Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
27-10-2018
UFO Mystery: Vanished pilot’s ominous prophecy
UFO researcher George Simpson (right) and mechanic Mike Hodges, who serviced Fred Valentich’s Cessna 182.
Picture: Jay Town
UFO Mystery: Vanished pilot’s ominous prophecy
by AARON LANGMAID AND HARRISON TIPPET
FORTY years since his baffling disappearance off the coast of Cape Otway, Victorian pilot Fred Valentich's fiancee has revealed an ominous conversation she shared with her boyfriend only a day earlier.
Rhonda Rushton has spoken for the first time about his unsettling final words to her, admitting she has been unable to move on from the tragedy ever since.
Ms Rushton said despite his plans to set a course across Bass Strait, the 20-year-old admitted he was fearful of flying over water.
"I found that a bit strange," she said.
"But it was clear he had some sort of gut feeling."
Despite an extensive air and ground search, no trace of Mr Valentich or his plane were ever found after he took off from Moorabbin airport on October 21, 1978.
But it would be the transcript of his final conversation with an air traffic controller that would confound investigators and spark one of Australia's most enduring aviation mysteries.
Mr Valentich told Melbourne air traffic control he was being followed by a long metallic, unidentified aircraft with four bright lights which at times moved at high speed or orbited above his plane, before reporting his engine was failing.
"It seems to me that he's playing some sort of game," he told air traffic control. "He's flying over me two, three times at a time at speeds I could not identify.
"Melbourne - Delta Sierra Juliet. It's not an aircraft."
Critics claimed Mr Valentich was either disorientated and crashed or may have even faked his disappearance.
But Ms Rushton said they were never theories she or his family were comfortable with.
"Anybody who knew Fred understood just how honest he was," Ms Rushton said.
"He would never make something like that up.
"If that's what he said he saw - that is what he saw."
Fred Valentich.
The disappearance of Fred Valentich has become one of the most enduring aviation mysteries in Australian history - and one of the world's most popular UFO conspiracies.
A P.E.I. man claims he saw a strange object in the night sky near his home in Sturgeon on Sept. 30, 2018. Every year in Canada there are about 1,000 UFO reports, including eight in P.E.I. in 2017. - 123RF Stock Photo
STURGEON, P.E.I. - Jim Bruce stepped out on his deck the last day of September around 11 p.m. just to check how cold it was. As he looked to the sky, he noted there was no moon and he could see the stars perfectly.
Then, something came from the west.
Bruce has seen a lot of satellites in the sky near his home in Sturgeon, but this object was not like any he’d seen before.
“Must be a plane,” he thought.
The object with flashing lights just stopped dead. Then, it shot in a 90-degree angle towards Bruce’s home and stopped once again.
“Then it continued again toward the east, stopped, dropped, sort of moving towards Nova Scotia.”
Next, it flew in a circle and hovered, Bruce said.
“It shot off and disappeared over the horizon faster than any satellite I had ever seen.”
The next day, Bruce was getting some paint at Stewart and Beck’s in Montague and couple of people were talking about what they had seen in the sky.
The same thing. In the same part of the sky, a few weeks ago.
There were eight UFO sightings in P.E.I. last year according to Ufology Research of Manitoba.
Bruce wanted to know what it was he saw, so he began making calls.
He got some numbers for the Royal Canadian Air Force, hoping they could tell him something. No one took him seriously. He called Air Canada, who hung up. Then he called NAV Canada, who also hung up. Finally, the RCMP told him it wasn’t something they dealt with.
So, who do you phone when you think you’ve seen an unidentified flying object?
Since 1989, Ufology Research of Manitoba (UFORM) has been taking reported sightings in Canada and compiles them into an annual Canadian UFO Survey.
Chris Rutkowski manages the Canadian UFO Survey.
Chris Rutkowski, who manages the survey, says sightings are no longer being managed by any military or police groups.
“At one point the RCMP were investigating UFOs on behalf of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). They did it for several decades,” Rutkowski said in a phone interview.
The idea was some of the things seen in the sky could be meteorites, which the research council wanted to follow.
“That program with the NRC finished in the ‘90s and so the RCMP had no commitment to continue,” he said.
Still, Rutkowski is saddened Bruce’s claim was not taken seriously.
“Polls have shown about 10 per cent of all Canadians believe they’ve seen UFOs, which is a fairly significant number when you think about it.”
Every year in Canada there are about 1,000 UFO reports, Rutkowski said. Last year there were eight in P.E.I.
“He (Bruce) is certainly not alone if that is any comfort.”
There are a number of ways to make UFO reports online, and there are Facebook groups specific to regions.
“So, that would be a way to do it in a passive way if you don’t want to attract attention to yourself, or you don’t want to be on the front page of The Guardian tomorrow.”
Rutkowski says between one and three per cent of cases can’t be explained, but most people do get an answer when they ask about what they’ve seen.
“I want people to understand that UFOs can be studied in a scientific way. We can explain most UFO reports.”
APHubble boven de aarde net na de lancering in 1990.
Het is de standaardzin van zowat elke IT-helpdeskmedewerker: “Heb je hem al eens uit- en opnieuw opgezet?” En terecht, zo blijkt nog maar eens. Want de simpele truc doet niet alleen wonderen bij gewone computers en laptops, ook een state of the art-ruimtetelescoop als de Hubble kan er wel bij varen. De NASA kreeg het toestel dat sinds begin deze maand stuk was, deze week opnieuw aan de praat door alle systemen uit te schakelen en opnieuw aan te zetten.
Hubble was op 5 oktober in “veilige modus” gezet nadat een van de drie nog actieve gyroscopen dienst weigerde. De ruimtetelescoop vliegt al sinds 1990 in een baan om de aarde. Gyroscopen zijn cruciale onderdelen om de telescoop te richten en stabiel te houden tijdens het maken van beelden in de ruimte. Voor een optimale werking zijn drie stuks nodig. Het uitvallen van de gyroscoop was verwacht, maar de problemen begonnen toen een back-upsysteem niet opstartte zoals het moest.
De NASA werkt twee weken koortsachtig aan een oplossing, die er deze week dan toch kwam. Volgens de ruimtevaartorganisatie is de telescoop ondertussen zo goed als opnieuw volledig actief nadat ze een actie uitvoerde die te vergelijken valt met het uit- en opnieuw aanzetten van een simpele computer. Op 16 oktober werd er een ‘lopende herstart’ gedaan van de telescoop, waarbij alle systemen gedurende een seconde werden uitgezet. Bedoeling was om alles wat er misliep bij het proberen opstarten van het back-upsysteem te resetten. Twee dagen later lieten de NASA-wetenschappers vanop aarde Hubble een reeks manoeuvres uitvoeren om mogelijke blokkades aan de gyroscoop weg te werken.
De NASA is maar wat blij met het nieuwe leven voor Hubble. Onlangs nog werd met behulp van de telescoop de eerste maan buiten ons zonnestelsel gevonden, en deze week kon hij al opnieuw een prachtig beeld maken van een mysterieuze stof- en gaswolk, ‘de geest van Cassiopeia’ gedoopt, die gekleurd wordt door de ultraviolette straling van een nabijgelegen ster.
Back to science! @NASAHubble is well on its way to normal science operations after a series of spacecraft stability tests commanded by our operations team. After evaluate its performance, the telescope is expected to return to science as usual. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/2R7AlUW
Just in time for Halloween: @NASAHubble captured an eerie figure among the stars, comprised of long, flowing veils of gas and dust. "The Ghost of Cassiopeia" is a nebula glowing with ultraviolet radiation from a nearby star. Look closer - if you dare! https://go.nasa.gov/2CHQGMq
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26-10-2018
Korporaal was getuige van UFO-crash in Peru. In deze video beschrijft hij dingen die hij nog nooit van zijn leven had gezien
Korporaal was getuige van UFO-crash in Peru. In deze video beschrijft hij dingen die hij nog nooit van zijn leven had gezien
Korporaal Jonathan Weygandt was gestationeerd in Peru, waar hij opdracht kreeg naar de crashplek van een mysterieus toestel te gaan.
Eenmaal aangekomen zag hij dingen die hij nog nooit van zijn leven had gezien. Hij werd uiteindelijk gearresteerd en een aantal dagen opgesloten.
Weygandt werkte als beveiliger van een radarinstallatie die formeel werd gebruikt om Boliviaanse drugsvliegtuigen te volgen.
Telepathisch contact
Op een nacht kwam er een melding binnen dat in de omgeving een vliegtuig was neergestort. Weygandt ging met een aantal collega’s naar de crashplek.
De korporaal zag als één van de eersten het grote toestel. Het was vast komen te zitten in een ravijn.
Uit het toestel droop siroopachtige vloeistof met een groenpaarse kleur. De motor van het vaartuig bracht een zoemend geluid voort.
Hij zei dat zich in het vaartuig wezens bevonden die telepathisch contact met hem probeerden te leggen. Hij meende één van de wezens om hulp te horen roepen.
Hechtenis
Plotseling kreeg Weygandt opdracht om bij het toestel vandaan te komen.
Medewerkers van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Energie verschenen ten tonele en namen de korporaal in hechtenis.
Mannen in zwarte pakken namen zijn uitrusting in beslag. Hij werd aan boord van een grote helikopter gebracht en afgevoerd.
Vaker
Na een lang verhoor moest Weygandt een formulier ondertekenen waarin stond dat hij verklaarde dat hij niets had gezien.
Hij werd naar eigen zeggen nog dagenlang vastgehouden voordat hij weer terug mocht naar de radarinstallatie.
Weygandt lichtte toe dat onbekende vliegende objecten, die van buiten de atmosfeer leken te komen, vaker in het gebied werden gezien toen hij er gestationeerd was.
DID OUR ANCESTORS KNOW HOW TO OPENA PORTAL TO ANOTHER DIMENSION?
DID OUR ANCESTORS KNOW HOW TO OPEN A PORTAL TO ANOTHER DIMENSION?
There are a number of areas across the world known to be energetic hotspots – from ancient megaliths to Ley Lines, these areas are often alleged to produce hyper-dimensional gateways. While we don’t exactly know how to open a portal to another dimension, there is evidence the phenomenon could exist. And now it seems science may be catching on to the possibility.
Typically, portal areas have some type of electromagnetic significance and are located near large deposits of quartz or other minerals with piezoelectric properties. So, it came as less of a surprise when NASA announced in 2012 that University of Iowa physicist Jack Scudder, found hard evidence of portals created by the interaction between the Earth and Sun’s magnetospheres.
These portals are extremely volatile and unpredictable, opening and closing in the matter of an instant. But Scudder found markers, called x-points or electron diffusion regions, which allowed NASA probes to locate and study them.
Thus, launched the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, or MMS, which mapped how two celestial bodies’ magnetic fields connect, disconnect, and explosively transfer energy, subsequently opening portals.
For now, only electrons have been observed to travel through these portals, generating auroras and the occasional magnetic storm near Earth’s poles. But this discovery could be the key to uncovering the function of some of the legendary portals on Earth that are said to act as gateways to other dimensions.
INTER-DIMENSIONAL PORTALS
The inter-dimensional portal has long been a device of science fiction, but it also finds its place within myriad ancient cultures. According to Freddy Silva, throughout history we’ve slowly lost our connection to the Earth, but in times of antiquity people were able to naturally distinguish energetic fields and hotspots across the land.
Our ancestors identified particular places considered energetically anomalous, and in these areas, one finds either a succession of temples or a temple that has withstood the test of time. Silva points to a number of gothic cathedrals built on grounds originally identified by Pagans as being sacred.
These energetic locales are considered sacrosanct because they represent areas where our inner temple – the mind – is able to access higher states of consciousness, connecting with extra-dimensional entities or invoking out of body experiences. Whether these areas always represented dimensional portals for the mind, or a portal for the physical body is up for debate.
Graham Hancock references the many stories of native shamans traversing planes of consciousness through the use of psychedelic substances such as ayahuasca. Within this ecstatic state shamans report meeting teachers and guides, who provide advice and wisdom for living within the everyday realm of our existence. But Hancock also says he believes it is worth considering that there maybe something otherworldly to these portal areas; something beyond materialist comprehension.
One location seeming to fit this description is Puerta de Hayu Marca in Peru. Situated on a plateau just off the western banks of Lake Titicaca, Puerta de Hayu Marca translates to the Gate of the Gods. Reaching 23 feet in both height and width, Hayu Marca appears to be a doorway to nowhere carved into a rock face in a remote area known as the Valley of the Spirits, or Stone Forest.
Gate of the Gods, Hayu Marca
Legend has it that when Spanish conquistadors came to Peru to loot the Inca’s gold, a priest named Amaru Meru used Hayu Marca as a portal to escape. Meru allegedly placed a golden disk, known as the “Key to the Gods of the Seven Rays,” into a socket in the center of Hayu Marca’s carved door, opening a portal and allowing him to walk through the stone never to be seen again.
Hayu Marca rests on a Ley Line, upon which the famous Gate of the Sun at Tiwanaku also lies in neighboring Bolivia, along with several other important Incan archeological points.
Visitors of Hayu Marca have reported noticeably unusual energy fields there, with some saying they can feel pulsating energy emanating from the rock when placing their hand in its center. Many who have reviewed the ancient site online mention this feeling of elevated or intense energy there.
Lake Titicaca nearby was revered by the Incas and considered to be the birthplace of their civilization. It is also the deepest lake in the world, rumored to contain a lost city and a plethora of treasure looted by the Spanish. In 2000, the lost temple of Atahualpa was discovered deep below the lake, adding to the mysterious nature of this ancient culture.
In more recent lore, a man named Jose Luis Delgado Mamani was said to have rediscovered Hayu Marca in 1996, astonished by what he saw. The gateway of the gods looked familiar to him, as he had seen a similar threshold in his dreams with pink marble. Mamani knew instantly this was the same vision from his reveries.
“When I saw the structure for the first time, I almost passed out. I have dreamed of such a construction repeatedly over the years, but in the dream the path to the door was paved with pink marble, and with pink marble statues lining either side of the path. In the dream, I also saw that the smaller door was open and there was a brilliant blue light coming from what looked like a shimmering tunnel.
Was Mamani contacted by Amaru Meru, the legendary figure who once passed through the stone doorway of Hayu Marca?
MORE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
If you talk to most string theorists they’ll tell you its likely we live in a multi-dimensional universe.In fact, many string theorists believe that beyond our three-dimensional reality (four if you include time), there may actually be 10 or 11 different dimensions, all potentially with their own unique law of physics and chemistry.
Michio Kaku likens this to a fish swimming in water; to the fish, you can swim up, down, left, or right and everything within your body of water is your universe — your reality. But what if a human lifted you up out of the water? All of a sudden you’re in a new dimension, being held by a being breathing without gills and living outside of the water — an entirely new chemistry of living. This being is also moving without fins and walking on solid ground — a new form of physics, different than your own.
And though there are some similarities between these two worlds as far as the laws that govern them, i.e. electromagnetic energy and gravity, there are vast differences. Similarly, there may be multiple dimensions beyond our own, of which we can only observe certain signs – quantum signs that don’t seem to fall into a unified theory of explanation, based on the dimensions we’re capable of observing.
According to the Randall-Sundrum Model, developed by Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum, we might live in a space that contains a warped and gravitationally heavy fifth-dimension known as the gravitybrane or Planckbrane. This theory explains why gravity is the weakest of all the fundamental forces, while also allowing for the possibility that we exist on one of these branes, unable to see reality on the surface of another brane. Unless there was some kind of portal…
Could it be possible that a confluence of electromagnetic events occasionally opens up a portal into one of those other dimensions or onto the surface of another brane? Could this have anything to do with all of the ephemeral paranormal phenomena that are so seemingly ineffable?
Randall plans to test her theory through use of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, but whether it will allow us any insight into the possibility of inter-dimensional travel by way of portal, is up in the air. For now, we’ll just have to continue to study the areas our ancestors marked and unlock the codes they left behind.
For more information on hyper-dimensional portals watch this episode of Ancient Civilizations:
Wisten onze voorouders hoe ze poorten naar andere dimensies moesten openen?
Wisten onze voorouders hoe ze poorten naar andere dimensies moesten openen?
In 2012 maakte de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA bekend dat er verborgen doorgangen of poorten waren gevonden in het aardmagnetisch veld.
Deze poorten zijn extreem onvoorspelbaar en openen en sluiten in een oogwenk, zei natuurkundige Jack Scudder van de Universiteit van Iowa.
Met behulp van sondes is vastgelegd hoe elektronen door deze poorten gaan en vervolgens voor poollicht zorgen op aarde.
Hogere bewustzijnsstaten
Deze ontdekking doet denken aan de legendarische poorten op aarde die naar verluidt leiden naar andere dimensies.
Schrijver en onderzoeker Freddy Silva merkte op dat een aantal gothische kathedralen zijn gebouwd op plekken die voor de heidenen heilig waren.
Op deze plekken zou je hogere bewustzijnsstaten kunnen bereiken en een verbinding kunnen maken met extradimensionale entiteiten.
Schrijver Graham Hancock verwees naar de vele verhalen van sjamanen die door middel van ayahuasca een andere bewustzijnstoestand bereiken.
Poort van de goden
Foto: Yurileveratto Wikimedia Commons
In deze staat kunnen ze naar eigen zeggen leraren en gidsen ontmoeten, die vervolgens advies en wijsheid met hen delen.
In Peru bevindt zich Puerta de Hayu Marca, wat ‘poort van de goden’ betekent. Hayu Marca is zeven meter hoog en breed en lijkt een deur naar niets te zijn die in de rotsen is uitgehouwen.
Volgens een legende ontsnapte een priester genaamd Amaru Meru via Hayu Marca toen de Spaanse conquistadores Peru bereikten.
Veel theoretici geloven dat we in een multidimensionaal universum leven. Zij zeggen dat er geen drie, maar 10 of 11 verschillende dimensies zijn, met allemaal hun eigen natuurkundige wetten.
Vis
Wetenschapper Michio Kaku vergelijkt het met een vis die in het water zwemt. De vis kan omhoog, omlaag, naar links en naar rechts zwemmen en het water is je universum, je realiteit.
Maar wat als een mens je vangt en uit het water trekt? Plotseling bevindt je je in een nieuwe dimensie en wordt je buiten het water vastgehouden door een wezen dat ademhaalt zonder kieuwen.
Dit wezen beweegt zich zonder vinnen voort op een vaste ondergrond, een hele andere realiteit.
Op dezelfde manier zijn er mogelijk meerdere dimensies die wij niet direct kunnen waarnemen, maar wel indirect.
Vijfde dimensie
Volgens natuurkundigen Lisa Randall en Raman Sundrum leven we in een ruimte die in ieder geval nog een vijfde dimensie heeft.
Hun theorie stelt dat de zwaartekracht mogelijk een kracht is op een andere zogeheten braan dan die van ons. Die andere braan zouden we niet kunnen waarnemen tenzij er een soort poort zou zijn.
Is het mogelijk dat we op bepaalde plekken via zo’n poort naar één van die andere dimensies of branen kunnen?
Randall hoopt haar theorie te testen met behulp van de Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Mysterieuze ‘rookpluim’ gespot op Mars. Wat is er allemaal aan de hand?
Mysterieuze ‘rookpluim’ gespot op Mars. Wat is er allemaal aan de hand?
Complottheoretici waren lyrisch nadat in de buurt van een slapende vulkaan op Mars een ‘mysterieuze rookpluim’ was gespot.
Velen claimden dat het bewijs was voor buitenaards leven op de rode planeet en dat we op aarde worden voorgelogen.
Het populaire kanaal SecureTeam10 plaatste er een filmpje van op YouTube, dat inmiddels ruim een half miljoen keer is bekeken.
Schijnheilige leugenaars
“Er was een explosie,” zegt Tyler Glockner in de video. “Ik weet niet of het een vulkaan was of dat er iets ontploft is.”
“Te veel toevalligheden,” reageerde iemand. “Dit kan niet langer worden genegeerd. NASA moet ophouden met politieagentje spelen in de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap.”
“NASA verspreidt onzin en wordt bemenst door schijnheilige leugenaars,” zei een ander. “Er is leven op Mars en eenieder die Mars in de afgelopen 50 jaar heeft bestudeerd, weet dat.”
Wolk
De ‘rookpluim’ werd opgepikt door de Britse tabloids en ook op Reddit werd er druk over gespeculeerd.
Planeetwetenschapper Elliot Sefton-Nash zei echter tegen RT dat er geen geloofwaardig bewijs is voor actief vulkanisme op Mars.
De mysterieuze rookpluim, die op 24 september is vastgelegd door de Mars Express van de ESA, is volgens hem een wolk.
Bekend
“Het is bekend dat zich in de regio wolken vormen,” legde hij uit. “Ze worden geassocieerd met vulkanen omdat hun topografie atmosferische omstandigheden beïnvloedt.”
Hij voegde toe dat in 2015 door de Indiase Mars Orbiter Mission een soortgelijke wolk is gefotografeerd bij Arsia Mons.
Verleden week werden zo'n dertig dode spreeuwen in het Huijgenspark gevonden, vandaag was het weer raak. De teller staat inmiddels op 147 dode vogels. De Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit (NVWA) gaat op verzoek van de gemeente Den Haag onderzoek doen. De Partij voor de Dieren drong al eerder bij de gemeente aan op verder onderzoek.
Er geldt in het park sinds gisteren een uitlaatverbod voor honden en met roodwit lint zijn delen afgezet. Dode vogels worden snel weggehaald. Raadslid Robert Barker van de Partij voor de Dieren, die gisteren kwam kijken, had het gevoel in een ’crime scene’ te zijn beland. „Dat zoveel vogels op deze plek uit de lucht vallen, moet een oorzaak hebben en die moet worden onderzocht. Mocht er sprake zijn van vergiftiging, dan moet hier hard tegen worden opgetreden.”
De vogels vertonen geen uiterlijke kenmerken en aangezien men geen reden kan vinden en een plotselinge ziekte ook niet echt waarschijnlijk lijkt, is het enige dat men dan nog kan bedenken: vergiftiging.
Om die reden is op de vogels meteen sectie gepleegd. Daaruit kwam geen duidelijke doodsoorzaak naar voren.
Het is natuurlijk niet alleen Den Haag, het is een wereldwijd fenomeen dat nu al jaren in omvang toeneemt en waar wel gezocht wordt naar antwoorden, zoals ook door onze lezers, maar wat vooralsnog toch nog een groot mysterie blijft, zoals we onlangs schreven:
Iets waar in de mainstream media weinig of geen aandacht aan wordt geschonken is het fenomeen van dode dieren dat zich overal op onze planeet voor doet. Het is een verschijnsel dat al een aantal jaren bezig is en er lijkt maar geen einde aan te komen.
Iemand die veel ziet en hoort, niet in het minst dankzij zijn talrijke abonnees, is Tyler van het Youtube kanaal Secureteam.
In de onderstaande video vraagt Tyler zich lichtelijk wanhopig af wat er in 's hemelsnaam aan de hand is met/op onze wereld en dan met name de situatie van de vele dode vogels en ook andere dieren.
Zoals hij zegt zijn er de afgelopen jaren miljarden dieren om het leven gekomen en niemand heeft eigenlijk daarvoor een duidelijke reden kunnen vinden. Of als ze die wel hebben, dan wordt die zeker niet met het publiek gedeeld.
Het blijft een mysterieuze zaak met die vogels die zomaar spontaan dood uit de lucht lijken te vallen en soms met honderden tegelijk op een bepaalde locatie neer komen. Het gebeurt niet in een bepaald gebied, maar eigenlijk over de hele wereld en je hebt zelfs mensen die het dode vogels op het dak horen regenen.
Tyler weet te vertellen dat de vogels getraumatiseerd zijn en dat dit niet komt doordat ze op de grond zijn gevallen, maar wel omdat het lijkt alsof ze tegen een onzichtbare muur zijn gevlogen. Zo vliegen ze rond en zo opeens is daar iets dat ze niet zien en waar ze toch tegenaan klappen.
En keer op keer komen er zogenaamde experts die een onderzoek in zullen stellen met evenveel niet bevredigende antwoorden omtrent de oorzaak van dit alles. Dit is ook weer niet zo vreemd, want ze weten het gewoon niet.
Het fenomeen dode vogels is ook niet beperkt tot een bepaald soort vogel; het zijn werkelijk allemaal totaal verschillende exemplaren.
Om een indruk te krijgen waar we over praten, volgt hierna een lijst met gebeurtenissen betreffende dode dieren van de afgelopen maand. De makers van de lijst zeggen dat deze niet volledig is vanwege tijdgebrek.
5th October 2018 - Hundreds of birds drop dead in Warsaw, Poland. Link
5th October 2018 - Thousands of dead fish and snails found in a lake in Bangalore, India. Link
4th October 2018 - Hundreds of dead fish wash up, due to red tide in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, America. Link
3rd October 2018 - 23 lions have died from 'mysterious illness', causing alarm in Gir Forest National Park, India. Link
3rd October 2018 - Massive fish kill, due to red tide, 'never seen this before' in Mexico Beach, Florida, America. Link
29th September 2018 - 32,000+ birds killed due to avian flu in Guizhou province, China. Link
28th September 2018 - Large die off of various fish in the Cache la Poudre River, Colorado, America. Link
27th September 2018 - Hundreds of crabs washing up dead on Lee County beaches in Florida, America. Link
27th September 2018 - Hundreds of dead fish found in a river in Barco, Portugal. Link
24th September 2018 - 400 cattle dead due to drought and disease in Casitas, Peru. Link
23rd September 2018 - 750,000 fish die in a fish farm in Kolbeinagjogv, Faroe Islands. Link
22nd September 2018 - Tens of Thousands of dead fish wash ashore along a river in Hatay Province, Turkey. Link
21st September 2018 - 43,000 birds killed due to avian flu in Trilistnik, Bulgaria. Link
20th September 2018 - Hundreds of thousands of dead clams wash up on Revere Beach, Massachusetts, America. Link
20th September 2018 - Dozens of birds fall dead from sky, 'a mystery' in Tsawwassen, B.C, Canada. Link
18th September 2018 - 5,500 pigs and 3.4 Million chickens killed by Hurricane Florence in North Carolina, America. Link
17th September 2018 - 350 dead penguins found washed up on beaches in Parana, Brazil. Link
17th September 2018 - 3 dolphins dead after 11 stranded on a beach in Cornwall, England. Link
17th September 2018 - Thousands of dead fish wash up due to red tide on Panama City beach, Florida, America. Link
17th September 2018 - Thousands of dead fish wash up on a beach in Karachi, Pakistan. Link
14th September 2018 - 26,000 birds killed due to avian flu in California, America. Link
14th September 2018 - Thousands of fish die in a lake in Hanoi, Vietnam. Link
14th September 2018 - 70 dead penguins found washed up on beaches in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Link
13th September 2018 - Hundreds of dead fish wash up on a beach in Texas, America. Link
11th September 2018 - 30,000 birds killed due to bird flu in Tuaran district, Malaysia. Link
10th September 2018 - 33 TONS of dead fish wash up, due to red tide in Pinellas, Florida, America. Link
9th September 2018 - 150 cattle dead from anthrax in 3 villages in Turkey. Link
7th September 2018 - 58 dead whales have now washed up the past 2 months in Ireland and Scotland. Link
4th September 2018 - Thousands of dead fish wash up in Provincetown, Mass., America. Link
Tyler heeft nog meer alarmerende berichten over de stand van het wild in de wereld. Zo schijnt het dat over slechts twee jaar tweederde van alle in het wild levende dieren en insecten verdwenen zullen zijn.
Dit zijn meer dan schokkende berichten, want dat betekent dat we letterlijk leven op een stervende planeet.
Iets veroorzaakt dit alles. Is het de mens en de roekeloze manier waarop er met de aarde wordt omgesprongen of is het toch iets anders?
For some reason, the robotics and weapons industries seem to have silently agreed that the world just really needs killer robots walking around blowing stuff up willy-nilly. Perhaps it’s already too late. After all, there are already plenty of aerial drones flying around with large degrees of autonomy, and military engineers the world over are busy putting guns in robots’ hands just to see what happens. While it’s clear killer robots will change warfare forever, it’s still unknown exactly how. Will they increase the amount of human casualties with their superior ability to kill, or will they take human soldiers off the battlefield for good?
Is this the future of warfare?
Who knows. The real losers in any war are always the civilians and innocent bystanders, after all. When those 200-foot robots fall over during battle, they’ve got to crush something. In order to try and mitigate the inevitable dangers of the oncoming killer robots many public figures in the tech industry ave called for outright bans on any killer robots.
It’s safe to say, though, that DARPA, Boston Dynamics, and other research agencies are still hard at work to create our new gun-toting robotic overlords. That’s why one of the creators of the most iconic killer robot of our time is now calling for the creation of a new oath required of the tech industry in an attempt to ensure that killer robots never see the light of day. Is this simply wishful thinking?
Of course it is, foolish humans.
Screenwriter and producer Gale Anne Hurd was recently awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Screamfest horror film festival in Los Angeles. During a Q&A session following the award ceremony, Hurd noted as so many others have that it is the role of artists and other creative types to pose the hard questions and imagine the ‘what-ifs’ about our current society in order to give us pause to think about where we’re headed:
We are cutting edge. We create and think about things that the people who are being paid so much money, the scientists and the physicists, the mathematicians, biotech people aren’t even considering. The more leaps and bounds are made in technology right now, the more fearful we should be that these scenarios may come to pass. Stephen Hawking only came up with the idea that we need to worry about A.I. and robots about two and a half years before he passed away. If he’d only watched The Terminator.
If only. Hurd went on to argue that researchers in robotics and other high-tech fields should be required to take their own version of the Hippocratic Oath, one that just might give a would-be evil genius second thoughts about downloading his brain into a skyscraper-sized, laser-wielding mech:
The one thing that they don’t teach in engineering schools and biotech is ethics and thinking about not only consequences, but unintended consequences. If you go to medical school, there’s the Hippocratic Oath, first do no harm. I think we really need that in all of these new technologies.
Could an anti-killer-robot version of the Hippocratic Oath save us from our inevitable robotic doom? It’s highly doubtful. Oaths can be broken, after all. Was the opening scene of Terminator 2a glimpse into our future? Will humanity’s collective skull be crushed under the cold metal heel of an unstoppable army of Terminator bots?
It’s probably a question of ‘when’ rather than ‘if.’ Don’t be too upset; some catastrophes aren’t worth living through. Just lie down in front of the marching hordes of deathbots, present that nice squishable cranium for stompin’, and think of happier times. It’ll all be over soon.
A huge UFO has been filmed when passing the moon at a high rate of speed.
The videographer living in Perth, Australia was at his home and decided to film the Moon as it was so bright on October 24, 2018.
He noticed the UFO on his mobile as he was filming.
Videographer:her: The UFO was very fast and almost length wise to the moon. It shot straight past it on the right side and then again this time width ways going right over the top of the moon.
The video has been submitted to Mufon and can be viewed here.
NASA Has Just Released 2,540 Stunning New Photos of Mars..
NASA Has Just Released 2,540 Stunning New Photos of Mars..
If it’s quiet solitude and beauty you seek, there is no better place than the surface of Mars. Mars has earned its moniker as the red planet, but the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) can transform the subtle differences of soils into a rainbow of colours.
For 10 years, HiRISE has recorded gorgeous – and scientifically valuable – images of Mars. Its photos are so detailed that scientists can examine the planet’s features at the scale of just a few feet, including the recent crash site of Europe’s Schiaparelli Mars lander.
We combed through 2,054 of the camera’s latest pictures, released in August, September, and October, to bring you some of the best – and hopefully help you temporarily escape Earth.
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A large chasm:
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Some dark, rust-colored dunes in Russell Crater:
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NASA might land its next nuclear-powered Mars 2020 rover mission here.
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The black splotch is where the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli Mars lander crashed. The white specks, pointed out with arrows, are pieces of the lander.
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Zebra skin. Just kidding, this is a dune field that’s speckled with oval-shaped mineral deposits:
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False-coloring this image makes a giant dune and its gullies look blue.
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A possible landing site for the ExoMars 2020 mission, which the European Space Agency is running.
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A North Pole dune field nicknamed “Kolhar,” after Frank Herbert’s fictional world.
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Carbon dioxide that turns from solid to gas carves out these strange shapes at Mars’ south pole:
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A recent impact crater on Mars. (We’re pretty sure no one put out a giant cigarette here.)
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‘Spiders’ are eruptions of dust caused by the way the Martian surface warms and cools:
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Cerberus Palus crater showing off layered sediments:
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NASA keeps an eye of gullies like this for small landslides – and any water that melts in the warm sun to form darker-colored mud.
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Another gully scientists are having HiRISE monitor:
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Glacial terrain looks strangely iridescent:
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A steep slope in Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus:
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Dunes in a Martian crater. The red bar is an artifact of NASA’s image processing:
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The creation of ‘fans’ around dunes may help scientists understand seasonal changes on Mars:
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Another possible landing site for the Mars 2020 mission:
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Terrain near the Martian equator:
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Ceraunius Fossae is a region dominated by volcanic flows and large cracks:
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Beautiful texture in the region called North Sinus Meridiani:
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False colours assigned to certain minerals make Syria Planum an inky blue that’s speckled with gold:
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A crater on Arcadia Planitia, a large flat region of Mars:
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Layers in Martian buttes found in a region called West Arabia:
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A picture of Utopia Planitia, a large plain on Mars:
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A bright speckle of minerals stands out on Galle (not Gale) Crater:
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A small but recent impact crater:
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Blowing sand eats through the rims of older craters:
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Mars in all its two-toned glory:
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Seasonal dunes on Mars nicknamed ‘Buzzel’.
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Ridges cross the Nepenthes Mensae region, which is often referred to as a river delta for the striking pattern:
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The edges of a debris apron, where cliff material eroded away.
Ancient alien lifeforms ‘lived underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years’
Ancient alien lifeforms ‘lived underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years’
Jasper Hamill
Mars may once have teemed with alien life which lived under its surface for hundreds of millions of years.
That’s the suggestion from scientists who say ancient Mars is likely to have had an ‘ample supply of chemical energy’ which would have allowed tiny microorganisms to thrive underground.
‘We showed, based on basic physics and chemistry calculations, that the ancient Martian subsurface likely had enough dissolved hydrogen to power a global subsurface biosphere,’ said Jesse Tarnas, a graduate student at Brown University and lead author of a study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
‘Conditions in this habitable zone would have been similar to places on Earth where underground life exists.’
Scientists say the Red Planet may not always have been a dead, barren world
If life ever did exist on the Red Planet, it is likely to take on a similar form to the tiny ‘subsurface lithotrophic microbial ecosystems’ (SLIME) found on Earth.
The new study shows that a process called radiolysis in which radiation breaks down water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen parts would have created ‘plenty’ of hydrogen beneath the ancient Martian subsurface.
The researchers estimated that hydrogen concentrations in the crust of Mars roughly four billion years ago would have at a similar level to places where microbes live on Earth today.
A view of the bleak surface of Mars taken by Nasa’s Curiosity Rover
They calculated that this buried ‘habitable zone’ was several kilometres thick.
‘People have a conception that a cold early Mars climate is bad for life, but what we show is that there’s actually more chemical energy for life underground in a cold climate,’ Tarnas added.
‘That’s something we think could change people’s perception of the relationship between climate and past life on Mars.’
The Sphinx of Balochistan could be more than just a natural rock formation
The Sphinx of Balochistan could be more than just a natural rock formation
Is the Pakistan Sphinx a relic of an ancient advanced civilization?
JP Robinson, author of two books titled "The Myth of Man", has put forward the possibility of a rock formation in Pakistan as a remnant of a long-gone ancient civilization that may even predate the Egyptian Great Sphinx of Giza.
Shape Too Exact To Be a Coincidence
In the Hingol National Park, Balochistan province, there are many beautiful rock formations that are said to have been naturally formed, such as the Princess of Hope (so-called by actress Angelina Jolie). The statuesque figure appears to have a female form. Rain and winds from the nearby sea are said to be the cause of the lifelike shapes that have emerged over time.
The "Princess of Hope"
However, Robinson believes that a rock formation in the shape of a sphinx is, in fact, a relic of a bygone civilization. Called the Lion of Balochistan, the well-crafted structure bears a strong resemblance to the Egyptian sphinx- even appearing to have a Pharaoh’s headdress. Robinson believes the shape is too exact to be a coincidence. In an article, he wrote for ancient-origins he alludes to his book "The Myth of Man" and particularly to the idea that some more modern technologies may have been in use long ago.
Robinson points out that further evidence that the structure was deliberately carved is seen in what it appears to be resting on- a temple. The rocky formation below the sphinx looks very much like a temple emerging from the mountain. He believes the Lion of Balochistan may be older than the Egyptian versions and that further investigation is needed in order to uncover the truth as to who created it and for what purpose.
A montage created with data from the Voyager mission of Neptune and its moon Triton, which scientists consider a potential ocean world.
Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
As far as we know, all life requires one thing, water, and that's why scientists are fascinated by worlds they know or suspect host giant oceans: These worlds are among the best candidates for finding life beyond Earth.
And in a new report, a team of scientists summarizes what we know about each of these potential "water parks" and our long-term options for furthering that knowledge with progressively more ambitious missions. The report is on behalf of the Roadmaps to Ocean Worlds group of NASA's Outer Planets Assessment Group, designed to inform a congressionally mandated research portfolio within the agency.
Other promising candidates are Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Titan, which each check a few boxes already. But even these worlds still pose very real puzzles to scientists, including whether their oceans would be at all habitable.
And there are some enigmatic worlds where scientists aren't even sure yet if water is on tap. When it comes to destinations like Triton, Ceres and Pluto, scientists have only tantalizing hints that they could be wet.
So in addition to collating the evidence to date for each potential ocean world, the team behind the new report also suggested further steps for exploring each of these intriguing worlds. In the most promising cases, that means sketching out what decades' worth of missions could look like. For Enceladus, for example, the report lists five potential mission designs of increasing complexity: plume flyby, plume flyby with sample return, lander, crawler and submarine. (Currently, NASA and other space agencies don't have any concrete plans to return to Enceladus.)
The International Space Station, as photographed by crewmembers aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2010.
Credit: NASA
The International Space Station (ISS) is a multi-nation construction project that is the largest single structure humans ever put into space. Its main construction was completed between 1998 and 2011, although the station continually evolves to include new missions and experiments. It has been continuously occupied since Nov. 2, 2000.
As of January 2018, 230 individuals from 18 countries have visited the International Space Station. Top participating countries include the United States (145 people) and Russia (46 people). Astronaut time and research time on the space station is allocated to space agencies according to how much money or resources (such as modules or robotics) that they contribute. The ISS includes contributions from 15 nations. NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia) and the European Space Agency are the major partners of the space station who contribute most of the funding; the other partners are the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
Current plans call for the space station to be operated through at least 2024, with the partners discussing a possible extension until 2028. Afterwards, plans for the space station are not clearly laid out. It could be deorbited, or recycled for future space stations in orbit.
Crews aboard the ISS are assisted by mission control centers in Houston and Moscow and a payload control center in Huntsville, Ala. Other international mission control centers support the space station from Japan, Canada and Europe. The ISS can also be controlled from mission control centers in Houston or Moscow. [Photos: Space Station's Expedition 32 Mission]
Finding the space station in the sky
The space station flies at an average altitude of 248 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth. It circles the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of about 17,500 mph (28,000 km/h). In one day, the station travels about the distance it would take to go from Earth to the moon and back.
The space station can rival the brilliant planet Venus in brightness and appears as a bright moving light across the night sky. It can be seen from Earth without the use of a telescope by night sky observers who know when and where to look. You can use our Satellite Tracker page powered by N2YO.com to find out when to see the space station.
Crew composition and activities
The ISS generally holds crews of between three and six people (the full six-person size was possible after 2009, when the station facilities could support it). But crew sizes have varied over the years. After the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003 that grounded flights for several years, crews were as small as two people due to the reduced capacity to launch people into space on the smaller Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The space station has also housed as many as 13 people several times, but only for a few days during crew changeovers or space shuttle visits.
The space shuttle fleet retired in 2011, leaving Soyuz as the only current method to bring people to the ISS. Three astronauts fly to the space station in Soyuz spacecraft and spend about six months there at a time. Sometimes, mission lengths vary a little due to spacecraft scheduling or special events (such as the one-year crew that stayed on the station between 2015 and 2016.) If the crew needs to evacuate the station, they can return to Earth aboard two Russian Soyuz vehicles docked to the ISS.
Starting in 2019 or 2020, the commercial crew vehicles Dragon (by SpaceX) and CST-100 (by Boeing) are expected to increase ISS crew numbers because they can bring up more astronauts at a time than Soyuz. When the U.S. commercial vehicles are available, demand for Soyuz will decrease because NASA will purchase fewer seats for its astronauts from the Russians.
Astronauts spend most of their time on the ISS performing experiments and maintenance, and at least two hours of every day are allocated to exercise and personal care. They also occasionally perform spacewalks, conduct media/school events for outreach, and post updates to social media, as Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, an ISS commander, did in 2013. (However, the first astronaut to tweet from space was Mike Massimino, who did it from a space shuttle in May 2009.)
The ISS is a platform for long-term research for human health, which NASA bills as a key stepping stone to letting humans explore other solar system destinations such as the moon or Mars. Human bodies change in microgravity, including alterations to muscles, bones, the cardiovascular system and the eyes; many scientific investigations are trying to characterize how severe the changes are and whether they can be reversed. (Eye problems in particular are vexing the agency, as their cause is unclear and astronauts are reporting permanent changes to vision after returning to Earth.)
Astronauts also participate in testing out commercial products – such as an espresso machine or 3D printers – or doing biological experiments, such as on rodents or plants, which the astronauts can grow and sometimes eat in space.
Crews are not only responsible for science, but also for maintaining the station. Sometimes, this requires that they venture on spacewalks to perform repairs. From time to time, these repairs can be urgent — such as when a part of the ammonia system fails, which has happened a couple of times. Spacewalk safety procedures were changed after a potentially deadly 2013 incident when astronaut Luca Parmitano's helmet filled with water while he was working outside the station. NASA now responds quickly to "water incursion" incidents. It also has added pads to the spacesuits to soak up the liquid, and a tube to provide an alternate breathing location should the helmet fill with water.
NASA is also testing technology that could supplement or replace astronaut spacewalks. One example is Robonaut. A prototype currently on board the station is able to flip switches and do other routine tasks under supervision, and may be modified at some point to work "outside" as well. [Infographic: Meet Robonaut 2, NASA's Space Droid]
Records in space
The ISS has had several notable milestones over the years, when it comes to crews:
Most consecutive days in space by an American: 340 days, which happened when Scott Kelly took part in a one-year mission to the International Space Station in 2015-16 (along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko). The space agencies did a comprehensive suite of experiments on the astronauts, including a "twin study" with Kelly and his Earth-bound former astronaut twin, Mark. NASA has expressed interest in more long-duration missions, although none have yet been announced.
Longest single spaceflight by a woman: 289 days, during American astronaut Peggy Whitson's 2016-17 mission aboard the space station.
Most total time spent in space by a woman: Again, that's Peggy Whitson, who racked up most of her 665 days in space on the ISS.
Most women in space at once: This happened in April 2010 when women from two spaceflight missions met at the ISS. This included Tracy Caldwell Dyson (who flew on a Soyuz spacecraft for a long-duration mission) and NASA astronauts Stephanie Wilson and Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger and Japan's Naoko Yamazaki, who arrived aboard the space shuttle Discovery on its brief STS-131 mission.
Biggest space gathering: 13 people, during NASA's STS-127 shuttle mission aboard Endeavour in 2009. (It's been tied a few times during later missions.)
Longest single spacewalk: 8 hours and 56 minutes during STS-102, for an ISS construction mission in 2001. NASA astronauts Jim Voss and Susan Helms participated.
Longest Russian spacewalk: 8 hours and 13 minutes during Expedition 54, to repair an ISS antenna. Russian astronauts Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov participated.
Structure
The space station, including its large solar arrays, spans the area of a U.S. football field, including the end zones, and weighs 861,804 lbs. (391,000 kilograms), not including visiting vehicles. The complex now has more livable room than a conventional five-bedroom house, and has two bathrooms, gym facilities and a 360-degree bay window. Astronauts have also compared the space station's living space to the cabin of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
The International Space Station was taken into space piece-by-piece and gradually built in orbit using spacewalking astronauts and robotics. Most missions used NASA's space shuttle to carry up the heavier pieces, although some individual modules were launched on single-use rockets. The ISS includes modules and connecting nodes that contain living quarters and laboratories, as well as exterior trusses that provide structural support, and solar panels that provide power.
The first module, the Russia Zarya, launched on Nov. 20, 1998, on a Proton rocket. Two weeks later, space shuttle flight STS-88 launched the NASA Unity/Node 1 module. Astronauts performed spacewalks during STS-88 to connect the two parts of the station together; later, other pieces of the station were launched on rockets or in the space shuttle cargo bay. [Rare Photos: Space Shuttle at Space Station].
Some of the other major modules and components include:
The truss, airlocks and solar panels (launched in stages throughout the ISS lifetime; docking adapters were launched in 2017 for new commercial spacecraft)
Zvezda (Russia; launched in 2000)
Destiny Laboratory Module (NASA; launched 2001)
Canadarm2 robotic arm (CSA; launched 2001). It was originally used only for spacewalks and remote-controlled repairs. Today it also is regularly used to berth cargo spacecraft to the space station – spacecraft that can't use the other ports.
Harmony/Node 2 (NASA; launched 2007)
Columbus orbital facility (ESA; launched 2008)
Dextre robotic hand (CSA; launched 2008)
Japanese Experiment Module or Kibo (launched in stages between 2008-09)
Cupola window and Tranquility/Node 3 (launched 2010)
Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module (ESA; launched for permanent residency in 2011, although it was used before that to bring cargo to and from the station)
Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (private module launched in 2016)
Spacecraft for the space station
Besides the space shuttle and Soyuz, the space station has been visited by many other kinds of spacecraft. Uncrewed Progress (Russia) vehicles make regular visits to the station. Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle and Japan's H-II Transfer Vehicle used to do visits to the ISS as well, until their programs were retired.
NASA began developing commercial cargo spacecraft to the space station under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, which lasted from 2006 to 2013. Starting in 2012, the first commercial spacecraft, SpaceX's Dragon, made a visit to the space station. Visits continue today with Dragon and Orbital ATK's Antares spacecraft under the first stage of NASA's Commercial Resupply Services program. Dragon, Antares and Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Dream Chaser all have received CRS-2 contracts expected to cover flights between 2019 and 2024.
Additional reporting by Space.com Reference Editor Tim Sharp.
Inspired by the natural world, researchers have designed a microdrone that can pull objects up to 40 times its weight. By anchoring itself to various surfaces using adhesive action inspired by geckos and wasps, the tiny aerial vehicle is able to lift cameras, water bottles, and even pull door handles, while the drone itself is as light as a bar of soap.
FlyCroTugs’ multimodal operation allows them to combine small size, high mobility in cluttered and unstructured environments, and forceful manipulation.
Credit: Science Robotics.
The FlyCroTugs drone was developed by Stanford’s Mark Cutkosky and Dario Floreano at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Other similar drones demonstrated previously could only lift twice their own weight using aerodynamic forces alone. To drastically improve their tiny aerial vehicle’s towing power, the researchers turned to one of the most feared predators in the insect world: the wasp.
When a wasp captures prey too big to transport by flight, it chooses to drag it using different attachment options. Researchers studied the various ways wasps choose to transport prey and computed the ratio of flight-related muscle to total mass that determines whether the predator flies or drags its prey.
“When you’re a small robot, the world is full of large obstacles,” said Matthew Estrada, a graduate student at Stanford and lead author of the new study published inScience Robotics. “Combining the aerodynamic forces of our aerial vehicle along with interaction forces that we generate with the attachment mechanisms resulted in something that was very mobile, very forceful and micro as well.”
When encountering a smooth surface, FlyCroTugs uses gecko-like grippers that create non-sticking intermolecular forces between the adhesive and surface. For rough surfaces, the tiny flying robot sticks its 32 microspines into the small pits of a surface, latching onto it.
Fitting all this hardware inside a robot with only twice the weight of a golf ball was no easy feat, but the team was up to the challenge. What they wound up with was a fast, small, and maneuverable flying robot capable of moving very large loads up to 40 times its own weight.
“People tend to think of drones as machines that fly and observe the world, but flying insects do many other things – such as walking, climbing, grasping, building – and social insects can even cooperate to multiply forces,” said Floreano in a statement. “With this work, we show that small drones capable of anchoring to the environment and collaborating with fellow drones can perform tasks typically assigned to humanoid robots or much larger machines.”
FlyCroTugs represents a paradigm shift away from drones occupying a single niche. Not only does it show that drones are excellent for navigating remote locations, but they can also be used to interact with the physical world. In tests, FlyCroTugs flew atop a crumbling structure from where it hauled up a camera and even opened a door with the help of another drone (see the video).
In the future, the team hopes to develop an autonomous system that enables them to maneuver and coordinate multiple FlyCroTugs at once.
“The tools to create vehicles like this are becoming more accessible,” said Estrada. “I’m excited at the prospect of increasingly incorporating these attachment mechanisms into the designer’s tool belt, enabling robots to take advantage of interaction forces with their environment and put these to useful ends.”
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Ruimtesonde ontdekt kilometers lange, heldere strepen op manen van Saturnus - HLN.be
Ruimtesonde ontdekt kilometers lange, heldere strepen op manen van Saturnus - HLN.be
REUTERSArchiefbeeld van Cassini op de missie bij Saturnus.
WETENSCHAP Twee manen van Saturnus hebben mysterieuze strepen op het oppervlak. Die zijn kaarsrecht, helder, tot honderden kilometers lang en minder dan vijf kilometer breed. Ze lopen parallel aan elkaar en parallel aan de evenaar. De strepen zijn gezien op Dione en Rhea, twee van de meer dan zestig manen van Saturnus.
Ze gaan dwars over heuvels en dalen heen, en zijn misschien nog vers. Het is niet duidelijk waardoor de strepen worden veroorzaakt. Ze zijn gezien op Dione en Rhea, twee van de meer dan zestig manen van Saturnus.
De planeet en zijn manen zijn in de afgelopen jaren onderzocht door de ruimtesonde Cassini. Dione heeft waarschijnlijk een ondergrondse oceaan, bleek uit eerdere metingen. “Zulke lijnen hebben we in het zonnestelsel niet eerder gezien. Als ze veroorzaakt worden door iets van buiten, is dat misschien een manier om nieuw materiaal naar Dione te brengen. En dat kan gevolgen hebben voor de kans dat de ondergrondse oceaan vormen van leven bevat”, zegt een van de onderzoekers.
APBeeld van Saturnus, gemaakt door Cassini.
Cassini
De Cassini was in 1997 gelanceerd. Na zeven jaar vliegen kwam hij aan bij Saturnus en zijn minstens 62 manen. Hij ontdekte daar onder meer oceanen op de Saturnusmaan Enceladus, en zeeën van vloeibaar methaan op de maan Titan. Afgelopen maand bleek nog dat de sonde enorme stofstormen heeft ontdekt op de planeet. Deze waren eerder alleen waargenomen op aarde en Mars.
Uiteindelijk vloog de Cassini de dampkring van Saturnus binnen, waar hij uit elkaar viel. In zijn laatste momenten verrichtte de sonde nog allerlei metingen, op een plek waar de mensheid nog nooit was geweest.
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Wereldberoemde Dode Zee-rollen in Bijbelmuseum blijken nep. Wat klopt er nog meer niet?
Wereldberoemde Dode Zee-rollen in Bijbelmuseum blijken nep. Wat klopt er nog meer niet?
Het Bijbelmuseum in Washington heeft een vijftal fragmenten die afkomstig zijn uit Dode Zee-rollen weggehaald. De rollen blijken nep te zijn.
Het museum baseert zich op onderzoek dat uitgevoerd werd in Duitsland en waaruit blijkt dat de artefacten niet zo oud zijn als beweerd.
“Hoewel we gehoopt hadden dat de tests een ander resultaat zouden opleveren, is het ook een gelegenheid om het publiek duidelijk te maken hoe belangrijk het is om de authenticiteit van zeldzame bijbelfragmenten te verifiëren,” aldus museumcurator Jeffrey Kloha. Hij benadrukte ‘transparant’ te willen zijn.
Eén van de belangrijkste
De Dode Zee-rollen zijn meer dan tweeduizend jaar oud en worden beschouwd als één van de belangrijkste geschreven bronnen over de oude joodse cultuur.
Het gaat in totaal om 900 documenten, die teruggevonden werden rond de jaren 1950 op de Westelijke Jordaanoever aan de Dode Zee.
De ontdekking is één van de belangrijkste archeologische vondsten ooit.
In opspraak
De vijf fragmenten waarvan vermoed wordt dat ze nep zijn, waren sinds vorig jaar in het Bijbelmuseum van Washington te zien.
Maar aan het publiek werd toen al meegedeeld dat de authenticiteit nog niet bevestigd was.
Het museum kwam vorig jaar al eens in opspraak toen de sponsor en miljardair Steve Green beschuldigd werd kunst uit Irak te hebben gesmokkeld.
The artefacts, thought to be part of the historic Dead Sea Scrolls, will no longer be displayed.
Academics tested the fragments and found that the “show characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin and therefore will no longer be displayed at the museum,” the institution said.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are the oldest copies of Bible text ever found, and include passages of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, that range from 1,800 to more than 2,000 years old.
“Though we had hoped the testing would render different results, this is an opportunity to educate the public on the importance of verifying the authenticity of rare biblical artefacts, the elaborate testing process undertaken and our commitment to transparency,” said Jeffrey Kloha, the chief curatorial officer for Museum of the Bible, said in a statement.
“As an educational institution entrusted with cultural heritage, the museum upholds and adheres to all museum and ethical guidelines on collection care, research and display,” Mr Kloha said.
While the cost of the scrolls has not been revealed, the museum is thought to have spent millions of dollars on them. The institution faced questions over the authenticity of the fragments even before the site opened in November 2017.
In April 2017, it sent five fragments to the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und-prüfung (BAM) a German institute for analysing materials, who tested the ink and the papyrus. The Museum of the Bible said that the recently-received report “further raises suspicions about the authenticity of all five fragments.”
The museum said that supported two other research projects on its DSS fragments. Two years ago, Brill, a leading international academic publisher, released the first in a series of planned volumes sponsored by Museum of the Bible. Edited by Emanuel Tov, Kipp Davis and Robert Duke. Mr Davis and some of the contributors raised questions about the authenticity of some of the fragments.
“My research has focused primarily on two aspects of Museum of the Bible’s fragments: scribal quality and technique in the penning of the texts as well as the physical composition and current state of the manuscript media,” said Mr Davis. “My studies to date have managed to confirm upon a preponderance of different streams of evidence the high probability that at least seven fragments in the museum’s Dead Sea Scrolls collection are modern forgeries, but conclusions on the status of the remaining fragments are still forthcoming.”
Today, many of the Dead Sea Scrolls—which total some 100,000 fragments—are housed in the Shrine of the Book, part of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The excavation and selling of fragments is outlawed under a UN convention on cultural property from 1970, which means that private sellers fight over fragments removed before that time.
The founder of the Museum of the Bible, Steve Green, who his business the Hobby Lobby craft chain, faced scrutiny over the purchase of more than 5,500 artefacts from 2010 that originated from Iraq. The chain agreed to pay a $3m fine last year to settle a case with the Department of Justice that claimed the objects were illegally smuggled. The items have since been returned.
Hobby Lobby said that it was new to the world of antiquities when it began acquiring historical items for its Museum of the Bible in 2009 and made mistakes in relying on dealers and shippers who “did not understand the correct way to document and ship” them.
Flying Saucer Spotted on Google Maps – UFO Captured on Street View in Bermuda
Flying Saucer Spotted on Google Maps – UFO Captured on Street View in Bermuda
A saucer-shaped UFO has sparked an online frenzy after it was snapped on Google Maps Street View, which enables users to observe the world from street level.
A social media eagle-eyed user claims to have observed a real flying saucer above the paradise island of Bermuda
The Reddit user, who has since deleted his account, reportedly spotted the unusual hovering object above the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo.
The UFO hunter posted his finding online saying Google Earth reveals concrete evidence of a UFO metal saucer.
The alleged UFO was reportedly snapped above Hamilton Parish, Bermuda, close to the aquarium’s Caribbean Exhibit.
The unidentified flying object seems to be flying over Bermuda’s Harrington Sound body of water.
The shape of the object is very much like a classic flying saucer.
The object in question can be found under Google Maps coordinates 32.323628,-64.738612.
A few of Reddit users say there are quite a few on Google Earth such pretty crazy things.
However, other Redditors were quick to offer more plausible explanations for the appearance of the object. They suggested the UFO was a small bird flying in front of Google’s cameras.
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