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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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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...
04-10-2018
Physicists Reveal That The Great Pyramid At Giza Can Focus Electromagnetic Energy
Physicists Reveal That The Great Pyramid At Giza Can Focus Electromagnetic Energy
A recent study published discovered that the Great Pyramid in Egypt can store electromagnetic energy.
Reflect On:
This is one of many discoveries being made that the pyramids built all over the world could actually be technologically advanced in ways we can't even imagine.
Humanity is full of strange mysteries and metaphysical discoveries that are being made every single day. These are the types of discoveries that really challenge the accepted framework of knowledge that’s constantly pushed upon the populace. Today we have no shortage of dogma, acceptable belief systems that are put in place that really don’t disrupt what we thought we knew, and every time something does disrupt what we thought we knew, hardly a peep is heard from the mainstream. Perhaps that’s because these discoveries would disrupt our known reality in a way that’s too much for the mind to handle. That being said, the collective mind is indeed opening more and more every single year.
One of the latest examples I recently wrote about is the Bosnian Pyramid Complex, it was discovered in 2005 and multiple global conferences were held in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 with more than 100 experts from various scientific backgrounds. The conferences included leading scientists, archaeologists and anthropologists. They concluded that the Pyramids were without a doubt real and that it now represents the oldest pyramid complex on the planet. You can read more about the Bosnian Pyramids, in-depth here.
Pixabay Composite
I mention the Bosnian pyramid complex within this article because at that location, a team of physicists apparently witnessed an energy beam coming through the top of one of the Pyramids. The beam is continuous and its strength grows as it moves up and away from the pyramid.
This phenomenon contradicts the known lawas of physics and technology. This is the first proof of non-herzian technology on the planet. It seems that the pryamid-builders created a perpetual motion machine a long time ago and this “energy machine” is still working.
– Semir Osmanagic, Ph.D, retired anthropology professor and discoverors of the complex
So, just to make it clear, the idea that these structures served some unknown highly advanced technological function, is not novel, and it is complemented by world researchers that are at the forefront of these discoveries. It makes you really wonder, doesn’t it? Why, and who built these amazing structures so long ago, and why were they built in these time periods and supposedly by civilizations on Earth, that had absolutely no knowledge or contact with each other? And why is serious study about it ignored and/or ridiculed when certain conclusions are hypothesized?
Egypt
The latest example comes from Egypt, in the form of a new study published about the Great Pyramid at Giza suggesting that it might also have its own energy source. Researchers discovered that, due to its shape, the Great Pyramid of Giza can actually focus electronic and magnetic energy, like radio waves for example, into its internal chambers and below its base. Scientists say that if they are able to recreate the concentrated energy on a nanoscale, it could eventually be used to develop a more efficient form of solar cells.
Although the pyramids in Egypt have been known about for a long time, researchers have very little scientific knowledge about their physical properties. We know that there are some strange synchronicities, like their location on Earth, their mathematical properties.
How about the fact that the ratio of its circumference to its original height is equal to the value of pi: 3.14 ? This is something that’s not supposed to have been known for more than another millennium. Their mathematical and astronomical knowledge and the acquisition of it remains a complete mystery to modern-day scholars.
This is why it’s also important to mention all of the research that’s gone into and is going into the Bosnian pyramid complex.
The Great Pyramid can concentrate electromagnetic energy in its internal chambers and under its base, where the third unfinished chamber is located.
Phys.org explains how the researchers came to their conclusions:
They were derived on the basis of numerical modelling and analytical methods of physics. The researchers first estimated that resonances in the pyramid can be induced by radio waves with a length ranging from 200 to 600 meters. Then they made a model of the electromagnetic response of the pyramid and calculated the extinction cross section. This value helps to estimate which part of the incident wave energy can be scattered or absorbed by the pyramid under resonate conditions. Finally, for the same conditions, the scientists obtained the electromagnetic field distribution inside the pyramid.
Scientists had to use some assumptions, however. For example, the assumption that there are no unknown cavities inside, and the building material with the properties of an ordinary limestone is eventually distributed in and out of the pyramid, “with these assumptions made, we obtained interesting results that can find important practical applications,” Said Dr. Sc. Andrew Evlyukhin, scientific supervisor and coordinator of the research.
These seem to be reasonable assumptions that don’t really disrupt the discovery.
The scientists now plan to use the results to again perhaps develop a more efficient energy source.
Choosing a material with suitable electromagnetic properties, we can obtain pyramidal nanoparticles with a promise for practical application in nanosensors and effective solar.
Now, the scientists plan to use the results to reproduce similar effects at the nanoscale.
In this case, the scientists seemed to steer away from making any type of interpretation, but given what we already know about pyramids all over the world, they are, at least in my mind, representations of something we have yet to come to grasps with. Something otherworldly, spiritual, metaphysical and ahead of our time, but also a glimpse of our past.
It’s an interesting finding given what’s already been found in Bosnia.
The Takeaway
It’s important to recognize that what’s written in our history books should not really be taken as truth. We don’t know who built the pyramids, how they were built, or why they were built, but it’s quite clear that metaphysical, spiritual and a high level of technological advancement was probably involved. Our history as we know it has plenty of holes and we should not allow something that disrupts what we believe to be possible to not be taken into consideration, there is more than enough data to suggest what we thought we knew is not correct, and that we can go back to saying “we don’t know.”
Insider claimt meer dan 3000 autopsies te hebben uitgevoerd op aliens. Dit is zijn verhaal
Insider claimt meer dan 3000 autopsies te hebben uitgevoerd op aliens. Dit is zijn verhaal
Insider Emery Smith heeft na 10 jaar zijn ware identiteit onthuld. Hij heeft besloten in de openbaarheid te treden en zijn verhaal te doen. Het is vervolgens aan de kijker om het waarheidsgehalte van zijn verhaal te beoordelen.
In onderstaande video beweert Smith, die recentelijk in meerdere shows is verschenen, dat hij meer dan 3000 autopsies heeft uitgevoerd op aliens.
Hij begon naar eigen zeggen op jonge leeftijd als chirurgisch technicus in het Amerikaanse leger.
Ondergrondse installatie
Smith presteerde zo goed dat hij werd overgebracht naar Kirtland Air Force Base, waar hij in een ondergrondse installatie monsters moest verzamelen en labelen.
In eerste instantie waren de monsters klein en onbeduidend, zoals bijvoorbeeld een zalmfilet.
Elke drie tot zes maanden kreeg Smith een hogere beveiligingstoegang en begonnen de monsters meer ‘intact’ te worden.
Niet van deze aarde
Zo kreeg hij onder meer iets waarvan hij duidelijk kon zien dat het een hand was. Hij mocht alleen geen vragen stellen. “Je deed je werk en sprak daar verder met niemand over,” zei hij.
Na verloop van tijd kreeg de insider lichaamsdelen voor zijn neus die duidelijk niet van deze aarde afkomstig waren.
Reptiel
Over het eerste lichaam waar hij aan werkte zei hij: “Het had de kleur van een luipaard en bestond uit een romp, en het leek alsof het aan stukken was geblazen. Het had de huid van een reptiel en het had normale organen zoals een milt, hart en longen. Het gezicht was helemaal verminkt.”
Op de dag dat hij een volledig lichaam kreeg dat nog warm was, besloot Smith eruit te stappen. Sindsdien wordt hij naar eigen zeggen bedreigd en aangevallen.
It took Emery Smith over a decade of being an anonymous insider to David Wilcock to finally come out into the public and talk about his experiences in black ops projects, where he says that he performed autopsies on over 3000 different ET specimens.
Reflect On:
Does the testimony of Emery Smith seem possible to you? Is it important for the Awakening Community to try to piece together the larger reality of these hidden projects and bases in order to move forward in our quest for sovereignty on the planet?
It took Emery Smith over a decade of being an anonymous insider to David Wilcock to finally decide to come out into the public realm and share his stories in person. You may have heard of him already if you follow the work of David Wilcock, Steven Greer, Corey Goode or others. If you have not, be prepared to hear about a hidden world of laboratories in secret underground bases that seems almost too fantastical to be made up.
The video embedded below is from Emery Smith’s first appearance on David Wilcock’s ‘Cosmic Disclosure.’ If Emery appears to be nervous in the first interview to reveal his identity, he has reason to be. He was aware that he had testimony that powerful people would not want disclosed. Near the end of the interview, they discuss Emery’s decision to reveal himself to the public. Emery gets quite emotional, saying that ‘Recently…it’s gotten a little violent.’
Emery: Been shot at, been stabbed, been jumped by 3 agents, gotten my butt kicked, I mean, I’ve been through it all…They really got angry and that’s where I lost everything. They broke into my house, rammed my gate, my concrete gate, down, you know, where all this stuff was stored, cut into the walls, where things in safes were hidden, that you can only know by satellite, using–these people definitely had perfect satellite imagery, of, you know, I know about the satellites, very well, and the stuff they can do with them, and they can look into every brick, and every wall of the house.
David: Wow, it’s unbelievable. I’m very glad that you made it here alive, that we’re doing this now, we’re gonna try to get as much on camera as we can for your safety.
While David had long been telling Emery that coming forward publicly to reveal what he knows would probably be better for his safety than staying anonymous, Emery finally decided that David was right, after having so much violence inflicted upon him. It seemed to be enough to give him the resolve to expose himself andspeak about this important information. All this and more is spoken about in the video below.
Getting Into The Black Ops World
Starting off as a surgical technician in the military at a young age, he showed great promise with his skill and rapidly growing knowledge. When he was moved out to Kirtland Air Force Base he was offered a special ‘Moonlighting’ job, which he would do part-time at first but eventually became full-time while still being ranked and paid as an above-board active duty service member.
He discusses his first day of work which involved going into an underground facility on the base through a secret elevator that could go down at least 30 levels:
‘On my first day I just remember I was in this little room, kind of like you would see in the movies where the rooms were all white with the little steel table, and all these instruments there, and you’re escorted to this place, and you get in there and there’s this piece of tissue, and it’s all positive-pressure air system, and you do scrub-out just like a surgeon scrubs and puts his gowns on and all that, and you label like you would in biology school a frog–this is a muscle, this is a tongue, whatever–and I was just there to label and take small samples, and put them in these different types of jars and vats and containers, which I would then push through a drawer in a wall, and someone else would take it, and that was it.’
At first, the samples were small and nondescript, at times resembling a piece of salmon filet. But every three to six months Emery would rise to a higher security clearance, and as he did so,
‘…the samples started getting more ‘intact,’ where you could see that, well, this is a hand, you know, and I could not tell you what that is, at that point <ET or not>, I couldn’t even say–and you’re not allowed to ask, anything. You just do that, and you don’t talk to anybody, and that’s your job, and that’s it.
David: What if you told your friends or your family, like, were you given security briefings for that?
Emery: Yes. I would be killed.
Emery began seeing things that were fully not what one would see on the planet, but seemed to look like highly evolved pieces of animal or even insect bodies. He said at this point he didn’t know if he was working with extraterrestrial beings, because there were possibilities that these were hybrids of different animal DNA and even human DNA.
Advancing to Partial And Full Bodies
It did not take too long, about 10 months, for Emery to advance to the point where he was getting large body parts of clearly extraterrestrial beings to autopsy, since he was doing his job well and keeping his mouth shut. Emery describes the first partial body he worked on.
Emery: It was a leopard-colored skin, it was a torso, it looked like it had got blown up, and it had reptilian skin, it had normal body parts like we had on our insides, so I did see a spleen, a heart, lungs, the face was too distorted and destroyed so I couldn’t tell you what the face looked like, but it had perfect, normal bone structure like we do, and it was just the skin, was beautiful, it was iridescent blue leopard skin, it reminded me of growing up in the Everglades, with the leopard frogs, where they had those round circles–and peacock feathers, mixed.
David: Did it scare you the first time you got a partial body, were you, like, ‘Oh my god, what’s going on here?’
Emery: Yeah, I was in shock. They’re measuring my heart rate, by the way, the whole time, they’re measuring how I’m reacting, so I kept cool, and they didn’t ask me ‘How are you doing?’
On the one hand, Emery had an insatiable curiosity about the beings he was working on, about where they came from, how they came to be in the lab, what had happened to them. He was, however, not even allowed to ask questions, and so a bit of disenchantment with the whole process was settling in.
After working with full bodies of extraterrestrial beings for a while, many of which defied description, he started feeling that there was something not right, that he was no longer feeling comfortable with what he had been doing. The day he received a full body that was warm, and which he knew had just died, he started to realized that he no longer wanted to do the work and applied for and received an honorable discharge.
Tip Of The Iceberg
Emery Smith has recently appeared as a guest on many shows, and it becomes clear that his knowledge and understanding of the workings of black projects and a whole world that is hidden from us is quite vast and comprehensive. The fact that he has autopsied extraterrestrial beings could almost be considered the tip of the iceberg, though it gives some indication of the high level of secrecy, compartmentalization, and vastness of this secret world that most human beings are still not aware of.
With the testimony of insiders like Emery Smith and Corey Goode, the Awakening Community has no choice but to evaluate their claims and try to piece together a picture of the vast operations that are being hidden from us, not only on the Earth but deep underground and in space. The more we work together to understand not only the nature of these activities but also the agenda, the closer we will be to getting the truth revealed to humanity at large.
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UFO UIT MINNESOTA, USA OOK IN NEDERLAND GESIGNALEERD
UFO UIT MINNESOTA, USA OOK IN NEDERLAND GESIGNALEERD
Onlangs publiceerden wij een artikel waar op drie verschillende tijdstippen in de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota een groot cirkelvormig object met talloze lichten werd waargenomen door getuigen.
Het ziet er onmiskenbaar uit als een (buitenaards) ruimteschip en naar nu blijkt is hetzelfde soort schip ook al eerder in Nederland gesignaleerd.
Het gaat om drie onafhankelijke waarnemingen in de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota van een behoorlijk groot cirkelvormig object dat er als volgt uit zag:
Naar aanleiding van ons artikel, ontvingen wij de volgende mail(dank!):
This evening while looking at your site I saw “Ruimteschip hangt vier minuten boven weg Update”
This gave me the goosebumps! This is exacly what my X wife and myself saw in 1996 From Oeffelt To Our House In Boekel, I didn’t have a camera with me so I didn’t take a picture but now I see it and thank you for that.
Op die website staat inderdaad het hele verhaal wat er die zomeravond in juni 1996 gebeurde tijdens een autorit van Oeffelt naar Boekel, een afstand van zo’n 26 kilometer.
De man in kwestie was samen met zijn toenmalige vriendin op bezoek geweest bij vrienden die in een vrij afgelegen boerderij in de buurt van Oeffelt woonden.
Hij kan zich die avond van 22 juni 1996 nog goed herinneren, want dat was de avond dat Nederland tegen Frankrijk speelde voor de wereldkampioenschappen.
Rond middernacht vertrekt het stel omdat de volgende dag een werkdag was en ze een beetje op tijd in bed moesten liggen. Het eerste wat de man ziet is een rond object met vele lichten dat rondcirkelt boven de boerderij waar ze op bezoek waren. Het was identiek aan die die nu wordt waargenomen in Minnesota.
Het was een kilometer of 7 richting snelweg vanaf de boerderij en de weg was verlaten en liep door een vrijwel onbebouwd gebied. De vriendin kon vanuit de auto zien dat het object hen volgde rechts van de auto en exact dezelfde snelheid aan hield. Toen de man gas gaf accelereerde de UFO ook en toen hij een bocht naar rechts maakte volgde de UFO.
De man werd een beetje overmoedig, stopte de auto en stapte uit om beter te kunnen kijken. Het object draaide rond tegen de richting van de wijzers van de klok in en stopte boven een huis aan de rechterkant van de weg. Toen begon het met de richting van de wijzers van een klok mee te draaien en bewoog zich richting auto en de man had het gevoel alsof het object met hem communiceerde. Hij schat de grootte ervan op enkele voetbalvelden, geen kleintje dus. Bovendien maakte het geen geluid. Het vloog enkele keren over de auto en tenslotte stapte de man weer in.
Omdat ze op een gegeven moment onder een bladerdak van bomen reden dachten ze het object kwijt te zijn, maar niets was minder waar. Een minuut later was het weer terug aan de passagierskant van de auto. De vrouw vroeg hem om sneller te gaan rijden en de auto zo snel mogelijk thuis de garage in te rijden, hetgeen geschiedde.
Thuis gekomen was de man toch weer nieuwsgierig geworden, liep naar buiten en zag het object hangen boven het huis van de buren. Omdat het object nu heel dichtbij was en onder een bepaalde hoek hing, had de man heel sterk het gevoel dat ze naar hem keken. De man riep naar zijn vriendin en de babysitter om snel naar buiten te komen en toen ze dat deden schoot het object weg met hoge snelheid. Het verdween van het ene op het andere moment, zonder enig geluid te maken.
De man was een voormalig sergeant bij de luchtmacht en is daardoor wel goed in staat om onderscheid te maken tussen bijvoorbeeld een helikopter en een onbekend object.
Even later kwam het object nogmaals terug en werd toen ook gezien door de babysitter en de buurman die net zelf terugkwam van een feestje. Uiteindelijk verdween het object opnieuw en ze hebben het daarna nooit meer gezien. Wel bleek later dat er die avond veel UFO meldingen waren geweest in dat gebied.
Tot zover het verhaal.
Het mooie van dit verhaal is wel dat hiermee eigenlijk wordt uitgesloten dat het waargenomen object een drone is. Simpelweg omdat die in 1996 nog niet voor kwamen.
Wij hopen dat door het lezen van dit verhaal misschien meer mensen zich iets herinneren, hetzij van die avond of een andere gelegenheid waarbij ze ook dit bepaalde type UFO hebben gezien.
If you’re Jupiter (the planet), moons are a dime a dozen … you’ve got nearly 7 dozen (79) of them. However, if you’re a hot Jupiter — a gaseous Jovian clone circling some other star in a very close orbit – you may not have any moons at all … at least as far as we know. That may have changed this week as two astronomers announced they think they’ve found a Neptune-sized moon attached to an alien planet. If it’s true, this is the first discovery ever of an alien moon … and the way it was found may cause a resurgence in the playing of a certain Cat Stevens song.
A large moon orbits the Jupiter-size planet Kepler 1625b in an illustration.
ILLUSTRATION BY DAN DURDA
“We find evidence in favor of the moon hypothesis, based on timing deviations and a flux decrement from the star consistent with a large transiting exomoon.”
The Flux Decrements would be a great name for a band, but Columbia University astronomers Alex Teachey and David M. Kipping are referring to a change in the light cast by a star when they use it in their new report in ScienceAdvancestouting their proposed discovery – ‘proposed’ because they don’t yet have full confirmation but they definitely have a pile of evidence, starting with their curiosity in 2017 surrounding strange data from the Kepler space telescope which hinted that exoplanet Kepler 1625b orbiting Keplar 1625 – a star similar to our own – was behaving as if it had a very large moon. Unfortunately, Kepler’s data wasn’t solid enough for proof.
Kepler telescope trying hard to follow a moonshadow
Enter the Hubble Space Telescope – four times more powerful than Kepler. Teachey and Kipping scheduled time on the Hubble and in October 2017 were able to watch Kepler 1625b cross in front of its star. Hubble immediately picked up an anomaly — Kepler 1625b showed up 77.8 minutes earlier than predicted (the timing deviation). Then, 3.5 hours later, a shadow passed in front of Kepler 1625 — the flux decrement. Coupled with the timing deviation, Teachey and Kipping concluded that the shadow was cast by a moon about the size of Neptune … maybe.
“We’ve tried our best to rule out other possibilities such as spacecraft anomalies, other planets in the system or stellar activity, but we’re unable to find any other single hypothesis which can explain all of the data we have.”
David Kipping wants to see the phenomena happen again. The next opportunity to observe Kepler 1625b and its alleged giant moon will be in May 2019 when they are next scheduled to pass in front of their star. Will the astronomers see the moonshadow following the exoplanet’s? Teachey hedges his bets while making a pitch to fellow astronomers.
“If we don’t get the time, maybe someone else will get the time. That would be just fine with us. It would be more convincing … if somebody else came along and got the same answer.”
In 1955, one of the most controversial of all the many and varied UFO books published in the fifties was released. Its title was The Case for the UFO. The author was Morris Ketchum Jessup. His book, in part, was a detailed study of the theoretical power-sources for UFOs: what was it that made them fly? How could they perform incredible, aerial feats, such as coming to a complete stop in the skies, hovering at incredible heights? Jessup believed that the answers lay in the domain of gravity. Or, as he saw it: anti-gravity. Jessup may well have been onto something, as it wasn’t long at all before the world of officialdom was taking an interest in him – specifically the U.S. Navy. And it was one particularly intriguing office of the Navy that was watching Jessup – a “special weapons” division. Clearly, someone in the U.S. Navy was intrigued by Jessup’s findings and theories.
In the mid-fifties, Morris Jessup became deeply worried – paranoid, even – that he was being spied on. On several occasions, he noticed that certain items in his office had clearly been moved – strongly suggesting that when he was out of his home someone was having a stealthy look around. The ante was upped when Jessup had a face to face interview with Navy representatives who wanted to speak with him about his book and the theories and the technology referred to in its pages. That wasn’t all they wanted to discuss They also wanted to know what Jessup knew about the so-called Philadelphia Experiment of 1943, in which, allegedly, a Navy ship – the USS Eldridge – was rendered invisible, something that is said to have led to the deaths of some of the crew. I should stress, though, that Jessup’s original source for the story was a man named Carlos Allende. He was a notorious hoaxer in the controversy-filled saga of the vanishing ship, which was not a good sign.
USS Eldridge
Of course, given the fact that Jessup was already in a deep state of fear and paranoia, the meeting with the Navy only increased his anxieties. He saw Men in Black lurking outside of his home. Hang-up calls in the middle of the night became regular occurrences. Mail arrived tampered, opened and resealed. Clearly, someone was trying to derail Jessup and his research.
In the early evening of April 20, 1959, the lifeless body of Morris Jessup was found in his car, which was parked in the Matheson Hammock Park in Miami, Florida. The car’s engine was still running and a hosepipe, affixed to the exhaust, had been fed through the driver’s side window. Jessup was dead from the effects of carbon-monoxide. Jessup’s body was found by a man named John Goode, who worked at the park. He quickly called the police, who arrived in no time at all. While it looked like Jessup had killed himself, not everyone was quite so sure that things were so black and white. The window through which the hose was stuffed with a couple of towels, to prevent air from getting in and carbon-monoxide from getting out. Curiously, Mrs. Jessup — Rubeye – confirmed the towels were not theirs. Why, if Jessup took his own life, did he not take towels from the family home? What would have been the point of buying new towels? And, if he did buy such towels, where was the receipt? It certainly wasn’t in the car, or in any of Jessup’s pockets.
Of course, no one can say what goes through someone’s mind when they decide to end their life, but if nothing else the matter of the towels was perceived as somewhat of a red flag. It should be noted, though, that Jessup’s life was not exactly stable in this period. And that’s putting it mildly. His marriage was in a fraught state, a car accident had limited his activities, and he was having trouble getting published. In other words, we most definitely need to look at both sides of the coin – and carefully and closely, too.
Moving on, there is the fact that on the very night before his death, Jessup spent more than an hour chatting on the phone with one Manson Valentine, expressing his enthusiasm for his latest work and plans for further investigations into the Philadelphia Experiment. Jessup even told Valentine that they should have lunch together the next day. Valentine never saw Jessup again.
NO WAY! - What you are about to see was OBSERVED in the skies above Planet Earth
NO WAY! - What you are about to see was OBSERVED in the skies above Planet Earth
We are familiar with atmospheric phenomena like sundogs, light pillars, and other kinds of halos seen in the sky. They're actually caused by the sun, very high in the sky, shining through a particular type of ice cloud formation.
But lately other phenomena have been observed that are difficult to explain, strange cloud formations, square and rectangular clouds, mysterious glows in the night skies, roll clouds from horizon to horizon, rays of light, straight lines that seem to split the sky, etc.
It makes us wonder whether all these unnatural-looking sky phenomena are still natural or the result of geo-engineering, weather manipulation.
The following video shows some these strange unnatural-looking sky phenomena captured in the last few days.
UFO Caught Over Tucman, Argentina Construction Site on Sept 6, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Caught Over Tucman, Argentina Construction Site on Sept 6, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 6, 2018 Location of sighting: Tucman, Argentina Source: Twitter report This report just came into me on Twitter today. A person in Argentina was hired to make a portable water facility and took two photos to show his boss that he was doing on the job. However the second photo had a UFO over some of his equipment. The UFO...when enhanced clearly has a round dark window for a pilot and this craft is about half the size of a motorcycle, but maybe much bigger if its far back behind the equipment...not over it. Aliens know that the human eye is flawed, there are parts of the spectrum we cannot see and an object moving at a high enough speed would basically appear invisible to us. Absolutely a great photo that has excellent evidence that we are not only being visited by aliens, but also monitored by them. Scott C. Waring
Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Listen program said it has added the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa to its global effort to listen for signals from an alien intelligence.
First announced in 2015, Breakthrough Listen is an unprecedented $100 million program – backed by Russian high-tech billionaire Yuri Milner – to listen for signals from an alien intelligence. This massive SETI project is already listening via the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and Parkes Telescope in Australia. On October 2, 2018, Breakthrough Listen announced it will also begin listening via the 64 radio dishes of South Africa’s brand new MeerKAT telescope. It made the announcement at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Bremen, Germany, saying it planned to:
… examine a million individual stars – 1,000 times the number of targets in any previous search – in the quietest part of the radio spectrum, monitoring for signs of extraterrestrial technology. With the addition of MeerKAT’s observations to its existing surveys, Listen will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Yuri Milner commented:
Collaborating with MeerKAT will significantly enhance the capabilities of Breakthrough Listen. This is now a truly global project.
Artist’s concept of an extraterrestrial, via Shutterstock.
Yuri Milner funds Breakthrough Listen. He was an early investor in Facebook and Twitter and has funded other large endeavors. For example, he has established the largest award in the world in the field of biomedicine and life sciences, called the Breakthrough Prize.
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) spent part of this year verifying the 64 radio antennas, each 13.5 meters (44 feet) in diameter, of the MeerKAT telescope. SARAO officially inaugurated the telescope in July 2018.
Breakthrough Listen said its involvement:
… adds the capability to search for technosignatures – signals that indicate the presence of technology on an alien world, and hence provide evidence that intelligent life exists elsewhere.
The MeerKAT telescope of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas, located in the remote Karoo Desert of South Africa.
Scientists and engineers from the University of California, Berkeley SETI Research Center have already installed Breakthrough Listen’s special digital instrumentation (much like that installed at Green Bank) at the MeerKAT telescope. The Breakthrough Listen team said its observations will:
… occur in a commensal mode – at the same time as other astrophysics programs. Using sophisticated processing, Breakthrough Listen scientists will digitally point the telescope at targets of interest.
This means that the Breakthrough Listen instrument at MeerKAT will be operating almost continuously, scanning the skies for signs of intelligent life.
The Green Bank telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, is another one of the observatories attempting to eavesdrop on aliens with the help of Breakthrough Listen. Using the Breakthrough Listen digital instrumentation at this telescope, astronomers 3 weeks ago announced they’d found 72 more fast radio bursts from a distant galaxy.
Bottom line: Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Listen program has added the new MeerKAT telescope of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory to its global SETI effort.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Hosts Alejandro Rojas and Martin Willis discuss the latest UFO news including the scientific analysis of materials allegedly from a UFO. The materials are in the hands of the To the Stars Academy, who has created a program called the ADAM Project to scientifically analyze materials believed to have come from anomalous sources, especially UFOs. Recently, they released an article regarding material that they say has been debated for decades. Although they do not say for sure, it appears this material was sent anonymously to Art Bell in the 90s and is referred to as “Art’s Parts.” Alejandro and Martin also discuss their interviews with witnesses to a very credible alleged alien encounter in South Africa, and the latest UFO news.
WE JUST LEARNED SOMETHING NEW ABOUT “ONE OF THE WEIRDEST OBJECTS IN THE MILKY WAY”
WE JUST LEARNED SOMETHING NEW ABOUT “ONE OF THE WEIRDEST OBJECTS IN THE MILKY WAY”
The star system SS 433 is something of a celebrity in the world of astronomy.
It’s the first known example of a microquasar — a black hole that feeds off a nearby companion star and emits two powerful jets of material. Plus, at just 15,000 light-years away, it’s relatively close to us.
And now, an international team of researchers has discovered something new about SS 433: it emits a type of electromagnetic radiation known as high-energy gamma rays. This new insight could help astronomers understand what’s going on at the centers of galaxies, where huge quasars sometimes feed on many stars at once.
HAWC features more than 300 water tanks, each about 24 feet across. When gamma rays reach Earth’s atmosphere from elsewhere in the universe, they cause showers of particles that hit the water in these tanks, causing shockwaves of light. Special cameras detect these, and from their recordings, researchers can pinpoint the source of the gamma rays.
For their study, published Wednesday in Nature, the team examined 1,017 days’ worth of HAWC data and determined that SS 433 was a source of gamma rays. Perhaps even more remarkably, they figured out that the rays were coming from the ends of the microquasars’ jets — a source of gamma rays they’d never seen before.
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“This new observation of high-energy gamma rays builds on almost 40 years of measurements of one of the weirdest objects in the Milky Way,” said study co-author Segev BenZvi in an emailed press release. “Every measurement gives us a different piece of the puzzle, and we hope to use our knowledge to learn about the quasar family as a whole.”
Of the roughly one dozen microquasars in the Milky Way, only two appear to emit high-energy gamma rays. The fact that the closest microquasar to Earth also emits these rays — and in a previously unknown way — could afford researchers a better way to study them, all while helping us get to know our favorite microquasar a little bit better.
Cmdr. David Fravor says in 2004 he had an unforgettable encounter with a strange aircraft he believes was defying the laws of physics - maybe a UFO. #Tucker
An American pilot who claims to have chased an alien aircraft has warned world leaders to take UFO sightings seriously.
Elizondo secured the release of previously classified US Defense Department videos of UFO encounters - one of which shows the craft Fravor saw darting off at an incredible speed.
Commander Fravor, 53, was flying one of two fighter jets on a routine training mission about 100 miles into the Pacific ocean off San Diego when they were diverted to check out an aircraft spotted on radar from their navy cruiser the USS Princeton.
The operations operator said they had been tracking up to a dozen mystery aircraft over two weeks but hadn't had manned planes deployed when they showed up.
The object first appeared at 80,000 ft, then hurtled towards the sea, stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering before dropping out of radar.
When Commander Fravor arrived he saw a white aircraft hovering 50 feet above above a disturbance in the ocean.
He said: “It was just moving randomly around - this 40 foot long white tic tac looking thing, with no wings.
“It was a clear day with a blue background and it was perfectly white. We didn't see any windows, no form of propulsion, nothing, just a big white object.
"It was rounded on both ends and had a cylindrical body which rounded in, same front to back.
“I couldn't tell what it was made of, it was bright white but it wasn't reflecting a bunch of light."
Fravor flew towards it and the aircraft began ascending towards him, passing him at about 12,000 ft. He thinks he got within half a mile of it.
He said: “I literally chased the thing and it started to mirror us, it was like it became aware we were there. I cut across to see if I could get closer and it rapidly accelerated and disappeared. Within a matter of a second it was gone.”
Asked what was going through his mind, he said: "I was thinking 'That's pretty strange'. In 16 years of flying I had never seen anything like that. Nothing that can hover and climb at that rate up and then accelerate and just disappear.
“I was more curious then afraid. I wanted to see how close I could get to it, to see what it was.”
The two fighter jets were told to head to a rendezvous point 60 miles away.
However the radio operator on the Princeton then radioed and said the mystery aircraft had turned up before them.
At this point another aircraft was sent to investigate and recorded radar footage of the aircraft. The 90 second video shows the oblong shaped object hovering before it darts off to the left at what appears to be an unprecedented velocity.
Fravor said: “It jammed the radar, you couldn't lock it with a conventional radar, you could passively track it and see it, but if you tried to grab a lock it wouldn't allow you to do that.
“When it takes off and goes to the side that's a significant amount of distance to travel in a very short period of time, we're talking miles, that thing just goes poof and in about a second it's off the side of the screen.
"You look at the video of it there's no exhaust flume, there's no indication of how that thing is moving around. Having seen a lot of different airplanes, you can always at least hot spots where the exhaust is coming out. I was close enough visually to go 'we don't have anything like that'."
He insisted the object was alien in origin.
He said: “I know what I saw, it was impressive, it had incredible performance, obviously I wasn’t in a hostile act with it, you’d have your hands full if you were.
"I honestly don’t think humans have that technology to do what that thing did. Nor could the human body withstand accelerations like that. It’s an incredible technology to be able to go up to space, and back down and hang over the water.
"I know what I saw and the other three people that were there saw at the same time. I think you would be hard pressed to question my credibility flying experience wise. I’m totally sane, in good health, I don’t do drugs.
"We physically saw and chased it and are the only ones that have actually got close to one of these things.”
Fravor is now calling on British space expert Stephen Hawking to view the video and give his take on it.
Physicist Stephen Hawking exits the stage during an announcement of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative with investor Yuri Milner in New York April 12, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - RTX29N6G (File photo: Physicist Stephen Hawking exits the stage during an announcement of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative with investor Yuri Milner in New York April 12, 2016.
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He said: “They should be talking to Stephen Hawking. He’s a brilliant man, I would like to hear his thoughts on it. They said they’re talking to some other theoretical physicists like him about the possibilities.”
And in a stern warning to governments around the world he added: “We all need to take these seriously as a species, because right now we don't know the intent of these things, if they're like ET it's great, if they're like War of the Worlds not so much.
“You can ignore them and hope they're just going to observe, or you can do something about it and try to understand what they’re doing and develop technology, in case they do have a bad intention.”
In another video released by the US government into the existence of extraterrestrial life a pilot can be heard muttering: "This is a f****** drone, bro," the New York Post reported.
The footage shows another pilot saying: “There’s a whole fleet of them,” before exclaiming, “It’s rotating!”.
The footage captures a glowing whitish oval and a darker orb as the jets, dispatched from the aircraft carrier Nimitz, chase the craft.
The footage was released by the Defense Department’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which spent $22 million between 2008 and 2012 to investigate reports from military and commercial pilots of unidentified flying objects.
Lockheed Martin Unveils Plans for Huge Reusable Moon Lander for Astronauts
Lockheed Martin Unveils Plans for Huge Reusable Moon Lander for Astronauts
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
This isn't your grandfather's lunar lander.
Today (Oct. 3), aerospace giant Lockheed Martin revealed its concept for a reusable, single-stage spaceship capable of ferrying four astronauts between lunar orbit and the surface of the moon.
For comparison, the expendable lunar lander that NASA used during the Apollo program carried two people and weighed 4.7 tons (4.3 metric tons) without propellant. Lockheed's craft would weigh 24 tons (22 metric tons) dry and tip the scales at 68 tons (62 metric tons) when fully fueled. [Lunar Legacy: 45 Apollo Moon Mission Photos]
The Lockheed lander would use as its home base the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, a small space station that NASA aims to start building near the moon in 2022.
An artist's illustration of Lockheed Martin's crewed lunar lander, which is designed to let astronauts spend two weeks at a time on the moon's surface.
Credit: Lockheed Martin
The lander would depart from the Gateway, taking astronauts and up to 1.1 tons (1 metric tons) of cargo down to the lunar surface, according to a newly published Lockheed white paper. The craft (and crew) could stay on the surface for up to two weeks, then launch back to the Gateway without the need to refuel. (The lander would be refueled between missions — eventually, perhaps, with propellant derived from water ice extracted from the moon or asteroids.)
The lander design leverages many technologies from the Orion capsule, which Lockheed is building for NASA. Orion and the Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket, which is also in development, will help astronauts explore deep-space destinations, such as the moon and Mars, NASA officials have said.
"There's a lot of development that we've accomplished on Orion, so that helps," Tim Cichan, space exploration architect at Lockheed Martin Space, told Space.com. (Cichan presented the lunar-lander concept today at the International Astronautical Congress in Bremen, Germany.)
Orion already has one flight under its belt, an uncrewed test mission to Earth orbit in December 2014. NASA intends to fly the capsule again in 2020, on an uncrewed flight called Exploration Mission 1 that will also serve as the SLS' debut. (The 2014 Orion flight employed a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket.) On EM-1, Orion will loop around the moon and spend about three weeks in space. The first crewed Orion-SLS flight, Exploration Mission 2, is currently targeted for 2023.
An artist's illustration of Lockheed Martin's proposed moon lander attached to the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, a small space station that NASA aims to start building in lunar orbit in 2022.µ
Credit: Lockheed Martin
Lockheed's proposed lander could be up and running by the late 2020s, in keeping with the timeline NASA has targeted for getting boots back on the moon, said Rob Chambers, Lockheed Martin Space's director of human spaceflight strategy and business development. The lander would also launch atop the SLS, at least for the foreseeable future, he told Space.com.
The Lockheed concept vehicle is quite a bit bigger than the crewed lunar lander that NASA seems to be envisioning. In March, for example, the space agency asked industry to contribute ideas that would aid in the development of a lander capable of carrying between 0.55 tons and 6.6 tons (0.5 to 6 metric tons) to the lunar surface.
Artist's illustration of Lockheed Martin's proposed lunar lander on the surface of the moon. The lander could carry four people and up to 1 ton of cargo to the surface from lunar orbit.
Credit: Lockheed Martin
But there's a good reason for the extra heft: Lockheed sees the moon lander as a precursor for a Red Planet lander, which is a key part of the company's proposed "Mars Base Camp" exploration architecture. That base camp is a space station in Mars orbit that would serve as an exploration hub as well as a jumping-off point for crewed sorties to the surface (as the Gateway would do at the moon) and for trips to the Red Planet's two small moons, Phobos and Deimos.
Lockheed has long envisioned testing the Mars Base Camp lander at the moon, Chambers said. But the company's Red Planet plans aren't dependent on NASA selecting the vehicle for Gateway operations.
"A precursor lander would be very beneficial but not absolutely required," Cichan said.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There," will be published on Nov. 13. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+.
Schematic view of the Milky Way showing six isotropic extraterrestrial emission processes forming spherical shells filled by radio signals. The outer radii of the spherical shells are proportional to the time at which the signals were first emitted, while the thicknesses are proportional to the duration of the emissions. In this example, the Earth is illuminated by one of these signals. Credit: Claudio Grimaldi / EPFL
Could there be another planet in the universe with a society at the same stage of technological advancement as ours? To find out, EPFL scientist Claudio Grimaldi, working in association with the University of California, Berkeley, has developed a statistical model that gives researchers a new tool in the search for the kind of signals that an extraterrestrial society might emit. His method, described in an article appearing today in PNAS, could also make the search cheaper and more efficient.
Atrophysics initially wasn't Grimaldi's thing; he was interested more in the physics of condensed matter. Working at EPFL's Laboratory of Physics of Complex Matter, his research involved calculating the probabilities of carbon nanotubes exchanging electrons. But then he wondered: if the nanotubes were stars and the electrons were signals generated by extraterrestrial societies, could we calculate the probability of detecting those signals more accurately?
This is not pie-in-the-sky research — scientists have been studying this possibility for nearly 60 years. Several research projects concerning the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) have been launched since the late 1950s, mainly in the United States. The idea is that an advanced civilization on another planet could be generating electromagnetic signals, and scientists on Earth might be able to pick up those signals using the latest high-performance radio telescopes.
Renewed interest
Despite considerable advances in radio astronomy and the increase in computing power since then, none of those projects has led to anything concrete. Some signals without identifiable origin have well been recorded, like the Wow! signal in 1977, but none of them has been repeated or seems credible enough to be attributable to alien life.
But that doesn't mean scientists have given up. On the contrary, SETI has seen renewed interest following the discovery of the many exoplanets orbiting the billions of suns in our galaxy. Researchers have designed sophisticated new instruments — like the Square Kilometre Array, a giant radio telescope being built in South Africa and Australia with a total collecting area of one square kilometer — that could pave the way to promising breakthroughs. And Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner recently announced an ambitious program called Breakthrough Listen, which aims to cover 10 times more sky than previous searches and scan a much wider band of frequencies. Milner intends to fund his initiative with 100 million dollars over 10 years.
"In reality, expanding the search to these magnitudes only increases our chances of finding something by very little. And if we still don't detect any signals, we can't necessarily conclude with much more certainty that there is no life out there," says Grimaldi.
Still a ways to go
The advantage of Grimaldi's statistical model is that it lets scientists interpret both the success and failure to detect signals at varying distances from Earth. His model employs Bayes' theorem to calculate the remaining probability of detecting a signal within a given radius around our planet.
For example, even if no signal is detected within a radius of 1,000 light years, there is still an over 10% chance that Earth is within range of hundreds of similar signals from elsewhere in the galaxy, but that our radio telescopes are currently not powerful enough to detect them. However, that probability rises to nearly 100% if even just one signal is detected within the 1,000-light-year radius. In that case, we could be almost certain that our galaxy is full of alien life.
After factoring in other parameters like the size of the galaxy and how closely packed its stars are, Grimaldi estimates that the probability of detecting a signal becomes very slight only at a radius of 40,000 light years. In other words, if no signals are detected at this distance from Earth, we could reasonably conclude that no other civilization at the same level of technological development as ours is detectable in the galaxy. But so far, scientists have been able to search for signals within a radius of "just" 40 light years.
So there's still a ways to go. Especially since these search methods can't detect alien civilizations that may be in primordial stages or that are highly advanced but haven't followed the same technological trajectory as ours.
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More information: Claudio Grimaldi et al, Bayesian approach to SETI, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2018). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1808578115
Success! Hopping, Shoebox-Sized Lander Touches Down Safely on Asteroid Ryugu
Success! Hopping, Shoebox-Sized Lander Touches Down Safely on Asteroid Ryugu
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Two tiny, hopping robots now have a companion on the surface of the big asteroid Ryugu.
A shoebox-sized lander called the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) deployed from its mothership, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, as planned at 9:57 p.m. EDT Tuesday (Oct. 2; 0157 GMT on Oct. 3) and came to rest on Ryugu shortly thereafter. The lander's first photo of asteroid Ryugu shows a rocky world, and even MASCOT's own shadow.
"It could not have gone better," MASCOT project manager Tra-Mi Ho, from the DLR Institute of Space Systems in Bremen, Germany, said in a statement. (DLR is the German acronym for the German Aerospace Center, which built MASCOT in collaboration with the French space agency, CNES.) [Japan's Hayabusa2 Asteroid Ryugu Mission in Pictures]
The German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) lander captured this photo of asteroid Ryugu during landing operations on Oct. 3, 2018. The lander's shadow is visible at upper right.
Credit: German Aerospace Center (DLR)
"From the lander's telemetry, we were able to see that it separated from the mothercraft and made contact with the asteroid surface approximately 20 minutes later," Ho added.
MASCOT has already started gathering data with its four onboard science instruments — a camera, a radiometer, a spectrometer and a magnetometer — mission team members said. The 22-lb. (10 kilograms) lander must make haste, because its battery is expected to die just 16 hours after touchdown.
MASCOT took 20 photos during its slow descent toward Ryugu, and these images are stored aboard Hayabusa2 at the moment, mission team members said. And observations made by the magnetometer before separation (which occurred when Hayabusa2 was about 167 feet, or 51 meters, above Ryugu) have already made it down to Earth.
"The measurements show the relatively weak field of the solar wind and the very strong magnetic disturbances caused by the spacecraft," MASCOT team member Karl-Heinz Glaßmeier, from the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany, said in the same statement. "At the moment of the separation, we expected a clear decrease of the interference field — and we were able to recognize this clearly."
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully dropped the MASCOT lander on the asteroid Ryugu on Oct. 3, 2018 (Japan Standard Time). Left: Illustration of the MASCOT lander separating from the Hayabusa2 mothership. Right: Illustration of MASCOT landing on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu.
Credit: JAXA
MASCOT is following in the footsteps of MINERVA-II1A and MINERVA-II1B, two 2.4-lb. (1.1 kg) rovers that deployed from Hayabusa2 on the night of Sept. 21. Both of those little robots aced their touchdowns and soon began exploring the surface of Ryugu.
Like the Japanese-built MINERVA-II1A and MINERVA-II1B, the autonomous MASCOT can move by hopping, which it does by manipulating a metallic "swing arm" inside its body. The lander can also use this arm to right itself on Ryugu's surface — an important feature, because MASCOT needs to be right side up to gather data and beam it up to Hayabusa2.
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft descends toward the asteroid Ryugu on the night of Oct. 2, 2018, ahead of the deployment of the MASCOT lander. This photo was taken at an altitude of about 430 feet (130 meters) above Ryugu.
Credit: JAXA
The $150 million Hayabusa2 mission launched in December 2014 and arrived in orbit around Ryugu in late June of this year. The mothership may have one more rover deployment to go: It still carries the "optional" hopper MINERVA-II2, which could make its way to Ryugu's surface next year.
And the orbiter itself will make its way down to the space rock in 2019 as well, after sending a nonexplosive impactor barreling into Ryugu. Hayabusa2 will grab pristine, previously subsurface samples from the newly created crater; this material is scheduled to come down to Earth in a return capsule in December 2020.
Data gathered by the mission at Ryugu and by scientists who examine its returned sample should shed considerable light on the solar system's early history and the role that carbon-rich asteroids like Ryugu may have played in life's emergence on Earth, Hayabusa2 team members have said.
The MASCOT landing site candidate region (light blue area) on the asteroid Ryugu. Since MASCOT was expected to bounce several times after first touching down, a reasonably wide region was selected.
Credit: AXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST, CNES, DLR
NASA has an asteroid-sampling mission of its own in operation, with broadly similar goals. The OSIRIS-REx probe is scheduled to arrive in orbit around the 1,650-foot-wide (500 m) asteroid Bennu on Dec. 31 and return samples to Earth in September 2023.
This story was updated at 2:45 a.m. EDT on Oct. 3 with the news that MASCOT landed safely and has begun gathering data.
“Star Wars,” “Her,” and “iRobot.” What do all these movies have in common? The artificial intelligence (AI) depicted in there is crazy-sophisticated. These robots can think creatively, continue learning over time, and maybe even pass for conscious.
Real-life artificial intelligence experts have a name for AI that can do this — it’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). For decades, scientists have tried all sorts of approaches to create AGI, using techniques such as reinforcement learning and machine learning. No approach has proven to be much better than any other, at least not yet.
Indeed, there’s a catch here: despite all the excitement, we have no idea how to build AGI.
Either way, most experts think it’s coming — sooner rather than later. In a poll of conference attendees, AI research companies GoodAI and SingularityNet found that 37 percent of respondents think people will create HLAI within 10 years. Another 28 percent think it will take 20 years. Just two percent think HLAI will never exist.
Almost every expert who had an opinion hedged their bets — most responses to the question were peppered with caveats and “maybes.” There’s a lot that we don’t know about the path towards HLAI, such as questions over who will pay for it or how we’re going to combine our algorithms that can think or reason but can’t do both.
Futurism caught up with a number of AI researchers, investors, and policymakers to get their perspective on when HLAI will happen. The following responses come from panels and presentations from the conference and exclusive interviews.
Irakli Beridze, Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, UNICRI, United Nations
At the moment, there is absolutely no indication that we are anywhere near AGI. And no one can say with any kind of authority or conviction that this would happen within a certain time frame. Or even worse, no one can say this can even happen period. We may never have AGI, so we need to take that into account when we are discussing anything.
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Executive Director of the Cambridge Center for the Study of Existential Risk
There’s still a lot of work to be done; there are still many things we don’t understand. Given we have this understanding, maybe it’s possible that it happens within 50 years.
I think we should enjoy the technology while it advances. We should be looking out for where to go in the future. But on the other hand, it’s not like we have human-level AI right now and I don’t think it’s going to happen very quickly. I think that if I’m lucky it’ll happen in my lifetime.
A worm’s level of intelligence is actually pretty doable. If you try to look at vision and planning, this is kind of narrowly doable. The integration of planning and learning, planning as its own thing is pretty well solved. But planning in a way which works with [machine learning] is not very well solved.
I think we are almost there. I am not predicting we will have general AI in three years, 30 years. But I am confident it can happen any day.
Ben Goertzel, CEO at SingularityNET and Chief Scientist at Hanson Robotics
I don’t think we need fundamentally new algorithms. I think we do need to connect our algorithms in different ways than we do now. If I’m right, then we already have the core algorithms that we need… I believe we are less than ten years from creating human-level AI.
I don’t think we’re almost there in the technology for General AI. I think general AI is almost a branding for a very general idea. Lifelong learning is an example of that — it’s a very particular type of AI. We know the theoretical foundation of that already, we know how nature does it, and it’s very well defined. There is a very clear direction, there is a metric. I think we can reach it in a close time.
On the last day of the conference, a number of participants participated in a lightning round of sorts. Almost entirely for fun, these experts were encouraged to throw out a date at which they expected us to figure out how to make HLAI. The following answers, some of whom were given by the same people who already answered the question, should be taken with an entire shaker of salt — some were meant as jokes and others are total guesses.
John Langford
Maybe 20 [years]?
Marek Rosa
I really have no idea which year, but if I have to say one year I’d say ten years in the future. The reason is its kind fo vague, you know like anything can happen in ten years.
A sluggish, yet precise robot designed by Japanese engineers demonstrates what construction sites might look like in the future.
Credit: AIST.
The prototype developed at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology was recently featured in a video picking up a piece of plasterboard and screwing it into a wall.
The robot, called HRP-5P, is much less productive than a human worker. However, its motions are very precise, meaning that this prototype could evolve into a rugged model that’s apt for real-life applications in demanding fields such as constructions.
While most manufacturing fields are being disrupted by automation, with robots doing most of the work in microchip plants or car assembly lines, supervised by human personnel, the same can’t be said about construction. This field is way too dynamic — with every project being unique — and filled with all sorts of obstacles that are too challenging for today’s robots to navigate. HRP-5P, however, suggests that automation could one day become feasible in construction works as well.
For Japan, construction bots are not meant to put people out of jobs, but rather to supplement a dwindling workforce. There’s a great shortage of manual labor in the island state, which is suffering from declining birthrates and an aging population.
Previously, a New York-based company demonstrated a mason-bot capable of laying down 3,000 bricks a day — six times faster than the average human, and cheaper too. Elsewhere, such as at MIT, researchers are experimenting with 3-D printing entire homes in one go.
EPADe gelande toestellen hebben een diameter van nauwelijk 18 centimeter. Japanse wetenschappers tonen hoe de landing in zijn werk gaat.
WETENSCHAPTwee kleine robotjeeps van een onbemand Japans ruimtetuig zijn op een asteroïde op 300 miljoen kilometer van de Aarde geland. Dat meldt het Japanse ruimtevaartbureau Jaxa.
De sonde Hayabusa-2 kwam na een reis van 3,5 jaar in juni aan bij de steenklomp Ryugu die een diameter van 900 meter heeft. De nuttige lading bestond onder meer uit twee cilindrische jeeps met een diameter van nauwelijks 18 centimeter. Zij zullen op het hemellichaampje rondhoppen en daarbij foto’s maken van het oppervlak en de temperaturen meten, zegt het Jaxa.
De tweede Hayabusa voerde drie “jeeps” en de tien kilo wegende lander MASCOT van het Duitse en Franse ruimtevaartbureau, DLR en CNES, mee. De Hayabusa-2 werd in december 2014 gelanceerd. De sonde moet tegen eind 2020 stalen van de asteroïde naar onze planeet brengen.
Wetenschappers hopen door het onderzoek van Ryugu meer te leren over het ontstaan en de evolutie van ons zonnestelsel.
EPAEen foto van het oppervlak van Ryugu, doorgestuurd door Rover-1B tijdens een sprongetje op de asteroïde.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETAsteroïde Ryugu, die rond de zon draait, heeft opnieuw bezoek gekregen van de mensheid. Vorige maand landden al twee Japanse verkenners, vandaag kregen die gezelschap van een Duits-Franse sonde, de Mascot. Die landde heel voorzichtig op zijn nieuwe woonplaats, 300 miljoen kilometer van de aarde.
De Japanse sonde en zijn Frans-Duitse broer waren in december 2014 samen gelanceerd. Ze zaten in de satelliet Hayabusa2. Die kwam in juni aan bij de asteroïde. Vandaag vloog de satelliet 51 meter boven het oppervlak van de rots, toen hij de Mascot losliet. Die zakte in 20 minuten naar beneden.
De Mascot heeft genoeg energie aan boord om na de landing zestien uur lang allerlei metingen te verrichten. Daarna zit zijn werk er op. Wetenschappers willen onder meer weten waaruit de asteroïde bestaat.
Vorige maand landden de Japanse verkenners Rover-1A en Rover-1B op Ryugu. Die kunnen rondspringen over het oppervlak, zodat ze meerdere plekken kunnen meten. Ze hebben al een paar kleurenfoto’s van Ryugu naar de aarde gestuurd.
Later deze maand moet de Hayabusa2-satelliet vlak boven de asteroïde gaan vliegen. Hij vuurt dan een kogel op het oppervlak af en vangt de opvliegende stofdeeltjes op. Die moet hij eind 2020 terugbrengen naar de aarde, zodat wetenschappers ze zelf kunnen onderzoeken. Japan deed dat in 2010 ook, met de ruimtesonde Hayabusa. Die haalde stofdeeltjes op bij de asteroïde Itokawa en bracht die naar de aarde.
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Een foto gemaakt door Rover-1A.
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Een foto gemaakt door Rover-1A
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Een foto gemaakt door Rover-1B.
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Foto gemaakt vanuit Hayabusa2.
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De twee Japanse rovers toen ze nog niet op een asteroïde huppelden.
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Amazon-oprichter Bezos, met bezittingen van meer dan 100 miljard de rijkste man ter wereld, heeft het plan opgevat de maan te gaan exploiteren. Als het aan hem ligt, komt er onder meer een permanente basis en zware industrie die op aarde minder gewenst is. Het bouwen van een maanlander, die heen en weer kan vliegen, is een belangrijke stap. Bezos hoopt het ruimtevaartuig al over twee jaar in gebruik te kunnen nemen.
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