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.
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11-07-2019
How moon landing conspiracy theories began and why they persist today
How moon landing conspiracy theories began and why they persist today
Bill Kaysing was a former US Navy officer who worked as a technical writer for one of the rocket manufacturers for NASA’s Apollo moon missions. He claimed that he had inside knowledge of a government conspiracy to fake the moon landings, and many conspiracy theories about the Apollo moon landings which persist to this day can be traced back to his 1976 book,We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle.
The basic template of the conspiracy theory is that NASA couldn’t manage to safely land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s as President John F Kennedy had promised, so it only sent astronauts into Earth orbit. Conspiracy theorists then argue that NASA staged the moon landings in a film studio and that there are tell-tale signs on the footage and the photos that give the game away. They claim that NASA has covered up the elaborate hoax ever since.
Moon landing sceptics point to supposed clues such as photos that appear to show the astronauts in front of cross hairs that were etched on the camera glass, or a mysterious letter C visible on a moon rock. These and many other seeming anomalies have been debunked, but moon landing conspiracy theories have persisted in the popular imagination.
In the US, opinion polls indicate that between 5-10% of Americans distrust the official version of events. In the UK, a YouGov poll in 2012 found that 12% of Britons believed in the conspiracy theory. A recent survey found that 20% of Italians believe that the moon landings were a hoax, while a 2018 poll in Russia put the figure there as high as 57%, unsurprising given the popularity of anti-Western conspiracy theories there.
To the moon and beyond is a new podcast series from The Conversation marking the 50th anniversary of the moon landings. Listen and subscribe here.
Ready to disbelieve
That Kaysing’s conspiracy theory took hold in mid-1970s America is in large part due to a wider crisis of trust in the country at the time. In 1971, citizens read the leaked Pentagon Papers, showing that the Johnson administration had been systematically lying about the Vietnam War. They tuned in nightly to the hearings about the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up.
A series of congressional reports detailed CIA malfeasance both at home and abroad, and in 1976, the House Select Committee on Assassinationsconcluded – in contrast to the Warren Commission more than a decade earlier – that there was a high probability that there had been a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. These revelations had helped fuel a wider shift in conspiracy thinking since the late 1960s, from a belief in external enemies, such as Communists, to the suspicion that the American state was itself conspiring against its citizens.
Moon landing conspiracy theories have proved particularly sticky ever since. To understand their popularity we need to consider their cultural context, as much as the psychological dispositions of believers.
As with the Kennedy assassination, they formed a new kind of conspiracy theorising. These theories reinterpret the publicly available evidence, finding inconsistencies in the official record, rather than uncovering suppressed information. Visual evidence is crucial: for all their scepticism, their starting point is that seeing is believing. In the realm of photo evidence, the assumption is that everyone can be a detective. In the conspiracy theory communities that emerged at the tail-end of the 1960s, the self-taught buff became central.
The moon landing conspiracy theories also brought to the mainstream the notion that significant events are not what they seem: they have been staged, part of an official disinformation campaign. The idea that tragic events are created by “crisis actors” employed by the government has become the default explanation for many events today, from 9/11 to mass shootings. This type of conspiracy theory is particularly harmful – for example, parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting have been relentlessly hounded by internet trolls claiming they are merely paid stooges.
However, the story that the lunar landings were staged also resonates with the more plausible notion that the space race itself was as much a Cold War spectacle as a triumph of the human spirit.
The 1978 Hollywood film Capricorn One did much to popularise moon landing conspiracy theories. Based on Kaysing’s book, it imagined that a Mars landing was faked in a film studio, tapping into conspiracy rumours that the moon landings themselves had been directed by Stanley Kubrick. This suggestive myth is based in part on the idea that special effects had become much more sophisticated with Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001 A Space Odyssey, although still far from the capabilities that the conspiracy theories suppose.
Even if they are far-fetched in factual terms, moon landing conspiracy theories nevertheless call up the more plausible possibility that in our media-saturated age reality itself is constructed, if not actually faked.
We zijn nooit op de maan geweest. Hoe complottheorieën over de maanlandingen zijn ontstaan
We zijn nooit op de maan geweest. Hoe complottheorieën over de maanlandingen zijn ontstaan
Bill Kaysing was een voormalige Amerikaanse marineofficier die werkte voor één van de fabrikanten die de raketten leverden voor de Apollomissies van de NASA.
Hij claimde in zijn boek ‘We Never Went to the Moon’ (We zijn nooit op de maan geweest) dat de overheid de maanlandingen in scène had gezet.
Veel mensen geloven dat de maanlandingen nooit hebben plaatsgevonden. Uit een recente peiling blijkt bijvoorbeeld dat een vijfde van de Italianen gelooft dat de maanlandingen een hoax waren.
Complot
Een peiling uit 2018 laat zien dat bijna zes op de 10 Russen niet geloven dat de Amerikanen op de maan zijn geweest.
Het boek van Kaysing kwam uit in 1976. Enkele jaren daarvoor, in 1971, onthulden de gelekte Pentagon Papers dat de regering-Johnson lange tijd had gelogen over de Vietnamoorlog.
Daarnaast concludeerde de zogeheten House Select Committee on Assassinations van de Amerikaanse overheid in 1976 – in tegenstelling tot de Commissie-Waren – dat de vermoorde president Kennedy hoogstwaarschijnlijk het slachtoffer was geweest van een complot.
Filmstudio
Het gevolg hiervan was dat het vertrouwen van de Amerikaanse burger in de overheid steeds verder wegzakte.
In 1978 kwam de Hollywoodfilm Capricorn One uit, gebaseerd op het boek van Kaysing.
De film gaat over een landing op Mars die in werkelijkheid is opgenomen in een filmstudio, als verwijzing naar geruchten dat de maanlandingen waren geregisseerd door Stanley Kubrick.
India keert terug naar de maan met nieuwe missie ‘Chandrayaan-2’ - HLN.be
India keert terug naar de maan met nieuwe missie ‘Chandrayaan-2’ -HLN.be
EPADe Chandrayaan-2 wordt zondag 14 juli gelanceerd. Twee maanden later, op 6 of 7 september, zal het ruimtetuig landen op de maan.
De race naar de maan is er eentje waar tal van landen aan deelnemen. Daaronder ook India. Zij maken de Chandrayaan-2, een onbemande lander, klaar om de maan te veroveren. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)plant de lancering op zondag 14 juli 2019.
Na het succes van de vorige Indiase missie naar de maan, Chandrayaan-1, gaat de nieuwe missie alweer een stapje verder. Dit keer moet het ruimtetuig ook landen op de maan. Dat zal onbemand gebeuren. Als India daarin slaagt, zal het land het vierde ter wereld zijn om een maanrover te laten rondrijden op de maan.
Op 14 juli wordt de maanrover reeds gelanceerd. En als alles zoals gepland gaat, zal de maanrover twee maanden later – op 6 of 7 september – eveneens landen op het maanoppervlak. Dat gebeurt zo’n 600 kilometer van de zuidpool van de maan, een plaats waar voorlopig geen enkele ruimtetuig landde. Daar zal de lander gedurende een jaar gesteenten en maanbevingen bestuderen.
Ook NASA heeft plannen met de maan. De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie wil een nieuw ruimtestation rond de maan bouwen.
EPADe Chandrayaan-2 wordt zondag 14 juli gelanceerd. Twee maanden later, op 6 of 7 september, zal het ruimtetuig landen op de maan.
WETENSCHAP In de nacht van 14 op 15 juli lanceert het Indiase ruimteagentschap ISRO de maansonde Chandrayaan-2, aan boord van de Indische draagraket GSLV Mk-III. Het Luikse bedrijf Amos produceerde de optische onderdelen van het hyperspectrale instrument (IIRS) aan boord van de orbiter, meldt het vandaag.
Deze infrarode afbeeldingsspectrometer zal de minerale en volatiele verbindingen in kaart brengen, en de overvloed aan water en hydroxylionen op het maanoppervlak karakteriseren, aldus het bedrijf.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETEr is leven ontdekt op een van de extreemste plekken op aarde en dat zou wel eens kunnen betekenen dat er op Pluto ook leven mogelijk is. Wetenschappers trokken naar hooggelegen ijspieken in een afgelegen gebied in de Andes, waarvan gedacht werd dat leven er onmogelijk was. Maar nu zijn er in die ijspieken, die ook op Pluto voorkomen, toch organismen ontdekt.
Hoog in de Andes bevinden zich metershoge ijspieken, of zogenaamde penitenten, die recent ook zijn ontdekt op Pluto. Ze zijn een zeldzaam verschijnsel op Aarde en komen enkel voor in de meest extreme situaties, waar de temperaturen hevig schommelen, de wind gevaarlijk hard waait en de UV-straling intens is. Het lijken onmogelijke levenssituaties, maar onderzoekers hebben nu ontdekt dat er toch een soort eencellige sneeuwalg leeft. Het is voor het eerst dat ze kunnen aantonen dat er op dergelijke ijzige pieken leven mogelijk is.
Rode verkleuringen
Tijdens een zware expeditie naar ’s werelds tweede grootste vulkaan in de Andes namen de biologen rode verkleuringen waar in de hoge penitenten, iets wat wijst op microbiologisch leven. De onderzoekers namen enkele stalen mee en nadat ze die hadden onderzocht, konden ze de aanwezigheid van twee algensoorten bevestigen.
Dat er leven gevonden is in dergelijke extreme omstandigheden, bewijst volgens de onderzoekers dat er op heel wat plaatsen leven mogelijk is, hoe uitdagend de omgeving ook is. De enige voorwaarde is dat er vloeibaar water aanwezig is, aldus Lara Vimercati, hoofdonderzoekster bij het project. Deze voedselarme en extreme locatie zou de uitgelezen situatie zijn om te testen wat de precieze limieten van leven zijn en wat naast de aanwezigheid van water nog vereisten zijn.
Leven op Pluto
De resultaten van het onderzoek zijn heel interessant. Niet alleen omdat ze bewijzen dat ook op extreme plaatsen leven mogelijk is, maar ook omdat op Pluto dergelijke ijspieken aanwezig zijn. Daar zijn ze tot wel 500 meter hoog. Als op ijspieken op aarde micro-organismen voorkomen, is dat misschien ook wel elders mogelijk.
WETENSCHAP De Japanse sonde Hayabusa-2 is er voor de tweede keer in geslaagd om kort neer te strijken op de asteroïde Ryugu. Dat heeft het Japanse ruimtevaartbureau Jaxa gemeld. De asteroïde met een diameter van 900 meter bevindt zich op ongeveer 280 tot 300 miljoen kilometer van ons.
Het vluchtleidingscentrum kreeg volgens een woordvoerder van Jaxa signalen binnen die de geslaagde landing zouden bevestigen. Er is echter nog een definitieve bevestiging nodig, maar die wordt pas later verwacht, luidde het.
De asteroïde met een diameter van 900 meter bevindt zich op ongeveer 280 tot 300 miljoen kilometer van ons. Doel van de huidige missie van de Hayabusa-2 is het verzamelen van monsters van onder het oppervlak van het hemellichaam.
lees verder onder de foto:
EPADe schaduw van de 'Hayabusa 2' toont hoe de ruimtesonde landt op de Ryugu-asteroïde.
Stalen
Het avontuur van de Hayabusa-2 begon op 3 december 2014. De sonde startte toen een lange reis van 3,2 miljard kilometer, een reis die nog lang niet voorbij is. In februari slaagde de Hayabusa-2 er al een eerste keer in om kort te landen op Ryugu.
Eind 2020 moet de ongeveer 600 kilo wegende sonde naar de aarde terugkeren met stalen van de asteroïde. Wetenschappers hopen aan de hand van de verzamelde gegevens meer kennis te verwerven over ons zonnestelsel met als ultieme doel het ontstaan van leven op aarde beter te begrijpen.
Kyodo/via REUTERSDe lancering van de raket die de Hayabusa-2 draagt in december 2014.
The long-buried structure, dating back at least 4,600 years, was constructed of marble transported from nearby Aegean islands on tiny wooden ships.
"It is by far the largest prehistoric marine transport operation that has ever come to light anywhere in the world," said Dr Julian Whitewright, a leading maritime archaeologist at the University of Southampton, told the Independent.
"It demonstrates quite clearly just how important, and integral to their culture, seafaring was to these early Bronze Age Aegean people.”
The huge quantity of white marble was shipped from Naxos, an island some six-and-a-half miles away.
Based on illustrations of early Greek sailing craft on Bronze Age pottery, archaeologists estimate that it would have required over 3,500 trips with 24 sailors rowing solidly for five hours in open water.
The Greeks built a huge structure, using up to 10,000 tonnes of marble, completely transforming the shape of the island of Keros – known today as Dhaskalio.
“These very early Greeks were organisationally, technically and politically much more advanced than previously thought”
Michael Boyd
CONCEALED: The white marble pyramid was hidden on the Greek island (Pic: Cambridge Keros Project)
Elsewhere on the island, archaeologists have found innumerable knives, tools, and small sculptures which may have been left as offerings by those visiting the island.
It was part of a worldwide explosion of monumental building – the ruined pyramid of Dhaskalio is roughly the same age as Stonehenge, the lost city of Eridu in Iraq, and the earliest pyramids in Egypt.
The pyramid structure seems to have occurred independently to the Greeks and Egyptians, and a little later the Aztecs, as the ideal shape for monumental building.
BEGINNINGS: Cycladic culture blossomed into the Greek civilisation inspired Western culture (Pic: National Archaeological Museum of Athens)
When Dhaskalio was newly-built the white marble structure would have been an amazing sight to seafarers in the region and was almost certainly a site of major religious significance across the region.
Creation myths of many early cultures revolve around a mountain emerging from the chaos of the sea and it’s possible that Dhaskalio was intended to represent that first land.
ENGINEERING: The pyramid shape of the island is man-made (Pic: Cambridge Keros Project)
"It is potentially a fundamental place of origin for the phenomenon of sacred mountains within the Greek world," said Dr Alan Peatfield of University College Dublin's School of Archaeology, who is a renowned expert on Greek mountaintop sanctuaries
Michael Boyd of Cambridge University's McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, who is a co-director of the investigation, told the Independent: ”Our investigation has been transforming our understanding of early Bronze Age Cycladic culture and suggests that these very early Greeks were organisationally, technically and politically much more advanced than previously thought.”
4,600-Year Old Pyramid As Old As Stonehenge Reveals Bginnings Of Ancient Greek Civilisation In What Today Is The Island Of Dhaskalio
4,600-Year Old Pyramid As Old As Stonehenge Reveals Beginnings Of Ancient Greek Civilisation In What Today Is The Island Of Dhaskalio
The long-buried pyramid of Dhaskalio, dating back at least 4,600 years, was constructed of marble transported from nearby Aegean islands on tiny wooden ships.
More than 4,600 years ago builders carved out the entire surface of a naturally pyramid-shaped promontory on the Greek island of Keros. They shaped it into terraces covered with 1,000 tonnes of specially imported gleaming white stone to give it the appearance of a giant stepped pyramid rising from the Aegean: the most imposing manmade structure in all the Cyclades archipelago.
But beneath the surface of the terraces lay undiscovered feats of engineering and craftsmanship to rival the structure’s impressive exterior. Archaeologists from three different countries involved in an ongoing excavation have found evidence of a complex of drainage tunnels – constructed 1,000 years before the famous indoor plumbing of the Minoan palace of Knossos on Crete – and traces of sophisticated metalworking.
A Mysterious Pyramid As Old As Stonehenge Has Been Discovered On Tiny Greek Island.
FROM DAILY STAR UK: “It is by far the largest prehistoric marine transport operation that has ever come to light anywhere in the world,” said Dr Julian Whitewright, a leading maritime archaeologist at the University of Southampton, told the Independent. “It demonstrates quite clearly just how important, and integral to their culture, seafaring was to these early Bronze Age Aegean people.” The huge quantity of white marble was shipped from Naxos, an island some six-and-a-half miles away.
Based on illustrations of early Greek sailing craft on Bronze Age pottery, archaeologists estimate that it would have required over 3,500 trips with 24 sailors rowing solidly for five hours in open water. The Greeks built a huge structure, using up to 10,000 tonnes of marble, completely transforming the shape of the island of Keros – known today as Dhaskalio. Elsewhere on the island, archaeologists have found innumerable knives, tools, and small sculptures which may have been left as offerings by those visiting the island.
It was part of a worldwide explosion of monumental building – the ruined pyramid of Dhaskalio is roughly the same age as Stonehenge, the lost city of Eridu in Iraq, and the earliest pyramids in Egypt.
The pyramid structureseems to have occurred independently to the Greeks and Egyptians, and a little later the Aztecs, as the ideal shape for monumental building. When Dhaskalio was newly-built the white marble structure would have been an amazing sight to seafarers in the region and was almost certainly a site of major religious significance across the region.
Creation myths of many early cultures revolve around a mountain emerging from the chaos of the sea and it’s possible that Dhaskalio was intended to represent that first land. “It is potentially a fundamental place of origin for the phenomenon of sacred mountains within the Greek world,” said Dr Alan Peatfield of University College Dublin’s School of Archaeology, who is a renowned expert on Greek mountaintop sanctuaries
Michael Boydof Cambridge University’s McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, who is a co-director of the investigation, told the Independent: ”Our investigation has been transforming our understanding of early Bronze Age Cycladic culture and suggests that these very early Greeks were organisationally, technically and politically much more advanced than previously thought.” READ MORE
Here are some cool ancient alien artefacts found by Youtube Whatsupinthesky27. The objects are clear indications that intelligent beings once thrived on this planet. One of the objects has a jar shape, but is fallen over on its side. It not a jar of course, its clear that its more high tech than that with all its pipes and tubes moving down its side. It looks very similar to a lot of jars seen recored from old roman digs. The other object has a lot layers and was obviously some kind of mechanical device. Scott C. Waring
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New Crop Circle Found In Farmers Field In Switzerland July 1, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
New Crop Circle Found In Farmers Field In Switzerland July 1, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: July 1, 2019 Location of formation: Bern, Switzerland A farmer in Switzerland went out to his field and found a crop formation. He says he lost 100 Francs in corn from it being there and knows people are going to want to see it so he is expecting visitors. These crop formations didn't start recently.
Probably the most renowned is the "Mowing Devil" case in Hertfordshire in 1678, in which a farmer's field was said to have been visited by a devilish entity that trampled the crops down in a circle. The event was captured for posterity on a wood engraving. Also a book called "A Natural History of Staffordshire" in 1686, in which was reference to rings, circles and other shapes found in grassy fields. So you see, crop circles in the UK have been appearing for hundreds of years or more. I believe these circles re the locations where UFOs have entered and exited alien bases. The base would be deep under the ground probably around 5-6km and a tubular space would be formed in the ground lowering the UFO slowly like an elevator. Aliens have control of everything and controlling dirt and grass is much easier than you might think. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
During the daily inspection on Monday, farmer Hans-Rudolf Wyder discovered holes in his cereal field in Büren an der Aare: "In the beginning, I thought these were caused by wind and rain - but somehow they were too regular." The farmer decided to take photos to shoot a drone. "When I saw in the pictures that it was a crop circle, that was a terrible mistake." How and when the crop circle came into its field, the farmer can not explain. It is not small: according to Wyder, the artwork has a diameter of around 50 meters.
So far, he has not recorded any visitors, but he expects that they will appear soon - on Facebook, the first images would be shared. Wyder says he has mixed feelings about the circle: "It is beautiful and anything but ordinary, but it also means a loss of income for me. That's why I lose a good 1000 francs in corn. "He does not know who made the circle:" Anyone should believe in what he wants anyway. "He himself had never believed that these circles were made by extraterrestrials or other powers "But when I look at how regular and perfect this circle is done, it astonishes me a lot."
Robot-Ants Jump, Communicate And Work Together in a Swarm
Robot-Ants Jump, Communicate And Work Together in a Swarm
Robot ants
Credit: EPFL
A team of EPFL researchers has developed tiny 10-gram robots that are inspired by ants: they can communicate with each other, assign roles among themselves and complete complex tasks together. These reconfigurable robots are simple in structure, yet they can jump and crawl to explore uneven surfaces. The researchers have just published their work in Nature.
Individually, ants have only so much strength and intelligence. However, as a colony, they can use complex strategies to complete sophisticated tasks and evade larger predators.
At EPFL, robotics researchers in Professor Jamie Paik’s Laboratory have reproduced this phenomenon, developing tiny robots that display minimal physical intelligence on an individual level but that are able to communicate and act collectively. Despite being simple in design and weighing only 10 grams, each robot has multiple locomotion modes to navigate any type of surface. Collectively, they can quickly detect and overcome obstacles and move objects much larger and heavier than themselves. The related research has been published in Nature.
Credit: Marc Delachaux / EPFL
Robots inspired by trap-jaw ants
These three-legged, T-shaped origami robots are called Tribots. They can be assembled in only a few minutes by folding a stack of thin, multi-material sheets, making them suitable for mass production. Completely autonomous and untethered, Tribots are equipped with infrared and proximity sensors for detection and communication purposes. They could accommodate even more sensors depending on the application.
“Their movements are modeled on those of Odontomachus ants. These insects normally crawl, but to escape a predator, they snap their powerful jaws together to jump from leaf to leaf,” says Zhenishbek Zhakypov, the first author. The Tribots replicate this catapult mechanism through an elegant origami design that combines multiple shape-memory alloy actuators. As a result, a single robot can produce five distinct locomotion gaits: vertical jumping, horizontal jumping, somersaulting to clear obstacles, walking on textured terrain and crawling on flat surfaces – just like these creatively resilient ants.
Roles: leader, worker and explorer
Despite having the same anatomy, each robot is assigned a specific role depending on the situation. ‘Explorers’ detect physical obstacles in their path, such as objects, valleys and mountains. After detecting an obstacle, they inform the rest of the group. Then, the ‘leader’ gives the instructions. The ‘workers,’ meanwhile, pool their strength to move objects. “Each Tribot, just like Odontomachus ants, can have different roles. However, they can also take on new roles instantaneously when faced with a new mission or an unknown environment, or even when other members get lost. This goes beyond what the real ants can do,” says Paik.
Zhenishbek Zhakypov and Jamie Paik. (Photo : Mac Delachaux / EPFL)
Future applications
In practical situations, such as an emergency search mission, Tribots could be deployed en masse. And thanks to their multi-locomotive and multi-agent communication capabilities, they could locate a target quickly over a large surface without relying on GPS or visual feedback. “Since they can be manufactured and deployed in large numbers, having some ‘casualties’ would not affect the success of the mission,” adds Paik.““With their unique collective intelligence, our tiny robots can demonstrate better adaptability to unknown environments; therefore, for certain missions, they would outperform larger, more powerful robots.”
This work is the result of a joint collaboration between EPFL and Osaka University
In April, Jamie Paik has presented her reconfigurable robots at the TED2019 conference in Vancouver. Her talk will be available July 10th here https://go.ted.com/jamiepaik at 11 a.m. EST.
Photo: Bret Hartman / TED
On July 10th, Jamie Paik and several eminent scientists joined famous writer Professor Harari on stage at a special event to help mark EPFL’s 50th anniversary year.
Contacts and sources: Laure-Anne Pessina Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Citation: Zhenishbek Zhakypov, Kazuaki Mori, Koh Hosoda and Jamie Paik, Designing Minimal and Scalable Insect-Inspired Multi-Locomotion Millirobots, Nature, 10 July 2019. DOI 10.1038/s41586-019-1388-
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Linda Moulton Howe: What's Really Going On With Dwarf Planet Ceres
Linda Moulton Howe: What's Really Going On With Dwarf Planet Ceres
The DAWN spacecraft approaching the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter returned images that showed two bright “lights” shining from a dark crater. Not far from this crater was another large crater that is curiously a 6-sided hexagon.
Linda spoke with Marc Rayman, Ph.D., Dawn Mission Director and Chief Engineer, NASA/JPL, who expressed excitement that the spacecraft had reached its target after 7½ years of interplanetary flight. Because of the direction DAWN is currently flying over Ceres, we won’t get more pictures of the “lights” until early May, though he surmises they aren’t indicative of technological signs or extraterrestrial life.
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Jim Marrs: Texas UFO Crash of 1897, Pilot Not of the World
Jim Marrs: Texas UFO Crash of 1897, Pilot Not of the World
COAST TO COAST AM. Author and journalist Jim Marrs discussed the Aurora, Texas UFO crash of 1897, which he considers to be the “smoking gun” of the UFO issue.
It’s early date belies the explanation that it could have been a misidentified aircraft, as it was six years before the Wright Brothers first flew their planes, he noted.
The date fits into the context of the ‘Great Airship Mystery’ of 1896-7, in which a large cigar-shaped object was seen in the skies of numerous American states.
The Dallas Morning News reported that the airship hit a windmill on a judge’s property and crashed, and that the pilot who died was “not of this world.”
For the ufologically-minded, Jim Moseley was without a doubt most associated with his highly entertaining newsletter, Saucer Smear. It was a semi-regular, self-published collection of Moseley’s comments, rants and observations on the UFO research scene. Moseley was someone who, in later years, focused just about all of his time and effort on poking fun at ufologists whenever and wherever he could. He did so in a very witty fashion, too. I should stress, though, that Moseley did have a real, deep interest in the UFO phenomenon itself. And a firm belief in it, too. Right up until the time of his death. Back in 1953 Moseley hit the road – in what really was a definitive Jack Kerouac/Neal Cassady-style – in search of the answers to what was going on in the heavens above. What Moseley found out, as he traveled from New York to California and back again, was a significantly varied and entertaining collection of eccentrics, liars, nut-jobs, and – to Moseley’s relief – genuinely interesting eyewitnesses to strange, aerial craft in the skies of 1950s America. Altogether, Moseley interviewed around one hundred people, on a clunky, big recorder, which was no mean feat. The list of interviewees included George Adamski himself and Frank Scully, of Behind the Flying Saucers infamy.
Moseley’s coast-to-coast trip was funded by a guy named Ken Krippine. He was a somewhat shady, dubious character who had suggested that if he, Moseley, would do all of the research, then Krippine would write a book on Moseley’s UFO findings. The two would then split the profits right down the middle. Sounds good, right? Well, for a while, yes, it sounded verygood. The proposed book, however, did not materialize; at least, not as Moseley and Krippine had originally planned things. No, it wasn’t due to the infernal intervention of the mysterious Men in Black. Rather, it was all due to a distinct lack of interest on the part of just about every publisher that Moseley approached with his well-thumbed and increasingly-creased and crumpled manuscript. Moseley was not one to be daunted, however. Years later – decades, in fact – he put just about all of his old notes and audio-recordings to good use in his hilarious autobiography, Shockingly Close to the Truth, which was written with Karl Pflock.
It was in 1955 that Moseley, in his own words, “had fallen under the influence” of a man named Charles Samwick. The latter was someone who, before retiring from the U.S. Army, worked in the hall-and-mirrors-filled world of counter-intelligence, which included keeping a very close eye on what the Russians were said to be up to inside the United States. Not only that, Moseley was able to determine that Samwick had, in some hazy, unclear fashion, ties to the CIA’s Robertson Panel and had once helped to bust a Soviet spy-ring in Washington, D.C. Samwick and Moseley soon became good buddies, with Moseley somewhat dazzled and disturbed by one particular thing that Samwick had to say. He told Moseley: “The Communist Party has planted an agent in every civilian saucer club in the United States.” Whether this was true, or amounted to hard-to-prove words inspired by the likes of Joseph McCarthy, Moseley was in no position to disagree with his well-informed source. But, he did make Samwick’s revelations the subject of an editorial in his pre-Saucer Smear newsletter, Saucer News. In the June-July 1955 issue Moseley revealed the following to his eager readers, but specifically without revealing Samwick’s name.
Moseley said: “Although it is perhaps unwise to inject a political note into a flying saucer magazine, we feel obliged to point out to our readers certain dangers which, taken together, add up to a possible Communist menace to saucer enthusiasts. First, for several months we have had good reason to believe that Communist agents have been planted in all of America’s leading saucer groups, for information-gathering purposes. This in itself is not a startling fact, but it should serve as a note of caution to saucer researchers who in the course of their studies might unearth information of a technical military nature.
He continued: “Secondly, let us all give some very serious consideration to the many alleged space men being called to the public’s attention – all of whom invariably tell us of the dangers of war and the exploitation of atomic energy. No one desires peace any more than we do, but let us remember too that it is part of the Communist ‘peace line’ to frighten the American people into ceasing our atomic experiments. It is quite possible that some of these ‘space men’ are unwittingly playing into the hands of the Communists. Last but not least, let us not fall into the pitfall of condemning the Government of the United States just because the Air Force refuses to tell us all we would like to know about flying saucers – I have been told that some of the remarks made at the Saucer Convention last March came dangerously close to sedition!
In conclusion, Moseley said: “Even as ardently loyal saucer fans, we all can and should face the fact that there are more important and immediate problems in the world today. Whether the saucers are held to be from Space or Earth, it is quite obvious that they present no immediate threat to the safety of this Country; so there is nothing to worry about. Of course everyone would be happier if ‘officialdom’ would be more generous with its information on saucers, but for the present we can only assume that that there is a good sufficient reason for the continuing scarcity of information from official sources. In making the above remarks, we are not referring to any particular individual or organization in the field of saucer research. We are merely observing that the saucerian field is alarmingly ripe for use in furthering Communist ends. Let each individual among us be on his guard that he does not fall into such a trap.”
A dig led by the Israeli Antiquities Authority unearthed what they believe is the biblical city of Ziklag where David took refuge from King Saul. The remains of several buildings and artifacts from the Philistine-era were discovered underneath a burnt settlement from the time of King David.
According to ancient biblical texts, the Philistines ruled the central and southern part of Israel and the Gaza Strip, and were feared by the Israelites. David (who wasn’t a king yet) ended up seeking refuge with the Philistines from King Saul who was trying to kill him. However, when King Saul heard that David was being protected by Philistine King Achish of Gath, “he sought him no more”.
King David
The city of Ziklag was given to David as a gift from the Philistine king. However, while David was away fighting with the Philistine army, the city was burnt down by Amalekite raiders. They enslaved the residents of Ziklag as retaliation for an attack conducted on the Kingdom of Israel. David would later become the second king of Israel.
The exact location of the city has been debated over the years, as twelve previous locations around the southern part of Israel were thought to have been the site of Ziklag. But none of the previous sites proved to have had Philistine and Israelite settlements. Now, however, with the most recent discovery at the Khirbet Al-Rai site in the central part of Israel (close to Kiryat Gat), the mystery surrounding the exact location of the ancient biblical city may finally be solved.
“It is not 100 percent sure, but I think it’s 90 percent that this was biblical Ziklag,” archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University stated to UPI.
King David
Excavations began in 2015 and since then archaeologists have unearthed artifacts from the Philistine civilization in addition to pottery vessels from the same time that the biblical King lived. They have dug in three primary locations on the site which covers an area of 10,764 square feet in total. The date of the remains is believed to have been from between the 12th and 11thcenturies BC.
According to Saar Ganor of the Israel Antiquities Authority, four houses have been unearthed so far and one of those homes contained over 1,500 tools that were used to cut wheat. Other discovered artifacts include statues, vessels, storage jars (for oil and wine), and other different types of pottery from the Philistine culture. In fact, they match previous Philistine-era artifacts that were recovered from Ashdod, Ekron, Ashkelon, and Gath.
You can see pictures here of some of the artifacts that were uncovered.
Volunteers excavate pottery from Khirbet a-Ra'i, which archaeologists have identified as biblical Ziklag.
(Excavation expedition to Khirbet a-Ra‘i)
A volunteer excavates pottery from Khirbet a-Ra’i, which archaeologists have identified as biblical Ziklag.
(Excavation expedition to Khirbet a-Ra‘i)
A volunteer excavates at Khirbet a-Ra’i, which archaeologists have identified as biblical Ziklag.
(Excavation expedition to Khirbet a-Ra‘i)
Pottery assemblage from Khirbet a-Ra’i, which archaeologists have identified as biblical Ziklag.
NASA is heading to Saturn’s ‘Titan’ moon in 2026 to look for signs of past or present life.
Researchers from Southern Methodist University (SMU) could help determine if Saturn’s icy moon – Titan – has ever been home to life long before NASA completes an exploratory visit to its surface by a drone helicopter.
This illustration shows NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander approaching a site on Saturn’s moon, Titan.
Credits: NASA/JHU-APL
NASA announced in late June that its “Dragonfly” mission would launch toward Saturn’s largest moon in 2026, expecting to arrive in 2034. The goal of the mission is to use a rotorcraft to visit dozens of promising locations on Titan to investigate the chemistry, atmospheric and surface properties that could lead to life.
SMU was awarded a $195,000 grant, also in June, to reproduce what is happening on Titan in a laboratory setting. The project, funded by the Houston-based Welch Foundation, will be led by Tom Runčevski, an assistant professor of chemistry in SMU’s Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. SMU graduate student Christina McConville was also awarded a fellowship by the Texas Space Grant Consortium to help with the project.
Before the rotorcraft lands on Titan, chemists from SMU will be recreating the conditions on Titan in multiple glass cylinders — each the size of a needle top — so they can learn about what kind of chemical structures could form on Titan’s surface. The knowledge on these structures can ultimately help assess the possibility of life on Titan — whether in the past, present or future.
Scientists have long considered Titan to be very similar to pre-biotic Earth, even though it is a frigid world much farther from the sun than our planet. Titan is the only moon in the solar system to have a dense atmosphere like Earth, and is also the only world other than Earth to have standing bodies of liquids, including lakes, rivers and seas, on its surface. In addition, NASA scientists believe Titan may have a subsurface ocean of water.
“Titan is a hostile place, with lakes and seas of liquid methane, and rains and storms of methane. The storms carry organic molecules produced in the atmosphere to the surface, and at the surface conditions, only methane, ethane and propane are liquids. All other organic molecules are in their solid form – or, as we would call them on Earth, minerals,” Runčevski explained.
“We are interested in the chemical composition and crystal structure of these organic minerals, because it is believed that minerals played a key role in the origins of life on Earth,” he said. “Hence, our research may help assess these possibilities for strange “methanogenic” Titanean life.”
Runčevski added that any information that they get about the structure of Titan’s upper layer crust, which is made of organic minerals, could prove very useful to NASA’s Dragonfly mission.
In order to create these “Titans in a jar” at SMU, Runčevski said they will use information about the conditions on Titan that were obtained during the mission Cassini-Huygens, which ended two years ago.
“We can recreate this world step by step in a cylinder made of glass,” he said. “First, we will introduce water, which freezes into ice. Second, we will top that layer of ice with ethane that liquidizes as a ‘lake.’ Then we will fill the remaining cylinder with nitrogen.”
After that, they can introduce different molecules into the system, mimicking the rainfall. Lastly, they will “dry” the lakes by slightly raising the temperature and produce the surface of the moon. The cylinder that this moon will be created inside is specifically designed, so that multiple state-of-the-art experiments can be done and they can learn from the structure of the real Titan. Large parts of these experiments will be performed at research facilities that provide modern synchrotron and neutron radiation, such as Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois and the National Institute and Technology in Maryland.
Contacts and sources: Southern Methodist University
Ik ben geen believer, maar alles is mogelijk. President Trump spreekt zich uit over UFO’s
Ik ben geen believer, maar alles is mogelijk. President Trump spreekt zich uit over UFO’s
Tijdens een interview met Fox News-presentator Tucker Carlson zei president Trump niet overtuigd te zijn van het bestaan van UFO’s, maar wel een open geest te hebben.
“Ik wil er niet al te diep op ingaan, maar persoonlijk betwijfel ik of ze bestaan,” zei Trump. “Ik ben geen believer, maar alles is mogelijk.”
Carlson vroeg de president ook naar een recente briefing met gevechtspiloten die ‘vreemde objecten’ hadden gezien die hypersonische snelheden bereikten en geen zichtbare motor hadden.
Zweren
Vorige week werden senatoren door het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie ingelicht over onbekende objecten in het luchtruim.
“Je hebt mensen die erbij zweren,” zei Trump. “Er zijn mensen, piloten, die hebben gezegd dat ze dingen hebben gezien.”
Carlson informeerde over een bewering gedaan door een overheidsfunctionaris.
UFO-wrak
Die zei dat de Verenigde Staten een UFO-wrak in bezit hebben op een legerbasis.
Trump zei dat hij hier zelf niets over had gehoord, maar wel de uitzending van Carlson hierover had bekeken.
“Ik denk dat het niet klopt,” zei hij. “Maar ik heb een open geest.”
An underwater archaeologist has told the BBC of the extraordinary lengths he went to to access a pharaoh's tomb underneath a pyramid.
Pearce Paul Creasman and his team were the first people to go into the tomb for 100 years and, in that time, it has become harder to access because of the rising water level.
Mr Creasman told BBC Newsday that this was the first time underwater archaeology had been carried out in Sudan, the location of the ancient royal burial site of Nuri.
"The gold offerings were still sitting there - these small glass-type statues had been leafed in gold. And while the water destroyed the glass underneath, the little gold flake was still there," he told Newsday.
He believes these offerings were for Nastasen, a minor pharaoh who ruled the Kush kingdom from 335 BC to 315 BC.
Mr Creasman told the BBC that the team "dug as far as we could" down a 65-step stairway which led to the tomb entry but "we got about 40 stairs down until we hit the water table and knew we wouldn't be able to go any further without putting our heads under".
Normal scuba tanks "would have been too cumbersome", he said, so instead they used a hose that pumped oxygen from the surface on the dive in January.
He described what he found as "remarkable":
"There are three chambers, with these beautiful arched ceilings, about the size of a small bus, you go in one chamber into the next, it's pitch black, you know you're in a tomb if your flash lights aren't on. And it starts revealing the secrets that are held within."
The tomb is part of the ancient site of Nuri which is spread across more than 170 acres in northern Sudan.
These pyramids mark the burials of Kushite royals who are sometimes referred to as "black pharaohs". The Kush kingdom lasted for many hundreds of years and, in the 8th Century BC, it conquered Egypt which it ruled for almost a century.
Image copyright NURI ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION/PEARCEPAULCREASMAImage captionSudan has more pyramids than Egypt
One difference between the pyramids in Sudan and the much more famous pyramids in Egypt is that the kings were buried below them, instead of inside.
Een onderwaterarcheoloog heeft toegang weten te krijgen tot de tombe van een farao onder een piramide in Soedan.
Er was al zo’n 100 jaar niemand meer geweest in de tombe, die steeds lastiger te bereiken is vanwege het stijgende water.
Pearce Paul Creasman zei tegen de BBC dat er voor het eerst onderwaterarcheologisch onderzoek is gedaan in Soedan.
Opmerkelijk
In de tombe trof hij onder meer figuurtjes van aardewerk en bladgoud aan.
Creasman denkt dat het gaat om offers aan Nastasen, een zwarte farao die over Koesj – een rijk in Nubië – heerste.
Wat hij in de tombe aantrof omschreef hij als ‘opmerkelijk’.
Geheimen
“Er zijn drie kamers met prachtig gewelfde plafonds ter grootte van een bus,” zei hij. “De geheimen die in de tombe verborgen liggen worden nu geopenbaard.”
De tombe is onderdeel van de archeologische vindplaats Nuri in het noorden van Soedan.
In de achtste eeuw voor Christus veroverde het Koesj-rijk Egypte. De zwarte farao’s werden in Soedan onder de piramides begraven.
Piloot filmt twee cirkelvormige objecten boven Grand Canyon. Zijn dit UFO’s?
Piloot filmt twee cirkelvormige objecten boven Grand Canyon. Zijn dit UFO’s?
In een filmpje dat door Mike Wagner op YouTube is geplaatst is de Grand Canyon in Arizona te zien. Op een gegeven moment verschijnen er twee objecten in beeld, schrijft de Britse Daily Star.
Ze lijken in formatie over de beroemde kloof te vliegen.
Onder meer YouTube-kanaal ‘The Hidden Underbelly’ besteedde aandacht aan het fragment en sprak van ‘twee UFO’s die in tandem over de Grand Canyon in Arizona vliegen’. Het filmpje in inmiddels duizenden keren bekeken.
Soortgelijke ervaring
Eén iemand reageerde: “Buitenaardse schepen!”
Een ander zei: “Dat is prachtig.”
Een derde persoon liet weten een soortgelijke ervaring te hebben gehad in de regio.
“Ik keek naar mijn nieuwste vlog (ook in Arizona) en zag dat ik iets had vastgelegd wat de vorm van een sigaar had,” schreef ze.
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