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 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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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...
10-11-2018
STEEDS VAKER PURPERE LUCHTEN ( VIDEO )
STEEDS VAKER PURPERE LUCHTEN ( VIDEO )
Vaak ver voordat er iets over wordt geschreven in de mainstream media zijn er al mensen die dingen opmerken en er berichten over plaatsen.
Zoals het fenomeen paarse luchten, die door steeds meer mensen op verschillende plekken worden waargenomen.
Wij hebben al eerder geschreven over paarse luchten, onder andere begin dit jaar:
Er verschijnen steeds meer berichten, ook bij de mainstream, over vreemde, paarse luchten zoals de volgende:
De vreemde paarse luchten en ook een mogelijke verklaring daarvoor kwamen aan bod in een eerder artikel:
Zo werden de inwoners van de Amerikaanse stad Houston enkele weken geleden wakker en zagen ze overal paarse luchten.
Aangezien eerst even de zon scheen en toen onweerswolken binnen begonnen te rollen, werd de lucht helemaal paars en zong iedereen in de stad het lied “Purple Rain” van de onlangs overleden Prince.
Volgens Nancy Lieder van Zetatalk wordt dit soort verschijnselen veroorzaakt door een combinatie van het ijzeroxide stof in wat zij noemt de “staart van Niburu”, die zich vermengt met luchtvervuiling zoals je die in Houston aantreft. Dit zorgt ervoor dat in plaats van een rode kleur de hemel boven de stad paars kleurt.
We gaan nu richting einde van het jaar en het aantal mensen dat vreemde paarse luchten ziet, schijnt toe te nemen.
Op 13 oktober werd de volgend opname gemaakt in de Amerikaanse staat Ohio. Het valt de getuige dusdanig op dat hij ervoor naar buiten gaat, constateert dat het geen lamp is en dat dit in een bepaald gedeelte van de lucht voor komt.
Ook de volgende opname is op dezelfde dag gemaakt in Ohio door iemand die onderweg was om te tanken. Ook deze zegt nog nooit een dergelijke lucht te hebben gezien:
Bijna twee weken later was het opnieuw raak in de staat Ohio:
En dan de volgende vreemde paars/blauwe licht die is gefilmd in Bellevue in de staat Washington.
En tenslotte nog een opname van enkele dagen geleden, dit keer uit de staat Winsconsin en ook hier hetzelfde verhaal: Degene die het heeft gefilmd heeft nog nooit eerder zoiets gezien.
Allemaal mensen die zich afvragen hoe het kan dat de lucht paars is en allemaal mensen die zeggen nog nooit eerder zoiets gezien te hebben.
Antarctica continues to dominate the news, with the discovery of lost continents, scientists stabbing each other and that amazing perfectly-rectangular iceberg. Speaking of that berg, its popularity has inspired NASA to forget about the dead Martian rover for a while and try and figure exactly how it formed. It did, and the answer is …
Not so fast! We might as well join NASA and milk this frozen squareberg for all it’s worth. After the tabular iceberg was discovered in October 2018 by NASA scientist Jeremy Harbeck while riding in a plane when he was supposed to be studying changes in the thickness of the glaciers and ice sheets, speculation on its pointed to A-68, the massive iceberg that broke off from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in 2017. This sounded plausible since A-68 was travelling into slightly warmer waters and banging into the coast and other icebergs. Ice on the thinner edges could easily break off along a straight line.
A-68 breaking away
(NASA)
However, when it comes to tracking the lineage of icebergs, the proof is in the pictures. NASA went far above Jeremy Harbeck’s Operation IceBridge plane to images from its Landsat 8 and the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellites taken over the past few years. Scanning the Larsen C ice shelf, they found that the squareberg actually broke of from it rather than A-68 just weeks after the monster berg’s violent exit, which probably left the edges of Larsen C in a weakened state.
A-68 breaking away from another angle
(NASA)
The image of the birth of the squareberg (seen here) shows just how tiny the 4 km long iceberg is in relation to A-68, which is often compared to states or small countries. What surprised NASA researchers more than its shape was that it stayed relatively intact for a year as it floated very close to both the ice-bull-in-a-china-shop A-68, which is constantly colliding with the Bawden Ice Rise, an elevated ice shelf on Larsen C, and other smaller icebergs. While still rectangular, it’s down to 1500 meters by 900 meters and tending towards a trapezoid with just two parallel sides.
Still, it’s pretty impressive … as is NASA’s quick work in using its satellites to accurately pinpoint its place of origin. Now, if they could just use the same satellites to find keys and remote controls …
Time travel. It is a staple of science fiction and has long captured the imagination. It seems as if that is the realm in which it should stay, within movies and books, and entertaining yarn but far from reality. Yet in this day and age of the Internet there have been people given a voice that they never had before, and cases have come out of the woodwork of people who actually claim to be time travelers. Not only that, but some of them actually say that they have the evidence to prove it. Outlandish, surreal, and always bizarre, here are some cases of self-professed time travelers who say they can prove it.
A very strange individual came forward in November of 2017 with quite a bizarre and colorful tale to tell, and would go on to become quite the media and viral video sensation at the time. The man calls himself Noah, and claims that he is in fact from the future, the year 2030 to be exact, becoming stranded here in the present due to a “failed mission” in which he got “fired” and stuck in our present and decided to tell the world of the realities of time travel and of his experiences in a series of videos on YouTube. Of the machine that he used to jump through time, he has explained to news.com.au:
I have many body implications and things all over myself, and I step in this giant dome and these things fire up and basically a large electronic weight basically pushes you through time. It feels like if you got electrocuted.
The range of stories he has to tell of these adventures is as outlandish as it is entertaining. Noah claims that he was recruited into the government’s top secret time travel program at a very young age, and that he regularly took anti-aging pills to fight the aging effects that time travel had on his body, saying “When you time travel you gain time. When I was in junior high and I was a time traveler, I had to take these pills to make sure I don’t grow old while time travelling.” He also has made numerous predictions about the future, including that Trump will win a second term of presidency, that the granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr., Yolanda Renee King, will become president at some point, and many others. According to Noah there will be a cure for cancer, that scientists will live on Mars in 2028, incidentally the same year we figure out time travel, and that we get into contact with extraterrestrials.
It all sounds pretty vague, rather unimaginative and not really that hard to guess, but what really made his story take off in the news is that he supposedly passed a lie detector test on all of this. He has also shown footage that he claims is from the future. At one point during his interview on YouTube he produces a smartphone and shows a futuristic looking city with red clouds ominously hanging over it, which he claims to be Las Vegas in the year 2120. It looks pretty questionable, as the video is stationary and doesn’t show much that couldn’t be altered through digital manipulation, but Noah has other “evidence” as well, such as an X-ray image showing a device within his hand that he says is integral for the time travel process, and he has claimed that he has even better evidence that he sadly cannot share for fear of triggering a paradox.
Still from “Noah’s” video
Throughout his whole video interview his face is obscured as he says he is in danger of being assassinated for what he is telling the rather skeptical interviewers, and many confessed time travelers do so. He also explains that he is alone, and that although he has family in the present he cannot meet them out of danger of meeting his younger self and causing a massive paradox. It is all a completely off the wall tale that has understandably drawn a lot of criticism, not only for its sheer bizarreness, but also from the fact that the video appears on the Apex TV YouTube channel, a paranormal research organization which is popular for its numerous time traveler stories and which many accuse of being full of hoaxes.
YouTube in general, and Apex TV in particular, are fertile grounds for such wild tales, and it is in this unchecked medium that alleged time travelers have come out of the woodwork. One is an anonymous man who says he worked out of London, where there was a secret laboratory called Globus, involved with testing and experimenting with all manner of bizarre technology, such as teleportation devices and of course time travel. He claims that the mysterious machine used to travel through time is called “The Time Queen,” and that a main component to its inner workings is powerful stone that emits some sort of alien, misunderstood energy. He has explained of this Time Queen:
The most important part in that machine was the piece of asteroid which has a radiation maker. The radiation of uranium is even weaker. The power of the stone has such energy it can destroy the whole planet. Fortunately, that energy only can be used in laboratory. Otherwise, the planet could be already destroyed. That energy can create time borders. We can outsmart computers to that energy and get an algorithm which transforms time to the mathematics, and this let us to travel through the time.
The machine was used to travel to the past in the United States, Russia and Britain, and frequently to 17th century China, but that certain limitations of the technology meant he could only travel a maximum of 4,000 years back in time. It all sounds completely off the rails, but this time traveler claims to have evidence in the form of a photo of a Swiss made watch that was allegedly found in the tomb of a 17th century Chinese soldier and which he says was a watch he lost on one of his many jaunts through time, of which he would say:
It is just that watch that I had lost in China in 16th to 17th centuries. I was running at the time from Chinese soldiers. A few months ago this watch was found in soldier’s tomb. I think, while I was running, he found and took it. Scientists were shocked.
It is actually striking how many of these self-professed time travelers bring forth what they say is evidence of their time bending adventures, such as photographs, videos, and others. Another man called simply Edward claimed in a video to have been part of a top secret time travel experiment in 2004, and that his travels had taken him far into the future to the year 5000, when much of the planet had been submerged due to global warming and vast wooden cities floated upon the seas of what once was. One of these cities doomed to a watery grave was apparently Los Angeles, California, a fact which Edward “proves” with a photo he produces from his pocket that he claims shows the submerged city but is actually pretty hard to make out. Edward explains of this photo to The Sun, “I was standing on a huge wooden platform. Not only me, houses, building of course all made from wood. And after, I realized it was the same city, Los Angeles, but under water.”
Edward’s photo
There is also the claim from a time traveler calling himself John, from the year 4,000. John says that he has been living in this present for the past 6 years, and that in his home time he is the president of a company that produces flying cars, and that their use of AI had resulted in a potential threat to humanity. According to John, in the year 4000 all birds have been wiped out in order to reduce the danger to the widely used flying cars, and that animals in general, even dogs and cats, are rare. It is due to concerns over the spread of AI that he says he has traveled back to the past, and as evidence of all of this he has shown a picture of what appear to be spider-like robots putting together a future vehicle called the “DR-18.”
Similarly, to John is a man identified as Alexander Smith, who says he is one of the first time travelers and appears in his video looking decidedly disheveled and harried. Smith then goes on to say that the world is in dire danger from AI running amok, and that global warming and floods are also a prominent threat. As proof of his claims he produces a photo from his crumpled suit and holds it up, saying that it is a picture of a city center form the year 2118. The photo looks very blurry and indistinct, and he assures us that this is merely an artifact from the time traveling process, not in any way because it could be a hoax. There is also the photo presented by an unidentified Greek man who in 2017 claimed that he had been recruited by a professor for time travel experiments. One of these experiments saw him launched to the year 10000, where there was a war raging between humans and robots. This man also shows a picture of this future landscape, but it is not clear what it is supposed to be of, and of course the low quality is blamed on the effects of time travel.
The picture from the year 10000
It’s not only photographs or video clips that have been offered up as evidence by time travelers either. One man calling himself W.D. Davis says he is from the year 2200, which he paints a colorful picture of indeed. According to him, in this future not only have all diseases been cured, but humans live on Mars and in great underwater cities, and that we peacefully coexist with aliens that can change shape at will. Davis, who claims to be 103 years old, said that in the future there are “miracle food pellets,” one of which can sustain an adult for a week, and he presented one of these pellets as proof. He says that in the future these pellets will be available to people all over the planet and have solved world hunger. Unfortunately, he would not allow it to be analyzed due to the paradoxical ramifications it could have, so I suppose we will just have to take his word for it.
Another anonymous time traveler is a woman who says she is from the year 3780, and that the use of the time technology is based on chips that these travelers have implanted into their arms. These devices supposedly do something to warp the space-time continuum, and she even produces one of the chips as evidence, which she calls a “skin.” It looks sort of like a big computer chip, and it is hard to tell if that is exactly what it is. The woman rambles for some time on the technology, but it is very hard to understand, and in the end it is hard to tell if any of it makes sense or not.
In the end it is hard to know how much truth any of these bizarre and quite frankly outlandish claims have. It is unfortunate that many such cases come to light on these YouTube videos, a place that is a magnet for those looking to get attention and pull hoaxes, yet there are plenty of people who give these claims serious thought, and they have become a hotbed for discussion and conspiracy theories. It is equally regrettable that the “evidence” that these supposed time travelers present in these cases is circumstantial at best, and clearly faked at worst. Yet is still gets a lot of play in discussions and debates on time travelers. Ultimately, if time travel really does exist, then these cases certainly don’t prove it in any way. It is up to the reader to make up their own mind.
While searching for UFOs near the sun, I found a long rocket like object shooting out of the sun during a solar explosion. The explosion was so big it rocked the SOHO satellite and jiggled it, but still caught this UFO during the burst. This UFO was really moving fast, but lucky for us the digital camera of the SOHO satellite caught it well.
If I am wrong, and this is burning solar material flying out from the sun, then its enough material to make a mini sun and would easily destroy the earth if it hit us. However solar material would not shoot off at light speed. This object was only caught once, traveled millions of miles across the SOHO satellite view area...and only got caught once...thats a freaking UFO.
I made a short recording of the object and repeated it several times, you may need to pause the video to see the UFO...there are two bursts, its on the second larger solar explosion. I will include my Dropbox link to download the video for those who need it.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has uncovered relics of lost continents that have hidden under Antarctica for millions of years.
Satellite images reveal a timeline of the ancient landmasses buried a mile (1.6 km) beneath the icy continent.
Scientists said the snaps shed new light on Antarctica, the 'least understood continent on Earth'.
They used data from the long-dead Gravity field and Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE), which plummeted into Earth after it ran out of fuel in 2013.
While the satellite has been out of action for five years, scientists are still pouring over reams of data it collected on Earth's gravitational pull.
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Their research allowed them to track hidden tectonic shifts over the last 200 million years, offering fresh insights into how Antarctica formed. Pictured left is the position of the tectonics 180 million years ago, while right shows the plates 10 million years ago
A team of scientists used GOCE readings to map out the movements of Earth's tectonic plates under Antarctica.
Their research allowed them to track hidden tectonic shifts over the last 200 million years, offering fresh insights into how Antarctica formed.
'These gravity images are revolutionising our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth: Antarctica,' said co-author Fausto Ferraccioli, Science Leader of Geology and Geophysics at the British Antarctic Survey.
'In East Antarctica, we see an exciting mosaic of geological features that reveal fundamental similarities and differences between the crust beneath Antarctica and other continents it was joined to until 160 million years ago.'
Scientists combined the GOCE readings with seismological data to create 3D maps of Earth's lithosphere.
The lithosphere is made up of the crust and the molten mantle beneath Earth's surface, and includes mountain ranges, ocean backs and rocky zones called cratons.
A team of scientists used GOCE readings to map out the movements of Earth's tectonic plates under Antarctica
Cratons are the leftovers of ancient continents embedded in continents as we know them today.
The new readings shed light on the breakup of Gondwana, a long-gone 'supercontinent' that housed what is now Antarctica.
While the landmass split some 130 million years ago, the map shows that Antarctica and Australia remained linked as recently as 55 million years ago.
The study also revealed that West Antarctica has a thinner crust than East Antarctica, which has a 'family likeness to Australia and India'.
The study revealed that West Antarctica (green) has a thinner crust than East Antarctica (blue), which has a 'family likeness to Australia and India'
WHAT WAS ESA'S GOCE SATELLITE?
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) probe tracked the pull of Earth's gravity.
It orbited our planet for over four years, from March 2009 to November 2013.
During that period it got within 140 miles of Earth's surface - unusually low for a satellite - to maximise the accuracy of its instruments.
The European Space Agency (ESA) claims one of its sleek research satellites, dubbed the 'Ferrari of space' has plummeted somewhere into the South Atlantic ocean
Scientists are still scanning GOCE data today in a bid to understand more about processes occurring inside Earth.
In addition, the measurements are being used to improve estimates of polar ice-sheet thickness and their movement.
On 21 October 2013, the mission came to a natural end when it ran out of fuel.
Three weeks later, on 11 November, the satellite disintegrated in the lower atmosphere.
Scientists hope to use their findings to examine how Antarctica’s geology and continental structure is affecting the melting of its ice.
GOCE mission scientist Roger Haagmans said: 'It is exciting to see that direct use of the gravity gradients, which were measured for the first time ever with GOCE, leads to a fresh independent look inside Earth – even below a thick sheet of ice.
'It also provides context of how continents were possibly connected in the past before they drifted apart owing to plate motion.'
Space mission: GOCE was launched in 2009 to map variations in Earth's gravity with unprecedented accuracy
Overblijfselen van verloren continenten op 1,6 kilometer onder Antarctica onthuld. Zo werden ze ontdekt
Overblijfselen van verloren continenten op 1,6 kilometer onder Antarctica onthuld. Zo werden ze ontdekt
De Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA heeft overblijfselen van verloren continenten ontdekt die al miljoenen jaren verborgen liggen onder Antarctica.
Satellietbeelden onthullen dat de continenten op 1,6 kilometer onder de Zuidpool liggen.
Wetenschappers hebben gezegd dat de beelden een nieuw licht werpen op Antarctica, het minst begrepen continent op aarde.
Revolutionaliseren
Ze hebben gegevens gebruikt die zijn verzameld door de Gravity field and Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE), die in 2013 neerstortte op aarde.
Onderzoekers gebruikten de data om de bewegingen van de tektonische platen onder Antarctica in kaart te brengen.
“Deze beelden revolutionaliseren de manier waarop we het minst begrepen continent op aarde, Antarctica, kunnen bestuderen,” zei coauteur Fausto Ferracciolo van de British Antarctic Survey.
Kratons
“In Oost-Antarctica zien we fundamentele overeenkomsten en verschillen tussen de korst onder Antarctica en andere continenten waar het tot 160 miljoen jaar geleden mee verbonden was,” vervolgde hij.
Met behulp van de gegevens ontdekten wetenschappers zogeheten kratons, restanten van zeer oude continenten die deel uitmaken van de continenten zoals we die vandaag de dag kennen.
GOCE-missiewetenschapper Roger Haagmans zei: “Het is spannend om te zien dat we [op deze manier] een frisse, onafhankelijke blik in de aarde kunnen werpen, zelfs onder een dikke laag ijs.”
Beroemde rechthoekige ijsberg is al veel ouder dan gedacht
Beroemde rechthoekige ijsberg is al veel ouder dan gedacht
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De ijsberg zou in november 2017 al van de Larsen C-ijsplaat zijn losgekomen.
Eind vorige maand trok een ijsberg nabij Antarctica de aandacht van heel wat mensen naar zich toe. En terecht, want deze ijsberg leek wel met een schaartje geknipt te zijn. De randen waren keurig recht en de hoeken behoorlijk haaks, waardoor de ijsberg bijna onnatuurlijk aandeed. In eerste instantie werd aangenomen dat de ijsberg vrij recent van de Larsen C-ijsplaat was losgekomen. Want, zo stelden onderzoekers, anders waren die strakke randen al lang ten prooi gevallen aan eroderende golven en wind.
Ouder Maar wetenschappers hebben zich nog eens in het leven van de rechthoekige ijsberg vastgebeten en ontdekt dat deze al veel ouder is dan gedacht. Satellietbeelden onthullen dat de ijsberg al in november 2017 – kort nadat de Larsen C-ijsplaat die enorme ijsberg kwijtraakte – afkalfde. Op dat moment was de ijsberg ongeveer vier kilometer lang.
In beweging De ijsberg begon richting het noorden te bewegen en werd daarbij continu bedreigd door botsingen met A-68 (de enorme ijsberg die Larsen C in juli van dat jaar was kwijtgeraakt) en andere, kleinere ijsbergen. Maar de ijsberg bleef ondanks al die dreigingen noordwaarts bewegen en moest uiteindelijk via een smalle passage – gelegen tussen het noordelijke tipje van A-68 en de zogenoemde Bawden Ice Rise – door zien te bewegen om open water te kunnen bereiken. En dat is het moment waarop de ijsberg zijn opmerkelijke rechthoekige vorm krijgt, aldus onderzoekers. Bawden Ice Rice is een verhoging in de rotsachtige zeebodem en A-68 is daar bijvoorbeeld al regelmatig tegenaan gebotst, waardoor stukken van de ijsberg zijn afgebroken. Het is op die plek dan ook een rommeltje (zie afbeelding hieronder, gemaakt op 14 oktober 2018). Er drijven allemaal kleinere ijsbergen rond die continu met elkaar in botsing komen. Ook de ijsberg die in november 2017 loskwam van Larsen C kwam duidelijk niet ongeschonden uit de strijd. Op de foto hieronder zie je dat deze oorspronkelijk qua vorm veel wegheeft van een trapezium. Maar een paar dagen later blijkt deze door de botsingen omgetoverd te zijn tot een rechthoekige ijsberg met steile randen en keurige hoeken.
De rechthoekige ijsberg heeft op deze foto nog een iets andere vorm. De ijsberg is hier ongeveer 900 meter breed en 1500 meter lang.
Inmiddels zijn we weer een paar weken verder en heeft de ijsberg het open water weten te bereiken. Onderzoekers verwachten dat de ijsberg spoedig geschiedenis zal zijn.
Dit weekend scheren maar liefst drie ruimtestenen langs de aarde
Dit weekend scheren maar liefst drie ruimtestenen langs de aarde
Vivian Lammerse
Het grootste exemplaar is naar schatting twee keer zo groot als een passagiersbus.
Dit weekend kunnen we een bezoekje verwachten van drie ruimtestenen, die relatief dicht langs de aarde zullen scheren. Het gaat om de objecten 2018 VX1, 2018 VA2 en 2018 VSI. Maar geen paniek; de objecten zullen geen gevaar vormen voor de aarde.
Ruimtestenen Het object 2018 VXI zal komende zondag het dichts in de buurt van de aarde komen. Zo zal deze op ongeveer één maanafstand (dat is de afstand tussen de aarde en de maan) langs de aarde scheren. De geschatte diameter van de ruimtesteen is tussen de 7.9 en 18 meter. Maar eerst zal morgen 2018 VA2 zijn scheervlucht maken. Dit object zal ons op ongeveer 1.87 maanafstanden naderen. Het grootste is ruimtesteen 2018 VSI. Zo wordt de diameter van deze ruimtesteen geschat tussen de 13 en 28 meter. Echter blijft deze ook het verst van de aarde uit de buurt; zo zal hij ons op 3.62 maanafstanden passeren.
MAATREGELEN
Onderzoekers zijn op zoek naar allerlei manieren de aarde te beschermen tegen potentieel gevaarlijke ruimtestenen. En daarbij komen de meest bizarre methoden voorbij. Zo kunnen we planetoïden een duwtje geven, er juist aan trekken, opblazen of laseren. Een andere voorgestelde methode is om een planetoïde te bekogelen met witte verf. Dat bekogelen zou namelijk al een geringe invloed hebben op de baan van de planetoïde. De witte verf zou zorgen dat de planetoïde meer zonlicht reflecteert. Elk lichtdeeltje dat vervolgens wordt weerkaatst, oefent kracht uit die de planetoïde wegduwt van de zon.
Tsjeljabinsk-meteoriet Zoals gezegd vormen de ruimtestenen geen gevaar voor de aarde, omdat ze toch nog ver van onze planeet vandaan blijven. Komen planetoïden echter dichterbij de aarde in de buurt en zijn ze daarnaast ook nog eens groot van stuk, dan kunnen dit soort ruimtestenen wel voor wat opschudding zorgen. Dat bewees de Tsjeljabinsk-meteoriet, die in 2013 de Russische stad Tsjeljabinsk op deed schrikken. Deze ruimtesteen was zo’n 17 meter groot en ontplofte op 20 kilometer hoogte in de atmosfeer. Bij die explosie kwam zo’n 30 keer meer energie vrij dan tijdens de kernaanval op Hiroshima. De schokgolf zorgde ervoor dat ramen van honderden gebouwen uiteenspatten. Bijna 1500 mensen raakten daarbij gewond.
Klein risico Toch is de kans klein dat zoiets nog eens gebeurt. Zo denken astronomen dat dit slechts enkele keren per eeuw voorkomt. Daarbij is het risico dat het dicht bij een dichtbevolkte stad zoals Tsjeljabinsk gebeurt, nog kleiner. Naar schatting vindt dat ongeveer 1 keer in de 10.000 jaar plaats. Toch is het niet helemaal uit te sluiten dat er brokstukken vanuit de ruimte op ramkoers komen te liggen met de aarde.
Voorbereiden Daarom speuren wetenschappers met telescopen continu de hemel af op zoek naar onbekende planetoïden. En dat werpt zijn vruchten af. In een paar jaar tijd zijn zo 90% van alle aardscheerders groter dan 1 kilometer opgespoord. Vervolgens proberen astronomen om potentiële gevaarlijke ruimtestenen te detecteren. Hoe eerder we die opsporen, hoe beter. Ondertussen wordt er ook aan methoden gewerkt om de aarde weerbaarder te maken tegen dergelijke aardscheerders.
Een voorbeeld daarvan is de DART-missie. Dit ruimtevaartuig heeft een heel speciaal doel; zo gaat hij proberen om de baan van planetoïde Didymos te veranderen. Deze ruimtesteen bestaat uit twee delen, waarvan Didymos A zo’n 2,5 kilometer groot is en Didymos B ongeveer 160 meter. Het ruimtevaartuig zal vervolgens op de kleinere planetoïde inslaan met 6 km/sec. Van deze missie kunnen we veel leren. Zo is de kennis van groot belang mochten we ooit in een situatie terecht komen dat we objecten van de aarde moeten afbuigen.
Heeft een buitenaards ruimteschip ons zonnestelsel bezocht? Professoren van de Harvard universiteit sluit dit niet uit. Het zou verklaren waarom de asteroïde ‘Oumuamua zich nogal vreemd gedroeg.
‘Oumuamua werd in oktober 2017 ontdekt en was al snel wereldnieuws. De baan van het object – dat toen nog C2017U1 werd genoemd – wees er namelijk sterk op dat de ruimtesteen afkomstig was uit een ander zonnestelsel. Het is mogelijk het eerste interstellaire object dat is aangetroffen in ons zonnestelsel. Anders gezegd: ‘Oumuamua is bij een andere ster dan de zon ontstaan. Dat is natuurlijk al bizar. Als we de zon even vergeten, dan de eerstvolgende ster vier lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd. Het object heeft dus zeker tientallen biljoenen kilometers afgelegd (en mogelijk nog wel veel meer)…
Vliegende sigaar Het object is nogal vreemd. Zo lijkt ‘Oumuamua op een enorme, vliegende sigaar. Deze kosmische sigaar is 400 meter lang en 40 meter breed. Daarmee wijkt de asteroïde qua vorm sterk af van andere hemellichamen in ons zonnestelsel. Onderzoekers kunnen niet verklaren hoe een object met een ratio van 1:10 ontstaat.
Lichtzeil? Maar er is meer. Wetenschappers van het Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics vinden het vreemd dat het object in januari 2018 plotseling versnelde. “Mogelijk is ‘Oumuamua een soort lichtzeil, dat zweeft in de interstellaire ruimte”, schrijft onderzoeker Abraham Loeb in een paper dat is ingediend in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Astrophysical Journal Letters. “Mogelijk wordt het object versneld door zonnestraling.”
Het is geen vreemde gedachte. “Wij mensen maken al soortgelijke lichtzeilen met vergelijkbare afmetingen”, vervolgt Loeb. “Denk maar aan het IKAROS-project en Starshot Initiative. De lichtzeil-technologie wordt misschien vaak gebruikt (door aliens, red.) als vrachttransport tussen sterren of tussen planeten.”
IKAROS was een experimenteel ruimtevaartuig van de Japanse ruimtevaartorganisatie JAXA. Dit ruimtevaartuig werd in mei 2010 gelanceerd en naar de planeet Venus gestuurd. Daarmee demonstreerde de Japanse ruimtevaartorganisatie dat de zonnezeil-technologie werkt in de interplanetaire ruimte.
Niet langer actief ‘Oumuamua heeft een opvallend hoge snelheid en een bijzondere baan. Zo tuimelt de sigaar ongecontroleerd om zijn as. De wetenschappers vermoeden daarom dat ‘Oumumua niet langer actief is.
Geen komeet Als ‘Oumuamua inderdaad ooit door aliens is gebouwd, dan verklaart dit waarom het object zo vreemd is. Loeb: “Zo reflecteert ‘Oumuamua opvallend veel licht, heeft het geen komeetachtige staart en zendt het object weinig warmtestraling uit.” Als een komeet de zon nadert, dan warmt de zon het oppervlak van de komeet op en komen er gassen vrij. Hierdoor kan een komeet versnellen. Aangezien er bij ‘Oumuamua geen sprake was van ontgassing, verklaart dit niet waarom de interstellaire reiziger plotseling versnelde.
En nu? Eigenlijk ontstaan er steeds meer vragen, maar blijven deze vragen onbeantwoord. Auteurs Shmuel Bialy en Abraham Loeb concluderen in het paper dat het nu te laat is om ‘Oumuamua te fotograferen of te achtervolgen met raketten. De mannen hopen dat er in de toekomst vaker soortgelijke objecten langs de zon reizen, die wél bestudeerd kunnen worden. Een andere mogelijkheid is dat er duizenden inactieve ruimteschepen gevangen zitten in het zonnestelsel door zwaartekrachtinteracties met Jupiter en de zon. Met de toekomstige Large Synoptic Survey Telescope kunnen deze objecten wellicht worden gespot.
Scientists analyzed the ancient DNA of individuals who lived in Central and South America up to 10,000 years ago and found that these regions were settled by at least three waves of migration. The studies paint a rich and diverse history of the Americas, suggesting that the people who formed these migratory waves branched out of a single population that crossed the Bering Strait into North America about 15,000 years ago.
“Our work multiplied the number of ancient genomes available from these areas by about 20, giving us a much more comprehensive picture of indigenous history in the Americas,” co-senior author David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, said in a statement. “This broader dataset reveals a common origin of North, Central, and South Americans as well as two previously unknown genetic exchanges between North and South America.”
The DNA collected from 49 individuals who lived in Belize, Brazil, the Central Andes, and southern South America shows that they all originate from the same ancestral population that colonized North America. In and of itself, this fact is not particularly remarkable because scientists have always known that Central and South America were peopled by a migration that moved southward. However, what was truly surprising about the findings of three new ancient DNA studies, all published this week (Cell, Science, Science Advances), was that there were multiple distinct migratory movements — some that mixed, others that formed new lineages.
Archaeologists believe that the Clovis people were the first to pass through the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, which is now underwater, settling in the lower 48 states some 13,000 years ago. The Clovis culture was named after flint spearheads found in the 1930s at a site in Clovis, New Mexico. These mammoth-hunting people are considered to be the ancestors of most of the indigenous cultures of the Americas. Now, the new genomic analysis has yielded fresh insights into how Clovis people may have spread across the Americas.
Researchers compared the genome of a Clovis toddler who lived in Montana about 12,700 years ago to the earliest genome analyzed from South and Central America dating to between 9,000 and 11,000 years ago. The analysis revealed a common ancestry between the remains found in Montana and Lagoa Santa in Brazil, which suggests that the Clovis made a major impact much further south. Previously, anthropologists believed that the people at Lagoa Santa originated from a separate migration from Asia.
“We weren’t expecting to find a relation to people associated with the Clovis culture in South America,” says co-first author Nathan Nakatsuka from Harvard. “But it seems the expansion of the Clovis-associated lineage extended to parts of Central and South America.”
From around 9,000 years ago, however, the Clovis culture-associated ancestry completely disappeared in Peru. We don’t know what was the cause of such a dramatic large-scale population replacement but what seems certain is that the region was populated by a separate wave of migration, which showed remarkable continuity compared to Eurasia and Africa.
“There is remarkable continuity between earlier and later skeletons with South Americans today,” said Cosimo Posth, an archaeogeneticist from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. “For example, modern-day Quechua and Aymara from the Central Andes can trace their ancestry back to the ancient people of the Cuncaicha site from 9,000 years ago onwards. This is a longer-standing continuity than you see in other continents.”
The big question right now is why the branching occurred so fast. What seems certain is that the narrative of humanity’s distribution across the Americas is far more complex than meets the eye.
“We’re very enthusiastic about the prospects for a much richer understanding of American population history, but this is still a vast region full of geographic and chronological holes,” says Reich. “We’d like to collect more genetic material from earlier and later sites and from more countries, such as Colombia, Venezuela, and other parts of Brazil. We also want to examine the evolution of genetic traits over time.”
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) released this new image on November 6, 2018. It’s a composite image of a giant elliptical galaxy – surrounded by a sprawling cluster of other galaxies – known as Abell 2597. The yellow parts of the image come from observations made by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and show a relatively cold gas. The red is data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) showing hot hydrogen gas in the same region. The purple shows extended hot, ionized gas as imaged by Chandra X-ray Observatory.
This vast structure is a billion light-years from Earth. It’s one of our universe’s most massive structures. At the core of Abell 2597, NRAO said:
… a supermassive black hole is powering the cosmic equivalent of a monumental fountain, drawing in vast stores of cold molecular gas and spraying them back out again in an ongoing cycle.
Astronomers have long theorized that fountains such as this continually recirculate a galaxy’s star-forming fuel. But new data from ALMA – based on observations of Abell 2597 – show the first clear and compelling evidence for the simultaneous infalling and outflow of gas driven by a supermassive black hole. The researchers reportedtheir observations in the peer-reviewedAstrophysical Journal.
Artist’s concept of Abell 2597 showing the central supermassive black hole expelling cold, molecular gas – like the pump of a giant galactic fountain.
Image via NRAO/AUI/NSF; D. Berry
Astrophysicist Grant Tremblay at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is lead author on the new paper. He said in a statement:
The supermassive black hole at the center of this giant galaxy acts like a mechanical ‘pump’ in a water fountain. This is one of the first systems in which we find clear evidence for both cold molecular gas inflow toward the black hole and outflow or uplift from the jets that the black hole launches.
According to the researchers, this entire system operates via a self-regulating feedback loop. The infalling material provides power for the fountain as it “drains” toward the central black hole, like water entering the pump of a fountain. This infalling gas then causes the black hole to ignite with activity, launching high-velocity jets of super-heated material that shoot out of the galaxy. As it travels, this material pushes out clumps and streamers of gas into the galaxy’s expansive halo, where it eventually rains back in on the black hole, triggering the entire process anew.
In total, about three billion solar masses of molecular gas is part of this fountain, forming a filamentary nebula that spans the innermost 100,000 light-years of the galaxy.
ALMA image of cold molecular gas in Abell 2597.
Image via NRAO/G. Tremblay et al.
In an earlier study by the same authors published in the journal Nature, the researchers were able to verify the interconnection between the black hole and the galactic fountain by observing the region across a range of wavelengths, or portions of the spectrum. By studying the location and motion of molecules of carbon monoxide (CO) with ALMA, which shine brightly in millimeter-wavelength light, the researchers could measure the motion of the gas as it falls in toward the black hole.
Earlier data from the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) revealed warm, ionized gas being expelled from the galaxy – essentially the plume of the fountain. The new ALMA observations found clumps of cold, molecular gas in precisely the same locations as the warm gas seen in the earlier observations. Tremblay commented:
The unique aspect here is a very detailed coupled analysis of the source using data from ALMA and the MUSE instrument. The two facilities make for an incredibly powerful combination. ALMA revealed the distribution and motions of the cold molecular gas clouds, and MUSE did the same for the warm ionized gas.
The ALMA and MUSE data were combined with a new, ultra-deep observation of the cluster by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, revealing the hot phase of this fountain in exquisite detail, noted the researchers.
The observations also very convincingly support the hypothesis that the warm ionized and cold molecular nebulas are one and the same, with the warm ionized gas merely being the “shell” around the cold molecular cores that churn within this galaxy-scale fountain.
This multiwavelength approach offers an uncommonly complete picture of this system. Tremblay noted:
It’s like observing the rain cloud, rain, and puddle all at the same time.
While this is just one observation of one galaxy, the astronomers speculate that they may be observing a process that is common in galaxies and fundamental to their evolution.
Animation of the MUSE H-alpha data showing the different velocities of material in the “galactic fountain.”
Bottom line: At the core of the giant elliptical galaxy Abell 2597, a supermassive black hole is powering the cosmic equivalent of a gargantuan, ongoing fountain.
The Orion Cube: An extraterrestrial device hidden by the US
The Orion Cube: An extraterrestrial device hidden by the US
Jay Jonson
Dan Burisch, a doctorate in microbiology and former worker of the secret military forces of the United States, details great puzzling information about extraterrestrials, the Orion Cube, time machines, secret government plans and human extinction.
Dan Burisch, born in California in 1964, studied microbiology and psychology at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada. He graduated in 1986 and did a Ph.D. in microbiology in 1989 in the state of New York. A sports fan since childhood, he played basketball. But his true passion was science and five years later he was given his first microscope, after which he later became the youngest member of the microbiology society of Los Angeles.
In 1986 he received an unexpected visit at the University of Las Vegas, the so-called “secret” government of the United States. Two of those men, in military uniform, offered to work on a top-secret project where they could put their talent to work at a maximum level. In 1987 he began working in a Nevada State Government office related to prison parole. In 1989 he began receiving tissue samples. Burisch examined them in another place and sent the report to the place of origin of the same. In 1989 he worked on a secret project and also on the so-called “Sharp Storm”. But in 1994 he was taken to an underground place called “Century IV” which is part of Area 51, where he started working on the “Aquarium” project.
There he learned that the military were in possession of ships and extraterrestrial beings. In one department there was information about beings called Orions, beings from the star system Z Reticuli. Also a copy of the agreement made by President Eisenhower, beings called P-50 and the so-called Orions. In a place called The Bay of Galileo, Burisch could see different types of spacecraft. One of them was the ship that Bob Lassar (a former Nasa worker who made Area 51 known in the eighties). Another of the ships he saw was the one that crashed in Roswell in 1947.
According to Burisch, we have a misguided concept of aliens. It clarifies that aliens and extraterrestrials are not the same. But aliens are beings that come from other planets, and that extraterrestrials are human in the future and that they travel in time to solve certain problems, but they are from the earth, because these are actually the evolution of the human being during thousands of years.
They are distinguished into four groups. They are classified with the letter P, which means present time and the years that lead us in the future. For example, Roswell’s are P-24. That is, present time plus 24 thousand years in the future. The others are known as: J ROD P-45, J ROD P-52 and P-54. He says that these JROD suffer from a very painful illness and he participated in this project to try to find a cure. He claimed to have taken blood samples a female of these beings and that for two years worked on this project studying the being.
He assures that they came to establish a friendly relationship and that in one of the face-to-face meetings, this one skipped the protocol pouncing on him. He telepathically transmitted a large amount of information in which he could know that two thirds of humanity died in a nuclear catastrophe. A part of the people hid underground to survive and others did it on the surface. 24 thousand years later the most advanced beings on earth could travel in time, which is why they traveled to Roswell in 1947. Roswell’s ship was really a time machine. They did not come from another planet but from Earth.
According to Colonel Philip J. Corso (1914 – 1997) who wrote the book “The day after Roswell”, beings were made to travel in spacetime. They had two brains, one of them to control the ships. And they did not reproduce. He also affirmed that the ship was the key to technological progress.
Other groups “survivors” to the extinction, evolved in the Moon, Mars and finally in Orion, where the P-52 come from, or the Orions, which, in spite of being Terrestrials, also colonized these other places. The P-45 would be the most Machiavellian, thirsty for nuclear catharsis to pass in our future in order to justify its existence. These are responsible for the majority of abductions. They lack emotional empathy.
Eisenhower met with these extraterrestrial groups in order to avoid the obvious nuclear catastrophe. In this meeting diplomatic discussions between civilizations were made and an agreement was adopted to abduct human beings in order to study them, provided they did not suffer or remember anything of what happened. The Orions gave President Eisenhower a cube about eight centimeters wide by another eight centimeters long, capable of predicting the future. It was passed between rich and powerful to be able to choose well in their lives.
Burisch worked directly under the orders of “Majestic 12”. One of his most important statements are those related to the “StarGates”. They are devices made in the earth, but with extraterrestrial technology. According to him, the information on how to make them is in the Sumerias tables. They were used to communicate with other extra-planetary civilizations. With them you could access a wormhole. Next to this enormous apparatus, there was a platform that allowed to throw the object to the wormhole to travel to other stars, teleporting people or materials from one place to another instantly.
But Burisch says it is not very reliable and that he saw a person die during one of the experiments. This device is also known as “Looking Glass” and was used to see probabilities of future events. As they saw, the catastrophe would happen because of these Stargates. According to the doctor, there are fifty Stargates on earth. Although all the Stargates have apparently been dismantled, we are still in danger of extinction today. What do you think about the Orion Cube? Watch the following video and leave us your comment below!
WETENSCHAP Een Amerikaanse sonde heeft zijn eerste vlucht langs de zon goed doorstaan. De systemen aan boord van de Parker Solar Probe hebben de extreme hitte en straling overleefd en werken zoals het moet, zegt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA.
De Parker Solar Probe werd gelanceerd in augustus en gaat de komende zeven jaar ovale banen rond de zon draaien. De eerste duikvlucht begon vorige week, en afgelopen maandag kwam de Parker tot op 24 miljoen kilometer van de zon. Nog nooit kwam een sonde zo dicht bij onze ster.
De Parker haalde daarbij een recordsnelheid van ruim 343.000 kilometer per uur. Beide records worden later nog verbeterd, want in 2024 haalt de Parker een snelheid van ruim 692.000 kilometer per uur en nadert hij tot op 6 miljoen kilometer van de zon.
Bekijk de lancering van de sonde.
Hitte
De sonde vliegt nu weg van de zon, en voert in april zijn tweede duikvlucht uit. Tijdens de duikvlucht maandag werd de Parker blootgesteld aan temperaturen van meer dan 400 graden Celsius. Dat loopt op tot bijna 1.400 graden bij volgende duikvluchten. Door koeling blijven de meetinstrumenten aan boord echter op kamertemperatuur.
De Parker doet onder meer onderzoek naar de zonnewind, de stroom geladen deeltjes die de zon constant afvuurt. Het concept daarvan werd bedacht door de nu 91-jarige wetenschapper Eugene N. Parker, naar wie de sonde is vernoemd.
‘I’d say theorists are excited and experimentalists are very sceptical,’ said Alexandre Nikitenko, a theorist on the CMS team who worked on the data. Photograph: CERN
Scientists at the Cern nuclear physics lab near Geneva are investigating whether a bizarre and unexpected new particle popped into existence during experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
Researchers on the machine’s multipurpose Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector have spotted curious bumps in their data that may be the calling card of an unknown particle that has more than twice the mass of a carbon atom.
The prospect of such a mysterious particle has baffled physicists as much as it has excited them. At the moment, none of their favoured theories of realityinclude the particle, though many theorists are now hard at work on models that do.
“I’d say theorists are excited and experimentalists are very sceptical,” said Alexandre Nikitenko, a theorist on the CMS team who worked on the data. “As a physicist I must be very critical, but as the author of this analysis I must have some optimism too.”
Senior scientists at the lab have scheduled a talk this Thursday at which Nikitenko and his colleague Yotam Soreq will discuss the work. They will describe how they spotted the bumps in CMS data while searching for evidence of a lighter cousin of the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that was discovered at the LHC in 2012.
The Large Hadron Collider creates particles by smashing subatomic protons into one another at close to the speed of light. When the protons meet, the energy in the collision is converted into mass, and so particles, in line with Einstein’s equation, E=mc2.
Many particles created in the LHC are highly unstable and immediately decay into lighter, more stable particles such as photons and electrons. It is by looking for an excess of these particles, apparent as a bump in the data, that physicists tend to find new particles. For example, one way the Higgs boson betrayed its existence was through the unusually high number of photons recorded in collisions in which the particle was made.
But particle physics is no easy pursuit. To the endless frustration of its practitioners, bumps in data produced by nothing more than statistical fluctuations pop up all the time. The best way to distinguish between these and Nobel prize-winning discoveries is to analyse more and more data: statistical flukes always vanish with time.
In two separate analyses, the CMS team found data that pointed to a build-up of muons, or heavy electrons, in their detector. If real, the data indicates a new particle with a mass of 28GeV or 1 billion electron volts, slightly less than a quarter of the mass of a Higgs boson. Whatever it is, it is not the particle Nikitenko and his colleagues were looking for.
To complicate matters further, the bumps were more pronounced in the LHC’s low energy collisions than in more energetic collisions the machine performed after an upgrade. That could be explained, said Nikitenko, if more “background” particles are produced at higher energies that then obscure the signal.
Because the analysis is so time-consuming, it could take the CMS team another year to confirm or rule out the existence of a new particle. But Karl Jakobs, spokesperson for the Cern team that works on Atlas, the LHC’s other multipurpose detector, said it was checking its own data for signs of the proposed particle. “We are working on a similar analysis of the Atlas data, however I cannot yet give you a timeline when the results will become public,” he said.
For Atlas to cross-check the result was “crucial”, Nikitenko said. “If it is confirmed by Atlas it will be the real thing. It will be really something terribly new.”
One independent study has already reported potential evidence for the particle. Arno Heister, a former member of the CMS team who knew about the bumps in the data, analysed older results collected by Aleph, a detector on Cern’s previous particle accelerator known as the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP). He found a similar bump at 30GeV. “This excess, if real, is something very unexpected,” he told the Guardian.
Georg Weiglein, a theorist on the German Electron-Synchrotron machine (DESY) said it will be hard to come up with a model that has a particle like the one the CMS bump calls for. “This does not exclude the possibility that such a signal could actually exist. On the contrary, it would be even more exciting if a signal were observed that does not seem to fit into our present models,” he said. “Further experimental information is eagerly awaited.”
Michelangelo Mangano, a researcher at Cern, said: “Of course theorists are always happy when some anomaly shows up in the data. And I am confident many colleagues have started looking into this. However it is a bit early to get excited.” “Given that Atlas has yet to release their analysis, and given that much more data is on tape even for CMS, it is clear that the effect will soon be confirmed or diluted away,” he said.
Mysterieus ‘spookdeeltje’ ontdekt in deeltjesversneller LHC. Zijn wetenschappers iets revolutionairs op het spoor?
Mysterieus ‘spookdeeltje’ ontdekt in deeltjesversneller LHC. Zijn wetenschappers iets revolutionairs op het spoor?
Een mysterieus deeltje zorgt voor opwinding bij wetenschappers van het Europees Centrum voor Kernonderzoek (CERN) in Zwitserland. Zij doen momenteel onderzoek naar een onverwacht ‘spookdeeltje’.
De wetenschappers zeggen dat het onbekende deeltje mogelijk is verschenen tijdens experimenten met de Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Tijdens het bestuderen van de gegevens stuitten ze op onregelmatigheden. Zo vonden ze aanwijzingen voor een deeltje dat meer dan twee keer zo zwaar is als een koolstofatoom.
Geen enkele theorie
Er zou op dit moment geen enkele theorie zijn die dit mysterieuze deeltje kan verklaren.
“We sluiten niet uit dat een dergelijke signaal echt kan bestaan,” zei Georg Weiglein van het Duitse nationale laboratorium voor deeltjesfysica DESY.
“Sterker nog: het zou nog spannender zijn als we een signaal zouden waarnemen dat niet lijkt te passen in onze huidige modellen,” voegde hij toe.
Iets revolutionairs
Het is dus goed mogelijk dat het hier gaat om een nieuwe ontdekking. We kunnen hier te maken hebben met iets revolutionairs, denken wetenschappers.
Karl Jakobs, woordvoerder van het onderzoeksteam van CERN, zei dat de gegevens van verschillende experimenten nu met elkaar worden vergeleken om te speuren naar tekenen van het deeltje.
“Ik kan alleen niet zeggen wanneer de resultaten naar buiten worden gebracht,” zei hij.
Let’s face it. Forget Musk, Bezos, Branson and the rest of the billionaires trying to become private space entrepreneurs … NASA would be in big trouble without the old-but-reliable-even-with-its-problems Russian space program — Roscosmos. But don’t let those dented and shopworn Soyuz capsules fool you – Roscosmos is eyeing the future and may beat the U.S. to the Moon the next time around … not by man, but by avatar.
“This is about creating a long-term base, naturally, not habitable, but visited. But basically it is the transition to robotic systems, to avatars that will solve tasks on the surface of the moon.”
Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, revealed his futuristic-yet-feasible plans this week through the state-run news agency RIA Novosti. He likened them to NASA’s vision and subsequent success in the 1960s and 1970s to put the first human on the Moon, with a dig that his is “more ambitious and responsible.” “Responsible” is easier to achieve from Day 1 – avatars do not create waste that must be either stored for transport or disposed of in a way that doesn’t sully the environment.
While what happens on the lunar surface may be ambitious, getting there will still rely on the current Angara carrier rocket and Soyuz spacecraft, allowing Russia’s efforts for new development to focus solely on the robotic work and exploration forces that will ride them to the Moon. That includes heavy use of 3D printing to lessen the load sent with them, including the possible use of lunar soil as a raw material for the 3D printers.
“Plus, there will be an opportunity, as they say at the Academy of Sciences, to use helium-3 as the basis for rocket fuel.”
The Russian Academy of Sciences agrees with NASA and the ESA in the idea that helium-3 – the non-radioactive isotope of helium constantly being brought to the Moon by solar wind – can and should be mined and used as a safe nuclear fuel for a fusion reactor, with the added benefit that its spent fuel is not radioactive.
All of this sounds so doable right now. When will we see Russia take the lead in making science imitate science fiction?
“The first landing of the Russian cosmonaut is scheduled for 2030.”
That whooshing sound is not from balloons but from hopes deflating and the reality setting in that we’re still dealing with antiquated technology, limited budgets, massive bureaucracies and a public (at least in the U.S.) that is slowly losing its faith and trust is science.
Forget Musk, Bezos, Branson and the rest of the billionaires trying to become private space entrepreneurs. It’s time to do an avatar GoFundMe and hire James Cameron!
The first part of this article told (in his own words) the strange saga of a man named Ray Boeche. Part-One started as follows: “My previous article was on the subjects of (A) how the UFO phenomenon might be a threat to our physical and mental health; and (B) why the Men in Black might not be bad guys, after all. Rather, they just might actually be good guys trying to warn us of the hazards that the same phenomenon might pose. I thought I would follow-up that article with one which graphically demonstrates the dangers that UFO entities and their powers might pose. We have to go way back to November 25, 1991. On that date, Ray Boeche – a priest and a former State-Director with MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network) – had a very strange meeting at Lincoln, Nebraska’s Cornhusker Hotel. It was a meeting with a couple of guys who worked on a highly classified program within the U.S. Department of Defense. Now, with that said, I’ll hand the story over to Ray himself, who I extensively interviewed for my Final Events book.”
And here, in Part-Two, are Ray’s words on what was undoubtedly the most disturbing – and even deadly – part of the story. Why so? Because it all ended in three strange and violent deaths. Back to Ray: “They showed me a dozen photos of three different people – four photos of each person, who had apparently been killed by these experiments. These were all postmortem photographs, taken in-situ, after the experiments. The areas shown in all of the photographs were like a dentist’s chair or a barber’s chairs; and the bodies were still in those positions, sitting in the chairs. Still there, with EEG and EKG leads coming off of them; and I believe that one had leads to their head. They were all wired.
“It was a very clinical setting, and there was no indication of who they were. It was a very disturbing sort of thing. And I’m thinking in the back of my mind: if these are real, who would they have gotten for these experiments? Were they volunteers? Were they some sort of prisoner? I have no idea. Were they American? Were they foreign? There was no way to tell.” Ray told me that the three deaths were caused by a “remotely induced” fatal heart attack; a “remotely transmitted head trauma” and “remotely controlled suffocation. The deaths and heart attacks were allowed to happen because it served the NHE’s goals: the deception that they were aliens trying to help us and give us this advanced technology.”
As for why Ray was contacted, he told me: “The impression was that it was to test the waters; that’s what they told me. They had read some of my stuff; and they knew that I’d become a pastor and that I had a Christian viewpoint from which I could view these things. And they were concerned morally and ethically that they had allowed themselves to be duped into doing this research; and it had taken such a turn. My concern was always that: why come to me? Who am I? I can’t do anything for you. I’m happy to evaluate it as best I can; but if you have this concern why not go to a Christian leader with a lot more clout and public visibility than I’ve got? But that was their reason: they were aware of the research I had done on a lot of things; that I could approach it from a Christian viewpoint; and that it was more of a moral dilemma for them. They wanted the information out there. But, to me, I have to think: is any of this accurate? On one hand, is this a way to throw disinformation out? But, on the other hand, I think that even if they wanted to just spread disinformation, they could have done it with someone a lot more influential than me.
“As a pastor and someone who’s trained as a theologian, I can’t come to any other conclusion than there is some sort of spiritual deception going on here. In so many of these kinds of alien contacts, they make a denial of Christianity: anytime the spiritual issues are addressed, there is always some sort of denial of the validity of Christianity, and the validity of The Bible. And, I find it interesting that these percipients are told that Jesus was a great guy; but you just misunderstood him. They say: he wasn’t really God’s son. You just don’t quite get it. But you never hear them say that about Buddha, or Krishna, or Mohamed. It always seems to come down to some sort of denial of Christianity. I mean the percipients of contactees, abductees and the NHE’s engage them in spiritual discussions – but it’s always one-sided. I would have a lot less suspicion for the potential of the demonic nature of these things if they were to say: ‘You guys are all screwed up, that all of your spiritual leaders had some good ideas; but none of them really got it. It’s a big mess.’ But it seems to be so specifically pointed at the Judeo-Christian tradition. It certainly seems to me like it’s the two genuine forces squaring up against each other.
“I think that some people have a sharper sense of sight; some have a sharper sense of hearing, or touch. I think there are people who have an ability to somehow have some sense stimulated and be aware of something that the majority of people aren’t. These are people just better gifted in some way than others. This is a thorny thing to dissect because there are definitely demonic influences generally. They do want to deceive us. I’m hesitant to paint with too broad a brush and say that everything can be attributed to them. I think there are too many theologians, Christians, who want to see a demon behind every rock. But I think the demonic world is real. But one of its principle goals is to deceive us. Does that negate the existence of some sort of extraterrestrial intelligence? I don’t think so. I think, though, that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is too simple an explanation. I have come into contact with too many cases that go so far beyond that; where there are so many strange effects that are left in the lives of the percipients that to me seem to say this is E.T. is too simplistic for so many of these things.
Ray’s final words: “A valid way to distract people is the two camps: the E.T. believers and the skeptics, while the real story is buried. The more distractions you can make, the easier it is to keep people from hitting on what’s actually important. That’s what so confusing about the whole thing. I’ve been involved in this since 1965 and this is the most bizarre stuff I’ve ever run across. I didn’t know what to make of it then and I don’t know what to make of it now.”
The news keeps getting stranger from Antarctica. First there was the iceberg (and maybe two) shaped like a perfect rectangle or parallelogram. Then there was a scientist-on-scientist stabbing at a remote Russian station that was blamed on the stabbee spoiling book endings for the stabber. Now comes word that NASA data from a satellite which died five years ago shows multiple lost continents underneath the frozen one. Dead men may tell no tales but it looks like dead satellites can.
“In East Antarctica we see an exciting mosaic of geological features that reveal fundamental similarities and differences between the crust beneath Antarctica and other continents it was joined to until 160 million years ago.”
Commenting in a statement *with map) about a new study in Scientific Reports titled “Earth tectonics as seen by GOCE – Enhanced satellite gravity gradient imaging,” co-author Fausto Ferraccioli reveals what he and a team of researchers from Kiel University and the British Antarctic Survey found after five years of studying data from the European Space Agency’s GOCE (Gravity field and Ocean Circulation Explorer) mission – a gravity-mapping satellite in operation from March 17, 2009, until October 21, 2013, when the very thing it was mapping pulled it to its atmospheric demise. Nicknamed “‘the Ferrari of space” — possibly because of its sleek silver design or its supply of xenon propellant which allowed it to resist drag while it dipped down to a 225 km altitude for highly accurate gravity measurements – the GOCE measured Earth’s gravity more precisely than any satellite ever.
The Ferrari of space
(ESA image)
“These gravity images are revolutionising our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth, Antarctica.”
Specifically, those high-resolution images showed gravity gradients – measurements of how rapidly the acceleration of gravity changes – allowed them to search the lithosphere – the solid crust and molten mantle hidden underneath Antarctica’s thick ice – for remnants of ancient ocean beds and cratons, which are highly folded orogen (belt of the earth’s crust involved in the formation of mountains) regions left from previous lost continents that Antarctica was once connected to.
The team released a short video (see it here) showing how these long-lost continents may have looked as they moved around Antarctica – bumping into it, breaking off and floating away.
Antarctica from space
(NASA image)
Is this a big deal?
“Overall, we emphasise that satellite data such as from the GOCE mission, provide novel datasets with a global homogenous coverage that can significantly advance our understanding of the Earth structure and tectonic setting.”
That’s a ‘yes’. Understanding the early history of Earth’s tectonic plates helps predict future earthquakes … and it’s just plain interesting. Perhaps someday, another “Formula One” satellite will tell us once and for all if Antarctica was once occupied by humans … or aliens.
And studying Antarctica from space seems to be safer than a surface look with colleagues who are book spoilers.
A few weeks ago I spoke at the annual Texas Bigfoot Conference, held in Jefferson, Texas. During the lunch break, a woman came up to me and asked an interesting question. She had an intriguing scenario to discuss. Having read all of my various books on the Men in Black phenomenon, her question went roughly like this: “Is it possible that the Men in Black are really the good guys, protecting us from the UFO phenomenon?” It’s a thought-provoking scenario and one that does, admittedly, pop up occasionally. She drew parallels with what happens when we take our pets to see the veterinarian.
Most people who have ever owned a pet and have had to take her or him to the vet will know how, very often, our furry friends get in a complete state of stress and even fear when they realize where they are going. I recall how, when I lived in the U.K., my dog Susie (a Cairn Terrier who lived to the ripe old age of 18), would shake when she had to get her shots. In fact, she would start to shake as soon as I pulled onto the parking area of the vet’s office. The reason was simple: on occasion, and just being a little dog and with not much muscle, it would hurt her when the needle went in. So, she associated the vet with pain. But, in reality, the vet was actually helping her. Of course, trying to explain that to Susie didn’t work at all! I did try, though.
Is it possible that something akin to this is going on with the Men in Black? That was the question posed to me. Well, I’m not convinced (yet…), but a reasonable case can be made that the scenario just might be the correct one. For example, I know of several people whose interest in the UFO subject, over time, went from being an interest to a full-blown obsession. Paranoia set in. They came to do nothing but dig into the UFO issue, almost on a 24/7 basis. Having fun, hanging out with friends, going out and having a good time on a Friday night, and knocking back a few beers went out of the window. I have even seen a couple lives crippled and ruined by Ufology – and I don’t exaggerate when I say that. We’re talking about mental illness, divorce, and even a cry-for-help-style suicide attempt. Thankfully, that doesn’t happen all the time, but it does on occasion.
There is something about the UFO subject that, now and then, seems to provoke negativity, paranoia and more to a severe degree. Which is why I strictly work approximately 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday (occasionally starting at 8am if I’m down to the wire…), and I keep evenings and weekends solely for a good time (which means soccer, beer, loud music, and girlfriends). “Balance” is the important factor in all of this. Sometimes, however, when it comes to UFOs, balance goes right out of the window and mania sets in. Are the MIB aware of this? And, if so, are they trying to warn us of the potential perils of getting into Ufology?
It’s interesting to note that the one man who arguably kicked off the MIB phenomenon in the early 1950s – Albert Bender – was someone who suffered greatly as he got deeper and deeper into the UFO mystery. Bender was an unusual character: he lived in the attic of his stepfather’s home in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He converted it into a kind of “Chamber of Horrors.” He began to delve deep into the world of the supernatural, even to the extent of creating an “altar” in the attic, as a means to call forth supernatural entities. His obsession with UFOs grew. By the time he was thirty, Bender had developed an irrational and overwhelming fear that he had cancer. Bender’s 1962 book, Flying Saucers and the Three Men, reveals that he clearly had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Everything had to be exactly in its correct place. Bender would seethe and get frustrated if someone happened to move something in his room – even slightly. And then the MIB turned up.
At the height of his research into all things saucer-shaped, Bender was “visited” by a trio of shadowy, fedora-wearing Men in Black at his home in Bridgeport. For a while he ignored (or tried to ignore) the orders of the MIB to quit Ufology. Finally, and not long after, Bender really did quit Ufology (except to briefly return and write the aforementioned Flying Saucers and the Three Men). And guess what happened? I’ll tell you: Bender’s fear of cancer went away. He got a girlfriend, who soon became his wife. When Bender died in 2016, he was just six years short of being one hundred. Cancer did not take him at thirty, after all. Life was good. At least, it was specifically after he decided to heed the words of the MIB and he walked away from Ufology. So, you can see where I’m going with all of this. The Bender affair is just one of many that had a tragic and traumatic aspect to it, and which involved someone who had spiraled into a state of paranoia as a result of not finding balance in life. But, the MIB came along and, lo and behold, Bender’s life soon became a great one.
In this scenario, the MIB might be to us what the vet was to Susie. We’re utterly incapable of telling man’s best friends that a trip to the vet is actually for their own good. Likewise, perhaps, the clearly non-human Men in Black are incapable of properly getting across the message they want us to get. The result: it looks as if the MIB are threatening people. Maybe, though, they’re just doing their best to keep us away from UFO-driven realms filled with paranoia, obsession, fear and stress.
I found a lot of ancient structures in a Mars photo today. These structures are long and almost resemble walls, but are buildings in long lines. I also discovered a face carved into a hill top, but is so ancient, it may be hard for some to see its details. This is 100% proof that ancient civilizations once flourished on the surface of Mars, and that NASA doesn't want you to know about it.
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