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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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    In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog. Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch... Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels. MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen. MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity... Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com. Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal. Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP. ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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    Belgian archaeologist discloses mysteries of Stonehenge

    Excavation of Aubrey Hole 7 at Stonehenge
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    It is possibly the most architecturally sophisticated prehistoric stone circle in the world. But while it is one of the world’s most famous monuments, the prehistoric stone circle known as Stonehenge in south west England remains shrouded in mystery.

    That is, until now. Thanks to state-of-the-art research pioneered and led by Belgian academic Christophe Snoeck, we now know rather more about the mysteries of Stonehenge. He returned to work in his native Belgium after completing his PhD in archaeological science in 2015 at Oxford University. His research suggests that a number of the people that were buried at the Wessex site had moved with and likely transported the bluestones used in the early stages of the monument’s construction, sourced from the Preseli Mountains of west Wales.

    While there has been much speculation as to how and why the iconic collection of stones was built, the question of who built it has received far less attention. That is where Dr Snoeck, still aged just 32 and based at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), comes in. His innovative research has made it finally possible to extract information about the geographical origin of cremated individuals. In partnership with colleagues at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris and University College London, he led the Stonehenge research, which combined radiocarbon-dating with new developments in archaeological analysis.

    Dr Snoeck, who pioneered the techniques during his doctoral research, said the discovery that some biological information survives the high temperatures reached during cremation (up to 1,000 degrees Celsius), offers the “exciting possibility” to finally study the origin of those buried at Stonehenge.

    In an interview with The Brussels Times, he explained how his team went about their work and the significance of their findings. The Antwerp-born researcher said, “Stonehenge is one of the most iconic archaeological sites in the world, and when I had the opportunity to carry out research on the site it was an immense privilege. Before we started our study, we knew, from previous work, that the bluestones used to build the earlier phases of the monument came from west Wales. By working directly on the human remains found at the site we hoped to gain insight, not on the origin of the stones, but on the origin of those using the site and being buried there.”

    The work involved analysis of small fragments of cremated human bone from an early phase of the site’s history around 3000 BC, when it was mainly used as a cemetery. “Most research on Stonehenge focused on the stones,” he explains. “Little was known about the humans buried at the site. This is mostly due to the fact that they were cremated and only small cremated bone fragments remained. It is only very recently that new methods have been developed to study cremated human remains.”

    During his doctoral research he developed a method to extract information about the geographical origin of cremated individuals. This method, he says, “was applied to 25 cremated individuals from Stonehenge and our results show that 40% (10 out of 25 analysed individuals) did not live near Stonehenge in the last decade or so prior to their deaths but came from further away. Some might actually have originated from west Wales where the bluestones came from, some 250km away,” he adds. “This shows the importance of the site in the British landscape during the Neolithic period.”

    Photo of Carn Goedog in western Wales. The dolerite bluestones from these hills are thought by many geologists and archaeologists to be the source of several of the stones erected in the early stage of Stonehenge’s construction with dates of quarrying around 5,000 years ago.

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    His personal contribution to the study was mostly in the scientific analyses including isotope, elemental and infrared analyses. The results were then discussed and interpreted with the rest of the team. But the challenges of handling tiny fragments of burnt bone should not be overlooked. “Working on cremated bone fragments can be very tricky as they are very little and brittle. However, with proper care, we were able to carry out all the analyses planned.”

    Understanding the past

    So, why does all this matter? Well, according to Dr Snoeck, the results emphasise the importance of inter-regional connections involving the movement of both materials and people in the construction and use of Stonehenge. This, in turns, provides rare insight into the large scale of contacts and exchanges in the Neolithic era, as early as 5000 years ago.

    Dr Snoeck

    Dr Snoeck, who specializes in archaeology and chemistry, says it us crucial to understand the lives of past animal and human populations, including diet, mobility, landscape use and environmental conditions. The techniques used on the Stonehenge project could be used, he hopes, to improve our understanding of the past.

    He said, “Understanding our past is, to me, of crucial importance to better understand where we are now and how we reached this stage. I think both Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt (and many more sites) are fascinating. They are markers of our past and unravelling the mysteries around their construction and use is definitely helping us better understand our past. The importance of archaeological sites cannot really be classified in my opinion.”

    On the importance of learning more about people from the Neolithic period, he said, “By gathering more information about them, we can start to understand the place of such sites in the wider landscape and how they shaped societies and beliefs through time and space. We were very excited to see that not all individuals lived near the site and that many actually moved over quite large distances to come to Stonehenge. Clearly we are not going to cure disease with this but understanding how people and societies changed trough time and space helps us understand current societies and how they might change and interact.”

    The results of his work were published in Scientific Reports in 2018 and have received global media attention with news reports in more than 100 Belgian outlets (incl. Radio 2, Het Laatste Nieuws, Het Nieuwsblad, De Morgen, EOS Wetenschap, Le Soir) and international media (BBC, Guardian, CNN, National Geographic, Current Archaeology and the Washington Post).

    Following this ground-breaking study, he has been nominated as one of the three candidates for the Archaeologist of the Year 2019 Award by the British magazine Current Archaeology. For him and many others there is an enduring fascination with Stonehenge that will continue. The reason? “Well, it is still there after 5000 years! And there is still so much we don’t know. Mysteries are fascinating,” says Dr Snoeck.

    His archaeological work does not end with Stonehenge, and he is now engaged on a project on the famous Belgian iguanodon collection (a genus of dinosaurs) at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science. “The aim of this work is to better understand why so many Iguanodons were found at Bernissart in Hainaut. The research is still in progress.” Christophe Snoeck also plans to study cremated remains in other countries. “They’ve been kind of forgotten and put aside. And I thought that was quite sad, because in huge parts of the world, especially in prehistoric Europe, people were cremated.”

    By Martin Banks 

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    Washington Tops List of States With Most UFO Sightings Per Capita

    For every 100,000 people in the state of Washington, some 78 have reported seeing a UFO. That works out to 5,894 UFO sightings in the state.

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    The Soviets tried to beat Apollo 11. They crashed a spacecraft on the moon instead.

    Astronaut Buzz Aldrin poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969.

    Astronaut Buzz Aldrin poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. Associated Press/July 20, 1969

     

    As Neil Armstrong walked on the lunar surface and marveled at the "fine, sandy particles" that crunched under his boot, he and the rest of the Apollo 11 crew were not alone.

    A Soviet spacecraft, Luna 15, had beat them to orbit days before, circumnavigating the moon in a final Cold War showdown race to land on another celestial body and return home.

    The unmanned spacecraft's mission would be an epic coup: Get to the moon, scoop up rocks and jettison back toward Earth before the Americans returned with their own samples.

    That did not happen. Luna 15 plummeted toward the moon on July 21, 1969, crashed into a mountain and cratered near the aptly named Sea of Crises -- before Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin even left the surface.

    NASA had worried Luna 15 would interfere with radio transmissions and present a safety risk with Apollo 11, prompting high-level officials to cross the divide in an unprecedented level of cooperation.

    It signified something else. The competition between Apollo 11 and Luna 15 to land on the moon and return to Earth did not exactly finish when "the Eagle" landed, as most believe.

    "The race to the moon ends when Luna 15 crashes," William P. Barry, NASA's chief historian, told The Washington Post.

    The Soviet exploration timeline was aggressive and, at turns, tragic. Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov melted during re-entry, along with the Soyuz 1 capsule in which he was riding, in 1967, all the while "cursing the people who had put him inside a botched spaceship."

    In the next year, two Soviet tortoises became the first Earth beings to circle the moon.

    Luna 15's design and launch time frame was incredible for its time, Barry said. Plans were drawn up for a robot designed to land, collect samples and scurry back to Earth.

    That was complete in about six months as the Soviets raced to preempt the United States, including an unsuccessful June launch with a mission to grab moon rocks and study the lunar gravitational field. That rocket never left orbit.

    On July 15, the rocket delivering Luna 15 roared toward the moon three days ahead of the Apollo 11 mission. The race had begun.

    "I'm sure that the original plan was to beat Apollo 11 back to Earth with their sample," Barry said.

    The launch puzzled NASA and surprised the Apollo 11 crew, who only knew about its existence en route to the moon and "did not know about Luna 15 or its goal," Armstrong said in 2009.

    No one exactly knew where it was going or how it could interfere with the three Americans heading for the same place.

    The moon's surface is about the size of Africa, Barry said, but orbital dynamics suggested landing spots around the moon's equator were best -- potentially limiting the distance between the Columbia command module, the Eagle landing craft and Luna 15.

    There was only one unlikely solution to all of this: Get the flight details from the Soviets themselves.

    During the Cold War.

    In the midst of the moon race.

    And yet, Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman had met Soviet space official Academician Mstislav V. Keldysh. He later called on him to provide details on Luna 15 and assure it would not interfere with Apollo 11.

    What came next was unprecedented in American-Soviet space relations, Barry said. Keldysh telegraphed the orbital details for Luna 15 and said it would be a safe transit for the U.S. astronauts, though he never divulged the mission details.

    Meanwhile, as the Apollo 11 rocketed toward the moon, Houston ground control kept the crew informed about the whereabouts of Luna 15. It had entered orbit on July 17, Houston told the crew, according to flight logs. Both spacecrafts made orbital adjustments as ground control in both nations nervously watched.

    Soviet engineers worried over rugged terrain of the Sea of Crises landing site, NASA has said, and delayed its planned landing for hours.

    That opened the window for Apollo 11 to land. As Armstrong and Aldrin took photos, collected samples and marveled at the view of Earth, Luna 15 tumbled in orbit.

    The Soviets realized they were running out of time, Barry said, and a day later, on July 21, they decided to make an effort to land -- which surprised British astronomers listening to Soviet transmissions. They were unaware it was designed to do so, Discover magazine reported.

    Luna 15 descended, cushioned by retro rockets. But its trajectory was off, sending the spacecraft careening into a mountain at 298 miles an hour, and finally, plummeting to the moonscape.

    It crashed about 350 miles from the U.S. landing site at 15:50 UTC -- a full two hours and four minutes before the Eagle began its flight back to the Columbia module.

    "I say, this has really been drama of the highest order," a British astronomer said afterward.

    The Post reported the crash the next day. "Thus, by a fluke of moon geography, a space flight riddle 'wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma' ended in an irony," Howard Simons wrote. Scientists speculated it was deliberately crashed to "remove its carcass from lunar orbit," he added, which was also a method the United States practiced.

    The Soviets never fully admitted Luna 15 was an effort to beat the United States to the moon and back, Barry said, though those details emerged after the Soviet Union collapsed. And its return trajectory after the delays made it unlikely it would even beat the American mission back.

    Luna 15 may have failed its mission, Barry noted, but what scientists learned from the experience became clear in the next decade.

    More attempts were made for a Luna mission to collect moon rocks. Five in total failed, until 1970, when Luna 16 shoveled 100 grams of dust and returned it to Earth -- the first time an unmanned spacecraft did so from any nation. Later missions yielded more payloads.

    The bones from the doomed spacecraft may never be found, Barry said. "Distinguishing a crater caused by Luna 15 and a small meteorite would be pretty hard."

    {  https://www.dailyherald.com/ }

    20-07-2019 om 23:47 geschreven door peter  

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    A Walk on Future-Moon — July 20, 2044 (Op-Ed)

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    Moon-Landing Hoax Still Lives On, 50 Years After Apollo 11. But Why?

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFOs: Why the government will not be disclosing secret information about alien visits

    UFOs: Why the government will not be disclosing secret information about alien visits

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    “I was driving back home from work. I was at a red light, when suddenly, I look over the horizon, I saw an oval metallic shape UFO floating/steady over some power lines near some train rail track and overlooking the Chevron refinery. 
    “When I realized what I was looking at, I decided to turn around to recorded on my phone but it was too late, it was gone/disappear. But I can assure you it wasn't a drone.”

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    Location: Oakland
    Details:
    “I was blowing bubbles with my son around 7:45 pm tonight and looked up and saw a light that appeared too high to be an airplane. I thought perhaps it was a planet as it was glowing brightly. I could tell it was moving, but quite slowly and could make out six less bright lights glowing around it. 
    “They were traveling southeast all in tandem, though the six lesser lights seemed to move slightly as well, but all seemed to be traveling around the main star.”
    Photo: Aaron Foster/Getty Images
    Date: July 18, 2018
    Location: In-flight over California
    Details:
    “We are on a direct Alaska Airline flight 3377 from Albuquerque to San Francisco and during the trip I like to take pictures of clouds. My wife then [told] me have you seen those lights I said no but look back and there 3 objects each one with 2 bright lights that were above ground and were all lined up...
    “The objects seems to remain in the same position not moving from one other. I have recorded a 4 minutes clip until I couldn't see any longer the objects from the plane window. We didn't advertised our observation to any flight personnel to avoid creating chaos on the plane.”
    Date: July 22, 2018
    Location: Vacaville
    Details:
    “Went outside looked up towards the moon and moving slowly across sky were three bright lights in a triangle formation. Then all lights dimmed out simultaneously. This had to be a cloaked TR3B [black triangle UFO]! I am a believer.”
    Date: Sept. 10, 2018
    Location: San Ramon
    Details:
    “It was as big or bigger than airliner.. no wings... no sound... clear as day... moving fast... not blimp speed... no visible means of propulsion... tried to get my phone cam out but had left inside.”
    <div><b>Date</b>: Dec. 23, 2018</div>
<div><b>Location</b>: Kentfield</div>
<div><b>Details</b>: “Very loud ongoing noise, similar to a hair dryer or leaf blower frequency, filled the Larkspur/Kentfield, CA, valley area near Marin General. Weather</div>
    Photo: Joe McBride/Getty Images
    Date: Dec. 23, 2018
    Location: Kentfield
    Details: “Very loud ongoing noise, similar to a hair dryer or leaf blower frequency, filled the Larkspur/Kentfield, CA, valley area near Marin General. Weather was clear with some light patches of fog. From our terrace, (400 ft. above city street level), in the distance I saw what looked like a huge drone, with a big green flashing light, bright white light with smaller red and yellow lights, but this was not a drone, pretty big aircraft.”

    Is someone going to prove Fox Mulder right? Will somebody convincingly show that aliens have come to Earth?

    That's the growing expectation of many members of the UFO community. For seventy years, they've been confidently insisting that some fraction of the strange objects seen flitting through the atmosphere are extraterrestrial craft, piloted by otherworldly beings on a junket to our planet. But while 100 million Americans give this claim a thumbs up – confident that our skies are peppered with interstellar intruders – few scientists agree.

    It's not that they don't like the idea. After all, it's hard to think of anything that would be more interesting and important than aliens in our airspace, short of the cure for death. And scientists aren't skeptical simply because interstellar travel is stunningly expensive and time consuming, although it's both of those. They demur because the evidence for this idea is seriously iffy. None of it is unambiguous enough to sway their minds.

    However, judging by the more recent remarks of UFO proponents, there seems to be a crescendo of confidence that things are about to change. Well-known fans of visitation – for example Steven Greer, Richard Dolan, and Stephen Bassett, all of whom publicly and frequently expound at the many UFO conferences held each year – are saying that "disclosure" is nigh. The federal government is finally going to come clean with solid evidence about alien UFOs.

    That would change this subject from one that rolls eyeballs to an accepted fact-of-the universe.

    At least some of the disclosure optimism derives from the revelation in 2017 of a secret $22 million government project, begun a decade earlier and innocuously named the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP. The best-known results of this five-year effort were several videos taken by Navy pilots using their gun-sight infrared cameras. Some of these videos showed strange, elongated objects whose identity is uncertain. This was an encouraging sign for the disclosure enthusiasts. If the U.S. military was willing to trickle out such suggestive evidence about extraterrestrial visitors, perhaps they were on the cusp of admitting to a larger truth?

    To the UFO crowd, that sounds encouraging. But it doesn't make sense.

    It's sad that the UFO crowd has come to this – seemingly giving up on proving their own case and hoping that the feds will do their work for them.

    To believe the government has been keeping mum about the aliens since the 1940s – surely not an easy thing to do – requires asking why. What's the motivation? It's not credible that it's because of an official fear that the public would go berserk if they were told there are saucers in the skies. One-third of them believe this already, and most have remained berserk-free.

    Steven Greer, a former emergency room doctor who now takes folks on escorted tours to witness purported alien craft, has suggested a deeper reason: Extraterrestrial hardware is an existential threat to humanity's global power structure. Greer maintains that reverse engineering alien technology would lead to cheap energy for all countries, first world through third, providing a significantly higher economic standing in parts of the globe that could pose a serious challenge to western dominance.

    Consequently, the powers-that-be have kept the UFO phenomenon under wraps. According to Greer, the potential disruption of alien technology is worse than the difficulty and embarrassment of keeping secrets from the public.

    But does it really make sense to believe that the federal government could keep a secret of this magnitude during two generations of civil servants? Could the feds really twist the arms of all other nations to participate in such schemery?

    In addition, reverse engineering alien technology is about as plausible as the tooth fairy. Imagine giving a cell phone to Ben Franklin and telling him to "reverse engineer" it so George Washington's army could better stay in touch while fighting the British. Any aliens who can rocket themselves to Earth are far more advanced than we are – indeed, the technology gap is surely greater than that separating us from Franklin.

    The real problem with the idea of disclosure is not whether or not the government has had a good reason, and an uncanny ability, to keep an alien presence quiet all these years. It's the faulty premise.

    If extraterrestrial craft are really strafing the stratosphere, and in numbers sufficient to cause roughly ten thousand citizen reports annually in the U.S. alone, then why must we throw up our hands and claim "only the government can prove it's true"? What about the hundreds of thousands of amateur astronomers who avidly observe the sky on clear nights, but don't seem to see any mysterious flying objects? What of the many thousand commercial satellites that make high resolution photos of our planet all day long without witnessing strange intruders? Are none of these data good enough?

    One might argue that the military has better equipment. Of course it does, but if this phenomenon can only be proven with "better equipment," then that's not only a suspiciously convenient argument, it also degrades any claim that the countless saucer photos offered to the public for the past seven decades should be taken seriously.

    Besides, does one really need military infrared cameras to find UFOs? Several of the Navy pilots who testified about encounters along the Atlantic seaboard in 2014 and 2015 said they observed these things "nearly every day." That sounds like an opportunity for any civilian with a good camera and a telephoto lens.

    It's sad that the UFO crowd has come to this – seemingly giving up on proving their own case and hoping that the feds will do their work for them. Mainstream scientists don't wait for government agencies to prove their theories. That ball's in the researcher's court. And yet UFO proponents are now saying that, deus ex machina, the government will soon book some network air time and fess up about the aliens.

    That's both an unconvincing argument and a mentally lazy one.

    Dr. Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Accolades, skepticism and science marked Science News’coverage of Apollo

    Accolades, skepticism and science marked Science News’coverage of Apollo

    Moon landings coverage focused on science, while voicing wary public frustrations

    Buzz Aldrin on the moon

    FIRST ON THE MOON  There are two astronauts in this 1969 photo. Buzz Aldrin stands on the moon near the Apollo 11 lunar lander while Neil Armstrong, reflected in Aldrin’s visor, takes the picture.

    NASA

    Magazine issue: Vol. 195, No. 12, July 6, 2019, p. 38

    “We didn’t know what kind of pictures we’d get, when we would get them, who we would get them from,” says Kendrick Frazier, who joined Science News as a writer just two months before Apollo 11 touched down on lunar soil. So the staff took pictures of their home television screens during the July 20, 1969 broadcast of the moon landing. “It didn’t work out very well,” he says.

    Fortunately, images from NASA sufficed. On the cover of the July 26, 1969 issue — just 25 cents! — the words “At last the moon” ran atop a raw, black-and-white image of two blurry forms standing on desolate terrain, with the spidery outline of the lunar lander in the background. A description of the photo — Frazier’s one contribution to the coverage — captured the scene: “Ghostly they were, those two figures gliding over the surface of the moon. But, with all the world watching, it was certain. The dream of the ages had been fulfilled: Man was on the moon.”

    the July, 26, 1969 cover of Science News
    QUICK WORK The July 26, 1969 cover of Science News showed an image — taken from a video feed about 40 minutes after the historic first step — of Neil Armstrong (right) walking toward Buzz Aldrin (left). Aldrin is inserting a solar wind collector into the ground.
    SCIENCE NEWS
    Throughout the Apollo program, Science News kept a watchful eye, reporting on the successes, setbacks and skepticism. From 1967 to 1973, the magazine published more than 100 stories about the United States’ quest to reach the moon, from the Apollo 1 launchpad fire that killed three astronauts (SN: 2/4/67, p. 112) to the splashdown of the final mission, Apollo 17 (SN: 12/23/72, p. 404), plus later findings of moon-based experiments.

    “Apollo was an epic achievement. We all were super excited,” Frazier says. Yet the magazine never went overboard, he adds. “We managed to cover all the other things going on in science.” The July 26 issue devoted just five of its 24 pages to the Apollo 11 landing. Other stories included advances in predicting the sex of an unborn child and urban influences on precipitation.

    The job of covering Apollo 11 fell to staff writer Jonathan Eberhart. He most likely traveled to Cape Kennedy (now called Cape Canaveral) in Florida for the launch and then to Houston for the rest of the mission, Frazier suspects, filing stories by phone or telegram. In describing the mission, Eberhart’s prose soared: “Now the moon is man’s. The incredible accomplishments of Apollo 11 have changed it irretrievably in the eyes of humankind.” Then he quickly got to work recounting the well-rehearsed descent, the harrowing landing, the hesitant first steps — before spending much of his time, of course, on the science.

    Eberhart, who covered space exploration for Science News for three decades, painstakingly described three experiments installed by the Apollo 11 astronauts: a metal foil for snagging solar particles, a seismometer for tracking moonquakes and a mirror array for reflecting lasers back to Earth.

    Some geologists, he noted, were miffed about the sample collection: The astronauts didn’t know precisely where they landed and were snatching soil from areas where they had already trod, thus collecting samples from potentially disturbed terrain (SN: 7/26/69, p. 72).

    Special Report: Moonstruck

    50 years after Apollo 11, lunar science still surprises and delights
    moon
    JPL/NASA

    This story is part of a special report celebrating humans’ enduring fascination with the moon and exploring the many ways it affects life on Earth. See all the articles, plus our 1969 coverage of Apollo 11, here.

    But Eberhart’s coverage wasn’t just about timelines and equipment. In a sidebar tucked in the corner of a page of Apollo 11 coverage, Eberhart asked: “What has happened to awe?” He expresses the challenges of a writer conveying the enormity of the moment while pleading with readers to contemplate what humans had just accomplished.

    “Try, briefly, to ignore the flashy rockets and the heroic astronauts. Try to feel the smallness of man and the vastness of what he is doing,” Eberhart wrote. “After two million years, man has stepped out of this world onto another. And, by incredible fortune, we are alive at the instant he did it.”

    Eberhart can’t explain what he was thinking; he died in 2003 (SN: 3/1/03, p. 134). But Frazier says that this sidebar captured “Jonathan’s sense of wonder and awe amidst all of his professionalism.”

    Early on, magazine editor Warren Kornberg pondered the value of this adventure amid the heavy challenges of the time (SN: 7/26/69, p. 71). “Nothing can mar the glory earned by the astronauts,” Kornberg wrote in a special commentary. But “[t]he verdict of history may well be that, while the world erupted, we ignored the real challenge and chased a rocket trail to the moon.” It’s a sobering note. But Apollo’s achievements overlapped with assassinations, race riots and the unpopular Vietnam War, a truth that Science News had to acknowledge.

    “We felt we had a special role of reporting on the science part of the … mission as well as putting it into the broader context,” says Frazier, who became the magazine’s editor in 1971. Kornberg’s editorial, he says, reflected widespread “antipathy about spending this money to go to the moon while the whole country was falling apart socially and politically.”

    Letters to the editor published that September echoed Kornberg’s concern (SN: 9/13/69, p. 194). “We are frustrated and ashamed,” wrote one reader.

    Three years later, in his own — more optimistic — editorial as Apollo 17 drew near, Frazier wrote: “The misfortune of Apollo is that it was conceived in one era of American history and fulfilled in another.… [I]n a future and less buffeted age, the tarnish will have disappeared, and the Apollo landings on the moon will stand as an unambiguous and unparalleled human achievement” (SN: 10/21/72, p. 259).

    SN Apollo mission covers
    MOON MANIA Science News wrote more than 100 stories on the Apollo missions. Here are three of the many covers that ran between 1969 and 1972.
    SCIENCE NEWS

    Despite the public misgivings, Frazier says it was an incredible time to be writing about science. At his home in Albuquerque, he keeps a memento from his tenure at Science News: the engraving plate used to print the cover of the moon landing issue. He plans to display it in his home office this summer, a nod to the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. “It is, to me, the greatest souvenir of that time,” he says.  


    Christopher Crockett, formerly at Science News, is a freelance science writer and editor based in Arlington, Va.

    This story appears in the July 6, 2019 & July 20, 2019 issue of Science News with the headline, "How Science News covered the Apollo mission: The magazine reported on every facet of this scientific feat." 

    Citations

    https://www.sciencenews.org/ }

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    Laten we de aliens opzoeken’ – 1,7 miljoen Facebook-gebruikers willen mogelijk testbasis VS bestormen

    Maar liefst 1,7 miljoen Facebook-gebruikers, onder wie enkele ­Nederlanders, zeggen van plan te zijn op 20 september de geheimzinnige Area 51 te bestormen. Alles wijst op een uit de hand gelopen grap, maar complotdenkers zien kansen om dan eindelijk oog in oog met buitenaardse wezens te komen.

    alien 
    Beeld Getty Images

    De Nevada Test and Training Range, waar Area 51 onder valt, is sinds de jaren vijftig in gebruik als luchtmacht- en testbasis van de Amerikaanse overheid. Het raadselachtige gebied is hermetisch afgesloten en voer voor complotdenkers. Zo zouden er geheime ontmoetingen met buitenaards leven plaatsvinden en er met tijdreizen worden geëxperimenteerd. Lang wilde de overheid niets zeggen over het precieze doel, maar in juni 2013 erkende de CIA – na jarenlang aandringen – dat Area 51 een militair oefenterrein is.

    ‘Ze kunnen ons niet allemaal tegenhouden’, staat op de Facebookpagina van het op 27 juni gelanceerde ‘evenement’. ‘Laten we de aliens opzoeken.’ Matty Roberts, een van de bedenkers, had zich niet gerealiseerd dat er zoveel mensen bereid zijn de mysterieuze locatie te overvallen. ‘Het was bedoeld als grap om mijn pagina met memes te promoten’, zei hij tegen het Amerikaanse mediabedrijf NPR.

    Roberts maakte het evenement aan, nadat hij 20 juni een interview met Bob Lazar had gezien. Lazar werkte jarenlang in de buurt van Area 51. Sinds 1989 claimt de klokkenluider dat de VS buitenaardse ruimteschepen bezitten.

    Vorig jaar verscheen de Netflix-documentaire Bob Lazar & Flying Saucers, waarin hij uitlegt hoe de Amerikaanse overheid hem het zwijgen heeft proberen op te leggen.

    ‘Dodelijk geweld’

    Nog altijd is Area 51 niet toegankelijk voor publiek. Borden in de omgeving van het gebied waarschuwen dat ‘dodelijk geweld’ kan worden gebruikt tegen mensen die zich ongeoorloofd toegang proberen te verschaffen.

    Toch zijn er genoeg toeristen die het gebied willen bezichtigen. Connie West profiteert van die aanwas en runt al jaren het hotel-restaurant Little A’Le’Inn in het nabijgelegen dorpje Rachel. Tegen de lokale nieuwszender KLAS-TV vertelt West dat alles is volgeboekt voor 20 september. ‘Het is krankzinnig.’

    Organisator Roberts betwijfelt of ‘een echt leger Area 51 gaat bestormen’. Tegen NPR zegt hij wel in gesprek te zijn voor een alternatief evenement. In afwachting van het mogelijke contact met buitenaardse wezens liet het biermerk Bud Light op Twitter alvast weten dat hun bier zeer geschikt is voor buitenaards leven. ‘Wij produceren een licht ruimtebier met een frisse smaak en een goede afdronk.’

    https://www.volkskrant.nl/ }

    20-07-2019 om 20:34 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.A layer of ‘aerogel’ could make Mars habitable and even enable life to develop there – but here’s why we should wait

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    Artist concept of settlement on Mars.

    NASA

    A layer of ‘aerogel’ could make Mars habitable and even enable life to develop there – but here’s why we should wait

    Transforming the red planet to support life has long been a dream of science fiction. Mars is now too cold to support life. Its atmosphere is also too thin to protect any living organisms from harmful radiation. But a new study suggests that local conditions could be changed using an inch of “aerogel” – a synthetic and ultralight material made by taking a gel and replacing the liquid component with a gas.

    The authors behind the paper, published in Nature Astronomy, claim the technique could produce habitable regions on the red planet and potentially allow life to develop and thrive thanks to photosynthesis – the process by which plants can convert sunlight into energy. But is this really the case? And, if so, should we do it?

    Some 3.8 billion years ago, when life was starting on Earth, conditions on Mars were habitable. The red planet had water on the surface, clouds in its blue sky and volcanism provided part of a water cycle. We know all this from space missions, which have spotted signs of dried up water-crafted channels on the surface. Meanwhile the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers have proved that these features were due to water, by finding tell-tale water-rich minerals.

    A magnetic field also protected Mars from harmful space radiation up to 3.8 billion years ago. This was revealed by Mars Global Surveyor, which found crustal magnetic fields in the older, southern highlands. These are the only remains of an ancient global magnetic field, similar to Earth’s magnetic field now.

    Cold and dry

    These habitable conditions, however, changed 3.8 billion years ago. The magnetic field disappeared. We think this is because Mars lost the heat left over from its formation more quickly than Earth did – this may have been augmented by a large collision which formed the Hellas basin on Mars. Unprotected by a magnetic field for billions of years, Mars’ atmosphere has been scavenged away to space. Some of the water was lost that way, and some went underground and remains as permafrost and in subsurface “lakes”.

    The surface now is inhospitable for life as we know it. The thin carbon dioxide atmosphere, less than 1% of Earth’s atmospheric pressure, means surface conditions include high fluxes of harmful radiation from the sun and the galaxy. The surface environment is also cold: 0-10°C during the day but down to below -100°C at night.

    Rosalind Franklin rover. ESA-AOES medialab
    CC BY-SA

    But it’s not impossible that life could have once flourished on Mars – or even exist there today, albeit unlikely. With the Rosalind Franklin (ExoMars 2020) rover, to be launched in 2020, we will drill up to two metres under the harsh Martian surface to search for signs of ancient life. This goes beyond what Opportunity and Curiosity could achieve with their 5cm drills, and gives the best chance of any planned mission to find biomarkers and evidence of life. Also, it is hoped that an international sample return mission may bring back the rocks cached by NASA’s Mars 2020 rover.

    With these missions we may be able to answer the age-old question of whether humankind is alone in the universe. Mars itself, along with other prime astrobiological targets in the solar system, including the moons Europa and Enceladus around Jupiter and Saturn respectively, should be kept in their pristine state until we have answered this fundamental question.

    Terraforming Mars

    Ideas for changing or “terraforming” Mars, by introducing an atmospheric greenhouse effect to warm it, have been around for a long time. Recently it was shown that the carbon inventory on Mars is insufficient to do this, apparently killing off these ideas for now.

    Aerogel . 
    Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

    But the new study suggests a different approach – that smaller areas of Mars could be covered by a thin (2-3cm) covering of aerogel, providing a greenhouse effect by locking in heat. Using lab experiments, the researchers showed that this could increase the surface temperature by 50°C. The authors then used a climate model of Mars to confirm that the gel would be able to keep the water below it liquid up to a depth of several metres. It would also protect against harmful radiation by absorbing the radiation at UV wavelengths, while still allowing enough light for photosynthesis.

    This suggests that a habitable region could be produced, enough even to grow some plants to fuel eventual human exploration. The idea is certainly interesting, and according to the experiments potentially plausible. But it ignores the other key issue affecting life on Mars – cosmic radiation. Silica aerogel, the proposed material, is sometimes called “frozen smoke” due to its low density. But because it is so low density, cosmic radiation of higher energy than ultraviolet light can pass through it almost unscathed. Without magnetic protection, this radiation threatens any life on the Martian surface, just as it does today.

    Aerogels are extremely light. 
    NASA

    Mars is the planet nearest us where life could have started. And to artificially change the environment would threaten one of nature’s “experiments” which has been billions of years in the making –with life either evolving or not since the planet’s formation. We go to great lengths to keep missions like Rosalind Franklin sterile, in line with international rules, so that we do not disturb any past or even present life. If we did go ahead with terraforming plans and find living organisms on Mars later on, it would be hard to know whether these were natural Mars microbes or just contaminants from Earth thriving under the areogel.

    Large-scale experiments like this would affect the pristine environment so much that we should not do this yet. At least until after Rosalind Franklin and Mars sample return, let’s leave Mars untouched so we can discover whether we are alone in the universe. When the science is done and we are ready to go, aerogel blankets may be worth a further look

    https://theconversation.com/uk }

    20-07-2019 om 20:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Apollo astronauts left trash, mementos and experiments on the moon

    50 years later, the experiments still teach us things and the trash needs to be preserved

     
    Apollo 15 lunar module

    LUNAR LEFTOVERS   Astronauts, like those who touched down in the Apollo 15 lunar module (shown) in July 1971, left a lot on the moon’s surface, from scientific instruments to trash.

    NASA

    Magazine issue: Vol. 195, No. 12, July 6, 2019, p. 26

    20-07-2019 om 17:32 geschreven door peter  

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    Neuralink: 6 Things We Learned From Elon Musk's Brain-Powered Reveal

    The machine linkup could pave the way for safer A.I.

    A Neuralink robot performs electrode insertion in this video from a Neuralink presentation on July 16, 2019.

    Neuralink, Elon Musk’s ambitious project to wire up the brain to computers, stepped out of the shadows Tuesday evening.

    In a detail-laden presentation at the California Academy of Sciences’ Morrison Planetarium, the tech entrepreneur explained how his foray into brain-machine interfaces could pave the way for a symbiotic relationship with artificial intelligence.

    Clinical trials could start as early as next year: “We hope to have this, aspirationally, in a human patient, before the end of next year. So this is not far,” Musk said.

    Pricing wasn’t announced in the presentation, the primary purpose of which was recruiting. Neuralink is hiring in the areas of robotics, materials, electrochemistry, micro-fabrication, histology, mixed-signal chip design, optics, and more. The company’s job board on its website lists eight engineering openings and a talent acquisition position.

    Little was known about Neuralink prior to the presentation, bar a multi-page explainer published on WaitButWhy in April 2017. At that time, it seemed the company was exploring a variety of methods for linking up brains and machines, and it would initially focus on healthcare benefits as a way of funding further research.

    “I feel like I’m in Transcendence,” Musk joked, in an otherwise science-focused event that lacked the party vibe of some Tesla events. “Actually, I was in Transcendence!”

    Over two years later, and that vision has come into sharper focus. Neuralink has a product, a means of wiring to the brain, and even an iPhone app to plug into the existing world of hyper-connected technology. Company employees noted the rate of advancement versus existing solutions.

    “Elon has this incredible optimism where he’ll pierce through these imagined constraints,” Max Hodak, president of Neuralink, told the audience. “You have to be very careful telling him that something’s impossible.”

    Musk on stage.

    Musk on stage.

    Here’s what we learned:

    6. Neuralink Has a Product

    First, a quick primer. Scientists have developed a number of ways to interface with the brain, which reads the electrical firing of neurons in different ways. Some are non-invasive, like EEG scans that use a helmet, but they can be rather imprecise. Others are invasive like ones used in surgery, but the probes can be large and cause issues. Neuralink has opted for an invasive approach that uses a small chip to read the brain, with minuscule probes weaving their way through.

    The product is called the N1. It’s a chip that sits in a hermetic package, which fits into a cylinder measuring eight millimeters in diameter by one-fourth of a millimeter tall. Each chip measures four millimeters by four and uses 1,024 electrodes. By comparison, designs used for Parkinson’s today can use just 10 electrodes.

    N1 sensor.

    N1 sensor.

    All electrodes have read and write functionality. The probes are five microns thick, three microns thinner than a red blood cell and 95 microns thinner than a human hair. The design enables the probes to get close to neurons to detect spikes, and the team believes that the probes can rest 60 microns away from a neuron to detect the spikes.

    N1 sensor.
    N1 sensor.

    In initial setups, Neuralink places four N1 chips in a patient, three in motor areas and one by the somatic sensory cortex. They’re then wired to an inductive coil near the ear that connects to a link that sits on the outside of the skin. The link contains the battery and Bluetooth to power the system, making it possible to remove and upgrade the firmware without actually touching the sensors again.

    The N1 array in action.

    The N1 array in action.

    Neuralink went through a variety of prototype designs, including ones with a USB-C port. As the goal is to make it as safe as possible for surgery, the team had to compromise on more ambitious designs with triple the probes:

    Prototype models, from left to right in chronological order.

    Prototype models, from left to right in chronological order.

    5. It Could Reach Patients Very Soon

    As mentioned before, the first trials will focus on healthcare. The company aims to host the first-in-human clinical study trial before the end of next year, focusing on patients with quadriplegia due to C1-C4 spinal cord injury.

    This will use the four-chip setup to enable patients to control their smartphone using their brain. Through that, they can control a mouse and keyboard on a computer through a Bluetooth connection.

    Timescales will vary depending on regulatory approval. Musk previously stated in April 2017 that it may be around eight to 10 years before it’s available to people without disabilities.

    And yes, as previous evidence suggested, the company has been using animals in its testing. President of Neuralink Max Hodak said that “we wish that we didn’t have to work with animals,” explaining how the firm takes careful consideration over its approach to tests. Musk noted that the team enabled a monkey to control a computer with his brain.

    4. Surgery Will Be Like Lasik

    These probes are incredibly fine, and far too small to insert by human hand. Neuralink has developed a robot that can stitch the probes in through an incision. It’s initially cut to two millimeters, then dilated to eight millimeters, placed in and then glued shut. The surgery can take less than an hour.

    On the far right next to the arrow, the robot needle used to thread the probes.

    On the far right next to the arrow, the robot needle used to thread the probes.

    The goal is to make the insertion about as complex as Lasik eye surgery, making it easy to link up with machines.

    3. It Has an App to Bring It All Together

    It uses an iPhone app to interface with the neural link, using a simple interface to train people how to use the link.

    The iPhone app.

    The iPhone app.

    “You have no wires poking out of your heard; very important. It basically bluetooths to your phone,” Musk said. “We’ll have to watch the app store updates for that one, make sure we don’t have a driver issue.”

    No word on an Android version yet.

    2. A Brain App Store? It’s Possible

    One of the most intriguing comments came during the question-and-answer session, where an audience member asked about third-party software running on the pod. With read-and-write abilities, it’s potentially a tricky area of development.

    “Conceivably there could be some kind of app store thing in the future,” Musk said.

    Hodak noted that any creations couldn’t use an ad-supported model. While ads on phones are mildly annoying, ads in the brain could be a disaster waiting to happen.

    The brain: is there an app for that?

    The brain: is there an app for that?

    1. A Symbiotic Relationship Is Still the Goal

    Neuralink may be initially focused on healthcare benefits, but Musk noted his goal is still to link up humans with A.I. Musk compared it to using a smartphone, except making it a more direct link instead of telling the brain to move fingers to interact.

    “This is going to sound pretty weird, but [we want to] achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence,” Musk said. “This is not a mandatory thing! This is a thing that you can choose to have if you want. I think this is going to be something really important at a civilization-scale level. I’ve said a lot about A.I. over the years, but I think even in a benign A.I. scenario we will be left behind.”

    Details around the economics of the setup are still sketchy, but Musk joked that “if you want to be symbiotic with A.I., I think it’s safe to say you could repay the loan with superhuman intelligence.” Perhaps a funny suggestion, but research suggests that intelligence does not always predict financial wellbeing.

    Far from wiring up and worrying about the details later, the really smart move may be to wait and see how Neuralink develops further over the coming years. Based on Tuesday’s presentation, it could be a fascinating ride.

    Watch the full Youtube video below.

    https://www.inverse.com/ }

    20-07-2019 om 17:11 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Na Area 51 willen mensen nu ook de Bermudadriehoek en deze andere locaties gaan bestormen
    Na Area 51 willen mensen nu ook de Bermudadriehoek en deze andere locaties gaan bestormen

    Na Area 51 willen mensen nu ook de Bermudadriehoek en deze andere locaties gaan bestormen

    In 1945 verdwenen daar bijvoorbeeld vijf Amerikaanse bommenwerpers. Van de toestellen werd nooit meer iets vernomen.

    Ook een reddingsvliegtuig dat op zoek ging naar de vermiste bemanning zou er zijn verdwenen.

    19.000 mensen

    De Bermudadriehoek bevindt zich tussen Bermuda, Florida en Puerto Rico.

    De organisator hoopt 75.000 dollar in te zamelen om livemuziek en entertainment te kunnen regelen.

    Al 19.000 mensen hebben aangegeven te zullen gaan. Nog eens 25.000 zijn geïnteresseerd.

    Witte Huis

    Ook zijn er inmiddels evenementen georganiseerd waarbij het Witte Huis en de Federal Reserve bestormd moeten gaan worden.

    Ondertussen zijn al meer dan 1,8 miljoen alienjagers van plan om op 20 september Area 51 te bestormen.

    De Amerikaanse luchtmacht heeft mensen die daadwerkelijk naar de topgeheime legerbasis willen afreizen gewaarschuwd om weg te blijven.

    Verklaringen

    “De Amerikaanse luchtmacht staat altijd paraat om Amerika te beschermen,” zei woordvoerster Laura McAndrews.

    Mensen die de Bermudadriehoek willen bestormen zullen waarschijnlijk op minder verzet stuiten.

    Mogelijke verklaringen voor de raadselachtige verdwijningen zijn UFO’s, paranormale activiteit en extreme weersgebeurtenissen.

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    20-07-2019 om 16:08 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Steeds meer ‘ontkenners’: bijna een vijfde van Amerikaanse jongeren gelooft dat maanlanding nep was. En hoe zit het met Mars?
    Steeds meer 'ontkenners': bijna een vijfde van Amerikaanse jongeren gelooft dat maanlanding nep was. En hoe zit het met Mars?

    Steeds meer ‘ontkenners’: bijna een vijfde van Amerikaanse jongeren gelooft dat maanlanding nep was. En hoe zit het met Mars?

    Heeft astronaut Neil Armstrong 50 jaar geleden echt op de maan gestaan? Of bevond hij zich op een filmset in Hollywood? Uit een nieuwe peiling blijkt dat bijna een vijfde (18 procent) van de Amerikaanse jongeren gelooft dat de maanlanding van Apollo 11 een hoax was.

    Mensen tussen de 18 en 34 jaar zijn maar liefst zes keer meer geneigd om te geloven dat de NASA de landing in scène heeft gezet dan mensen die het allemaal nog hebben meegemaakt.

    Het aantal mensen dat niet in de maanlanding gelooft blijft steeds verder stijgen.

    Vlag

    Nu zegt één op de 10 van alle Amerikanen dat de maanlanding nep was. In 1999 was dat nog zes procent. Er zijn nu dus bijna twee keer zoveel ‘maanlanding-ontkenners’ dan 20 jaar geleden.

    De meeste ‘ontkenners’ (41 procent) zien de Amerikaanse vlag op de maan als belangrijkste bewijs dat het om een hoax gaat.

    Het lijkt erop alsof de vlag wappert, terwijl er geen wind staat op de maan, zo is de gedachte.

    Studiolampen

    Daarnaast zeggen veel ‘ontkenners’ dat schaduwen van de studiolampen op foto’s zijn te zien, dat de astronauten de straling in de ruimte niet overleefd zouden hebben en dat er onvoldoende vocht op de maan is om een voetafdruk achter te laten.

    Ruim de helft van de ‘ontkenners’ stelt dat we op een later moment op de maan zijn geland.

    Bijna alle ‘ontkenners’ (98 procent) zeggen dat de overheid ons bespioneert.

    Marsrover ook nep

    En iets meer dan de helft van de ‘ontkenners’ (51 procent) is van mening dat de Marsrover ook nep is.

    Veel mensen geloven dat we al buitenaards bezoek hebben gehad. Zo gelooft drie kwart van de ‘maanlanding-ontkenners’ dat aliens de aarde hebben bezocht.

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    20-07-2019 om 16:04 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.50 Years Later and Still Hiding the Truth?

    50 Years Later and Still Hiding the Truth?

    tocket20monument

    Above: Apollo 11 – projected on the Washington Monument – to celebrate the 50th anniversary of July 20, 1969′s moon landing

    July 20, 2019 is officially the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first setting foot on the moon, and it prompts me to revisit the conspiracy theory question (as I wrote in a previous article on BIN) – “…if we really did land on the moon as we are told, why have we not returned in almost 50 years? Are we supposed to believe there is no technological benefit to having a scientific base on the moon? Are we supposed to believe NASA’s excuse that “we forgot how to do it”? Or is it more likely that there is some kind of conspiracy?”

    There are only a few possibilities:

    1 – They really landed on the moon as the US Government described and there is nothing interesting there – just craters and dust.

    2 – They really landed there, but they didn’t tell the public the interesting stuff

    2A – They found evidence of previous advanced human civilization and technology on the moon because humans made it into space before the last catastrophic pole shift

    2B – They found evidence of aliens observing us, using the moon as their base

    3 – They never made it to the moon at all, it was just propaganda

    “If we actually found evidence that aliens had observation bases on the far side of the moon, would we report it? If we found evidence that a previous, lost human civilization like Atlantis had risen and fallen and been to the Moon thousands of years ago, leaving behind evidence and technology equal to or more advanced than our own – would we re-write history, or hide and study their technology?”

    gif__nasa_fake_moonlanding

    If we do have alien evidence/artifacts/contact – how many decades of gradual acclimation to their existence does the public need before the government finally offers disclosure?

    I went on about the theory that Stanley Kubrick confessed to faking the moon landing during his filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey.  Maybe he did, maybe he didn’t.

    dannyapollo11a

    But a recent article on Motherboard also just got my attention with: “NASA confessed [in 2006] that it likely reused 45 tapes containing original footage of Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s iconic July 20, 1969 moonwalk. Even today, the specter of the Apollo 11 tape blunder still looms over the agency.”

    So the original moon landing tapes – the most important, most historical, and most controversial footage NASA ever took – was accidentally taped over?  On 45 different tapes?  I’m supposed to believe that was an accident?  Much more likely to me, they were under scrutiny, and could be proved as forgeries, so they were conveniently wiped clean like a Hillary Clinton email server.

    Then in 2015, it was found out that someone had saved about 300 data reels of NASA tapes from 1969-1972 and stored them in Pennsylvania.  Unfortunately, the owner was secretive about them, and the person who found them turned them over to NASA, who said that none of them had anything to do with the Apollo missions.  Sure they didn’t.

    My best guess is that we found evidence that mankind had visited the Moon before – thousands of years ago – and that we are denying the truth so we can back-engineer ancient VIMANA technology and understand cycles of terrestrial destruction without re-writing history or alerting the masses.

    I am not arguing that we never landed on the moon – just that the public has been shown meaningless edited photographs, while the truly interesting finds have been kept secret.

    Watch 2 minutes of this video, from about the 26 minute mark to the 28 minute mark, showing very clear photographic editing:

    Neil Armstrong should have been a sought after public speaker.  The first man to walk on the Moon could have been rich beyond his wildest dreams merely speaking motivationally to graduating classes and anyone else… Instead he stayed out of the limelight.  25 years later he compared the astronauts to parrots.  Which don’t fly high, but they do repeat what is said to them.

    Article by David Montaigne, author of many books including:

    https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/ }

    20-07-2019 om 15:56 geschreven door peter  

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    Flying Saucer Encounter In Valley Washington

    FEBURARY 8, 2018 ……………… VALLEY WASHINGTON

    A Washington witness at Valley reported watching a disc-shaped object inside a cloud; moreover, the object appeared to be having trouble with a cloaking device, according to testimony in Case 94350.

    The witness was sitting outside on a warm, sunny day at 1:07 p.m. on February 8, 2018. “I was looking across the lake I live on towards the southwest sky and watching the clouds and was sort of gauging the wind, which was hardly any, maybe 4-5 miles an hour,” the witness stated. “The clouds that day were various sizes but all oval.” As the witness watched, the biggest cloud started to blink. “One second it was a giant, discshaped craft, then it was a cloud. I kept looking away at other clouds then looked back at this phenomenon, because I was questioning what I was seeing. It looked to me as though its cloaking was not working properly. This was enormous. I could see at least four stories of windows that were along the edge of the craft. The color was a metallic silver/chrome. After about 5-8 minutes it stopped blinking and looked like a cloud again.”

    Washington MUFON Chief Investigator Daniel Nims closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

    Picture

    Witness illustration.

    Credit: MUFON

    “MUFON reports no similar large vehicle sightings in this vicinity,” Sims wrote in his report. “A NUFORC case on January 22, 2018, at 3:30 a.m. reported a similar, large object that seemed to be able to generate a ‘cloud’ camouflage. “The witness reports she stepped out to her west porch to have a cigarette and enjoy a pleasant early spring [sic] afternoon. She saw several strange oval-shaped clouds several miles away to the southwest high in the sky (about 45-degrees elevation). One of the clouds then changed from its cloud look and took on the appearance of a large disk-shaped object, which appeared oval looking at it from the side. The craft had a metallic surface. It also had what looked like four rows of rectangular-shaped windows that went around the craft. (See drawing.) The object was large. The object flickered back and forth from the cloud appearance to the disk-shaped object several times over a period of several (five to eight) minutes.

    She says it was like it had a ‘cloaking’ device that was malfunctioning. It finally assumed the cloud appearance. The object stayed fixed relative to the other clouds as they drifted off to the southeast in a mild breeze of a few miles per hour. “No lights were noted. No sound was associated with the object, although it was quite a distance away. “An object this large is too big to be an aircraft. An Internet search was run to see if any airship (blimp) operations were occurring in the northwest. The Internet gave no evidence of that. FlightRadar24 showed no aircraft in the vicinity of Valley for that time period. “The unique characteristic of switching from cloud appearance to craft appearance would not be from any normal aircraft. The disposition of this case is: Unknown – UAV.” Valley is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington, population 146.

    • NOTE: The above image is CGI.

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    20-07-2019 om 15:14 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The Dyatlov Pass Incident: A Connection With Natural Luminous Phenomena?

    The Dyatlov Pass Incident: A Connection With Natural Luminous Phenomena?

    The northern Ural Mountains of the former Soviet Union were a cold, unforgiving place in 1959. They remain so today, and had been for centuries prior to the first days of February in the aforementioned year, when nine hikers from the Ural Polytechnical Institute were found dead, their bodies strangely under-dressed for the bitter February cold sweeping down off the slopes of nearby Kholat Syakhl.

    Known today as the Dyatlov Pass incident, the location where the group had been camping was a place of fear and superstition among the local Mansi, who called it the “Dead Mountain.” The name was tragically fitting, as a series of events which remain unexplained to this day caused the hikers to cut their way out of their tents, fleeing into the February cold and, ultimately, to their deaths.

    Although a variety of theories about the ultimate cause behind the deaths of Igor Dyatlov and his companions have been offered over the years, there has yet to be one offered that can account for all of the odd factors the case presents. In equal measure, countless articles have been written on the subject over the years, and several books, documentaries, and films have also lend to the mill of rumor and speculation that surrounds the case; some of the tenuous conclusions offered by such media have done more harm than good, so far as coming to any logical determinations about what might have actually happened.

    The graves of the Dyatlov party hikers, as it appears today (Public Domain).

    The case, in short, continues to fascinate after the passing of many decades, and hence why I often receive emails and messages about it from others who are perplexed by it. My good friend Billy Clark, and Englishman now residing in Berlin, Germany, took time to write to me about the case, where he shared a number of frustrations with the way the incident is treated in popular writing. Namely, this involves the dismissal of the idea that some kind of aerial phenomenon might have been involved, whether it had been of a manmade, natural, or perhaps some other variety. 

    “Whatever happened, it’s totally baffling!” Billy wrote. “That it would claim all nine of them and that none were able to provide any kind of clue as to what happened in their final moments is hard to accept. Perhaps the investigators were not looking for something like that? A couple of words hastily carved into some wood could be easily missed. Perhaps we don’t have all the available facts.”

    “The behaviour of the Russian authorities during the case is very peculiar,” Clark noted. “The strange change of manner of the lead investigator trying to hush up talk of lights in the sky and murder during the case, to later in life insisting that the lights in the sky were directly responsible in some way.”

    “Then there are those zinc lined coffins…” he added. 

    Indeed, as Billy notes, there are a lot of bizarre aspects to the Dyatlov Pass case which strains the idea of there being any single, “simple” explanation. I have always been intrigued by the reports of “lights in the sky,” which are one element of the case that inevitably foments sensationalism in the sense that it would seem to insinuate that something akin to UFO phenomenon might have been involved.

    “If something ‘out of this world’ were happening outside [the tent] as a result of some kind of interaction with that light, it might be one of the few things that would explain such a desperate scramble to escape,” Billy offered in our recent correspondence. “It seems the radiation on the bodies may not have actually been that strange in terms of level strength, but radiation effects are certainly consistent with some UFO encounters.”

    Billy raises an important point here, in that many of the explanations that have been offered over the years (ranging from the tenuous idea of infrasound, to absurdities such as a “Yeti attack”) completely fail to account for minutiae like the radiation question. In other words, many would discount any and all implications that something akin to “lights seen in the sky” around the time of the incident could have had anything to do with the deaths of the Dyatlov group. Meanwhile, they completely discount certain pertinent facts about the case, as they churn out their own pet theories… theories which are incomplete, at very best.

    I am not of a mind to think that this long-standing mystery has been “solved” in any sincere sense of things. Ideas that have been put forth in the past, like infrasound causing sudden disorientation which led to the hiker’s strange nighttime behavior is, while perhaps a little more tenable than certain other theories, simply not capable of accounting for all of the facts.

    Same with the poor folks who want to believe it was a “Russian Wildman,” although it does allow for a peculiar little addendum to all of this: the Dyatlov group actually did joke about the “Abominable Snowman” in some of their private correspondence with each other. However, there is not a shred of evidence that the group ever encountered such a creature, as proposed in a Discovery Channel documentary a few years ago (unless, of course, Yetis are capable of emanating non-ionizing radiation from their bodies, hence explaining how some of the hikers appeared to have been exposed to an energetic source of some kind… figure that one out).

    As far as reasonable speculations go, there are at least two ideas that I would not rule out in relation to what might have happened at the Dyatlov Pass in 1959. While each of these is speculative, I offer them here because I do feel that these possibilities—unproven though they are, like the rest of the “solutions” proposed about this case over the years—nonetheless may be able to more effectively account for the variety of peculiarities about the incident. They are as follows:

    1. 1) a Russian weapons test (for which there is actually a surprising amount of evidence),
    2. 2) some variety of natural phenomenon (certain aspects of the case actually ARE consistent with ball lightning and similar natural luminous phenomena, as we will see shortly). 

    If I had to put my money on either of these, I would say that the second possibility, involving something like ball lightning, is the most likely to have had something to do with the incident. Without any further elaboration, this may seem like an equally tenuous supposition: what, apart from alleged reports of “lights in the sky,” could the Dyatlov Pass incident have to do with ball lightning?

    Investigators arrive at the scene where the hikers spent their final evening (Public Domain).

    To that point, I would like to bring the reader’s attention to a very curious report I found in the British Journal of Meteorology from 1984, which tells the story of a group of Russian hikers in the Caucasses that were “attacked” by what was deemed at the time to have been “aggressive ball lightning.”

    The details of that incident were related by a Mr. Victor Kavunenko, who had been one of four mountaineers that were camped in the Caucasus Mountains at an altitude of 12795 feet. The date was on or around August 17, 1978, and Kavunenko gives the following account of what transpired with his companions in their encampment one evening:

    “I woke up with the strange feeling that a stranger had made his way into our tent. Thrusting my head out of the sleeping bag, I froze. A bright yellow blob was floating about one metre from the floor. It disappeared into Korovin’s sleeping bag. The man screamed in pain. The ball jumped out and proceeded to circle over the other bags now hiding in one, now in another. When it burned a hole in mine I felt an unbearable pain, as if I were being burned by a welding machine, and blacked out. Regaining consciousness after a while, I saw the same yellow ball which, methodically observing a pattern that was known to it alone, kept diving into the bags, evoking desperate, heart-rendering (sic) howls from the victims. This indescribable horror repeated itself several times. When I came back to my senses for the fifth or sixth time, the ball was gone. I could not move my arms or legs and my body was burning as if it had turned into a ball of fire itself. In the hospital, where we were flown by helicopter, seven wounds were discovered on my body. They were worse than burns. Pieces of muscle were found to be torn out to the bone. The same happened to Shigin, Kaprov and Bashkirov. Oleg Korovin had been killed by the ball — possibly because his bag had been on a rubber mattress, insulating it from the ground. The ball lightning did not touch a single metal object, injuring only people.”

    This story, if true (keeping in mind that it was reported in a respected British scientific journal) bears undeniable similarities to the Dyatlov Pass incident. The primary similarities include 1) the presence of “mysterious lights” (which were not reported by the Dyatlov hikers, but which were allegedly observed in the same area around the time of the incident), 2) the presence of something inside the tent with the campers, 3) the presence of burns on the camper’s bodies, 4) damage to muscles and tissue of the survivors after their interactions with the phenomenon, 5) the death of one of the campers after his interaction with the light or object.

    Note that at no time was the light observed by Kavunenko and his company referred to as anything more extraordinary than “ball lightning.”

    I would argue that the “ball lightning” theory as an explanation for what the hikers encountered at Dyatlov pass in 1959 would be more no more likely than any other speculative theory, if it were not for the details provided about the separate incident above. There is little (if anything) else about this case that can be found, whether online, or in related literature, apart from its inclusion by the late William R. Corliss in his Science Frontiers publications, where he noted that “Ball lightning has often been called inquisitive, but this is one of the few reports where it deliberately (?) seemed to attack people. Some Russian English-language publications verge on the sensational, and one must always have some salt on hand.”

    Salt-in-hand, therefore, the report is certainly interesting. If true, it may very well shed some light—perhaps of a natural luminous variety, and yet which remains little-understood—on this long-standing and enigmatic Cold War-era case.

    {  https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    20-07-2019 om 12:07 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Apollo 11 in Real Time as it occurred in 1969

    Apollo 11 in Real Time as it occurred in 1969

    A real-time interactive journey through the Apollo 11 mission. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1969.


    Great audio, video and imaging from the mission.

    Included real-time elements:

    all mission control film footage
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    2,000 photographs
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    248 hours of space- to ground audio all on-board recorder audio
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    Check it out:

    20-07-2019 om 11:53 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Chinees ruimtestation stort 3 jaar na lancering (gecontroleerd) neer in de Stille Oceaan - HLN.be

    Chinees ruimtestation stort 3 jaar na lancering (gecontroleerd) neer in de Stille Oceaan - HLN.be

    Bron: New Scientist

    Tiangong-2 werd op 15 september 2016 gelanceerd.

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    Tiangong-2 werd op 15 september 2016 gelanceerd.
     Na drie jaar dienst keert het Chinees ruimtestation Tiangong-2 terug naar de aarde. Het zou rond deze tijd moeten neerstorten. Dat gebeurt, in tegenstelling tot het vorige ruimtestation, gecontroleerd.

    Tiangong-2 of het “Hemelse Paleis” werd op 15 september 2016 richting de ruimte gelanceerd. Na drie jaar heeft het ruimtestation zijn nut bewezen waardoor het terug naar de aarde mag keren. Het was immers nooit de bedoeling om Tiangong-2 permanent in de ruimte te laten rondzweven.

    Daarom wordt het nu uit zijn baan om de aarde gehaald. Dat gebeurt ditmaal gecontroleerd. Het grootste deel van het ruimtestation zal opbranden in de atmosfeer. De overige brokstukken belanden in de Stille Oceaan, ergens tussen Nieuw-Zeeland en Chili. Dat staat vast. 

    Gelukstreffer

    Tiangong-1, het jongere broertje van Tiangong-2, stortte vorig jaar in april eveneens neer in de Stille Oceaan. Maar dat was een gelukstreffer. De mastodont, die maar liefst 8,5 ton woog, stortte neer nadat die aan vermogen verloor, en China het ruimtestation niet langer kon controleren.

    Om zulk scenario te voorkomen, wordt de Tiangong-2 terug naar de aarde gehaald nu die nog naar behoren functioneert.

    Daarbij staat er alweer een vervanger klaar. China heeft plannen voor een groter ruimtestation, groter dan Tiangong-2 en kleiner dan het Internationale ruimtestation (ISS).

    China heeft plannen voor een groter ruimtestation, groter dan Tiangong-2 en kleiner dan het Internationale ruimtestation (ISS).

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    China heeft plannen voor een groter ruimtestation, groter dan Tiangong-2 en kleiner dan het Internationale ruimtestation (ISS).

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    20-07-2019 om 01:29 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The 5 Most Credible UFO Sightings In Modern History

    The 5 Most Credible UFO Sightings In Modern History

    The 5 Most Credible UFO Sightings In Modern History

    1) The Peculiar Lights Above the New Jersey Turnpike (2001)

    On July 14, 2001, traffic ground to a halt on the New Jersey Turnpike when a mesmerizing sight was seen by all. Drivers across New Jersey stopped and got out of their cars to see a strange V formation of orange and yellow lights in the sky, above the Arthur Kill Waterway.

    Lieutenant Daniel Tarrant of the Carteret Police Department, was one of the witnesses as well as numerous other New Jersey residents. When the media and civilians inquired about the V formation, air-traffic controllers denied the presence of any airplanes, military jets or space flights. A group called the New York Strange Phenomena Investigators claimed to receive FAA radar data that corroborated the UFO sightings from that night.

    2) The USS Nimitz Encounter (2004)

    On November 14, 2004, the aircraft carrier USS Princeton noted an unknown craft on radar 100 miles off the coast of San Diego. The USS Princeton had tracked objects that appeared at 80000 feet and plummeted over the Pacific Ocean.

    Two FA-18F fighter jets from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz arrived in the area, they identified boiling water in an oval shape underneath the surface. They then identified a white tic-tac shaped object appeared above the water. There were no physical signs of an engine or exhaust on the engine and when the fighter jets intended to intercept it, it accelerated away, moving three times the speed of sound and appearing 60 miles away.

    3) O'Hare International Airport Saucer (2006)

    On November 7, 2006, flight 446 was getting ready to fly from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, when a United Airlines employee on the tarmac observe a grey metallic saucer hovering in the air above gate c17. There were over 12 United Airline employees as well as numerous civilians who spotted the craft.

    Witnesses claim it hovered for five minutes before shooting upward where it broke a hole in the clouds, enough that clouds separated and the employees could then see the blue sky.

    In spite of numerous witnesses, the UFO was not seen on radar, the FAA called it a "weather phenomenon" and refused to investigate.

    4) The Stephenville Sightings (2008)

    On January 8, 2008, citizens reported seeing white lights above Highway 67, presenting as a single horizontal arc and then in vertical parallel lines. A local pilot, Steve Allen, estimated that the strobe lights "spanned about a mile long and a half-mile wide" traveling about 3000 miles per hour. In spite of this, no sound was reported.

    The US Air Force claimed responsibility for the lights, stating that F-16s were flying in the area. The witnesses rejected this explanation, believing that the movements made were far too advanced for current human abilities,

    5) East Coast GO FAST Video (2015)

    In 2017, a video leaked on the news showing an encounter between an F/A-18 Super Hornet and an unidentified flying vehicle. The craft was similar to the one spotted in 2004, in San Diego, a rapidly moving white oval, 45 feet long and without wings. Pilots tracked it at 25000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean as it flew away whilst simultaneously rotating on its axis.

    No explanation was ever provided by the US Air force.

    There's a lot of bunk out there with CGI/editing tricks. This one, IMO, is certainly one of the more palatable videos I've seen.

    https://www.disclose.tv/ }

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