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26-01-2019
Red UFO In The Night Sky Baffles New Plymouth Ma
Red UFO In The Night Sky Baffles New Plymouth Man
Grant Black says that he isn’t a nut or anything but knows many people will think otherwise when he says he saw a red UFO. The Taranaki man (New Zealand) claims he saw a red UFO with a shape like a round ball flying close to New Plymouth and towards the coast on Friday night.
According to his report, he was sitting and watching a TV show when he saw something. The Plymouth Rd resident explained he saw a massive red ball flying fast through the sky horizontally.
Black estimates the size of the mysterious UFO to be approximately 500 metres. The red ball was moving parallel with Kirihau Rd towards the coast.
Black stresses that it was not falling but was moving horizontally to the ground. He says that he does not have a thing in mind to explain what he saw and is asking if any others witnessed the same strange object in the air before it vanished.
Black says that he has asked a couple of neighbours, but no one saw anything unusual.
Are you living around the area? Did you spot or capture the UFO on camera? Let us know in the comments section below.
In a six-part series of videos titledEarth Catastrophe Cycle, Ben Davidson, founder of Space Weather News, presented multiple scientific studies of “micronova” (aka “solar flash”) events that recur in human history, and the subsequent pole shifts that haven taken place on a cyclic basis. The scientific data confirms that micronova events are common occurrences in our galaxy, and such events span Earth’s history, are associated with pole shifts, yet the evidence has been suppressed by government authorities for decades.
In part 4 of his video series, Davidson presents scientific studies showing how “micronovas” have been observed occurring in multiple stars by astronomers. “Micronova” is Davidson’s term for a supernova type event that is not large enough to exhaust or destroy the star generating it, but large enough to devastate nearby planets. He said:
What is a micronova? It’s not a supernova, it’s not even really a nova, as it is like the little sister of the nova, one that can affect the entire world but not completely destroy it.
Davidson’s video shows evidence that such micronova events are a cyclic part of the life of a star, and includes the following list of 10 known recurring nova events observed in the Milky Way.
Davidson referred to a number of sources pointing to solar flashes being part of Earth’s geological history. Among these is Dr. Robert Schoch, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences at Boston University and author ofForgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in our Past and Future. In a video interview in part 4 of Davidson’s series, Schoch explained that ice core samples from Greenland show that there was a solar burst or flare recorded at the end of the last Ice Age, known as the Younger Dryas, about 9700 BCE.
Schock and Davidson estimated that the micronova event was as much as 40 times the power of the most destructive solar storm observed in modern history, the 1859 Carrington event. This would make the Younger Dryas micronova as much as an X-100+ solar flare according to the measurement scale currently in use. Quite alarming, especially if this were to repeat any time soon.
The enormous amount of plasma that arrived immediately after the micronova event circa 9700 BCE, bombarded the Earth producing an effect similar to one or more major asteroid impacts. This has caused confusion and led many archeological researchers into mistakenly interpreting historic evidence of impacts causing and/or ending the last ice age, as deriving from asteroid impacts rather than plasma discharges.
In his interview and book, Schoch asserts that ancient records are consistent with a solar flash that wiped out an ancient civilization predating the end of the last Ice Age, widely assumed to be Plato’s Atlantis.
The scientific data on solar flashes goes back several decades. Bradley Schaefer, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, wrote a paper titled, “Flashes from Normal Stars” that appeared in the February 1989 edition of The Astrophysical Journal. He dated the beginning of research into solar flashes to a 1959 study by H. Johnson who at the time “performed the only study which is capable of detecting rare flashes from normal field stars.”
Schaefer examined NASA data on glazing discovered on lunar rocks that was first presented in a 1969 paper by T. Gold published in Science who had concluded: “Some glazing is apparently due to radiation heating; it suggests a giant solar outburst in geologically recent times”. Schaefer agreed with Gold’s analysis and reached a similar conclusion:
The existence of a glazing on the top surfaces of lunar rocks has been used as a strong argument for a “solar outburst” where the Sun increased its luminosity by over 100 times for 10 to 100s within the last 30,000 years.
Schaefer went on to describe how such a “solar outburst” (aka solar flash or micronova) could result in an Extinction Level Event:
I crudely estimate that a flash … might result in a major extinction episode. (The Cretatious-Tertiary dinosaur extinctions cannot be explained by a flash since there is no mechanism for enhancing iridium.) The Sun could have undergone a few (at most) such super flashes in the last 108 yr [100,000,000 years]. These data suggest that our own Sun may have a significantly lower event rate than average field stars.
In part 5 of his video series, Davidson interviews solar cycle researcher Douglas Vogt who discusses the scientific data that lunar rocks provide hard evidence of solar flashes having occurred in recent geological history.
The scientific data compiled by Davidson in his video series is cogent and compelling, yet, it provides no answer to the critical question: “When will the next micronova or solar flash event occur?” For a detailed answer, we can turn to the startling testimony of Corey Goode, who says he has received intelligence briefings about when the “solar flash” will occur from two independent sources: a Secret Space Program Alliance and an Inner Earth civilization he calls the “Anshar”.
Goode says that he served in multiple secret space programs over a 20 year period from 1986 to 2007. While his claims have been very controversial, my research has found multiple points of corroboration which have been detailed in my Secret Space Program Series, including Goode being the first to release two Defense Intelligence Reference Documents that corroborate key elements of his remarkable testimony.
Goode said that scientists from different space programs predicted the solar flash occurring at the end of Solar Cycle 24 (2008-2018/2019), and that this led to plans for the evacuation of global elites to safe places similar to what was depicted in the movie, 2012.
In an interview, Goode gave details about what he had been told during a December 2017 visit to a secret moon base called Lunar Operations Command [LOC] about multiple solar flash events that have been predicted by different groups and their timing:
I have said for a while that I was told that it was not one solar event but a series of events that led up to one large event. During my meeting on the LOC… I was told that the Elite had expected the final “solar sneeze” [solar flash] to occur at the end of this Solar Minimum period (2018/2019 from their estimates). “Are we officially in Solar Minimum?” was the question of one of the people present. To my dismay that question went unanswered as the people being briefed were paying very close attention to this particular topic.
The Elite began moving underground in large numbers based on this probable timeline. The “Programs” had used probable future technology to nail down the time of Alien and Suppressed Technology Disclosure and The Solar Event. None of them agreed on what the Solar Event would be as many thought it would be a flash that would turn them into ascended light beings while others expected it to be a terrible day for the planet Earth…. The “Egg Heads” and the Smart Glass Pads described all of this occurring in the 2018-2023/24 time window.
Goode said that he also received information from another source, the Anshar, who claim to be the descendants of time travelers from our future. This meant that their ancestors had lived through the upcoming solar flash event(s) and passed down its effects through historical records, which were carried into the Earth’s distant past by the Anshar to maintain the current timeline. Goode explains what the Anshar had told him:
The flashes (not necessarily all flashes are visible) that have been occurring will build up to one large solar event. The Anshar described a major Solar Event in their past (Our Future?) that was very much like the “full circumference mass coronal ejection” that I described being one of the scientific theories about the Solar Event.
They described the solar blast being so powerful that it caused a physical pole shift on the Earth of several degrees. They described the atmosphere being breached by the CME [Coronal Mass Ejection] in the Northern Hemisphere which caused massive fires that wipe out a large area and in doing so knocks out all technology on the planet. There was a fair amount of loss of life in the actual event.
Goode’s information is very helpful since it provides intelligence data from secret space program scientists and Inner Earth beings who are monitoring solar activity, and are also aware of records detailing solar flashes or micronova from Earth’s history. This complements the scientific data compiled by Davidson which substantiates micronovas as a recurring phenomenon for many stars in our galaxy, including our own sun.
This take us to another key element of Davidson’s Earth Catastrophe Cycle series, which Goode’s classified sources provide complementary information. This concerns the predicted micronova or solar flash being a trigger for a geophysical pole shift that could be catastrophic for many regions of the planet.
Ben Davidson, founder of Space Weather News, began his six partEarth Catastrophe Cycle video seriesby discussing a 57 page booklet called “The Adam and Eve Story” authored by “Chan Thomas”, which was classified by the CIA at some point after its1963 publication, and declassified in part on June 24, 2013 with the release of a sanitized digital version on the CIA’s website. Thomas’ analysis of cyclic pole shifts was different in key respects to what was being proposed at the time by Charles Hapgood in his seminal book, The Earth’s Shifting Crust(1958).
According to Davidson, it was Thomas more accurate explanation for how a pole shift happens, which led to the CIA classifying Thomas’ book. The Adam and Eve Story was first published in 1963 by Emerson House, with a third edition published in 1965, and then republished by Bengal Tiger Press in 1993. It is not clear when, why and how the CIA classified Thomas book, but the fact that the CIA chose to release a declassified sanitized version in 2013 is very significant.
In part 1 of his video series, Davidson contrasts Hapgood’s wandering pole hypothesis with the pole shift described in the CIA suppressed book by Thomas. Hapgood wrote of a pole shift of up to 40 degrees that could recur every 5000 years or so in The Earth’s Shifting Crust where earlier geographical poles would wander on the Earth’s surface with each crustal displacement.
Instead, Thomas wrote of a massive shift of almost 90 degrees that would move both poles into the tropics in less than a day, and then back to their earlier polar positions after the next cycle:
In ¼ to ½ a day the poles move almost to the equator, and all hell lets loose. The atmosphere and oceans don’t shift with the shell – they just keep on rotating West to East – and at the equator that speed is 1000 miles per hour. It has to be, normally, to make one rotation per day. So, while the shell shifts with the poles going toward the equator, the winds and oceans go eastward, blowing across the face of the earth with supersonic speeds, inundating continents with water miles deep….
You can see, then, that ice ages are not a matter of advancing and retreating ice; it’s simply that different areas of the Earth are in polar regions at different times, for different durations of time, with the changes between positions taking place in a fraction of a day. [The Adam and Eve Story, pp.13-14]
Thomas provided a table illustrating how the North pole, for example, would switch back and forth between northern hemisphere regions after experiencing close to a 90 degree tilt.
The Adam and Eve Story, p. 17.
It is Thomas’ conclusion of cyclic pole shifts of almost 90 degrees that flip the poles back and forth over millennia that Davidson identified as the key reason the CIA classified Thomas’ work. If the North and South poles flipped back and forth 90 degrees, there would be little evidence of previous pole shifts since these would be buried under thick layers of ice.
This takes us to the science of paleomagnetics – the study of the record of the Earth’s magnetic field in rocks, minerals or archeological materials – which has been used to determine the historic movement of the Earth’s magnetic poles.
Davidson cited a number of scholarly articles which studied paleomagnetic data from volcanic hotspots. A highly regarded 1985 paleomagnetic study titled, “True polar wander: An analysis of Cenozoic and Mesozoic paleomagnetic poles” found “the pole has moved 22 deg + or 10 deg in the past 180 m.y.[million years].” This was far less than the 40 degree wandering pole hypothesis that Hapgood proposed in an approximate 5000 year period.
A subsequent 2001 study titled “Stability of the Earth with respect to the spin axis for the last 130 million years” concluded that “the time-averaged position of the spin axis has deviated by no more than ˜5° over the last 130 million yr, indicating that mantle mass heterogeneities have not changed rapidly enough to drive TPW [True Polar Wander].” Davidson cited these and a 2018 study as the key elements of the body of scientific evidence refuting Hapgood’s wandering pole hypothesis.
However, as Davidson pointed out, the scientific data from paleomagnetic studies did not address Thomas’ theory of the poles flipping back and forth over geologic time, thereby giving the appearance that the poles had not moved over millions of years as researchers had mistakenly concluded:
All work crushing the theory utilizes these flawed studies, especially the long term average pole position and none address the problem of a ping pong shift where you would have that time average pole position appearing to be in the same position over millions of years.
Davidson goes as far as suggesting that Hapgood, who worked for the CIA’s predecessor the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, conducted a “limited hangout” with his 1958 book to get some of the truth out into the public arena, but doing so in a way that could be eventually discredited.
Davidson cited a 1994 book titled World in Peril about the once classified information provided by an Arctic polar explorer, Major Maynard White, who told his son, Ken (the book’s author), about secret Pentagon meetings in 1948 where suppression of evidence of cyclic pole shifts was discussed:
At one of the scientific meetings that Major White attended in the Pentagon in early 1948, the scientists discussed the advisability of alerting the public to the pending polar-flip phenomenon. None of the scientist would agree to withhold the information from the public, but, on the other hand, neither could they agree on how to release it. The knowledge of this phenomenon, some felt, could in itself destroy the moral fiber of society. Their fears were apparently unfounded when, in the early 1950s, information about the flip phenomenon was released in both a newspaper column and a magazine article, but surprisingly generated no responses from an apparently stunned parochial or incredulous public.
Given the amount of scientific data presented by Davidson in his Earth Catastrophe Cycle series, it’s clear that physical pole shifts of approximately 90 degrees have been historically recorded, and that this became known to government authorities as early as 1948.
This takes us to the critical question: “What is the trigger for a geophysical pole shift?”
Hapgood, along with Albert Einstein, who wrote the preface to Hapgood’s 1958 book, believed that the accumulation of ice at the North and South poles would be the trigger for a crustal displacement (geophysical pole shift). Einstein explained the triggering mechanism as follows:
In a polar region there is continual deposition of ice, which is not symmetrically distributed about the pole. The earth’s rotation acts on these unsymmetrically deposited masses, and produces centrifugal momentum that is transmitted to the rigid crust of the earth. The constantly increasing centrifugal momentum produced in this way will, when it has reached a certain point, produce a movement of the earth’s crust over the rest of the earth’s body, and this will displace the polar regions toward the equator.
Davidson asserts in part 1 of his series that Einstein eventually broke with Hapgood when he realized that the amount of ice at the poles would be insufficient to trigger a crustal displacement as he had earlier concluded from Hapgood’s data.
In contrast to Hapgood, Thomas believed the explanation was that something in the Earth’s interior was occurring that was the triggering mechanism. Thomas wrote:
… once every few thousand years neutral matter escapes from the 860-mile [1385 km] radius inner core into the 1300-mile [2092 km] thick molten outer core, and there is a literal atomic explosion inside the Earth. The explosion in the high energy layer of the outer core disrupts completely the electrical and magnetic structure in both the molten outer core and the outer 60-mile thick molten layer. Finally, the ice caps are allowed to pull the shell of the earth around the interior, with the shallow molten layers lubricating the shift all the way. [The Adam and Eve Story, p.14]
Thomas likens the “neutral matter” escaping Earth’s inner core to the plasma in a solar burst since these are based on what he claimed was the same governing universal principle found in the atom and galaxies. Consequently, Thomas is suggesting that the triggering mechanism for the sun emitting a solar flash or micronova, is similar to what triggers the Earth’s inner core to release waves of energy that ultimately shift both the magnetic and physical poles by as much as 90 degrees, in a cyclic pattern.
In World in Peril, the triggering mechanism is described as a flip in the Earth’s magnetic field as cited by Davidson:
It was determined through repeated experimentation that as the “magnetic pole approached the “geographic pole, the “magnetic” pole would at some point accelerate its rate of convergence as though pulled toward the “geographic” pole by centripetal force and jump to coincide; but instead of the poles coinciding, the “magnetic” pole would rapidly “flip” around the “geographic” pole, them spin off towards the equator as though by centrifugal force, ending up at a position where the two axes assumed an approximate 89-degree divergence. After this polar “flip” occurred, the axes would then gradually begin to reconverge over a long period of time.
According to the classified information received by Major White and his USAF Arctic reconnaissance unit, the magnetic pole flip would be the trigger for a crustal displacement leading to an almost 90 degree geophysical pole shift, as explained in the description to the World in Peril:
World in Peril … provides an explanation, based on the unit’s findings, of how Pentagon scientists determined our globe has evolved in prehistory, and how another earth-reshaping cataclysm is imminent! Now we can understand why mammoths and mastodons found in the arctic permafrost had been instantaneously frozen with subtropical vegetation in their mouths and stomachs. World in Peril may be the only book in print that accurately explains the elusive triggering mechanism for the phenomena known to scientists for over 200 years as “crustal shift,” and what it implies.
It’s important to emphasize the complementary nature of the triggering mechanisms found in Thomas’ The Adam and Eve Story and White’s information in World in Peril.
White essentially described an internal geological process by which a magnetic pole flip would lead to a crustal displacement so the two sets of poles (magnetic and geophysical) would briefly realign at opposite ends of the equator. The magnetic poles would then gradually realign with the new geophysical North and South poles until the cycle repeated itself with the former geophysical poles flipping back to their former positions.
Some unknown event inside the Earth would trigger both the magnetic pole flip and the crustal displacement according to the information acquired by White, and had been suppressed by national security officials.
Thomas’ book explains the internal mechanism which triggers the pole shifts. The neutral matter he described is basically the functional equivalent of a micronova or solar flare being emitted by the Earth’s inner core. Consequently, any evidence of the Earth’s interior generating something analogous to increased solar activity is an important clue to a pole shift occurring in the near future.
Davidson’s six part series makes a cogent case for a connection between cyclic micronovas and historic pole shifts of almost 90 degrees, which occur in a back and forth flipping action making it appear that the present poles have been in their respective positions for millions of years, as paleomagnetic studies have mistakenly concluded.
Furthermore, his emphasis on the information proposed by Thomas and White as crustal displacement being triggered by internal geological events, rather than external events such as accumulation of ice at the poles, leads to a correct focus on something happening inside Earth’s molten core.
The historic data and analyses presented by Davidson point to something simultaneously triggering eruptions of “neutral matter” from the inner Earth core, and from the sun in the form of micronovas. This takes us finally to the role played by cosmic rays as the elusive trigger mechanism, and recent scientific data showing these recently emerging out of Antarctica and a possible connection to mysterious global seismic waves.
On January 11, one of the world’s top science journals, Nature, reported an unexpected acceleration in the movement of the Earth’s magnetic poles that has required an immediate update of theWorld Magnetic Modelused for global navigation by ships at sea, Google Maps and smartphones.Scientists have speculatedthat the unexpected acceleration is due to “liquid iron sloshing within the planet’s core”, and that in the case of the north magnetic pole, the likely culprit was a “high-speed jet of liquid iron beneath Canada moving the pole towards Siberia”.
Importantly, scientists widely agree that the acceleration in the movement of the magnetic poles points to something very unusual happening in the Earth’s outer core which is filled with a nickel-iron alloy surrounding a solid inner core of iron. In part 2 of this series of articles investigating issues raised by Ben Davidson in his Earth Catastrophe Cycle video series, I discussed a CIA document authored by a geologist, Chan Thomas, that was only declassified in 2013. Thomas hypothesized that the inner core of the Earth, behaves just like a star in terms of emitting plasma or “neutral matter” in periodic bursts every few thousand years into the outer core, thereby triggering both magnetic and geophysical pole shifts.
In part 1, I examined evidence of solar flash (aka micronova) events in history, and the prospects for one recurring in the near future. This raises the possibility of the connection of some kind between solar flash events and “neutral matter” eruptions that occur deep inside the Earth’s core. In this article, I examine whether high energy cosmic rays from outside our solar system are the trigger mechanism for both solar flashes and neutral matter eruptions that lead to pole shifts.
It’s important to first point out that the accelerated movement of the magnetic poles is happening at a time when the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening and the Solar Minimum (low sunspot activity) have both made the planet more susceptible than ever to cosmic rays.
Cosmic rays are the atomic nuclei of hydrogen, helium and larger molecules that have been stripped of their electrons. They have been generated from galactic events such as supernova and quasars, and travel throughout the universe at almost the speed of light.
While our sun also generates cosmic rays, it is the cosmic rays from the galactic core that carry the most energy as they penetrate deep into our solar system, into our sun, and finally into the Earth’s interior.
Cosmic rays are impacting both the Earth and the sun with increasing impact because the energy shield created by the solar wind is at its weakest level as a result of the current solar minimum. Some scientific models predict the solar minimum will continue until October 2020, and may even stretch out into a grand solar minimum lasting until 2070, during which time humanity witnesses a mini-ice age similar to the Maunder Minimum that occurred from 1645 to 1715.
Scientists have for decades tracked solar and cosmic ray activity and confirmed that cosmic rays peak during solar minima as shown in the following diagram.
Top graph shows solar cycles and bottom shows cosmic ray activity during the same period
The intensity of cosmic rays impacting our solar system and the Earth depends largely on the strength of the solar wind generated by our sun which acts as a shield as explained by NASA:
Our first line of defense is the sun: The sun’s magnetic field and solar wind combine to create a porous ‘shield’ that fends off cosmic rays attempting to enter the solar system. The shielding action of the sun is strongest during Solar Maximum and weakest during Solar Minimum.
NASA studies have confirmed that cosmic rays, during a solar minimum increase the radiation exposure of astronauts thereby shortening the time they can spend in Earth orbit.
It is worth emphasizing that cosmic rays typically are either deflected by the Earth’s magnetic field (magnetic field) or attracted by the field towards the polar regions where most of the world’s cosmic ray detectors have been assembed.
Studies have shown the Earth’s magnetic field, which acts as the second line of defense against cosmic rays, as well as being a shield against the solar wind, has been steadily weakening throughout the 20th century. Since the year 2000, however, the weakening has dramatically increased as illustrated in the following image provided by Davidson in his Earth Catastrophe Cycle series.
Source: Ben Davidson. Video: “Energy from Space | The Shift Has Begun”
The weakening of the magnetic field has led to some scientists concluding that this is a prelude to a magnetic pole flip.
In 2014 Rune Florberghagen, the mission manager of the European Space Agency’s Swarm project, confirmed that the Earth’s magnetic field was weakening 10 times faster than normal, and that this was a sign of a future magnetic pole flip. Florberghagen said that this “would take many hundred if not a few thousand years…. They have happened many times in the past.”
However, other scientists studying paleomagnetic data cut the time dramatically in Florberghagen’s estimate. A Berkeley University study said that the pole flip could happen in less than a century, anytime during our life-time.
The dramatic weakening of the magnetic field means that fewer cosmic rays are being deflected, and more of these have been absorbed into the Earth, especially at the polar regions where the magnetic field lines attract cosmic rays into the North and South magnetic poles.
This raises important questions about what scientists have recently discovered about the unexpected acceleration in the movement of the magnetic poles, and what we know about the increasing influence of cosmic rays during a solar minimum that may extend well beyond the projected 2020 start of solar cycle 25.
First, are cosmic rays entering the Earth’s magnetic field at the polar regions penetrating deep into the Earth’s interior, thereby impacting the molten outer core in some way? Second, were cosmic rays recently detected coming out of Antarctica, in any way related to the “neutral matter” eruptions described by Chad Thomas? Finally, were the mysterious seismic global waves detected on November 11, 2018, in any way related to neutral matter eruptions from the core, and/or cosmic rays?
Are Cosmic Rays Affecting the Earth’s Interior?
The widespread assumption about cosmic rays is that these are absorbed by the Earth’s atmosphere as they impact air molecules, which in turn are rapidly accelerated and impact other molecules in cascade effect as the following diagram illustrates.
Credit: NASA
Several studies have shown, for example, that cosmic rays impact cloud formation leading to greater cloud covers during solar minima.
While the energy of cosmic rays is absorbed by other particles when they collide in the Earth’s atmosphere, these “cascade particles” take on the momentum and energy of the cosmic rays and reach the Earth’s surface, and along with surviving cosmic rays, penetrate into the Earth’s crust extending the cascade effect deep into the earth’s mantle and eventually reaching the core.
Sub-atomic particles which are created as a byproduct of the collision of cosmic rays and air molecules, such as muons and neutrinos, more easily penetrate into the Earth’s mantle and core due to their smaller cross section.
The impact of cosmic rays through their cascading effect can be visualized as a shotgun blast that carries the energy of the primary cosmic rays deep into the Earth’s interior through “cascade particles” and their sub-atomic byproducts.
The penetration of cosmic rays into the Earth’s surface has had the effect of triggering seismic activity and volcanic eruptions, as confirmed by a team of four Japanese scientists. In a June 2011 study of 11 volcanic eruptions titled “Explosive volcanic eruptions triggered by cosmic rays”, the scientists found that cosmic rays were a factor in triggering nine of the eruptions:
It is well known that the cosmic-ray flux is negatively correlated with solar magnetic activity, as the strong magnetic field in the solar wind repels charged particles such as galactic cosmic rays that originate from outside of the solar system. The strong negative correlation observed between the timing of silica-rich eruptions and solar activity can be explained by variations in cosmic-ray flux arising from solar modulation.
The Japanese study confirms that cosmic rays, through their cascade effect, do have an influence inside the Earth’s interior. The critical question is: “how deep into the Earth’s interior do cosmic rays penetrate?”
Studies show that the energy transmitted by cosmic rays can be carried deep into the Earth’s interior:
During solar minimum high energy cosmic radiation can penetrate to a very deep distance below the Earth’s surface, in some case a few hundred kilometers. This is the reason why most if not all earthquakes during solar minimum are deep earthquakes.
This takes me back to Chan Thomas and his claim that the Earth’s core periodically releases “neutral matter” every few thousand years, and that the sun experiences a solar flash in a similar millennia long cycle. Cosmic rays have the capacity to not only interact with the sun in a way that ultimately triggers a micronova, but they also interact with the Earth’s core in a way that triggers the emission of “neutral matter” as Thomas’ book claims.
If the Earth’s core is being stimulated by cosmic rays into emitting neutral matter in analogous manner to a Coronal Mass Ejection by the sun, is there any evidence of this occurring? The most compelling sign would be if the Earth’s core, like the sun, was observed to be emitting cosmic rays. Indeed, this has occurred with cosmic ray detectors discovering cosmic rays coming out of the Earth, rather than penetrating into it.
Cosmic rays observed to be coming out of Antarctica were first detected in January 2007 when the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) balloon experiment began, as explained by the science writer, Emma Fiala:
Using sensors, ANITA began detecting high energy neutrinos interacting with the ice sheet below….During ANITA’s time in the Antarctic, it detected never before seen “upward-pointing cosmic-ray-like events.” The rays detected had horizontal planes of polarization, which may suggest they didn’t originate in space.
Cosmic rays coming out of the Antarctic ice sheets were observed again by ANITA in December 2016 and sparked intense scientific speculation over whether a new type of particle had been discovered. This led to a team of scientists at Penn State University studying the ANITA data, and on September 25, 2018, releasing released their report about the anomalous 2007 and 2016 events which was published on the scholarly archive, arxiv.org:
The ANITA collaboration have reported observation of two anomalous events that appear to be εcr≈0.6 EeV cosmic ray showers emerging from the Earth with exit angles of 27∘ and 35∘, respectively…. We explore here whether “beyond the Standard Model” (BSM) particles are required to explain the ANITA events, if correctly interpreted, and conclude that they are. Seeking confirmation or refutation of the physical phenomenon of sub-EeV Earth-emergent cosmic rays in data from other facilities, we find support for the reality of the ANITA events, and three candidate analog events, among the Extremely High Energy Northern Track neutrinos of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
It should be noted that on both January 2007 and December 2016, the sunspot numbers were respectively at or near the solar minimum for sunspot activity. Consequently, it should be noted that at the same time as cosmic rays were peaking as they were coming into our solar system due to minimal solar activity, that Cosmic-like rays were observed to be coming out of the Earth.
This is consistent with the earlier observation that cosmic rays were penetrating deep into the Earth and triggering the neutral matter ejections into the outer core, which in turn stimulated what might be described as “Earth cosmic rays” that were detected by ANITA.
This takes me to the mysterious seismic global wave detected on November 11, 2018, 15 miles off the coast of Mayotte, a French island between Madagascar and Africa. On that day, a seismic wave was detected that travelled around the world for about 20 minutes. While seismic waves routinely follow earthquakes, there was no earthquake detected by seismographs as explained in an article published by National Geographic.
Based on the earlier cited 2011 study by Japanese scientists one explanation that arises is that the global seismic wave was caused by cosmic waves penetrating into the Earth’s interior. Another, more disturbing explanation is that the mysterious global seismic waves were a result of unique “Earth cosmic rays” emanating from a neutral matter ejection analogous to a coronal mass ejection first described by Thomas.
Conclusion
The accelerated movement of the magnetic poles is a sign that something significant is currently happening deep inside the Earth’s interior, at its molten outer core. The conventional explanation that this pole shift is merely a result of magma moving in the outer core portion under North America does not factor in the important role played by cosmic waves in penetrating deep into the Earth and influencing the core’s activity.
The fact that cosmic rays are pouring into the Earth due to a weakened magnetic field and solar minimum, and this may be triggering an ejection of neutral matter from the Earth’s core into the mantle and surface, needs be seriously considered. Furthermore, the fact that the CIA classified Thomas’ book some time after its 1963 publication and only declassified it in 2013, suggests that his concepts and theory of the dynamics of the inner Earth and associated pole shifts needed to be suppressed since they contained important truths that could destabilize society.
At this time in our collective history, as cosmic rays are impacting our planet at increasing levels, we need to better understand how cosmic rays influence both our planet and the sun during its period of minimal solar activity. We need to pay particular attention to evidence that our solar system has entered a region of the galaxy with increased levels of cosmic ray energy, and how this might trigger the solar flashes (micronovas) and geophysical pole shifts that occurred in our distant past.
NEW THEORY: LIFE ON EARTH CAME FROM IMPACT WITH ANOTHER PLANET
NEW THEORY: LIFE ON EARTH CAME FROM IMPACT WITH ANOTHER PLANET
JON CHRISTIAN
Deep Impact
According to a provocative new paper, a catastrophic impact with a “Mars-sized planet” may have broken the Moon off the Earth more than four billion years ago — and left behind the building blocks that led to life on the Blue Planet.
“This study suggests that a rocky, Earth-like planet gets more chances to acquire life-essential elements if it forms and grows from giant impacts with planets that have sampled different building blocks, perhaps from different parts of a protoplanetary disk,” co-author Rajdeep Dasgupta said in a blog post about the research.
Life Giver
In the paper, which was published this week in the journal Science Advances, Dasgupta and his colleagues at Rice University probe a longstanding question: How did the Earth obtain its life-essential carbon and nitrogen, which are generally rare in the inner solar system?
To investigate the origins of life on Earth, they conducted experiments to simulate the high-temperature and high-pressure conditions that would emerge if two planets smashed into each other. Their conclusion: Earth likely got its carbon and nitrogen from an apocalyptic collision with an “embryonic planet” with a sulfur-rich core.
When Worlds Collide
Dasgupta is a longstanding advocate of the theory that an ancient impact broke off the chunk of matter that became the Moon and gave Earth the materials that led to life as we know it. But these latest experiments, he believes, are crucial new evidence — and could lead to a new understanding of how life on Earth came to be.
The analysis “shows that life-essential volatiles can arrive at the surface layers of a planet, even if they were produced on planetary bodies that underwent core formation under very different conditions,” Dasgupta said in the post. “That means we can broaden our search for pathways that lead to volatile elements coming together on a planet to support life as we know it.”
Saturnus' maan Titan 'kookte' zijn eigen atmosfeer
Saturnus' maan Titan 'kookte' zijn eigen atmosfeer
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Met die nieuwe hypothese komen Amerikaanse onderzoekers op de proppen.
“Titan is een heel interessante maan, omdat deze een heel dikke atmosfeer heeft,” vertelt onderzoeker Kelly Miller. De atmosfeer heeft een extreem hoge dichtheid en is zelfs dikker dan die van de aarde. Verder is deze voornamelijk opgebouwd uit stikstofgas. “Omdat Titan de enige maan in ons zonnestelsel is die een substantiële atmosfeer heeft, vragen wetenschappers zich al lang af hoe die atmosfeer is ontstaan,” stelt Miller. In het blad Astrophysical Journal presenteert ze deze week een nieuwe theorie die deze prangende vraag kan helpen beantwoorden.
Andere theorie Er zijn op dit moment al wel theorieën over het ontstaan van Titans atmosfeer. “De belangrijkste theorie is dat ammoniakijs van kometen – door inslagen of fotochemie – is omgezet in stikstof dat vervolgens Titans atmosfeer vormde.” Een prachtige theorie, die echter niet helemaal sluitend is. “Hoewel dat een belangrijk proces geweest kan zijn, negeert het de effecten van een ander substantieel onderdeel van kometen: complexe organische materialen.” Wat daarnaast vreemd is, is dat Titans atmosfeer voor zo’n 5 procent uit methaan bestaat. En methaan is behoorlijk vluchtig: het vormt relatief snel organische verbindingen die vervolgens naar het oppervlak vallen. Afgaand op de leeftijd van Titan zou je dan ook verwachten dat het methaan al een eind uit de atmosfeer verdwenen is. Dat er nog zoveel methaan wordt aangetroffen, kan betekenen dat de hoeveelheid methaan nog steeds wordt aangevuld. Maar hoe dan?
Koken Miller presenteert nu de theorie dat de atmosfeer van Titan in ieder geval voor een deel ontstaat door het ‘koken’ van organisch materiaal in het binnenste van de maan. Tijdens dat koken ontstaan gassen die vervolgens onderdeel uit gaan maken van de atmosfeer. Volgens de berekeningen van Miller zou ongeveer de helft van de stikstof in de atmosfeer en mogelijk al het methaan het resultaat zijn van dit kookproces.
Kometen Maar hoe komt Titan dan aan de organische materialen om te koken? Volgens Miller zijn ze tijdens het ontstaan van Titan tezamen met de kometen die deze organische materialen herbergen, in het binnenste van de maan ingesloten. “Deze kleine hemellichamen kunnen worden opgenomen in grotere hemellichamen, zoals Titan, en het dichte, rotsachtige materiaal dat rijk is aan organische stoffen kan dan in de kern worden teruggevonden.”
Het idee voor de theorie ontstond toen Miller de door ruimtesonde Rosetta verzamelde data bestudeerde. Uit die data bleek – heel verrassend – dat de door Rosetta bestudeerde komeet 67P ongeveer voor de helft uit ijs, voor een kwart uit gesteente en een kwart uit organisch materiaal bestond. Vervolgens moest Miller aan de hand van modellen die de warmte in het binnenste van Titan beschrijven, nog zien te achterhalen of het hart van de maan warm genoeg was om voldoende organisch materiaal om te kunnen zetten in gassen. De resultaten wijzen erop dat Titan in ieder geval een aanzienlijk deel van zijn atmosfeer zelf gekookt kan hebben.
Wetenschappers boren 2152 meter diep gat in West-Antarctische ijskap
Wetenschappers boren 2152 meter diep gat in West-Antarctische ijskap
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Een record, waar zo’n twintig jaar aan gewerkt is.
Voor het eerst is het onderzoekers gelukt om in de West-Antarctische ijskap een gat te boren dat meer dan twee kilometer diep is. Naar verwachting levert het boorgat een schat aan informatie op over de wijze waarop dit deel van West-Antarctica op de opwarming van de aarde reageert.
Instrumenten Met behulp van warm water boorden onderzoekers in de Rutford Ice Stream een 2152 meter diep gat dat uitkomt op onder het ijs gelegen sedimenten. Direct daarna lieten de onderzoekers een breed scala aan instrumenten in het gat zakken, waarmee onder meer de temperatuur van het ijs en vervormingen in het ijs gemeten konden worden.
Meer kennis Het boren van het gat was een enorme onderneming waar zo’n 20 jaar voorbereiding en één mislukte boorpoging (in 2004) aan vooraf is gegaan. “Ik heb zo lang op dit moment gewacht en ben blij dat we eindelijk ons doel bereikt hebben,” aldus onderzoeker Andy Smith. “Er zitten hiaten in onze kennis omtrent wat er op West-Antarctica gebeurt en door een gebied te bestuderen waar het ijs op zachte sedimenten rust, kunnen we beter begrijpen hoe dit gebied in de toekomst gaat veranderen en bijdragen aan de zeespiegelstijging.” Collega Keith Makinson voegt toe: “We weten dat warmere oceaanwateren ervoor zorgen dat veel West-Antarctische gletsjers eroderen. Wat wij proberen te achterhalen, is hoe glad het sediment onder deze gletsjers is en zo bepalen hoe snel ze vanaf het continent in de zee kunnen stromen.”
In totaal hebben de onderzoekers twee gaten in de Rutford Ice Stream geboord. Ze hopen nog tot half februari in het gebied actief te kunnen zijn en willen in de periode die voor hen ligt ook nog onderzoek doen op een tweede locatie die enkele kilometers van het recordbrekende boorgat verwijderd is
Wauw! Dit is de beste foto van Ultima Thule tot nu toe
Wauw! Dit is de beste foto van Ultima Thule tot nu toe
Vivian Lammerse
We komen steeds meer over dit bijzondere kuipergordelobject te weten.
Ruimtevaartuig New Horizons trakteert ons op een nieuwe foto van het mysterieuze kuipergordelobject Ultima Thule. De foto is gemaakt op slechts zeven minuten vóór de dichtstbijzijnde benadering met de Multicolor Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) aan boord van de ruimtesonde. New Horizons was op dat moment slechts 6700 kilometer van het object verwijderd.
Het origineel De originele kwaliteit van de foto liet wat te wensen over. Zo sloeg de ruimtesonde het plaatje op met een resolutie van 135 meter per pixel. Wetenschappers hebben de foto vervolgens heel wat zitten bijschaven. Maar het is ze gelukt om de foto te verscherpen, zodat fijne details zichtbaar werden. En het resultaat mag er zijn. Zo is de foto de scherpste en duidelijkste weergave van het object – dat zich in een verre uithoek van ons zonnestelsel bevindt – tot nu toe.
De scherpste foto van Ultima Thule tot nu toe.
Afbeelding: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Putjes Wat opvalt op de foto zijn de talloze kleine putjes die zich nabij de top langs de dag/nacht grens van het object bevinden. Deze zijn naar schattig zo’n 700 meter groot. Daarnaast lijkt er op de kleinste van de twee bollen – Thule – ook een diepe put te zitten. De onderzoekers zijn er nog niet uit of deze putten inslagkrater zijn, of oppervlaktekenmerken die voortkomen uit andere processen.
Helder Ook de weerkaatsing van zonlicht trekt de aandacht. Zo zijn er op beide bollen zowel lichte, als donkere plekken te zien. Hoewel we hier de oorsprong nog niet van weten, denken de onderzoekers dat deze aanwijzingen kunnen geven over waar het object – toen ons zonnestelsel zo’n 4,5 miljard jaar geleden gevormd werd – uit ontstond. Wat voornamelijk opvalt is de heldere nek van Ultima Thule, dus de plek waar het kleine en grote deel van Ultima Thule aan elkaar vastgeklonken zitten.
New Horizons raast op dit moment met zo’n 50.700 kilometer per uur door de Kuipergordel en is ongeveer 6,6 miljard kilometer van de aarde verwijderd. Een radiosignaal dat de ruimtesonde op deze afstand uitzendt, bereikt onze planeet ongeveer zes uur en negen minuten later.
“Deze nieuwe foto verschaft ons nieuwe informatie over het geologische karakter van de twee bollen, maar het roept ook weer nieuwe vragen op,” zegt onderzoeksleider Alan Stern. “In de loop van de maand zullen er nieuwe beelden met nog betere resoluties en kleuren worden vervaardigd, waarvan we hopen dat ze de vele mysteries van Ultima Thule helpen ontrafelen.”
Astronauten treffen ’s werelds oudste steen aan op de… maan!
Astronauten treffen ’s werelds oudste steen aan op de… maan!
Vivian Lammerse
De aardse steen zat verstopt tussen maanmonsters die astronauten van de Apollo 14 missie 48 jaar geleden verzamelden.
Toen astronauten van de bekende Apollo missie bijna vijftig jaar geleden maanmonsters mee terug naar huis namen, hadden ze waarschijnlijk geen idee dat ze een stukje aarde met de aarde herenigden. Een internationaal team van onderzoekers heeft bewijs gevonden dat tussen die maanmonsters ’s werelds oudste steen verstopt zat. Maar hoe is die steen op de maan terecht gekomen?
Op deze afbeelding is te zien hoe de steen op de maan terecht is gekomen. De steen is op aarde gevormd en is tijdens een planetoïde inslag de ruimte in geworpen.
Afbeelding: LPI/David A. Kring.
Hoe dan? Waarschijnlijk is dat de schuld van een komeet of planetoïde die miljarden jaren terug insloeg op aarde. Door deze klap werd er aards materiaal opgerakeld en de ruimte ingeslingerd, waar het 4 miljard jaar terug botste met het oppervlak van de maan – die destijds drie keer dichter bij de aarde stond dan nu. “Het is een buitengewone vondst die helpt een beter beeld te schetsen van de vroege aarde,” zegt hoofdonderzoeker David Kring.
De steen.
Afbeelding: USRA
De steen De onderzoekers komen met meerdere redenen op de proppen waarom dit stukje steen toch echt van de aarde afkomstig is. De steen is een klein fragment van slechts 2 gram dat bestaat uit kwarts, veldspaat en zirkoon. Allemaal mineralen die veel voorkomen op aarde, maar heel ongewoon zijn voor het maanlandschap. Uit een chemische analyse blijkt verder dat het stukje steen gevormd is bij aardse temperaturen in een aardachtige omgeving met zuurstof. Vervolgens kristalliseerde de steen tijdens de jonge jaren van de aarde zo’n 20 kilometer onder het aardoppervlak. Een komeet of planetoïde zorgde er vervolgens voor dat de steen naar het oppervlak verhuisde. Zo konden toenmalige planetoïden kraters maken met een diameter van duizenden kilometers; voldoende om materiaal uit de diepten naar het oppervlak te brengen.
Naar de maan Eenmaal op het maanoppervlak aangekomen, mengde de steen zich met ander materiaal. Daarnaast kwamen er weer nieuwe processen op gang; zo denken de onderzoekers dat de steen zo’n 3,9 miljard jaar geleden gedeeltelijk smolt en – opnieuw – onder het oppervlak werd begraven. Tot 26 miljoen jaar geleden, toen een planetoïde de Cone-krater vormde. Hierdoor kwam de steen weer terug aan het oppervlak te liggen, waar astronauten het 48 jaar geleden opraapten.
Of het bij één steentje blijft? Kring denkt van niet. Hij vermoedt dat er nog wel meer aardse stenen op het maanoppervlak te vinden zijn. Dat zou aanvullend onderzoek moeten gaan uitwijzen.
For years, real alien sightings have puzzled and confused experts. Whether they're UFOs or messages in the stars, there's plenty of evidence that we're not alone in the universe.
In 2004, Commander David Fravor spotted what he described as flying “Tic-Tac” UFOs, which appeared to be moving faster than possible by traditional aircraft, and doing so against a strong wind. This was all caught on camera and certainly doesn’t look like anything we’ve ever seen before.
Golden UFO Spotted in NASA Livestream
IMAGE BY: NASA
NASA livestreams often manage to catch compelling UFO evidence. One such stream, from 2016, displaying footage of the Earth from space, gives just a brief look at a mysterious golden object before NASA mysteriously cut the feed. Is this evidence of something that NASA doesn’t want us to see?
“White Knight” Spaceship Spotted At NASA Launch
IMAGE BY: NASA
Similar to the Golden UFO, a 2011 livestream of the launch of NASA’s Endeavour space shuttle showed a mysterious white object floating high above the Earth. As with the Golden UFO, after this appeared for a second, NASA mysteriously cut the feed, and audiences were left without a good look at whatever might be up in the sky above us.
Radio Signals From Space
IMAGE BY: NASA
Astronomers have recently spotted “Fast Radio Bursts” (flashes of energy from across the stars) that are likely the result of huge explosions. What’s fascinating is that this latest radio signal repeated six times, which suggests that it could be aliens attempting to send a message.
Bacteria On The Outside Of The ISS
IMAGE BY: NASA
In 2018, it was discovered that bacteria was living outside the Russian side of International Space Station. This could be a result of simple contamination, but it could be the result of random alien bacteria that are constantly floating through space.
"GO FAST" Encounter
IMAGE BY: CIA
In 2015, Fighter pilots spotted a white oval flying through the air without any wings or exhaust plume. The UFO (nicknamed "GO FAST") moved faster than should be possible for any man-made craft, and no explanation has ever been given.
Curiosity Finds Organic Matter on Mars
IMAGE BY: NASA
In 2015, the Curiosity Rover spotted some organic matter on the surface of Mars. Following several years of research, scientists still aren’t entirely certain of how it got there, but one prevailing theory is that it came from an asteroid. Which is also how many experts believe life began on Earth.
The 1950 Mariana UFO Footage
IMAGE BY: NICK MARIANA
In 1950 in Great Falls, Montana, Nick Mariana recorded camera footage of two UFOs flying through the sky. Decades later, experts are still unable to agree on what exactly Mariana caught on film, especially amid rumors that US Army officials confiscated parts of the footage that showed the UFOs rotating and turning in the sky.
Guillermo del Toro Insists That He’s Seen a UFO
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The director of movies including “The Shape of Water” and “Pan’s Labyrinth” is certain that he’s seen a UFO up close. Speaking about the experience, Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro said that he’d never been so scared in his life, but he was disappointed that the UFO looked exactly like we’d all expect — a round, flying saucer — when he’d hoped it would look a little less cliche.
Curiosity Rover Found Stick Figures on Mars
IMAGE BY: TWITTER/@MARSCURIOSITY
In 2018, NASA tweeted out a photo that had been taken by the Curiosity Rover on Mars. What NASA refers to as “stick-like figures” could be many things, but some suspect that they might be fossils of alien life forms that died long ago.
Laser Battle in the Skies Above Area 51
IMAGE BY: SPUTNIK NEWS
In 2018, a casual observer in Nevada noticed a series of flashing lights in the sky, not too far from Area 51. Because this was the era of the smartphone, the eyewitness also managed to snap some pictures, and they do look very compelling. This looks a lot like a laser battle.
The Pentagon is Investigating UFOs
IMAGE BY: CIA
Last year, it was revealed by the Pentagon had been secreting away $22 million in funding every year for the sole purpose of investigating UFO encounters. This was done in quiet so as to keep it hidden. Apparently, the US government has something to hide.
TR-3B “Black Triangle” UFO Spotted Over Russia
IMAGE BY: YOUTUBE/UFO TODAY
For years, witnesses have been reporting a specific kind of UFO named the TR-3B (Also called the “Black Triangle”), which is recognizable for its three bright lights arranged in a triangle format. Photo evidence of a sighting over Russia is hard to deny. This isn’t just a plane.
Proxima Centauri Has a “Goldilocks” Planet
IMAGE BY: NASA
It’s not the most exciting of findings on this list, but NASA has confirmed that our nearest neighboring star, Promixa Centauri, plays host to a “Goldilocks” planet, one that is not too hot or too cold to support alien life. With another planet similar to Earth so close to our own, it’s possible that there could be aliens living not too far away.
Oregon’s Slow-Moving Meteorite
IMAGE BY: TWITTER/@JOHNKPTV
In 2018, observers in Oregon spotted a slow-moving light trail in the night’s sky. It was far too slow to be a meteorite, so if it wasn’t falling to Earth at a traditional speed, what could it have been?
Saturn’s Moon Contains The Right Chemicals
IMAGE BY: NASA
In its decade-long mission to explore Saturn and its moons, the Cassini space probe spotted some intriguing evidence of alien life within our solar system. The probe found that Saturn’s moon of Titan contains vinyl cyanide, a key chemical for the development of cellular life.
Mars Contains Too Much Methane
IMAGE BY: NASA
Levels of methane found in the atmosphere on Mars appear to fluctuate wildly throughout its annual cycle. Experts suggest that this could well be because of alien life forms, living under the planet’s surface, which are only active during certain times of year, and which are pooping, creating a likely sign of organic life in their methane output.
Buzz Aldrin’s Moon Light
IMAGE BY: NASA
While traveling in Apollo 11 en route to the moon, Buzz Aldrin spotted a mysterious light that seemed to follow alongside the space craft. There has never been any explanation given for this light, and while Aldrin denies that it was a UFO, that hasn’t stopped people from speculating.
A Time Capsule Under the White House Contains Alien Knowledge
IMAGE BY: WIKIPEDIA
According to a former aide of Richard Nixon, at some point in the 1970s, the U.S. government was in contact with an extra-terrestrial. All knowledge and evidence of this was then buried somewhere at the White House. This may sound a little shaky, but it wouldn’t even be the weirdest thing Nixon did during his presidency.
Gamma Rays From Space Might Be Alien Messages
IMAGE BY: NASA
Similar to Fast Radio Bursts, gamma rays could contain messages from aliens. Experts suggest that the patterns of radiation we see in the stars could come from very powerful aliens who are smashing stars together in order to try and communicate with us (or anyone else who might want to listen).
For the first time, researchers have found evidence in data sent back by Cassini for methane/ethane rainfall near Titan’s north pole, signaling the start of the summer season on Saturn’s largest moon.
View of Titan from Cassini. New research provides evidence of rainfall on the north pole of Titan. The rainfall indicates that the summer season has started in the moon’s northern hemisphere.
Image via NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.
Saturn’s largest moon Titanhas often been compared to Earth. Itsseas, lakes and riversare very reminiscent of ones on our own planet, albeit composed of liquid methane/ethane instead of water. The visual similarity, however, is striking. And there’s also another weather-related similarity between Earth and Titan – rain.
The Cassini mission, now ended, had found previous evidence for methane rain on Titan, and now a new study, led by Rajani Dhingra, a doctoral student in physics at the University of Idaho, provides more insight into rainfall at Titan’s north pole and how that relates to the start of this distant moon’s summer season. The peer-reviewedstudy has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters.
From the paper’s summary:
Cassini arrived in the Saturnian system in the southern summer of 2004. As expected, the Cassini team observed cloud cover, storms and precipitation on the south pole. Like Earth, Titan has an axial tilt (27 degrees) and its seasons vary over its year (30 Earth years). Ever since this shift in season began, the Cassini team eagerly waited for observations indicating cloud cover and precipitation that went missing from the northern latitudes. Our rainfall observation at the north pole is a major finding for two important reasons. Firstly, this discovery observation heralds the much awaited arrival of the north polar summer rainstorms on Titan. This atmospheric phenomenon has been delayed compared to the theoretical predictions and was perplexing Titan researchers and climate modelers especially because the north pole hosts most of Titan’s lakes and seas. Secondly, it is extremely difficult to detect rainfall events on Titan due to its thick atmospheric haze and very limited opportunities to view the surface (and its changes). We have used a novel phenomenon – the smoothening of a previously dry, rough surface by a thin layer of fluid after rainfall, similar to a wet side walk – as evidence for rainfall events on the surface of Titan.
Titan’s north pole as seen by Cassini’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer. The orange box highlights the “wet sidewalk” region where methane/ethane rain has left the rough surface wet and reflective.
Image via NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho.
The rainfall and associated clouds had been anticipated for some time by scientists, but weren’t seen, according to Dhingra:
The whole Titan community has been looking forward to seeing clouds and rains on Titan’s north pole, indicating the start of the northern summer, but despite what the climate models had predicted, we weren’t even seeing any clouds. People called it the curious case of missing clouds.
So where was the rain? Even the Huygens probe – part of the Cassini mission – which landed on Titan in 2005, found “damp sand” reminiscent of crème brûlée in what was thought to be a mostly dry riverbed that periodically flows with liquid methane. As on Earth, those rivers are fed by rainfall.
The research team took a closer look and found something intriguing – a reflective feature near Titan’s north pole on an image taken on June 7, 2016, by Cassini’s near-infrared instrument, the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer. Covering approximately 46,332 square miles (119,999 square km), the feature was not seen in previous or subsequent images.
Cassini radar image of Ligeia Mare, the second-largest sea on Titan. Methane rains help to sustain the moon’s polar seas and lakes.
Image via NASA/JPL/USGS.
Illustration of how rainfall on Titan brings organic compounds to the surface and feeds the rivers, lakes and seas.
Analysis indicated it was similar to a sunlit wet sidewalk, the scientists said, that is, that it, it was wet ground following a methane rainfall event, followed in turn by a period of evaporation. Scientists could even discern what kind of surface was wet; they said it was pebble-like. As Dhingra had explained, a rougher surface generates an amorphous pattern as the liquid settles in crevasses and gullies, while liquid on a smooth surface would puddle in a relatively circular pattern.
This is the first time that summer rainfall has been observed in the northern hemisphere of Titan, showing the changing of the seasons. But seasons last a lot longer on Titan than on Earth – about seven years each. Cassini had also observed clouds and rainfall in Titan’s southern hemisphere after it arrived at Saturn in 2004. The climate models had predicted that rainfall would arrive in the northern hemisphere by summer 2017, but by 2016, there were still no clouds to be seen. According to Dhingra:
We want our model predictions to match our observations. This rainfall detection proves Cassini’s climate follows the theoretical climate models we know of. Summer is happening. It was delayed, but it’s happening. We will have to figure out what caused the delay, though.
The surface of Titan as seen by the Huygens lander in 2005. Huygens found damp sand when it landed near a shoreline or riverbed. The liquid was methane/ethane, but the “rocks” turned out to be composed of solid water ice.
Image via ESA/NASA/University of Arizona.
Titan is the only other body in the solar system known to have liquid seas, lakes and rivers on its surface. Even though it is extremely cold and the liquid is methane/ethane, not water, some scientists think it is possible that some form of primitive life could exist there. There is also a liquid water ocean deep below the surface that couldbe potentially habitable by life.
Bottom line: Titan is a bizarre world – eerily similar to Earth in some ways, yet utterly alien at the same time. The new study of Titan’s rainfall patterns provides more insight into how this moon mimics Earth but remains a strangely very different place at the same time.
Attractive humanoid aliens will soon be embroiled in romance and adventure on The CW’s new seriesRoswell, New Mexico. In an early scene from the show’s new trailer, a Jeep drives under a sign in the desert that reads “Foster Ranch” just before an object from the air crashes into the ground causing a huge explosion. But what is the Foster Ranch, and how did Roswell get its alien reputation in the first place?
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Roswell, New Mexico is a desert town about 200 miles southeast of Albuquerque. It is the fifth largest town in New Mexico, but much more provincial than Santa Fe, another well-known New Mexico destination similar in size. While visitors from around the world flock to Santa Fe to experience Southwestern art and culture, tourists seek out Roswell for a different reason: aliens.
Although the alleged crash of an alien spacecraft outside of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 is the most famous UFO or alien related incident, few knew about it before the first book on the topic, The Roswell Incident, was published in 1980. By July 1997, the 50th anniversary of the crash, the U.S. Air Force had released two separate reports on the Roswell incident (1995 report, 1997 report), and it was featured on the cover of Time magazine. The story of aliens at Roswell had reached the farthest corners of planet Earth.
The incident described by the Air Force began on the Foster ranch about 30 miles outside of Roswell. Ranch foreman Bill “Mack” Brazel claims to have come across odd-looking debris in the field some time in June or early July 1947. He and his son examined the debris but didn’t pay it much attention until Brazel heard stories of mysterious flying discs spotted in the skies elsewhere in the U.S. The most famous of these sightings took place on June 24, 1947, when businessman and amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted several objects described by the press as “flying saucers” -- the first use of the term -- while flying near Mount Rainier, Washington. Arnold’s sighting made headlines and eventually prompted the United States military to begin official investigations into sightings of unidentified objects in the skies.
Brazel thought the debris he found might be one of these flying saucers and reported it to Chaves County Sheriff George Wilcox. Wilcox then reported Brazel’s discovery to the Roswell Army Airfield (RAAF), home of the 509th Bomb Group, at the time, the only team responsible for dropping the atom bomb.
The RAAF sent intelligence officer Major Jesse Marcel and counterintelligence corps officer Captain Sheridan Cavitt to meet with Brazel and drive out to the Foster ranch and take a look at the debris. The next day, July 8, the RAAF sent out a press release claiming, according to the Roswell Daily Record, that they had “come into possession of a flying saucer.” That day the Roswell Daily Record front page headline read: “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.”
The next day, the Roswell Daily Record’s headline read: “Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer.” The subheadings read: “Ramey Says Excitement Is Not Justified,” and “General Ramey Says Disk Is Weather Balloon.” The same day, Ramey held a press conference at his office in Fort Worth, Texas with Marcel in which they posed with debris from a weather balloon. With that, as quickly as the story began, it went away.
The Arnold sighing in Washington had inspired the creation of U.S. Air Force Project Sign, the first official investigation into “flying saucers.” It was followed by Project Grudge, and then finally Project Blue Book. The U.S. Air Force investigated the UFO phenomenon from 1948 to 1969, but nowhere in their files will you find mention of the crash outside of Roswell. Nor will you see it in UFO books of the time. Soon after it occurred, the story was lost to obscurity.
Then, in the late 1970s, UFO researcher and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman was given a tip. A retired Air Force intelligence officer said he had been part of the recovery of a flying saucer. That officer was Marcel. Friedman interviewed Marcel who confirmed that he had seen the debris recovered in Roswell and that it was no weather balloon. He claimed the material had properties beyond that which would have been possible to create at the time and also claimed the debris he showed Ramey had been replaced by weather balloon material for the press conference and photo shoot.
In a 1980 interview on the television series In Search Of…, Marcel said General Ramey told the press, “forget about it. It was nothing more than a weather observation balloon. Of course, which we both knew differently.”
“It was not anything from this Earth,” Marcel said. “I am quite sure of, because being in intelligence I was familiar with just about all materials used in aircraft and/or air travel. This was nothing like that.”
Marcel claimed he was told to go with the weather balloon cover story and he followed orders. However, decades later he was concerned the Air Force had not shared the truth with the public.
Over the next few years, Friedman, along with his research partner William Moore, interviewed many more witnesses. Some of them claimed they also believed the material could not have been from a weather balloon. In 1980, Moore wrote a book with author Charles Berlitz titled The Roswell Incidentsuggesting a major cover-up of a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle. The book was a hit, and along with Marcel’s appearance on In Search Of... the legend of the alien spaceship crash at Roswell grew.
Due to the popularity of the Roswell incident, the U.S. Air Force released an official report in 1995 on the event that backs up one of Marcell’s claims. It confirms the materials Marcel provided were not that of a standard weather balloon like those in the press photos. However, it claimed the debris Marcel examined was part of a secret program called Project Mogul. This project used atmospheric balloons to float listening devices into the atmosphere to monitor Russian nuclear tests.
The first witness account of alien bodies did not come until 1989. Roswell resident Glenn Dennis claimed that while working at a local funeral home at the time of the alleged crash, the RAAF had requested several child-sized caskets. He told his story for the first time to Friedman, but his account was first made public in the book UFO Crash at Roswell published in 1991.
He also claimed to have had a conversation with a nurse from RAAF who told him she had been present at the autopsies of extraterrestrial beings recovered from the crashed saucer. Dennis said he had promised never to share her name. He says the nurse disappeared soon after sharing the story with him.
The aliens she described were not attractive young adults, but they were, more or less, shaped like humans with spindly arms and legs and large heads.
“She drew me a diagram of the bodies,” Dennis claimed in a signed affidavit. “...including an arm with a hand that had only four fingers; the doctors noted that on the end of the fingers were little pads resembling suction cups. She said the head was disproportionately large for the body; the eyes were deeply set; the skulls were flexible; the nose was concave with only two orifices; the mouth was a fine slit, and the doctors said there was heavy cartilage instead of teeth. The ears were only small orifices with flaps. They had no hair, and the skin was black--perhaps due to exposure in the sun.”
Dennis’ story has been called into question after he gave the name of the alleged RAAF nurse to researchers and later admitted the name was made up. He claimed he gave a false name because of his promise not to share her real name. Another reason skeptics doubt Dennis’ claims that he did not come forward until decades after the fact, and years after the Roswell incident was popularized. According to researchers Thom Carey and Dom Schmitt, several of his friends have come forward to say Dennis did share his story about the child-sized caskets soon after the Roswell incident occurred, although some claimed they thought he was joking. Carey and Schmitt included their accounts in the 2009 book Witness to Roswell.
Since then others have claimed to have seen aliens at Roswell, and there was even a famous video of the alleged autopsy of the Roswell aliens. However, the video was debunked, and the creators have admitted to having been paid to create the fake autopsy.
The most credible witness to claim aliens had crashed at Roswell was retired Army Colonel Philip Corso. He was a decorated officer with a long list of achievements in World War II. In his book, The Day After Roswell, published soon before his death, Corso claimed that in 1961, while serving as chief of the foreign technology department he was tasked with handling materials retrieved from the Roswell crash.
“I came into possession of what I refer to as the ‘Roswell File,’” Corso said. “This file contained field reports, medical autopsy reports and technological debris from the crash of an extraterrestrial vehicle in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.”
He says he farmed the material out to tech companies with U.S. Army contracts which went on to use the debris to develop technologies such as kevlar, night-vision, fiber optics, and computer chips, among others.
The companies Corso claims to have given the material to argue that the development of these technologies is well documented and do not include the use of extraterrestrial materials. Skeptics also point out that many of the witnesses to the alleged alien bodies only came forward after the Roswell incident was famous.
Whether or not aliens really crash landed in Roswell remains up for debate, but decades later the idea continues to inspire pop-culture and our ideas and dialogue regarding the potential for the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations. In a more cynical view, it can even be seen as enforcing trust issues between U.S. citizens and our government. It is a heavy burden for a small town in the middle of the New Mexico desert. Although, we shouldn’t feel too sorry for their unsought fame. If it wasn’t for the aliens, Roswell’s fame would be tied to being one of the first homes of the planes tasked with dropping the deadliest weapon known to humankind. Personally, I'd rather be known for aliens.
Starting with War of the Worlds all the through Roswell, New Mexico, pop culture has been captivated by aliens and UFOs.
Orson Welles’ 1939 radio play adaptation of H.G. Wells’ alien invasion classic, The War of the Worlds, is the stuff of entertainment legend.
The hour-long program for The Mercury Theatre on the Air on the CBS radio network was nothing if not innovative. Welles designed the narrative to play out as a series of breaking news bulletins that interrupted the typical evening programming. Authoritative-sounding news men described the events of the novel as though they were happening in the moment. The trustworthy voices described an unidentified flying object crash on a farm in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey. The newsmen described police and various onlookers as they witness that cylindrical object open, Martians emerge, and start killing people with a heat ray.
You can watch our video about the history of UFO storytelling right here, or keep reading for a more in-depth look!
Despite a clear disclaimer that the radio show was a drama, plenty of radio listeners were unaware and flooded local newspapers and emergency services with frightened correspondence. The Trenton police department reported receiving 2,000 calls within two hours.
Modern historians and observers have since theorized that the extent of the public’s panic was overblown or perhaps even exaggerated by CBS or Welles himself. According to a C.E. Hooper survey of 5,000 households conducted the night of the broadcast, only two percent of homes even listened to The War of the Worlds.
Still, sometimes the legend is more important to understanding how we understand ourselves than the reality. We have always imagined that Orson Welles was such a titanically talented artist that he could summon a riot through a mere hour of good dramatic storytelling. Or perhaps even we imagine that those silly folk from 1938 were so gullible and uncultured so as to be fooled by radio waves. There’s no way that a more modern audience would be fooled like that.
Except that a more modern audience was fooled like that… at least twice, according to another fantastic hour of radio storytelling, Radiolab’s “War of the Worlds” episode. In 1949, Leonardo Paez, the director of art for Rádio Quito in Ecuador, wanted to try his own Spanish language radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds.
On Saturday, February 12, 1949, Paez ran a version of the story designed more directly to trick the listener than Welles’ ever was. This time there was actual pandemonium. People took to the streets in a panic, which quickly changed to anger once they discovered they had been duped. An angry mob set the radio station on fire. Six people died in the inferno, including Paez’s girlfriend and nephew..
In 1968 Buffalo station WKBW tried out its own War of the Worlds broadcast. Buffalo police claim they received 4,000 frightened phone calls that night. 47 newspapers covered the story. The Canadian military even dispatched troops to the Peace Bridge, which connects Buffalo to Fort Erie, Ontario.
The story of The War of the Worlds, the H.G. Wells original and all of the various radio adaptation that followed it, isn’t just the story of artistic brilliance or human gullibility, though those both play are certainly part of it. The story behind The War of the Worlds and the reason for its longevity is that humanity is fascinated by aliens, UFOs, and the untold mysteries of the universe.
The War of the Worlds model of sci-fi storytelling keeps on popping up over and over again because aliens are some of the most complementary pieces possible in our storytelling. Aliens and the UFOs are the perfect combination of science and fiction. The scientific side of the human brain can appreciate that the universe is so big that there certainly must be other intelligent living beings within it. The fanciful, superstitious side of the human brain can imagine those beings living on Mars and wielding heat rays to destroy us all.
Not only that but if one of the basic tenets of storytelling is “us vs. them” who could possibly be a better “them” than the little humanoid creatures who live way, way, way, way, way out there?
Aliens and UFOs may seem a bit more en vogue now that The CW is launching its new series Roswell, New Mexicothis month. The truth though is that aliens and UFOs never really went away. They are always there in the back of our subconscious waiting for the moment we need a particularly satisfying “them.”
With that in mind, here are five more alien invasion, abduction, and visitation pieces of pop culture that have debuted between Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds and The CW’s Roswell, New Mexico. Each one has something slightly different to say based on the era from which it comes but also something timeless about humanity’s relationship to the alien.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Jack Finney’s 1954 sci-fi novel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers can give H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds a run for its money in terms of influence. While The War of the Worlds led to many radio adaptations (and a pretty good mid-2000s Steven Spielberg movie), Invasion of the Body Snatchers led to three direct film adaptations, two of which are all-time classics.
The first, Don Siegel’s 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, is perhaps the best. In the film, alien plant spores have fallen to Earth from space and have grown into large seedpods. Each pod will eventually create a replacement copy of each human on Earth. When fully developed, that pod will then “assimilate” the person nearest it.
Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers captures the theme of the novels brilliantly. If the classic alien story is “us vs. them,” Body Snatchers takes the “them” and turns them into “us.”
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind puts a fascinating twist on the classic alien invasion story. Whereas previous incarnations of aliens and UFOs have mostly wanted to dominate Earth and the humans who occupy it, the aliens of Spielberg’s film seem to want something more complex…and far less dangerous to humans.
Richard Dreyfuss stars as Roy Neary, an unassuming electrical lineman in Indiana who has a fateful encounter with a mysteriously celestial object one night and soon after becomes obsessed with UFOs. Before he knows it Roy is sculpting weird shapes out of mashed potatoes and dreaming about Devil’s Tower in Wyoming.
Truly a relic of the spiritual ‘70s, Close Encounters of the Third Kind leans hard on the supernatural, mystical nature of alien life. In that sense, the aliens of Spielberg’s Close Encounters aren’t that different our perception of God. They’re out there somewhere and they have answers for us. Pray that they share them.
Communion: A True Story (1987)
So much of the popular perceptions and myths surrounding alien abduction come from this 1987 book by Whitley Strieber. Strieber is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger. Communion, however, is purported to be non-fiction.
In Communion, Strieber describes his experience being abducted by aliens and there are plenty of familiar tropes. For one, Strieber experiences lost time and can only recover his memories of abduction via hypnosis. Through hypnosis, Strieber recalls being abducted from his cabin in New York state by humanoid alien beings. The aliens resemble what are now best known as “grays,” though Strieber compares them to the Sumerian goddess Ishtar. Communion would be adapted into a 1989 film of the same name starring Christopher Walken.
Communion and similar alien abduction stories of the ‘80s mark an important milestone in pop culture’s relationship to aliens. Rather than interacting with humanity on a grand scale like in The War of the Worlds, Body Snatchers, or Close Encounters, aliens are perfectly happy to deal with human beings on a one-to-one basis. Here the concept of communication starts to play an increasingly important role in stories of aliens and UFOs.
The X-Files (1993)
The X-Files was one of television’s first honest-to-goodness science fiction spectacles. Science fiction had always had a home on the smaller screen dating back to The Twilight Zone but Fox’s The X-Files proved that sci-fi could perform for mass audiences. Thanks, aliens!
The X-Files wasn’t purely about aliens and UFOs. Each of the shows nine seasons (eventually 11) featured FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigating all manner of paranormal phenomena. The show’s central mythology, however, was often reserved for exploring life outside of Earth.
The thing that made Fox Mulder a “believer” was the childhood abduction of his sister by aliens. Mulder would come to be abducted himself in the show’s seventh season. The aliens of The X-Files were in many ways continuations of the Close Encounter brand of aliens. These beings had answers to some questions that humanity simply didn’t.
Signs (2002)
M. Night Shyamalan’s third film, Signs, tackled another popular aspect of the alien phenomenon: crop circles. Crop circles are mysterious symbols that appear in farmers’ fields overnight. Upon their popular arrival in the ’70s, many posited that the symbols were created by and meant for aliens. After all, who would have greater need of messages etched onto the Earth’s surface than a UFO?
Of course, the original crop circles and pretty much all that sprung up after them were eventually revealed to be a hoax. That doesn’t stop Signs from asking the question: but what if they weren’t? In Signs, the Hess family in rural Pennsylvania must deal with the sudden appearance of a crop circle in one of their fields over night. Then the “signs” of an oncoming alien invasion begin to mount. Signs takes a very singular and humanist approach to the alien invasion trope. What matters more than the aliens and what they are trying to communicate is the Hess family and how they will deal the sudden encroachment of a higher power on their lives.
Fargo Season 2 (2015)
Fargo’s second season features one of the most recent pop culture iterations of UFOs but the show, itself is set in a far earlier, more alien-friendly era. Season 2 of Noah Hawley’s sort-of anthology series takes place in the upper Midwest in March, 1979 (just two years after Close Encounters of the Third Kind hit theaters).
The season follows Lou Solverson (Patrick Wilson), a Minnesota State Patrol trooper who finds himself in over his head when local crime family the Gerhardts run afoul the Kansas City mob and set off a chain of violence that affects the organized crime world and genteel Minnesota communities as well. If that doesn’t sound like a particularly science fiction concept, that’s because it isn’t. Fargo Season 2 is as grounded as it comes…except for this one thing. Periodically throughout the season, a UFO just suddenly appears, casting a light down upon the fresh northern snow. Several times characters see the thing, and in one notable instance, Lou’s life is saved when the UFO appears, distracting would-be murderers.
The show never fully explains the UFO’s presence or why it’s there. The closest it comes to doing so is in the season’s fascinating final scene. Lou’s wife, Betsy approaches her father Hank (Ted Danson) with some trepidation because she’s seen a disturbing room in his home that’s absolutelyfilledwith crude child-like drawings. He seems to have gone mad but Betsy gives the old man the benefit of the doubt and asks him what the pictures are all about. Hank answers that he’s seen violence all his life, from war in Korea to petty crimes in his role as police officer. It made him think about miscommunication and how it can be the root of all conflict. It all comes down to language. So his simple drawings were an attempt to create a universal language of pictures.
If anything, the inclusion of the UFO seems to be Fargo Season 2’s own meta commentary on miscommunication. We have no idea why it’s there or what it’s intentions are. And that’s not unusual for the human species among itself. Why should it be any different for celestial visitors?
Our planet’s magnetic field has weakened 15% in the past 200 years – which could be an early warning sign. If the poles flip, compasses will point south – and it could have significant effects on Earth’s power grid (although it’s not likely to happen immediately, despite doomsday-mongers’ obsession with the idea). A report by Undark suggests that the ‘flip’ could allow radiation to reach Earth’s surface, and play havoc with satellites. Scientists are using satellites to analyse the shifts in Earth’s magnetic field – and seen that the north magnetic pole is ‘turbulent and unpredictable’, Futurism reports.
PARTS of the Earth could be “uninhabitable” due to pronounced exposure to solar radiation if the world’s north and south magnetic poles shift, leaving citizens facing a “domino run of blackouts lasting decades”, it has been claimed.
Science author Alanna Mitchell has delivered the stark warning in an article that declares the Earth is “under attack from within” and that a shift in poles could have dire consequences.
Ms Mitchell warned that a shift means the important shield surrounding the Earth called a magnetic field could be “compromised for centuries”.
She wrote: “Because grids are so tightly coupled with each other, failure would race across the globe, causing a domino run of blackouts that could last for decades.
“The shield could be compromised for centuries while the poles move, allowing malevolent radiation closer to the surface of the planet for that whole time. Already, changes within the Earth have weakened the field over the South Atlantic so much that satellites exposed to the resulting radiation have experienced memory failure.
“It turns out that the dipole — the orderly two-pole magnetic field our compasses respond to — is under attack from within.
“The Earth’s magnetic field protects our planet from dangerous solar and cosmic rays, like a giant shield. As the poles switch places (or try to), that shield is weakened; scientists estimate that it could waste away to as little as a tenth of its usual force.”
Since the last shift, the world has changed drastically – there is now close to 7.6billion people inhabiting Earth, this is twice as many as in 1970 alone.
The European Space Agency’s Swarm trio claims that a flip could be imminent, according to their satellite data.
Scientists have added that molten iron and nickel are sapping vital energy from the Earth’s core – this is near the spot where the protective magnetic field stems from.
The situation inside the planet’s core appears to signify a flip.
The author went on: “That radiation isn’t hitting the surface yet. But at some point, when the magnetic field has dwindled enough, it could be a different story.”
Ms Mitchell cites from Daniel Baker, the director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, that believes the devastating galactic cosmic rays and ultraviolet B rays “from a radiation-damaged ozone layer” could kill “living creatures”.
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In addition to harmful results to life, “satellite timing systems that govern electric grids would be likely to fail”, according to Ms Mitchell.
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the last pole shift, the world has changed drastically
She added: “No lights. No computers. No cellphones. Even flushing a toilet or filling a car’s gas tank would be impossible. And that’s just for starters.”
Some have seen this problem coming for a long time and changed their entire way of life by going off-grid. They have found alternative sources such as solar, wind and diesel to power their homes and machinery. A majority of us, who have not gone off-grid, are making a concerted effort to avoid dependence on this ailing infrastructure and preparing for life without it.
The Earth is protected from harmful solar and cosmic rays thanks to the magnetic field – when the planet’s poles shift, which they typically do every 200,000 or 300,000 years, the proactive barrier is hampered.
Because the last flip occurred 780,000 years ago, to say Earth is due for a pole shift would be an understatement.
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European Space Agency’s Swarm trio claims that a flip could be imminent
The author explained: “Today, we know that the poles have changed places hundreds of times, most recently 780,000 years ago. (Sometimes, the poles try to reverse positions but then snap back into place, in what is called an excursion. The last time was about 40,000 years ago.)
“We also know that when they flip next time, the consequences for the electrical and electronic infrastructure that runs modern civilisation will be dire. The question is when that will happen.
“Geophysicists have tried to answer that question through satellite imagery and math. They have figured out how to peer deep inside the Earth, to the edge of the molten, metallic core where the magnetic field is continually being generated.”
Now, contrast what I’ve explained the effects would be with what doomsday folks are saying, such as this article:
“As the shift approaches, things begin to go out of balance, and the magnetic field begins to fluctuate significantly over a very short period of time (about 3 – 6 months). This would be like a full moon getting bigger and bigger every day. What happens then is that people start to go crazy emotionally. This breaks down economical and social structures on the planet because it is only people who keep these structures together.”
So what about a large external magnetic force? There’s nothing large enough that’s nearby. Sure, if we were to pass by a magnetar, we’ll be in trouble. Those have magnetic fields on the order of ~1015 times stronger than Earth’s. But the sun’s magnetic field really shows no evidence of affecting ours to the point of flipping it. There is no evidence at all – historic or validated theoretical – to show that the sun’s magnetic field, which is only up to ~10x stronger than Earth’s, can flip ours. After all, if it could, then it would every 11 years, since that’s how often the sun’s field flips.
So I’ve now given two ways that this really could happen – if a planet-mass object or an extraordinarily large magnetic field were to hit us or come near us, that could affect Earth’s rotation or magnetic field to the point where we would get a magnetic pole reversal (or, I guess a really big “shift”). However, we now again get to the question of evidence: There is none. We would know of a planet-sized (or larger) object that is close enough to come near us in 4 years (the end of 2012), or even 40 years. You can read post on the Real Planet X for more information on that. Similarly, we would see effects of a gigantic magnetic field nearby that’s close enough to affect us in the near future, something we also do not see any evidence for.
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Wetenschappers ontdekken gigantische Mayastad onder de jungle. Welke geheimen liggen hier verborgen?
Wetenschappers ontdekken gigantische Mayastad onder de jungle. Welke geheimen liggen hier verborgen?
Op internet circuleert momenteel een video over een reusachtige Mayastad die is ontdekt in Guatemala. De stad lag eeuwenlang verborgen onder de jungle.
Onderzoekers spraken van de belangrijkste ontwikkeling in de Maya-archeologie in 100 jaar.
Archeologen hebben de jungle in de regio Peten in Guatemala gescand met behulp van Lidar, een radartechnologie die werkt met laserlicht.
Op deze manier wisten ze een verborgen netwerk van piramides, huizen, verhoogde snelwegen en terrassen te ontdekken. Het zou gaan om ruim 60.000 onbekende bouwwerken.
Bergen verzet
De onderzoekers stellen op basis van de vondst dat het Maya-rijk veel omvangrijker was dan altijd is gedacht.
Met een complex stelsel van irrigatiekanalen en terrassen werd intensieve landbouw bedreven, op een schaal die enorme aantallen mensen kon voeden en die het landschap ingrijpend veranderde.
“De oude Maya’s hebben nooit gebruikgemaakt van het wiel of van lastdieren, maar deze beschaving heeft letterlijk bergen verzet,” zei archeoloog Marcello Canuto van de Tulane University.
Belangrijkste
“We gingen van de arrogante westerse houding uit dat complexe beschavingen niet in de tropen kunnen opbloeien,” zei hij.
“Maar door het bewijs van Lidar-opnamen kunnen we nu aannemen dat zich complexe samenlevingen in de tropen hebben gevormd,” voegde hij toe.
Archeoloog Thomas Garrison van het Ithaca College liet weten dat deze vondst de belangrijkste in ruim 100 jaar is.
Honderden verborgen steden
Archeoloog Francisco Estrada-Belli zei: “We hebben 100 jaar nodig om al deze gegevens te analyseren en echt te begrijpen wat we hier eigenlijk zien.”
De onderzoekers moeten nog een groot deel van de jungle onderzoeken en verwacht wordt dat er nog honderden verborgen steden ontdekt zullen worden.
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Maya structures are scattered across the jungle in this LiDAR image taken over northern Guatemala. Picture: National Geographic
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A three-dimensional representation of the ‘echoes’ returned by Mayan ruins buried under the forests of Guatemala reveal a ceremonial centre, roads and defensive works. Picture: National Geographic/The Lost Maya City
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No archaeologist has yet trod this city’s streets. But modern laser sensors have given them a detailed view of an entire landscape of the lost Central American Mayan civilisation. Picture: National Geographic/The Lost Maya City
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The extent of one of the Mayan ceremonial centres — complete with several step pyramids — is shown in this 3D LiDAR scan image. Picture: National Geographic/The Lost Maya City
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This digital 3D image provided by Guatemala's Mayan Heritage and Nature Foundation shows the Mayan archaeological site at Tikal in Guatemala created using LiDAR aerial mapping technology.
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“This may indicate that the radio emission is produced in a disk of infalling gas rather than by a radio jet. However, that would make Sgr A* an exception compared to other radio-emitting black holes. The alternative could be that the radio jet is pointing almost directly at us.”
This can’t be good news. Astronomers using a new array of telescopes for the first time managed to get a really good look at the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy and discovered that it has its radio jet pointed almost directly at planet Earth. Why? A better question might be “WTF does this mean and shouldn’t we be wearing foil while reading this?”
In a press release from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, which participated in this project, Sara Issaoun, a graduate student at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and led author of the study published in the Astrophysical Journal, describes what she noticed when reviewing data collected by the worldwide array of telescopes, including the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, while pointed at the formerly foggy center-of-the-Milky-Way black hole known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). It’s “formerly foggy” because the team used a technique called very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) which allowed them to effectively combine dozens of telescopes (there are 66 in ALMA alone) into one giant virtual telescope the size of the Earth and peer through the fog.
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
“Even though scattering blurs and distorts the image of Sgr A*, the incredible resolution of these observations allowed us to pin down the exact properties of the scattering. We could then remove most of the effects from scattering and begin to see what things look like near the black hole.”
Michael Johnson of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics developed the technique used to remove the scattering — an effect caused by density irregularities in the ionized material along the line of sight between Sgr A* and the Earth. Once the team got a clear view of Sgr A*, they saw that the radio jet spewing material and strong radio waves from the black hole at close to the speed of light was coming from a spot so tiny that the only way it could possibly be seen on Earth is if it was pointed directly or almost directly at us. (See the simulated images with scattering removed here.)
Sagittarius A*
Are we all gonna die? Well, yes … but not from the radio jet pointed at us by the evil Sgr A* black hole. It’s 25,640 light years away, so it’s not going to hurt even if you stare directly at it through the world’s larges telescope without proper eyeshades. However, researchers like Michael Johnson are absolutely giddy over the possibilities.
“If ALMA has the same success in joining the Event Horizon Telescope at even higher frequencies, then these new results show that interstellar scattering will not stop us from peering all the way down to the event horizon of the black hole.”
Will they see through the wormhole into a far corner of the universe? Into another dimension? Or will they see another group of researchers from the future peering back at them?
Will those future researchers be pointing and laughing?
In 2017, NASA scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center published a study warning that because of recent anomalies in the Earth’s protective magnetic field, dangerous clouds of cosmic radiationcould soon pose serious health risks to airline crews and passengers flying at high altitudes. Since then, several airliners have faced lawsuits from crews who say theyexperienced unexplained illnessesas a result of their time in the air. Are the two connected?
The Earth’s magnetic field serves as a shield against cosmic rays, but that field is weakening in places for reasons still unknown.
Hard to say, but a recent spate of mysterious illnesses on flights sure makes it seem like something weird is going on aboard airliners lately, whether or not it’s related to NASA’s 2017 warnings about cosmic radiation. On January 2, multiple passengers aboard Frontier Airlines Flight 1397 flight from Cleveland, Ohio to Tampa, Florida fell ill with a mysterious illness. Dozens of passengers suddenly became nauseated and many of them vomited, prompting the plane to land early. The sick passengers were moved to the front of the plane for triage while the rest had to be moved to the rear of the aircraft where they waited to deplane for 90 minutes.
Good thing those tiny paper bags were there among the germ-infested magazines.
It’s still unclear what caused the passengers of Flight 1397 to fall ill, but Frontier Airlines believe it may have something to do with a water fountain at the airport. Officials from the City of Cleveland stated they would conduct an investigation, but there has been no update in the weeks that followed.
Just this week, a Dubai-bound Ural Airlines aircraft which departed from Moscow, Russia had to make an emergency landing after many passengers all fell ill simultaneously. About 90 minutes into the flight, many passengers suddenly found it difficult to breathe and became nauseated. Some of those who fell ill were reported to have “greatly dilated pupils.”
Nausea is a symptom of radiation poisoning – and just about every other form of poisoning. Airline cabins and noxious fumes go hand-in-hand sometimes.
One passenger says that as more and more people fell ill, a sense of dread filled the cabin:
I was woken up by a young woman screaming for assistance. She yelled and screamed ‘Help, help!’ because her husband felt ill. He was feeling really bad. He was suffocating and couldn’t breathe in. His face went the colour green — then a panic swept through the plane.
Similar to the Frontier Flight 1397 incident, this one currently remains unexplained. Mid-flight illnesses are nothing new, and there are plenty of things aboard a modern airliner that could make passengers ill including the stink of other passengers’ rotting flesh. Still, the sudden uptick in mid-flight illnesses coincides with recent discoveries of more and more anomalies in the Earth’s magnetic field. Could NASA’s warning about cosmic radiation finally be coming true?
Reptilian Underground Bases "They Are Living Below Us"
There is a hidden reptilian empire which consists of alien cultures and lost civilizations, their presence explains many of the myths of gods walking among humans.
The reptoids may have sought out refuge underground after Earth underwent climate changes some 12,000 years ago.
The Shanidar Cave is a vast archaeological complex located on Bradost Mountain in the Erbil Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan.
The remains of 10 Neanderthals, dating from 35,000 to 65,000 years ago have been found within the Shanidar Cave.
The cave also contains two later "proto Neolothie" cemeteries, one of which dates back about 10,600 years and contains 35 'humanoids' one such skill is extremely elongated and considered the Reptilian Elongated Race of Sumerians. Nobody know how vast the complex goes underground.
There are many accounts through history of lizard people and snake like bipedal's from Sumeria to the Hopi Indians.
We will also explore the many accounts at the Dulce underground facility and how this all ties together.
We hope you will become aware of many facts you may have been previously unaware of in this 37-minute Reptilian Documentary.
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Secret film to prove that Russian KGB found Alien mummy on Giza Plateau
Secret film to prove that Russian KGB found Alien mummy on Giza Plateau
Conspiracy theorists believe that the builders of the Cheops Pyramid and the other two buildings were visitors from a different star. This would at least explain why the three pyramids were built according to the stars of the Orion constellation.
A sensational documentary film by the former Soviet secret service KGB could possibly shed light on the situation. By Frank Schwede.
During a secret mission under the cover name “Project ISIS” in 1961, KGB staff, along with a group of military experts, found a sarcophagus containing a strange mummy that was apparently worshipped as a god by ancient Egyptians and had already died in 11,000 BC.
Not only the story is mysterious, but also the way the footage was made public.
You have to know that the mission took place during the Cold War. And according to numerous UFO researchers, the Soviet leadership was obviously concerned that the USA was already in possession of alien technology.
In the context of the secret mission, which was led by Sami Saraf, by the way, a close confidant of the Egyptian President Abdel Nasser at that time, one hoped to come across such high technology as well. How one arrived at the assumption whether there was a tipster is not known.
It is assumed that the filmstrip fell into the hands of the Russian mafia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was the talk of a lot of money and it is also said that the material came directly from the archives of the KGB.
What was really in the sarcophagus is still controversial today. Critics assume that it was an Egyptian nobleman or a king, high-ranking KGB employees spoke of the mortal remains of an alien.
Numerous extraterrestrial artifacts with hieroglyphic inscriptions are said to have been found in the tomb. According to an expert in writing, the text refers to the return of the winged deities.
In order to understand the content of this message, one must consider in this case that the term spaceship did not yet exist at that time. So, in those days, a very imaginative language was used. But if one researches the royal papyrus Turin, also known as the Turin royal list, one comes across the name Osiris at some point.
Osiris was worshipped as a god and he was the first Egyptian king of the first dynasty. According to ancient Egyptian legend, he descended from the sky in a flying ship. Was God Osiris in truth perhaps an emissary of one of the three stars from the constellation Orion?
A new theory holds that Earth might have received the elements it needed for life to form from a massive collision with a Mars-sized planet.
Credit: Image courtesy of Rice University
The ancient collision that formed the moon may also have brought with it all the ingredients needed for life, a new study finds.
Over 4.4 billion years ago, a Mars-size body smashed into a primitive Earth, launching our moon into permanent orbit around our planet.
But a new study finds that this event could have had a much larger impact than previously thought. The collision could also have imbued our planet with thecarbon, nitrogenandsulfurneeded for life to form, scientists reported today (Jan. 23) in the journalScience Advances.
Back then, Earth was a little like Mars is today. It had a core and it had a mantle, but its noncore portion was very poor in volatile elements such as nitrogen, carbon and sulfur. [Science Fact or Fantasy? 20 Imaginary Worlds]
Elements in the noncore parts of our planet, called the "bulk silicate Earth," can intermingle with each other, but they never interact with the elements of the core. Though some volatiles existed in the core, they couldn't make their way to the planet’s outer layers. And then a collision happened.
One theory holds that special kinds of meteorites, called carbonaceous chondrites, slammed into Earth and gave the bulk silicate Earth these volatile elements. This idea rests on the fact that the ratios of different versions — or isotopes — of nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen seem to match those found on these meteorites. So, proponents of the theory argue, the meteorites must be the source of these elements.
But there's just one problem: the ratio of carbon to nitrogen is off.
While the meteorites have about 20 parts carbon to one part nitrogen, Earth's noncore material has about 40 parts carbon to each part nitrogen, according to study author Damanveer Grewal, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
An ancient collision
So, the study authors' group decided to test another theory: What if another planet brought the goodies?
"Earth could have collided with many different kinds of planets," Grewal told Live Science. Could one of those planets have given the bulk silicate Earth the correct proportion of elements?
If this collision happened, the two planetary cores would have merged and the two mantles would have merged.
So, they set out to create a possible planet that could have collided with our own.
In the lab, in a special kind of furnace, Grewal and his team created the high-temperature, high-pressure conditions under which a planet’s core might form. In capsules of graphite (a form of carbon), they combined metallic powder (which represents the core and includes elements such as iron bound to nitrogen) with different proportions of silicate powder (a mixture of silicon and oxygen, meant to mimic the hypothetical planet’s mantle).
By varying the temperature, the pressure and the proportions of sulfur in their experiments, the team created scenarios of how these elements could have divided between the core and the rest of the hypothetical planet.
They found that carbon is much less willing to bond with iron in the presence of high concentrations of nitrogen and sulfur, while nitrogen bonds with iron even when a lot of sulfur is present. So for nitrogen to be excluded from the core, and be present in other parts of the planet, it should have contained very high concentrations of sulfur, Grewal said.
They then fed these possibilities into a simulation, along with information about how different volatile elements behave, and the present-day amounts of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur in Earth’s outer layers.
After running over 1 billion simulations, they found that the scenario that made the most sense — the one that had the most probable timing and could lead to a correct ratio of carbon to nitrogen — was one that posited a collision and merger of Earth with a Mars-size planet that contained about 25 to 30 percent sulfur in its core.
This theory "is very probable," said Célia Dalou, an experimental petrologist at the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques in France, who was not a part of the study. "This work is a very successful result of years of research of various different teams."
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