Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
21-03-2019
The Incredible Challenge of Landing Heavy Payloads On Mars
The Incredible Challenge of Landing Heavy Payloads On Mars
It’s too bad Mars is such an interesting place, because it’s actually one of the most difficult places to visit in the Solar System, especially if you want to bring along a lot of luggage. That planet is a graveyard of missions that didn’t quite make it.
As our ambitions grow, and we think about exploring Mars with humans – maybe even future colonists – we’re going to need to solve one of the biggest problems in space exploration.
Successfully landing heavy payloads on the surface of Mars is really really hard to do.
There are a bunch of challenges with Mars, including its lack of a protective magnetosphere and lower surface gravity. But one of the biggest is its thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide.
If you were standing on the surface of Mars without a spacesuit, you’d freeze to death and asphyxiate from a lack of oxygen. But you’d also experience less than 1% the atmospheric pressure you enjoy here on Earth.
And it turns out, this thin atmosphere is making it incredibly challenging to get significant payloads safely down to the surface of the Red Planet. In fact, only 53% of missions to Mars have actually worked out properly.
So let’s talk about how missions to Mars have worked in the past, and I’ll show you what the problem is.
Landing on Mars Is the Worst
Historically, missions to Mars are launched from Earth during the flight windows that open up every two years or so when Earth and Mars are closer together. ExoMars flew in 2016, InSight in 2018 and the Mars 2020 rover will fly in, well, 2020.
The missions follow interplanetary transfer trajectory designed to either get there the fastest, or with the least amount of fuel.
As the spacecraft enters the atmosphere of Mars, it’s going tens of thousands of kilometers per hour. It has to somehow lose all that velocity before landing gently on the surface of the Red Planet.
Here on Earth, you can use the thick Earthican atmosphere to slow your descent, bleeding off your velocity with a heat shield. The space shuttle’s tiles were designed to absorb the heat of re-entry, as the 77 tonne orbiter went from 28,000 km/h to zero.
A similar technique could be used on Venus or Titan, where they have thick atmospheres.
The Moon, without any atmosphere at all is relatively straightforward to land on as well. Without any atmosphere at all, there’s no need for a heat shield, you just use propulsion to slow your orbit and land on the surface. As long as you bring enough propellant, you can stick the landing.
Back to Mars, with a spacecraft hurtling into its thin atmosphere at more than 20,000 kilometers per hour.
Curiosity Is the Limit
Traditionally, missions have started their descent with an aeroshell to remove some of the spacecraft’s velocity. The heaviest mission ever sent to Mars was Curiosity, which weighed in at 1 metric tonne, or 2,200 pounds.
When it entered the Martian atmosphere, it was going 5.9 kilometers a second, or 22,000 kilometers an hour.
Curiosity had the largest aeroshell ever sent to Mars, measuring 4.5 meters across. This huge aeroshell was tilted at an angle, allowing the spacecraft to maneuver as it hits the thin atmosphere of Mars, aiming for a specific landing zone.
At about 131 kilometers altitude, the spacecraft would start firing thrusters to perfect adjust the trajectory as it approached the surface of Mars.
About 80 seconds of flight through atmosphere, the temperatures on the heat shield rose to 2,100 degrees celsius. In order to not melt, the heat shield used a special material called Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator, or PICA. The same material SpaceX uses for its Dragon Capsules, by the way.
Once it had slowed its velocity to lower than Mach 2.2, the spacecraft deployed the largest parachute ever built for a mission to Mars – 16 meters across. This parachute could generate 29,000 kilograms of drag force, slowing it down even more.
The suspension lines were made of Technora and Kevlar, which are pretty much the strongest and most heat resistant materials we know of.
Then it jettisoned its parachute and used rocket engines to slow its descent even more. When it was close enough, Curiosity deployed a skycrane that lowered the rover down gently to the surface.
This is the quick version. If you want an extensive overview of what Curiosity went through landing on Mars, I highly recommend you check out Emily Lakdawalla’s “The Design and Engineering of Curiosity”.
Curiosity only weighed one tonne.
Going Heavier Doesn’t Scale
Want to do the same thing with heavier payloads? I’m sure you’re imagining bigger aeroshells, bigger parachutes, bigger skycranes.
In theory, the SpaceX Starship will send 100 tonnes of colonists and their stuff to the surface of Mars.
Here’s the problem. The methods of decelerating in the Martian atmosphere don’t scale up very well.
First, let’s start with parachutes. To be honest, at 1-tonne, Curiosity is about as heavy as you can get using a parachute. Any heavier and there just aren’t any materials engineers can use that can handle the deceleration load.
A couple of months ago, NASA engineers celebrated the successful test of the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment, or ASPIRE. This is the parachute that’ll be used for the Mars 2020 rover mission.
They put the parachute made of advanced composite fabrics, like nylon, Technora and Kevlar, onto a sounding rocket and launched it to an altitude of 37 kilometers, mimicking the conditions the spacecraft will experience as it arrives at Mars.
The parachute deployed in a fraction of a second, and fully inflated, experienced 32,000 kilograms of force. If you were on board at the time, you would experience 3.6 times as much force as crashing into a wall going 100 km/h wearing your seatbelt. In other words, you wouldn’t survive.
If the spacecraft was any heavier, it would need to be made of impossible composite fabrics. And forget about passengers.
NASA has been trying out different ideas to land heavier payloads on Mars, like, as much as 3 tonnes.
One idea is called the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator, or LDSD. The idea is to use a much larger aerodynamic decelerator that would inflate around the spacecraft like a bouncy castle as it enters the Martian gravity.
In 2015, NASA actually tested this technology, carrying a prototype vehicle on a balloon to an altitude of 36 kilometers. The vehicle then fired its solid rocket, carrying it to an altitude of 55 kilometers.
As it was rocketing upwards, it inflated its Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator to a diameter of 6 meters (or 20 feet), which then slowed it back down to Mach 2.4. Unfortunately its parachute failed to deploy properly, so it crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
That’s progress. If they can actually work out the engineering and physics, we could someday see 3 tonne spacecraft landing on the surface of Mars. Three whole tonnes.
More Propulsion, Less Cargo
The next idea to scale up a Mars landing is to use more propulsion. In theory, you can just carry more fuel, fire your rockets when you arrive at Mars, and cancel all that velocity. The problem, of course, is that the more mass you have to carry to decelerate, the less mass that you can actually land on the surface of Mars.
The SpaceX Starship is expected to use a propulsive landing to get 100 tonnes down to the surface of Mars. Because it’s taking a more direct, faster path, the Starship will hit the Martian atmosphere faster than 8.5 km/s and then use aerodynamic forces to slow its entry.
It doesn’t have to go this fast, of course. The Starship could use aerobraking, passing through the upper atmosphere several times to bleed off velocity. In fact, this is the method that orbital spacecraft going to Mars use.
But then passengers on board would need to spend weeks for the spacecraft to slow down and go into orbit around Mars, and then to descend through the atmosphere.
According to Elon Musk, his delightfully unintuitive strategy for handling all that heat is to build the spacecraft out of stainless steel, and then tiny holes in the shell will bleed methane fuel out to keep the windward side of the spacecraft cool.
Once it sheds enough velocity, it’ll turn, fire its Raptor engines and land gently on the surface of Mars.
Aim For the Ground, Pull Up at the Last Minute
Every kilogram of fuel the spacecraft uses to slow its descent to the surface of Mars is a kilogram of cargo that it can’t carry to the surface.
I’m not sure there’s any viable strategy that will easily land heavy payloads on the surface of Mars. Smarter people than me think it’s pretty much impossible without using enormous amounts of propellant.
That said, Elon Musk thinks there’s a way. And before we discount his ideas, let’s watch the twin side boosters from the Falcon Heavy rocket land perfectly together.
And pay no attention to what happened to the central booster.
A new study from the Aerospace Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign proposes that missions to Mars could take advantage of the thicker atmosphere that’s closer to the surface of Mars.
In their paper titled, “Entry Trajectory Options for High Ballistic Coefficient Vehicles at Mars”, the researchers propose that spacecraft flying to Mars don’t need to be in such a hurry to get rid of their velocity.
As the spacecraft is screaming through the atmosphere, it’ll still be able to generate a lot of aerodynamic lift, which could be used to steer it through the atmosphere.
They ran the calculations and found that the ideal angle was to just point the spacecraft straight down and dive towards the surface. Then, at the last possible moment, pull up using the aerodynamic lift to fly sideways through the thickest part of the atmosphere.
This increases the drag and lets you get rid of the most amount of velocity before you turn on your descent engines and complete your powered landing.
That sounds, um, fun.
If humanity is going to build a viable future on the surface of Mars, we’re going to need to crack this problem. We’re going to need to develop a series of technologies and techniques that make landing on Mars more reliable and safe.
I suspect it’s going to be much much more challenging than people are expecting, but I’m looking forward to the ideas that will be tested in the coming years.
A big thank you to Nancy Atkinson who covered this topic here on Universe Today more than a decade ago, and inspired me to work on this video.
In good news, scientists have not created a remorseless Terminator-style killing machine for real. In other good news, they've figured out how to make a liquid metal that can stretch in all sorts of directions. It looks like a sci-fi visual effect made real.
Robert Patrick as the liquid metal T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
Video screenshot by CNET
The shiny liquid metal can be manipulated with magnets. It stretches like the fictional T-1000 robot from Terminator 2, and can also be used to complete a circuit.
Scientists at Beihang University in China led the research project.
"They added iron particles to a droplet of a gallium, indium and tin alloy immersed in hydrochloric acid," the ACS reports. "A gallium oxide layer formed on the droplet surface, which lowered the surface tension of the liquid metal." This allows it to stretch out and move without breaking apart.
We're a long way off from morphing androids, but the researchers believe this sort of liquid metal could one day be incorporated into soft robotics. You can almost hear it whispering, "I'll be back."
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L’apparition du mystérieux OVNI “TR-3B” provoque la panique au sujet de “Plans Militaires Américains Top-Secrets”
L’apparition du mystérieux OVNI “TR-3B” provoque la panique au sujet de “Plans Militaires Américains Top-Secrets”
Il y a eu une augmentation choquante du nombre d’observations présumées d’OVNI triangulaires de type TR-3B dans le monde entier – avec les plus récentes images montrant l’avion près d’une base aérienne américaine dans l’Ohio.
Une augmentation récente du nombre d’observations d’avions de type TR-3B présumés a déclenché une panique dans les milieux complotistes en ligne. Les experts craignent que “quelque chose ne se prépare” au cœur des inquiétudes suscitées par les expériences militaires américaines top-secrètes impliquant potentiellement des extraterrestres. Michael, de la chaîne YouTube MrMBB333, a publié sur Youtube la dernière observation du présumé TR-3B à Toledo, Ohio.
Il a dit :
“D’après le type qui a filmé ça, il avait fait au moins trois fois le tour de son quartier.”
“On dirait un triangle parfait. On ne voit rien d’autre que les lumières.”
“J’ai essayé de mettre différents filtres de lumière pour obtenir une image plus claire, mais tout ce l’on voit sont les lumières vives.”
“Nous en voyons beaucoup ces derniers temps, surtout dans l’Ohio.”
“Il se passe quelque chose.”
La vidéo montre que l’objet possède une grande lumière au centre du triangle, une lumière plus petite à l’avant et trois autres à l’arrière.
Les spectateurs ont remarqué que les “vaisseaux en forme de triangle sont partout de nos jours”.
Un utilisateur a dit : “J’ai l’impression que j’allais commencer à voir beaucoup plus de ce genre de choses bientôt.”
L’observation a eu lieu à quelques kilomètres seulement de la base aérienne de Wright-Patterson, ce qui soulève des inquiétudes quant à la participation militaire américaine.
Les TR-3B sont fréquents dans les observations d’OVNI en tant qu’objets triangulaires noirs, silencieux et de grande taille, souvent observés la nuit.
Selon des fonctionnaires du gouvernement, le TR-3B “n’existe pas”.
La théorie autour de ces vaisseaux prétend qu’ils sont fabriqués dans des bases militaires top-secrètes comme la Zone 51 dans le Nevada, via la rétro-ingénierie des technologies extraterrestres.
D’autres prétendent qu’il s’agit de vrais OVNI pilotés par des extraterrestres en visite sur Terre.
Il y a eu d’autres observations d’OVNI triangulaires récemment en Russie et en Caroline du Nord.
L'apparition du mystérieux OVNI "TR-3B" provoque la panique au sujet de "Plans Militaires Américains Top-Secrets" Il y a eu une augmentation choquante du nombre d'observations présumées d'OVNI ...
Piloot spot mysterieus vliegend object boven Las Vegas met nachtkijker. Luister naar de reactie van de luchtverkeersleiding
Foto: Wikimedia Commons
Piloot spot mysterieus vliegend object boven Las Vegas met nachtkijker. Luister naar de reactie van de luchtverkeersleiding
Een piloot van de Amerikaanse luchtambulance zag op 16 maart 2019 iets vreemds in de lucht ten westen van Las Vegas.
De helikopterpiloot kon het ongeïdentificeerde object waarnemen dankzij zijn nachtkijker.
Hij nam contact op met de luchtverkeersleiding, maar daar zeiden ze dat ze niets op de radar konden zien in het gebied waar hij het object zag.
Verbaasd
Toen de luchtverkeersleider hoorde dat de piloot het object alleen kon zien met zijn nachtkijker, reageerde hij verbaasd.
Beluister hieronder het gesprek tussen de piloot en luchtverkeersleider:
De piloot zegt dat hij iets heeft gespot boven het gebied rond Southern Hills, een ziekenhuis in het zuidwesten van Las Vegas.
Geweldig
Hij merkt op dat het object op zo’n twee kilometer hoogte vliegt en onverlicht is.
De luchtverkeersleider reageert dat hij het niet ziet. De piloot zegt vervolgens dat hij het alleen kan zien met zijn nachtkijker.
“Oooo, dat is geweldig,” zegt de luchtverkeersleider.
Ballon
Website The Drive gaat proberen meer informatie over het incident te krijgen.
De piloot dacht dat het zou kunnen gaan om een soort ballon, maar het is nogal vreemd om ’s avonds op een afstand van enkele kilometers een onverlichte ballon te spotten met een nachtkijker, aldus de site.
Geen toegang
De website merkt op dat de hoogte ook interessant is, aangezien twee kilometer niet bepaald laag is.
De basis waar de piloot is gestationeerd wil geen commentaar geven en ook krijgt de site geen toegang tot de piloot.
We kennen allemaal de beroemde piramides van Gizeh en de daarbij behorende sfinx.
Wat nu als er een tweede sfinx zou blijken te zijn?
Het volgende artikel is afkomstig van auteur Snavelman (dank!), van wie al eerder een artikel publiceerden.
Het echte gezicht van de Sfinx
Het begon allemaal jaren geleden, met een droom waarin ik het Gizeh plateau zag met de piramides. En in die droom stond ik vóór de grote sfinx.
Maar ik zag op de romp niet het hoofd van de sfinx zoals die nu is, maar met een leeuwenkop. De kop die ik zag was uniek, precies zoals de beelden van Anubis,Ra of Bastet hun eigen typische kenmerken hebben. Ik zou het beeld uit duizenden herkennen. En ik heb dus ook heel lang in boeken gezocht of ik mijn gedroomde beeld ergens kon vinden. Dat gebeurde echter niet en toen gaf ik het maar op. Pas na jaren, toen ik per toeval een boek over Egypte oppakte in een winkel, zag ik een figuur genaamd Neb-Neru. Dit was een staande leeuwenfiguur in een triade (een set van drie figuren) namelijk de triade van Hery-Maät ofwel 'de man die waarheid beveelt'. Deze afbeelding kan gevonden worden in de tombe van Khaem-Vaset, een zoon van Ramses II.
Toen ik erbij las dat Neb-Neru vertaald wordt als 'heer van het verschrikkelijke' ging er bij mij een licht aan. Dit is namelijk dezelfde benaming als de huidige Arabische naam voor de grote sfinx; Abu'l Hol. Ik had daarmee een bevestiging dat de huidige staande sfinx van het Gizeh plateau Neb-Neru is. Ik dacht direct dat 'heer van het verschrikkelijke' beter vertaald kon worden als 'heer van de ondergang'. Want de grote leeuwensfinx kijkt immers naar de baan van de zon aan de hemel. En de huidige sfinx Neb-Neru kijkt vandaag de dag naar het opkomstpunt van de zon in het Oosten. Neb-Heru, de heer van de opgang, moest er dan óók geweest zijn en deze keek in vroeger dagen naar het Oosten. Zou hij vandaag de dag nog staan, dan zou hij dus naar het Westen kijken. Ik kom hier nog op terug. Met de afbeelding die ik nu had heb ik een reconstruktie gemaakt van de originele leeuwenkop. Dat is dus niet met het huidige menselijke hoofd van een farao erop, waarvan men aanneemt dat die van koning Cheops (Khufu) is. U kunt zelf wel zien dat dit beeld niet klopt. Het gezicht van de Farao is duidelijk veel te klein voor de rest van het lichaam, en is daarom vermoedelijk gemodelleerd uit de resten van een eerder hoofd. Maar hieronder zie je dan hoe het echte beeld er waarschijnlijk uit heeft gezien.
Voetplaat van de tweede sfinx De bewakers van de onderwereld van Osiris, de Duat, ook wel de "heren van de landbouwgrond", werden Aker's (akkers) genoemd en dat lijkt niet toevallig op Nederlands. Maar dat is even een ander verhaal. Akers stonden altijd ergens als duo. Dus Neru móet zijn evenbeeld Heru gehad hebben aan de andere kant van het Gizeh plateau. Dit was voor mij reden om te gaan zoeken op foto's van Gizeh. En ik heb de exacte verblijfplaats van Heru ook gevonden, door het Gizeh plateau te spiegelen op het centrale punt naast de grote piramide. Op luchtfoto's zie je een basement liggen op de plaats waar die moet zijn, de voetplaat van Heru. Dit basement is rechthoekig en precies even groot als het grondvlak van de huidige sfinx aan de andere kant. Dit kan de theorie van twee sfinxen bevestigen. Sterker nog, het lijkt op deze foto of er aan de linkerkant twee uitsteeksels zijn, die de voorpoten van de sfinx geweest kunnen zijn!
Horus en Seth De namen neb-Heru en neb-Neru zijn afgeleiden van de goden Horus en Seth. Mijn vermoeden daarbij is dat er witte verf op Heru zat, en zwarte verf op Neru zoals we bijvoorbeeld de zwarte Anubis kennen, en de witte Osiris. De heer van de ondergang moet zwart zijn geweest. Het zijn namelijk allebei vertegenwoordigers van één kant van de volledige cyclus van een etmaal. De ene staat voor de oprijzende zon, de andere voor de ondergaande zon. Eén leeuw staat symbool voor de dag, de andere voor de nacht. De piramides zelf vertegenwoordigen dan het middelpunt van de zon op de dag. De term 'Phyr-a-mid' ofwel het 'vuur op het midden', zegt het eigenlijk al. In feite zagen de makers de baan van de zon langs de hemel als een soort van gevecht tussen Horus en Seth. Na het bereiken van het middagpunt begon Seth aan het neerhalen van de zon, wat werd gezien als de strijd met Horus. De grote sfinx krijgt in dit geheel ineens een duidelijke betekenis, maar de piramide zelf ook, die precies in het midden ervan staat. Denk dan eens aan de Engelse term "Sunset" ofwel zonsondergang. Tevens lijkt Seth ook de bron van de latere Satan, de engel van duisternis, en Horus nam de vorm aan van Jezus in het Christendom. In feite zien we op het Gizeh plateau dus de veel oudere Egyptische versie van de strijd tussen Jezus en Satan. Wat dit betekent voor de waarheid over het Christendom, laat ik maar aan u.
Het geheim van Harry Potter In de moderne Harry Potter films worden Heru en Neru verbeeld door Harry Potter en Lord Voldemort! Harry is Heru, de heer van de opgaande zon ofwel Horus, en Voldemort is dan natuurlijk Neru, de heer van de duisternis ofwel Seth. Voldemort's gezicht, met de sterke onderkin en een afgekapte neus en met het platte voorhoofd, is overduidelijk gemodelleerd op het hoofd van de grote sfinx in Gizeh. Dit betekent dat de makers van de films dit gegeven van twee sfinxen in Gizeh al wisten, en het verwerkt hebben in een filmreeks. Daarbij is het niet toevallig dat de filmreeks bestaat uit zeven delen. Omdat dit volgens mij verwijst naar de zeven binnenwerelden uit het Hindoeïsme, en dus ook naar de binnenaarde van Osiris, de Duat. Ook dat is een verhaal op zich, waar ik nu niet verder op in ga. Komt Harry Potter niet in de tweede film in een onderaardse ruimte met Egyptische cobra-sfinxen (Uraeus) in "The chamber of secrets"? Jazeker. Volgens mij niets anders dan een hint aan ons onwetende stervelingen, dat de illuminati deze ruimtes onder de voeten van de sfinx allang hebben opengemaakt en het bestaan ervan bij hen bekend is. Overigens is het symbool uit de laatste film (The deathly hallows) met een cirkel, een lijn en een driehoek, niets anders dan de Osiris triade. Ik heb hier al meer over geschreven. Wie dus denkt dat Harry Potter zomaar een leuke film is, moet maar eens goed wakker worden, want er is over die films nog veel meer te zeggen.
Waarom verdween Heru? We kunnen ons nu afvragen; is de leeuw van de opgang Heru dan toevallig verdwenen? Is hij geheel afgebrokkeld door de tand des tijds? Ik denk van niet. Het komt mij voor dat Heru doelbewust is vernietigd door de illuminati, omdat deze lieden sterk geloven in de kracht van allerlei symbolische handelingen. Het vernietigen van Heru zou namelijk inhouden dat alleen nog de kracht van de ondergang of de duisternis blijft bestaan, en dat is nu precies wat deze Satan(Seth) aanbiddende club verlangt op Aarde. Wanneer zouden ze dat dan hebben gedaan? Wel dat is een goede vraag, maar in elk geval ver voor de ons bekende tijd. Deze figuren zijn al duizenden jaren met hun plannen bezig dus dat kan. Bedenk maar eens hoe het in de Harry Potter films afloopt met Voldemort. In feite wordt Voldemort geheel vernietigd door de witte magie van Harry. Wanneer je dat gegeven omkeert, krijg je dus dat Harry (Heru) geheel wordt vernietigd door de zwarte magie van Voldemort. Een signaal van de illuminati dat zij Heru hebben vernietigd, wellicht met de bekrachtiging van een satanisch ritueel? Het zou zomaar kunnen. Satan zet alle goddelijke waarden ondersteboven. Wat recht is wordt krom, wat boven is wordt onder, wat links is wordt rechts. En nu we het daar dan toch over hebben... De Aarde hangt ondersteboven! Het meest schokkende gegeven in dit verhaal heeft de oplettende lezer al door gehad. Namelijk dit... als Heru, de heer van de opgang momenteel kijkt naar het Westen, en Neru naar het Oosten, dan impliceert dit dat de hele Aarde momenteel ondersteboven hangt ten opzichte van de tijd waarin die monumenten zijn gebouwd. Dit gegeven van twee sfinxen in Gizeh die de verkeerde kant op kijken, kan dus een bevestiging zijn van een fysieke aard-omkering! Een heel eng idee, maar zo belangrijk is het dus dat de aanwezigheid van de tweede sfinx eens officieel wordt aangetoond. Misschien is het bovenstaande ook wel de reden dat de tweede sfinx ooit is gesloopt omdat dit het huidige wereldbeeld letterlijk op z'n kop zet.
Tot slot een opmerking voor de Niburu lezers. Zou het kunnen, dat de naam van Neb-Neru de grote 'Heer van de ondergang' uiteindelijk verworden is tot 'Niberu' en dat daarmee een verkeerd idee is ontstaan over een soort van rode doomsday ster/planeet? In feite is Niburu dan niets anders dan de rode ondergaande zon die een periode van duisternis aankondigt (de nacht), en verwijzen ook de bekende blauwe en rode 'Cachina' van de Hopi-indianen naar niets anders dan de tocht van onze eigen zon langs de hemel. Immers; de ochtendzon heeft meer blauw in het spectrum, en de avondzon meer rood. De rode Cachina die de blauwe Cachina overneemt, zoals Horus en Seth dat doen. Het is maar een idee...
Auteur: Snavelman 2018
In aanvulling op het artikel van Snavelmans volgt hierna een recente video die laat zien dat er zich onder het plateau van Gizeh complete ondergrondse complexen bevinden die onderling allemaal met elkaar zijn verbonden. Ook hoe je symbolen die je daar aantreft weer terugvindt in de Joodse Torah en de tempels van de vrijmetselarij.
Dat ze voor de geboorte van Christus in die onderaardse gewelven al beschikten over eeuwig brandende lampen.
Giant Nephilim Mummies Found in Underground Egyptian City in Grand Canyon Exposed by a 1956 Accident! Smithsonian Cover-up
Giant Nephilim Mummies Found in Underground Egyptian City in Grand Canyon Exposed by a 1956 Accident! Smithsonian Cover-up
Researcher discovers an underground city at Grand Canyon after a tragic crash in 1956.
Giants and Egyptian Mummies were taken out of the grand canyon to be hidden at area 51. Underground ancient structures found demonstrates a unique biblical history very different from our current evolutionary model and it also characterizes the flat earth model.
The Nephilim /ˈnɛfɪˌlɪm/ (Hebrew: נְפִילִים, nefilim) were the offspring of the “sons of God” and the “daughters of men” before the Deluge, according to Genesis 6:1-4. A similar or identical biblical Hebrew term, read as “Nephilim” by some scholars, or as the word “fallen” by others, appears in Ezekiel 32:27.
Hi, I’m Vincent Rhodes. I am a pastor and an American Educator. I believe that religion is inescapable and plays a major part in shaping the history, beliefs, and culture. In my view, there are no value neutral educators or academic philosophies. All education has a driving philosophy of religion behind it. The real question is, which philosophy do you subscribe to? For us Americans, secular humanism can be said to be the religion of our people.
And since we deliberately leave God out of our academic discussions within our public schools, we have by default, become subscribers to the religion of materialism. We worship at the altars of success and material prosperity. In reality, there is no such thing as the separation of church and state. Church and state are the mother and father of a free society. And if these two are separated, then our American homes are broken.
Strange Ray of Light emerges from the sky in Russia captured on Camera
Strange Ray of Light emerges from the sky in Russia captured on Camera
Russian photographer Zhiganov, who initially planned to photograph some of his friends lounging in a hot tub with the aurora overhead in the city of Aptity, Russia quickly changed when he noticed a strange phenomenon, explained as a vertical aurora, in the sky upon he started to film it.
"It was the first time I ever saw an aurora in such a rarified form” Zhiganov said but I wonder whether it was an aurora or some sort of a laser/plasma beam since it turned into an enormous bright sphere that moved across the surface until it disappeared.
Here is the amazing video and please decide for yourself whether it is a rare vertical aurora or not.
Huge UFO Visits The Space Station On NASA Live Feed, Video, March 21, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
Huge UFO Visits The Space Station On NASA Live Feed, Video, March 21, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighing: March 21, 2019
Location of sighting: Earths orbit at space station
I was looking at the live Internet NASA cams when I caught an object near the space station. I first caught a small object, which is the same UFO, just further away and a few hours earlier. Then I caught the same UFO closer up. This time it was about 30-50 meters away from the space station. It was huge! The UFO was partially cloaked but was revealed by sunlight bouncing off of it. Strangely enough, the shape came more into focus later in the video and what I thought to be a thick round cylinder turns out to be something way more complex looking. (Look at the photo below).
There is no way that this object is man made. Its not the Dragon capsule and its not part of the space station, and its not the top secret remote control mini shuttle called the X-37B. So, therefor if we know what its not, then only one possibility remains...an alien craft.
A Spock quote is stuck in my head right now. He said, "When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Now do you see why NASA deliberately causes distortions during the live cam? Its so we the public will stay in the dark, but as you see, thinks are lighting up.
An unidentified flying object (UFO) that appeared in the skies of Prescott Valley, Arizona is now the hottest debating point among conspiracy theorists and extraterrestrial enthusiasts. The strange clip that was submitted to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) recently shows a dark object hovering in the skies in broad daylight.
The eyewitness who saw this sighting described the UFO as a dark ghost-like object. However, popular extraterrestrial researcher Scott C Waring who analyzed the clip revealed that this dark object could be actually an alien spaceship. Waring also added that this UFO is partly cloaked, and suggested that aliens might be living in a base that would be about 4-5 miles below the ground.
"Look closely at this UFO and you will see its partly cloaked. What looks like smoke, is actually the hidden parts of the ship becoming visible. This UFO either just came out or was about to enter an alien base that would be about 4-5 miles below the ground. That is the only possibility for an alien craft to be hovering in a desolate location for so long. There are a lot of aliens that prefer the dryer hotter climate like the tall greys, the short greys, and the tall whites," wrote Scott C Waring on his website UFO Sightings Daily.
The website post made by Scott C Waring soon became the debating point among conspiracy theorists, and many people outlandishly confirmed that this incident is authentic proof of alien existence. Some of these people argued that aliens used to visit the earth for hundreds of thousands of years to monitor human activities.
A section of conspiracy theorists alleged a foul play by NASA, and they claimed that the United States space agency is intentionally covering up realities of alien life fearing public panic.
The news of this UFO sighting comes just a few days after another square-shaped black flying object was spotted in California. In the footage uploaded to YouTube by a user named Daniel Zermeno, a square object was seen moving slowly across the skies. Interestingly, the UFO in the video can be seen spinning in the air at regular intervals.
'Alien in my backyard:' The UFO community sill believes — and science is starting to listen
'Alien in my backyard:' The UFO community still believes — and science is starting to listen
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By CHABELI HERRERA | The Orlando Sentinel
ORLANDO, Fla. (Tribune News Service) — Trish Bishop said he appeared as if a hologram at first — then solid — suddenly at the edge of the forest behind her home in Kissimmee.
It was a Thursday in March 2013, the glow of the afternoon tucking in for the day behind the trees. She said he stood tall, at least 6-foot-3, perhaps 220 pounds and certainly muscular, wearing a formfitting tan colored uniform, boots and gloves.
Paralyzed with fear, she said she watched as what she believed to be an alien appeared to climb invisible steps, stopping often to snatch glances at her from where she sat on her back porch, fumbling with her phone to appear as though she couldn’t see him.
When he was about 10 feet off the ground, he turned his back to her and pulled himself up — “into a UFO?” she thought — and was gone.
Bishop sat stunned. “I’ve got a freaking alien in my backyard,” she thought.
It would be four years before she told anyone her story, before she’d discover the Mutual Unidentified Flying Objects Network, a nationwide organization 50 years old, and file her report under case number 84886 with the local Florida chapter.
But she worried: Who would believe her?
These days, more people than you’d think.
Across restaurants and meeting rooms in the United States, MUFON groups still gather every month to discuss cases like Bishop’s with the enthusiasm that once gripped the nation during the Cold War, when UFO sightings still made a splash on the front page.
The Space Coast group, made up of some former NASA employees and engineers, has 118 members, the largest in the state. Across the U.S. they number 3,500, with additional offices in 42 countries.
For many years, they were alone entertaining UFO theories. No more.
In the past two years, scientists, politicians and professionals have increasingly been willing to touch the taboo subject and perhaps lend a little credence to those who still believe.
In December 2017, the New York Times uncovered that the U.S. had gone so far as to fund a secret, $22 million, five-year project to study UFO claims.
Since then, respected researchers, from the chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department to at least one scientist at NASA, have come out with theories, albeit controversial ones, that suggest closer study of the role extraterrestrials may play in certain phenomena.
What’s changed, said Robert Powell, an executive board member on the non-profit Scientific Coalition for Ufology, is our understanding of the universe. As scientists have discovered more Earth-like exoplanets and begun to delve into the options for interstellar travel — one idea includes using a laser-propelled, microchip-shaped probe — the conversation has been shifting.
“We still think of ourselves, as a species, as the center of everything,” Powell said. “Once you ...at least start to discuss interstellar travel, you have to admit that, if there is intelligent life out there, then they have to be able to travel interstellar, too.”
Science weighs in
The challenge with UFO and alien sightings has always been the lack of evidence. Bishop said she was too scared to take a photo of her alien. Little to no consequential evidence exists in other cases.
Psychology can explain some of it. Common explanations include a person projecting their unconscious desires onto something, or a predisposition to believe in conspiracy theories informing what a person thinks they saw, said Alvin Wang, a psychology professor at the University of Central Florida.
People who believe they witnessed something may seek out others who reaffirm that belief, like “being in an echo chamber,” Wang said.
“People tend to hold on to that particularly if it fits in with their worldview and their belief system that there are other beings that inhabit the universe,” Wang said. “And they get ...confirmation support, when they are members of UFO believers community.”
But Bishop stands by what she said she saw. She works a government security job with three area contractors and said she has no reason to lie.
And she’s on the hunt for ET now. After reporting her case in 2017, she bought three hunting trackers on eBay and set them up in her backyard. They’re motion activated, and sometimes they’ll go off in the night and capture 6,000 images — but there’s nothing in the frame. She once caught a Tic Tac-shaped blur in the sky she believes to be a UFO.
“I just think it's a belief thing until you actually see them,” Bishop said. “You always gotta wonder.”
Some people, like Kathleen Marden, have been wondering all their lives.
It was September 1961 when the then 13-year-old got the call: Her aunt, Betty Hill, and her uncle, Barney Hill, said they’d seen a UFO on their drive through the White Mountains in New Hampshire.
Betty’s dress was torn and Barney’s shoes were scuffed. There were two hours they couldn’t account for and Barney was sure he’d seen eight to 11 figures dressed in black shiny uniforms that were “somehow not human,” said Marden, who now lives outside Orlando.
It wasn’t until the Hills were put through a hypnosis session by Boston psychiatrist Dr. Benjamin Simon that their stories of being taken into a UFO and physically examined were revealed.
“They were interested in the skin, in the skeletal structure, in the joints,” said Marden, MUFON’s director of experiencer research. “They examined their hands, they took their shoes off, they examined their feet, they did tests on them that appear to be testing their nervous systems, as well.”
The Hills’ alleged abduction was made public in 1965 — and the story gripped the nation. “Did They Seize Couple?” the Boston Traveler posited. “I Was Quizzed in ‘Space Ship,’” read another headline.
Marden has dedicated her life to uncovering the truth behind she said was government tampering with the Hills’ case and has written four books about her aunt and uncle and flying saucers. She’s seen the change in perception about UFOs in the public and scientific community first hand.
“I absolutely do think that there is a shift, that people are giving more credence to this they did in the past,” she said, pointing to the 2017 New York Times story on the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program as the turning point.
The program was run by military intelligence official Luis Elizondo and put together at the request of then-Senate majority leader Harry Reid. It ran from 2007 to 2012 in partnership with businessman Robert Bigelow’s company Bigelow Aerospace, which studied cases of American military personnel observing unknown objects.
One case in particular garnered attention when it was declassified because videos showed a craft with no apparent propulsion moving at alarmingly fast speeds. It was filmed in 2004 by two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets off the coast of San Diego.
Navy pilot Commander David Fravor, who witnessed the Tic Tac-shaped craft, told the Washington Post in late 2017 that he maintained it was “something not from Earth.”
Then came Harvard’s astronomy department chair, Avi Loeb, a renowned scientist who Time Magazine named one of the 25 most influential people in space in 2012.
He, along with colleague Shmuel Bialy, wrote in a publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters that a thin interstellar object seen passing through our solar system called Oumuamua “is a lightsail, flowing in interstellar space as a debris from an advanced technological equipment.”
Loeb went a step further, theorizing that, “alternatively, a more exotic scenario is that Oumuamua may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization.” The theory has provoked the ire of the scientific community, but Loeb has stood by it.
Is it aliens, for sure? Loeb can’t say. He just says he can’t find another explanation.
At NASA Ames Research Center in California, scientist Silvano Colombano has gone on record suggesting the space agency look at all explanations in its approach to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, known as SETI. Historically, NASA has not weighed in on the issue much, most recently opening a Center for Life Detection Science that is more about finding biosignatures than analyzing alleged UFO sightings.
But Colombano argued in a March 2018 white paper that the scientific community should be more open about looking at the evidence that is already there, “consider the UFO phenomenon worthy of study” and engage in “speculative physics” grounded in solid scientific theories but with some “willingness to stretch possibilities as to the nature of space-time and energy.”
Essentially, he said, it was time NASA had a more open mind.
The Believers
While science dukes it out, the members of the MUFON’s Space Coast chapter take their places at their monthly meeting in the back room of an old-fashioned BBQ joint in Palm Bay called Memaw’s to discuss what they all believe to be a universal truth.
Many believers come to the meetings because someone they know saw something they couldn’t explain, or because they’ve nursed an interest in the subject since the days of the Cold War, when UFO sightings and abduction claims spiked. Some say they have seen things. Others put stock in more eccentric theories.
They are what’s left of a movement that once captured the interest of thousands, inspired books like Carl Sagan’s “Contact,” long-running TV show “The X-Files,” and made Betty and Barney Hill the stars of a 1975 film starring James Earl Jones.
There are many people like Barbara Stusse, who says her mother saw a UFO in 1947 and kept it from her children for 30 years. Stusse remembers waiting for her copy of the Boston Herald every day for a week in 1965, when the Hills’ story unraveled in three to four pages of newsprint a day.
“I read that and I thought, ‘I believed it,’ ” said Stusse, 80, who has been coming to MUFON meetings for three years.
And there’s Bill Fisk, who is always at meetings taking notes. He’s in charge of taking in reported sightings like Bishop’s and trying to explain them. Could weather have played a role? Could the person have dreamed it?
Fisk, who has been hooked since the moment he saw a light in the sky make a sharp 90-degree turn when he was 9 years old, joined the local MUFON chapter in 2015.
He went all in, taking 100 hours of online classes over three months to get certified as a field investigator for MUFON. He learned how to read flight plans, how to measure longitude, latitude and cloud altitude, how to use a Geiger counter to measure ionizing radiation.
Sometimes he gets hoaxes. One man copyrighted an image he took of the sky through a window because he was convinced it was a UFO. Turns out, it was just the reflection of his hotel room’s ceiling light on the glass. Chinese lanterns in the sky are often confused with flying saucers. And one woman even claimed an alien came into her house and had sex with her.
“A lot of it is that people don’t look up, they don’t pay attention to the sky, the last time they read a science book was in 12th grade,” Fisk said. “It’s just one of those things that sometimes you just have to bring them along, give them the information, the education to do something with what they saw, put it into a framework.”
A customer solutions representative for CareerSource Brevard, Fisk works on cases at lunch or after work. He can close most in three to four days, write them off as someone thinking Venus was a UFO, but sometimes he gets one he can’t crack.
Only a dozen of these cosmic oddballs are currently known.
This view of the asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on Jan. 19, 2019, was created by combining two images taken by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft: a short-exposure photo, which shows the asteroid clearly, and a long-exposure version, which shows the particles clearly. Other image-processing techniques were also applied, such as cropping and adjusting the brightness and contrast of each layer.
The near-Earth asteroidBennuis a lot weirder and more interesting than scientists had thought.
The 1,650-foot-wide (500 meters) space rock ejected particles of dust and gravel into space multiple times over the past few months, newly announced observations from NASA'sOSIRIS-REx spacecraftreveal. So, Bennu is one of just a dozen or so known "active asteroids" — and the only one to be observed up close.
The discovery "is probably the biggest surprise of the early stages of the OSIRIS-REx mission and, I would say, one of the biggest surprises of my scientific career," OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta, of the University of Arizona, said during a news conference today (March 19).
The $800 million OSIRIS-REx mission launched in September 2016 and arrived in orbit around Bennu on Dec. 31 of last year. If all goes according to plan, in mid-2020, the probe will dip down and grab a sample of Bennu material, which will come down to Earth in a return capsule in September 2023.
Analysis of this pristine cosmic dirt and gravel will help scientists better understand the solar system's early days. It could also help reveal the role that dark, carbon-rich asteroids like Bennu may have played in delivering water and the chemical building blocks of life to our planet, mission team members have said.
OSIRIS-REx's observations will additionally shed light on how potentially dangerous asteroids move through space and which of the space rocks miners may want to target down the road, among other things. Indeed, there are numerous subsidiary goals, as indicated by the mission's full name: "Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer."
But the team didn't expect to get an up-close look at an active asteroid. So, it came as a big surprise when OSIRIS-REx photos showed particles streaming from Bennu's rugged surface on Jan. 6, just a week after the probe's arrival in orbit around the space rock.
And that was hardly an isolated incident: Mission team members have now identified 11 such events, three of which were "substantial" ones involving dozens to more than 100 particles, Lauretta said. And researchers are still going through the imagery.
The ejection events involve bits of space rock ranging from a few centimeters to up to tens of centimeters in diameter, Lauretta said. And the particles' velocities vary widely, too. Some move at up to 7 mph (11 km/h), fast enough to escape Bennu's weak gravity and cruise into interplanetary space. And other pieces merely mosey out, becoming trapped in orbit around Bennu for a spell and then falling back down onto the asteroid's surface.
"Basically, it looks like Bennu has a continuous population of particles raining down on it from discrete ejection events across its surface," Lauretta said. "This is incredibly exciting."
The team doesn't know what's spurring the ejection events. The ejections have been observed around the time of Bennu's closest passage to the sun during the asteroid's elliptical orbit, which occurred this year on Jan. 10. So, solar heating of the asteroid's surface and near-subsurface may be the main driver. But that's just speculation at the moment, Lauretta stressed.
(Bennu's orbit takes the space rock as close as 0.9 astronomical units, or AU, to the sun, and as far away as 1.36 AU. Reminder: One AU is the Earth-sun distance, which is about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)
But let's get back to those particles that manage to break free of Bennu's tenuous grip. It's possible that these little asteroid pieces cause a meteor showerhere on Earth every year, Lauretta said. The putative "Bennid" shower would appear in September and be best-observed from the Southern Hemisphere.
The mission team is working with meteor experts from the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute to hunt for the Bennids, Lauretta said.
After a series of analyses, the OSIRIS-REx team has concluded that the ejected particles don't pose a serious risk to the spacecraft or its mission objectives. But other complications have arisen, suggesting that the 2020 sampling sortie will be more difficult than previously imagined.
OSIRIS-REx scientists announced today in a series of papers that Bennu is far more rugged and boulder-strewn than ground-based radar imagery and modeling work had indicated.
The original mission design called for OSIRIS-REx to sample material from a relatively smooth, flat patch of Bennu's surface at least 165 feet (50 m) wide. But there don't appear to be any such oases on the asteroid; the biggest flat patch appears to be in the 65-foot (20 m) size range, mission team members announced today.
OSIRIS-REx will likely require an update to its navigation software to pull off a sampling run in a tighter space, Lauretta told Space.com. And the team will probably need to take more high-resolution photos of the sampling site than had been anticipated.
But Lauretta and his fellow team members think OSIRIS-REx will meet the challenge.
"Our navigation performance has been exquisite," OSIRIS-REx project manager Rich Burns, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said during today's news conference. "We feel confident that our systems and our teams are up to the task."
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — If you want to use a nuclear weapon to save the world from an asteroid, don't try to do it the way Bruce Willis did in "Armageddon," NASA's planetary defense office would like to remind you.
"If you've seen those movies, they're completely bogus," Lindley Johnson, the planetary defense officer at NASA headquarters, said during a media session on asteroids and the art of protecting Earth from them held at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference taking place here this week. "That's not how we would use a nuclear explosive device to do this at all."
But nuclear weapons are one of three techniques planetary defense experts have their eye on for nudging an asteroid off course if its orbit seems to be carrying it too close to Earth for comfort. Another method, impacting an asteroid, will be tested for the first time during the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a NASA mission scheduled to launch in June 2021 and collide with an asteroid's moon in October 2022.
Another tactic would use gravity to slowly tug an asteroid far enough off course to miss Earth. And then there's the nuclear option, which is the best option for larger asteroids more than 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) or so in diameter.
All three of these techniques take the same basic approach: adjust the asteroid's orbital speed so that its path no longer intersects with our own. "We just need to change that speed by maybe a couple of centimeters per second," Johnson said. "If we do that several years in advance, the change that occurs in the orbit as it comes around several years later to that impact point — the change in velocity will cause it to arrive early or late to the impact point. That's all we need."
To get that change in velocity from a nuclear explosion, however, there's no need to actually touch the asteroid directly, Johnson said. Instead, the trick is to set off the explosion a few hundreds of meters up. "That causes an irradiation of the surface of the asteroid on that side, heats it up, superheats the surface," he said. "That surface will then blow off from the asteroid."
And because the laws of physics still apply, that dramatic action triggers an equal and opposite reaction, with the asteroid rebounding away — precisely what's needed to avert a catastrophe here on Earth. You wouldn't even need to fall into orbit around the object if you planned the mission carefully enough, Johnson said, a flyby would do.
On November 11, 2018, adeep rumble ricocheted around the world, one that humans couldn’t feel but that registered quite clearly on seismometers. A newpre-print paper about the event is now suggesting that it was caused by the largest offshore volcanic event in recorded history.
Originating 30 miles east of the island of Mayotte, near Madagascar, the mid-November signal immediately caught the attention of a disparate group of geoscientists. They subsequentlytook to Twitterto express their fascination over this mysterious event—one evenjoked about a “giant prehistoric sea monster.”
The rumble formed part of a prolonged seismic sequence that had started in the area back in May 2018, but the very low-frequency, potent growl in November stood out because it wasn’t immediately obvious what caused it. These scientists eventually agreed that it could only have originated from a volcanic event, one involving the movement of a vast volume of magma beneath the seafloor, causing the ground there to significantly deflate.
Now, a new paper by researchers at the French Geological Survey and France’s Ecole Normale Supérieure has been uploaded to the public server EarthArXiv. Although there are plenty of unanswered questions, this first-order estimation of what happened between May and mid-November matches up with the calculations of those geoscientists that took to social media. In fact, the volume of magma involved is so huge that this is certainly one of the largest offshore volcanic events to be spotted by modern scientific instrumentation.
There is a major caveat to all this, however. Compared to land-based monitoring, there’s a huge lack of offshore monitoring happening around the world today, and there are likely plenty of offshore events that have taken place since modern records began that scientists haven’t picked up on.
Make no mistake, though: The recent event offshore from Mayotte, which is still ongoing, is colossal.
According to the data from the onshore GPS stations, as well as the seismic signals—including the weird November 11 event—the rumbling is definitely being generated by volcanic activity of some sort. The way the ground on Mayotte is moving implies that the seafloor off its eastern shoreline is sinking at a rate of around 0.4 inches per month. At the same time, Mayotte itself is shifting eastward at a rate of 0.63 inches per month. Both indicate something huge underground is on the move, causing some serious deflation.
The nature of these tremors suggest that the magmatic source is centered at a depth of 16 miles beneath the seafloor. In the first six months of the sequence alone, at least 0.24 cubic miles of magma has shifted around. That’s roughly equivalent to 385 Great Pyramids of Giza.
Helen Robinson, a geothermal expert and PhD candidate at Glasgow University, compared it to volumes of other submarine eruptions. From the 1998 Axial Seamount eruption offshore from Oregon, to the Havre paroxysmnorth of New Zealand on the Kermadec arc, “it certainly seems this is the largest submarine event in terms of volume on record,” she told Gizmodo.
Samuel Mitchell, an expert in underwater eruptions at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, and who worked on the Havre eruption, agreed that the amounts of volcanic material involved are definitely comparable. “The 2018 event at Mayotte does appear to show a substantial volume of magma leaving a deep storage region which, if erupted, would make this indeed one of the largest recent submarine eruptions documented,” he said.
That’s a big “if,” though. As Robinson also points out, and as the new pre-print paper acknowledges, what’s happening near Mayotte is not necessarily an eruption.
Pierre Briole, a geophysicist at France’s Ecole Normale Supérieure and one of the authors of the pre-print, told Gizmodo that the indirect evidence means that he’s “pretty sure it’s an eruption.” But as there is currently no direct evidence of an eruption having taken place, “there is a significant probability that no lava reached the surface.”
Failing to breach into the sea, the migrating magma might have injected itself into thick sediments in the seafloor and spread itself around. Mitchell explained that this has been observed elsewhere, when the magma is denser than the surrounding sediment.
Although the overall volume of magma involved is comparable to the 2012 Havre eruption, the two are likely to be quite different events. The former definitely involved plenty of eruptive material, whose huge pumice raft was first spotted from a plane. At the same time, large, gloopy volcanic domes formed on the seafloor.
In Mayotte’s case, if an eruption did take place, Mitchell explained, it’s more likely to be some sort of fissure effusion involving more fluid lava, a bit like an underwater version of what happened on the slopes of Hawaii’s Kīlauea in 2018.
Jean Paul Ampuero, a seismologist and director of research at France’s Research Institute for Development, told Gizmodo that “this whole sequence is record-breaking in many aspects.” Along with the huge volume of magma, the November 11 signal was also easily one of the largest low-frequency tremors of its kind.
That the low-frequency rumble spread across the world was probably due to a “perfect storm,” according to Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at the University of Southampton.
In this case, that meant having both a very large source and vibrations at the exact right pitch to carry them across a considerable distance.
The November 11 signal’s individual elements still remain deeply puzzling. In particular, its repeated high-frequency bursts, which are similar (but aren’t related to) industrial activity, are difficult to explain. Ampuero said that they fall into a timing pattern that indicates they are strongly connected to the low-frequency pulses, indicating the two components “are talking to each other in some way.”
One highly speculative explanation is that the high-frequency events are related to the collapse of the rocky walls surrounding the magmatic monster. This disturbs the magma reservoir, causing it to oscillate or ‘hum.’ At the same time, waves bouncing back and forth hit other flanks and trigger more collapses, generating more high-frequency events. This all happens, Ampuero suggests, in a way that causes the low- and high-frequency events to synchronize, forming the November 11 signal.
It’s very difficult to say for sure. Some smaller tremors in the sequence also had a similar signal, Ampuero added, so “perhaps they’ll catch another one” like the big tremor and take it apart to see what it’s made of.
The geological setting is also pretty weird. This major volcanic event is taking place on the eastern end of the island chain, whereas the youngest volcanic islands are to the west. So it appears to be happening in the ‘wrong’ place.
It’s also unclear what’s responsible for the volcanism in the first place. It could be caused by action along a tectonic plate boundary, an upwelling plume of superheated mantle material, or even an extension of the East African Rift, a major tectonic event that’s slowly tearing the continent apart, said Hicks.
There is even an ecological element to the story that’s currently unexplained: the emergence of lots of dead fish offshore from Mayotte. Volcanic gases can suffocate sea life during eruptions, but the pre-print reports that the gases remained trapped in the magma.
Briole has heard unverified reports that the fish that died were deep-sea fish. The magmatic activity might have scared them up to the surface, where they experienced low pressures that they couldn’t survive in. Robinson said that the magma, which may have intruded into seafloor sediments, cooked those sediments and released carbon dioxide into the water column, which could also have asphyxiated those deep-sea fish.
Like much about the event, this remains speculative for now. Clearly more instrumentation is required, and the French National Centre for Scientific Research—with help from the BRGM and other authorities—are now deploying plenty. This includes equipment on Mayotte, at the site of the activity, and on the Glorioso Islands to the east, so that they can ‘listen’ to the disturbances from the other side.
That still won’t solve all the enigmas. Mitchell pointed out that underwater drones and ship-based radar surveys will be required to determine how much lava erupted at the surface, if any, and Hicks suggested that numerical simulations and laboratory work may be required to better comprehend what’s going on beneath the surface.
As Ampuero emphasizes, this isn’t just about scratching a scientific itch, but helping out the local communities, too. “The people in Mayotte really want to know what’s going to happen next,” he said. As a recent report on the situation notes, there is often an atmosphere of confusion and distrust on the island. The more research that’s conducted, the better off everyone will be.
Correction: This article has been corrected to note that the rate of eastward drift of Mayotte is 0.63 inches per month, not 6.3 inches.
Op 11 november vorig jaar werd de aarde opgeschud door mysterieuze seismische golven. Nu weten we waarom
Op 11 november vorig jaar werd de aarde opgeschud door mysterieuze seismische golven. Nu weten we waarom
Op 11 november vorig jaar werden mysterieuze seismische golven opgepikt van Madagaskar tot Canada. Wetenschappers stonden voor een raadsel.
Onderzoekers die de signalen hebben geregistreerd zeggen dat ze afkomstig waren uit een gebied voor de kust van het eiland Mayotte (foto).
Op Twitter schreven ze over deze mysterieuze gebeurtenis. Eén van hen grapte dat het ging om ‘een gigantisch prehistorisch zeemonster’.
Grootste
Ze dachten in eerste instantie aan een vulkaanuitbarsting.
De golven waren meer dan 20 minuten meetbaar. De meeste mensen hebben er niets van gemerkt.
Volgens een nieuw studie werden de golven veroorzaakt door de grootste onderzeese uitbarsting uit de geschiedenis.
Kolossale uitbarsting
Onderzoekers van de École normale supérieure in Parijs zeggen dat in het gebied een enorme hoeveelheid magma onder de zeebodem is verplaatst.
Het zou gaan om één van de grootste, zo niet de grootste onderzeese uitbarsting die ooit is vastgelegd.
Het moet in ieder geval een kolossale uitbarsting zijn geweest.
Iets heel groots
Uit gegevens die zijn verzameld, blijkt dat de golven worden veroorzaakt door vulkanische activiteit.
De zeebodem bij Mayotte blijkt met een centimeter per maand te dalen, terwijl het eiland zelf met 1,6 centimeter per maand richting het oosten verschuift. Dit wijst erop dat het gaat om iets heel groots.
Vrij zeker
In zes maanden tijd werd ongeveer 0,38 kubieke kilometer magma verplaatst. Dat staat gelijk aan 384 Piramides van Gizeh.
Pierre Briole van de École normale supérieure zei ‘er vrij zeker van te zijn dat het gaat om een eruptie’.
Around 9pm local time on Saturday, March 16th, 2019, an air ambulance helicopter was flying roughly 15 miles west of central Last Vegas when something odd caught his aided eye. During an exchange with an air traffic controller, the pilot of Mercy Air 21,an Agusta 119 Koalahelicopter, noted spotting an unidentified object some distance from his position and only he was likely able to see it in the darkness as he was wearing night vision goggles (NVGs). The controller responded that he had nothing on radar in the area where he was seeing the object, but when he heard the pilot could only see it through his NVGs, he responded with amazement.
Our good friend @Aircraftspots mentioned the odd exchange on twitter and posted the audio to Soundcloud, which you can listen to in full below. Apparently, he was tipped off to it by fellow Twitter user and aviation aficionado @KE6ZGP.
Bryan Herbert@KE6ZGP
125.9000 -- PIlot reporting a UFO at 7000 feet around the Southern Hills area of Las Vegas
You can hear the pilot alert the controller to spotting something over the "Southern Hills area." This is not a topographic landmark, it is a hospital in the southwest corner of the Las Vegas metropolitan area. He notes that the objects appears to be at around 7,000 feet and that it could be a balloon or "something along those lines" and that it is unlit.
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An A119 Koala like the one involved in the radio exchange.
The controller responds saying he doesn't see it, but that doesn't mean there isn't something out there. The pilot then informs him that he has night vision goggles on and that he can only see it through the goggles. The controller seems pretty amazed with the pilot's capabilities, responding "oooh that's awesome."
GOOGLE EARTH The red arrow is the location of South Hills Hospital and the red outlined area is a window roughly 15 miles west of McCarran International Airport. Our best guess on where the helicopter was that spotted the object.
We ran back the tracking data Flightradar24 had during the time of the radio exchange and we couldn't find anything unusual in the area where the pilot saw the object and we couldn't find Mercy Air 21 definitively either. This isn't surprising as lower-flying aircraft have spotty tracking in that area.
We did find an air ambulance helicopter that briefly appeared over the western Las Vegas metropolitan area at around the right time of the radio call. According to @Aircraftspots, that aircraft, N608CF, doesn't historically use the Mercy Air 21 callsign. Still, it is the same type as the one that does and appears to be owned by the same company—Air Methods. So it is possible that this was the helicopter communicating with air traffic control, although its position is closer to the center of Las Vegas than it should be, at least based on the positioning call given by the air traffic controller in the recorded audio.
FLIGHTRADAR24 N608CF, a A119 owned by Air Methods Corp, appeared just for a moment over West Las Vegas around the time of the radio call.
Really, all that doesn't matter that much. What we are left with here is an interesting piece of air traffic control audio more than an unexplained sighting of a pressing or extremely extraordinary nature. As the pilot notes, it could have been some sort of a balloon, but it does seem a bit odd spotting an unlit balloon at night, with night vision goggles, from miles away. The altitude is also interesting, 7,000 feet isn't exactly low. But without more information and/or additional witnesses, we don't have much to warrant further investigation.
At least not yet.
We have reached out to Air Methods to see if the pilot can give us any more info on the incident.
UPDATE: 6:30pm PST—
There was a bit of confusion about the time indexing between the flight data and the audio clip and our friend @thenewarea51 figure it out. Because it was UTC time, we were a day behind, so the data we wanted to see was on the 17th not 16th of March. When we reviewed the correct data from Flightradar24, we got Mercy Air 21 (MA021) exactly where it should be, roughly 15 miles west of KLAS in the red box I originally outlined.
We can also positively ID the helicopter. It is an Agusta A109, registered N238AM, belonging to Air Methods. We also now have better positioning information. According to this, MA021 would have been roughly nine miles from the South Hills Hospital, the approximate area where the pilot thought the object was flying over at 7,000 feet, when the radio exchange occurred.
A nine mile visual ID of a party ballon or something like that at night using NVGs seems really questionable. So size of the object and its exact configuration is the big question at this point. We also know that the A109 was flying at 7,000 feet. So, the pilot would have seen this object at eye level from his perspective.
FLIGHTRADAR24
Update: March 18th, 2019 @ 6:19pm PST—
We finally talked to the Mercy Air operations base where the helicopter flies out of and they informed us that Air Methods headquarters has told them not provide comment or access to the pilot who was talking on the radio and spotted the object. They told us Air Methods wants any inquiries sent to their headquarters. The problem is that I had reached out to them and have heard nothing back in well over 24 hours. I will keep trying to contact them directly, but at this point it looks as if they are actively trying to avoid discussing the event with us.
Air traffic controllers in Las Vegas recorded a bizarre interaction this week stemming from a pilot’s encounter with an unidentified aerial object. The event took place on Saturday, March 16th, 2019 around 9:00 pm local time when an air ambulance pilot flying 15 miles west of Las Vegas spotted something odd in the sky at around 7,000 feet over the southwestern corner of Las Vegas. The pilot told air traffic controllers about the object and that he could only see the object through night vision; air traffic control, meanwhile, reported seeing nothing on radar.
Aviation sleuth Tyler Rogoway at The Drive ran a scan of available flight data and found no aircraft nor anything anomalous on radar at the time. Still, that doesn’t mean a low-flying or small object couldn’t have eluded radar. In the audio of the interaction posted online, the pilot tells air traffic control that it may have been a balloon – although a pilot spotting an unlit balloon at night from nine miles away would be pretty amazing, night vision or not.
Bryan Herbert@KE6ZGP
125.9000 -- PIlot reporting a UFO at 7000 feet around the Southern Hills area of Las Vegas
While there’s not much to go on in this incident other than a somewhat comical interaction between air traffic control and a pilot concerning some type of unidentified and seemingly insignificant object, any UFO report from the Nevada desert is curious based on the area’s history. The deserts of Nevada are home to many of the most famous and infamous UFO sightings, paranormal hotspots, alleged research facilities, and overall weirdness. Who knows what the pilot might have seen?
Air Methods, the air ambulance company which operates the helicopter, has yet to respond to requests for more information concerning the incident and The Drive reports that “at this point it looks as if they are actively trying to avoid discussing the event with us.” Again, probably nothing, right?
Then again, is anything in the Nevada desert ever what it seems?
Only Every Two or Three Times Every 100 Years Humongous Meteor Exploded Over Russia's Bering Sea Went Unnoticed (Video)
Only Every Two or Three Times Every 100 Years! Humongous Meteor Exploded Over Russia's Bering Sea Went Unnoticed (Video)
A huge fireball exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere in December, according to Nasa. The blast was the second largest of its kind in 30 years, and the biggest since the fireball over Chelyabinsk in Russia six years ago. But it went largely unnoticed until now because it blew up over the Bering Sea, off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
The space rock exploded with 10 times the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Lindley Johnson, planetary defence officer at Nasa, told BBC News a fireball this big is only expected about two or three times every 100 years.
Huge Meteor Exploded Over Russia’s Bering Sea Went Unnoticed
David Wilcock: Secret Space Breakaway Civilizations Using Advanced Technology
David Wilcock: Secret Space Breakaway Civilizations Using Advanced Technology
David Wilcock says they had a lot of basic infrastructure already developed, in Antartica, on the Moon and on Mars. They had spacecraft that could leave our solar system, and they had alliances that provided support for their agenda. Corey says the Americans sent Admiral Byrd with a major Navy contingent to the southern continent during Operation Highjump to deal with these German bases there.
The effort was a major failure, as Byrd encountered heavy resistance such as highly advanced craft. David mentions that these ancient cities in Antartica were probably built at a time when the continent was not covered by glaciers. 12,000 years ago is when the conditions were right to build them.
He goes on to suggest that there have been pole shifts in the Earth’s past and these could have reoriented the positions of Earth such that Antartica may have been closer to the equator in the past. He says perhaps the civilization in Antarctica could have been Atlantis of legend.
In today’s world, there are new opportunities for new discoveries that keep appearing and as a result, these new findings are constantly happening. Archaeology also uses the latest achievements in technology to aid in their research..
However, some of these remarkable discoveries are made by just common every day, people. For example, a little girl found a real sword in a lake and that weapon is at least 1,000 years old!
So here are some recent archaeological findings that have stupefied scientists all over the world.
What Everybody Dislikes About Ufo Sightings and Why
What Everybody Dislikes About Ufo Sightings and Why
The sighting itself, in spite of the corroborative sightings, isn’t difficult to dismiss by itself. Almost thirty individual sightings would be reported as a consequence of the serious-minded appeal to the general public. Recently, among the most renowned mass sightings was the Phoenix Lights.
With the numbers of UFO sightings increasing each calendar year, it’s important that you know just where to report a UFO sighting and what information will be necessary to be able to report it successfully. UFO sightings aren’t a modern phenomenon, they’re not a US-only phenomenon. During February in Minnesota, for instance, only 69 UFO sightings are reported since the start of the 21st century.
The sighting came amid several similar sightings in the region in the preceding weeks. The sighting remains unexplained, merely one of many in and about the Quaker State. By way of example, over Midlothian, quite a few sightings are made from January to March. One perhaps can only imagine how a lot more sightings may be on record in the event the Internet was available for witnesses to log and go over their encounters. What follows is a mere assortment of what’s a huge number of strange aerial sightings over the uk at the conclusion of the 1970s.
The Basics of Ufo Sightings
While ghost hunting is our favourite kind of paranormal investigation, we additionally delight in a very good alien conspiracy. Around the Earth, there are a great deal of UFO enthusiasts. They believe that the region is the best hotspot in the country for UFO sightings. Many UFO scientists have found Mrs. Moreland to be a dependable witness who’s consistent within her account of the incident. They have examined the multiple pieces of video footage and photographs. Two decades afterwards the scientists publicized the results of their test that they argued revealed that the animal isn’t human.
With no fear whatsoever, the witness would step from his vehicle to receive a better look. The witnesses weren’t clear in the event the craft had sped away or in the event the lights had simply gone out. What’s more, a lot of other witnesses would back-up the 2 officers’ sighting. Furthermore, there’s definite evidence of an ancient settlement in the place. Investigation would indicate that the rash wasn’t an answer to something like poison ivy or an allergic reaction. If you’re still not convinced or want to read more evidence an Arizona UFO might not be a laughing matter, you might delight in seeing for yourself, more UFO Evidence.
Ufo Sightings – the Conspiracy
Particulars of the sightings were always the exact same. Perhaps the most intriguing detail of the aforementioned sighting is the light splitting itself into two distinct objects. Among the truly strangest characteristics of the paranormal activity in Hoia-Baciu is that experiences have a tendency to be unique from 1 person to another. UFO sighting levels depend on not only the presence of unrecognizable objects, but in addition, needless to say, on the chance of actually reporting such observations. What’s more, the radiation levels measured at UFO sightings consistently demonstrate a greater count than that which is normally found in the surroundings.
While pilots reporting UFOs is nothing new, there now seems to be a feeling of urgency to create such reports known on the section of the respective witnesses. Besides that simple fact, it may even be possible to blind a UFO pilot. So shocked was the officer he’d request back-up to likewise see the sighting.
Some reports state it’s a ping, while some claim it’s a beep. Another report caused the discovery a meteor had descended Scotland. Reports of aliens sightings and abductions are typical things throughout the world.
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