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...
30-08-2018
This Group of NASA Veterans Wants to Build Their Own Space Station
This Group of NASA Veterans Wants to Build Their Own Space Station
Axiom also hopes to revive orbital tourism, with tickets priced at $55 million.
At first Axiom’s modules would be attached to the International Space Station. Eventually, the company wants to have a separate station in orbit. (Axiom Space)
As a NASA astronaut for 20 years, Michael Lopez-Alegria conducted 10 spacewalks and set a U.S. record for total spacewalking time (67 hours and 40 minutes) that still stands. Now he heads business development for Houston-based Axiom Space, which aims to send private “spaceflight participants” up to the space station (for $55 million a seat), then to attach its own commercial module to the International Space Station, followed eventually by a free-flying commercial station of its own. Lopez-Alegria talked to Senior Editor Tony Reichhardt in June.
Air & Space: The Russians were taking paying customers up to the space station every couple of years in the early 2000s, but we haven’t seen any of those spaceflight participant flights in almost a decade. What happened?
Lopez-Alegria: Pretty simple. At the time, the station had three crew members, and we were rotating one of the three on shuttle flights and the other two on a [three-seat] Russian Soyuz, leaving a third seat open. Once the shuttle stopped flying, all three crew members started rotating on the Soyuz, so there were no more seats available. The demand was still there, but there was no supply.
What was the idea behind Axiom Space?
Our co-founder, Mike Suffredini, was NASA’s program manager for the International Space Station for ten years until he retired in 2015. He went to work with the other co-founder, Kam Ghaffarian, who at the time owned a company called SGT, which is a large contractor with NASA. They wanted to investigate the viability of a commercial space station, and after studying it for about a year Mike thought it was doable. And here we are.
Bigelow Aerospace already has an experimental module attached to the station, and is planning a commercial module of their own. How is your plan different?
We’re largely appealing to the same markets, which, in the beginning anyway, will be foreign professional astronauts as well as spaceflight participants. There are a couple other lines of revenue—research, space manufacturing, advertising, and something called exploration systems testing. When NASA starts going to points farther than Low Earth Orbit, like cislunar space or Mars, they want to have tested the support equipment and other critical components in space before they deploy them to places that are a lot harder to get to. It’s a lot easier to go fix something in Earth orbit than it is to fix something orbiting the moon. So that’s a sixth line of business, working for the companies and governments developing hardware for exploration.
We’re different from Bigelow in that they use expandable technology, which is sort of like a balloon that they inflate. We are going with a more proven system, basically an aluminum cylinder. Our module is going to be manufactured by the same guys, Thales Alenia, who have built something like 40 percent of the habitable volume on the space station. We don’t want to try anything that’s super hard. I mean, we don’t have much time to get this done. The ISS is going to be de-orbited somewhere between 2024 and 2028, maybe a little later. But this is still a pretty ambitious endeavor. It will take time, and we want to make sure we can get this stuff up there and activated. Trying that with new technology doesn’t seem like the path to success for us.
What does NASA have to do to make it happen?
They have to grant access for somebody to use one of the space station’s berthing ports. There’s only one port located in a place where you could attach something big enough to call a space station, or the beginning of a space station. So we think NASA needs to get on with whatever competitive process they want in order to decide which company is worthy of putting their confidence in.
If you’re an investor, and I come to you to invest a whole bunch of money, you’re going to say “What are the risks?” And if I say, “One of the risks is that we may not win this docking port,” you’re going to think twice. So until that docking port is granted, it’s going to be very difficult to raise a lot of money, and until you raise the money you can’t start constructing a module. So the first domino has to be the granting of the docking port. Then construction comes, and we can launch and dock and activate and start making revenue, and prove our worth to NASA so they can say okay, now we can retire the ISS, because we are confident we’ll have a place to go [in low Earth orbit]. Because we really don’t want a gap in our capability to work in Low Earth Orbit.
Has NASA given any indication of when they might start this competition for the docking port?
Oddly, two years ago, in the summer of 2016, they issued a request for information where they asked industry, “If we wanted to give away [the docking port] what criteria should we use?” A bunch of companies, 19 of us, responded, and NASA indicated that the responses were going to form the basis of a solicitation. But then the election happened, and I don’t pretend to know why it’s taken so long, but they still haven’t done it yet. Recently they issued what’s called a NASA research announcement, asking a lot of the same questions they did in 2016. So we’re encouraging them to use the data they already have to develop a [solicitation].
What agreements do you already have in place with NASA? Even before you attach your own module to the station, you want to send up paying customers, right?
Yes, that’s right. We’re getting a lot of interest from investors in spite of the lack of a docking port, because [flying private customers to the ISS] is already a sustainable business in and of itself. We would like to get NASA and other ISS partners comfortable with our operation. Flying to the ISS and demonstrating that we know what we’re doing is going to be good for them and for us, although we already have a ton of NASA experience within our company. So that’s a real reason to do these precursor flights. We have one planned in 2020, and another one or two planned in 2021. Then we’d like to get our modules up there in 2022.
We have a Space Act Agreement with NASA , and the first phase is complete, a kind of feasibility study to outline what services and utilities we would need from the station. We need to get some power and cooling capacity, et cetera, and we’d need to know how our module affects the mass and center of gravity of the station. So they’ve done all that preliminary work.
Have you already got customers lined up for the 2020 and 2021 flights?
No, we’re talking to [potential customers]. We only recently [in June] announced our campaign to market spaceflight participant flights. We’re agnostic as to which launch vehicle we’d use. It could be Soyuz, which has three seats, it could be the SpaceX Dragon, which has four, or it could be Boeing’s Starliner, which has five. Let’s take the Dragon case in the middle. On short duration flights, which are about ten days, we’d like to have at least one professional astronaut and up to three spaceflight participants. We could have more professionals—it doesn’t really matter to us, the price is effectively the same except for the training. We are fairly far along in negotiations with some countries to provide professional astronauts, but we have just started looking for spaceflight participants.
Are you thinking of astronauts from countries that don’t have their own space programs?
Two different categories: One would be countries that are fairly technologically advanced but don’t have human spaceflight programs. We can help with everything from astronaut selection to training. We have quite a bit of experience within our company. SGT [Ghaffarian’s former company] is a contractor to NASA, and today does all the training for NASA astronauts as well as all the flight control functions in Mission Control for the ISS. So you have a huge knowledge base accessible to our company. We would be able to select and then train and then fly astronauts for these countries. The second category are countries that already have astronauts, but don’t get to fly often enough. And a lot of those are in Europe.
One of the barriers to signing up spaceflight participants in the past was the amount of time required to train in Russia. Will your training be shorter?
Yes, and they won’t have to learn to speak Russian, either. I flew with two of those spaceflight participants, and both of them were in Russia for several months. We’re talking about being able to do our training in about 15 weeks, and it would all be in the U.S., with potentially a one-week trip to Russia to understand the Russian part of the space station.
Most of the space tourists a decade ago actively participated in the onboard experiments, and really tried to pitch in. Do you see that happening on your flights as well?
They can do whatever they want, is the bottom line. But I’ll tell you a story. When I was an astronaut and found out I was going to be flying with tourists, I wasn’t terribly excited about it. I figured this is a place for steely-eyed test pilots, and didn’t think very highly of the concept. I ended up flying about ten days with Anousheh Ansari, and she completely inverted that perspective. I saw how she and the guy I flew home with, Charles Simonyi, were both extremely professional, very courteous, and extremely willing to help. More importantly, she wrote a blog that reached millions of people on the ground and really kind of democratized the experience. It kind of opened my eyes to this notion that space is such a unique and magnificent experience that it ought to be shared with as many people as possible.
With all the experience at Axiom, do you see ways to build or operate a space station that might be better than the way NASA does it?
I hate to say it, but things that the government buys are always going to be more expensive just because they have a lot of bureaucracy and a lot of requirements. That’s the advantage of having a team that’s so experienced, that has sat through all the safety reviews. We can tell which [requirements] are valid, that we really need to consider, and which ones are kind of fluff. I think anybody who’s honest would tell you that you a lot of stuff happens that is just a function of the size of the organization.
Secondly, the ISS was built with pretty old technology, basically 386 processors and 1553 [military standard] data, which is kind of overkill for what we need, and drives costs out the roof. With the speed of processors today, you can do so much more with so much less in terms of weight, volume, and complexity. For instance, some of the gear on the ISS was so big that it had to go outside on the truss structure. And if it breaks it’s a real pain to go fix it. You have to have a spacewalk, or use very complex robotics, whereas now, because of miniaturization, we can put something like that inside, behind a cupboard door. So those are the things that will help us save money.
In his 20 years at NASA, Lopez-Alegria conducted 10 spacewalks and set a U.S. record for total spacewalking time (67 hours and 40 minutes) that still stands.(NASA)
If everything goes according to your plan, how do you see Earth orbit in 10 or 15 years? Will there be several space stations?
I think probably just one company will benefit from the ISS, which is in a particular orbit. Other companies might want to go to different orbits. But once that one company proves the market, then I think you’ll see more investment, other companies trying to build independent space stations. For the first one, it would be advantageous to start attached to the ISS. Once the market gets proven, and I’m confident it will be, I do think you’ll see a proliferation of stations.
Would you like to go up again yourself?
I’ve had kind of a tongue-in-cheek conversation with Mike [Suffredini]. He said “You can be the first guy to go as soon as you write me a check for $55 million.” [Laughs] I don’t think it’s gonna happen any time soon.
It’s the stuff of thriller movie plots and space travel nightmares. A meteorite crashed into the International Space Station and pressure started dropping on the Russian side as oxygen began leaking out of the hole. A good screenwriter could spin this opening scene into 90 minutes of heart-thumping action, but NASA decided to let the crew continue to sleep and deal with it in the morning. Does NASA Need better technicians or better screenwriters?
“As flight controllers monitored their data, the decision was made to allow the Expedition 56 crew to sleep since they were in no danger. When the crew was awakened at its normal hour Thursday morning, flight controllers at Mission Control in Houston and at the Russian Mission Control Center outside Moscow began working procedures to try to determine the location of the leak.”
The current ISS crew consists of station Commander Drew Feustel, Flight Engineers Ricky Arnold and Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Upon awakening (to the music of “Fixing a Hole” by the Beatles?), NASA sent them all over to the Russian side to look for the leak. Really!
Soyuz spacecraft
And? They found it! The hole was no more than two millimeters (.078 inches) in diameter and located not on the ISS itself but in the Soyuz spacecraft currently docked to it. That spaceship has been attached there since June, so it’s considered part of the station. The hole appeared to have been caused by a micrometeorite impact and was apparently found by ESA astronaut Gerst who reportedly … get ready for this … put his finger over the hole! The little Dutch boy with his finger in the dikewould be so proud.
It gets better. The space news website NASASpaceFlight.com was monitoring communications between ground support and the crew gave these updates on the initial repairs:
“Russian ground controllers say they are now into a deep dive evaluation of the hole. Sergey Prokopyev is still trying to hunt down a repair kit. They have taped the hole as a band aid. Plan is to clean up the area and add more permanent patches.”
Tape! Patches! And then …
“Now told to use a toothpick on the hole (likely to aid photography and scale). Then will apply sealant and cover it with a patch. General ISS pressure is holding stable now.”
Toothpicks! Glue!
This is no space thriller movie … this is a sitcom for aliens watching Earthlings in their feeble attempts at space travel.
We’re glad the crew is safe and the hole is repaired. This shows how risky space travel is and how dangerous even a tiny meteorite or piece of debris can be. A permanent fix will most likely have to be made from the outside on a spacewalk.
NASA has probably already put in orders to ship up some Bondo, sandpaper and paint.
DE GOUDEN BIBLIOTHEEK VAN ONZE VOOROUDERS ( VIDEO )
DE GOUDEN BIBLIOTHEEK VAN ONZE VOOROUDERS ( VIDEO )
Wanneer de aarde dreigt te vergaan door allerlei mogelijke rampen, dan doet de mensheid vaak toch pogingen om een boodschap voor toekomstige generaties of volken achter te laten.
Ook onze verre voorouders hebben dat gedaan in de vorm van een ondergrondse bibliotheek in Zuid Amerika.
Ongeveer vijf jaar geleden kwam er een claim van een aantal mensen die beweerden een enorme ondergrondse bibliotheek in Ecuador te hebben ontdekt, of beter gezegd, herontdekt.
Een team onderzoekers heeft bekendgemaakt dat zij de legendarische metalen bibliotheek en diverse andere schatten hebben gevonden in het Tayos grottensysteem in Ecuador.
Zij maakten ook bekend dat ze per ongeluk enkele verborgen tunnels hebben ontdekt die lang geleden door iemand of.... iets gemaakt zijn.
Het team was in staat om één van deze tunnels bijna een kilometer lang te volgen en kwam uiteindelijk uit in een grote kamer die de gouden bibliotheek en diverse andere waardevolle objecten bevatte. Hier volgt een lijst van wat de onderzoekers zeggen te hebben gevonden:
1) Een bibliotheek met duizenden metalen boeken. Het team was nog niet in staat om te vertellen welk metaal gebruikt was voor de boeken, maar het leek op zilver. 2) Iedere pagina bevatte symbolen en vreemde tekens. Individuele platen met tekens erop die eruit zagen alsof ze van goud waren. 3) Honderden verschillende beelden van insecten, dieren en mensen, verspreid door de grote kamer. 4) Veel metalen staven, zowel van (wat eruit zag als) goud en zilver. 5) Ook werd er kinderspeelgoed gevonden en juwelen van goud of zilver. 6) Een grote sarcofaag met daarin een menselijk skelet, versierd met juwelen en goud. 7) Het team vond tenminste nog drie deuren die naar meer kamers zouden kunnen leiden, maar die waren afgesloten.
Tot nu toe zijn de claims van dit team alleen nog gedaan via een radioprogramma en zijn er (nog) geen verdere mededelingen gedaan. Ze meldden verder dat ze voorbeelden hadden van tenminste één van de metalen boeken, een gouden plaat en verschillende kleine beeldjes die aangeboden zullen worden voor professioneel onderzoek. Hopelijk zullen er binnenkort meer berichten volgen.
Daarna is er nooit meer iets vernomen voor zover ons bekend.
Desalniettemin zijn de grotten en de verhalen over die bibliotheek wel echt.µ
Mensen die zich al eerder met deze bibliotheek hebben beziggehouden zijn onder andere Erich von Däniken en de Schotse onderzoeker Stanley Hall. Deze laatste kwam in de jaren zeventig van de vorige eeuw in contact met een Italiaanse priester, Crespi genaamd. Crespi had zich jarenlang onbaatzuchtig ingezet voor de belangen van de plaatselijke indianen en had als beloning ondermeer een soort gouden plaat gekregen, met daarop allerlei vreemde tekens. Ook had hij diverse andere voorwerpen in zijn bezit die erop wezen dat deze bibliotheek inderdaad bestond en gezien de vormen van de aangetroffen beelden, er inderdaad een verband mogelijk is met buitenaardse beschavingen. Stanley Hall heeft diverse expedities georganiseerd in de vorige eeuw, waaronder één waarbij ook de voormalige astronaut Neill Armstrong van de partij was. Alhoewel ze wel in het grottensysteem zijn geweest, zijn ze er niet in geslaagd om de bibliotheek te traceren. Hall is inmiddels overleden, maar zijn werk wordt voortgezet door zijn dochter. Deze kwam er ook achter dat de gouden plaat samen met vele andere waardevolle voorwerpen van de priester, na zijn dood in 1982 ineens waren verdwenen.
Toch is het verhaal over de tunnelcomplexen zeer interessant. Want dit soort tunnelstelsels bestaan namelijk echt. Erich von Däniken vertelde in 1973 in zijn boek ‘Het Goud der Goden’, dat hij ter plaatse foto’s had gemaakt van een enorm tunnelcomplex in Ecuador. Hij vertelde dat de Hongaarse Argentijn Juan Moricz, dit gangenstelsel vond en er via een notariële akte in 1969 eigenaar van werd. Dit klopt als een bus. Dit is middels akte en handtekeningen gedocumenteerd. Moricz ontmoette in 1972 Erich von Däniken en nam hem mee naar de plaats waar hij een rondleiding kreeg. Dit werd wonderlijk genoeg naderhand door Moricz zelf, tegenover de Duitse pers ontkend toen zij hier naar vroegen (hier zodadelijk meer over – want Erich von Däniken moet daar weldegelijk geweest zijn!). Erich von Däniken schreef in zijn boek vol lof over het enorm grote gangenstelsel.
von Däniken schreef hierover:
“Voor mij is het het ongelofelijkste, onwaarschijnlijkste verhaal van de eeuw. Het zou een science-fiction-story kunnen zijn, als ik het niet zelf gezien en gefotografeerd had. Ik heb het met eigen ogen gezien. Het is droom noch fantasie, het is realiteit. Onder het Zuidamerikaanse continent ligt een reusachtig door wie en wanneer dan ook aangelegd tunnelsysteem. Het ligt heel diep onder de aarde en is meerdere duizenden kilometers lang. In Peru en Ecuador werden honderden kilometers betreden en uitgemeten. En dat is nog maar het begin van iets waar de wereld niets van afweet.”
Op de volgende afbeelding zie je Von Däniken samen met Juan Moricz.
Wie meer wil lezen over dit bijzonder interessante verhaal raden wij om hier of hier verder te lezen.
Wie nu precies wel of niet dat grottenstelsel heeft ontdekt is wellicht minder belangrijk dat het feit dat ze er wel degelijk zijn.
Wat opvalt in vooral de eerste video met Stanley Hall en Father Crespi is dat er via dat gevonden beeld weer wordt gerefereerd aan de Soemeriërs en Babylonië.
Waarom werd dit enorme grottenstelsel gemaakt en waarom werd een dergelijke uitgebreide bibliotheek opgeslagen? Hoogstwaarschijnlijk omdat er rampen plaatsvonden of zouden plaatsvinden op aarde, waardoor complete beschavingen zouden worden weggevaagd.
Bij de mainstream wetenschap hoef je niet aan te kloppen voor antwoorden op dit soort vragen, want daar doet men alle mogelijke moeite om mensen in voorgeprogrammeerde gedachtepatronen vast te houden en daar horen dit soort werkelijkheden niet in thuis.
Misschien iets voor Evert Jan Poorterman om hier eens wat dieper in te duiken? Of iemand anders natuurlijk.
Large cone shaped metal looking UFO in the sky over Lake Erie
Large cone shaped metal looking UFO in the sky over Lake Erie
On July 11, 2018 a resident of Huron, Ohio captured a strange large cone shaped metal looking object with two triangular bright lights came out of it over Lake Erie before it all disappeared.
The witness states: I live on a golf course on Lake Erie approximately one quarter mile from the water.
I was out on my patio early evening and looking up the sky and noticed that there were no clouds in the sky, just overcast.
I saw this strange looking grayish vapor like cloud that almost looked like a short jet stream.
There were no planes in the air at that time and the altitude was somewhat low. It appeared to me that it was out over the lake.
I used my phone and took a picture of the cloud and then I took two more within 5 or 6 seconds after that, then the cloud and all objects were gone.
When I looked at the pictures which I have attached this is what I saw. I am the type of person who has to see it to believe it and I can assure you that this was not photoshopped or faked in any way I'm a very skeptical person anyhow this one has me. Your thoughts?
The photographer has submitted the images to Mufon case 94503.
Large cone shaped metal looking UFO in the sky over Lake Erie
Amazing UFOs caught on tape over Las Vegas, Nevada
Amazing UFOs caught on tape over Las Vegas, Nevada
This really shocking footage was filmed over Las Vegas on 24th July back in 2015 and it was just published online.
Witness report:
I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of July 24, 2015. The location where these were filmed was above and beyond the Las Vegas Mountain Range which is at least 22 miles from my home where I was filming and is restricted airspace. I know they were a minimum of 22 miles away because you can see them go behind the mountain which is 22 miles away at 21:16:56 on the time stamp in the lower right-hand corner of the video. I know some of you don’t like it when I speed the video up but in this case, there was a lot of footage I wanted to show so I sped it up by five times. There are many times that these amazing objects perform stunts that are unheard of with our current technology and it’s much easier to see when the video is running at a faster pace. I also know that some of you don’t like the music but many others do so I add background music because the night vision camera does not record audio.
Turn your sound down or mute the video if you don’t like the music and it will be a win-win situation for all viewers. I recently decided to put MUFON to the test and turned a video in that is just as amazing as this one and they are the very same objects. It has been two weeks and I still haven’t heard a peep. I am very curious to find out whether or not they will even contact me. Finally, I have some great news… I have been wanting to buy a Nikon Coolpix P900 which gas an 83X optical zoom and 16.1 million megapixels for a long time now and I finally got it about a week ago. It will be great for taking close up photos of where I film and hopefully some of the objects I film. Right now I am just learning how to use it so I can take the best photos possible. I will put a slideshow video out soon showing you how sweet everything works.
Author (UFOs Over Vegas – Steven Barone @ youtube)
Dyson spheres are hypothetical megastructures built by extraterrestrials for the purpose of harvesting all of a star’s energy. Here’s how the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission might help find one.
Artists’ concept of a Dyson sphere. Notice the little moon or planet on the left side, being ravaged for raw materials. This image – called Shield World Construction – is by Adam Burn. More about it here.
When contemplating extraterrestrial intelligence, one of the most tantalizing ideas is that a super-advanced alien civilization could build an enormous structure around its home star, to collect a significant portion of the star’s energy. This hypothetical megastructure is popularly known as a Dyson sphere. It’s a sci-fi-sounding concept, but some scientists have also seriously considered it. This week, a story emerged about how the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission – whose primary purpose is to create a 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy – might be instrumental in the search for Dyson spheres.
In the past, searches for Dyson spheres have focused on looking for signs of excess infrared or heat radiation in the vicinity of a star. That would be a telltale signature, but those attempts have come up empty, so far. The new peer-reviewed study – which was published in the Astrophysical Journal on July 18, 2018, and later described in Astrobites – proposes looking for Dyson spheres with little or no infrared excess. In other words, it describes a technique not attempted before.
Erik Zackrisson at Uppsala University in Sweden led the new study. It focuses on a type of Dyson sphere that would’ve been missed by prior searches focused on infrared radiation.
Suppose you were looking toward a Dyson sphere. What would you see? The visible light of the star would be reduced significantly since the Dyson sphere itself – by its nature – would mostly surround the star for purposes of energy collection. The star would continue shining; it would be shining on the inner portion of the Dyson sphere. Presumably, the star’s radiation would heat the sphere. According to earlier thoughts by scientists on the subject, a Dyson sphere should have a temperature between 50 and 1,000 Kelvin (-370 to 1300 degrees Fahrenheit; -220 to 730 degrees Celsius). At that temperature, radiation from the sphere would peak in infrared wavelengths.
That was the earlier idea, until Zackrisson’s study.
An all-sky view of the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies from the Gaia mission. This view includes measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars.
Image via Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC)/A. Moitinho/A. F. Silva/M. Barros/C. Barata – University of Lisbon, Portugal/H. Savietto – Fork Research, Portugal.
His study suggests the possibility that the sphere might be composed of a different kind of material than what had been previously supposed. Suppose this material had the ability to dim the star’s light equally at all wavelengths? That would make it a so-called gray absorber and would significantly affect methods used to search for Dyson spheres. If you measured the star’s distance spectrophotometrically – by comparing the star’s observed flux and spectrum to standard stellar emission models – then the measurements would suggest that the star is farther away than it actually is.
But then if you measured the star’s distance using the parallax method, you’d get a different number. The parallax method compares the apparent movement of a nearby star against the stellar background, as Earth moves from one side of its orbit to another across a period of, say, six months. The size of a Dyson sphere could be determined by comparing the difference in distances between these two methods. The greater the difference, the greater the amount of the star’s surface that is being obscured by the sphere.
Now, thanks to new data from the Gaia mission, astronomers can do these kinds of comparisons, which could – in theory – detect a Dyson sphere. From the new study:
A star enshrouded in a Dyson sphere with a high covering fraction may manifest itself as an optically subluminous object with a spectrophotometric distance estimate significantly in excess of its parallax distance. Using this criterion, the Gaia mission will in coming years allow for Dyson sphere searches that are complementary to searches based on waste-heat signatures at infrared wavelengths. A limited search of this type is also possible at the current time, by combining Gaia parallax distances with spectrophotometric distances from ground-based surveys. Here, we discuss the merits and shortcomings of this technique and carry out a limited search for Dyson sphere candidates in the sample of stars common to Gaia Data Release 1 and Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) Data Release 5. We find that a small fraction of stars indeed display distance discrepancies of the type expected for nearly complete Dyson spheres.
In other words, using this new method, astronomers have found candidate Dyson sphere stars.
Graph showing distribution of covering fractions for all stars in the Gaia-RAVE database overlap (left) and just those stars with less than 10 percent error in their Gaia parallax distance and less than 20 percent error in their RAVE spectrophotometric distance (right). If the parallax distance is smaller than the spectrophotometric distance, that is interpreted this as a negative covering fraction, and could be an indication of a Dyson sphere surrounding that star.
Image via Zackrisson et al. 2018.
The Gaia mission is currently charting a three-dimensional map of our galaxy, providing unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements with the highest accuracy ever. The goal is to produce a stereoscopic and kinematic census of about one billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy and throughout the Local Group of galaxies.
As it happens, these data are very useful when searching for Dyson spheres.
Using the parallax distances from the first data release of Gaia, Zackrisson and his colleagues compared that data to previously measured spectrophotometric distances from the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), which takes spectra of stars in the Milky Way. This resulted in an estimate of what percentage of each star could be blocked by Dyson sphere material.
Illustration of how Gaia is measuring the distances to most stars in the Milky Way with unprecedented accuracy.
Image via S. Brunier/ESO; Graphic source: ESA.
Of course, figuring out if any of these could actually be Dyson sphere candidates required further analysis. Zackrisson and his team decided to focus on main-sequence stars (like the sun), spectral types F, G and K, and narrowed those down to those which displayed a potential blocking fraction greater than 0.7. Larger giant stars were removed from the data set since their spectrophotometric distances tend to be overestimated compared to main-sequence stars.
This alone left only six possible candidates. Those in turn were then narrowed down to only two, after eliminating four candidates due to problems with the data itself. One of those, the star TYC 6111-1162-1, was then considered to be the best remaining candidate.
Artist’s concept of Gaia in space.
Image via D. DUCROS/ESA.
So … has the first Dyson Sphere been found? The simple answer is we don’t know yet. The star, a garden-variety late-F dwarf, seems to exhibit the sought-after characteristics, but more data is needed. No other glitch-related weirdness was found in the data, but the star was also found to be a binary system consisting of two stars (the other being a small white dwarf) which might explain the results – but none of that is certain yet. Additional study of the star will be required, including using future Gaia data releases, to determine what is really happening here. From the new study:
To shed light on the properties of objects in this outlier population, we present follow-up high-resolution spectroscopy for one of these stars, the late F-type dwarf TYC 6111-1162-1. The spectrophotometric distance of this object is about twice that derived from its Gaia parallax, and there is no detectable infrared excess. While our analysis largely confirms the stellar parameters and the spectrophotometric distance inferred by RAVE, a plausible explanation for the discrepant distance estimates of this object is that the astrometric solution has been compromised by an unseen binary companion, possibly a rather massive white dwarf. This scenario can be further tested through upcoming Gaia data releases.
A handy illustrated guide to Dyson spheres – massive structures which could be built to surround a star and harness its energy by an advanced alien civilization.
Image via Karl Tate/Space.com.
Bottom line: Discovering an actual Dyson sphere, or something similar, would be incredible. This new study proposes a new method of searching which shows some promise. It’s even possible that a Dyson Sphere-type object has already been found in the preliminary data, but that will require more follow-up to either confirm or disprove. Regardless, this new search method will prove valuable in future searches as well.
What Would It Take to Land on Mercury? It's Time to Find Out, Scientists Say
What Would It Take to Land on Mercury? It's Time to Find Out, Scientists Say
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
A 2010 mission study examined the possibility of landing on Mercury, but the challenges were too substantial at the time.
Credit: Illustration: Space.com; NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington; JHU/APL/NASA
Mercury has been devoid of spacecraft companions since NASA's Messenger mission ended in 2015, and while the next mission bound for the innermost planet launches later this year, it won't arrive until 2025.
Scientists are passing the time digging through Messenger's data and planning what the new mission will bring, of course. But, they've also begun to think about what's next for the littlest planet in the solar system — and to revive dreams of finally putting a robot on its surface.
"That's going to really be unprecedented, with two spacecraft observing Mercury at once," Nancy Chabot, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, told Space.com. Chabot was referring to the BepiColombo mission, which consists of a pair of orbiters that will be launched in October. "We all know that we're going to get a lot of amazing data and make a lot of discoveries about the planet, but we also know that mission has been in development for decades." [10 Strange Facts About Mercury (A Photo Tour)]
Chabot is one of the lead authors of a newly published white paper calling for a detailed study to examine the feasibility of putting a lander on Mercury. Although such a study was conducted in 2010, no mission ever came of it because the planet is such a challenging target — but new technology may make a Mercury lander more feasible. And a lander would fit with the typical rhythm of planetary exploration: fly by, orbit, land, rove.
But NASA decides its missions in accordance with reports called decadal surveys, which are produced every 10 years by the National Academies of Sciences. Committees will soon begin working on the next one for planetary endeavors, which will cover 2013 to 2022. And when they do, Mercury scientists want them to consider their favorite planet.
"We need to get working on this now for us to see a Mercury lander in the 2030s," Paul Byrne, a planetary geologist at North Carolina State University and one of the lead authors of the white paper, told Space.com. "Our job will be complete if we can convince people to do one of these studies."
Why send a lander?
There are plenty of questions haunting Mercury scientists, especially in the wake of the Messenger orbiter, which gathered data from 2011 to 2015. And that situation will only improve once BepiColombo reaches the planet in 2025 and begins sending back more orbital data.
Mercury itself is a weird, wonderful world. "Mercury is sort of a planet of extremes — you've got the hot and cold temperatures, you've got the fact that it spins on its axis three times for every two times it goes around the sun," Steven Hauck, a planetary scientist at Case Western Reserve University, one of the lead authors on the white paper and a key figure in the mission study completed in 2010, told Space.com. "There are places on the planet where you can see double sunsets and double sunrises." And then there's the bit where the planet is almost entirely made up of core, with thin shells of mantle and crust surrounding a giant metallic ball.
All that weirdness means that while individual scientists have their own preferences for what a mission could look like, they say that right now, the details are much less important than looking at the feasibility of any mission at all. That's why the white paper doesn't specify any particular landing site or instrument suite — or even what the lander's primary goal would be. [Mercury Photos from NASA's Messenger Probe - Part 2 (April 2011 through 2012)]
"With any of those [mission goals], there's still amazing, compelling science that you could do on the surface of Mercury," Chabot said. "I think I'd be willing to go with a lot of different options, just because there are so many different science questions that a lander could answer."
What makes Mercury so difficult
But missions aren't solely about scientific merit: NASA and its fellow space agencies need to be pragmatic about their resources as well, and that puts Mercury at a disadvantage. "For decades, people have argued that Mercury is just as — if not more — scientifically compelling than Mars, but Mars is much easier to get to," Byrne said. Mars is also easier for a spacecraft to land on and survive, whereas every step of a Mercury lander would be challenging.
First, getting there: "You essentially need three rockets to get to Mercury," Hauck said: one to get off Earth, one to get from Earth to Mercury and one to carefully land on the planet (because it lacks an atmosphere that can slow down a spacecraft). Oh, and the entire process takes six or seven years because of the complex trajectory a spaceship would need to follow in order to reach the tiny, innermost planet.
And it doesn't get easier after landing, given a host of threats on the surface — most notably the incredible temperature extremes on the planet. "It's exceptionally hot on the day side and the exact opposite on the night side," Hauck said.
But since the last mission study was conducted in 2010, a host of new technologies have become available, or close enough for researchers to reasonably consider using them for a mission in the 2030s. That includes high-power rockets like SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, which could help send a mission on its way. And technology developed to enable the Parker Solar Probe to fly just 4 million miles (6 million kilometers) above what we consider to be the surface of the sun may be adaptable enough to allow a lander to survive out of the shade on Mercury, Byrne said.
The team's hope is that a new, detailed mission study could determine whether these factors combined, plus administrative changes — such as, no longer needing to include the cost of the launch itself in a mission plan — might make a Mercury lander affordable under NASA's New Frontiers program, which has created the Juno, New Horizons and OSIRIS-REx missions. That program caps mission costs at $850 million. [Most Enduring Mysteries of Mercury]
The group behind the white paper knows that a detailed-consideration study may not return a favorable result. "A Mercury lander is challenging, we all know this, we're not being naive," Chabot said. But the group's scientists worry that without a study, NASA will simply assume a lander isn't feasible — and in the process, shortchange the scientific merit of the smallest planet.
"We don't know why Mercury is the way it is, only that it's kind of important we understand that," Byrne said. And landing on the tiny planet may be the key to solving some of its many mysteries — if only someone can figure out how to do it.
Archaeologists Find Massive Underground World Belonging To A Long Lost Civilization In Peru
Archaeologists Find Massive Underground World Belonging To A Long Lost Civilization In Peru
Researchers in Peru have discovered a complex underground world belonging to the ancient Chavín culture that has been identified as burial chambers that date back thousands of years.
The culture developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru from 1,300 and 550 BC. The Chavín extended its influence to other civilizations along the coast. The Ancient Chavin civilization developed advanced knowledge not only in metallurgy, but in soldering, and temperature control. The ancient Chavin used early techniques to develop refined gold work.
Seen in this image are the new underground galleries that have been found containing the first human burials of the Chavin period. Image Credit: Juan Ponce / El Comercio).
Not, researchers have discovered galleries, ceramics and even a place where this civilization carried out burials, located beneath the surface. They say it’s the most important archaeological discovery made in the last 50 years.
Since June of 2018, a team of archaeologists has unearthed three new galleries in an area adjacent to the circular plaza of Chavín. In the place, they have found remarkable pieces of ceramics, utensils and intact human burials.
According to American anthropologist and archaeologist John Rick, in charge of the Archaeological and Conservation Research Program of Chavín, the three discovered galleries come from the late period of this civilization that developed between 1,300 and 550 BC.
The Ministry of Culture estimates that to date only 15% of the area has been explored. Image Credit: Juan Ponce / El Comercio
“What these galleries show is that Chavín has a much larger underground world than we think,” said Rick.
Inside one of these underground galleries, archeologists discovered artifacts that belonged to the later Huaraz culture.
These successive occupations, found at different levels in the archaeological complex demonstrate the cultural and religious importance that Chavin had in the central highlands for centuries.
The project’s specialists used small robots with built-in micro-cameras to carry out the explorations. These machines – designed on site by engineers from Stanford University – entered very small areas and discovered cavities in the Chavin labyrinths, where pottery was preserved.
Chavin de Huantar was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. So far 35 interconnected underground passageways have been found at the site, Peru’s culture ministry said.
Is the President afraid of aliens? I’m not sure, but there is a legit reason some lawmakers want to create a sixth branch of the military the President is calling the Space Force.
Here's a recipe for freaking out Twitter: Borrow a video of a realistic humanoid robot strolling up a driveway. Post it on Twitter. Wait for world famous mentalist Derren Brown to retweet it. Gather nearly 5 million video views. Enjoy the comment fallout as people question whether it's real.
Brown's retweet of a short robot video on Saturday helped spread the footage across Twitter, whose users described it as "scary," "creepy," "terrifying" and "my worst nightmare." It helped that Brown wrote, "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE" in his tweet caption.
Blomkamp didn't have anything to do with the driveway video, though he chimed in on Brown's Twitter thread, writing, "Props to the artist who implemented Adam into live action footage."
The artist behind the video appears to be 3D artist Maxim Sullivan, who originally posted the video to Twitter on Aug. 12 with the message, "Glitchy test of Adam from the @oatsstudios Unity film, going for a walk."
Sullivan answered some questions in his own Twitter thread, saying the creation is indeed CGI. While Sullivan's original tweeted video has almost 13,000 views, the version tweeted out of context by another Twitter user (and retweeted by Brown) has almost 5 million.
While Adam isn't real, there are plenty of actual robots out there that can give you the willies. Boston Dynamics' running robot Atlas is a top candidate that should slot nicely into your robo-fear nightmares.
There are fears that tend to come up when people talk about futuristic artificial intelligence — say, one that could teach itself to learn and become more advanced than anything we humans might be able to comprehend. In the wrong hands, perhaps even on its own, such an advanced algorithm might dominate the world’s governments and militaries, impart Orwellian levels of surveillance, manipulation, and social control over societies, and perhaps even control entire battlefields of autonomous lethal weapons such as military drones.
But some artificial intelligence experts don’t think those fears are well-founded. In fact, highly-advanced artificial intelligence could be better at managing the world than humans have been. These fears themselves are the real danger, because they may hold us back from making that potential a reality.
“Maybe not achieving AI is the danger for humanity.”
As a species, Mikolov explained, humans are pretty terrible at making choices that are good for us in the long term. People have carved away rainforests and other ecosystems to harvest raw materials, unaware of (or uninterested in) how they were contributing to the slow, maybe-irreversible degradation of the planet overall.
But a sophisticated artificial intelligence system might be able to protect humanity from its own shortsightedness.
“We as humans are very bad at making predictions of what will happen in some distant timeline, maybe 20 to 30 years from now,” Mikolov added. “Maybe making AI that is much smarter than our own, in some sort of symbiotic relationship, can help us avoid some future disasters.”
Granted, Mikolov may be in the minority in thinking a superior AI entity would be benevolent. Throughout the conference, many other speakers expressed these common fears, mostly about AI used for dangerous purposes or misused by malicious human actors. And we shouldn’t laugh off or downplay those concerns.
We don’t know for sure whether it will ever be possible to create artificial general intelligence, often considered the holy grail of sophisticated AI that’s capable of doing pretty much any cognitive task humans can, maybe even doing it better.
The future of advanced artificial intelligence is promising, but it comes with a lot of ethical questions. We probably don’t know all the questions we’ll have to answer yet.
But most of the panelists at the HLAI conference agreed that we still need to decide on the rules before we need them. The time to create international agreements, ethics boards, and regulatory bodies across governments, private companies, and academia? It’s now. Putting these institutions and protocols in place would reduce the odds that a hostile government, unwitting researcher, or even a cackling mad scientistwould unleash a malicious AIsystem or otherwise weaponize advanced algorithms. And if something nasty did get out there, then these systems would ensure we’d have ways to handle it.
With these rules and safeguards in place, we will be much more likely to usher in a future in advanced AI systems live harmoniously with us, or perhaps even save us from ourselves.
Pour les adeptes du paranormal, les crop circles qui apparaissent dans les champs de blé seraient l'œuvre d'aliens. Pour les sceptiques, ils seraient d'origine humaine. Pour trancher le débat, des youtubeurs ont réalisé une petite expérience instructive.
Ce crop circle est apparu dans un champ de blé de Sarraltroff en Moselle. Il est l'oeuvre de youtubeurs et non d'extraterrestres.
ARNAUD THIRY
Cette fois, ils ont frappé à Sarraltroff (Moselle). Ils ? Les extra-terrestres bien sûr ! C'était le 9 juin et comme à leur habitude, ils ont laissé une trace de leur passage dans un champ de blé : un immense crop circle ou cercle de culture en français ou encore agroglyphe. Le dessin géant est formé d'épis couchés par “une technologie alienne”. Il est composé de plusieurs cercles disposés de manière énigmatique voire ésotérique et dont la "géométrie parfaite” ne peut s'apprécier que vue du ciel. Selon les exégètes de la chose, cette géométrie est d'ailleurs trop parfaite pour être l'oeuvre de simples êtres humains. La preuve, donc, qu'il s'agit bien d'une production extra-terrestre... Le champ est alors devenu un véritable lieu de pèlerinage New Age, chargé “d'énergie”, “de vibrations” et autres fluides cosmiques obscures.
Malheureusement - pour les exégètes - ce crop circle a bel et bien été réalisé par des humains ordinaires… ou presque. Effectivement, le 24 août, de joyeux youtubeurs ont révélé qu'ils étaient les auteurs de l'agroglyphe de Sarraltroff. Ces mordus de science, sont surtout adeptes de la zététique, l'étude rationnelle de phénomènes prétendument extraordinaires (paranormal, pseudo-sciences, pseudo-médecines etc…). Ils étaient aidés par deux ufologues sceptiques, rompus à l'analyse des phénomènes supposés extra-terrestres. Armés de simples mètres rubans pour les mesures et de quelques bières, les membres du commando ont agi en pleine nuit à la lueur de leurs torches frontales. Une planche sous le pied tenue à chaque extrémité par une ficelle, ils ont écrasé minutieusement les blés dans le champ d'un agriculteur complice (voir les explications de la méthode dans la vidéo). L'opération a duré à peine une heure. Et à la différence d'insaisissables extra-terrestres, les youtubeurs ont tout filmé. Les séquences sont diffusées et largement commentées sur Astronogeek, la chaîne Youtube d'Arnaud Thiry, l'initiateur du projet (trois épisodes sont prévus).
“L'objectif n'était pas de se moquer de ceux qui croient aux extra-terrestres, nous assure Arnaud Thiry. Nous voulions tester la méthode qui permet aux experts d'affirmer si un crop circle est une oeuvre extra-terrestre ou humaine.” Une véritable expérience en aveugle. En d'autres termes, est-ce que ces experts, ne connaissant pas l'origine du crop circle, sont capables déterminer, comme ils le prétendent, s'il a été produit par des humains. La réponse est clairement non. “Tous ceux qui sont venus sur place ont affirmé qu'il s'agissait bien d'une réalisation extra-terrestre", confirme Arnaud Thiry.
« Ce crop est tellement élaboré. C’est vivant, comme dans les cathédrales ou devant un menhir. Un humain n’aurait pas pu le faire. »
Umberto Molinaro, le plus populaire d'entre-eux, est lui aussi tombé dans le panneau. Ce conférencier français, auteur de quatre livres sur le sujet, s'est rendu sur place. Entouré de nombre de ses fidèles qui le suivent notamment sur Facebook ou lors d'une émission diffusée sur la chaîne Youtube CTVM TV, il a pu observer le nouveau “message” laissé par ceux qu'il appelle tantôt “les Etres de Lumière” tantôt “les Galactiques”. Ainsi, interrogé par une journaliste du Républicain Lorrain, il ressort l'argument de la complexité du motif : " Ce crop est tellement élaboré. Chaque cercle est lié aux autres par des rapports particuliers. C'est vivant, comme dans les cathédrales ou devant un menhir. Un humain n'aurait pas pu le faire. " L'occasion d'improviser avec ses amis une séance collective de captation d'énergies et de vibrations assurément cosmo-telluriques.
Alors forcément, quand deux mois plus tard il apprend que les cercles de culture ont été réalisés non pas par des Galactiques, mais par des humains, il change de version. Il affirme notamment qu'il n'a jamais dit qu'il s'agissait d'un “vrai crop circle” (d'origine extra-terrestre). Contacté par téléphone il nous confirme : “Je n'ai jamais authentifié ce crop circle. Pour le faire il faut prélever de la terre et analyser sa résistivité.” (sic). Il poursuit : “J'ai tout de suite vu que c'était un faux.” Pourtant, sur Facebook et sur Youtube, l'expert français n'a pas cessé de gloser sur l'authenticité de l'oeuvre, assénant, photos à l'appui, tous les indices qui permettent de distinguer la main de l'Etre de Lumière du pied de l'être humain.
Outre la complexité du motif, les partisans de l'hypothèse extraterrestre évoquent par exemple la présence de blés coudés. Il s'agit en fait de tiges qui se redressent partiellement vers le ciel. Le phénomène serait l'oeuvre “d'une résonance vibratoire” caractéristique de la technologie alien. Pourtant, comme l'ont montré les youtubeurs, la technologie terrestre consistant à aplatir le blé avec une simple planche de bois, produit les mêmes effets. Le blé coudé s'explique par l'héliotropisme, littéralement une attirance pour le soleil, qui pousse une plante vivante, dépendante de la photosynthèse, à s'orienter naturellement vers la lumière.
Mieux encore, Umberto Molinaro commente la présence de mouches mortes collées sur les épis de blé. Là encore, il s'agit pour lui des effets secondaires de la méthode extra-terrestre. Et pour l'affirmer avec plus de force, il fait appel à une autorité dans le domaine : Valentin, un jeune homme décédé depuis plusieurs années et en contact direct avec les Galactiques... L'explication de Valentin relayée par Umberto Molinaro est alors limpide : “Les insectes sont immobilisés sous les effets vibratoires. Ca les scotche sur place. Ils n'ont plus la force de réagir.”
Au téléphone, le malaise est perceptible. Umberto Molinaro nous confie qu'il a été piégé. Il accuse les youtubeurs d'avoir étudié sa technique pour l'induire en erreur. Mais comme le montre la vidéo, la bande de sceptiques n'a fait qu'écraser le blé en suivant la méthode de la planche de bois abondamment décrite sur Internet. Mieux, le rapport VECA, rédigé par Gilles Munsch du Groupe d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés (GEIPAN) au Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), révèle tous les éléments qui permettent de montrer qu'un crop circle a été réalisé par l'homme. Un rapport consultable par tous car en accès libre sur Internet. Gilles Munsch est d'ailleurs venu lui-même, à titre personnel, sur le champ de Moselle : “En quelques minutes il a conclu que c'était l'oeuvre d'humains. Il m'a même décrit comment ils avaient procédé, dans quel ordre ils avaient dessiné les cercles. J'ai du rapidement lui avouer que c'était nous”, raconte Arnaud Thiry.
Coincé par la simplicité de la démonstration, Umberto Molinaro s'emporte et lâche un argument inattendu : “Quand j'emmène des gens sur un crop circle, on est à un autre niveau. On n'est pas là à chercher le vrai et le faux parce qu'on s'en fiche. Ce qu'on retrouve dans un vrai ou un faux crop circle n'est pas lié au crop circle lui-même. On est lié déjà à quelque chose de plus grand que nous.”
Cette histoire de vrai ou faux extraterrestres pourrait faire sourire, faisant passer les adeptes des crop circlespour de doux rêveurs. Mais une vidéo filmée en caméra cachée par Arnaud Thiry sur le site de Moselle, montre un toute autre visage de l'univers parallèle dans lequel ils évoluent : celui de “vibrations” ou encore “d'énergies” bienfaitrices laissées par les Galactiques et qui seraient dotées d'un pouvoir guérisseur.
Unstable Monster Galaxy Hosts Runaway Star Formation
Unstable Monster Galaxy Hosts Runaway Star Formation
By Sarah Lewin, Space.com Associate Editor
An artist's impression of the ancient, huge galaxy COSMOS-AzTEC-1, which researchers have found has three dense, star-forming regions. The galaxy can be seen forming stars at an extremely fast rate.
Credit: National Astonomical Observatory of Japan
Some 12.4 billion light-years from Earth, a monster galaxy can be seen forming stars 1,000 times faster than the Milky Way does. It's less of a mess than researchers expected — but its frenetic pace can't last.
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory in Chile have gotten the closest look ever at the galaxy, called COSMOS-AzTEC-1. So-called extreme starburst galaxies may be the predecessors of modern galaxies like the Milky Way, and so understanding them lends insight into how today's galaxies formed and evolved.
"A real surprise is that this galaxy seen almost 13 billion years ago has a massive, ordered gas disk that is in regular rotation instead of what we had expected, which would have been some kind of a disordered train wreck that most theoretical studies had predicted," Min Yun, an astronomer at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and co-author on the new work, said in a statement.
The ancient galaxy's structure held other surprises, as well. With ALMA, they saw that instead of just one dense cloud of material in the center, there were two extra blobs of star-generating gas.
"We found that there are two distinct large clouds several thousand light-years away from the center," Ken-ichi Tadaki, the study's lead author and a researcher at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Japan's National Astronomical Observatory, said in the statement. "In most distant starburst galaxies, stars are actively formed in the center. So it is surprising to find off-center clouds."
And its off-the-charts star formation comes from an inherent instability, the researchers said. In most galaxies, clouds of gas collapse and form stars, which eventually explode into supernovas, pushing gas outward again and slowing the pace of star birth. But in this galaxy, gravity is winning: More and more gas is collapsing into stars, without being pushed outward strongly enough to slow down.
Researchers have been wondering for a long time how early galaxies could form stars so quickly, the researchers said.
"How these galaxies have been able to amass such a large quantity of gas in the first place and then essentially turn the entire gas reserve into stars in the blink of an eye, cosmologically speaking, was a completely unknown question about which we could only speculate," Yun said. "We have the first answers now."
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory in Chile provided these new views of the monster galaxy COSMOS-AzTEC-1 — on the left, you can see the distribution of molecular gas, and on the right, you can see the distribution of dust. Those high-density zones are the key areas for the galaxy's rapid star formation.
Credit: Tadaki et al./ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
If the early universe were populated with galaxies with structures like this one, they could have accumulated huge amounts of gas before suddenly blasting out stars in a runaway effect — although the researchers still don't know how the galaxy was able to build up gas in so stable a fashion before the reaction began.
And the ancient galaxy's life is likely fleeting: The researchers said it will be completely consumed in 100 million years, 10 times faster than other star-forming galaxies.
The researchers speculate that colliding galaxies could have merged to create the behemoth but would need more research — and to look at more ancient galaxies in this much detail — to evaluate how likely that origin is, and to learn more about our mammoth galactic predecessors.
The new work was detailed today (Aug. 29) in the journal Nature.
Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains.
For reasons unknown, the travel fare aggregate Orbitz has decided to create a series of extraterrestrial tourism posters they have made available free online. They are really cool and commemorate potential incidents from around the world of alien visitations.
The website reads:
We are not alone.
Reports of UFO sightings, and encounters of the first, second, and third kind date back to Ancient Egypt, and continue throughout the course of history.
Ruimtestation ISS kampte vandaag met een klein gaatje in de wand. Daardoor is de druk aan boord donderdag een beetje weggevallen. Het gaatje van 2 millimeter is gedicht met afplaktape. De situatie aan boord is onder controle.
Wellicht tengevolge van de inslag van een micrometeoriet is er in de nacht van gisteren op vandaag een noodsituatie in het Internationaal Ruimtestation ISS geweest, zo heeft het hoofd van het Russische ruimtevaartbureau Roscosmos bekendgemaakt. Dmitri Rogozin beklemtoont dat het probleem is opgelost en dat de bemanning niet in gevaar verkeert.
In de loop van de nacht ontstond er zo drukverlies en een zuurstoflek in het ISS te wijten aan een gaatje van twee milimeter. De Amerikaanse bemanningsleden en de Duitser Alexander Gerst voegden zich bij hun Russische collega’s in het Russische segment van het complex. Daarop werd segment per segment afgesloten om te onderzoeken waar en wat er gebeurd is. “Uiteindelijk lokaliseerden wij het probleem, aldus Rogozin.
Micro-meteoriet
Het gaatje zat in een Russisch gedeelte van het ruimtestation, de zogeheten Rassvet-module. Dat is de plek waar capsules die vanaf de aarde komen, worden aangekoppeld. Nu zit er het vaartuig waarmee een Duitser, een Amerikaanse en een Rus in juni bij het ISS aankwamen. Het is nog niet bekend of het lek gevolgen heeft voor hun geplande terugkeer eind dit jaar.
Wellicht is er een micro-meteoriet ingeslagen, waardoor een gaatje ontstond. Het is ondertussen gerepareerd. Een ruimtewandeling voor verdere reparaties is niet nodig, aldus Rogozin.
Popular UFO researcher Graham McHardy who ran the YouTube channel 'Streetcap1' has died. The death news was revealed by Scott C Waring, another alien researcher. Waring revealed that Streetcap1 died of a sudden heart attack in June 2018, and he added that the UFO researcher was in a decent health at that moment.
"I am saddened to say that the great UFO researcher Streetcap1 (Graham McHardy) passed away in June. I just found out today. I contacted his family and they said he died of a sudden heart attack, and that no one was expecting it. He was in decent health at that moment," wrote Scott C Waring on his website UFO Sightings Daily.
In his UFO research career, Streetcap1 had pointed out several anomalies in lunar photos taken by various NASA missions. Some of the anomalies pointed out by Streetcap1 were so convincing, and it made many of his viewers believe that space agencies like NASA are covering up something sinister.
The last time he uploaded a video on his YouTube channel was on June 7, 2018. As Streetcap1 did not upload any videos since then, many of his followers asked him whether anything has gone wrong.
Tyler Glockner, another popular UFO researcher also uploaded a video about Streetcap1 on his YouTube channel 'Secureteam10'. After Glockner published the video about Streetcap1's death, viewers also expressed their suspicions regarding the untimely demise.
"Tyler you must continue your mission in honor of StreetCap you must carry this legacy and represent all of us in the seeking of Truth! We are not alone!," commented LP Ripper 24 TV, a YouTube user.
"I had a feeling..He talked about it in the last few videos..It didn't seem right then..It doesn't seem right now..He was one of my favorite, if not my favorite researcher..He will be sorely missed..RIP STREETCAP1..If you haven't seen his work..please do," commented Ancient Knowledge, another YouTuber.
Populaire UFO-onderzoeker plotseling overleden. Is hij uit de weg geruimd?
Populaire UFO-onderzoeker plotseling overleden. Is hij uit de weg geruimd?
De populaire UFO-onderzoeker Graham McHardy, eigenaar van het YouTube-kanaal Streetcap1, is overleden. Dat schrijft de International Business Times.
Scott C. Waring, een andere UFO-onderzoeker, liet weten dat Graham in juni dit jaar plotseling een hartaanval kreeg. Hij voegde toe dat de man op dat moment in goede gezondheid verkeerde.
“Met droefheid deel ik mee dat de grote UFO-onderzoeker Streetcap1 (Graham McHardy) in juni is overleden,” schreef hij op zijn website UFO Sightings Daily.
Prima in orde
“Zijn familie heeft laten weten dat hij is gestorven aan een hartaanval, en dat niemand dat had verwacht,” voegde hij toe. “Zijn gezondheid was op dat moment prima in orde.”
Streetcap1 ontdekte onder meer onregelmatigheden op maanfoto’s die tijdens diverse NASA-missies waren gemaakt.
Veel van zijn volgers zijn ervan overtuigd dat ruimteagentschappen zoals de NASA informatie voor ons achterhouden.
Twijfels
Op 7 juni jongstleden plaatste Graham zijn laatste filmpje op YouTube. Sindsdien vroegen velen zich af of hem misschien iets was overkomen.
Sommigen hebben zo hun twijfels over zijn vroegtijdige overlijden.
Een gevoel
“Ik had een gevoel. Hij sprak erover in zijn laatste video’s,” reageerde YouTube-gebruiker Ancient Knowledge. “Het klopt niet.”
“Het is misschien wel mijn meest favoriete onderzoeker,” klonk het verder. “Hij zal erg worden gemist. Rust in vrede Streetcap1. Bekijk vooral zijn materiaal.”
Psychic spies: Inside the government's secret ESP program
Psychic spies: Inside the government's secret ESP program
While scientists question whether extrasensory perception exists, for decades the Defense Department took an offensive interest in studying psychic phenomena.
Many people claim (and many others question) the existence of ESP -- Extra Sensory Perception. Erin Moriarty of "48 Hours" has gone searching for answers (Originally broadcast March 18, 2018):
In the 1970s, a handsome ex-Israeli army paratrooper popularized extrasensory perception, or ESP. Uri Geller claimed he could bend spoons with his mind, see inside sealed containers, and even read other people's minds.
It was great television. But off-stage, Geller had also caught the eye of the intelligence community.
"This is where it got very interesting, because scientists would consider, 'Wait a minute, maybe we can read the minds of other government officials; maybe we can see inside a nuclear facility in Russia,'" said national security reporter Annie Jacobsen.
LITTLE BROWN
It sounds incredible, but it's true. Relying on now-declassified documents, Jacobsen has written about the U.S. government's decades-long to attempts to use Uri Geller, and others like him, for psychic espionage.
"It's sort of like a highly-classified black program inside of a black program," Jacobsen said. "One, because you don't want the Russians or the Chinese to know what we are doing; and two, because a lot of scientists didn't want their colleagues to know what they were doing, because of the embarrassment factor."
And there had long been reports, said Jacobsen, that the Kremlin was also experimenting with ways to weaponize people with ESP.
"There's a declassified report that talks about the Pentagon's real fear -- citing Uri Geller by name -- that if he was able to bend metal with his mind, he might be able to use his mind to interfere with the delicate electronic systems on a nuclear-tipped ICBM," Jacobsen said.
But Uri Geller's skills turned out to be unreliable, as on his now-infamous appearance on "The Tonight Show" in 1973.
Johnny Carson: "Uri was telling me, you don't feel, what, strong tonight? Is that…" Geller: "I don't feel strong. I can't…" Carson: "Well, I'm not trying to pressure you. I'm really not."
Still, that didn't stop the government experiments. In the 1980s, the Defense Intelligence Agency began "Project Star Gate," which was, according to Dean Radin, a scientist who worked on the program, top secret. "It's actually beyond top secret."
The program employed about a dozen psychics and mediums. Its aim: espionage.
PENGUIN
Moriarty asked, "To see whether someone in the United States could spy on other countries from here, just using their minds?"
"Right."
"Did it work?"
"It did work, yeah," Radin replied.
Angela Ford was with Project Star Gate for nine years. She calls herself a medium; the Defense Department preferred "remote viewer." "I was good at finding people," she said. "I was good at locating things."
Moriarty asked, "In a sense, were you hired as a psychic spy?"
"I guess, yes!" she laughed.
Her assignment? To look for missing hostages and fugitives without ever leaving a building at Fort Meade in Maryland.
She recalled one assignment, in 1989, when she says she was able to psychically track down a former customs agent who had allegedly gone rogue.
"I was called into session," Ford said. "My boss asked me, 'Where is Charles Jordan?' I said, 'The man is in Lowell, Wyoming.' And I spelled it: L-O-W-E-L-L."
Ford was off by one letter -- it was Lovell, Wyoming.
"Well, when my boss went to Customs and said, 'We're still getting the Wyoming feeling,' Customs said, 'As we are speaking, we are apprehending Charles Jordan, 100 miles west of Lovell, Wyoming.'"
"So you were right?"
Ford said, "We were right."
There is no obvious explanation for how Ford obtained the intel that turned out to be accurate. But could it have been ESP?
Not according to physicists like Cal Tech's Sean Carroll. When asked if there is such a thing as extrasensory perception, Carroll replied, " No. I think we know enough about the brain to say, no, it really doesn't work that way. We'd be able to test that, be able to put a little receiver next to your head and pick up those signals if they were actually coming."
Angel's Ford's response: "They can't detect it yet."
Moriarty asked her, "But you believe ESP exists?"
"Yes, it does. Yeah, of course."
In 1995, Project Star Gate was shut down. But government interest in the paranormal has not been completely abandoned. Writer Annie Jacobsen says the military is working to see if certain soldiers have "enhanced perception," or "precognition" -- sensing what will happen before it does.
Dean Radin, now at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (which studies ESP), put Moriarty through a test: "This experiment is going to see if your body responds before you see an emotional picture as compared to before a calm picture."
If the pupils of Moriarty's eyes dilate before the disturbing pictures appear on the screen, that's precognition.
CBS NEWS
Does she have any special powers? Yes! She reacts five seconds before seeing an emotional picture.
"Whoa -- I sure didn't see that coming … which is why I have my doubts," Moriarty said.
But those who have seen people like Uri Geller and Angela Ford in action say you can't dismiss the idea that some people may have ESP.
Radin said, "What we're talking about is something like a talent, similar to musical talent or sports talent. So, there will be some people who are at the Olympic level; most of us aren't there."
Journalist Annie Jacobsen said, "There's instances of unusual situations, but there is no proof. It does not pass scientific muster."
Overheid zette jarenlang in het geheim helderziende spionnen in, en met succes. Een uniek inkijkje
Overheid zette jarenlang in het geheim helderziende spionnen in, en met succes. Een uniek inkijkje
In de jaren zeventig trok de Israëlische ex-soldaat Uri Geller de aandacht van de inlichtingengemeenschap door te beweren dat hij lepels kon buigen met zijn gedachten en gedachten van anderen kon lezen.
‘Als we de gedachten van andere overheidsfunctionarissen kunnen lezen, kunnen we misschien een kijkje nemen in een nucleaire installatie in Rusland’, zo dachten de inlichtingendiensten.
De Amerikaanse onderzoeksjournaliste Annie Jacobsen heeft zich verdiept in het decennialange onderzoek van de Amerikaanse overheid naar mensen zoals Uri Geller.
Bang
“Het is een soort topgeheime black operation binnen een black operation,” zei Jacobsen tegen CBS News. “Ze wilden niet dat de Russen of Chinezen erachter zouden komen.”
“Ze wilden ook niet dat hun collega’s erachter zouden komen, uit schaamte,” klonk het.
De journaliste merkte op dat het Kremlin ook al geruime tijd experimenteerde met buitenzintuiglijke waarneming.
“In een vrijgegeven document staat letterlijk dat het Pentagon bang is dat Uri Geller mogelijk met zijn gedachten de elektronische systemen van een kernraket kon verstoren,” zei Jacobsen.
Beyond top secret
In de jaren tachtig startte de Amerikaanse militaire inlichtingendienst DIA het Stargate Project.
Volgens Dean Radin, een wetenschapper die eraan meewerkte, was het project ‘beyond top secret’.
De Amerikaanse overheid huurde helderzienden en mediums in om te spioneren. En dat werkte, aldus Radin.
Angela Ford werkte negen jaar voor het Stargate Project. Hoewel ze zichzelf ‘medium’ noemt, gebruikte het ministerie van Defensie liever de term ‘remote viewer’.
Nog steeds
“Ik was goed in het vinden van mensen,” zei ze. “Ik was goed in het vinden van dingen.”
Ford lokaliseerde gijzelaars en voortvluchtigen vanuit een gebouw in Fort Meade in Maryland.
Hoewel het programma in 1995 werd beëindigd, doet het Amerikaanse leger hier nog steeds onderzoek naar.
Zo wordt onder meer gekeken of soldaten aanvoelen wat er gaat gebeuren, ook wel precognitie genoemd.
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