, since the photo is a composite of a number of images.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via AP
Just after arriving in 2012, Curiosity took this shot of the base of Mount Sharp, its eventual destination. Many of the mountains and canyons of Mars have names, just like geological features on Earth.
Reuters/NASA
This was one of Curiosity's first looks at the Gale Crater in 2012. The edge of the crater is broken up by a network of valleys that scientists think were formed by water.
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It didn't take long for Curiosity to find more evidence of water. It spotted these rounded gravel fragments on a rock outcrop in September of 2012, at the base of Aeolis Mons. The shapes are indicative of rock that formed in the presence of water.
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At the end of 2012, Curiosity took this shot showing inclined layering — known as cross-bedding — in the Shaler outcrop.
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Curiosity mostly sees this kind of prototypical red-planet imagery in the Gale Crater. It arrived in Yellowknife Bay, the lowest point of the crater, in 2013.
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In Yellowknife Bay, the rover discovered evidence that water could have percolated through pores in the sediment.
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter entered Martian orbit in 2006 and has been sending back images ever since. In this enhanced-color view from Orbiter taken in June 2013, Curiosity appears as a bluish dot near the lower right corner.
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In 2015, the Orbiter provided this aerial view of the Ophir Chasma on the northern portion of a vast Mars canyon system called Valles Marineris.
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NASA regularly keeps an eye on the active dune field known as Nili Patera because it changes frequently. The Orbiter captured this shot of the region in 2014.
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Orbiter showed us this spectacular impact crater in November of 2013.
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The flowing features in the terrain at Mars’ middle latitudes could have once been formed by water and ice. Orbiter sent this image back in 2017.
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In January of 2014, Orbiter photographed these sand dunes far to the north as they emerged from their winter carbon-dioxide dry-ice cover.
REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Fans of 'The Martian' are familiar with the Acidalia Planitia region of Mars, shown here as seen by Orbiter in 2015.
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This long row of channels, ranging from 1-10 meters wide, is found in the Hellas impact basin in Mars' southern hemisphere. Orbiter shot this image, too.
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This view of the Noctis Labyrinthus region of Mars, perched high on the Tharsis rise in the upper reaches of the Valles Marineris canyon system, is particularly otherworldly. Orbiter sent this image back in 2013.
REUTERS/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Near the Martian equator, the Victoria Crater at Meridiani Planum looks like abstract art. In this 2006 image captured by Orbiter, you can see the Opportunity rover as a tiny speck on the outside of the crater, between 9 and 10 p.m. if this were a clock.
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The Mars Opportunity Rover has been on the red planet for more than 15 years. It spotted this iron meteorite back in 2005 — the first meteorite identified on another planet.
The Phoenix lander, which was active from May to November of 2008, used its robotic arm to dig these two trenches to check soil samples.
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The Phoenix lander, which was active from May to November of 2008, used its robotic arm to dig these two trenches to check soil samples.
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Curiosity, meanwhile, is still exploring the Gale Crater and searching for signs that life — in the form of microbes — used to exist there. The rover sent back this selfie from a drilling site called 'Buckskin' in August 2015. The design of a new 2020 rover will be based on Curiosity.
They All Shine On! Galaxy Survey Yields Stunning Cosmic View
They All Shine On! Galaxy Survey Yields Stunning Cosmic View
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
A curious collection of galaxies sparkles like jewels in a gorgeous new image taken by a powerful, Earth-based telescope.
The photo, taken by the European Southern Observatory's VLT Survey Telescope in Chile, is the product of an ongoing survey to better understand how elliptical galaxies form. The telescope features a wide field of view from its vantage point in dark Chilean skies, allowing astronomers to do their work far from light pollution.
One of the galaxies coming under scrutiny is NGC 5018, a milky-white pool of stars visible near the center of the image. NGC 5018 lies in theconstellation Virgo, about 94 million light-years away from Earth. (One light-year is the distance that light travels in a year, which is 5.88 trillion miles or 9.5 trillion kilometers.)
This deep image of the area of sky around the elliptical galaxy NGC 5018 offers a spectacular view of the galaxy's tenuous streams of stars and gas. These delicate features are hallmarks of galactic
Credit: ESO/Spavone et al.
"[NGC 5018] may at first resemble nothing but a diffuse blob. But on closer inspection, a tenuous stream of stars and gas — a tidal tail — can be seen stretching outwards from this elliptical galaxy," ESO officials wrote in a description of the newly released image.
"Delicate galactic features such as tidal tails and stellar streams are hallmarks of galactic interactions and provide vital clues to the structure and dynamics of galaxies," the officials added.
This annotated view of the surroundings of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5018 shows many of the galaxy's neighbors. The image also reveals a few asteroids that were captured by chance during the deep exposures needed to reveal the delicate streams of stars between the galaxies.
Credit: ESO/Spavone et al.
There are some other interesting features found in the picture as well. Lying conveniently along the line of sight is HD 114746, a blue foreground star. You can also see the faint tracks from two asteroids: 2001 TJ21 (110423) across the entire image, and 2000 WU69 (98603) closer to the right.
De brandweer van Leicestershire heeft beelden vrijgegeven van een vuurtornado. Het ongewone verschijnsel gebeurde toen de brandweer een brand van kunststofpaletten aan het bedwingen was.
Het wervelende effect van vuurtornado’s ontstaat doordat de hitte van het vuur de luchtlaag aan de grond verhit en snel doet opstijgen, terwijl er aan de basis van de luchtkolom koelere lucht uit de omgeving wordt aangezogen.
Het fenomeen kan zich in principe overal voordoen waar het heet is en er brand ontstaat, maar is eerder zeldzaam. Recent kwamen er echter nog vuurtornado’s in het nieuws: ook bij de bosbranden in Californië ontstonden ze. Daar zit de aanhoudende hitte en droogte voor iets tussen.
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Ontdekkingsreiziger vindt ‘buitenaards ruimteschip’ in de Bermudadriehoek: “Zoiets heb ik nog nooit gezien” - HLN.be
Ontdekkingsreiziger vindt ‘buitenaards ruimteschip’ in de Bermudadriehoek: “Zoiets heb ik nog nooit gezien” - HLN.be
Bron:Daily Mail
Discovery Channel
WETENSCHAPDarrell Miklos, een ervaren ontdekkingsreiziger, zag tijdens één van zijn expedities naar oude scheepswrakken iets vreemds op de bodem van de oceaan in de Bermudadriehoek: een gigantisch object van zo’n negentig meter lang. Volgens de avonturier en zijn team is het vreemde ding “van buitenaardse afkomst”.
Ontdekkingsreiziger Darrell Miklos jaagt samen met zijn team op oude scheepswrakken op de bodem van de oceaan in het programma ‘Cooper’s Treasure’ op Discovery Channel. Deze keer trok Miklos naar een verborgen plek in de Bermudadriehoek, nabij de Bahama’s, die bezaaid is met gezonken schepen.
Om scheepswrakken op de bodem van de oceaan te vinden, gebruikt Miklos de geheime kaarten van zijn vriend en NASA-astronaut Gordon Cooper, die in 2004 overleed. In de jaren zestig stelde de astronaut ‘geheime kaarten’ samen om zo meer dan honderd magnetische ‘onregelmatigheden’ in de Caraïben vanuit de ruimte te identificeren.
Discovery ChannelEén van de 'uitsteeksels' van het vermeende ruimteschip.
"USO”
Wat de doorwinterde ontdekkingsreiziger op de bodem van de oceaan vond, overtrof zijn stoutste verwachtingen. “Het was een formatie die anders was dan alles wat ik ooit heb gezien. Het ‘ding’ was veel te groot om een scheepswrak te zijn.”
Het ding is negentig meter lang en heeft vreemde uitstulpingen. Miklos concludeerde dat het gigantische object wel een USO, een unidentified submerged object, moest zijn. “Het zag er niet uit als iets dat door de mens of natuur werd gemaakt. Ik heb een jarenlange ervaring en we identificeerden al zoveel verschillende scheepswrakken, maar zoiets heb ik nog nooit gezien”.
Naast het vermeende ruimteschip, vond de ontdekkingsreiziger ook andere bizarre formaties rondom het grote object, bedekt met een dikke laag koraal. Miklos gelooft dat ze waarschijnlijk honderden of duizenden jaren oud zijn.
Na zijn ontdekking, dook Miklos meteen in de kaarten en papieren van Cooper op zoek naar verdere aanwijzingen. De astronaut schreef ‘unidentified object’ neer op de kaart waar Miklos het vreemde object vond. Volgens Miklos moest Cooper wel verwijzen naar “iets dat niet van deze wereld was”. Nu wil Miklos samen met zijn team het zogenaamde ‘buitenaards ruimteschip’ uit het water halen voor verder onderzoek.
Gordon Cooper
Gordon Cooper was een pionier in de ruimtevaart. Maar naast zijn leven als astronaut, zou hij er een geheime agenda op nagehouden hebben. De Amerikaanse regering zou hem in de jaren zestig gevraagd hebben om naar ‘nucleaire dreigingen’ op zoek te gaan. Daarmee werden waarschijnlijk Russische onderzeeërs of nucleaire raketten bedoeld. Miklos meent dat Cooper de vreemde positie van de scheepswrakken opmerkte in de Caraïben, terwijl hij een spionagemissie vanuit de ruimte uitvoerde en daarbij een kaart creëerde.
Cooper zou Miklos lang geleden de kaarten - inclusief gedetailleerde info en exacte coördinaten - gegeven hebben nadat hij de diagnose van Parkinson kreeg en in 2004 stierf op 77-jarige leeftijd.
Of de astronaut effectief spionagewerk verrichte en de scheepswrakken in kaart bracht, wordt sterk betwijfeld. Volgens sommigen is het onmogelijk dat Cooper uit het raam van het ruimteschip kon kijken, vreemde formaties op het wateroppervlak kon waarnemen en de lengte- en breedtegraad kon noteren. Cooper nam wel degelijk foto’s vanuit de ruimte, maar niet in het gebied van de Caraïben. Bovendien zou geen enkele van die foto’s een plek kleiner dan een stad kunnen weergeven.
PEAstronaut Gordon Cooper.
Mysterie Bermudadriehoek verklaard
Voor ‘scheepswrakjagers’ zoals Miklos en zijn team is de Bermudadriehoek tussen Miami, de Bermuda-eilanden en Puerto Rico, een aantrekkelijke plek. De bodem ligt namelijk bezaaid met schepen en vliegtuigen die er in de loop der jaren zonken. Sommigen zijn ervan overtuigd dat aliens of kraters, het antwoord vormen op het misterie. Nu lijkt er toch een nieuwe wetenschappelijke verklaring te zijn voor het fenomeen.
Een groep oceanografen aan de universiteit van Southampton, het Verenigd Koninkrijk, is ervan overtuigd dat ‘rogue waves’ of monstergolven de honderden schepen lieten zinken. “Monstergolven kwamen voor in mythes en in de verhalen van schippers, maar vandaag kunnen satellieten golven meten. Golven van zo’n dertig meter werden al waargenomen en geverifieerd.”
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De monstergolven ontstaan doordat stormwinden uit drie verschillende richtingen op de plek samen komen en zo de perfecte omgeving creëren voor monstergolven. De gigantische golven maken altijd deel uit van een storm en kunnen even snel weer verdwijnen als ze opkwamen.
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Schatjager Discovery Channel claimt buitenaards schip te hebben ontdekt in Bermudadriehoek. Zal dit de wereld schokken?
Schatjager Discovery Channel claimt buitenaards schip te hebben ontdekt in Bermudadriehoek. Zal dit de wereld schokken?
Een schatjager heeft in de Bermudadriehoek een ongewone ontdekking te gaan. Darrell Miklos meent dat hij heeft eerste bewijs heeft gevonden van een buitenaards schip, dat de aarde duizenden jaren geleden zou hebben bezocht.
Miklos gebruikt geheime kaarten die waren gemaakt door zijn vriend en NASA-astronaut Gordon Cooper om naar scheepswrakken te zoeken in de Caraïbische Zee.
Zijn ontdekkingstocht is te zien in de serie ‘Cooper’s Treasure’ op Discovery Channel.
Bizarre structuur
Onlangs stuitte zijn team op iets wat volgens Miklos de wereld zal schokken. Hij speurde op een locatie nabij de Bahama’s naar iets wat een scheepswrak zou moeten zijn.
De schatjager trof tijdens opnames voor het nieuwe seizoen echter een bizarre structuur aan. In een interview met DailyMail.com zei Miklos dat hij het ‘buitenaardse ruimteschip’ naar het oppervlak wil halen.
“Ik heb nog nooit zoiets gezien,” zei hij. “Het was te groot om een scheepswrak te kunnen zijn.”
Drie identieke formaties
“Het was ook compleet anders dan iets wat door de natuur is gemaakt,” voegde hij toe. “Het lijkt alsof er vijf armen uit komen die ieder net zo groot zijn als een kanon van een slagschip.”
“Ze zijn enorm en er zijn in totaal 15 van,” klonk het. “Er zijn drie identieke formaties in drie verschillende gebieden en ze lijken in niets op wat ik tot nu toe heb gezien.”
Aangezien de gebieden zich op een diepte van ruim 100 meter bevinden, hadden de duikers speciale apparatuur nodig om in de buurt van de structuren te kunnen komen.
Ongeïdentificeerd object
Miklos trof ook andere bizarre en onverklaarbare formaties aan die bedekt zijn met koraal en mogelijk honderden zo niet duizenden jaren oud zijn.
Op de kaart van het gebied had Cooper ‘ongeïdentificeerd object’ geschreven.
“Toen begreep ik waarom hij niet sprak van een scheepswrak,” zei Miklos. “Hij bedoelde dat het mogelijk iets van een andere wereld was.”
Bezoekers
“Gordon geloofde in aliens,” vervolgde hij. “Hij zei dat we bezoekers van andere planeten hebben gehad en dat veel van deze dingen in dit deel van de wereld zijn geland.”
De schatjager hoopt meer onderzoek te kunnen doen in het gebied.
Rare 1966 Audio on Westall UFO Encounter Australia
Rare 1966 Audio on Westall UFO Encounter Australia
The Westall UFO encounter is an event that occurred on 6 April 1966 in Melbourne, Australia. For more than 20 minutes 200 students and teachers at two schools allegedly witnessed an unexplained flying object which descended into a nearby open wild grass field.
The paddock was adjacent to a grove of pine trees in an area known as The Grange. According to reports, the object then ascended in a north-westerly direction over the suburb of Clayton South, Victoria, Australia.
This video of QUFOSR (Queensland UFO sightings and Research) contains rare audio of James J. Kibel (commonly confused as James E. McDonald as it was later sent to him) discussing the infamous Westall UFO incident after meeting with the science teacher who witnessed the object.
Below some notes of interest if you're having trouble understanding the audio:
01 - Science master, two other staff and 300 kids watched a UFO maneuver over the school. 02 - 5 planes tried to intercept the UFO. 03 - Science master was in the same club as Mconalds brother-in-law, a bizarre coincidence. Because of this connection Mcdonald invited the Science teacher over and discussed in depth what he witnessed. 04 - Believes it wasn't the officials who squashed the sighting, it was the head master. He was so scared he refused to go into school yard even after it was back in the sky. 05 - When the Royal Australian Air Force tried to contact the headmaster he told them 'go jump in a lake'. 06 - Children ran into science masters room hysterical so he went to look himself. 07 - Couldn't see UFO at first but saw other children looking towards the north-east. When he joined the children he saw the UFO hovering just above power lines. 08 - Science master described the object as a bright silver object, size of a tire with a 'bar/rod' into the air. 09 - At this point he noted a light plane moving towards it about 1000ft up, 2000ft from where he was standing. 10 - Now joined by more children and the physical education teacher they watched. 11 - The light plane supposedly called in other planes and 4 converged on object with this light plane. 12 - Science master says most amazing flight maneuvering he ever seen in his life commenced, planes were doing everything possible to approach the object. Amazed there was no collision. 13 - Every time planes got near the object it would slowly accelerate, then rapidly accelerate away from the planes and then stop again. Every time they chased it would do the same. 14 - This continued for 20 minutes, by this stage 360 people (children, staff) were watching 15 - The thing shot away in seconds (I don't know if I heard that correctly, so sorry). 16 - The headmaster then come out and demanded everyone to return to their classes at once and gave the school a lecture. He told the students they would be punished if they discussed it and told staff they'd lose their jobs if they did. 17 - Science master has 3 degrees, was not stupid. He was very annoyed with the headmaster. 18 - When asking the PE teacher to describe what she saw in detail she wouldn't say anything. 19 - One of the older children confirmed the full story and accurately described the object. When going to re-ask the student she was no long there, she had gone home and wouldn't discuss it again.
As many of you will know, the mystery of the Men in Black is one which has fascinated me for years. It’s a subject that quietly began in the late 1940s – but which really took off in the early 1950s. It was all as a result of the creepy encounters of Albert Bender, a resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who established the International Flying Saucer Bureau. Not long after, Bender closed it down: he was threatened by a trio of strange characters dressed in black, and who literally materialized in his attic-based abode. While I have given my views on Bender in my various books on the MIB, it’s always good to get the views of others too. Which brings me to Ray Boeche – UFO researcher and priest – who I interviewed to get his views on the matter of Bender and the Men in Black. Ray told me the following, which I present without interruption:
“I was actually in touch with Albert Bender in the early to mid-70s, which was years after his Men in Black experience. This was in California, when he was involved in helping preserve the work of film composer Max Steiner, and he just would not discuss it: the experience, the Men in Black, none of it. It had obviously affected him.
“I was a kid when I was first in contact with [Gray] Barker [controversial writer/publisher on the paranormal, and a friend to Bender] , and stayed in contact right up until a few months before he passed away. He was always helpful on the phone and in correspondence; he was a very amenable guy. From the contact and conversations I had with Barker, I do think something happened with Bender. Just how much of the actual written account we have is confabulation and how much is exaggeration, I don’t know. But something did happen to Bender, and it may very well have involved FBI agents. And, I tend to think that Bender’s experience was precipitated by a visit from someone in the government.
“Bender may well have been visited by FBI agents. And that whole image of black suits and threats that were possibly playing on Bender’s mind may have dictated how these forces, Bender’s MIB, appeared for him as his involvement with the occult proceeded and he had the experience in his bedroom. He did have a longstanding fascination with the occult, and I think that the FBI visit could have had a definite impact on how he might have experienced these other things, and how ‘they’ might have appeared to him in a context that would serve their ends: the dark suits and hats. There’s a distinct possibility that the phenomenon was pulling this imagery – the FBI agents, black suits, and their visits and warnings – out of Bender’s subconscious and masquerading as something connected to the saucer people to lure him further into the occult.
“There’s a lot we can take from some of the early research into psychedelics, where the major thrust of what type of experience the person would have would be dictated by mindset and setting. And I think that ties into the Bender story, in a sense. I think there’s this idea that if we open ourselves to outside influences – I’m speaking in spiritual terms here – or we seek contact or an experience with an alien, then you assume it to be that – an alien – if and when it appears. It may not be what it purports to be. I think these forces can play on our own mental predispositions of what we expect we see.
“I have always thought that one of the most important things that John Keel ever said was that if you have kids or teenagers, this is not something to encourage them to get involved with. Keel was a pretty dyed-in-the-wool atheist. But he understand that, at some level, there’s something, in some sense transcendent over us, that can, if nothing else, ‘mess’ with us. And it can cause a lot of damage.
“Sometimes, I think I’m singing a one-note song with this, from a Christian perspective. I would not consider myself theologically liberal or a theological fundamentalist. My beliefs are solidly orthodox, and rooted in my view of the Bible as God’s inerrant Word. But there are things that we just aren’t equipped to deal with from a mechanistic, naturalistic worldview. There are malevolent forces out there that will be happy to take advantage of just about any opening we give them. And, so, we need to be very cautious. I tend to think that may be what happened to Albert Bender, but he might not have been so cautious.”
Sky Turns BLACK In Remote Russian Towns – Locals Blame secret weapons test, aliens or the DEVIL?
Sky Turns BLACK In Remote Russian Towns – Locals Blame secret weapons test, aliens or the DEVIL?
These are incredibly strange times! Remote Russian towns were plunged into total darkness for several hours last week — sparking lots of rumours of a secret Kremlin weapons test, UFOs or even the devil’s work!
Mystery surrounds the sudden appearance of the massive black cloud that turned day into night across an area bigger than the British Isles.
There has also been claims that the terrifying phenomenon could have been the caused by the dust from a meteorite strike or the test of an apocalyptic weapon.
Eerie clouds sweep over parts of Russia as an area bigger than the British Isles is mysteriously plunged into darkness
Other explanations for mystified locals are a UFO, an unreported eclipse, the “work of the devil”, or smoke from unidentified wildfires. Strangely enough, Moscow’s defence and meteorological officials have STILL failed to comment on the cloud — which hit three vast mainly Arctic districts in Yakutia region. There were no reports of meteorites, eclipses or weapons tests – let alone sightings of alien spacecrafts.
A local resident in from Eveno-Bytantaisky said: “Messages are going around about about a light flash registered by the US satellites, followed by increase of radioactive level and unusual activity of the military.
“We are never going to be told is this was true or false.”
Some claimed it could be a “new type of weapon” being tested by the Russian military.
Another source said: “This can only be explained by a UFO.”
Locals reported having difficulty breathing is a the mystery cloud engulfed the region
Residents reported darkness beginning around 11.30am and lasting almost three hours on Friday.
Gloom descended on Eveno-Bytantaisky, Zhigansky and Verkhoyansky but none of these districts have been hit by wildfires that are raging in other Siberian localities.
The areas are so far north that at this time of year they have virtually 24-hour light — but as one local said: “Day suddenly turned into a dark night”.
Another said:
“I couldn’t see a thing without switching lights on.
“We took torches to walk outside, but actually no-one wanted to be on the street because the feeling was as if something heavy in the air was pressing on your chest.”
Accounts spoke of a thick layer of dust after the darkness but this has been denied by some officials, who also expressed doubts that pollution from wildfires was the cause.
The sun struggled to be seen through the thick cloud cover
Villagers feared the work of the devil had caused the mystery darkness
A local official in Nizhne-Bytantaisky settlement said: “At first it looked like it was a strong thunderstorm coming.
“The air went dark, and got darker and darker, but this time unlike anything else we have seen before the darkness had a rich yellow undertone.”
Konstantin Starostin, head of the settlement, said: “When the sun vanished, people started calling us.
“Many got scared, especially elderly people.
“The sun was gone from 11.30 until 14.00 on Friday 20 July.”
Head of Verkhoyansk town Yevgeny Potapov was quoted by The Siberian Times saying: “Something strange happened on that day.”
Almost all Arctic districts reported a significant temperature fall around the time of the daytime darkness.
The Russian Government and military STILL will not comment or have any answers for this strange event!
U.I.P SUMMARY
These are strange times people and appear to be getting even stranger! No matter what the rumours are there is still NO official confirmation for what caused this strange darkness!
Could it be a top secret weapon unleashed by the Russians, or perhaps Aliens could be responsible for this bizarre event (there were strange sounds recorded at the same time of the event!?). We are doing a lot of research into this and will keep you all updated with our findings!
BREAKING CLAIM: Aliens collect stars to stay ALIVE in space
BREAKING CLAIM: Aliens collect stars to stay ALIVE in space
It appears that the TRUTH towards disclosure is building! ALIEN civilisations could be harnessing the power of caged stars to stay alive in an expanding universe, a scientist has claimed.
Dan Hooper, a scientist at the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, suggested extraterrestrials could store and collect stars through technology knows as Dyson Spheres.
Dyson spheres are theoretical structures capable of confining a star to syphon its vast stores of energy.
In a pre-publication research paper, Dr Hooper theorised alien species use Dyson spheres to stay ahead of expanding space.
Dr Hooper wrote: “The presence of dark energy in our universe is causing space to expand at an accelerating rate.
An artists impression of an Alien Dyson Sphere
“As a result, over the next approximately 100 billion years, all stars residing beyond the Local Group will fall beyond the cosmic horizon and become not only unobservable, but entirely inaccessible, thus limiting how much energy could one day be extracted from them.
“Here, we consider the likely response of a highly advanced civilisation to this situation.
“In particular, we argue that in order to maximise its access to useable energy, a sufficiently advanced civilisation would chose to expand rapidly outward, build Dyson Spheres or similar structures around encountered stars, and use the energy that is harnessed to accelerate those stars away from the approaching horizon and toward the centre of the civilisation.”
According to the hypothetical scenario, technologically advanced alien species could target stars smaller than that in our solar system to utilise their incredible power.
Research on the presence of dark matter in the universe suggests space is rapidly expanding and the distance between planets and stars is growing.
The presence of dark energy in our universe is causing space to expand
Dan Hooper, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
The so-called Hubble Constant, first introduced by astronomer Edwin Hubble in 1992, claims the universe is growing at a rate of 68km/s.
The expansion is understood to be an aftermath of the Big Bang when the universe erupted into the existence.
More recent estimates on the rate of expansion peg the number in the range of about 71.9km/s (44.7 miles/s) but different measurements appear to give different results.
Sherry Sulu, of the Mx Planck Institute, said: “The expansion rate of the universe is now starting to be measured in different ways with such high precision that actual discrepancies may possibly point towards new physics beyond our current knowledge of the universe.”
Dr Hopper agued within around 100 billion years from now, all matter which is not gravitationally bound to the Milky Way Galaxy will “casually drift away” into the void.
Dyson sphere-bound stars could circumvent this problem by creating gravitational pools around which civilisations could gather.
The scientists wrote:
“Given the inevitability of the encroaching horizon, any sufficiently advanced civilisation that is determined to maximise its ability to utilise energy will expand throughout the universe, attempting to secure as many stars as possible before they become permanently inaccessible.
“To this end, they could build Dyson Spheres or other such structures around the stars that are encountered, and use the energy that is collected to propel those stars toward the centre of the civilisation, where they will become gravitationally bound and thus protected from the future expansion of space.”
There was once a time that Scientists would have been laughed at and lost their jobs with these types of claims – things are definitely changing!
U.I.P SUMMARY
Well it appears that more and more scientists are now starting to drip feed us disclosure about the extraterrestrial beings in space, perhaps this is a government funded worldwide project to start waking the masses up?
There will be those who will laugh off such claims, however, lets not forget the recent discovery of Tabby’s star, as star which shows very clear signs of potentially having some huge ‘made’ alien structure surrounding it (please read below for more information on this).
Compared to other civilizations we are prehistoric in comparison, still dependent on fossil fuels for energy – it is important for us all to remember this!
WETENSCHAP De zonnesonde Parker, die als alles goed verloopt zaterdag de ruimte in gaat, heeft een Belgisch kantje. Het ruimtevaartcentrum van de Universiteit van Luik heeft een van de vier instrumenten aan boord ontwikkeld: een hittecamera die de dichtheidsfluctuaties in de zonnecorona moet gaan opmeten.
De zonnesonde Parker is een project van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA. Parker - vernoemd naar de astrofysicus Gene Parker, die zestig jaar geleden het bestaan van zonnewind voorspelde - zal tot op iets meer dan zes miljoen kilometer van de zon naderen. Het wordt de eerste satelliet die zo dicht bij de zon cirkelt.
Bedoeling van de missie is om de energiestromen in het buitenste deel van de atmosfeer rond de zon - de corona - te onderzoeken, net als de fysische mechanismen achter de zonnewind.
APOm de enorme zonnestraling te overleven, is de Parker Solar Probe uitgerust met een elf centimeter dik koolstofcomposietschild, dat temperaturen tot 1.400 graden celcius aankan.
Telescopen
Het ruimtevaartcentrum van de universiteit van Luik ontwikkelde één van de vier instrumenten aan boord, de WISPR of Wide-Field Imager For Solar Probe Plus. Het gaat om twee telescopen die opnames maken van de corona en de zonnewind, zo legt Pierre Rochus van de Luikse universiteit uit. De telescopen kunnen niet rechtstreeks in de zonnecorona kijken, omdat het dan te heet wordt. Maar ze observeren het licht dat door elektronen en stof van kometen en andere ruimteobjecten gediffuseerd wordt.
WISPR kan daarna de link leggen met de bevindingen van de andere drie instrumenten aan boord. Het gaat onder meer om een geavanceerd toestel dat elektrische en magnetische velden en golven opmeet.
Zes jaar
Parker zal er meer dan zes jaar over doen voordat het in zijn definitieve baan rond de zon is gemanoeuvreerd. NASA maakt daarvoor gebruik van de planeet Venus, die zeven keer van dichtbij wordt genaderd. Om de enorme zonnestraling te overleven, is de Parker Solar Probe uitgerust met een elf centimeter dik koolstofcomposietschild, dat temperaturen tot 1.400 graden celcius aankan.
De zonnesonde wordt zaterdag gelanceerd vanop de lanceerbasis Cape Canaveral in het Amerikaanse Florida.
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KAN EEN METEORIET DE DERDE WERELDOORLOG VEROORZAKEN ?
KAN EEN METEORIET DE DERDE WERELDOORLOG VEROORZAKEN ?
De reden dat wij als mensheid elkaar nog niet van deze planeet hebben weggeblazen met kernwapens is omdat er goede systemen zijn die het gebruik in de hand houden.
Echter, onlangs explodeerde een meteoriet vlakbij een Amerikaanse radarinstallatie die is geprogrammeerd daarop te reageren omdat het dat registreert als een raketaanval met kernwapens.
Normaal gesproken moet er heel wat gebeuren voordat men daadwerkelijk over gaat tot het afschieten van raketten met kernkoppen. Dit, omdat een dergelijke actie waarschijnlijk het einde zou betekenen van ons bestaan als mensheid op deze aarde.
Sommigen denken dan dat buitenaardsen niet zullen toestaan dat er ooit kernwapens op aarde gebruikt zullen worden en misschien is dat ook wel zo, maar dan is er nog altijd de mogelijkheid dat er per ongeluk ergens iets mis gaat.
Wat dat betreft lopen wij als aarde sowieso steeds meer risico omdat het aantal vuurbollen/meteorieten de afgelopen jarennogal spectaculair is toegenomen.
The base hosts the 12th Space Warning Squadron (12 SWS) which operates a Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) designed to detect and track ICBMs launched against North America.
En dan zie je het volgende soort tweets:
Deze man zegt dan dat deze meteoriet op vrij grote hoogte zou zijn geëxplodeerd, in de onderstaande video zegt Tyler van Secureteam dat het ding wel degelijk op de grond is ingeslagen.
Hoe dan ook, feit is dat dit soort dingen natuurlijk levensgevaarlijk zijn bij een basis waar ze de controle schijnen te hebben over 2000 kernkoppen. Het vreemde in dit hele verhaal is ook weer dat de Amerikaanse luchtmacht net doet alsof er helemaal niets is gebeurd en geen enkele mededeling heeft gedaan. Wat ons betreft kunnen we ons gelukkig prijzen dat er kennelijk nog steeds ook mensen meekijken bij de registratie door dat soort systemen en klaarblijkelijk, zoals de tweet weergeeft, hebben ingegrepen.
En dat terwijl er een object, al dan niet op de grond, is geëxplodeerd met een kracht van 2.000 kilo TNT. Een gevaarte dat met ruim 24 kilometer per seconde (86.400km/hr) op de aarde afstevende.
Maar goed, zoals de man in de tweet zei: We zijn er nog en dus misschien tijd voor een positieve benadering. En wij doen dat in de vorm van een voorspelling die ons is opgestuurd door een lezer (dank!) en die gaat als volgt:
Met betrekking tot voorspellingen:
Ik ga er nu van uit dat veel van de vooral negatieve voorspellingen, gedaan zijn in een zeer lange tijd waarin de prognose die richting uit ging. De waarschijnlijkheidswerelden, parallelwerelden.
En dat er nu meer ontwikkeling/groei is gekomen in het bewustzijn van (blijkbaar voldoende) mensen, dat bepaalde –eerder duidelijke aanwijzingen- voorspellingen niet meer uit zullen komen, omdat dit niet meer nodig is voor de mensheid en de planeet als totaal. Zoals ook bij mensen individueel, bepaalde moeilijke processen op een gegeven moment begrepen kunnen zijn en bepaalde negatieve situaties of personen dan niet meer worden aangetrokken.
Vandaar ook dat het goed is dat er zoveel informatie ligt nu. Goede en minder goede. Maar wie bepaalt?
Alleen jammer als dit bij veel mensen angst en kwaadheid veroorzaakt, want dit is als voeding voor het duister.
Negativiteit kan niet gelijk vertrekken of oplossen in de atmosfeer, maar moet eerst naar buiten komen, verwerkt en vervangen worden.
SUPER LOW-FREQUENCY SPACE SIGNAL HAS SCIENTISTS MYSTIFIED
SUPER LOW-FREQUENCY SPACE SIGNAL HAS SCIENTISTS MYSTIFIED
A low-frequency signal picked up from the depths of space by a Canadian radio telescope last month has scientists intrigued, and trigger-happy extraterrestrial enthusiasts even daring — probably prematurely — to use the A-word.
The mysterious signal, which science refers to as a fast radio burst (FRB), was detected July 25 by a telescope at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) in British Columbia. The telescope has only been online for a few months, and the significance of this particular FRB pickup isn’t that it exists in the first place (they’ve been detected before) — rather; it’s the signal’s perplexingly super-low-frequency signature.
At 580 MHz, the signal (which has been given the memorable name of FRB 180725A) rings out at almost 200 MHz lower than any similar frequency that’s been detected to date, according to Patrick Boyle of McGill University, credited with the discovery.
What exactly is an FRB? Well, that’s part of the speculation-spawning mystery. Astrophysicists can describe the bursts’ characteristics, but they still can’t explain how they occur — although they appear to agree that it takes something phenomenally powerful to create and throw the signals.
An FRB is a “high-energy astrophysical phenomenon of unknown origin detected as a bright radio pulse lasting a few milliseconds on average,” according to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC). “The exact origin and cause of FRBs is uncertain, they are found in parts of the sky outside the plane of the Milky Way galaxy and are thought to be extragalactic.”
Only about two dozen of the events had been reported before the CHIME telescope went live; now, researchers expect the detentions to occur with much greater frequency. Scientists do believe FRBs are common, “with estimates suggesting these events arrive at Earth roughly a thousand times per day,” according to RASC.
Previous theorizing about the source of FRBs in general attributes their possible origins to everything from dying black holes to hyperactive neutron stars to — at least in theory — intelligent life.
In reality, the newness of the CHIME telescope’s data collecting endeavor may point out the scientific community’s relative ignorance of a previously-undocumented phenomenon more than it reveals anything about signs of exploding stars, aliens, or anything else — at least while the data’s still this fresh. So while the source of the bursts remains enigmatic, it’s probably not a stretch to say they aren’t new harbingers of an imminent E.T. invasion.
The CHIME telescope under constructionPhoto: Mateus A. Fandiño - The CHIME collaboration (Wikimedia Commons)
You may have seen recent headlines about a strange radio signal picked up by a Canadian telescope. Some go as far as to say it was caused by all-caps ALIENS.
It probably wasn’t from aliens, as far as we can tell—nor are these “fast radio bursts” something you should be worried about. The truth is, the FRB spotted by Canada’s CHIME radio telescope on July 25 wasn’t much different from other FRBs that telescopes have spotted. But it’s still pretty cool and the first of its kind, so let’s talk about why.
“It’s interesting because it was seen down to lower radio frequencies than we’ve seen an FRB before,” astronomer Emily Petroff from ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, told Gizmodo. “We just don’t know a lot about FRBs at these frequencies, so it’s great to see that they are at least detectable and CHIME is finding them.”
It’s true that FRBs are a cosmic mystery. First detected in 2001 but not reported until 2007, only around 50 of these events have been spotted by radio telescopes. They are quite literally fast radio bursts, bright-and-quick signals in the radio band, the longest wavelength and lowest-frequency electromagnetic radiation, beyond infrared and microwaves on the electromagnetic spectrum.
Astronomers don’t know what causes these bursts, but they might be surprisingly common. Top FRB candidates include neutron stars with strong magnetic fields, called magnetars. Some physicists have suggested dark matteror extraterrestrial intelligence. Perhaps there are several different sources. Scientists are still trying to figure it out.
CHIME’s fast radio burst, in green
Graphic: CHIME/FRB Collaboration
This hyped-up burst, called FRB 180725A, arrived at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a large radio telescope in southern British Columbia, at around 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific time on July 25. It lasted for approximately two milliseconds, and had a frequency as low as 580 MHz, according to its Astronomer’s Telegram entry. The FM radio band spans frequencies from 88 to 108 MHz, for comparison, while a microwave oven excites molecules using an electric field with an alternating 2,450 MHzfrequency.
What makes this FRB so weird? It’s probably not much different from the rest, said Petroff, but 580 MHz is the lowest-frequency FRB scientists have spotted so far. Usually, these blips hit Earth with frequencies between 1,000 and 1,500 MHz. But it probably won’t be the last such blip. CHIME caught the signal during its commissioning phase, meaning the telescope is still getting up and running.
FRB 180725A is just a taste of what’s to come. CHIME’s enormous field of view could allow it to find one FRB per day. “So the main exciting thing about CHIME is that it will probably find lots of FRBs, meaning more chances to learn where they’re coming from,” said Petroff.
Is it exciting? Most certainly. Is it aliens? Probably not. It’s just another piece on the fast radio burst puzzle. In order to truly determine their source, scientists need to find more of them, especially ones that repeat, which could provide reliable observations.
EXCLUSIVE: Discovery Channel treasure hunter claims he’s found evidence of an extra-terrestrial spaceship while exploring ancient shipwrecks beneath the Bermuda Triangle
EXCLUSIVE: Discovery Channel treasure hunter claims he’s found evidence of an extra-terrestrial spaceship while exploring ancient shipwrecks beneath the Bermuda Triangle
Explorer Darrell Miklos has been using secret maps created by famed NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper to find shipwrecks in the Caribbean
Diving at an undisclosed location near the Bahamas he found what he believes is the first evidence of an extra-terrestrial visit to earth hundreds of years ago
What he thought could be an ancient shipwreck turned out to be huge USO (unidentified submerged object)with 15, 300ft long obtrusions jutting from its sides
'It was a formation unlike anything I've ever seen related to shipwreck material, it was too big for that,' Miklos tells DailyMail.com
Miklos' discoveries have featured over two seasons of hit Discovery Channel docu-series Cooper's Treasure
A treasure hunter has made an astonishing 'unexplained' discovery deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle that he believes could provide the first evidence of an extra-terrestrial visit to earth hundreds of years ago.
Explorer Darrell Miklos has been using secret maps created by his close friend and famed NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper to find shipwrecks in the Caribbean.
His amazing discoveries have featured over two seasons of hit Discovery Channel docuseries Cooper's Treasure.
But in recent months his team stumbled on something that he believes will shock the world.
Using maps put together in the 1960s by Cooper to identify more than 100 magnetic 'anomalies' in the Caribbean, Miklos dived at an undisclosed location near the Bahamas to investigate what he thought could be an ancient shipwreck.
Search for USOs in Discovery Channel hit Cooper's Treasure
Darrell Miklos and his team discovered the USO (unidentified submerged object) in the Bermuda Triangle close to the Bahamas. He spotted the large obtrusions while exploring the area in a submersible looking for shipwrecks. 'I was trying to identify shipwreck material based on one of the anomaly readings on Gordon's charts when I noticed something that stuck out, that shocked me,' said Miklos in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com
Horizontal cylinder structures jut out from this large dome feature at the center of the site. Geophysicists on the team report that the coral covering these structures appears to be more than 5000 years old.
A close up of one of the horizontal structures which has scientists baffled. Because of the extreme currents at the location it's almost impossible for coral to grow at all, let alone into a anything this large
Here, what he describes as the right jutting section of the USO. According to scientists on Darrell's team, no coral anywhere in the world could grow in this formation naturally, there would have to be an underlying structure to support that type of growth
Miklos, 55, described what he found while filming episode seven of Cooper's Treasure and tells how he and his team want to bring the 'alien spaceship' to the surface 'It was a formation unlike anything I've ever seen related to shipwreck material, it was too big for that. 'It was also something that was completely different from anything that I've seen that was made by nature'
These horizontal structures are massive, each measures as much as 300 feet straight out, the length of a US football field. The explorer also found other bizarre and unexplained formations around the main object, all of which are covered in thick coral which he believes are hundreds if not thousands of years old
These mystery shapes score the top of the massive central mound. Each of these lines is the width of a family home
Here you can see the gigantic mound rising above the ring of structures that stick out from the center. The entire site's diameter is some 600 feet - the length of two football fields
But instead the veteran treasure hunter found a bizarre structure like nothing he's ever seen.
The huge unidentified submerged object (USO) has 15, 300ft long obtrusions jutting from its side.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com Miklos, 55, described what he found while filming episode seven of Cooper's Treasure and tells how he and his team want to bring the 'alien spaceship' to the surface.
He recalls: 'We were doing a scene where I was sitting in a two man submersible.
'We were out in the Bahamas and we were on an English shipwreck trail, somehow related to Sir Francis Drake.
'I was trying to identify shipwreck material based on one of the anomaly readings on Gordon's charts when I noticed something that stuck out, that shocked me.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com Miklos, 55, described what he found while filming episode seven of Cooper's Treasure and tells how he and his team want to bring the 'alien spaceship' to the surface
'It was a formation unlike anything I've ever seen related to shipwreck material, it was too big for that.
'It was also something that was completely different from anything that I've seen that was made by nature.
'It's almost like there are five arms coming out of a steep wall cliff and each one of these is the size of a gun on a battleship. They're enormous and then there's five over here and five over there, 15 in total.
'There's identical formations in three different areas and they don't look nature made, they don't look man made, certainly nothing I've ever seen based on my experience and I have years of experience at doing this, we've identified multiple different types of shipwreck material, this doesn't match or look anything like that.'
The deepest part of the site is 300 feet below the surface, divers had to use special breathing apparatus and a state of the art submarine to access it.
The explorer also found other bizarre and unexplained formations around the main object, all of which are covered in thick coral which he believes are hundreds if not thousands of years old.
Blown away by the discovery, when back on board his ship, Miklos decided to dig further into Cooper's files to find further clues.
Significantly, the astronaut had written 'unidentified object' on the chart of the area rather than mentioning any historical shipwreck.
'I investigated some of Gordon's charts, I realized that there was something else on there that Gordon was referring to,' he said.
'Then it made sense to me why it wasn't identified as a shipwreck... he had to mean it might be something from another world.
'Gordon believed in aliens. He believed that we had visitors from other planets and he also believed that a lot of these things landed in this particular part of the world.'
The treasure hunter has made the astonishing 'unexplained' discovery deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle. Miklos believes it could provide the first evidence of an extra-terrestrial visit to earth hundreds of years ago.
The deepest part of the site is 300 feet below the surface, divers had to use special breathing apparatus and a state of the art submarine to access it
Gordon Cooper successfully piloted the Mercury-Atlas 9 Faith 7 Spacecraft around the Earth 22 times in 1963 paving the way for men to reach the Moon.
He was a pioneer who became the first American to sleep in space and the first to fly twice.
He was also the first American televised from space.
But as well as researching the limits of human endurance he was also charged with a secret spy mission while in orbit.
Using special 'long range detection equipment' Cooper was asked by the US government to look for 'nuclear threats' - which likely meant Russian submarines or nuclear missile sites.
But Miklos says Cooper - an avid treasure hunter - also noted the positions of Caribbean shipwrecks while he conducted this spy mission, and created a map on his return to Earth.
The shipwreck hunter claims long time friend Cooper gave him the maps - which included detailed charts and exact coordinates - after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's and then died in 2004 aged 77.
In the first season of the show Miklos and his team used Cooper's map to make a remarkable discovery in the Caribbean - a centuries-old anchor believed to be from one of Christopher Columbus’ ships.
Cooper's maps led Miklos to dozens of other significant ship wrecks across the Caribbean worth millions of dollars.
But with this latest discovery the Californian is conscious of being labeled 'crazy' by coming out with wild claims that Cooper's map might now have led him to an alien spaceship submerged under the ocean.
That's why he says he wants to remain 'neutral' until he can investigate the mysterious site further.
Miklos and TV production company AMPLE Entertainment are now hoping the Discovery Channel will commission a third season of Cooper's Treasure so they can do just that.
United States astronaut Gordon Cooper (1927-2004) pictured wearing his Mercury space suit used in early phases of the Project Gemini training program in the United States circa 1961. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Miklos said: 'I want to investigate it. I want to see what it is, because it may be nature made, just a freak of nature, but given its placement in this particular part of the Caribbean and given what Gordon has told me about visitors from another planet and the things that I've seen, I think it's definitely worthwhile investigating.'
AMPLE Entertainment founders Ari Mark and Phil Lott, who are behind Cooper's Treasure, are equally as excited.
Mark told DailyMail.com: 'In the first two seasons we didn't enter too far into Cooper's UFO interests and what he had told Darrell about what he had seen.
'I don't feel like we've even scratched the surface of what's in Cooper's files, but that's what we hope to do in a third season.
'The bottom line is that Cooper spotted anomalies and it is his maps that led Darrell to this discovery.
'Cooper was a reliable source for treasure, then based on his findings Darrell found something that does not appear to be a shipwreck or anything that anybody has ever seen.
'We want to find out exactly what it is and establish whether it ties in with Cooper's belief that we're not alone.'
During his post-NASA career, former US Air Force Cooper became well known as an outspoken believer in UFOs and claimed the government was covering up its knowledge of extra-terrestrial activity.
'I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth,' he told a United Nations panel in 1985.
'I feel that we need to have a top-level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the Earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion.'
He added: 'For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us.'
Miklos said Cooper often told him stories of UFO sightings and believed a lot of the world's technological advances had been passed on to governments by messengers from alien planets.
Cooper even designed his own miniature 'UFO' based on an alien design he claimed to have seen.
Using special 'long range detection equipment' Cooper was asked by the US government to look for 'nuclear threats' - which likely meant Russian submarines or nuclear missile sites. But Miklos says Cooper - an avid treasure hunter - also noted the positions of Caribbean shipwrecks while he conducted this spy mission, and created a map on his return to Earth. The shipwreck hunter claims long time friend Cooper gave him the maps - which included detailed charts and exact coordinates
Miklos said Cooper often told him stories of UFO sightings and believed a lot of the world's technological advances had been passed on to governments by messengers from alien planets
Producers Ari Mark (top left) and Phil Lott (top right) with treasure hunter Miklos, host of Discovery Channel's 'Cooper's Treasure
But as for Cooper being a UFO 'nut job', Miklos couldn't disagree more.
He described him as a 'close friend' and 'father figure' who was of 'sane mind'.
'I can tell you one thing for sure, there was a lot of conspiracy theorists and UFO nut jobs that he wanted nothing to do with,' said Miklos.
'Just because he had actual encounters with something that he couldn't explain and other encounters to which he did have an explanation for, but he wasn't going to go and befriend all of these crazy different types of groups.
'In the early days he wasn't going to overstep the bounds of what he could reveal out of fear of getting killed (by the government) and what good would that do. So he kept a lid on it, he kept a lot of it quiet until later in his life.
'So the man I knew wasn't a whack job, he wasn't hallucinating and he wasn't making things up to gain attention, that wasn't him.
'He truly believed in what he saw and he tried to tell it in such a way to make people believe it and he knew because of his background in NASA as a rocket scientist that he was more credible than most.'
Nevertheless, Cooper was often discredited for expressing his beliefs on extra-terrestrial activity, but Miklos added: 'As serious as I'm talking here right now with a clear mind to you, that's who he was.
'He was an honest, straight forward individual who only wanted to investigate and explore the possibilities of the unknown, even if it meant risking his professional career.'
The next episode of Cooper's Treasure airs this Friday on the Discovery Channel at 9pm (PST)
It was going to be the factory of the future. Dubbed the “Alien Dreadnought,”Tesla’s new manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, was designed to be fully automated — no humans need apply. If all went well, AI-powered robots would enable the company to achieve a weekly production of 5,000 Model 3 electric cars to keep up with burgeoning demand. But Tesla fell far short of that mark, manufacturing just 2,000 vehicles a week. The problem, as the company painfully discovered, was that full automation wasn’t everything it was cracked up to be. According to CEO Elon Musk, the sophisticated robots actually slowed down production instead of speeding it up.
Tesla’s solution was to shut down production to address the bottlenecks and then to erect a large temporary structure — essentially a tent — for additional capacity. The company has also hired hundreds of workers to revamp production processes, train (and retrain) the robots, and swap them out when needed, among other tasks. As Musk himself tweeted last April, “Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be precise, my mistake. Humans are underrated.”
Tesla is not the only company to learn the pitfalls of excessive automation. In our global study of more than 1,000 companies at the forefront of implementing AI systems, we have found that the greatest performance gains are achieved not when machines are used to replace employees, but when they are deployed to work alongside them. In such collaborative relationships, people help machines become better, and machines enable people to achieve step-level increases in performance.
Adding Humans to the Mix
For Tesla, adding more human labor to the mix means extending traditional jobs with additional responsibilities that would help ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the Alien Dreadnought. So, for instance, an equipment maintenance supervisor must be able to do more than just supervise hourly technicians and manage the repair of equipment. The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts. Similarly, equipment maintenance technicians need more than just the know-how to diagnose and troubleshoot industrial equipment. They must also be able to use a variety of analytics, such as thermography and vibration analysis, to proactively determine when certain maintenance procedures should be performed on machinery before a breakdown occurs.
And it’s not just traditional jobs that are being extended to encompass new tasks. Our analysis has uncovered that entirely new categories of jobs are being created. Just as the internet revolution ushered in completely novel jobs — for example, web designer and search-engine optimization engineer — so will the new era of AI. Telsa, for instance, is recruiting robot engineers, computer vision scientists, deep learning scientists, and machine learning systems engineers. And the company has also posted job listings for more-esoteric AI specialties such as a battery algorithms engineer and a sensor-fusion object tracking and prediction engineer. For the former position, the requirements go beyond knowledge of lithium-ion cells (cell capacity, impedance, energy, and so on) to include expertise to develop algorithms for state-of-the-art feedback control and estimation. Moreover, it’s not just technology-related jobs that are being reimagined with AI. In fact, as Tesla and other companies have discovered, AI technologies are having a profound impact throughout the enterprise, from sales and marketing, to R&D, to back-office functions like accounting and finance. As just one example, Tesla deploys an AI system to process its customer data, including information from an online forum, in order to identify common problems with the company’s vehicles.
Some Training Required
Obviously, finding the right individuals to fill roles like “battery algorithms engineer” is not an easy task, especially given the severe shortage of AI expertise, which has pushed some annual salaries well above $300,000. As such, many companies are trying to grow the talent they need in-house. Yet in our global study, we found that although executives have realized that their reskilling programs will require a bigger and different set of activities than in the past, nearly three-quarters of the 1,500 global companies we surveyed said they have struggled with how to proceed.
The solution will require significant new investments in reskilling — especially given that only about 3% of companies are planning along these lines — and may call for collaboration with outside partners as well as government agencies. Consider Adidas’s “Speedfactory,” an advanced manufacturing plant that recently started production outside Atlanta. To open the 74,000-square-foot robotic plant, which will enable manufacturing flexibility for making sneakers designed specifically for local consumers, Adidas worked closely with local authorities in Georgia and with German-based partner OECHSLER Motion. Currently, the facility employs about 150 people in numerous jobs that are highly technical: planners, engineers, stitchers, and technicians. As the factory was being built, OECHSLER staff worked from a startup hub that was run as a partnership between Chattahoochee Technical College, the Cherokee Office of Economic Development, and the Woodstock Office of Economic Development. Other incentives included a state tax credit of $3,500 per job created, as well as assistance from Georgia Quick Start, a state program that provides training support. In addition, Adidas flew employees to Germany for training, to work with the specialized AI-based robotic machinery.
As the amount of employee training increases, some companies have begun to develop their own certification programs to help employees acquire the knowledge and expertise they’ll need. Take, for example, GE Global Research, which has set up online programs to teach machine learning and other specific skills. Several hundred employees have already completed the company’s certification program for data analytics, which have enabled people to assume new roles.
Back at Tesla, Model 3 workers receive more training than other production staff, and this includes classroom training in both manufacturing essentials and manufacturing fundamentals. Tesla has also been launching new technician training programs that, for example, help people make the transition from working on internal combustion engines to electric vehicles. And the company has partnered with colleges to provide students with the education they’ll need for a career in the electric-vehicle industry.
As much as Tesla has embraced automation and AI, the company’s success will ultimately depend on humans. To meet burgeoning demand for the Model 3, Musk has expressed his desire to eventually run three shifts of manufacturing a day, essentially keeping the assembly line in nonstop operation. To accomplish that, the plan is to hire about 400 employees a week, resulting in considerable demands for onboard training to accommodate that influx. Meeting that challenge of employee training will be crucial to attain the necessary economies of scale, given the Model 3’s relatively low entry price point, starting at $35,000. According to one analysis, the car has the potential to achieve a 30% margin, which would be unprecedented for a battery-powered vehicle. Yet even as the company finally achieved the targeted production of 5,000 vehicles in the last week of June, whether it can maintain and accelerate that aggressive pace remains to be seen. Ironically, even in the factory of the future, humans may be needed now more than ever.
Strange new mineral found in a Russian meteorite-Representational image University of New Mexico
Prospectors hunting for gold in southern Russia stumbled upon a chunk of material that turned out to be a meteorite made of material that has never been seen before on Earth.
This alien piece of rock has been named Uakitite after the town it was found in. Scientists presented the discovery of the Uakit meteorite at the Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Moscow.
Researchers say that 98 percent of the meteorite is made up of kamacite, an alloy of iron and nickel. This alloy is made of nearly 90 to 95 percent iron and about 5 to 10 percent nickel. It is formed in space and only found in its natural state in meteors, notes a report by LiveScience.
The remaining 1 to 2 percent of the Uakit meteorite was found to be made of about a dozen minerals that are known to have formed only in space. The composition of this meteorite suggests that it was formed under extreme heat of well over 1,000 degree C, say the researchers.
Kamacite is an alloy commonly found in meteorites. In the case of a new discovery in Siberia, it was found to contain traces of a new mineral completely alien to science.
Photo / Supplied
On further study, researchers found the uakitite as miniscule grains in the rock, no larger than 5 micrometres—less than 25 times the size of a grain of sand. The quantity of Uakitite was so small that scientists could not even accurately put together all of its properties, notes the report.
However, researchers found that it is structurally comparable to two other out-of this-world minerals—carlsbergite and osbornite. Referred to as mononitrides, these minerals contain one nitrogen atom in their make up, notes the report.
Mononitrides are described as being hard and can even be used as an abrasive, said lead researcher Victor Sharygin, from the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy.
While rumours have spread that uakitite is actually harder than diamond—the hardest naturally formed mineral on Earth—Sharygin clarified that this claim is untrue. In fact, "the hardness of uakitite was not measured directly," because the grains were too small, he said. Researchers instead estimated the hardness of uakitite using vanadium nitride, because it closely resembles Uakitite.
The meteorite found in the Siberian region of Uakit. It has been found to contain a hard, never-before-seen, mineral.
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Researchers have said that uakitite falls between 9 and 10 on the Mohs hardness scale where a diamond is placed at 10. That means it is hard, but not diamond hard.
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