Who are you calling a caveman? Israeli study finds Neanderthals had versatile habitats

Analysis of remains from 60,000 years ago found at Ein Qashish questions a bedrock narrative of humanity’s ancestors

By AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN

The lower limbs of a Neanderthal exposed at the open-air site of Ein Qashish, on the banks of the Kishon River in northern Israel

(Erella Hovers, courtesy of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

An Israeli-led study of the skeletal remains of two humans from the late Middle Paleolithic period, between 70,000 and 60,000 years ago, has yielded surprising findings. In analyzing the first Neanderthal remains found outside caves in the Levant, researchers have found Neanderthals were not merely “cavemen,” but much more flexible in their living habits than commonly held.

As part of major road construction, archaeologists were called in by road company Derekh Eretz Inc. to survey the northern Israel site of Ein Qashish, situated on the banks of the Kishon River. The findings of their study — published Wednesday in the journal Nature Scientific Reports — indicate that 60,000 years ago, as modern humans reached the region, Neanderthals in the Levant inhabited both caves and open landscapes.

The Levant, or Near East, is to date the only known region where the fossil record shows the two populations — Neanderthals and Homo sapiens– existed simultaneously during the Middle Paleolithic era. Unlike earlier studies, however, this survey includes fossils of both types of human individuals — not only from caves, but also from open-air sites.

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“The discovery of Neanderthals at open-air sites during the late MP reinforces the view that Neanderthals were a resilient population in the Levant shortly before Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens populated the region,” the article stated.

An aerial view of Ein Qashsish in northern Israel.

(Erella Hovers, courtesy of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

“The new discovery of Neanderthal remains at the late MP open-air site of Ein Qashish provides a window into the settlement and mobility patterns of the Neanderthals of northern Israel,” it continued.

The study was led by Dr. Ella Been from the Ono Academic College, Prof. Erella Hovers from the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr. Omry Barzilai from the Israel Antiquities Authority, with the assistance of Dr. Ravid Ekshtain (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Dr. Ariel Malinsky-Buller (the Museum for Human Behavioral Evolution, Monrepos, Germany).

The Neanderthal tooth found at Ein Qashish, on the banks of the Kishon River in northern Israel.

(Erella Hovers, courtesy of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Aided by advanced imaging and statistical techniques, the archaeologists used a single upper molar tooth to represent the remains of one Neanderthal. The second Neanderthal was represented by the lower limbs of an individual who suffered from injuries that likely caused limping. The remains were found within a rich archaeological level containing flint tools, animal bones, and some unusual finds for the period, such as a marine shell, pigments and an antler of a deer, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority.

A spear point made from flint found at Ein Qashsish in northern Israel. 

(Erella Hovers, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

״A number of researchers have recently claimed that Neanderthals were adapted to life in rugged mountainous terrains whereas modern humans adapted better to flat and open landscapes. The finds from Ein Qashish show that Neanderthals inhabited sites in diverse topographic and ecological contexts,” the IAA said in a press release.

The findings of the study go a long way toward explaining the disappearance of the Neanderthals, according to the IAA.

Whereas traditional explanations hypothesize that Neanderthals in the Near East were unable to adapt to an increasingly dry climate, the Ein Qashish finds indicate that they were adapted to open-air living.

“Our study suggests that Neanderthals were a resilient population that successfully existed in the north of Israel at the time that modern humans arrived from Africa some 60,000 years ago.”

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03-07-2019 om 01:13 geschreven door peter  

Holbewoners? Nieuwe Israëlische studie dwingt ons anders te kijken naar neanderthalers

Archeologen die neanderthalers bestuderen hebben altijd gedacht dat het holbewoners waren. Een recente ontdekking in Israël kan daar verandering in brengen.

Een team onder leiding van professor Erella Hovers van de Hebreeuwse Universiteit van Jeruzalem heeft ontdekt dat de neanderthalers zich zo’n 60.000 jaar geleden vestigden in de plaats Ein Qashish.

Algemeen wordt aangenomen dat neanderthalers het grootste gedeelte van hun leven in grotten doorbrachten.

Openluchtkampen

De vondst in Ein Qashish laat zien dat ze juist veel tijd in de buitenlucht doorbrachten en in openluchtkampen leefden.

Het team schrijft in een verklaring dat botresten die er gevonden zijn, kunnen worden geassocieerd met neanderthalers.

Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat ze van de zomer tot de herfst in Ein Qashish leefden, ongeveer zes tot acht maanden per jaar.

Nieuw licht

In de omgeving van de archeologische vindplaats bevindt zich de Qesem-grot, die in 2000 werd ontdekt.

Israëlische onderzoekers vonden daar onder andere menselijke overblijfselen, die een nieuw licht kunnen werpen op de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de moderne mens.

Overeenkomstig

Zo werden er acht tanden gevonden die tussen de 200.000 tot 400.00 jaar oud zouden zijn.

De Qesem-tanden hebben kenmerken die overeenkomstig zijn met die van de neanderthaler.

Het onderzoek is verschenen in tijdschrift PLOS One.

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03-07-2019 om 00:53 geschreven door peter  

by Corbin 

Crop circles, elaborate patterns found in farmer’s fields, continue to fascinate people worldwide. Although some have been elaborate hoaxes, others remain a mystery, tangible and real yet unexplained. The first simple crop circles started to become a regular phenomenon when they appeared in the southern English countryside in the summers of the 70s. Ever since they seem to have become more and more elaborate. Some people believe the intricate geometric patterns are messages sent from higher intelligence, extraterrestrials, or even time travelers. One Italian inventor, Umberto Baudo, believes crop circles may be meant to impart secrets of new technology and free energy to humanity.

In 1991, a book titled, “Crop Circles: Harbingers of World Change” by Alick Bartholomew was published. It explored the idea that some crop circles could be messages from non-human intelligence from beyond this physical world. Maybe the formations were meant to deliver secrets for new advanced technology. In the book, an English historian and psychic, Isabelle Kingston, suggested that crop circles might reveal a molecular structure or blueprint for a new form of energy that would one day be unraveled by scientists.

It was the same year that two British men came forward to take credit for creating hundreds of crop circles: Doug Bower and Dave Chorley. As more and more crop circles are discovered, the idea that they could be messages from aliens persisted. Crop circles became more and more elaborate, and some believe they can’t all be chalked up to a hoax.

If crop circles are an intended message, then what is it?

In 2008, Umberto Baudo decided to use crop circles as an inspiration, a blueprint for a mechanism that he believed could deliver a source of free energy, similar to the ultimate goals of Nikola Tesla. Baudo’s work, like that of Tesla’s plans for free energy, has remained obscure, but now with a translation from researcher Pedro M. Duarte, we can look at his findings with English captions in the video below.

Baudo recognizes that some crop circles are hoaxes, but among the hundreds of images found, he chose the formations he believes represent authentic energy generating systems. He demonstrates that those formations can operate like the gears of a machine.

“Since 2008 I realized that it is absolutely possible to generate free energy to all of the planet, and instead of having to pay large amounts of money to have in exchange [for] a small amount of energy,” said Baudo.

Umberto Baudo works on a computer simulation showing an “eccentric core”

In Baudo’s first experiments, he attempted to create magnetic motors. The prototypes were arrays of circles based on crop circle formations. His work progressed from magnetic systems to systems using centrifugal force and tested using computer simulations. The simulations allowed him to find out what happens when the shapes are rotated at high speed, generating energy both with and without the variables of gravity and counterweight mechanisms: magnets, springs, and chains.

Baudo believes extraterrestrials chose to communicate with crop circles for a reason.

“It’s important to understand that the Crop Circles are the maximum expression of a message because through an image you can communicate much more than with words without any doubt,” he explains. “…especially if the message [is addressed] to someone that does not speak our language.”

The inventor found that the rotating systems could whirl around an “eccentric core,” shapes he recognizes in many crop circle formations. Spinning around this core, the circular shapes generate momentum.

See Umberto Baudo discuss his experiments with English captions from Pedro M. Duarte below:

In the second part (below), Baudo is convinced that crop circles are meant as examples of using centrifugal force and that he has decoded their meaning. With modifications, including the addition of a spring, he says he has created perfect models that continue to build momentum even after the engine is turned off. All thanks to centrifugal force…

“After some years studying and researching, always with these images in my mind, finally I think I’ve found the key to understand the [main] part of these crop circles. The main key to understand it is fundamentally one: The centrifugal force. Just like that!”

Computer simulation showing ever-increasing energy output as the model spins

The circular gears rotate until the spring slowly reaches full extension.

“The speed will increase, always in a constant way, until the spring achieves its maximum. In that moment [it] will stabilize,” he explains.

Although many people remain skeptical, he believes that these systems can work against the first principle of thermodynamics, that states the total energy of an isolated system is constant. Instead, the engine he simulates continues to accelerate, while the “eccentric core” of the disc appears distorted into an oval shape.

See part 2 below:

 

In part 3, Umberto Baudo has advanced beyond the computer simulations to create the mechanics of the centrifugal motors in three dimensions. We see his team working to test the pieces cut out of metal, and in the latter part of the video in English, he discusses his findings with a man who puts him in contact with experts in America. From here, we are left to wonder what happened next.

What happened to Umberto Baudo’s designs? If he had been successful, surely we would know about it, right? Yet delivering a source of free energy to the world would most likely be met with incredible resistance in a world where economies revolve around monetized methods of energy delivery. Finding a source of unlimited free energy would change the global economy, freeing people from the need to labor endlessly to pay energy bills.

Will Baudo’s ultimate findings remain a mystery, like crop circles? Like Nikola Tesla’s plans to deliver free energy to the people? Are beings with higher intelligence trying to tip the odds in the common person’s favor, allowing us to finally have such technology distributed to everyone worldwide? Or, are we all overly optimistic to think this is even possible? Are crop circles just elaborate hoaxes by people who want to keep our hopes alive?

See part 3 below:

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• Featured images: Screenshots via YouTube
• Special thanks to Pedro M. Duarte for translating this video

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03-07-2019 om 00:38 geschreven door peter  

03-07-2019 om 00:15 geschreven door peter  

Graancirkelgolf in Frankrijk: zoveel mysterieuze formaties zijn er al ontdekt

In Frankrijk is sprake van een heuse graancirkelgolf. In het land zijn in de afgelopen dagen nog een aantal nieuwe formaties ontdekt.

Afgelopen woensdag werd een graanformatie ontdekt in Parcay-Meslay nabij Tours.

Een tweede formatie werd gevonden in een veld van een bedrijf dat gespecialiseerd is in plantaardige olie.

Het bedrijf plaatste foto’s van het curieuze ontwerp op haar Facebookpagina.

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Cette nuit les petits hommes verts nous ont passe une commande d'huile !!🤨 (photos réelle prises dans notre parcelle au Breuil chauvigny )

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Op zondag werd een graancirkel ontdekt tussen Houdain en Haillicourt in de regio Hauts-de-France. De formatie werd gemeld door Umberto Molinaro.

Geen einde

Er lijkt maar geen einde te komen aan de graancirkelgolf. Maandag werd er nog een graanformatie gevonden, dit maal nabij Nielles-les-Ardres in Pas-de-Calais:

Tot dusver zijn er in Frankrijk in korte tijd al 11 graancirkels ontdekt. In de komende twee tot drie maanden zullen dat er naar verwachting nog een stuk meer worden.

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03-07-2019 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

Bob Lazar: 30-Year Anniversary of Interview on Area 51

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02-07-2019 om 23:49 geschreven door peter  

Two similar photographs of flying saucer-style UFOs allegedly taken recently over the city of San Agustín, Oaxaca, Mexico, have many UFO watchers interested because of its better-than-the-average-ufo-photo clarity. (See them here and here.) It also has many who know their UFO history interested because San Agustin is also the name of the city in New Mexico where an alleged UFO crash occurred in July 1947 – an event sometimes referred to as the “other Roswell incident” because of its proximity in both time and location to the more famous one. The “other” in San Agustin, New Mexico, is equally mysterious because of rumors of a live alien as well as alien bodies, crashed disks and military threats to locals unless they kept quiet. Have aliens come back for their old ship and crew and put the wrong San Agustin in their GPS?

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AVISTAN OVNI IN OAXACA. In San Agustin de las Juntas, Oaxaca, we took this image that circulates in groups of WhatsApp, if authentic it would be one of the clearest images of an unidentified flying object, in the valley of this State.

The images (see one here with magnifications and the usual red circle) of what look like a flying saucer spread quickly on Twitter and on some Mexican media sites. While the clarity is obvious, the details are not. There’s no information on the exact dates (there are conflicting dates in the reports and tweets), who took the photos, time of day, description of movement, any other witnesses, etc. This pushes the needle on the Skeptical Meter to just a hair away from ‘Hoax’, giving the photos a slight benefit-of-the-doubt in hopes that more photos, witnesses or info appear – perhaps even linking this San Agustin to the ‘other’ one.

The name San Agustin (a form of the more prevalent Augustine) in the ufology world has been associated since July 1947 with an alleged UFO crash in the Plains of San Agustin – a flat area in southwestern New Mexico about 250 miles west of Roswell and better known to the rest of the world as the current home of the Very Large Array radio astronomy observatory, placed there because of its isolation and partial shielding effect from the surrounding mountain ranges. The story of the San Agustin crash has been investigated many times and told in interviews (the late Stan Freidman conducted one), books and documentaries. The most popular telling mentions that seeing planes in the San Agustin area was not unusual in 1947.

The first half of the tale starts with an unnamed rancher who claimed to have found a “child” walking along a remote stretch of old route NM 12. It’s said the ‘child’ was wearing strange clothing and had no ears only four long fingers – no thumbs. The rancher took the ‘child’ home and called a deputy, but it disappeared overnight.

The second half begins later in the summer of 1947 when Barney Barnett claimed to have discovered a crashed disk or flying saucer about a mile from NM Highway 12 and just a few miles from where the rancher allegedly found the ‘child’. Barnett claimed to have seen three or four unusual bodies at the crash site, which were also later seen by his friends and a group of university research archaeologists who were on a dig in the area. According to later testimonies, soldiers soon arrived, cordoned off the area and told anyone and everyone it was their patriotic duty not to tell anyone about it.

Many people have attempted to confirm or question Barnett’s story (without a beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt conclusion in either case), and many others have looked for the bodies and parts of the saucer rumored to have been taken from the site, with none having been confirmed to have been found. In 2016, The Black Vault web site wrote about Chuck Wade, who visited the site and found metal and plastic-like fragments. An analysis found the metals to be aluminum foil, the plastic to be polyethylene and could draw no alien conclusions, although others have claimed to differ.

Two unusual ‘flying saucer’ incidents in two cities named San Agustin. The 1947 New Mexico San Agustin incident has never been conclusively resolved. The 2019 Mexico San Agustin photos have a long way to go to be resolved. Yet both have flying disks and the same name. Dots much farther apart have been connected before. Is there a line between these?

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02-07-2019 om 23:40 geschreven door peter  

A formation of UFOs passing the Moon

A sky-watcher caught a formation of UFOs as they passed the moon.

The footage shows 3 UFOs flying in a triangular formation, a moment later 2 more UFOs appear following the same trajectory.

The sky-watcher used a Canon EOS 70D 300mm including a teleconverter on tripod. Given the speed of the objects it is unlikely that they are satellites.

  

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02-07-2019 om 23:14 geschreven door peter  

240 Meter UFO Comes Out Of Mexico Volcano On Live Camera, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 10, 2019
Location of sighting: San Nicholas, Mexico

Here is an amazing sighting of a boomerang UFO coming out of a volcano in Mexico. The video is captured from the live cam networks that exists. The UFO slowly moves up from the side of the volcano, glowing powerfully as it continues to rise and disappear above the volcano. We were lucky that Youtube ColourUFO was on the job, because its simply amazing. 

This is 100% proof that there is an alien base 5km below this volcano as many UFO researchers and myself believe. The UFO itself is about 40% the width of the mouth of the volcano. The mouth is 600 meters across, thus the UFO is 240 meters.

Please help ColourUFO out by clicking this link and subscribing to his Youtube channel. 
Scott C. Waring

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02-07-2019 om 22:52 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Asian Atlantis Found! This Word May Be Is Name, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: July 2, 2019
Location of discovery: Japan
Coordinate: 31°52'0.66"N 129°57'15.71"E

I was using Google Earth Map when I found this symbol in the ocean. Its about 1-2 meters deep and close to 6 meters across. The symbol looks old, not thousands, but millions of years old. For it to be s visible it must be carved very deep. I tried to match this up ancient Japanese but found nothing that was similar. 

Its possible that millions of years ago, and an alien culture came down in this location to create a city. Its also possible that this city was Atlantis itself. Its obvious from the evidence world wide that aliens did inhabit the earths surface millions of years ago, but this may be one of the few locations were alien writing has been found. 
Scott C. Waring

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02-07-2019 om 22:48 geschreven door peter  

In August, the Andromeda galaxy will move closer to Earth : a cosmic event that only happens once every 150 million years

This August, the Andromeda galaxy will be even bigger than the moon in our sky!
The last time this cosmic event occurred was during the era of the dinosaurs… Share this information as much as you can with your friends because NO human being living today will be able to see this incredible event a second time.

This summer, don’t forget to look up at the sky in the middle of the night: the Andromeda galaxy will be shining brightly. And for a good reason since this galaxy’s apparent diameter will be larger than the Full Moon! Through a unique cosmic phenomenon, a galaxy will be visible to the naked eye and will appear to the Earth’s inhabitants to be even bigger than the moon!

This is the first time that humanity will be able to observe this exceptional phenomenon. The last time the Andromeda galaxy was so close to the Earth was exactly 150 million years ago, during the era when dinosaurs ruled its surface. Just imagine, mankind didn’t yet exist!

This unique cosmic phenomenon known as “Andromescopic” is partly linked to the solar system’s path in our galaxy. As you may have read on the Internet, our sun is not motionless in space and moves at a speed of 30 km per second in our Milky Way: this movement can be seen relatively easily by observing the position of the stars in the sky: new constellations regularly appear with each new heliocentric revolution of the universe.

But is much rarer is the conjunction of another phenomenon that has the effect of considerably speeding up the approach of the Andromeda galaxy closer towards to our planet.

Indeed, our Milky Way’s elliptical orbital path has a partially reactive hypo-synchronous zodiacal acceleration which can, under certain conditions, be affected by an apochromatic azimuthal anomaly which significantly disrupts the singular eccentricity of the leptonic phase (named after Sir Lepton, the brilliant 10th century astrologer). Away from the digestive cepheid caused by possible gluttonous black holes – obviously assuming that any galaxy is included in a sysmo-parabolic projection (adjusted Champollion reference) beforehand – it is almost accepted that a singular anemic anomaly changing the apses line (Editor’s note: the straight line between the periapsis and the apocentre of an orbit) can under these conditions permanently tilt the orbit of the Andromeda galaxy’s asterism. The particularity of this recurring phenomenon (commonly called “circumstellar elliptical conjunction of coercive muscle elongation” in top athletes) is to allow our sun to be projected into the telluric zone of solar attraction like a projectile launched from a slingshot, every 150 million years exactly!

Put another way in terms much more accessible to an average Facebook user, the Andromeda galaxy will be very big in the sky!!

For astronomy enthusiasts eager for practical details, the galaxy’s heliocentric viscous perineum will occur this summer (in August to be precise) at a ridiculous distance of only 64 million light years with an amplitude of -3.14 at the most for an arc of 1687 seconds in length. As a result, the Andromeda galaxy will, at this precise time, appear in the sky even larger than the full moon!

Scientists predict that this will be the most observed and photographed natural phenomenon in human history.

The sky will be shining brightly at night and the galaxy’s dark, colourful shades will be a wonder to all our planet’s inhabitants: the show will be quite simply exceptional! The next time this cosmic event happens again will be in 150 million years. In other words, there will no longer be any human beings or any life at all left on the Earth’s surface. Share this information as much as you can with your friends because NO human being living today will be able to see this incredible event a second time.

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02-07-2019 om 01:04 geschreven door peter  

First interstellar object to enter the solar system 'Oumuamua' was NOT an alien spaceship, astronomers say - but exactly what the strange cigar-shaped rock is remains a 'mystery'

• Professional stargazer Dr Robert Weryk spotted the interstellar traveller in 2017  
• Its movements led some to suggest it is an alien spacecraft sent to examine us 
• After studying the data on the space-faring object scientists now say it is natural 
• However it doesn't conform to many of the defining features associated with comets and asteroids

By TIM COLLINS FOR MAILONLINE

Aliens have not journeyed to our corner of the galaxy in an interstellar spacecraft, astronomers said in a new study of the space rock Oumuamua. 

Oumuamua is the first known object to pass through solar system from outside but experts are still unable to pinpoint exactly where it came from or what it is.

The mysterious cigar-shaped projectile - formally named object 1I/2017 U1 - defies description, with characteristics resembling both a comet and an asteroid.

However, it doesn't conform to many of the other defining features usually associated with these objects - including its direction of spin and lack of a tail. 

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The first interstellar object to enter the solar system is not an alien spaceship , astronomers said in a new study - but its exact nature remains a mystery (artist's impression pictured)

Oumuamua, Hawaiian for 'scout' , spins like a coke bottle and accelerates like a comet, but without the gas jets often seen trailing them.

Its movements have puzzled experts leading some to suggest it is an alien spacecraft sent to examine our solar system.

Study's co-author Dr Matthew Knight, an associate research scientist in the University of Maryland Department of Astronomy, said: 'The alien spacecraft hypothesis is a fun idea, but our analysis suggests there is a whole host of natural phenomena that could explain it.

'We have never seen anything like Oumuamua in our solar system. It's really a mystery still.

'But our preference is to stick with analogues we know, unless or until we find something unique.'

Professional stargazer Dr Robert Weryk first spotted the interstellar traveller in October, 2017 at the University of Hawaii's Haleakala Observatory.

Researchers had just weeks to collect as much data as possible before the strange visitor travelled beyond the reach of Earth's telescopes.

The object is now out of sight but could take up to 20,000 years before it leaves our solar system onto its next destination.

Dr Knight worked with astronomer Dr Alan Fitzsimmons from Queen's University Belfast and 14 experts from the US and Europe.

They analysed data from the Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT) at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona from their base at the International Space Science Institute in Bern, Switzerland.

Oumuamua (artist's impression pictured) is the first known object to pass through solar system from outside, but experts have failed to explain where the object came from.

Dr Knight added: 'We tend to assume that the physical processes we observe here, close to home, are universal.

'And we haven't yet seen anything like Oumuamua in our solar system. This thing is weird and admittedly hard to explain, but that doesn't exclude other natural phenomena that could explain it.'

Scientists think it could have entered our solar system after being ejected by a gas giant planet orbiting another star.

And researchers said Jupiter may have created some of its own interstellar travellers by sneaking some of its icy objects through the sun's gravity field and into foreign solar systems.

They suspect Oumuamua could be the first of many visitors from distant solar systems.

They are awaiting fresh data from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in 2022 which could reveal more.

Dr Knight said: 'In the next 10 years, we expect to begin seeing more objects like Oumuamua.

'The LSST will be leaps and bounds beyond any other survey we have in terms of capability to find small interstellar visitors.

'We may start seeing a new object every year. That's when we'll start to know whether Oumuamua is weird, or common.

'If we find 10-20 of these things and Oumuamua still looks unusual, we'll have to reexamine our explanations.'

The full findings of the study were published in The Astrophysical Journal.

WHAT IS 'OUMUAMUA AND WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT IT?

Alien hunters at SETI – the Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence based at Berkeley University, California said there was a possibility the rock was ‘an alien artefact’.

But scientists from Queen’s University Belfast took a good look at the object and said it appears to be an asteroid, or ‘planetesimal’ as originally thought. 

Researchers believe the cigar-shaped asteroid had a 'violent past', after looking at the light bouncing off its surface. 

They aren't exactly sure when the violent collision took place, but they believe the lonely asteroid's tumbling will continue for at least a billion years.

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02-07-2019 om 00:49 geschreven door peter  

Alien Life Might 'Think' More Like an Octopus Than a Human

By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer

02-07-2019 om 00:15 geschreven door peter  

Beruchte sigaarvormige ruimterots is géén ufo, maar wat dan wel? - HLN.be

Bron: ANP, CNN

De roodkleurige rots met de vorm van een sigaar kreeg de naam ’Oumuamua. Dat is Hawaïaans voor ‘boodschapper van ver die als eerste aankomt’, omdat een telescoop op Hawaï hem als eerste spotte. ’Oumuamua is de eerste ontdekte bezoeker van buiten ons zonnestelsel. Waarschijnlijk zweeft hij al honderden miljoenen jaren door de Melkweg, niet gebonden aan een ster.

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Sigaarvormige ruimterots was mogelijk “buitenaardse sonde”

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De ruimterots is zo’n veertig meter breed en vierhonderd meter lang. Dat is opvallend, omdat de asteroïden en kometen in ons zonnestelsel veel minder uitgerekt zijn. Bovendien draait hij snel rond, zoals een fles frisdrank op de grond. Vanwege zijn vreemde uiterlijk en gedrag ontstonden al snel verhalen dat ’Oumuamua niet natuurlijk zou zijn.
Maar de observaties van de wetenschappers komen wel degelijk overeen met een natuurlijke oorsprong voor ’Oumuamua. Ongezien, dat wel. “We hebben nog nooit zoiets als ’Oumuamua in ons zonnestelsel gezien. Het blijft eigenlijk nog steeds een mysterie”, aldus een van de onderzoekers aan CNN. “Dit ding is iets raar, moeilijk om te verklaren. Maar dat sluit andere natuurlijke verschijnselen die het zouden kunnen verklaren niet uit.”

Nog meer

De onderzoekers verwachten dat er nog veel meer van zulke rotsen onderweg zijn naar ons zonnestelsel. Ze willen die bestuderen met een nieuwe telescoop in Chili, die over een paar jaar in gebruik moet worden genomen. Zo zullen we binnenkort hopelijk een beter begrip krijgen van hoe ‘gewoon’ - of zeldzaam - de eigenschappen van ’Oumuamua zijn.

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01-07-2019 om 23:08 geschreven door peter  

Schimmels 200 keer zo sterk als de mens: kosmische straling doet hen vrijwel niks - HLN.be

Bron: Science Advances

Niet alleen op aarde maar ook in de ruimte zijn schimmels een vervelende metgezel. In het Internationaal Ruimtestation (ISS) worstelen astronauten wekelijks met schoonmaakklusjes die de schimmels aan de binnenzijde van het ruimtestation moeten verwijderen. Dat zijn klusjes die vaak enkele uren in beslag nemen. En als ze niet gebeuren, is dat een gevaar voor de gezondheid.
Belachelijk grote hoeveelheid straling
Maar niet alleen aan de binnenzijde, ook aan de buitenzijde van het ISS blijken schimmels te overleven. Dat besluiten de microbiologen van DLR nadat ze twee schimmels (Aspergillus en Penicillium of penseelschimmel) die voorkomen in het ISS, blootstelden aan röntgenstralingen en uv-straling.

Lees ook

Ruimtestation ISS wemelt van de schimmels en bacteriën

Het ging volgens de wetenschappers om een “belachelijk grote hoeveelheid” straling die op korte tijd vrijkwam, straling die veel hoger was dan die normaal ervaren wordt op Mars. Maar zelfs die hoge dosis wisten de twee soorten schimmels te overleven.

Bij het onderzoek houden de wetenschappers dan wel geen rekening met andere kenmerken van een ruimtereis – denk aan extreem koude temperaturen, beperkte zwaartekracht en een vacuüm – volgens de wetenschappers moet er rekening gehouden worden met hun resultaten. “Als we een langdurige ruimtemissie plannen, kunnen we erop rekenen dat deze schimmelsporen met ons meegaan, omdat ze de ruimtereis waarschijnlijk wel overleven”, aldus Marta Cortesao, verbonden aan het DLR.

Bekijk ook hoe een zonsondergang er voor de astronauten van het ISS uitziet: 

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01-07-2019 om 22:58 geschreven door peter  

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01-07-2019 om 22:12 geschreven door peter  

Even a brief surf of the Net will show that there is a great deal of information on what has become known as the “Secret Space Program.” Much of it is made up garbage, created and promoted by nuts and charlatans. But, not all of it. Are powerful people controlling our access to what is known about outer space and the possibilities of alien life? A study of the available data strongly suggests the answer is a definitive “Yes!” Taking things even further, there are good, solid indications that some secret element of the government is clandestinely running a secret space program. When, on July 20, 1969, NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the surface of the Moon, it began a new era in the United States’ space program. Further manned missions continued until 1972. Plans were formulated to establish a permanent, manned base on the surface of the Moon. Then, in 1973, NASA launched its first space station, Skylab. Eight years later, the Space Shuttle was unveiled. Today, however, things are very different. NASA no longer has a manned space program. The only way for U.S. astronauts to head into Earth orbit, and spend time at the International Space Station, is to hitch a ride with the Russians. What went wrong?

Some say that nothing went wrong. Rather, the theory is that although NASA’s manned space program is largely no more, there exists – maybe deep within the heart of the military – a secret group that is running a clandestine space program. We might even be talking about highly classified return missions to the Moon, and possibly even secret flights to Mars. Is a powerful group controlling what we know – or don’t know – about the secrets of outer space? Yes. UFO authority Richard Dolan says: “Over the years I have encountered no shortage of quiet, serious-minded people who tell me of their knowledge that there is such a covert program. Are there bases on the far side of the Moon? I do not know for sure, but I cannot rule it out.”

One person who is convinced that there is a secret space group is Gary McKinnon, a British man who had a ufological Sword of Damocles hanging over his head for the best part of a decade, after very unwisely deciding to hack the US Government for secrets of the UFO kind in 2001. According to McKinnon, while wholly illegally surfing around classified systems of both NASA and the U.S. military, he came across a list titled “Non-Terrestrial Officers.” McKinnon said of this discovery: “It doesn’t mean little green men. What I think it means is not Earth-based. I found a list of fleet-to-fleet transfers, and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren’t U.S. Navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet.”

McKinnon was not the first to hint at the idea of a secret space group, however. As an experienced hacker of numerous computer systems, Matthew Bevan took the decision back in 1994 to uncover the long-rumored “crashed UFO” secrets of Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. Stressing that Wright-Patterson was “a very, very easy computer system to get into,” Bevan was utterly amazed to uncover astonishing information relating to a top secret project to design and build a truly extraordinary flying machine of UFO like proportions. “The files,” Bevan said, “very clearly referred to a working prototype of an anti-gravity vehicle that utilized a heavy element to power it. This wasn’t a normal aircraft; it was very small, split level, with a reactor at the bottom and room for the crew at the top.”

Having accessed and carefully digested the fantastic information, Bevan duly exited the Wright-Patterson computer banks and began to doggedly search just about here, there and everywhere for the alien answers that he sought, including the less than secure computer systems of NASA itself. Bevan had got into the systems, he had carefully read the files, and he had then made good his escape, all without any form of detection whatsoever. Or, so Bevan had assumed was the case. History, however, has shown that Bevan’s initial assumptions were very wide of the mark. For approximately two years there was nothing but overwhelming silence. Then, on a particular morning in 1996, everything suddenly changed drastically in the life of Matthew Bevan. At the time when things began to go distinctly awry, he was working for an insurance company in Cardiff, Wales, and on the day in question he was summoned down to the managing director’s office.

On entering the room, Bevan was confronted by a group of men in suits who seemed to practically ooze intimidation. Bevan recalled what happened next: “One of the men outstretched his hand and I shook it.”

“Matthew Bevan?” the man asked.

“Yes,” replied Bevan.

The man identified himself as being with Scotland Yard’s Computer Crimes Unit: “I’m placing you under arrest for hacking NASA and Wright Patterson Air Force Base.’” Bevan was in deep trouble. On being taken to Cardiff Central Police Station, the line of questioning became decidedly curious and worthy of an episode of The X-Files: “What does the term Hangar 18 mean to you?” Bevan was immediately asked, in stern and intimidating tones.

“That’s a hoarding place for alien technology,” he replied, in a quite matter of fact fashion.

Bevan’s recollections of that exchange were more than eye-opening. “Throughout the interview, they kept coming back to Hangar 18: Did I see anything on the Wright Patterson and the NASA computers? Did I download anything? Well, when they asked me if I saw anything, I said: ‘Yes, I saw emails talking about an anti-gravity propulsion system.’” Needless to say, this did not go down too well, at all, with Scotland Yard’s Computer Crimes Unit, as it was known back then. Bevan correctly realized that he was in very hot water with the authorities, and a date was subsequently set for a hearing at London’s Bow Street magistrate’s court. But: it was not just Bevan, his defense, and the prosecution who were present at the trial. There was also a man present representing the interests of the U.S. Government and NASA.

A curious exchange occurred when the man took the stand – as Bevan remembered only too well. “As the hearing continued, the prosecution asked him what the American Government thought about my motives regarding my hacking at NASA and at Wright Patterson.”

The man replied: “We now believe that Mr. Bevan had no malicious intentions and that his primary purpose was to uncover information on UFOs and Hangar 18.’”

Bevan said: “Well, everyone had a bit of a laugh at that point, even the judge; however, when the prosecution asked: ‘Can you confirm if Hangar 18 exists or if it’s a myth?’ the man said: ‘I can neither confirm nor deny as I’m not in possession of that information.’”

The final outcome of the affair was that the case against Bevan completely collapsed. The magistrate overseeing the matter stated in no uncertain terms that a jail sentence was utterly out of the question, and that any financial punishment he might be able to impose upon Bevan would be meager in the extreme. Coupled with the fact that neither NASA nor the American Government as a whole was willing to divulge any and all information concerning the contents of the material on the Wright Patterson computers to the British court, and the cost of prosecuting the case was perceived as being as high as $10,000 a day, the prosecution grudgingly elected to offer zero evidence. Bevan’s last word on the matter: “Although I didn’t print or download anything – I read it all online – I know what I read: America has a secret space plane.”

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01-07-2019 om 21:03 geschreven door peter  

According to a new study, life could have existed on Mars long before it did right here on Earth. When the planets first formed in our solar system approximately 4.5 billion years ago, meteors were crashing into everything and that chaotic period was called the Late Heavy Bombardment.

But now scientists have readjusted the timeline of when Mars stopped being heavily hit by meteors. Since meteors stopped attacking the Red Planet around 4.48 billion years ago, scientists believe that life on Mars could have developed between 4.2 billion and 3.5 billion years ago – approximately 500 million years before Earth became habitable.

In order to figure this timeline out, a team at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, examined pieces of Mars’ crust that came from the southern highlands of the planet. A collision on Mars sent pieces of the planet flying through space and around 120 samples have been recovered on Earth.

The team studied the oldest-known mineral grains from the meteorites and found zircon and baddeleyite that date back from between 4.43 billion and 4.48 billion years ago. The zircon had small traces of radioactive uranium which over time turned into lead and allowed the researchers to determine how old the rock was. Additionally, the rock had micro features which would confirm whether or not it had been exposed to high pressure from a huge impact.

Since the samples didn’t show high temperatures or pressure, it indicated that they were from a time after the Late Heavy Bombardment period finished. “We found none of these bombardment signatures in the Mars zircon and baddeleyite grains,” Dr. Desmond Moser told New Scientist, adding, “We know there was a giant impact on Mars, but it has to be older than 4.48 billion years ago.”

He also said, “The implication is that there could have been platform hosting life as much as half a billion years earlier than previously thought it was possible in the inner solar system.” This means that the countless meteor strikes on Mars between 4.2 billion and 3.5 billion years ago could have resulted with the waters from inside of the planet being released much earlier than previously thought. Additionally, the waters could have been “…setting the stage for life-forming reactions,” according to Dr. Moser. It’s incredible to think that while Earth was still forming, Mars could have been thriving with life.

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01-07-2019 om 20:35 geschreven door peter  

Police Officers Close Encounter In Elmwod Wisconsin

APRIL 22, 1976. . . . . . . . . ELMWOD WISCONSIN

At around 11 pm on the evening of 22^nd April 1976, George Wheeler would spot what he believed to be an orange glow from a fire near Tuttle Hill in the small town of Elmwood. Around 60 miles from the Mississippi River and with a population (at the time) of just over 700 people, Elmwood was typical of its era of small-town America.

Wheeler himself had over three decades experience in policing, having served with state departments in New York and Wisconsin, as well as acting as a “one-man police force” in Elmwood before “retiring” to a reserve officer (essentially, filling in the current one-man police force was away). It is perhaps also important to mention that Wheeler was an experienced Second World War pilot who had seen combat on several occasion. In short, it would appear the relief police officer was a reliable and credible witness.

On this evening, however, thinking a fire was about to rip through the small town, he jumped in his vehicle and made his way to the location. Upon arriving, though, he wouldn’t find any flames of an uncontrollable blaze. Instead, he witnessed “a strange glowing object”. What’s more, this object was approximately 100 feet above the ground.

Wheeler would estimate he was around 500 feet from the hovering craft. He could see “six bluish-white lights” as well as several “windows or portholes” along the side. Even more intriguing and concerning at the same time, were the moving shadows suggesting that someone was inside this He notimammoth, silver-colored aerial vehicle.

A Brilliant Orange-White That Was “Like Looking Into The Sun!”

He continued to watch the scene develop. ced an open side-panel which allowed him to glimpse inside. Wheeler could see something “revolving slowly” which reminded him of a turbine. As his focus shifted to the bottom of the craft, he noticed several “legs” protruded from the underside. However, more prominent was the “black, hose-like appendage” which connected to the bottom of the main part of the craft.

He would radio his report to the sheriff’s department in nearby Ellsworth. As he was doing so, however, the craft suddenly rose with alarming speed. In sympathy with the sudden movement, a “bluish flash” hit the area, perhaps even the patrol car itself, causing the radio to cut out instantly. The car’s lights and engine also went out without warning.

When the radio came back to life a short while later with a voice asking Wheeler if he needed assistance, he would reply:

My God, it’s another of these UFOs or spacecraft!

Wheeler would take a few seconds to clear his thoughts. He would estimate seeing the object for no more than a minute, most likely around 45 seconds. He would also recall a “whooshing” noise as it zoomed upward into the night sky.

Wheeler would further recall that the main exterior of the craft was indeed a metallic silver color, the top was a brilliant glow of orangey-white. In fact, he would claim staring at this top part was “like looking into the sun” such was the brightness. Furthermore, it was huge. At least around the size of a two-story house.

An Attempt At Extraction Of Natural Resources

Perhaps of most interest was the black hose-like appendage. Wheeler claimed it projected downward into the trees below. Whether it went all the way to the ground is unknown. There are, however, several close-contact UFO sightings featuring similar “black tubes”. Most often, these devices are seemingly used to extract water from a supply on the ground, either a water tower or even a lake or river, for example.

If we accept, just for a moment, that the black tube that Wheeler witnessed was similar to these other sightings around the globe (with many of them, incidentally, seemingly taking place between the mid-1960s to the early-1980s), what was it attempting to extract?

There was a farmhouse nearby owned by the O’Bryan family. This means there will likely be a water supply tower too. However, it would appear that no direct activity was reported by the family. Mr. O’Bryan would claim that a little after 11 pm, the television reception went dead but quickly returned. This would likely match when the object took off into the sky knocking out the police radio and car engine.

It is also worth mentioning the testimony from a witness from another farm in the area, a 9-year-old boy would claim his sister returned to the family home that evening from “some doings in town”. Of more interest, however, was the reaction of the family dogs as she did so. Instead of running to her as they would do normally, they would purposely keep their distance and bark repeatedly.

Perhaps, then, we should turn our attention to the limestone quarry which resides in the immediate vicinity of the sighting. Might this have been the target of the apparently cosmic craft? Several contactees have claimed Earth’s natural resources are the target of such UFO activity.

“Hit” By A UFO!

Shortly after the incident, 36-year-old dairy farmer, David Moots, was returning home from dropping off the family babysitter when he saw Wheeler’s squad car parked across the road with the lights out. He pulled over his vehicle and walked over the Wheeler’s car to see if the long-time Elmwood police officer needed assistance.

Moots was aware of a past heart attack suffered by Wheeler. So when he saw him struggling to get out of his squad car he, at first, believed he might be having another similar episode. The closer he got to the car, however, he could clearly see there was something wrong with Wheeler. He called out to the relief police officer, asking if he was OK. Wheeler replied that he had been hit.

Now growing concerned once more, he asked him if a car had hit him Wheeler’s reply, however, was perhaps the last thing the dairy farmer expected to hear:

No, one of those UFOs!

The use of the word “those” is interesting, suggesting that UFO sightings were common knowledge among the residents of the town. When Moots was interviewed later and asked about this, he would claim that “a lot of people” claimed to have witnessed UFOs and strange objects in the area. So much so, that he didn’t think twice Wheeler mentioning one too. What did surprise him, though, was the claim of being “hit” by one.

Moots would further recall how “dazed” Wheeler appeared. And how he was not at all like himself.

An Orange Half-Moon Over Tuttle Hill – Corroborating Witnesses

There were, of course, several other witnesses to the evening’s events. For example, housewife, Mrs. Wergland, was at home just outside of Elmwood when her cuckoo clock announced it was 11 pm. She would make her way to the kitchen in order to take her regular shot of medicine. As she did so, however, she would happen to catch a glance out of her kitchen window.

There, opposite her home, was a “bright, orange moon-shaped” object hovering over Tuttle Hill. She would watch the object for several minutes before simply going to bed and going to sleep. When asked why she did not report the sighting or even wake her husband she claimed she had seen lots of strange objects in the area. And furthermore, her husband usually claimed they were likely “just the moon”.

Another witness, however, Paul Fredrickson would report his sighting. Fredrickson, the administrator of the Heritage of Elmwood Nursing Home was at home when he received a phone call. It was the wife of the police chief who asked that he might go to the front of his house and look out of the window. When he did, he would see an “an orange glow, like a moon cut in half”. What’s more, the object appeared to be over Tuttle Hill.

Fredrickson would quickly dismiss the idea that the orange glow was a blaze of some kind as there was no flames nor smoke. By the time he returned to the phone, his wife was now awake and downstairs. By the time they returned to the front window, the glowing object was no longer there.

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01-07-2019 om 19:55 geschreven door peter