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...
25-05-2019
10-Pound Megacryometeor Crashes Through Arizona Woman’s Roof
10-Pound Megacryometeor Crashes Through Arizona Woman’s Roof
In the early 2000s, several Spanish scientists became interested in relatively unknown and mysterious meteorological phenomena known asmegacryometeorsafter huge chunks of ice, some weighing up to 6 pounds (2.7 kg), fell repeatedly from cloudless skies over Spain. While a few peer-reviewed studies were published following these incidents (seehereandhere), little remains known about these anomalous ice conglomerations.
Ice falling from passing aircraft is often cited as the most likely explanation for megacryometeors, as ice can form on aircraft at high altitudes and melt as aircraft descend. However, numerous incidences of megacryometeors have been cited far from flight paths, not to mention the fact that accounts of the phenomena pre-date the invention of aviation.
A Spanish megacryometeor from 2007.
The latest report of an anomalous ball of ice falling from the sky occurred in Arizona on April 27 as a 10-pound chunk of ice crashed through a woman’s house in Havasu, Arizona. Unlucky homeowner Sandy Ford said the megacryometeor crashed through her roof and destroyed her garage ceiling before exploding on the ground. The ice was clear, as opposed to the blue ice that is typically used in airline septic systems. According to Ford, the noise of the ice exploding in garage was so loud that neighbors called emergency services:
It sounded like a sonic boom in my garage. My neighbor heard the sound and came over, then someone from the fire department showed up. When I went out, I was expecting to see that my hot water heater exploded … it was a chunk of ice that fell through the tile roof, through the ceiling and all the way to the ground.
In 2018, a megacryometeor was caught on camera as it exploded on a London street just feet away from a street cleaner. Just last month, a huge chunk of ice shattered a Colorado woman’s windshield as she drive along a busy highway. When will one of these incidents turn deadly?
For now, megacryometeors remain an enigma. Could these phenomena merely be signs that aviation and human population growth are contributing to increased incidents of ice falling from aircraft onto populated areas? Then what to make of similar reports that are nowhere near flight paths? Aircraft could be to blame, but that would mean that – gasp! – there are undisclosed aircraft buzzing around places they shouldn’t be. That couldn’t be, could it?
But that leaves out what to make of reports that pre-date aircraft. Could these megacryometeors simply be some kind of super-sized hailstone created under a very specific set of atmospheric conditions? That begs the question: could they become more common as climate patterns change? That’s a scary thought.
Figure 1.
A chunk of ice that fell in Chilches (Castellón de la Plana, Spain) having a diameter of around 10 cm.
Figure 3.Raman spectra obtained at intervals of 60 s on cooling distilled water from 25 to −50°C at a rate of 2°C min−1. The acquisition time of each spectrum was 10 s.
Figure 4.Band fitting performed on the Raman OH stretching band obtained from the Chilches sample. Four bands are obtained after deconvolution and subtraction of the broad feature covering the spectral range of 1900–2800 cm−1.
Figure 5.Band fitting performed on the Raman OH stretching band obtained at −20°C on cooling distilled water. Four bands are also obtained after deconvolution and subtraction of the broad feature covering the spectral range of 1900–2800 cm−1.
Figure 6.Measured δ18O (V-SMOW) versus δD (V-SMOW) values of selected megacryometeors that fell in different areas of Spain and analysed in this work. The samples match quite well with the Meteoric Water Line (Craig’s Line): δD=8×δ18O+10. CHIL, Chilches; ALG, Algemesi; ENG, Enguera; AL, Alcudia; TO, Tocina. (Adapted from Martínez-Frías et al. 2005.)
Meningen verschillen en dat is maar goed ook, want uit al die verschillende meningen komt uiteindelijk de waarheid boven tafel.
De oude geschiedschrijvers beschreven een periode op aarde dat er geen maan was, of was die er toch wel?
Naar aanleiding van ons artikel gisteren over dingen die niet kloppen met betrekking tot de maan, volgt hier een geheel afwijkende mening van onze gewaardeerde auteur Evert Jan Poorterman (dank!).
Klopt de ene versie van het verhaal en de andere niet of is het een mix van beiden. Lees het verhaal van Evert Jan en oordeel zelf.
Geachte redactie,
vóór de zondvloed waren de Zon, de Maan en de planeten en de sterren NIET te zien vanwege de zeer dichte dampkring om de planeet! Afgaande op de omlooptijden van de tweede ster (volgens Zecharia Sitchin 3.600 jaren) vond de zondvloed plaats 10.800 jaren geleden (3 x 3.600 jaren terug) of 14.400 jaren geleden (4 x 3.600 jaren terug). De oude Soemeriërs kenden de Maan al, getuige afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen. Al in het 'Scheppings-epos' wordt de Maan genoemd als KIN.GU. – kind van de stier... ofwel opgewekt door de binnenkomst van de tweede ster – uit de buik van planeet Tiamat. Nou zullen der wel weer lieden zijn die zeggen dat de Soemerische schrijvers dat bedacht hebben, maar waarom zouden ze dat doen?! Het Enoema Elisj (Enuma Elish) is het scheppingsverhaal over het ontstaan van ons zonnestelsel. Planeet Tiamat baart elf monsters, waarvan Kingoe de grootste is... en ook nà de 'hemelstrijd' aan de zijde van Tiamat/Gaia blijft! Daarom is de Maan in verhouding met de andere planeten en hun satellieten te groot voor ons kleine planeetje... maar eens was planeet Tiamat groter; haar bovenste helft (hoeft niet per see 50% te zijn!) werd afgeslagen en is de astroïdengordel en haar onderste helft (hoeft niet per see 50% te zijn!) werd naar 'aarde' weg geketst tussen de planeten Venus en Mars in! In de naam zit duidelijk een verwijzing naar de 'Hemel' ofwel de astroïdengordel! Daar werd de Maan geboren! 4,1 miljard jaren geleden...
MAAN
MA AN> maat-hemel NA AM< gevormd-geworteld
De MAAN is ons hemelmaatje en haar maat, haar formaat werd in de Hemel gevormd. Zij zou een planeet worden, maar haar werden de voorwaarden om een planeet te worden, ontnomen; haar wateren, haar... ach lees maar mee in een eerder bericht aan jullie; de redactie van Niburu:
De Soemeriërs schrijven dat de Maan niet zijn bestemming kreeg; hij was voorbestemd om een planeet om de Zon te worden. Dat ging niet door en de Maan verloor al zijn wateren, zijn potentie om een levende planeet te worden. Hij werd 'als een pot klei' schrijven ze! Hij droogde op en droogde uit en na 4 miljard jaren is de Maan wel echt droog te noemen en net als een terracotta bloempot of een vaas van klei, klinken deze als je der op klopt of tikt...
De Maan oefent enorme kracht uit op onze planeet. Zo sterk dat de Maan onze planeet wegtrekt uit het exacte midden. Zoals een kogelslingeraar één wordt met de kogel en door de opgewekte centrifugaalkrachten zelf ook onderhevig is aan de door hem zelf opgewekte krachten!
En Kingoe, die het hoofd van hen geworden was, Liet hij slinken: Hij noemde hem DOEG.GA.E. Ontnam hem zijn tablet van bestemming Waarop hij geen recht had.
Marduk (tweede ster, later door hem Nibiru genoemd) schrijft Zecharia Sitchin, vernietigde Kingoe dus niet. Hij strafte hem door hem zijn onafhankelijke baan te ontnemen, die Tiamat hem toegekend had, naarmate hij in omvang toenam. Edoch tot een kleiner omvang gekrompen, bleef Kingoe een 'god' - een planeet van ons zonnestelsel. Omgezet in een hemelse 'doeggae' was Kingoe ontdaan van zijn 'vitale' elementen - atmosfeer, wateren, radioactieve materie: zijn omvang kromp en werd een 'massa levenloze klei'.
DOEG.GA.E. zou volgens de vertalers 'pot met klei' betekenen, maar als ik er mijn oertaal Kwando op los laat komt der wat anders uit de bus. DUG GA E> = DU.UG. = 'doen-uitgaande', ofwel komt voort uit de buik van Tiamat: is er uit gekomen, maar ook doeg als daag, adieu, tot ziens... want DUG GA E> = 'vertrekken-garant-lichaam', ofwel alle condities om een garant (levend) lichaam te worden, zijn vertrokken. Weg en foetsie! Omgekeerd: E AG GUD< = 'lichaam-agitatie-Gud', ofwel dat komt door de agitatie van de ster Gud (= aanstormende stier).
Het perfecte lichaam van de pas ontstane Maan/Kingu werd door het kosmisch treffen tussen de ster Gud/Anu/Ra en de leidende planeet Tiamat ontdaan van zijn levenskansen. De andere tien 'monsters' uit Tiamat werden verstrooid door de kracht van de ster Gud/Anu/Ra (Marduk/Nibiru), maar Kingu werd gespaard en mocht aan de zijde van zijn moeder blijven... die echter wel een kleiner formaat heeft; want Gaia is de onderste helft van Tiamat. Haar afgeslagen bovenste helft werd de astroïdengordel.
Groet Evert Jan
Geachte redactie,
krijgen we nu binnenkort ook aandacht voor de platte 'aarde' en voor Jupiter als Satan?! De oude Soemeriërs beweren dat de Maan werd geboren als één der elf monsters die uit de buik van de planeet Tiamat kwamen. Dat werd veroorzaakt door de binnenkomst van de jonge nog vuur brakende ster uit het Orion-stelsel... die wij inmiddels kennen als Gud, als Anu en als Ra (door Sitchin eerst Marduk genoemd en later Nibiru). Indien de Maan een kunstmatig object zou zijn (wat niet zo is) dan is de Maan dat al vanaf het begin van zijn bestaan; 4,1 miljard jaren!
De Maan is wel bewoond, evenals Mars... en wel alleen in ruimtestations of ondergrondse bases. Als de Maan een hol object zou zijn... en zelfs een ruimteschip, dan heeft de Maan onvoldoende massa om onze planeet te beroeren. De draaiing van de Maan om onze planeet haalt onze planeet zelfs uit haar midden (centrifugaalkracht). Zo sterk zijn de twee met elkaar verbonden. De Maan veroorzaakt tweemaal daags eb en vloed. Dat zou een hol object nooit en te nimmer kunnen doen! Neen de Maan heeft massa!
Hierboven zien we voorbeelden van boodschap en antwoord. Carl Sagan verzond een boodschap de ruimte in via de Arecibo-telescoop en jaren later kwam er een antwoord in een graanveld nabij Chilbolton (Zuid-Engeland). Op ons bericht tonen we informatie over onze planeet, het zonnestelsel en de mens. We zien rechts de Zon (afbeelding linksboven), vervolgens de planeten Mercurius en Venus, dan (verhoogd afgebeeld) planeet Gaia, dan Mars, Jupiter, Saturnus, Uranus en Neptunus. Pluto is weggelaten omdat het niet op die schaal kan worden weergegeven.
Op de afbeelding rechtsboven (het antwoord in het graan) zien we NIET een ander stelsel maar opnieuw ons eigen stelsel. We zien links de Zon, vervolgens de planeten Mercurius en Venus, dan (verhoogd weergegeven) planeet Gaia, planeet Mars en de tweede ster Ra (met zijn vier planeten) en dan Jupiter, Saturnus, Uranus en Neptunus. Ook hier zijn de Maan en Pluto weggelaten vanwege hun geringe formaat. Het betreft dus geen ander stelsel, maar opnieuw het onze! De anunnaki wonen op onze planeet en zitten ook op de Maan en op Mars.
IS THE EARTH ROUND OR FLAT? THE FINAL SOLUTION IS HERE
IS THE EARTH ROUND OR FLAT? THE FINAL SOLUTION IS HERE
By Lee Austin
Anyone up for the final solution? The heliocentric model states the coastline of Antarctica is about eleven thousand miles long. The geocentric model, propagates a sixty-thousand mile circular ice wall that ascends to a height of two hundred feet. So which is it? There is a fourty-nine thousand mile differential between both theories. One of them is true. The other is a delusion.
Of course the debate surrounding the shape of the earth could be easily resolved by flying over the South Pole. The rulers of this flat earth want you to believe in the fictious moon landing pictures. Yet there are no videos of man flying over the entire continent of Antartica.. Why? Because it doesn’t exist. And it’s illegal. All flights over the fictional South Pole were banned in 1958. This is what is known as the Nation State Treaty. It’s the only geopolitical topic that the UN can agree upon. The International Maritime Organization, World Meteorological Organization, International Civil Aviation Organization, and The Air Map of The World all display a flat earth flag, adding a layer of Masonic intrigue. The flat UN flag is divided into thirty-three Freemasonic sections.
Although the South Pole doesn’t exist, there is an Antarctica. Just not in the heliocentric sense. Antarctica’s inner ocean frozen border wall/bulkhead is over two hundred feet in height: a threehundred and sixty-degree circumference covering sixty-thousand miles and containing the oceans of the flat earth. At the end of Antarctica’s vast interior territory, the flat earth plane intersects the precipice of the sea firmament dome, which is also where the first heaven of the third dimension ends and the second heaven of the fourth dimension begins.
The answer is so simple and yet is anyone with the resources doing anything about it?
Charter a boat and sail around the coast of Antartica. Once the “continent” has been circumvented, check the mileage and you’ll know the answer. Eleven thousand miles, it’s round. Sixty thousand, it’s flat…..
What you can’t see touch, hear, smell, or feel pales in reality to the multi-dimensional parallel universe existing outside the third dimensional prison of space and time. The first heaven of the third dimension is a tangible demonstration of invisible vibrations. It’s an infinitesimal component of a gigantic electric universe built on and governed by a base foundation of tiny, super-symmetric vibrating strings. Superstring Theory is not a theory. The Universe is comprised of electromagnetic forces containing highly charged particles in a plasma conduit holding the luminaries (stars and planets) in their orbits. Everything animate and inanimate vibrates to corresponding harmonics. These subsequent frequencies result in the building blocks of light and dark matter, the latter comprising twenty-seven percent of the universe.
Before the fall, Adam and Eve reflected the Ancient of Day’s perfect triple-helix DNA genome code, wearing their spirits externally and bodies internally. After their expulsion from Eden, both were downgraded to a perishable double-helix DNA genome code, displaying their bodies externally and their spirits internally. You may want to re-read this paragraph.From the beginning of our beginning, the Ancient of Days prophesied he would restore Eden as the second Adam. A unique God/image hybrid, offering the free gift of restoration through the infusion of his triple-helix DNA genome code.
Every human contains a scroll of DNA determining their physicality, intellect and emotions. Forty-six chromosomes from the father and mother form one individual set containing a doublehelix DNA genome code. This physical testimony and record of the parents’ lives has been passed down and preserved since the deluge.
As above, so below illustrates the lie of duality and confusion. Freemasons and Knights of The Templar believe the Demiurge and Lucifer are equal, as demonstrated in the black and white trestle floor of Masonic Halls and Ying and Yang of Chinese philosophy.
The systemic lie of Kabbalah postulates that God is the total of everything: good and evil, knowable, unknowable, limitless, limited, merciful and cruel. In the beginning, Kabbalists believe God sent out an emanation of himself in the form of ten lights called the Sephiroth or Tree of Secret Knowledge. This equates to the name I Am.
The universe is comprised of layered spheres of frequencies, with the Ancient of Days ruling from the ninth dimension/heaven. To be one with the Light Bearer, disciples must pass through the nine guarded spheres, which are protected by angels and devils. Only those who know the guardian’s passwords can pass though the nine spheres. Gnostic knowledge enlightens the soul as it ascends the ladder of the Sephiroth, attaining apotheosis. The ten Sephiroth spheres are the driving forces that move all of creation. In truth, there are ten heavens in the multi-universe. …..To be continued…
Lee Austin is the author of “Morning Star’s Tale”…. a sci-fi novella
Evidence Of Trains Operating Underground On Mars!!! (Mars Mysteries) Video, UFO Sighting News.
Evidence Of Trains Operating Underground On Mars!!! (Mars Mysteries) Video, UFO Sighting News.
Its a well known fact for most researchers that Mars had intelligent life on it. But what we really want to know is where did they all go? Every few years the atmosphere over Mars fills with 75% methane, a gas created by living organisms, so if the gas exists, then so does life. But life looks hard on the surface of Mars and I believe most life has moved below the surface to survive. Take a look at the screenshot above, of a craft that hovers above the surface and rests every so often, leaving an indention in the dirt below. It appears to be a mining craft. It could be an autonomous mining craft or manned, but nevertheless its there and it seems to be working hard in a straight line, leaving marks as it moves. This is a good video by "Of Sound Mind And Body," which puts all the evidence together for us to see. Scott C. Waring
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A String Of 60 Glowing Objects Recorded By Space X Stirs The Imagination, UFO Sighting News.
A String Of 60 Glowing Objects Recorded By Space X Stirs The Imagination, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 24, 2019 Location of sighting: Earths orbit This string of brightly lit objects flew past a SpaceX satellite and was even visible from the ground. It could easily be mistaken for a fleet of UFO, but SpaceX is claiming its the Starlink satellites being released. Some comments below the video seems to show peoples dismay:
1. I just saw them here in Germany, totally unprepared. I didn't know it were the starlink satellites, never saw something alike. wow. 2. I saw this earlier over Devon, UK. Amazing sight. 3. Saw them here in the Netherlands as well.. I was pretty confused that night😂😅
I can see the conversation now...Elon Musk standing next to James Fredrick head of NASA.
NASA: So, we sent up 3 satellites today. Hows your day been Musk? Elon: Well Fred, I don't really know for sure, we just kinda keep shoving those little basterds into the BFR until we can't pack anymore in. We're at 60 right now. NASA: So...BFR, does it really mean? Musk: Yep, Big F@%#ing Rocket. NASA: Deep sigh as his hopes and dreams are smashed.
I was searching a map and looking over Area 51 when I noticed new construction on the map. This new location appears to be an underground base. On one end of the base is some huge air vents to pull fresh air down into the underground facility. There is also two fields being grow near the underground base. This field look like it might be grown for genetic research. They are altering the genetics of the plants for unknown reason. This worries me...because if they are doing genetic research...then why do they need an underground base to do the research? Unless of course its includes other research that could endanger the public. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Those who don't learn the lessons of an extinct alien civilization's fall may be doomed to repeat it.
Humanity appears to be going down a dangerous path. We've developed weapons powerful enough to off ourselves many times over, for example, and we've been altering Earth's climate for decades without much regard for the serious consequences.
Similar behavior may have led to the demise of advanced alien races around the galaxy, said Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard's astronomy department. Indeed, this might help explain, at least in part, why we have yet to make contact with ET despite the profusion of habitable real estate in the Milky Way (a puzzle known as the Fermi paradox).
"One possibility is that these civilizations, based on the way we behave, are short-lived," Loeb said last week during a talk at The Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, D.C. "They think short term, and they produce self-inflicted wounds that eventually kill them."
So, the hunt for ET should be wide-ranging enough to spy artifacts left behind by vanished civilizations, he added — evidence such as burned-up planetary surfaces and products of nuclear war swirling in an alien world's air.
Such a find would perhaps be the greatest scientific discovery of all time, and it might have the added benefit of putting our troubled species on a better path.
"The idea is we may learn something in the process," Loeb said. "We may learn to better behave with each other, not to initiate a nuclear war, or to monitor our planet and make sure that it's habitable for as long as we can make it habitable."
There are other practical justifications for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) as well, Loeb said. For example, making contact could lead to huge technological breakthroughs — if the aliens were kind enough to share their knowledge.
"Our technology is only a century old, but if another civilization had a billion years to develop space travel, they may teach us how to do it," Loeb said.
This possibility is another reason to continue pushing for interstellar-flight technology, he added. Loeb is involved in this field; he chairs the advisory board for Breakthrough Starshot, a $100 million project to develop tiny laser-sailing probes that could zoom toward exoplanetary systems at 20% the speed of light.
Breakthrough Starshot aims to have such a system up and running in 30 years or so. If this effort, or something like it, is successful, intelligent aliens may regard us in a new light — as relative peers worthy of attention and respect, Loeb said.
"My hope is that finding dead civilizations will inspire us to behave better and get our act together," he said. "And another hope that I have is that, once we exit from the solar system, we will receive a message back: 'Welcome to the interstellar club.' And we will figure out that there's a lot of traffic out there that we were not aware of."
We may have already gotten a glimpse of this traffic, Loeb said. He co-authored a paper recently suggesting that 'Oumuamua, the first confirmed interstellar object ever spotted in our solar system, might be an alien spacecraft.
The consensus view is that 'Oumuamua is a cometary body. But it's important not to dismiss the spacecraft idea out of hand, Loeb stressed.
"We should keep an open mind and not presume we know the answer in advance," he said. "You don’t need to pretend that you know something."
The broadband constellation could eventually consist of nearly 12,000 satellites.
The 60 internet satellites SpaceX just launched will be but the tip of a very large off-Earth iceberg, if all goes according to plan.
Last night (May 23), SpaceX lofted the first five dozen members of its Starlink broadband constellation to low-Earth orbit (LEO) using one of the company's workhorse Falcon 9 rockets. Starlink is designed to provide internet connectivity to people around the world, and it will do so using a truly enormous number of satellites.
Starlink won't be able to provide "minor" coverage until about 400 spacecraft are up and running, and "moderate" coverage requires about 800 operational satellites, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has said. But the company doesn't plan to stop at "moderate."
"In a year and a half, maybe two years, if things go well, SpaceX will probably have more satellites in orbit than all other satellites combined — a majority of the satellites in orbit will be SpaceX," Musk said last week during a prelaunch teleconference with reporters.
That milestone will come around Starlink launch number 30, with 1,800 satellites delivered to orbit, he said.
But the number could rise higher still — much higher, in fact. The Federal Communications Commission has granted SpaceX permission to launch a total of nearly 12,000 Starlink satellites.
Musk said SpaceX has taken great pains to ensure the constellation doesn't pose a collision risk to the other denizens of LEO. For example, he said the Starlink satellites can automatically navigate around other spacecraft and larger pieces of orbital debris, using tracking data provided by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
And this first batch is headed for an operational altitude of 340 miles (550 kilometers) — low enough that they'll get pulled down to Earth by atmospheric drag in a few years even if SpaceX doesn't manage to deorbit them intentionally.
"So, I think we've got a really solution for making sure that we do not create orbital debris," he said. "And, worst-case scenario — the good news there is, the atmosphere cleans it up."
SpaceX isn't the only company with eyes on a LEO broadband constellation.
OneWeb, Telesat and Amazon have similar goals, though their networks may not be as big as Starlink. (OneWeb and Telesat envision constellations numbering in the hundreds, and Amazon's Project Kuiper will top out at around 3,200 satellites if all goes according to plan.)
Starlink is a key part of Musk's long-term plan to help humanity colonize Mars. SpaceX hopes to use Starlink revenue to fund the development of Starship and Super Heavy, the spaceship and rocket the company is building to carry people to the Red Planet, Earth's moon and other solar system destinations.
Last night's launch featured a Falcon 9 whose first stage had already flown twice. It launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida, with the booster acing its third-ever landing, touching down on SpaceX's drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You" off the Florida coast.
Meet Camazotz; the Ancient Maya ‘Batman god’ Worshiped 2,500 Years Ago
Meet Camazotz; the Ancient Maya ‘Batman god’ Worshiped 2,500 Years Ago
Some 2,500 years ago, and even before DC Comics introduced us to Batman, the ancient Maya worshiped Camazotz, an ancient god that had the body of a person and the head of a bat.
Meet Camazotz, the Ancient Mayan Batman
Many things we think originated in recent times are actual copies from much older sources.
There’s plenty of evidence of such cases throughout history.
But did you know that thousands of years ago, the ancient Maya worshiped a god that had the body of a person and the head of a bat? The ‘creature’ had pointy ears and was referred to by the ancient Maya as Camazotz.
Curiously, that description may sound awfully similar to a character most of us are familiar with, seeing him in movies, series, and comic strips.
His name is Batman.
Batman, not the only Bat Man
You guessed it.
Batman’s origins can (sort of) be traced back to a long lost civilization that existed in modern-day Mexico.
Before the DC Comics ‘invented’ the Batman, there was Camazotz, a mysterious pre-Hispanic deity that symbolized night, death and sacrifice.
He was popular among the ancient Maya.
And his description is awfully similar to our modern-day Batman.
But there isn’t really much about him on the internet.
In fact, most of the details describing Camazotz can be traced back to the Popol Vuh.
Origins
Camazotz or Camazot is a relatively unknown character from Mayan mythology. The ancient Mayan god is considered as the murderous bat god.
Representations Camazotz can be found in the museum of Copán, in Honduras although description about him can be found in a few Mayan codices as well.
The ancient deity was dubbed as a master of mysteries, life, and death.
Camazotz comes from two ancient Maya (K’iche ) words ‘kame, which means “death”, and sotz’, which is translated as “bat”.
The worship of Camazotz can be traced back to around 200 B.C. and it is believed to have started among the Zapotecs of Oaxaca, Mexico, who worshiped an anthropomorphic monster with the body of a man and the head of a bat.
The bat was associated with night, death and sacrifice.
Camazots eventually found his place among the pantheon of the Quiche, a Mayan tribe that lived in the jungles of what is now Guatemala and Honduras.
The K’iche quickly identified the bat-god with their god Zotzilaha Chamalcan, which is the god of fire.
Some scholars even believe that the myth surrounding Camazotzs went far beyond the land of the ancient Maya, as stories of similar beings spread across Guatemala, and as far as Brazil.
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It was back in 2014 when Warner Brothers gathered as many as thirty artists for them to reinterpret the looks of Batman for the 75th anniversary.
There were quite a few results.
But one of them was a stunning piece made by Christian Pacheco, owner of a design agency in Yucatan. In fact, it was his examples that stood out the most.
With his piece, Pacheco reminded everyone, that DC Comics was not the first to actually have their very own Batman.
Pacheco’s design gave a heads up to many people that the very first ‘bat’ man can be traced back to the ancient Maya, more than 2,500 years ago.
You can see more images of his version of ‘If Batman was a Mayan god’ in his Behance gallery.
The Popol Vuh and Camazotz
If we take a look at the Popol Vuh we find a few descriptions of this mythical god.
The Popol Vuh, the book of the council ‘or’ book of the community’, is a compilation of mythical, legendary and historical narratives of the K’iche; the Mayan people inhabiting modern-day Guatemala.
The book, of great historical and spiritual value, has been called Sacred Book or the Bible of the Maya Quiche.
In the Popol Vuh, Camazotz was a common name making reference to the bat-like monsters that the Mayan twin heroes Hunahpú and Ixbalanque stumbled across, during their trials in the underworld of Xibalbá.
Temples
It has been found that the Nahua horseshoe-shaped temples were dedicated to the worship of the bat god.
Their altars were made of pure gold and oriented towards the East.
It was believed that the bat god had power to cure any disease, but also power to cut the divine cord of life that unites the body to the soul.
The Nahua priests invoked the bat god when asking for health.
20-year minister and Bible College graduate Jeffrey Daugherty looks at the STUNNING appearance of a UFO in the very first chapter of the Bible–actually between the first and second verses! This is the best explanation in view of the text.
UNINDOCTRINATE YOURSELF! Jeffrey Daugherty, Bible College graduate and former 20-year Christian minister, shines light into the dark corners of Orthodoxy, exposing 2,000 years of suppression and manipulation. You have the right to as much unbiased information as possible when making choices of faith. Mark Twain said ‘It’s easier to fool someone that to convince them they’ve been fooled.
That doesn’t mean Jeffrey is going to stop trying. He is an author, speaker, spiritual worker, frequent guest on Coast To Coast AM, US Air Force veteran, and proud father and grandfather.
The beautiful island of Mayotte was shaken by numerous volcanic temblors.
Image credits: Yane Mainard.
Volcanic shake
About half a year ago, seismologists noticed something unusual off the coast of Mayotte, an overseas French territory between Africa’s eastern coast and Madagascar. Sensors all around the world picked upseismic wavescoming from around the island, but the source was largely unknown.
The locals felt it too. Almost every day, they felt small rumbles, stressing out about what the source might be, and authorities had little answers. French researchers had a hunch what the source might be, but without an on-site expedition, it was impossible to confirm. In February, such an expedition was launched. Nathalie Feuillet of the Institute of Geophysics in Paris (IPGP) and colleagues installed six seismometers on the seafloor, 3.5 kilometers beneath the surface, to monitor the seismic activity.
They pinpointed the seismic area, triangulating a region some 20-50 km deep — but this was only the first step. After the area was identified, researchers mapped it using sonar, finding evidence of a tall volcanic mountain formed underwater, and a huge quantity of solidified lava around it.
The outline of the volcano (in red) was excellently outlined by the sonar beams. The 800-meter (half a mile) volcano was built from nothing in just six months. The eruption was so dramatic that the island of Mayotte sank by about 13 centimeters (5 inches) and moved eastwards about 10 centimeters (4 inches). The sonar also revealed 5 cubic km (1.2 cubic miles) of magma on the seafloor
Image credits: MAYOBS TEAM (CNRS/IPGP-UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS/IFREMER/BRGM).
Competing theories
Mayotte is part of the Comoros archipelago, an archipelago formed through volcanic eruptions. However, although some areas of the Comoros are still very active, the last eruption around Mayotte took place about 7,000 years ago. It’s not just the location of this new volcano that’s a bit puzzling, its nature is also a mystery.
There are several competing theories regarding the nature of this volcanic range. Most volcanoes are found along mid-ocean ridges — underwater mountain ranges formed where the Earth’s tectonic plates are pulling apart, and where convection currents from the mantle are bringing magma closer to the surface. However, this isn’t really the case in the Comoros.
Another possibility is that of a hotspot. A volcanic hotspot is an area where a rising mantle plume comes really close to the surface, producing volcanic activity. The classic example is Hawaii, although the nearby island of Reunion was also formed this way. Hot spots aren’t affected by plate tectonics, and they stay in place while tectonic plates move about, typically leaving a “trail” of volcanoes on the surface. This is consistent with the fairly deep earthquakes observed around Mayotte, which would also suggest that the volcanic magma chamber is also very deep. But the evidence isn’t convincing enough to definitively say that there’s a hotspot there.
Depiction of a rift breaking down into multiple rigid blocks.
Image credits: Italian Institute for Geosciences.
Another likely culprit is the geological process of rifting. East Africa is one of the world’s most active rift zones, with the African tectonic plate splitting into two separate plates. The rifting area isn’t exactly close to Mayotte, but rifting tends to break large areas into rigid blocks, and this might be responsible for the volcanic events.
Most intriguingly, it could be a combination of some (or all) of the above, making Mayotte one of the most exciting volcanic areas to study.
As for the island’s inhabitants, they still have reason to worry. The volcano is probably too deep to threaten the island in any way — the eruptions are too deep to affect the surface and even a potential collapse of one of its flanks would likely be too deep to generate a tsunami. However, the earthquakes seem to be slowly migrating towards the island, which could po}entially lead to a collapse of the island’s flank itself — which would, of course, be much more dangerous. Given this turn of events, Feuillet wants to extend the mission for a few months and get a much better view of what’s happening with this volcanic activity in order to assess the potential risk to the locals. After this is done, results will also be published in a journal, Feuillet says.
ASTEROID FLYING BY EARTH IS SO BIG IT HAS ITS OWN MOON
ASTEROID FLYING BY EARTH IS SO BIG IT HAS ITS OWN MOON
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Earth will be getting not one but two visitors from space this weekend.
Astronomers expect an asteroid known as 1999 KW4 to swing by the Earth at around 7:05 p.m. ET on Saturday — and when it does, it’ll bring along its very own moon.
“It’s one of the closest binary flybys probably in recent history,” planetary scientist Vishnu Reddy told NBC News. “That’s what makes it a very interesting target.”
Dynamic Duo
Asteroid 1999 KW4 is 1.5 kilometers (.93 miles) wide. That’s about three times the size of its moon, which clocks in at a width of about 0.5 kilometers (.3 miles).
Even at their closest, the space rocks will still be more than 3 million miles away, so don’t worry about them smashing into the Earth. In fact, they won’t even come close enough to see with the naked eye.
Still, the pair won’t be this close to Earth again until 2036, so if you want to catch a glimpse of the dynamic duo, be sure to have your telescope ready Saturday night.
Animation showing the KW4 system viewed from Earth as it moved across the sky from May 21, 2001 to June 12, 2001.
SpaceX’s deploys 60-satellite Starlink blob, all spacecraft successfully phone home
SpaceX’s deploys 60-satellite Starlink blob, all spacecraft successfully phone home
SpaceX’s first 60 “production-design” Starlink satellites have been successfully placed in orbit, kicking off a constellation beta test at an unprecedented scale. According to CEO Elon Musk, all spacecraft also managed to successfully ‘phone home’ after separation.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifts off the pad at Space Launch Complex 40 to send 60 Starlink satellites into orbit.
Photo Credit: Graham Smith / SpaceFlight Insider
The company’s Redmond satellite operators still need to verify that all spacecraft are functional and healthy after a Falcon 9 launch and chaotic deployment from the rocket’s upper stage, but the riskiest part of the mission is now arguably behind SpaceX. What remains is essentially a massive, hardware-rich test of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation, ranging from granular flight testing of individual components to an effective simulation of a full constellation’s operations.
All 60 Starlink satellites online, solar array deployment coming up soon
In support of those tests, SpaceX has already received permission from the FCC to begin setting up a number of ground stations and user terminals across the US. Testing will begin on a relatively small scale but will rapidly expand as FCC permissions roll in and the basics of the first 60 Starlink satellites’ operational capabilities are verified.
According to sources familiar with the matter who spoke under the condition of anonymity, SpaceX will most likely begin commercial testing of its Starlink constellation much like Tesla, using its significant workforce (~6000 people) as beta testers. The sources didn’t know how many launches it would take before that internal testing kicks off, but it’s safe to say that SpaceX will need at least a few hundred satellites in orbit to provide uninterrupted broadband service over a few swaths of the US.
Elon: 60 satellites of the production design for the Starlink system (minus the Ka antenna) will be launched tonight. An incredible amount of hard work went into getting to this point. It’s one of the hardest engineering projects that I’ve ever seen done.#SpaceX
A little over one hour after launch, SpaceX deployed all 60 Starlink satellites simultaneously, producing a bizarre blob of spacecraft that appeared to slowly begin to separate, almost like a zipper unzipping. CEO Elon Musk noted on May 15th that there was “a chance” that satellites would bump into each other during deployment. After watching the actual act, it’s safe to say that many of the 60 satellites almost certainly bumped into each other after separating from Falcon 9, albeit very slowly.
The 60 Starlink satellites in their launch configuration before being encapsulated in the Falcon 9’s payload fairing.
Photo Credit: SpaceX
60 Starlink satellites deployed from Falcon 9’s upper stage in a truly bizarre fashion, moving away from the rocket like an 18 ton blob of spacecraft.
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All 60 Starlink satellites moments after deployment.
Photo Credit: SpaceX
A rendering of a Starlink satellite in orbit.
Image Credit: SpaceX
Starlink’s deployment mechanism is easily the most SpaceX-reminiscent thing SpaceX has ever done. It certainly isn’t pretty and your author would love nothing more than to immediately head to orbit to evenly distribute the satellites (oh, the asymmetry ). And yet, it seems likely that the chaotic blob deployment will ultimately be a success, getting rid of the wasted mass of a dispenser, speeding up deployment, and offloading the need for accuracy from Falcon 9 S2 to the satellites themselves.
Starlink satellites are propelled by krypton-fueled electric thrusters, also known as ion or Hall Effect thrusters.
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A stack of the first 60 Starlink satellites.
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By simply designing the satellites to handle minor bumps and more significant mechanical loads during launch and deployment, SpaceX can forgo the hassle of treating each spacecraft as if they’re made out of fine china, fairly routine for most modern satellites.
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Foto’s bewijzen dat er iets verborgen ligt onder een Egyptisch tempelcomplex. De autoriteiten willen niet dat jij dit weet
Foto: Леон Петросян Wikimedia Commons
Foto’s bewijzen dat er iets verborgen ligt onder een Egyptisch tempelcomplex. De autoriteiten willen niet dat jij dit weet
Jimmy van YouTube-kanaal Bright Insight heeft een aantal foto’s gepubliceerd van een ontdekking in Egypte waar geen ruchtbaarheid aan gegeven is.
De foto’s zijn gemaakt in het tempelcomplex van Dendera, het heiligdom van Hathor en Isis, dat grotendeels dateert uit de Ptolemaeïsche periode.
Onlangs werd er iets ontdekt onder één van de vloeren van de tempel van Hathor wat maar weinig mensen hebben gezien.
Onbekende tempel
Onder de vloer stuitte men op de bovenkant van meerdere begraven zuilen.
Dat betekent dat recht onder de tempel van Hathor nog een tweede, onbekende tempel gelegen is.
De vraag is nu waarom de internationale nieuwsmedia geen aandacht hebben besteed aan deze bijzondere ontdekking.
In het geheim
Daarnaast kun je je afvragen hoe groot de zuilen zijn, hoeveel het er zijn, hoe groot de onderliggende tempel is en wat we er kunnen aantreffen.
Een gids liet weten dat de blootgelegde zuil eerst zal worden afgedekt en dat pas later, in het geheim, opgravingen zullen worden verricht.
Voorkomen
Dit wijst erop dat de autoriteiten die archeologische vindplaatsen beheren, proberen te voorkomen dat nieuwe informatie de massa bereikt.
Professoren, wetenschappers en egyptologen worden niet op de hoogte gebracht van ontdekkingen, maar er worden in het geheim opgravingen gedaan, waarna wordt besloten wat er naar buiten wordt gebracht (als er al iets naar buiten wordt gebracht).
A retired carpenter in Ireland claims that a stroll home from his neighborhood pub turned into an extraterrestrial encounter when he was abducted by aliens who told him when and how the world would end.
Gerry Battles says that the incident occurred on December 26, 2001 as he was walking home from the Seven Sisters Pub.
As he was admiring the stars, he noticed one particularly odd light emerge in the sky and then suddenly found himself aboard an alien spacecraft.
Paralyzed but able to observe other humans in a similar state aboard the ship, Battles was gob smacked when he finally encountered the alien seemingly in command of the vessel.
"All I remember is his big cone head and his beautiful, ginormous eyes. They were jet black, almost like mirrors," Battles told the Limerick Post.
The ET was impressed that Battles was not afraid like the other abductees and even flew the spacecraft over the North Pole at his request.
During their telepathic conversation, the alien revealed to Battles that Earth was due to be destroyed by an asteroid in 850 years.
The disappointed ET also expressed dismay that humanity continues to engage in warfare and subterfuge.
Additionally, the observant alien told him not to trust politicians or banks, which is likely advice he didn't really need from the ETs.
While Battles story will likely be easily dismissed by skeptics, there is one quizzical element to it which should be of interest to UFO enthusiasts.
The former carpenter had no recollection of his experience until a contractor from the Regional Hospital told him that they'd found his coat on the roof of the building!
After getting his coat back, Battles suddenly remembered his incredible experience aboard the spacecraft.
He hopes that by sharing his story, the scientific community will make a serious effort toward solving the UFO enigma.
Although that is unlikely to happen, perhaps someday in the distant future humans will remember his tale and manage to stop that asteroid from hitting us.
The 2019 crop circle season is officially underway in England as the first formation of the year has been found. The design was reportedlydiscovered in the town of Warminster on Wednesday. The appearance of the formation may have elicited sighs of relief from the UK crop circle research community who have not had to wait this long for the season to begin since 2013, when it took until June for the first design to be discovered.
Suggesting that perhaps the crop circle makers are working off a bit of rust accumulated over the winter months, this first formation of the year is a fairly basic design. It consists of a circle surrounded by a thick ring and then a thinner ring which features a pair of larger spheres opposite of each other. Suggestions as to what the formation may be meant to convey include a rudimentary electrical generator or possibly some kind of celestial alignment.
Per usual, fastidious crop circle investigators in England have already flocked to the site to document the formation by way of two different drone videos as well as close-up photographs from the inside the design. What may be most noteworthy about the scene is that the crops appear to be fairly high, making the shape of the formation noticeably crisp, which somewhat makes up for its lackluster design.
As to who or what may have created the formation, it's a safe bet that the debate over the cause of the crop circle phenomenon will undoubtedly continue in 2019 as skeptics contend that the formation came courtesy of human hands. However, based on his examination of the drone videos, researcher Dr. Horace R. Drew argued that "there is no indication at present of any heavy mechanical or other man-made actions in its formation." One thing that seems certain is that we'll be seeing many more formations in the weeks and months to come now that crop circle season has begun.
Eerste graancirkel van 2019 gevonden in Engeland. Wat is de betekenis hiervan?
Foto: Nick Bull
Eerste graancirkel van 2019 gevonden in Engeland. Wat is de betekenis hiervan?
In Engeland is de eerste graancirkelformatie van het jaar gevonden. De graancirkel werd woensdag ontdekt bij de plaats Warminster.
Het graancirkelseizoen begint dit jaar relatief vroeg. In 2013 moesten liefhebbers bijvoorbeeld wachten tot juni voordat de eerste formatie werd gespot.
De graancirkel bestaat uit een cirkel die wordt omgeven door twee ringen. De buitenste ring wordt onderbroken door twee bollen.
Samenstand
De theorieën over de betekenis van de formatie lopen nogal uiteen. Sommigen zien er een stroomgenerator in, terwijl anderen zeggen dat het iets heeft te maken met een samenstand van hemellichamen.
Onderzoekers zijn al naar de locatie afgereisd om de graancirkel te documenteren. Ook zijn er dronebeelden van gemaakt.
Geen aanwijzingen
Eén van de onderzoekers, dr. Horace R. Drew, liet weten dat ‘er op dit moment geen aanwijzingen zijn dat er mensenhanden aan te pas zijn gekomen’.
De komende weken en maanden zullen er naar verwachting nog veel meer graanformaties gaan verschijnen.
WETENSCHAPHet Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap NASA heeft grootse plannen met de maan. Artemis, dochter van Zeus en tweelingzus van Apollo, “is de godin van de maan” en tevens ook de naam van het nieuwe programma van NASA. Het eerste onderdeel van het ambitieuze maanprogramma is de Lunar Gateway: een nieuw ruimtestation.
“We gaan naar de maan, om er te blijven”, zo verkondigde NASA een tiental dagen geleden bij de voorstelling van het nieuwe “Artemis”-programma. Enkele dagen later lijken de plannen alweer een beetje concreter. In 2022 zal er alvast een testmodel van een nieuw ruimtestation gelanceerd worden. Dat vertelde NASA-baas Jim Bridenstine tijdens een persconferentie.
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We are going to the Moon — to stay.
We will build sustainable infrastructure to support missions to Mars and beyond. This is what we’re building. This is what we’re training for. We are going. #Moon2024
ISS versus Lunar Gateway Het nieuwe ruimtestation zal in vele opzichten lijken op het internationale ruimtestation (ISS). Alleen zal de Lunar Gateway niet rond de aarde, maar wel rond de maan cirkelen. Daarbij zal het veel kleiner zijn dan het ISS. Nog een belangrijk onderscheid: terwijl astronauten ruim een jaar in het ISS kunnen verblijven, zal dat in de Lunar Gateway hooguit drie maanden mogelijk zijn. Doordat de Gateway maar zo groot zal zijn als een eenkamerflat zijn er minder voorzieningen dan in het ISS. Bovendien kunnen er in het ISS, dat groter is dan een huis met zes slaapkamers, grotere voorraden aangelegd worden.
Het nieuwe ruimtestation zal in twee fases gebouwd worden. In een eerste fase zal de Lunar Gateway gebruikt worden om af te dalen naar de maan. In een tweede fase, die omstreeks 2028 gepland staat, wordt het ruimtestation omgetoverd tot een ruimte waar astronauten enige tijd kunnen verblijven. En zo zal het onderzoek naar de maan een tikkeltje geïntensifieerd worden.
(Lees verder onder de foto)
Photo NewsBuzz Aldrin, de eerste man die voet op de maan zette, tijdens de Amerikaanse Apollo 11-missie.
Race naar de maan
Jim Bridenstine maakte eerder al de naam van het programma bekend, alsook de datum waarop de Amerikaanse astronauten opnieuw op de maan willen landen. NASA mikte er in eerste instantie op om in 2028 weer een maanreis te maken, maar Trump wilde de datum vier jaar naar voren halen en kwam daarom met extra geld over de brug: maar liefst 1,6 miljard dollar (1,4 miljard euro). Er zijn immers andere (maan)kapers op de kust en de Amerikaanse president wil de eerste blijven.
Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump
Under my Administration, we are restoring @NASA to greatness and we are going back to the Moon, then Mars. I am updating my budget to include an additional $1.6 billion so that we can return to Space in a BIG WAY!
Things are falling from the skies at an alarming rate. With the on comingwar in spaceheating up nicely, nations are starting to test all sorts ofspace-based weapons andkiller satellitespresumably in order to see some rad zero-gravity explosions. Whenever things go ‘boom,’ however, they tend to leave a whole lot of debris behind and, well, we all know what happens to things that go up.
"The Indian test showcased Space Fence's capabilities in a real-world event," Col. Stephen Purdy, director of the Space Superiority System Directorate at Los Angeles Air Force Base, said in a release. "The system was able to quickly respond to a highly dynamic situation providing critical data."
In order to protect hapless civilians from the inevitable tons of flaming satellite shrapnel falling from space, the U.S. Air Force has recently tested a new technology it’s calling “Space Fence.” The system was designed by Lockheed Martin and was able to successfully detect and track the debris field left behind when India recently blew one of their own satellites to smithereens just for kicks.
If a nation can do that to one of their own satellites, think what we can likely do to all of those other weirdos’ satellites with our space weapons.
Lockheed Martin doesn’t share too many details about the system on its official Space Fence website other than that it consists of high-frequency radar positioned in such a way as to be able to accurately track the altitudes of small pieces of space debris in real time and “permit the detection of much smaller microsatellites and debris than current systems.” According to Lockheed Martin, Space Fence will provide peaceful spacecraft with better defenses against space debris and “significantly improve the timeliness with which operators can detect space events, which could present potential threats to GPS satellites or the International Space Station.” Of course, that also means the system will be able to better track adversaries’ satellites, even tiny ones like Russia’s ‘nesting doll’ satellites which are meant to latch onto and hijack other, larger satellites.
The system’s true purpose can be gleaned from the language Lockheed and Air Force spokespersons use in the press release. Vice president and general manager of Radar and Sensor Systems for Lockheed Martin Dr. Rob Smith says in a press release that Space Fence will prove to be an invaluable asset as near-Earth orbits become increasingly crowded, enabling “warfighters” to be more aware of the space battlefield:
The criticality of space assets to both national defense and the world economy cannot be understated. As multiple new mega constellations consisting of thousands of satellites become a reality and the space domain continues to become more congested, the demand for more accurate and timely space situational awareness data will be of the utmost importance to the warfighter.
Colonel Stephen Purdy, Director of the Space Superiority Systems Directorate at the Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base echoes Lockheed’s vice president, likewise saying that “Space Fence is the latest in a long line of capabilities we are collectively bringing to the warfighter as we continue to build out space capabilities for the United States.” Judging from the way Lockheed and Air Force execs describe the system, it’s clear Space Fence is a primarily military tool that will benefit civilians as a side effect. I mean, who will oversee operations of the system? Why the Space Force, of course, making it the Space Force Space Fence. Space War I is coming soon, folks.
KWAJALEIN ATOLL, Marshall Islands, May 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Air Force Space Fence system detected the breakup field from an anti-satellite test conducted by India during a scheduled endurance exercise of the new space surveillance radar. As MICROSAT-R was expected to pass…
All this talk of protecting American spacecraft against space threats comes at a time when planetary defense seems to be getting more attention than ever from government agencies. Why the sudden focus on protecting the planet from near-Earth objects and space debris? Could an impact event be looming in our near future? A team of astronomers from University of Western Ontario thinks so, saying the risk may be higher than we currently know.
Earth’s final viral video.
In a new study accepted for publication by the Royal Astronomical Society, Earth scientist David Clark and astronomers Paul Wiegert and Peter Brown write that this summer is the perfect time to analyze the risk of the Taurid meteor swarm. The Taurid swarm is one of the most well-known groups of meteors, creating bright meteor showers every Autumn as it encounters Earth. While the large majority of these are tiny meteoroids smaller than a grain of sand, the Taurid swarm has long been suspected of hiding larger asteroids or meteors in some of its branches. 2019 is predicted to be one of the most active years for the Taurid meteor showers, possibly even creating fireballs bright enough to be observed during the day.
The swarm will come within 30,000,000 km of the Earth in a few months, enabling scientists to better predict the path of the swarm in the future. “There has been great interest in the space community since we shared our results at the recent Planetary Defense Conference in Washington, DC,” says David Clark. “There is strong meteoric and NEO evidence supporting the Taurid swarm and its potential existential risks but this summer brings a unique opportunity to observe and quantify these objects.” Could these meteors or other near-Earth objects pose a greater risk than the public is aware of? We may soon find out. Let’s hope that Space Fence works.
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