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22-01-2019
Mysterious chirps in deep space may be 'colliding black holes,' Hat Creek astronomer says
Mysterious chirps in deep space may be 'colliding black holes,' Hat Creek astronomer says
Jessica Skropanic Redding Record Searchlight
The fast radio bursts detected by a Canadian telescope may have been caused by colliding black holes, an astronomer at SETI Institute said.
The repeating pulses were discovered last summer by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). Its findings, presented to the scientific community Jan. 9, have drawn widespread attention.
But black holes don't necessarily explain the series of bursts originating in a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away, said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer for the SETI Institute at Hat Creek Radio Observatory, about 70 miles east of Redding.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are pulses of radio waves a fraction of a second long.
“Some of these are only about a thousandth of a second," Shostak said.
The CHIME telescope at night in British Columbia. The telescope will help detect future fast radio bursts.
Andre Recnik
Radio telescopes record these signals, and computers alert astronomers when there’s an anomaly.
“We’re monitoring 70 million radio signals at once,” Shostak said. “It’s all done digitally.”
The longest of these recorded pulses is one-tenth of a second long, about equal to an eye blink, he said. "If you were listening to these things, what you’d hear is a very fast slide whistle. It's a radio burst. It’s a little bit of static that starts at the high end of the radio dial and comes down in frequency."
The first single burst was recorded in 2001, but it wasn’t recognized as such by astronomers until 2007. Since then more than 60 bursts were digitally recorded, Shostak said.
Astronomers don't yet know what causes the fast radio bursts, primarily because the frequency at which they show up makes research difficult.
"Almost all of these have only been measured once," Shostak said. "You see this happen — 'beep!' — and then you don't hear it again. You can sit there and look at it (recoded data) for weeks, and you never 'hear' it again. That makes it problematic because whenever in science you only measure something once, it's pretty hard to figure out what it is you're dealing with."
Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Shasta County
Courtesy of Seth Shostak, SETI
One possible, but highly improbable, explanation made public interest in fast radio bursts go sky-high: Intelligent life in another galaxy.
"Some people have suggested that you shouldn't rule out the possibility that this is some kind of alien signal, that maybe it's the Klingons trying to get in touch, or maybe it's a navigation beacon for them, or something like that," Shostak said. "You can cook up some scenarios in which it might be possible."
Klingons are the outer space villains in the television series "Star Trek."
But Shostak said that's unlikely because most individual fast radio bursts come from points billions of light years apart.
“You see a fast radio burst over there in the sky, and then you find another fast radio burst over here in the sky, and these places are billions of light years apart." If aliens are sending messages, "how is it they've all been organized to produce these fast radio bursts? It takes billions of years to send a message from one galaxy to another.”
Whatever makes fast radio bursts has to be incredibly powerful to create a signal an antenna on Earth can pick up, Shostak said. “It’s likely it’s a natural phenomenon. It could be colliding black holes."
Nonetheless, he said black holes colliding doesn't necessarily explain two series of repeating bursts recorded in 2012 and 2018.
In 2012, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico heard the first repeating bursts from what Shostak called a "rather nondescript galaxy" three billion light years away.
"The big discovery of last week was a second repeating one," Shostak said.
CHIME at Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory recorded the second series, 13 bursts in a three-week period in July and August, 2018.
“Once you have something that repeats, you can study it," Shostak said.
Allen Telescope Array operated by the SETI Institute at Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Shasta County.
Courtesy of Seth Shostak, SETI
Astronomers spoke of the discovery at the American Astronomical Society's annual meeting last week in Seattle. They're hopeful about modifying existing radio telescopes to listen for more bursts.
These include the Allen Telescope Array operated by the SETI Institute at Hat Creek Radio Observatory in the area of Lassen National Forest.
Shostak said he hopes the Allen Telescope Array will be capable of recording fast radio bursts by summer, but "it's always a money issue for our work because we're not funded by the government. It's all donations."
Depending in part on how soon SETI and other organizations can fund the adjustment of radio telescopes to detect them, Shostak said he thinks astronomers will know more about the cause of the bursts in the next two years. Whatever they are — alien messages, black-holes colliding or something else, he said it's sure to be big.
“Whatever is making this radio burst is an incredible event,” he said. “The amount of energy in that little chirp is 10 million times the energy the sun puts out in the same amount of time. It’s far away, it’s powerful and it’s mysterious."
Go to the SETI Institute for more information on the search for extraterrestrial life.
Why is that of the tens of thousands of reports of UFO’s since the iconic radio broadcast of Orson Welle’s “War of the World’s” terrified the nation in 1938, have none been reported by astronomers manning the observatories across our pale blue dot?
Is it because some leading astrophysicists such as Great Britain’s Martin Rees and Paul Davies at Arizona State University, who believe that advanced alien civilizations may be a billion or more years older than the human species have technology that would be unrecognizable by our primitive means.
Davies believes that advanced alien technology may exist that is “beyond matter.” That might have no fixed size or shape; have no well-defined boundaries. Is dynamical on all scales of space and time. Or, conversely, does not appear to do anything at all that we can discern. Does not consist of discrete, separate things; but rather it is a system, or a subtle higher-level correlation of things. Are matter and information, Davies asks, all there is? Five hundred years ago, Davies observes, “the very concept of a device manipulating information, or software, would have been incomprehensible. Might there be a still higher level, as yet outside all human experience, that organizes electrons?
If so, this “third level” would never be manifest through observations made at the informational level, still less at the matter level.
The “appearance of this Other” might be imminent, warns China’s preeminent science-fiction author of The Three-Body Problem, and that it might result in our extinction. “Perhaps in ten thousand years, the starry sky that humankind gazes upon will remain empty and silent,” he writes in the postscript to one of his books. “But perhaps … Continue readingFrom the X Files –“China’s Philosopher of Alien Civilizations Warns of First Contact”
Closer to the reality of 2019, astrophysicist Jason Wright at Penn State University has an solid, verifiable answer: astronomers haven’t observed any unidentified objects. It’s that simple he says. In a 2013 post, Astronomers and UFOs in his AstroWright blog, he wrote that “astronomers study big swaths of the sky all the time, and with much more sophisticated equipment than the cameras that have captured those iconic images of extraterrestrial UFOs. I tell them we don’t see any UFOs.”
Wright uses entry in the Astronomer’s Telegram as an example. The “Telegram” is a forum where astronomers can quickly disseminate information about new, interesting, or strange things they discover with their telescopes and cameras –so, yes, some astronomers do just “look through” telescopes all night trying to discovery new “stars,” Wright observes.
“I do not believe that most advanced alien civilizations will be biological,” says Susan Schneider of the University of Connectict and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton .”The most sophisticated civilizations will be postbiological, forms of artificial intelligence or alien superintelligence.” Schneider is one of the few thinkers—outside the realm of science fiction— … Continue reading“Alien Artificial Intelligence is Out There” –And It’s Billions of Years Old (A 2018 Most Viewed)
In December of 2013, astronomers using RadioAstron, a 10 meter radio telescope in an elliptical orbit around the Earth, astronomers discovered a spacecraft orbiting the Earth that wasn’t in their database and quickly informed the world about their discovery. Just as quickly they determined that it was actually an object that just happened to have been overlooked by their database, and announced the resolution to the issue.
What did not happen, Wright says tongue in cheek, “is that NASA sent its goons to quiet the astronomers, or phone calls to the POTUS to send national security officers to red alert 5, or astronomers quickly opened up Photoshop to destroy the evidence.”
“Now, I don’t expect this example to convince hard-core UFOlogists who engage in highly developed conspiratorial thinking,” Wright concludes, “but I hope it sheds some light for others on the chasm between popular misconceptions of how extraterrestrial UFO’s might be real, and the reality of our understanding of all those lights in the sky.”
SCARRED SURFACE The moon held on to almost all the craters it’s ever acquired in 4.5 billion years of impacts. This lunar map is surrounded by images of 111 craters wider than 10 kilometers and younger than a billion years.
DR. A. PARKER/SWRI
A new look at the moon’s craters suggests the Earth and moon both suffered a sharp increase in impacts around 290 million years ago, and Earth has kept its biggest scars.
Geologists long assumed that erosion and tectonic activity had erased Earth’s craters so thoroughly that “you couldn’t say anything about the craters on Earth at all,” says planetary scientist Rebecca Ghent (SN: 12/22/18, p. 40). So to figure out how much Earth was pummeled in the past, Ghent and her colleagues turned to the moon.
“We can use our closest neighbor to learn a lot more about the Earth’s history,” says planetary scientist Sara Mazrouei, who worked on the study as a graduate student under Ghent at the University of Toronto.
With no atmosphere and no plate tectonics, the moon’s surface preserves a record of nearly all of its 4.5 billion years of craters. If the moon sat through a hailstorm of impacts, Earth should have experienced the same storm, and therefore the same rate of cratering, the researchers argue in the Jan. 18 Science. But without knowing how old most lunar craters are, it’s unclear if the Earth and the moon suffered impacts constantly or in short bursts.
Ghent realized in 2014 that the youngest craters on the moon were surrounded by large rocks, debris excavated by the impact that formed the crater (SN: 4/14/18, p. 32). Those large rocks absorb heat from the sun during the lunar day and radiate it back out at night in wavelengths of light visible to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
“Right away you could see the young craters popping out,” Ghent says. Older craters, by contrast, were surrounded by rocks that had been beaten down to dust over time, so they didn’t glow as brightly at night.
INCOMING IMPACTS Planetary scientists figured out the ages of more than 100 craters on the moon, which revealed that there was a sharp uptick in impacts 290 million years ago. This movie illustrates craters forming over the past billion years of the moon’s history. Each impact is represented by a burst of light and a pitch, with higher tones representing smaller impacts and lower tones representing larger ones.
Ghent used nine craters whose ages were already known to figure out a mathematical relationship between a crater’s nighttime glow and its age. Then Mazrouei, working by hand, mapped all 111 lunar craters less than a billion years old and wider than 10 kilometers in diameter, and used that map to figure out the cratering rate.
Most lunar scientists assumed that, after an early turbulent period of extreme bombardment more than 3 billion years ago, the moon’s impact rate has been mostly constant. “But we saw an increase,” Mazrouei says — specifically, a jump in impacts by a factor of 2.6 around 290 million years ago.
The team then compared the lunar craters’ sizes and ages with 38 of the largest and most stable craters on the Earth. They lined up almost exactly in their timing and sizes.
To double check that such large craters on Earth weren’t often erased by erosion, the researchers looked at volcanic features called kimberlite pipes near the craters. These carrot-shaped lava tubes change starkly in appearance when eroded. The kimberlite pipes that appeared on the same terrain as the large craters confirmed that very little of either feature had been lost to erosion, Ghent says.
The jump in the impact rate could have been caused by a smash-up in the asteroid belt sending debris toward the inner solar system, says coauthor William Bottke, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. In 2007, Bottke linked one such asteroid break-up to the impact that killed the dinosaurs (SN: 9/8/07, p. 148).
Ghent cautions against drawing conclusions about an exact date for that spike in impacts, noting it could have happened tens of millions of years earlier or later than estimated, or in multiple spurts. “I don’t want people to say, ‘Hey, the Permian-Triassic extinction happened during that time. This might have caused it.’ We don’t know that,” she says.
The new finding offers an explanation for a gap in Earth’s craters between 300 million and 650 million years old, Bottke says. “We don’t see fewer craters because of erosion,” he says. “We see fewer craters because the impact flux was lower.”
But the craters’ longevity raised another question. While the moon’s craters date back billions of years, Earth has almost no preserved craters older than about 650 million years. That makes sense if craters are lost constantly to erosion. But if not, where did the older craters go?
Older craters could have been scraped away during a global glacial period called Snowball Earth, Bottke says. Other lines of geological evidence suggest Earth went through deep freezes, the last of which occurred about 650 million years ago.
Other planetary scientists not involved in the study expressed mixed reactions about its methodology and findings.
“That is a major step forward in our understanding of the impact flux in the inner solar system,” says planetary scientist Christian Koeberl of the University of Vienna. “Their method is interesting and new.”
Geologists Thomas Kenkmann and Stefan Hergarten of the University of Freiburg in Germany are more skeptical. In 2015, the duo showed that many of Earth’s craters could still be undiscovered (SN: 7/25/15, p. 5). They’re not convinced that the new study captured all craters, or that Earth’s crater count reflects an increase in impact rate 290 million years ago. It could just be that “younger craters are more likely to have survived,” Hergarten says. “The dataset is really small, so I would not trust in it too much.”
Kenkmann agrees. “Considering the low number of craters for the lunar calculation, and the vague interpretation of the terrestrial record, it appears that a house of cards is being built here.”
Here’s an alternative explanation to the Planet 9 hypothesis, the idea that a large undiscovered planet in the outer solar system is pulling on some small outer worlds, distorting their orbits.
Artist’s concept of distant trans-Neptunian objects, moving in far-flung orbits around our sun. Some of their orbits are strange, and that strangeness has caused astronomers to search for another undiscovered, large planet in our solar system.
In early 2016, astronomers at Caltechannounced evidencefor another large planet in the outer solar system. They – and most professional astronomers – call this distant, unknown world Planet 9 (although some call it Planet X, in deference to those still smarting over theIAU’s 2006 decisionto demote Pluto to dwarf planet status). The evidence for Planet 9 has always been indirect. It came from the strangely aligned orbits of small objects in the outer solar system. Since 2016, astronomers have searched for a Planet 9 (or Planet X) in the outer solar system, but, so far, they haven’t found one. Now another group of astronomers says the strange orbits of outer solar system bodies can be explained without a Planet 9.
In other words, maybe there’s no reason to suppose a Planet 9 exists.
What’s going on here? Nothing more than the process of science. Science is, after all, primarily a process and a search for truth.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut have put forth the alternative explanation to the 2016 Planet 9 hypothesis. They agree with the observations showing some small outer bodies – called trans-Neptunian objects or TNOs, moving more than 30 times Earth’s distance from the sun – have strangely aligned orbits. But the new work suggests the combined gravitational force of many small, distant objects – not a large, single Planet 9 – could have created those weird orbits. According to their statement, the team:
… proposes a disk made up of small icy bodies with a combined mass as much as 10 times that of Earth. When combined with a simplified model of the solar system, the gravitational forces of the hypothesized disk can account for the unusual orbital architecture exhibited by some objects at the outer reaches of the solar system.
Illustration showing the hypothesized orbit of Planet 9 along with the known orbits of several trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs).
Image via R. Hurt/JPL-Caltech.
Generally speaking, the trans-Neptunian objects – or TNOs – circle the sun on nearly-circular paths oriented in all directions. However, said these astronomers:
Since 2003, around 30 TNOs on highly elliptical orbits have been spotted: they stand out from the rest of the TNOs by sharing, on average, the same spatial orientation …
The Planet 9 hypothesis suggests that to account for the unusual orbits of these TNOs, there would have to be another planet … ‘shepherding’ the TNOs in the same direction through the combined effect of its gravity and that of the rest of the solar system.
Antranik Sefilian of University of Cambridge explained how they came to an alternative viewpoint:
We wanted to see whether there could be another, less dramatic and perhaps more natural, cause for the unusual orbits we see in some TNOs. We thought, rather than allowing for a 9th planet, and then worry about its formation and unusual orbit, why not simply account for the gravity of small objects constituting a disk beyond the orbit of Neptune and see what it does for us?
Sefilian is a former student of Jihad Touma of the American University of Beirut. Together, they created a new computer model to explain the unusual orbits without a Planet 9. Sefilian said:
If you remove Planet 9 from the model and instead allow for lots of small objects scattered across a wide area, collective attractions between those objects could just as easily account for the eccentric orbits we see in some TNOs.
Earlier attempts to do this same work fell short, these astronomers said, because in earlier models the total mass of objects beyond Neptune have only added up to around one-tenth the mass of the Earth. That’s too small to account for the strange orbits of some TNOs. For the TNOs to have their observed orbits – without needing a Planet 9 – the model put forward by Sefilian and Touma required a combined mass of outer solar system bodies to be between a few to 10 times the mass of the Earth. Sefilian explained why he and Touma think it’s fair to explore the possibility that mass might be out there. He said:
When observing other [solar] systems, we often study the disk surrounding the host star to infer the properties of any planets in orbit around it. The problem is when you’re observing the disk from inside the system, it’s almost impossible to see the whole thing at once. While we don’t have direct observational evidence for the disk, neither do we have it for Planet 9, which is why we’re investigating other possibilities.
He added:
It’s also possible that both things could be true – there could be a massive disk and a 9th planet. With the discovery of each new TNO, we gather more evidence that might help explain their behavior.
Bottom line: New work suggests the combined gravitational force of many small, distant objects in the outer solar system – not a large, single Planet 9 – may have created the weird orbits of some outer solar system bodies. In other words, there may be no reason for a Planet 9 to exist.
In 2009, alien enthusiasts all around the world were pulled to a state of ecstasy when multiple UFO sightings were reported in Turkey. After the mass sighting, a team of experts at the Council for Scientific and Technological Research studied about the unidentified flying object sighting, and in 2017, they concluded that the clips were completely authentic, and were not subjected to any kind of editing.
Now, videos of similar UFOs have been released by popular conspiracy theoryYouTubechannel Mavi777. The conspiracy theory channel claims that the clips showing two UFOs were apparently shot from the skies of Michigan a few days back.
YouTube: Mavi777
Video 2009:
The UFO spotted in Michigan seems to be triangular in shape, and we can see glowing lights on their finely cut edges. Interestingly, at first glance, the UFO above Michigan skies seems very similar to the flying objects that were spotted in Turkey.
The video uploaded by Mavi777 soon went viral, and conspiracy theorists were quick to conclude that alien life is a reality. Many conspiracy theorists, after analyzing the video started arguing that aliens used to visit the earth on sophisticated flying vessels, and they even claim that governments all across the world are aware of their existence.
In the meantime, some viewers of Mavi777 put forward a very different theory. As per these people, the UFO spotted in the Michigan skies has nothing to do with aliens, but it is actually a secret military vehicle conducting a routine night check. Some of these people believe that triangular vessels like the alleged TR-3B are being used by the United States Air Force to spy on other countries.
The new UFO sighting was reported just a few days after another flying object was spotted coming out of a Mexican volcano. The video was initially uploaded to YouTube by a user named 'Kat Martin 2016', and it gained popularity after Scott C Waring, a popular UFO researcher shared the discovery on his website 'UFO Sightings Daily'.
Even though UFO sightings have been reported widely worldwide, experts reveal that most of these videos are fabricated for clickbait needs.
One eagle-eyed conspiracy theorist spotted a strange bright light hovering near the mouth of the 5,426 metre tall volcano, colloquially named El Popo. The sighting was made on webcams which constantly monitor the volcano. In the video of the sighting, a bright light can be seen darting around the source of the volcano, moving erratically in a circular motion.
YouTube user Kate Martin2016 quickly uploaded film to the video-sharing website, asking if what she saw was a genuine UFO or if there was a simpler explanation such as a bug.
She wrote alongside the video: “Could be anything from a UFO to a bug.
“Interesting how it is still, then zooms off in the same direction it came from though! I don't know, I have seen bugs look that way on film, but it seems pretty big.”
However, other conspiracy theorists are convinced it is a UFO and more so, is evidence that aliens are using the volcano as a base.
UFO seen at Popocatepetl volcano PROOF of alien base - shock claim
(Image: GETTY)
Prominent alien hunter Scott C Waring wrote on his blog, UFO Sightings Daily: “This particular volcano is famous for its UFO sightings over the last five years.
“I personally have recorded about ten videos of flying objects near the mouth of the volcano in the past.
“I believe the UFO is hovering over the left side of the volcano it pick up or drop off passengers or cargo for the alien base that sits 4-6km below the volcano.
The UFO was seen darting around the mouth of the volcano
(Image: YOUTUBE)
“Even the locals have reported seeing UFOs and even alien creatures on the volcano, so this video is not a surprise, but is excellent evidence that an alien base does exit there.”
Some people simply were not having it however, offering a more logical explanation.
YouTuber black hole commented: “Relax guys, it is just a flying lamp.”
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. Ian Fleming wrote that. While it hardly seems responsible to suggest that three sightings of the same “UFO” is equivalent to “enemy action” (don’t attack UFOs, literally nothing good could ever come from that), it’s a good quote and there’s a truth in there. Three separate sightings of the same weird thing in sky over the course of one week suggests that, despite the impossibility of identifying that weird thing, something’s puttering around up there. In early January, in the city of Hull, East Yorkshire, England, multiple witnesses reported seeing aglowing UFOon separate occasions and at different times of the day.
Artist’s rendition of orb UFOs
First, on January 6th, Hull Live reported that a woman and her aunt had seen a strange glowing red light hovering low in the sky while walking down the street at approximately 5:40 PM. The woman snapped a picture of the UFO and described the sighting:
“It didn’t seem to be moving and it just seemed really weird as it definitely wasn’t a laser, a helicopter or another light that was supposed to be there – it was just stationary in the sky and we thought it could have been a UFO.
As soon as we saw it, we took a picture of it on the phone, and when we were walking back from the shop, the red ball was still there – it was really freaky and shook us up a bit as it made us think that something else is out there.”
“Something else is out there” might be the most vague phrase ever used by anybody, but OK. The woman said that when she got home she showed the picture to her partner, who then went to the location of the sighting to try and get a video, but the UFO had disappeared.
On its own, that sighting would be pretty meaningless. It’s a red light in the sky in a populated area. There’s a thousand different explanations for that. Yet, on January 9th, Hull Livereported that another woman had come forward with a sighting. A 31-year-old woman says that at roughly 1:30 AM on New Years day, she was in bed and falling asleep when she heard a loud bang. She jumped up, thinking that it might be an intruder and looked outside. According to the woman:
“I thought it may have been someone booting in my gate to get my children’s bikes, so I peeked out through the blinds only to be met with a massive red orb in the sky opposite my street hovering above the local field.
My heart skipped a beat and I shut my blinds and dived back in bed because I was too nervous to look back out.”
On January 11, a third sighting was reported. This sighting occurred on Thursday, January 4th. A family was walking to a shopping center at approximately 4:45 PM when they saw a “scary, multicolored UFO” appear in the sky for a brief second. According to the unnamed witness, the object was circular and had lights of various colors and disappeared in the blink f an eye. However, 15 minutes later, the “UFO” showed up again, and the family was able to take a picture (you can see the picture here). According to the witness:
“We saw it again when we got to top of Midmere off Dorchester Road. It was flashing red, blue, green, yellow, all sorts of colours and when we blinked it disappeared into thin air.
It was circular in shape and we thought it was a plane at first but it was moving too quickly and it wasn’t shaped like one. It was flickering all different colours, normally a plane is one or two different colours when you see it. It was quite scary to see.”
This is actually pretty accurate.
So are these sightings related? The first two sightings aren’t reported as being anything other than a glowing red orb, while the third apparently upped its lighting budget. Of course, the third sighting also happened while it was still sort of light out. Do aliens use different headlights depending on the time of day? The picture of the third UFO definitely looks like it could be some sort of craft, but it could also be a drone. Drones are small and quick. Because of their size, they can present the illusion that they’re further away and faster than they actually are. At the same time, they make a pretty distinctive sound, and one that we’re all kind of used to at this point, so it’s hard to say.
It will be worth keeping an eye on Hull to see if any other UFOs show up, or if anyone crashes a drone.
Over the last few years, we’ve covered the development of the insane-soundingartificial meteor showersbeing developed by a Japanese start up. The company plans to launch tiny cube satellites into low orbit which can eject payloads of pellets designed to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere. Those pellets are crafted with asecret chemical composition in order to create psychedelic technicolor meteor showers for everyone below. Say it with me now: what could go wrong?
“Whoops. You said the extra-extra-large pellets, right?”
You know, I don’t care what could go wrong. I’m going to get some hallucinogens, travel to wherever this is happening, listen to Vangelis, and have my mind freakin’ blown. The company behind this brain-bending technology is called Astro Live Experiences, or ALE, and promises “a whole new level of entertainment.” While ALE has been developing the “Sky Canvas” system for a while now, the company has just announced that its first prototype has been sent into spaceaboard an Epsilon rocket. Put in your magic mushroom orders now, because they’re sure to sell fast once these meteor showers start turning the night sky into a psychedelic light show.
Not everyone is happy about Sky Canvas, naturally. Hugh Lewis, a space debris and space junk expert at the University of Southampton, says the idea is irresponsible. “Given the fact that we’re trying to encourage good behaviour in the space environment and so on, just to throw things up there because they look pretty is a bit problematic,” Lewis told the BBC. Lewis believes there’s no way that ALE will be able to control the trajectory of the meteors like expected, meaning there could be potential unknown consequences like damage to other satellites or even interference with aircraft. In order to have their meteor showers happen where and when they want to, ALE will have to perfectly calculate the launch vectors of their pellets in order to have them visible at the desired time and place, which it plans to do at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. 頑張って！
I’m pretty sure this is a depiction of Sky Canvas, although it could be a panel from a manga about a horrible alien coming to destroy Earth.
ALE points out these unknowns right in their latest press release announcing the launch of their first satellite. “Because no one else has attempted this challenge before,” the company writes, “there have been no safety guidelines implemented for a mission of this type.” ALE says they held “multiple safety discussions and workshops” with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to determine how best to not interfere with other satellites or create dangerous side-effects.
I don’t know why, but for some reason despite the potential dangers, Sky Canvas excites me – but the orbital billboardsbeing planned by a Russian startup horrify and disgust me. Sure, advertising can be called a form of art, but these meteor showers feel much more expressive, concerned solely with creating beauty and wonder than selling cheap crap to the masses. Will the skies become the next big medium for artists and advertisers? It’s likely inevitable. In some ways the skies already are a medium for advertisers through sky writing, those annoying banners pulled by planes, and blimps. Won’t giant luminous objects and spectacles be just a little more aesthetically pleasing? I, for one, welcome the glowing rainbow-colored skies of our cyberpunk future.
Giant Ice Disk Shows Up In River May Indicate UFO Is Below! Maine, Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Giant Ice Disk Shows Up In River May Indicate UFO Is Below! Maine, Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: January 20, 2019 Location of discovery: Westbrook, Maine This frozen disk was discovered spinning in a river at the town of Westbrook, Maine. The ice is in a perfect circle and may be forming above the river due to a large UFO parked below the river. If a metallic object is below the water, it could actually create a round circle of ice in the winter due to the cold metal shape and different temp above the metal craft. Thus the a disk the size of the UFO is forming. I do believe if radar is used to examine the lake floor, a round metallic craft will be seen. Scott C. Waring
Is there another Sun, Inner World and lost civilization inside of Earth?
Is there another Sun, Inner World and lost civilization inside of Earth?
Is there a slight possibility that there is an inner Sun, Inner World and lost civilization inside of Earth? In recent decades, a number of findings have been made that drastically alter the views on the Inner Earth theory.
According to many claims in the past decades, there is a world inside of our planet filled with supernatural beings, incredible technologies, and unexplained phenomenon. The ‘mythical’ land inside of our planet, its supernatural civilizations, and secrecy behind the entire subject stretches back over half a century. While the basis backing up such claims are nearly nonexistent, the legends must have originated from somewhere. What if Jules Verne’s classic “A Journey to the Center of the Earth” is true? And somewhere down there, an entirely new world is waiting to be explored, a place where somehow, living beings inhabit the depths of our planet, a place that ancient cultures and civilizations knew existed, or still exists today. What if it’s actually true?
Plato even spoke of the mythical inner world. He mentioned that extremely long and narrow tunnels connect the four corner of our planet. When these are finally connected, Agartha would stand with a magical ruler holding the throne.
But many similar accounts are present in history. If we go back to the year 50AD, we will discover that a Roman author by the name of Pliny the Elder stated that the ancient Atlantean civilization fled to the Himalayas after catastrophic events swiped over their capital city. Eventually, the Atlantean’s dug into our planet where they currently live, far away from ‘modern’ civilization.
However, if we look towards the 20th and 21st century, we will discover a number of authors who have made shocking claims in regards to the Hollow Earth theory. After proposing a new theory of the birth of our planet, Russian Physicist Fedor Nevolin became famous for suggesting that the Earth is hollow and most likely has a smaller Sun in the center. The Sun’s energy is said to penetrate through the holes in the Poles and accumulates in the center, making it possible for life to flourish inside our planet.
But perhaps the most famous accounts ‘offering’ conclusive evidence that there is a world inside our planet come from the famous Byrd expeditions.
Books like Worlds beyond the Poles by Amadeo Giannini claimed that Byrd had not flown over the Pole but inwardly through large holes leading into the Earth. Ray Palmer, mainly based on the book by Giannini, introduced his theory in the December 1959 issue of its magazine and obtained very positive results from the audience because of his theories and ideas regarding the Hollow Earth theory.
It is noteworthy to mention that according to Giannini and Palmer, during Vice Admiral Byrd’s alleged flight over the North Pole in 1947, Admiral Byrd radioed that he saw beneath him, not snow, but areas of land with mountains, forests, vegetation, lakes and rivers and in the undergrowth, a strange animal that looked like a mammoth.
It is said (citation needed) that in January of 1956, after leading an expedition to Antarctica, Admiral Byrd had stated that his expedition had explored 3,700 km beyond the South Pole and also just before his death, Byrd had said there existed a land beyond the Pole that was “an enchanted continent in the sky, a permanent mystery of Earth.” That land, according to other theories, was the legendary Rainbow City, home to a fabulous lost civilization.
But much before Byrd and others spoke of a world inside our planet, ancient civilizations had oral, and written legends that suggest such ’emptiness’ inside of our planet might actually exist.
The Macuxi Indians are indigenous people who live in the Amazon, in countries such as Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela. According to their legends, they are the descendants of the Sun’s children, the creator of Fire and disease and the protectors of the “inner Earth.” Their oral legends speak of an entrance into Earth. Until the year 1907, the Macuxies would enter some sort of cavern, and travel from 13 to 15 days until they reached the interior. It is there, “at the other side of the world, in the inner Earth” is where the Giants live, creatures that have around 3-4 meters in height.
However, there are more ‘stories’ that speak of similar events. The Babylonian hero Gilgamesh visited his ancestor Utnapishtim in the bowels of the earth; in Greek mythology, Orpheus tries to rescue Eurydice from the underground hell; it was said that the Pharaohs of Egypt communicated with the underworld, which could be accessed via secret tunnels hidden in the pyramids; and Buddhists believed (and still believe) that millions of people live in Agharta, an underground paradise ruled by the king of the world. Where did all of these legends originate from?
Interestingly, in ‘modern’ times, several interesting authors have made similar claims. For example. Leonard Euler, a mathematical genius of the eighteenth century, concluded that the Earth was hollow, containing a central sun and was inhabited. Dr. Edmund Halley, discoverer of Comet Halley and Royal Astronomer of England also believed that the Earth was hollow on the inside with three “Floors”.
In an extremely interesting interview with Coast To Coast AM, author and researchers David Wilcock stated that an alliance of ancient civilizations is living inside the planet. These ancient civilizations have been calling the inner Earth their home for long periods of time, and they are about the reveal themselves to the world.
Wilcock states that based on his research, it seems as if these cavities are utilized so that advanced civilizations have a place they can live while looking out for everything that happens on the ‘outer Earth,’ the surface of the planet.
Recent studies have discovered interesting details about what’s located inside of our planet.
According to scientists, there is a large ocean of water located inside the mantle of our planet. They point out that this gigantic tank of water could fill the oceans on our planet up to three times.
Researchers also indicate that the water located on the surface of our planet came not from space, but from within the planet itself, as part of “complete water cycle on the planet”.
In addition to the water found inside of our planet, researchers have discovered an ‘unknown’ oxygen sourcedeep below the surface of our planet. This discovery seems to point towards the existence of a hitherto unknown oxygen source believed to be located somewhere in the lower mantle of our planet.
The mysterious source of oxygen is believed to be so enormous, that it can influence the climate on our planet. The team of researchers led by Dr. Elena Bykova from the University of Bayreuth reported the results in the scientific journal nature Communications.
Are legends just legends? Myths only fictional accounts? Or is there something to the countless claims that have been formulated throughout the years which suggest there is a gigantic world waiting to be explored beneath the surface of our planet.
Check out these interesting video which complement the reading material:
TREASURE HUNTERS Two spacecraft, Hayabusa2 (left) and OSIRIS-REx (right), began exploring two ancient asteroids in 2018. Both craft are expected to pick up samples of their respective rocks and carry them to Earth.
HAYABUSA2: DLR (CC BY 3.0); OSIRIS-REX: CONCEPTUAL IMAGE LAB/NASA’S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
Shogo Tachibana greeted asteroid Ryugu with dread.
The cosmochemist with the University of Tokyo had spent 10 years helping to design a mission to Ryugu’s surface. To touch down safely, the spacecraft, Hayabusa2, needs to find broad, flat stretches of fine-grained dust on the asteroid. But on June 27, whenHayabusa2 finally reached its targetafter a three-and-a-half-year journey (SN Online: 6/27/18), Tachibana got a rude awakening: Ryugu is covered in boulders. Big ones.
“We cannot find a 100 percent safe place to touch down,” Tachibana says. “It seems to be a very dangerous place.”
If Hayabusa2 can deal with the boulders — and any other challenges that arise — it will become only the second spacecraft to bring a piece of an asteroid back to Earth. And the mission will answer questions that its predecessor couldn’t. The original Hayabusa mission visited a sand- and rock-covered asteroid called Itokawa in 2005. But Itokawa has the wrong chemical makeup to address big questions about the origin of life that Ryugu, which is carbon-rich, is well suited for. And Hayabusa suffered a series of calamities that caused it to return to Earth several years late, with less than 2,000 grains of precious asteroid dust.
Tachibana and colleagues from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, are counting on Haybusa2 to return bits of Ryugu’s surface to Earth in 2020. And if a daring plan to blow a crater into the asteroid works, the spacecraft will get some subsurface grains as well.
A sister project from NASA, the OSIRIS-REx mission, arrived at an asteroid called Bennu in December to bring samples back in 2023 (SN Online: 12/3/18).
The two spacecraft face daunting challenges. The probes must investigate objects that have so little gravity that sunlight can knock them off their orbits. If the probes manage to pick up samples, the spacecraft must keep the dust pristine during the trip back to Earth. To get the most out of the missions, the Japanese and American teams are trying to work together across cultural and bureaucratic divides.
New worlds
Ryugu and Bennu are small targets. Ryugu’s polar diameter is about 880 meters and Bennu’s is about 510 meters (left). Both asteroids orbit the sun on trajectories that sometimes take them relatively close to Earth (right).
Two small asteroids...
...with similar orbits
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Source: Univ. of Arizona
But the uncertainties and anxiety are worth it. Asteroids like Ryugu and Bennu are among the oldest and most intriguing objects in the solar system. They could hold the keys to some of the most pressing planetary questions: What came before the planets? What are the origins of life? And how much of a threat do asteroids pose to life on Earth today?
Of course, planetary scientists already have tens of thousands of asteroid pieces to study. Such meteorites fall to Earth in the hundreds each year, offering researchers plenty of material to slice, grind and examine for clues to the solar system’s history.
Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona in Tucson, the principal investigator of OSIRIS-REx, spent the first part of his career trying to coax meteorites into telling him whether molecules necessary for life — such as nucleic acids, amino acids and phosphorus, which are structural components of DNA — could have originated inside carbon-rich asteroids like Ryugu or Bennu.
Carbon-rich asteroids are thought to be mostly unchanged since their formation at least 4.6 billion years ago, which makes them perfect time capsules. A few grains of such an asteroid could reveal what the early solar system was made of.
Remote studies of asteroids also suggest that the raw ingredients for life, and maybe even the chemical processes that are necessary for life to begin, might have been present on carbon-rich asteroids even before the planets were done growing.
“We think an asteroid like this one may have delivered this material to the surface of the early Earth, providing seeds or building blocks of life,” Lauretta says. “If we can show the precursors [of life] started before the planet, I think the probability that there’s life elsewhere in the solar system goes way up.”
Studying meteorites to explore this notion falls short on two fronts, however: It’s hard to tell where they come from, and they’re contaminated. As soon as a space rock hits Earth’s atmosphere, it starts accumulating signs of Earth life. Therefore, any intriguing organic compounds in a meteorite could be from Earth, not native to the asteroid. There’s no way to tell.
“We needed samples of a carbon-rich asteroid to really answer the questions I was into,” Lauretta says.
A rare breed
Of more than 500,000 asteroids in the solar system, Ryugu and Bennu are two of only five with the right orbits, sizes and compositions for a sample-return mission.
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Source: Univ. of Arizona
Break me off a piece
Getting to the origins of the solar system, and maybe life’s beginnings, makes bringing clean, carefully selected samples to earthly labs crucial. But spacecraft can’t just dig in with a shovel. There’s no grabbing a rock with a claw like in an arcade game. The asteroids are so tiny — Ryugu is about 880 meters from pole to pole and Bennu is about 510 meters — and their gravity is so weak that reaching out and grabbing something could push the spacecraft off course with the asteroid.
So instead of scooping or grabbing, the spacecraft will reach out with proboscis-like tubes, either touching down briefly or hovering above the surface. This tricky endeavor has been attempted only once before — and it was almost a disaster.
Drop and dodge
To sample Ryugu below the surface, Hayabusa2 will launch a projectile to blast open a crater, then take a lap around the asteroid to avoid damage. The spacecraft will then come close to the new hole in the ground and shoot a small bullet from its sampling horn. The bullet will splash on the surface, sending dust and sand into a catcher in the upper part of the horn.
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Source: JAXA
The first Hayabusa spacecraft was supposed to use its three reaction wheels to stabilize itself as it hovered near Itokawa’s surface, stretched out a collection tube to touch the surface and fired a small bullet down the tube to stir up dust particles. Those dust grains would float up the tube into a sterile chamber for storage on the trip back to Earth.
Almost everything went wrong. Before Hayabusa even got to the asteroid, the biggest solar flare ever recorded damaged the spacecraft’s solar panels and one of its engines, slowing down the spacecraft and delaying its asteroid rendezvous by three months.
Once at Itokawa, two of the craft’s reaction wheels failed, making it hard for the craft to keep an even keel. A companion rover released by Hayabusa that was meant to land on Itokawa’s surface and measure the asteroid’s composition missed its mark and floated into space. The dust-stirring bullet didn’t fire, so it was initially unclear if the craft got any samples at all. And all four of the probe’s engines failed one by one on the return journey, forcing Hayabusa to take a lengthy detour home.
“It had lots of serious problems,” says JAXA’s Makoto Yoshikawa, a mission manager on both Hayabusa and Hayabusa2.
For all of Hayabusa’s calamities, the mission’s tale had a happy ending. Against all odds, the spacecraft returned to Earth in 2010 (SN Online: 6/14/10), having grabbed 1,534 grains of Itokawa.
Planners of the new mission learned from the original mission’s mishaps. Hayabusa2 has four reaction wheels, souped-up engines and a beefier communication system that will send back much more data to help scientists plan the sample collection. The collection tube has teeth at its mouth to lift pebbles into the tube even if the bullet doesn’t fire. And in September, Hayabusa2 successfully dropped three small landers on Ryugu’s surface to gather data on the asteroid’s composition, temperature and magnetic properties (SN Online: 9/24/18).
With similar caution, when OSIRIS-REx goes in to gather a sample from Bennu, it will touch the asteroid only briefly. “It’s like five seconds of contact,” Lauretta says. “Get the sample and then get out of there.”
KEEP IT CLEAN OSIRIS-REx’s sampler, called the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, or TAGSAM (photographed in a clean room), has a head on an arm that extends.
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The spacecraft’s Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, TAGSAM, has a nitrogen jet at the end of a robotic arm. When the arm touches Bennu’s surface, it will release a burst of nitrogen gas to ruffle the surface just enough to blow particles into the sample collector. As a bonus, the sample collector’s head is covered in stainless steel Velcro-like pads that can pick up surface dust on contact.
The remote-reach strategy avoids the hassle of anchoring to the asteroid, but presents its own problem: No one knows how fine-grained dust behaves when blown around in low gravity. That open question worries engineers. “What actually happens when you contact the surface of an asteroid is an unknown area of physics,” Lauretta says. “I think [the surface] is going to be like a fluid. It’s a truly alien landscape.”
IN AND OUT TAGSAM's arm allows surface contact without the spacecraft landing on the asteroid. During five seconds of contact, a jet of nitrogen gas will agitate Bennu’s surface to loosen dust for collection. Surface contact pads will also collect fine-grained material. Once collection is done, the TAGSAM head will move into a capsule where it’s protected from contamination during the trip back to Earth.
The road to Ryugu
When Hayabusa returned, planetary scientist Michelle Thompson of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., studied the Itokawa grains. Having such a limited supply forced scientists to get the most out of the samples. The first chapter of Thompson’s Ph.D. dissertation was written about a single Itokawa particle that measured 50 micrometers across.
“We still got some amazing science out of those particles,” she says. Those grains proved that most of the meteorites on Earth come from stony, carbon-poor asteroids like Itokawa, not carbon-bearing ones like Ryugu and Bennu (SN Online: 8/25/11). “In the context of [Hayabusa’s] problems, it’s incredible the amount of data that came out of that mission,” Thompson says.
While Hayabusa was floundering in space in 2006, Yoshikawa’s team was already suggesting that JAXA fly a follow-up mission. By then, Yoshikawa had set his sights on an even more attractive asteroid, Ryugu.
JAXA sent a spacecraft to Itokawa because it was easy to reach, not because it was scientifically special. But as a carbon-rich asteroid, Ryugu is thought to consist of the most ancient, pristine material in the solar system.
Ryugu’s name even references a time capsule from a Japanese folktale, in which the hero Urashima Taro retrieves a box from a dragon-guarded castle called Ryugu at the bottom of the sea. When the hero returns to the surface, he finds that 300 years have passed. When he opens the box, he becomes an old man, because the box contained all of that elapsed time.
Yoshikawa and his colleagues proposed the mission every year and were rebuffed each time — until Hayabusa came home in 2010.
The spacecraft’s return was lauded in Japan, Yoshikawa says. “Japanese people were very surprised to see that Hayabusa really came to the Earth.” An editorial in the Japan Times deemed the spacecraft a “high achiever,” and called for more funding for JAXA and space research.
In May 2011, the Japanese government approved the Hayabusa2 mission. Tachibana, Yoshikawa and the rest of the JAXA team aimed for the next launch window, in 2014.
Friendly competition
Like Hayabusa2, OSIRIS-REx was rejected multiple times before NASA selected it for flight, also in May 2011. Because of Bennu’s orbit, the next launch opportunity to reach the asteroid wasn’t until September 2016. That two-year gap between JAXA’s and NASA’s launches inspired some friendly competition between the teams.
Years in the making
The Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx missions grew up almost simultaneously on opposite sides of the world. The close timing of the Japanese and U.S. missions means the two can learn from each other.
Side-by-side missions
May 10, 1999: Ryugu discovered
September 11, 1999: Bennu discovered
May 2011: Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx are officially approved
December 3, 2014: Hayabusa2 launches
September 8, 2016: OSIRIS-REx launches
June 27, 2018: Hayabusa2 arrives at Ryugu
December 3, 2018: OSIRIS-REx arrives at Bennu
Late 2020: Hayabusa2 returns samples to Earth
September 24, 2023: OSIRIS-REx returns samples to Earth
HAYABUSA2: DLR (CC BY 3.0); OSIRIS-REX: CONCEPTUAL IMAGE LAB/NASA’S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
“Of course, we are good friends and we want to have a good relation,” Tachibana says. “But at the same time we are rivals.” OSIRIS-REx is bigger than Hayabusa2 and plans to collect up to 20,000 times as much asteroid dust — up to two kilograms, in the best-case scenario, compared with Hayabusa2’s total of 100 milligrams. To compete, Hayabusa2’s team set out to do everything first, Tachibana says.
“They were concerned we were going to overshadow them,” Lauretta says. The first few meetings between the teams were tense, he recalls. But both groups felt it was best to work together.
“This is the first time since Apollo … that two sample-return missions are going to the same kind of target,” Tachibana says. “The U.S. and the Soviet Union could not talk to each other.” It was the middle of the Cold War. “This time we can talk to each other.”
In November 2014, NASA and JAXA signed a memorandum promising to share data, software and samples. JAXA will give 10 percent of its Ryugu sample to NASA, and NASA will give 0.5 percent of the larger Bennu sample to JAXA.
Still, the two space agencies don’t align on everything. “Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx have completely different philosophies of sampling,” says cosmochemist Keiko Nakamura-Messenger of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. She oversees the sample site selection for OSIRIS-REx and will be in charge of storing the samples.
Take the mission timelines: OSIRIS-REx will spend more than a year mapping Bennu in detail. Its suite of science instruments, including three cameras, a laser altimeter and three spectrometers, will figure out the asteroid’s composition all over the surface before the team chooses the mission’s sole sampling site.
Hayabusa2 scientists, on the other hand, chose the first of three sampling sites in August, less than two months after the spacecraft arrived at Ryugu (SN Online: 8/23/18). Originally the team planned to take its first sample in October, but the boulders proved so difficult that sampling was pushed to February 2019 at the earliest.
Hayabusa2 will sample three sites to capture as much of the asteroid’s mineral diversity as possible. One of the samples will come from within a several-meter-wide crater that doesn’t yet exist. The spacecraft will create the hole by firing a two-kilogram copper projectile at the asteroid, then hide on the other side of Ryugu to avoid debris when the projectile hits. The aim is to see if the asteroid’s interior is different from the surface.
It’s hard to imagine NASA approving such a crazy maneuver, says Nakamura-Messenger, who grew up in Japan. It’s too risky. “The NASA way, the American way, is: The success rate has to be really high,” she says. But she’s rooting for Hayabusa2’s bold moves.
“In my heart, I’m Japanese,” she says. “Therefore, I’m like, ‘Go for it!’ ”
Precious dust
Hayabusa2 aims to gather 0.1 grams of dust from Ryugu, the weight of about three grains of rice. OSIRIS-REx will try to get up to 2,000 grams of Bennu’s surface, about the weight of a small Chihuahua.
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Bound for Bennu
Still, Ryugu’s surprise boulder field made Lauretta, Nakamura-Messenger and the rest of the OSIRIS-REx team nervous about Bennu.
“I’ve been lying awake at night anticipating Bennu,” Lauretta says. “It’s fascinating and frightening all at once.”
Fitting with NASA’s cautious approach, the OSIRIS-REx team knew a lot more about Bennu than JAXA knew about Ryugu before the missions launched. Bennu came close enough to Earth in 1999, 2005 and 2011 for radio telescopes to map the asteroid’s shape (though not close enough to reveal much detail).
“We compiled the most comprehensive database from astronomy for any asteroid in the solar system,” Lauretta says of the team’s prework on Bennu.
Those radio measurements allowed researchers to see how sunlight nudges the asteroid on its orbit, a phenomenon called the Yarkovsky effect. As asteroids tumble through space, they absorb sunlight on one side and re-emit that energy as heat later, when that side faces away from the sun. The force of that radiating heat is enough to push the asteroid around, making it difficult to predict the asteroid’s orbit over the long term.
The Yarkovsky effect calculation yielded a worrying prediction: Bennu has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting Earth in the late 22nd century, one of the highest probabilities of any known asteroid.
HAZARD MAP OSIRIS-REx took this mosaic image of Bennu in early December and has seen signs of liquid water in the asteroid’s past.
UNIV. OF ARIZONA, NASA’S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
That forecast makes OSIRIS-REx’s mission even more urgent. Testing the returned samples will give scientists a better understanding of how Bennu’s surface material absorbs and emits heat. That information will sharpen the researchers’ predictions of where the asteroid will go, and help inform future missions to deflect asteroids that come too close to Earth.
That’s only if Bennu is smooth enough for the spacecraft to get a sample. The first images takenas OSIRIS-REx approached Bennu on December 3 didn’t do much to quell the team’s fears. With the naked eye, Bennu seems to have about as many boulders as Ryugu, maybe a little fewer, says planetary scientist Kevin Walsh of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.
“Even if we convince ourselves that there’s a site that’s boulder free, there’s still a chance it could change later on. So we’ll have to see,” says Walsh, who presented an early comparison of Bennu and Ryugu on December 11 at a Washington, D.C., meeting of the American Geophysical Union. “We have plenty of tools to find the places with the least amount of hazards, even if we can’t find a place that’s completely free of them.”
That is a relief, Nakamura-Messenger says. But every mission so far has surprised her.
“I don’t make wild guesses anymore,” she says. “Nature is wilder.”
This article appears in the January 19, 2019 issue of Science News with the headline, "Cosmic collectors: Twin quests aim to grab some asteroid dust and bring it to Earth."
AREA 51 ENGINEER BREAKS HIS SILENCE: “THERE IS AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL RACE WORKING WITH US”
AREA 51 ENGINEER BREAKS HIS SILENCE: “THERE IS AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL RACE WORKING WITH US”
For a long time, Area 51 has been the focus of different conspiracy theories, especially because it is highly secret and hidden so that only people with official access can reach it. However, recently one of the biggest scandals involving this place came to light, especially because it was an engineer who worked in Area 51 that provided classified information. And although it seems incredible, many experts in the field agree that the information has all the veracity.
What happens in Area 51?
Testimonials that directly involve this place have been constantly revealed by people who had access, as the fact that in this place works with amazing technology to discover all kinds of mysteries in the universe that have to do mainly with aliens . It is something that, obviously, has resulted in endless conspiracy theories.
In addition, it has also been claimed that in this place some experiments have been done that nobody will ever know, in which they have been able to create hybrids between reptiles and humans. Basically, that’s where all kinds of information came from.
It is what we call “the jewel in the crown” of the conspiracy cases of the last 3 decades. And, if we talk about Area 51, we will talk about some secret and top secret government case that, year after year, dissipates like a “dropper”.
A former engineer from Area 51
However, recently it was discovered in video of an engineer who worked in Area 51 called Bill Uhouse, in which he states that he received the help of an alien to know how to handle a flying saucer. It is something that bristles the skin to anyone, and that, probably, is the most amazing revelation that has been discovered in these years. The engineer left this world in 2009, but not before revealing details as juicy as the name of the “supposed” engineer’s assistant: JRod.
This is a representation made by Ohouse himself of his “coworker”:
The truth is that, of all the names that might sound alien, sincerely, this is the one that least sounds like an extraterrestrial.
Among the secrets that Ohouse allegedly revealed, we can highlight the following:
The existence of massive underground systems with experimental laboratories and reverse engineering workshops. Several races of humanoids working side by side with our engineers. The revelation of the hybrid race of Nordic extraterrestrials, of which we already echoed on some occasion in our blog. And hybrids of human reptiloids developed in these underground laboratories.
Interesting right? Well here is not the thing, because, one of the last things that revealed the ill-fated Ohouse, was the treaty signed by the same Eisenhower to start an “exchange” friendly with the extraterrestrials between technologies. Which brings us to the following question: What can we offer to them in this exchange? Human technology, no, of course.
Incredible secrets
Most likely, for the rest of our lives, people who already know of the existence of extraterrestrials, or that their UFOs are completely real and continue to hide it indefinitely, will continue in their thirteenths and it is something very disturbing. what they win or are plotting to want to hide this kind of discoveries from the rest of humanity. Why?
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“Beings From the Previous Eon” –Sir Roger Penrose and Joe Rogan: Is Alien Life Out There?
“Beings From the Previous Eon” –Sir Roger Penrose and Joe Rogan: Is Alien Life Out There?
In the art world, “pentimento,” an alteration, an overlay on a painting, hides evidence of traces of a previous work. In a similar vein, British physicist Sir Roger Penrose argues that extinct universes exist that were filled with ghost black holes that are hidden, embedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background map, and may have harbored alien civilizations from an eon that preceded the Big Bang.
Bestonden er voor de geboorte van het heelal al buitenaardse beschavingen? Natuurkundige deelt zijn ontdekkingen
Bestonden er voor de geboorte van het heelal al buitenaardse beschavingen? Natuurkundige deelt zijn ontdekkingen
Een pentimento is een wijziging aan een schilderij, ontstaan tijdens het schilderen van het originele werk.
Pentimenti zijn in het afgewerkte schilderij onzichtbaar voor het blote oog, maar kunnen later zichtbaar worden door veranderingen van de verf of bepaalde onderzoekingen.
Op dezelfde manier bestaan er uitgestorven universa die gevuld waren met zwarte gaten, die verborgen zitten in de kaart van de kosmische achtergrondstraling, zo stelt de Britse natuurkundige Sir Roger Penrose.
Ander heelal
In die universa leefden mogelijk ook buitenaardse beschavingen die eonen voor de geboorte van ons heelal bestonden.
Penrose speculeert dat beschavingen die we gaan ontdekken per definitie miljoenen zo niet miljarden jaren ouder zijn dan de aarde.
Onlangs zeiden wetenschappers bewijs te hebben gevonden van eerdere universa, in de vorm van resten van zwarte gaten die uit een ander heelal zouden komen.
Vreemde cirkels
Die zijn zichtbaar als vreemde cirkels aan de hemel.
“Wat wij beweren is dat we resten zien van een zwart gat dat in een vorig universum is verwoest,” zei Penrose tegen New Scientist.
Het bewijs bestaat uit zogeheten ‘Hawking-punten’, vernoemd naar wijlen Stephen Hawking.
Overgedragen
Hij theoretiseerde dat zwarte gaten toch nog een beetje straling uitzenden, ook wel Hawkingstraling genoemd.
Penrose en zijn collega’s denken dat deze straling van het ene universum naar het andere wordt overgedragen.
In onderstaande video gaat hij in gesprek met Joe Rogan:
Een Chinees echtpaar is onderweg van Argentinië naar China via Amsterdam, waar ze aan boord stappen van een KLM Boeing 787.
En het is vanuit dit toestel dat de man van het echtpaar voelt dat hij naar buiten kijken en dat gevoel bleek niet voor niets.
Het volgende voorval vond plaats op 12 september 2018 toen een Chinees echtpaar in Amsterdam aan boord stapte van vlucht KL883 naar China, een Boeing 787-9. Ze waren en route naar China vanuit Argentinië overgestapt in Amsterdam na een periode van zes jaar in het buitenland.
De man had de hele tijd al een voorgevoel dat dit geen normale vlucht zou worden en hij bleef dan ook geregeld door het raam kijken om te zien of er iets bijzonders te ontdekken viel. Op een gegeven moment zag hij een vreemde wolk en stoot zijn vrouw aan om ook naar buiten te kijken.
De Chinese man schrijft later letterlijk: "Op een kille toon zei ze tegen mij dat alles normaal was en dat wolken er nu eenmaal zo uit zien. Het enige dat ik daarop kan zeggen is dat vrouwen nu eenmaal vrouwen zijn".
Afijn, de man blijft ondertussen regelmatig naar buiten kijken, valt dan weer in slaap en krijgt ongeveer een uur later het gevoel dat hij nu naar buiten moet kijken. Zo te horen in de video bevindt het toestel zich op dat moment boven China en zal het spoedig landen.
Het resultaat is de volgende video, waarin duidelijk een wolk te zien is die geen wolk is. Een fenomeen dat de laatste tijd steeds regelmatiger voor komt.
Ufoloog Scott Waring heeft de beelden bekeken en de afbeeldingen met contrast wat duidelijker gemaakt en dan zie je onmiskenbaar een ruimteschip oftewel een ufo.
Het heeft de vorm van een wolk die zoals gebruikelijk niet thuis hoort in het luchtlandschap zoals die op dat moment is. Het is een wolk die zich hoog boven het normale wolkendek bevindt.
Je ziet dat er een soort zwarte ring om het schip loopt en ook dat er vanuit het midden een bepaalde gloed naar buiten straalt.
En waarschijnlijk heeft niemand anders aan boord van dit KLM toestel iets bijzonders gezien.
“The anatomies we are seeing in Australopithecus sediba are forcing us to reassess the pathway by which we became human.”
In 2008, two partial skeletons were discovered at the fossil site of Malapa in South Africa – the site better known as the Cradle of Humankind for containing a large number of some of the oldest hominin fossils ever found. After ten years of careful study, a new report announces that not only are the two skeletons of the same hominin species, that species is highly likely to be the proverbial ‘missing link’ – the transitional species that became the first humans. If it’s true, that transition occurred much later in history than previously thought.
“The first fossil of Au. Sediba was discovered by Matthew Berger, then a nine-year-old, who happened to stop and examine the rock he tripped over while following his dog Tau away from the Malapa pit.”
The study, published in a special edition of Paleoanthropology, begins with the accidental discovery of the remains that would make a great opening scene for the movie. After that, anthropologists and co-authors Scott Williams, Jeremy DeSilva and Darryl De Ruiter dig into what Berger and his dog dug up – partial skeletons that are far more complete than ‘Lucy’, the 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.
A depiction of how Lucy might have looked.
After dating them to between 1.95 and 1.78 million years ago, the researchers studied their most missing-linkish traits – hands and feet that clearly indicated Australopithecus (which means “southern ape”) sediba were very adept tree climbers. Along with short foot bones not suitable for walking and a small brain, these showed Au. sediba was similar to Lucy. However, their hands had long opposable thumbs suitable for using tools and their teeth showed a more advanced diet than little Lucy consumed. Those traits put them closer to Homo habilis(“handy man”), the prehistoric, walking tool-user discovered in Tanzania who lived between 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago.
A depiction of how Homo habilis might have looked.
“Our findings challenge a traditional, linear view of evolution. It was once thought that a fossil species a million years younger than Lucy would surely look more human-like. For some anatomies of Australopithecus sediba, like the knee, that is true. But, for others, like the foot, it is not. Instead, what we’re witnessing here are parallel lineages, illustrating how different hominin experiments were unfolding early in our complex evolutionary history.”
Is the missing link no longer missing? This extensive study – nine papers by leading anthropologists, each one focusing on a single body part of Au. sediba – seems to indicate that, while this is definitely a ‘found’ missing link, there are more yet to be discovered. Like its name, the theory of evolution is destined to keep evolving.
One more thing. The origin story of the Au. sediba mentions the name of the boy AND his pet dog. Isn’t it time we make our ground-sniffing, bone-digging canine assistants honorary anthropologists?
Mysterious Sphere emits beam of light towards the ground in Edmond, Oklahoma
Mysterious Sphere emits beam of light towards the ground in Edmond, Oklahoma
On January 15, 2019 the witness was driving on the highway near Edmond, Oklahoma when he saw a large sphere that appeared above the tree line near power lines and it was beaming something down.
The eerie light was so bright he could not see the object but it had a bluefish white beam emitting towards the ground as though it was beaming something down or collecting something.
Despite he was moving fast he was able take three images with his iPhone Gs which he has submitted to Mufon for further investigation.
Since the incident is very mysterious, we can only guess what the object might be that the driver has photographed.
By Deborah Byrd in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | TODAY'S IMAGE
It was the last total eclipse of the moon until May, 2021. The EarthSky community captured it. A selection of images here. See more at EarthSky Community Photos!
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Karl Diefenderfer in Quakertown, Pennsylvania caught the eclipse at 12:22 a.m. on January 21, 2019. He wrote: “It’s an extra special treat of a lunar eclipse to be able to capture stars around a full moon. It was so worth braving subzero windchills.”
View larger at EarthSky Community Photos. | Lunar eclipse from Weatherly, Pennsylvania on January 21, 2019 at 12:05 a.m. from Tom Wildoner. Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED, Canon 6D, single 10 second exposure, unguided
Crop circles step aside! A giant ice disk has been found on the Presumpscot River in Maine. The fascinating phenomenon is attracting thousands of onlookers, including ducks.
The giant ice disk on Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine.
Image via Tina Radel/City of Westbrook.
You have probably heard of crop circles, but did you know there areice circlestoo? Every so often, ice circles – or actually ice disks – are reported. They seem quite bizarre, although they are known to form naturally – no aliens needed.
Now, a new one has been found on the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine. The “spinning” (actually slowly rotating) disk is huge – about 300 feet (100 meters) in size – making it one of the largest, if not the largest, one on record. The phenomenon was first reported on January 16 and has attracted thousands of onlookers. As one witness exclaimed:
It’s the moon in the river. Pretty cool!
According to city councilor Gary Rairdon:
I have not seen anything like this. I’ve lived probably 52 years of my life in Westbrook. It’s almost like Mother Nature’s merry-go-round.
A closer view of the giant ice disk on Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine.
Image via Tina Radel/City of Westbrook.
Below is a time-lapse video showing the rotation of the ice disk (via Doug Bertlesman):
The first photos of the ice disk were taken by a drone and now have attracted world-wide interest and curiosity. The rough surface of the disk does sort of make it look like the moon, as an aesthetic bonus.
It’s a beautiful, spectacular thing. It’s just a beautiful aesthetic phenomenon. It’s not unprecedented, but it does seem to be unusually large. There was a modest crowd and a steady flux of people coming and going, taking pictures and just enjoying the whole thing. It had a nice community feel to it.
But how did this ice disk – and others like it – form?
It’s actually a rather well-known natural phenomenon, usually found in spots where there is a circular current in a river or stream that creates a whirlpool effect. Random eddies in water tend to follow a circular route. In winter, ice crystals in this slower-moving water can gradually coalesce to form a circular “mat” of ice. The current keeps the ice disk in place as it slowly rotates. As the disk turns, it bumps up against the shoreline or other chunks of ice and is essentially “lathed down” until it is round. The result is an ice disk that can be surprisingly circular and smooth-edged.
As Ryan Breton, a meteorologist at News Center in Maine, added:
The river has different depths. On the right side where there isn’t any ice it’s a faster current. On the left side, where the ice started to form it’s a little shallower, and that ice started to form into a circle that completely changed around the current of the entire river.
Illustration of a historical account of an ice disk – on the Mianus River near Bedford, N.Y. in 1895. Image via Scientific American.
The ice disk has even become popular with the local ducks, said Rob Mitchell, who owns a nearby office building:
There were ducks sitting on it. The ducks were rotating on this big Lazy Susan. It was a big duck-go-round.
Similar ice disks have been seen before, although typically smaller than this new one in Maine. Most are usually around 30 feet or so in diameter, as compared to this 300-foot monster. There is even an article in an 1895 Scientific American that quotes a reader who described “a revolving ice cake” on the Mianus River near Bedford, N.Y.
Bottom line: The Maine ice disk is an exquisite example of how nature can produce phenomena that at first glance almost seem other-worldly – and can leave the imagination spinning.
US Government Releases Details On Top Secret UFO Investigation Project
US Government Releases Details On Top Secret UFO Investigation Project
In response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project onGovernmentSecrecy, the Defence Intelligence Agency released a list of 38 research titles they have been investigating and pursuing. Among others, The Department of Defense was found to have been funding research on wormholes, invisibility cloaking, and “the manipulation of extra dimensions” under its shadowy Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which was first described in 2017 by the New York Times and the Washington Post.
What exactly are these strange titles?
Eric W. Davis of EarthTech led a research topic entitled “Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy, ” which was described as a facility that explored the forefront reaches of science and engineering, with an interest in theories of spacetime, studies of the quantum vacuum, and also the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
A second project on the list named “Invisibility Cloaking” which was led by a German scientist called Ulf Leonhardt, who is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Leonhardt’s research is concerned with the science surrounding theoretical quantum optics, and in 2006 his work on theoretically creating an invisible hole in space, inside which objects can be hidden was cited by Nature, giving some more exposure of his work.
Another strange title, “Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions, ” was attributed to a theoretical physicist called Richard Obousy, who is the director of the nonprofit Icarus Interstellar, which claims to be “researching technologies that will enable breakthroughs in interstellar travel.” In 2009, Obousy was credited by Gizmodo for creating a warship design that was both scientifically accurate and also one that could hypothetically be propelled through space by manipulating dark energy.
When did the public discover this organization?
Luis Elizondo, who was a military intelligence official that managed the operation for almost seven years, gave the first hints about the program’s existence. When Elizondo resigned, he claimed there was footage of UFO’s coming into contact with fighter jets and he requested that these extraterrestrial encounters be made public. The videos were subsequently published by the New York Times and the Washington Post. At the time, Reid sought to tighten security around the program’s discoveries. Eventually, though, that didn't matter due to this release of all the new information.
The agency claims the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was shut down due to a lack of funding, although Elizondo said it continued to investigate UFO sightings, so there are mixed reports.
The Future
It is unclear what will happen with the organization and its funding now that all its research objectives have been revealed. There is a real possibility it will continue as there is still so much to learn from outer space and time itself. There is also the possibility it will shut down or be moved without it being public knowledge. If the US government has been hiding this for such a long time, it really begs the question - what else have they been hiding?
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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