Ovni : la vérité n’est pas forcément ailleurs

1er juillet 1977 à chabeuil : Envoûtés par Vénus

“Le 1er janvier 1977, entre 19 h 30 et 19 h 45, deux personnes en voiture ont leur attention attirée par un objet très lumineux. Ils décrivent d’abord une boule très brillante immobile de couleur blanche située à 150 mètres�environ d’altitude puis un engin émettant une lumière très intense. L’observation a duré� environ 10 minutes avant que l’objet ne décrive une courbe de 45° et disparaisse en direction du Sud. La cartographie du ciel établie a posteriori montre la présence de Vénus dans le secteur du ciel observé.”

30 août  1979 à lus-la-croix-haute : des champignons pourtant pas hallucinogènes

“Le 30 août 1979, un cultivateur se rend dans un champ de seigle et aperçoit au sol un rond brûlé�de 10,50 mètres de diamètre. Il remarque que l’herbe est plus verte à l’intérieur du cercle que dans la prairie avoisinante. Aux environs du 20 septembre, ce même témoin découvrira que des champignons du type rosés des prés ont poussé à l’intérieur et extérieur du cercle.”

25 juillet 1993 à Saint-Etienne-de-Lugdares : la piste à l’Ovni devient piste de danse

“Dans la nuit du 24 au 25 juillet 1993, entre 2 h 45 et 3 h 30, trois témoins observent un phénomène lumineux blanc qui se déplace en tournant sur lui-même avec de nombreux points lumineux. L’enquête montrera rapidement qu’il s’agit d’un projecteur multifacettes d’une discothèque voisine, dont la lumière se reflétant sur le plafond nuageux bas peut s’apercevoir de très loin.”

1er décembre 2004 à Annonay : Débris

“Le 1er décembre 2004, vers 19 h 30, un témoin observe, dans le ciel, une boule blanche fort lumineuse qui descend à très grande vitesse. Avant d’atteindre le sol, cette boule se transforme en un petit point rouge et disparaît. Un autre témoin observera �également ce phénomène qui lui fait penser à une fusée éclairante. Les témoins ont probablement observé une rentrée atmosphérique (météorite ou bout de satellite entrant dans l’atmosphère).”

19 juin 2007 à Nyons : une navette spatiale pas si extraterrestre

“Une personne rapporte son observation faite le 19 juin 2007 à 22 h 10. Depuis son balcon, le témoin a son attention attirée par le passage silencieux Nord-Sud d’un phénomène très lumineux suivi de près par un second au volume beaucoup plus important. L’ensemble se déplace à vitesse constante et disparaît derrière une colline dans une trajectoire descendante. Un passage de la station spatiale internationale (ISS), accompagné de la navette qui venait de se séparer de la station, a eu lieu ce jour-là.”

26 octobre 2011 à Loriol-sur-Drôme : l’appel de phare aérien

Ceci est un… avion.

Photo Xavier Passot 2011

“Le 26 octobre 2011, vers 20 h 30, un témoin observe dans le ciel (région de la constellation du Verseau) une étoile extrêmement brillante. Le témoin s’étonne de constater que l’intensité lumineuse diminue progressivement pour finir en un tout petit point dans le ciel. L’observation fait penser à un avion vu de face, phare allumé, vu à une distance de plus de 10 km (qui rend les feux vert et rouge invisibles) et qui aurait changé de direction.”

Notre dossier complet à lire dans les éditions Drôme-Ardèche du Dauphiné Libéré de ce mercredi 19 septembre

Lâcher de lanterne thaïlandaise qui, dans le ciel, peut apparaître comme un étrange phénomène lumineux.

Photo Xavier Passot 2012

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20-09-2018 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

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19-09-2018 om 23:59 geschreven door peter  

Image copyrightSSCImage captionArtwork: How the net experiment was envisioned before its deployment

Surrey Space Centre

by Kristin Houser

NASA/NANORACKS

Image captionThe RemoveDebris is a demonstration satellite that was launched from the space station in June

JUNKY SKIES

If aliens ever visit our planet, their first impression could be that Earthlings are a messy bunch: There’s an estimated 7,500 tonnes worth of discarded satellites, rocket parts, and other debris currently floating in our planet’s orbit.

Now, efforts are underway to clean it up. One such effort: RemoveDEBRIS. In April, the team out of Surrey Space Centre (SSC) sent its RemoveDEBRIS satellite to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft; on Sunday the satellite launched from the ISS to demonstrate one of several debris-wrangling technologies.

The short sequence shows a small, shoebox-sized object tumbling end over end about 6-8m in front of the University of Surrey spacecraft.

Suddenly, a bright web, fired from the satellite, comes into view. It extends outwards and smothers the box.

"It worked just as we hoped it would," said Prof Guglielmo Aglietti, director of the Surrey Space Centre.

"The target was spinning like you would expect an uncooperative piece of junk to behave, but you can see clearly that the net captures it, and we're very happy with the way the experiment went."

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AIRBUS

If this were a real capture, the net would be tethered to the deploying satellite, which would then tug the junk out of the sky.

As this was just a demonstration, the net and the box (which was actually pushed out from RemoveDebris to act as a target) will be allowed to fall to Earth on their own. Their low altitude means it should take only a couple of months before they burn up in the atmosphere.

There has been much talk about the need to clean up space, but the Surrey satellite is the first to try out practical solutions.

Shortly, RemoveDebris will test a new camera system to track space junk - again, on a target it has brought along for the experiment.

Later, perhaps early in the New Year, there will be a demonstration of a harpoon that can snare junk. And finally, RemoveDebris will deploy a large membrane - what is termed a "drag sail", which will brush against the high atmosphere and pull the whole mission into a destructive dive towards the planet.

There are now millions of discarded pieces of metal and other materials in orbit - everything from old rocket segments to accidentally dropped astronaut tools, even flecks of paint.

The fear is that if we do not soon start taking this litter out of the sky, it will become a significant threat to active satellites.

Alastair Wayman is an engineer with the aerospace giant Airbus, which is also involved in the RemoveDebris project.

"If there are collisions, as there have been previously, then they will create lots of space debris. That debris then collides with more spacecraft, and you get even more space debris. It's a kind of snowball effect," he told BBC News.

The issue of space junk is particularly pressing because a number of companies are in the planning stages of launching thousands of new satellites.

Already there are calls for a tough new approach to licensing these spacecraft that would demand operators be able to bring down rapidly any of their hardware that fails in orbit.

The miniature harpoon to be tested on the mission

DEBRIS DEMO

For this demo, the satellite released a shoebox-sized object to act as its target, then fired a spider-like web that wrapped around the box.

“It worked just as we hoped it would,” SSC Director Guglielmo Aglietti told BBC News. “The target was spinning like you would expect an uncooperative piece of junk to behave, but you can see clearly that the net captures it, and we’re very happy with the way the experiment went.”

In a full-scale version of the technology, the net will remain tethered to the RemoveDEBRIS satellite so it could pull the captured junk out of the sky when it dives toward the Earth at the end of its mission.

But since this was just a demonstration, both the box and the net will simply burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere within the next couple of months. Had the demo occurred higher up in the atmosphere, though, both would have continued to orbit the planet along with the rest of the space junk.

TRASHTOR BEAM

In 2019, the RemoveDEBRIS satellite will demonstrate another technology — a harpoon that snares space junk. Russian scientists are also building a gigantic space laser to zap junk out of the sky, and NASA is working on a large, flat sheet it hopes to use to envelop debris.

And, really, we have no time to waste. This debris already threatens the rockets and satellites already in commission. More cluttered space could make it difficult to launch new spacecraft. If that happens, we might be stuck hoping aliens do find us — after all, we won’t be able to go out hunting for them.

READ MORE: RemoveDebris: UK Satellite Nets ‘Space Junk’ [BBC News]

More on RemoveDEBRIS: An Experimental Space Junk Collector Is on Its Way to the ISS

References: BBC News

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19-09-2018 om 23:46 geschreven door peter  

Weird Infrared Signal Emanates Across Space, But What Created It?

19-09-2018 om 23:23 geschreven door peter  

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19-09-2018 om 23:14 geschreven door peter  

IS ER NOG IEMAND DIE HET SPROOKJE VAN DE PIRAMIDEN GELOOFT ? ( VIDEO )

Op school wordt ons geleerd dat de piramiden van Gizeh zo rond 2.500 voor Christus zijn gebouwd. 

Ieder normaal logisch denkend mens zal tot de conclusie komen dat dit een onmogelijkheid is, gezien de mathematische precisie waarmee deze zijn gebouwd, het enorme gewicht van de stenen en de, volgens de historici, gebrekkige gereedschappen uit die tijd. 

Het volgende is wat in de Wikipedia staat over de piramiden van Gizeh: 

De Piramiden van Gizeh in Egypte behoren tot de bekendste en oudste bouwwerken van de mensheid. De piramiden zijn tevens de bekendste van de Egyptische piramiden. Ze bevinden zich ongeveer acht kilometer ten zuidwesten van de stad Gizeh. 

De piramiden werden gebouwd tijdens de vierde dynastie (tussen circa 2551 en 2472 v.Chr.) en zijn dankzij hun zeer stabiele constructie goed bewaard gebleven. 

Deze piramiden zouden dus gebouwd zijn in een tijd waarin in ons land het volgende gebeurde: 

Even voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog werden ten zuiden van Buurse in het Zendvelderveld interessante vondsten gedaan: twintig scherven van handgevormd aardewerk, acht stukken bewerkt vuursteen en een gedeelte van een stenen bijl. De vondsten wijzen op een prehistorische nederzetting die daar moet hebben gelegen. Twee van de scherven zijn versierd met een visgraatmotief. Deze versiering maakt het mogelijk om de vondsten nauwkeuriger te dateren, omdat elk tijdperk zijn eigen materialen, vormen en versieringen kent. 

De versierde scherven uit het Zendvelderveld horen bij het aardewerk van wat archeologen de Enkelgrafcultuur noemen. Dit volk van boeren leefde aan het eind van de nieuwe steentijd (het neolithicum), tussen ongeveer 2900 en 2500 v. Christus. Een paar families woonden in een kleine nederzetting van niet meer dan enkele boerderijen op nog geen kilometer van de huidige Duitse grens. 

We praten letterlijk over het stenen tijdperk. Misschien waren ze in Egypte iets verder gevorderd, maar toch, het gaat over volkeren op de rand van of net uit het stenen tijdperk. Neem een kwartier de tijd om de volgende video te bekijken en daarna zal je absoluut tot de conclusie komen dat deze piramiden niet door de Egyptenaren gebouwd kunnen zijn rond 2.500 voor Christus. 

De redenen waarom dit zo is, zijn overweldigend en je vraagt je af hoe een zichzelf respecterende wetenschapper kan vasthouden aan het sprookjesverhaal. 
 
Er is dan ook maar één antwoord mogelijk op de vraag waarom wij en onze kinderen de onzin over de piramiden krijgen voorgeschoteld. 

De reden is dat wij onze werkelijke geschiedenis niet mogen kennen. Want, als die bij ons bekend zou zijn, dan vallen de huidige machtsstructuren zoals religies met donderend geraas ineen en gaan mensen ineens zelf nadenken. 

Het zou het einde betekenen van de programmering van de bevolking, want niemand zou nog een woord geloven van wat ze wordt voorgespiegeld. De mens zou in opstand komen en zou opnieuw contact willen met de verre voorouders. 

Daarom is het grootste gevaar voor de machthebbers het ontdekken van onze werkelijke geschiedenis, want dat zou onmiddellijk het het einde van hun heerschappij inluiden. 

Maak vandaag een begin met het zelf nadenken. Je zult merken dat wanneer je dat eenmaal doet, je veel beter bent dan je ooit had kunnen vermoeden en dingen ineens logischer zijn. 

Sloop de machtsbolwerken door met nadenken te beginnen, de rest volgt vanzelf.

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19-09-2018 om 21:39 geschreven door peter  

What (or who) created Siberia's 'Eagle's Nest'? A meteorite, a nuke or gulag inmates? Scientists baffled

• The site in Irkutsk, Siberia, was discovered in 1949 by a geologist
• Scientists now think the Patomskiy crater was created by a meteorite but no traces of material have been found to support the theory
  
• It is thought to be 250 years old and changes shape constantly 
  

By SARAH GRIFFITHS

When one geologist stumbled across a massive mound 65 years ago, he had no idea his discovery would spark one of the world’s strangest scientific mysteries.

The site in Irkutsk, Siberia was discovered in 1949 and is a huge convex cone with a funnel-shaped recess and a rounded hill in the middle, which looks a little like an eagle’s nest with an egg nestled inside it.

The origin of the Patomskiy crater has baffled scientists for decades and theories for its existence have ranged from a nuclear blast to a secret gulag mine and even a meteorite strike.

The site in Irkutsk, Siberia was discovered in 1949 and is a huge convex cone with a funnel-shaped recess and a rounded hill in the middle, which looks a little like an eagle's nest with an egg nestled inside it

The current thinking is that the site was indeed created by a meteorite strike, but no evidence has been found to support the theory.

The cone is 80metres tall and has a diameter of 150metres at its widest. The depth of the inner circle ditch is around 10metres.

It was named Patomskiy after a nearby river and was discovered by a geologist called Vadim Kolpakov who tried and failed to arrange a scientific trip to examine the site, but numerous expeditions have taken place since and one last year collected samples.

Theories that the mound is a giant slagheap have been thrown out as there were not enough people living nearby when the crater is thought to have formed to create such a pile.

And there were never labour camps or gulags in the region.

Half a tonne of samples were taken from the site and removed by helicopter last year.

The samples led scientists to dismiss ideas of a uranium ore explosion as the background radiation at the site is low and no uranium has been found nearby either.

This left them with two main theories – one of a volcano and another of a meteorite.

However, the mysterious site has not given up any meteoritic material and the area is not thought to be volcanic. 

In fact there are no volcanoes within thousands of kilometres of the Patomskiy crater and it also seems to be relatively new.

The origin of the Patomsky crater has baffled scientists for decades and theories for its existence have ranged from a nuclear bomb blast, a secret Gulag mine and meteorite strike

The cone is 80metres tall and has a diameter of 150metres at its widest. The depth of the inner circle ditch is around 10metres

Scientists thought the crater was only between 100 and 500 years old and could be the result of the Tunguska meteorite, which fell in the Krasnoyarsk region in 1908, but whose crater has never been discovered.

It is thought the meteorite was sighted just 70km away from the ‘eagle’s nest’ and that distance is a mere 10 to 15 seconds of flight.

As the Tunguska event occurred in 1908, the age coincides, but modern tests have shown that the crater is actually 250 years old – so it could have been formed by a previous meteorite that fell when the area was virtually unpopulated.

The strange mound was found in Irkutsk, Siberia (pictured) was discovered in 1949 but it was only last year that scientists took samples from the site

The crater was named Patomsky after a nearby river and was discovered in Siberia (pictured) by a geologist called Vadim Kolpakov who tried and failed to arrange a scientific trip to examine the site. The first expedition only took place last year

Scientists now think that there is something with a high iron content and ferromagnetic materials buried between 100 and 150 metres underneath the crater.

They believe it could be a meteorite or another incredibly dense object, but they are not certain.

The fact that the crater is ‘alive’ as its shape changes constantly - by rising and falling - and that the trees nearby the site are reported to grow abnormally fast, adds to the mystery.

Scientists now think that there is something with a high iron content and ferromagnetic materials buried some 100 to 150 metres underneath the crater (pictured)

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19-09-2018 om 21:31 geschreven door peter  

It was first thought to be a meteorite crater … but it acts mysteriously like a UFO crater … and it’s in Siberia where locals fear it and some believe it could be the result of a neutron star drilling completely through the planet. So, what IS it? ‘It’ is the Patom Crater and it has baffled scientists for decades while scaring both researchers and locals with its strange and allegedly deadly powers. Now a team has developed a new theory explaining its existence that isn’t has cool as a neutron star drilling through the center of the Earth but perhaps more plausible.

The Patom or Patomskiy crater, aka “Fire Eagle Nest,” was discovered in 1949 by Russian geologist Vadim Kolpakov in the Irkutsk region of southeastern Siberia, a remote area hundreds of miles from the nearest big city. Kolpakov himself was puzzled by what he found – a circular mound made of crushed limestone measuring 520 feet (160 meters) in diameter and 139 feet (40 meters) in height, with a mound in the depressed center of the ring standing 39 feet (12 meters) high. That’s a pretty unusual 250,000 cubic meter (8,800,000 cu ft) pile of limestone weighing about one million tons. What could have caused it … or put it there?

Patomsky crater

(Dmitry Semenov: Wikipedia)

“I thought I was mad. From a distance it reminded me of a giant pit mine and I even wondered if people were there. Why would they be? This is a dense area of the taiga. Plus there were no NKVD labor camps around here – I knew it for sure. Secondly, I thought that it might be an archeological artefact, but the local Evenk and Yakut people were not ancient Egyptians. They can’t built rock pyramids.”

Kolpakov bravely climbed the mound, despite warnings from the indigenous people he had just insulted that “Fire Eagle Nest” had an evil power that caused deer and other animals to stay away from it and eventually and mysteriously killed anyone who stepped inside of it. While it didn’t affect Kolpakov, the leader of an expedition in 2005 died shortly afterward of a heart attack. Coincidence?

Kolpakov believed he was standing in a meteorite crater near the Patomskiy river. While some who agreed with him suggested it was from a fragment of the 1908 Tunguska meteorite, brave expeditions after the fateful one in 2005 determined it to be about 500 years old. Theories formed from data collected during those expeditions (and subsequently rejected) included a volcanic eruption (too small, no other craters), a super-dense, metallic, cylindrical object crashed (no one has found any metal), an underground nuclear explosion (no radiation), a spaceship landed there (and left a pile of limestone?), a fragment of a neutron star drilled through the Earth (where’s the entry hole?) or some sort of Siberia-only, warming-freezing, possibly methane-related phenomenon like the Siberian craters.

A recent article in Russia Beyond reveals the latest and most plausible theory for the Patom crater:

“A phreatic (steam) explosion, that happened either during magma emplacement into hydrous rocks or due to the faulting and decompression of heated hydrous rocks.”

A what? A hydrous rock or mineral is one which has undergone a chemical reaction that added water to its crystalline structure (amphibole, lawsonite, zoisite, chloritoid, talc, etc.). Magma emplacement is the vertical migration of magma that is driven by gravity. So, magma hits the water-filled rocks, heats up the water, creates steam, causes an explosion and leaves a crater and a mound behind to baffle natives and scientists.

This theory explains why Kolpakov felt heat, which may be the reason why animals avoid it and why vegetation may be unable to grow around it. However, if there was enough magma and hydrous rocks to form one crater, why aren’t there more?

Science, especially geology, is still leading in the race to explain the Patom Crater, despite efforts to promote pseudoscience reasons. One thing is certain — never insult or underestimate the abilities of indigenous peoples.

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19-09-2018 om 21:19 geschreven door peter  

In what can only be considered one of the most bizarre information leaks of 2018, an alleged DARPA whistleblower known only as ‘Sam’ appeared on Clyde Lewis’s Ground Zero radio show on Wednesday where he made the claim that Chinese bad actors are likely to blame for hacking the National Solar Observatory (NSO) in Sunspot, New Mexico, and may have been using or intended to use the facility as a solar weapon which is what prompted the FBI to take over the facility last Thursday along with a nearby post office and several homes, reports Intellihub.

The reason they want to hack it is because the NSO in Sunspot is part of an intranet that also includes HAARP, HAMMER, and SMACC,” he explained. “Through this network we have been very successful at manipulation the solar surface and the coronasphere to the point that we can actually trigger coronial mass ejections of controlled size, duration, density, and intensity.”

The whistleblower told Lewis “they are using scalar waves to trigger them” which are “transmitted through HAARP” at “unheard of” power levels.

“Understand, HAARP is capable of transmitting signal strengths in excess of 50 gigawatts,” he said. “They require so much energy and the energy has to be such a high quality that it can only be provided by SMACC.”

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19-09-2018 om 21:07 geschreven door peter  

'Black Triangle' aircraft spotted above Seattle is top-secret US air force surveillance aircraft - according to UFO conspiracy theorists

'Black Triangle' UFOs have been spotted before and online speculation suggests a US spy plane is to blame - though authorities insist they don't exist

By Mark Morris

A top secret US military aircraft has been spotted in the skies above Seattle, according to bizarre claims online.

A video, posted by an account called 'Ufo disclosure' on September 18, shows a triangular UFO speeding across the sky, not far from another aircraft.

The clip, which is captioned 'Triangle UFO or TR-3B filmed in Seattle', shows what some claim is a US Air Force spy plane.

TR-3 planes do not officially exist, but according to conspiracy theorists, they are a class of US surveillance aircraft, developed in complete secret.

Pictured: A 'Black Triangle UFO' above Seattle, WA

'Black Triangles' have also been spotted above Australia and Russia.

Pictured: A US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-117A Nighthawk taking part in a flying-display at the Dubai Air Show in 2007 

(Image: Universal Images Group Editorial)

'Black Triangle' UFO sightings have become relatively common in recent years, particularly above the United States, but they have also been 'spotted' above Australia and Russia.

It's thought TR, which it has been suggested stands for 'Tactical Reconnaissance', might be to blame for the sightings.

According to some claims online, the class of aircraft was first used during the 1991 Gulf War, to pick out targets for US stealth bombers.

Of course, there is no proof these planes actually exist, but they remains subject to almost relentless Internet speculation, and sightings like this will only add fuel to the fire.

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19-09-2018 om 18:20 geschreven door peter  

“We often think of plants as being passive and at the mercy of their environment. My jaw literally dropped when I first saw these videos … They beautifully illustrate how active and complex plants really are.”

New research explores how plant communication systems respond to threats from hungry insects. The study, published September 14, 2018, in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, suggests that once wounded, plants use calcium signals to warn distant tissues of future attacks.

The study found that a chemical called glutamate – which is an abundant neurotransmitter in animals, including humans – activates a wave of calcium when the plant is wounded.

A hungry caterpillar, first working around a leaf’s edges, approaches the base of the leaf and, with one last bite, severs it from the rest of the plant. Within seconds, a blaze of fluorescent light washes over the other leaves, a signal that they should prepare for impending attacks by the caterpillar or its kin. That fluorescent light tracks calcium as it zips across the plant’s tissues, providing an electrical and chemical signal of a threat.

Image via Toyota/Gilroy.

Gregg Howe is a professor at Michigan State University and a study co-author. Howe said in a statement:

We often think of plants as being passive and at the mercy of their environment. My jaw literally dropped when I first saw these videos … They beautifully illustrate how active and complex plants really are.

When a plant’s leaf is wounded, an electrical charge races across the plant to warn other tissues of possible danger. Howe said:

For decades, it’s been known that leaf damage, inflicted by mechanical wounding or caterpillar munching, rapidly activates defense responses in distant, undamaged leaves of the plant. But what triggers this rapid response has largely remained a mystery.

The researchers thought the trigger might be calcium. That’s because it’s ubiquitous in cells and often acts as a signal of a changing environment. And because calcium carries a charge, it can produce an electrical signal. But it is hard to track because its concentration levels spike and dip quickly.

The researchers created a method to see the calcium in real time. According to a Michigan State University statement:

[The researchers] developed plants that produce a protein that fluoresces around calcium, letting the researchers track its presence and concentration. Then came caterpillar bites, scissor cuts, and crushing wounds.

In response to each kind of damage, the plants light up as calcium flows from the site of damage to other leaves. The signal moved quickly, about one millimeter per second, reaching out to distant leaves in just a couple minutes.

A few minutes later, levels of a defense hormone – called jasmonate – spiked in those distant leaves. They were preparing the plant for future threats by producing noxious chemicals that ward off predators.

The results suggest that glutamate exiting a plant wound leads to rapid propagation of a calcium wave, which in turn leads to production of jasmonate and defense responses.

Bottom line: In a video from a new study, a caterpillar eats a leaf, and the plant sends a warning signal to other leaves.

Read more from Michigan State University

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19-09-2018 om 17:56 geschreven door peter  

Retired Air Force Commander Claims New Evidence Will Blow The Lid Off Rendlesham UFO Event

A retired Air Force worker claims he holds strong evidence on the 1980 UFO event the Rendlesham Forest. He said he saw “some type of superior intelligence” that could “change size and shape”.

The colonel named Charles Halt gather statements from air traffic controllers who were on duty the due day close the Bentwaters Royal Air Force Base in the UK.

They told him they saw a UFO performing amazing aerial movements. They didn’t speak up until their retirement because they were scared.

The military personnel on duty in the base RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge witnessed a fast triangle UFO in the field of Rendlesham Forest. Same encounters had resumed the next night again.

Halt, who was a deputy base commander at Bentwaters, underwent a series of inexplicable lights which involved a mysterious craft moving through the trees and dropping a hot matter.

Along with a tape recording, Halt also filed a report, describing a laser-like light one of the UFOsemitted as his men were observing.

Halt told The Huffington Post that what he and the others saw in the Rendlesham forest was beyond their imagination.

“The military has nothing to do with it, other than the cover-up, but I can tell you, there is some type of superior intelligence that can change size, change shape, do funny things. What I saw, I’m firmly convinced, didn’t have anything that we know or could relate to, inside it. Maybe they’re not a being as we know, maybe they’re an entity that just has intelligence, and we just can’t relate to it.”

Photo credit: Col. Charles Halt, Ret.

Moreover, Halt explained how after many years he managed to retrieve some sworn statements from air traffic controllers who were witnesses at the same time.

“They saw the object go across their scope — a 60-mile scope — in two or three seconds. Thousands of miles an hour,” he told the BBC. “It came back across their scope again, stopped near the water tower. They observed it. They watched it go over into the forest where we were.”

A few years after the Rendlesham event passed, the air traffic controllers retired. Then, they decided to tell Halt everything they detected that night.

“They told me that they knew anytime an air traffic controller reported a UFO, they got de-certified. So they said nothing.”

Charles Halt recently blamed the US government for concealing important UFO data. Furthermore, he claims a presence of a top-secret bureau dealing with extraterrestrial activities.

Halt told the HuffPost that there is a contract civilian agency in charge of everything. He alleged this agency consists of former military and top-notch scientists.

However, his biggest frustration is the years of lies and misinformation about the Rendlesham incident. This includes the disappearance of essential files concerning the case.

In 2011, the UK declassified thousands of UFO files, but the ones connected with this one weren’t among them.

Halt said: “It doesn’t surprise me at all, because they were probably taken from them by somebody, or sent somewhere by direction. Trust me — that’s the way it works. It’s very disappointing on one hand, and it’s also frightening. Who knows what else is going on?”

Read more about the Rendlesham UFO incident here.

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19-09-2018 om 17:49 geschreven door peter  

Hey, Spock! Real-Life 'Planet Vulcan' Orbits Sun Featured in 'Star Trek'

19-09-2018 om 17:35 geschreven door peter  

Artefacts With Extraterrestrial Carvings And Engravings Found In A Mexican Cave

Mysterious artefacts with engravings of "extraterrestrials" and "Nacelle" unearthed in a Mexican cave  is just mind blowing stuff and is next to incredible if you was to ask my opinion based on the evidence, the story and the actual statues themselves I can't help but get a little excited.

The prospects that this could literally change our history as we know it, but for the better and for a clean out of the lies, contradictions and other shady recognition from dubious sources?

A group of explorers discovered in a Mexican cave evidence of what they boast to be the best evidence of extraterrestrial contact on Earth. The group of explorers recently visited the cave and explored it in detail. In two cases, the researchers made unexpected discoveries, including several stones sculpted with images depicting etchings related to extraterrestrials. On the surface of the stones, the group of researchers found evidence of what many people interpret as "extraterrestrial spacecraft" and "humanoid beings"; One of the stones, apparently fractured in the past, evidently shows the top of a spaceship with a being that some people believe is not of this world.

The painting shown here contains an alleged alien who is next to a former leader of a prehispanic culture who receives a corn seed, as well as some other symbols that have not yet been deciphered; these artifacts have been nicknamed "stones of the first encounter".

It is said that local legends speak of a mysterious "ship" that has been hidden somewhere near the caves since time immemorial. This is the main reason why the group of explorers searched the area three months ago.

His research yielded totally unexpected results. They found what they believe is the ultimate proof that the aliens visited the Earth thousands of years ago and that they had direct contact with the ancient cultures that inhabited Mexico at that time. What the discovery suggests or what implications the group of explorers will have to see. José Aguayo explained how the INAH - National Institute of Anthropology and History - can not say anything about the discovery because it is not a typical archaeology for a main reason; the artifacts describe things that contradict the dominant story and differentiate everything we have been told about our history and origins.

If, at some point, the National Institute of Anthropology and History decided to collect the artefacts, it would have enormous implications for both parties since INAH, an official government agency, would essentially accept one of the most important "facts": the existence of beings. not earthly, they have directly influenced the ancient cultures of the whole world.

The story can be found in two places here in Spanish and here in English.

Here is another bit of research that I found online and guys it get's even more stranger and stranger because of the look of these incredible statues? I must admit that I wasn't them mini statues having the look of an Alien grey? That absolutely threw me for six! The classic look of the big tear shaped eyes and the big head with a small mouth, that is the look these mini sculptures, statues have. I mean, they even have a mini baby Alien grey in the arms of the "mother Alien".

Here is a quote from the Daily Star.

Other sculptures appear to show spaceships flying through the air. The mystery objects are reportedly popular among locals who live near the caves in an unspecified area of Mexico.

Very old statues could be up to 7,000 years old some top researchers have claimed?

In this next stone is a really, odd looking and very, very bizarre engraving of what can only be described and called a UFO? You just have to look at it in full, take it in and you can see exactly what the person who engraved this stone was trying to tell us? That Aliens are real and we've been contacted by Alien in our ancestors past? It is up for grabs and up for debate but here is a tangible, physical proof of the legend, story so that for me is as good as any evidence which quite literally proves it.

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This next stone statue is exactly how I would carve an Alien in stone. This is what it is, if you take it for what it is and don't put any long winded spin on to it, then it is just a statue of an Alien. If you put spin on to it, then it becomes anything you want it to be?

I've found some amazing images from the actual cave in Mexico and there is overwhelming evidence of Aliens who (at one time) visited Earth and who knows, they may of even influenced the concepts of ships, trade and the exchange of ideas among each other knowing the route humanity would take.

So yeah, everything since the first contact could all of been known in advance because of the Aliens known information that once a species is enlightened to trade, travel and intelligence of inventions and numbers then the route taken is pretty much mapped out already? Who knows, the Roswell crash might of been the time when sophisticated and extremely small technology was introduced to keep us on track and stop us from killing each other in more wars like world war one and world war two?

It's pure speculation but my opinions could of happened and they might of been slightly different but not a lot because all I need to do is take away the Alien element and the rest of what I said pretty much happened like I said! So don't be quick to shrug it off because just because I said the Alien word that doesn't mean it is all rubbish from then on wards?

The supposedly ancient sculptures have sparked claims that aliens visited earth thousands of years ago. Maybe they did because if this was to represent a human at that time, this would be rejected as not looking anything like a human? So it begs the question, is this really depicting a real Alien visitor because maybe these people never depicted other humans in their artwork and only their Gods and them being the visiting Aliens.

That looks uncannily similar to an Alien as we would say they look in today world? Maybe they look like this and it's an innate thought that we all have inside of what they look like?

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19-09-2018 om 17:27 geschreven door peter  

Mogelijke thuisplaneet van Mr. Spock ontdekt

 Bron: BELGA 

Mr. Spock (tweede van links) met zijn opvallende spitse oren 

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Mr. Spock is in de legendarische sf-televisieserie ‘Star Trek’ afkomstig van de op de Aarde gelijkende planeet Vulcan. Waar die zich precies en in welk zonnestelsel bevindt is in de serie niet uitgelegd. De bedenker ervan, Gene Roddenberry, heeft in 1991 in een brief aan amateur-astronauten wel laten weten dat de ster waarrond Vulcan draait, 40 Eridani A is.

In het kader van het Dharma Planet Survey is nu een “super-Aarde” (buiten ons zonnestelsel) gevonden die rond ster HD 26965 draait, aldus een onderzoeksteam van de Tennessee State University. Zowat zestien lichtjaar van ons verwijderd draagt die de bij ‘Trekkies’ bekende naam 40 Eridani A.

De exoplaneet is ongeveer dubbel zo groot als de onze en heeft 42 dagen nodig voor een omloop. De moederster is wat koeler en wat minder groot dan de onze, maar heeft dezelfde leeftijd. Ze is bij een heldere nacht met het blote oog zichtbaar. HD 26965 zou ook een ideale partner kunnen zijn voor een geavanceerde beschaving.

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19-09-2018 om 16:57 geschreven door peter  

Sunspot Observatory to reopen with lame excuse for FBI evac, alien truthers unconvinced - PART I

1972 photo of a Viking space probe at White Sands Missile Range, near the Sunspot Observatory, during the so called "Roswell Incident" of 1947.

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After weeks of wild online speculation about aliens, extra-dimensional portals, and FBI cover-ups, the Sunspot Solar Observatory will finally reopen on Monday, but netizens are dissatisfied with the official explanation.

“AURA has been cooperating with an ongoing law enforcement investigation of criminal activity that occurred at Sacramento Peak,” the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) wrote in an online statement on Sunday.

• sunspotsolarobservatorySunspot Solar Observatory will transition back to regular operations starting September 17th. Full statement from AURA here: ow.ly/LeLw50iRynb
  Thank you for your patience during our temporary closure!
• mnm_chubzAliens!!!!!
• chikungunyabob👀👀🛸🛸🛸🐽🐽🐽
• koo8212What happend something weird going on ??? 👽🔭
• dat_1_alpacaYeah wtf America explain I am confusion
• longhorn_aCant wait for yall to sweep this incident under the rug without ever releasing the actual cause of what was going on, in hopes we'll all just forget 😉
• felipecrcmQue susto me dio dross 😨
• cutefluffinstitchSun aliens threatening you guys? I'm glad y'all got things under control ☀️🔪👽
• gudrunmauterWell, that was one way to finally put Sunspot on the map! EVERYONE has been asking me what happened.
• astralterrestreTell the truth. Inform the public.
• bluemoonsandshootingstars@gudrunmauter What happened tho?
• bluemoonsandshootingstars@mnm_chubz 👽 👽 👽
• mnm_chubz@dat_1_alpaca Arkansas
• dat_1_alpaca@mnm_chubz 😂 I made that reference
• chef_ojs_worldOn September 6th, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) made the decision to temporarily vacate the Sunspot Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico as a precautionary measure while addressing a security issue. The facility closed down in an orderly fashion and is now re-opening. The residents that vacated their homes will be returning to the site, and all employees will return to work this week. 
  AURA has been cooperating with an on-going law enforcement investigation of criminal activity that occurred at Sacramento Peak. During this time, we became concerned that a suspect in the investigation potentially posed a threat to the safety of local staff and residents. For this reason, AURA temporarily vacated the facility and ceased science activities at this location. 
  The decision to vacate was based on the logistical challenges associated with protecting personnel at such a remote location, and the need for expeditious response to the potential threat. AURA determined that moving the small number of on-site staff and residents off the mountain was the most prudent and effective action to ensure their safety. 
  In light of recent developments in the investigation, we have determined there is no risk to staff, and Sunspot Solar Observatory is transitioning back to regular operations as of September 17th. Given the significant amount of publicity the temporary closure has generated, and the consequent expectation of an unusual number of visitors to the site, we are temporarily engaging a security service while the facility returns to a normal working environment. 
  We recognize that the lack of communications while the facility was vacated was concerning and frustrating for some. However, our desire to provide additional information had to be balanced against the risk that, if spread at the time, the news would alert the suspect and impede the law enforcement investigation. That was a risk we could not take.

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“During this time, we became concerned that a suspect in the investigation potentially posed a threat to the safety of local staff and residents. For this reason, AURA temporarily vacated the facility and ceased science activities at this location.” It should be noted that AURA declined to mention whether the suspect was of extraterrestrial origin.

READ MORE: X-Files DVD & empty houses: VIDEOs from ‘Ghost town’ Solar Observatory in New Mexico

Given the observatory’s remote location in the mountainous Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico, this explanation may have been at least somewhat plausible, were it not for the bizarre way in which the FBI handled the September 6 evacuation of the observatory and nearby residents.

NatlSolarObservatory@NatSolarObs

 · Sep 16, 2018

AURA Statement about the Status of the Sunspot Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico:

Sunspot Solar Observatory is transitioning back to regular operations as of September 17th.
Read the full statement: http://www.aura-astronomy.org/news/news.asp?newsID=389 …

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Did "authorities" NOT think leaving site entirely vacant & not secure for 10 days, causing those around the world 2 focus on NSO, would not in and of itself "alert the suspect and impede the law enforcement investigation" ? Y was local Sheriff not brought in? #SunspotObservatory

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#SunspotObservatory What kind of security issue requires the FBI to show up and evacuate the area, but then leave the security of said area to two renta-a-cops (no offense).

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Even the local Sheriff, who was kept in the dark about the investigation throughout, was skeptical.

“But for the FBI to get involved that quick and be so secretive about it, there was a lot of stuff going on up there,” Otero County Sheriff Benny House said, as quoted by Alamogordo News. “There was a Blackhawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas, and work crews on towers but nobody would tell us anything.”

Sunspot Solar Observatory is one of the largest active solar telescopes in the world and is conspicuously located near the White Sands Missile Range. While the Sunspot facility itself is low security, its proximity to a US military weapons testing site and Holloman Air Force Base could make it a prime target for international (or interplanetary) espionage.

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When it comes to the #SunspotObservatory bullied closure scandal, let’s see, what will the govs cover story be? Let’s guess together: swamp gas? Chinese spies? Russian spies? Just a private FBI employee educational outing? Jupiter? Terrorists from Venus? Weather balloons…;0)

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• READ MORE: FBI and Blackhawk choppers: National Solar Observatory shuts over mysterious ‘security issue’

Naturally, speculation throughout the entire episode was rife, but reached fever pitch upon the sudden announcement of the Observatory's reopening, coupled with the rather damp squib explanation:

Marian Rudnyk™©@MarianRudnyk

The #SunspotObservatory bullied closure scandal in New Mexico – cud it be a blast from the past? Is it possible that some variation of MOL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LDEIQPsLuQ&app=desktop … -is actually secretly flying & transiting the sun? Just sayin’…

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Narrator voice: Authorities scrambled to stop news of First Contact, announcing “criminal activity” even as they threated scientists the Solarians first reached to keep silent or face prosecution under the Alien Enemies Act.#SunspotObservatory#SolarObservatory
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A cryptic partial explanation of the weirdness going on at the Sunspot Solar Observatory in NM http://aura-astronomy.org/news/news.asp?newsID=389 …

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19-09-2018 om 13:52 geschreven door peter  

Sunspot Observatory to reopen with lame excuse for FBI evac, alien truthers unconvinced - PART II

On the other hand, one more theory could be creative PR on the part of the Observatory. “With the excitement this closure has generated, we hope you will come and visit us as we reopen, and see for yourself the services we provide for science and public outreach in heliophysics,”Sunspot Observatory's website states. The facility has reportedly even hired private security to handle the expected increase in tourist activity at the site in the wake of the bizarre episode.

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19-09-2018 om 13:51 geschreven door peter  

Aliens of zonnevlam? Veel vragen blijven onbeantwoord na heropening zonnewacht in New Mexico

De zonnewacht in New Mexico die vanwege een ‘veiligheidsprobleem’ plotseling werd gesloten, is weer open.

Het bezoekerscentrum van het Sunspot Solar Observatory heeft de deuren weer geopend, zo is bevestigd.

Het observatorium, dat is voorzien van een unieke telescoop waarmee superscherpe beelden van de zon kunnen worden gemaakt, werd op 6 september opeens gesloten op last van de FBI.

Sceptisch

Het internet wil nu antwoorden. Probeert de overheid misschien bewijs voor aliens onder het tapijt te vegen?

De FBI houdt de kaken stijf op elkaar en weigert commentaar te geven op de sluiting en evacuatie van het gebouw.

De lokale sheriff Benny House, die tijdens het onderzoek in het duister werd gehouden, reageerde sceptisch op de officiële verklaring – dat er sprake zou zijn van een veiligheidsprobleem.

Geheimzinnig

Hij zei het vreemd te vinden dat de FBI er zo snel bij betrokken werd en er zo geheimzinnig over deed.

Het Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico is één van de grootste actieve zonnetelescopen en bevindt zich vlak bij de White Sands Missile Range, waar het Amerikaanse leger wapens test.

Ook veel internetgebruikers zijn sceptisch en hebben op social media hun onvrede geuit over de gang van zaken.

NatlSolarObservatory@NatSolarObs

 · 16 sep. 2018

AURA Statement about the Status of the Sunspot Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico:

Sunspot Solar Observatory is transitioning back to regular operations as of September 17th.

Read the full statement: http://www.aura-astronomy.org/news/news.asp?newsID=389 …

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Did "authorities" NOT think leaving site entirely vacant & not secure for 10 days, causing those around the world 2 focus on NSO, would not in and of itself "alert the suspect and impede the law enforcement investigation" ? Y was local Sheriff not brought in? #SunspotObservatory

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#SunspotObservatory What kind of security issue requires the FBI to show up and evacuate the area, but then leave the security of said area to two renta-a-cops (no offense).

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19-09-2018 om 12:34 geschreven door peter  

Luis Elizondo shot to notoriety practically overnight last year when the Pentagon’s secretive Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was made public. Elizondo directed the now-defunct program and currently serves as Director of Special Programs at To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science – you know, that one. After The New York Timespublished a report describing AATIP and the numerous videos and reports of anomalous aerial phenomena it had collected, Elizondo began speaking out about the program’s documented evidence of aircraft which display “characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of.” AATIP made headlines for a few months before fading into obscurity like every non-political story has since 2016.

The report even included military footage of anomalous aircraft which could easily outfly the best we have in the skies.

Elizondo is back this week, this time penning an editorial for his own page on Medium.com. In the piece, titled “Why Social Stigma About Unexplained Phenomena Holds Humanity Back,” Elizondo describes how human beings “tend to avoid associating ourselves with anything that will isolate us from the larger group or make us sound strange, or that might draw negative attention from our peers.” Social media has made this worse, Elizondo writes, in that it has provided an outlet for hoaxsters, sensationalized stories, and a medium in which true believers are ridiculed in public. Sounds pretty accurate.

This isn’t the first time Elizondo has spoken out against the social stigma associated with belief in UFOs. Earlier this year, Elizondo told Las Vegas Now that many government and military officials dismiss credible UFO research out of the belief that they are somehow demonic or counter to dominant Judeo-Christian belief systems.

How much knowledge throughout history has been hidden or destroyed for the same reasons?

Elizondo claims that during the cold war, the U.S. Government actively suppressed or discredited verifiable evidence of UAP in order to keep the public focused on more important matters like defeating the Russians and keeping the economy going. At least we can be glad that’s over, right? The article adds that despite the current body of evidence which suggests that unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) do indeed exist, “many people would rather look the other way than be associated with what’s been labeled ‘crazy,’ or ‘fringe.’”

Elizondo ends his piece with somewhat of a dire warning, claiming that overcoming the stigma surrounding UFOs is “key to our survival as a species:”

As a species, it’s crucial to understand the things we can’t explain, in order to survive. And that means being open to new ideas, possibilities, and data. When it comes to UFOs, ignoring the unknown is similarly harmful because it might mean failing to seize upon opportunities and new understandings. As a society, we have to recognize that stigma serves only to keep our heads in the sand. Our future depends on transparency and truth.

He’s got a point. Just imagine what could be done if all of the world’s governments could openly share UFO and UAP evidence and throw even a small percentage of their annual military budgets towards the legitimate study of these unexplained phenomena. Might we finally discover the truth about extraterrestrial visitors or unexplained phenomena? Or could the truth be much more benign and all of these stories are merely another smokescreen to hide the fact that the United States has fallen behind other superpowers in terms of aerial capabilities? In either case, we’ll likely never know.

Until it’s too late.

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19-09-2018 om 12:25 geschreven door peter  

There’s still much to be discovered under the Egyptian sands. A lot of cat people statues mostly, if recent discoveries are to be any indicator. Just a month after a sphinx in the style of the well known Great Sphinx of Giza was reportedly discovered, yet another sphinx statue has been found, according to the Ministry of Antiquities. While this newly discovered sphinx isn’t as massive as the sphinx of Giza, it’s remarkable in how well preserved it is and, unlike the claimed second great sphinx, there’s actually pictures of this one.

The sphinx was discovered during a preservation project at the temple of Kom Ombo in Aswan during efforts to protect the temple against damage from groundwater erosion.  While excavating the temple, archaeologists found an incredibly well preserved sandstone sphinx buried in the sands that they believe comes from the Ptolemaic period of Egyptian history, which lasted from 320 BCE to 30 BCE.

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Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a new sandstone sphinx in the southern city of Aswan that likely dates back to the Ptolemaic era. https://www.cbc.ca/1.4826331 

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New sphinx statue uncovered by Egyptian archeologists | CBC News

Egyptian archaeologists draining water from a temple in the southern city of Aswan have uncovered a sandstone sphinx likely dating to the Ptolemaic era.

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One of the more interesting things about this sphinx is the face. This slightly quizzical and oddly comforting cat person, head slightly askew, looking like the least terrifying temple guardian imaginable. If sphinxes didn’t by default sit so firmly in the uncanny valley, it would be adorable. In contrast to the great sphinx, which, despite the erosion, looks rather intimidating and much more like a guardian of something, this Ptolemaic sphinx might offer a more complex look at the character of the sphinx in Egyptian mythology, or show how the mythology had changed by the time the Ptolemaic dynasty of Macedonia had replaced the Egyptian Pharaohs of old.

Beyond the big one that everyone knows, there are a ton of sphinx statues in Egypt.

The Ptolemaic dynasty was the last ruling family of ancient Egypt, before the Roman empire swept in and did the Roman thing—see: Cleopatra. An insultingly brief history of the fall of the Egyptian empire goes like this: for thousands of years Egypt, was a powerful and independent monarchy. This is when many of the icons of ancient Egypt—the pyramids, Ramses II, King Tut, etc—were around. Then, around 671 BCE, the Assyrians came in and conquered Egypt. They left some Pharaohs in charge, who then, with the help of Greek mercenaries, kicked the Assyrians out and almost won back the glory of old. Then the Persian empire came from the east and said “Nah, that’s ours.” Then, Alexander the Great came out of Macedonia said “Excuse me, but I believe you’re holding my Egypt.” Being that Alexander already owned a solid chunk of the known world, it was probably true and the Persians let Egypt go without a fight. Then Alexander died and rule of Egypt passed to one of his generals, Ptolemy. He called himself Pharaoh and the Egyptians said “Sure.” Ptolemy’s dynasty would rule for roughly 300 years before Rome decided it was their turn. So it goes.

Greece had its own version of the Sphinx. While it looks friendly, this is the one that would eat you if you were bad at riddles

(Photo by Rosemaniakos CC BY 2.0)

It’s interesting to see how the iconography of Egypt remained throughout those periods of turmoil. Even after almost 400 years of getting passed around like a hot potato, the sphinx remained an important icon in Egypt. It didn’t remain unchanged though. Like much of the Ptolemaic period, you can see the Hellenistic influence creeping in and merging with with the traditional Egyptian style. Let it be a lesson to you if you’re ever trying to do some conquering of your own: don’t change the symbol, just subvert it.

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19-09-2018 om 01:48 geschreven door peter