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, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
19-09-2019
Amerikaans leger geeft bestaan van ufo's toe:
Amerikaans leger geeft bestaan van ufo's toe: "Geen uitlaat, geen strepen, ongelooflijk snel en steeds meer"
door Peter Mijlemans
De Amerikaanse marine heeft toegegeven dat drie video’s die al een tijdje circuleren op het internet, authentieke beelden zijn, gemaakt vanuit de cockpit van gevechtsvliegtuigen. Op de filmpjes zijn unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) te zien, de militaire term voor ufo’s. De militairen blijken de zaak heel ernstig te nemen, want het aantal ‘encounters’ neemt al jaren toe. Sinds een half jaar zijn alle gevechtspiloten ook verplicht dergelijke incidenten te melden, en worden die ook onderzocht. “We moeten weten wie hierachter zit, waar het vandaan komt en wat de intenties zijn.”
De getuigenissen van de piloten over de UAP’s lopen gelijk: geen uitlaat, geen vliegtuigstrepen, geen luchtwaardig tuig, maar wel ongelooflijk snel
Wat het in elk geval niet zijn: ontploffende Ierse weerballonnen. Wat het dan wel is: niemand weet het. Het gaat meestal om objecten die met een onmogelijke snelheid zichzelf verplaatsen en wendbaarder zijn dan zelfs het gesofisticeerdste gevechtsvliegtuig. De conclusie van alle piloten die ermee geconfronteerd zijn: “Het is het bizarste en ongelooflijkste wat we ooit gezien hebben.”
Vandaar dat er enige terughoudend is bij de gevechtspiloten om de “incidenten” te rapporteren. Ze vrezen vaak dat ze voor gek versleten zullen worden, en dat het een negatieve invloed op hun carrière kan hebben. In maart van dit jaar greep het oppercommando van de Navy in: piloten zijn nu verplicht om álle vreemde verschijnselen te melden. De administratie om aangifte te doen, is versoepeld en in tegenstelling tot vroeger belanden de rapporten niet meer in een lade, maar zullen ze allemaal onderzocht worden.
“We merken een gestage toename van het aantal UAP’s. Ondertussen is het bijna een maandelijks fenomeen”, zei een woordvoerder. “We gaan dit tot op het bot onderzoeken. We willen weten wie erachter zit, waar het vandaan komt en wat de intenties zijn. We moeten een manier vinden om te voorkomen dat het nog gebeurt.” Meer details worden niet gegeven, maar het lijkt er sterk op dat de militairen geloven dat de verschijnselen een reëel gevaar vormen. Ze vermoeden dat er vreemde mogendheden mee gemoeid zijn, maar geen aliens.
“Zie dat ding daar, man”
Afgelopen woensdag werd dan de authenticiteit bevestigd van een aantal UAP-filmpjes die druk bekeken en bediscussieerd worden op het internet. Het zijn officiële militaire opnames van onverklaarbare tuigen waarmee gevechtspiloten in contact kwamen. De drie video’s van zulke ‘ontmoetingen’ – Go Fast, FLIR1 en Gimbal genaamd – werden openbaar gemaakt in 2017 en 2018, en door het privéonderzoeksbureau To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences op het internet geplaatst. De Navy wilde de echtheid noch bevestigen noch ontkennen, tot woensdag dus.
Een van video’s werd in 2004 opgenomen voor de kust van San Diego door David Fravor, een ondertussen gepensioneerde piloot van een F/A-18F Super Hornet. Op het filmpje hoor je een van de piloten zeggen: “Zie dat ding daar, man. Het draait rond.”
“Ik stond verstomd”, zei Fravor aan The New York Times. “Het ding dat zowat een meter of twaalf groot was, zweefde ter plaatse boven de zee terwijl het water opborrelde. Toen ik het naderde, versnelde het op een onmogelijke manier.” Het object werd toen al gevolgd door de Navy Cruiser ISS Princeton, die al twee weken zocht naar ‘vreemde vliegtuigen’. Fravor kreeg de opdracht 90 kilometer verder te vliegen, waar het tuig volgens de berekeningen ook zou arriveren. “Nog voor we een derde van de afstand hadden gevlogen, werd gemeld dat het daar al was aangekomen. Toen we arriveerden, was het spoorloos.” Het incident werd toen niet verder onderzocht.
Ufo-onderzoek
Sinds 2004 gebeuren dergelijke confrontaties op “geregelde tijdstippen”, bevestigt de Navy. Wat verontrustend is, is dat getuigenissen vaak gelijk lopen. De meeste piloten hebben het over witte, vreemd gevormde tuigen die noch lucht opnemen, noch uitstoot vertonen, die geen vliegtuigstrepen nalaten en die helemaal niet luchtwaardig lijken.
In 2017 gaf het Pentagon toe dat een geheim project tussen 2007 en 2012 alle ufo-meldingen had geïnventariseerd en bestudeerd. Het Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Programme kostte ruim 20 miljoen euro per jaar. Ook toen zocht men niet naar aliens, maar naar vliegende objecten met een revolutionaire aandrijving, van Russische of Chinese makelij. Volgens diverse Amerikaanse media – waaronder The New York Times en The Washington Post – werd ook bewijsmateriaal gevonden dat er wat vreemds gebeurt in het Amerikaanse luchtruim. Er zouden materialen gevonden zijn die onbekend zijn, en waarvan Amerikaanse wetenschappers niet weten wat de samenstelling is. In 2012 werd het project officieel stopgezet “wegens andere prioriteiten”. Maar zeven jaar later zijn de UAP’s voor de Navy dus opnieuw een prioriteit.
Ufo’s bestaan niet, zei de prof. Maar 701 waarnemingen kon hij niet verklaren
De allereerste piloot die getuigde over een buitenaardse ontmoeting, was een zakenman. Kenneth Arnold zag het vreemde ding toen hij in 1947 in de buurt van Mount Arnold in Washington vloog. In totaal telde hij negen ongeïdentificeerde vliegende tuigen. De schets die hij maakte, deed de term ‘vliegende schotel’ ontstaan.
Belangrijker was dat zijn getuigenis leidde tot de oprichting van Project Sign, Project Grudge en vooral Project Blue Book: het grootste ufo-onderzoek ooit, geleid vanop de Wright-Patterson luchtmachtbasis. Tussen 1947 en 1969 werden 12.618 getuigenissen genoteerd en onderzocht. Bedoeling was vooral om de waarnemingen te ontkrachten door wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Daarvoor werd Dr. J. Allen Hynek aangetrokken, die ufo’s te belachelijk voor woorden vond. Hij sprak over verzinsels van onbetrouwbare getuigen of waarnemingen van onbegrepen natuurlijke fenomenen.
Toen het project in 1969 werd afgesloten, stelde de Amerikaanse luchtmacht dat er geen ufo’s waren gevonden, noch buitenaardse vliegende schotels, noch tuigen met een ongekende technologie. Hynek sprak dat later tegen. Tijdens zijn onderzoek was hij op 701 waarnemingen gestoten die niet te verklaren waren. De professor die ufo’s onzin vond, was door zijn werk een believer geworden.
Area 51 has ‘secrets that deserve to be protected’, warns US Air Force general
Area 51 has ‘secrets that deserve to be protected’, warns US Air Force general
General Dave Goldfein has issued a strong warning to anyone planning to storm Area 51 to 'see them Aliens'
Area 51 has “secrets that deserve to be protected”, a US Air Force general has warned amid a plan to storm the secret installation to “see them aliens”.
General David Goldfein, the chief of staff for the US Air Force, made the cryptic comment at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space, Cyber conference at National Habor, Maryland.
He was quizzed about the viral Facebook event by reporters.
Millions of people had planned to attend “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All Of Us” on September 20.
US Air Force officials have already warned they “stood ready” to defend the military base.
Goldfein’s response however will just further inflame conspiracy theories that Area 51 is actually the home of the US government’s secrets about aliens.
Speaking to reporters, Goldfein said: “We’re taking it very seriously, our nation has secrets.
“And those secrets deserve to be protected.”
Matt Donovan, acting secretary of the US Air Force, reportedly added that extra security has been deployed along with barricades.
Thousands of people are still expected to descend on Nevada despite the event now being deleted from Facebook
And just last week YouTuber Ties Granzier and his friend Govert Charles Wilhelmus Jacob Sweep were arrested close to Area 51.
Nevada residents are preparing for an influx of tourists amid the plan to storm it.
Businesses around the already popular tourist spot were looking forward to a boom.
Matty Roberts started the event as a joke, but has now said the event as cancelled as he fears a “humanitarian disaster”.
And the linked festival Alienstock 2019 has also been axed due to fears the event was going to become “Fyrefest 2.0” due to the “lack of infrastructure, poor planning, risk management”.
Area 51 is subject to endless conspiracy theories
(Image: AFP/Getty Images)
Roberts was inspired to make the joke after Joe Rogan interviewed conspiracy theorist and former Area 51 employee Bob Lazar.
On the now-deleted Facebook event, it said: “We will all meet up in Rural Nevada and coordinate our parties.
"If we Naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets.
“Lets see them aliens."
Area 51 lies in the middle of the barren desert in the US, with unmarked roads leading up to the frontgate.
It is one of the most secretive locations in the world and is often linked to conspiracy theories about aliens.
The site is a highly classified remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, and was built in 1955.
The fenced off land, measuring six by ten miles, is located 83 miles north of Las Vegas in Nevada.
US Government officials refused to acknowledge the existence of Area 51 for decades.
The base was kept secret until it was officially acknowledged by the CIA in 2013, and its location was revealed.
It had been used as a testing ground for top-secret aircraft, including the U-2 in the 1950s, and the B2 stealth bomber.
The current purpose of the site however remains a closely guarded secret.
Area 51 beschikt over ‘geheimen die beschermd moeten worden’, waarschuwt deze generaal
Area 51 beschikt over ‘geheimen die beschermd moeten worden’, waarschuwt deze generaal
51 beschikt over ‘geheimen die beschermd moeten worden’, zo heeft een luchtmachtgeneraal gezegd. Hij reageerde hiermee op de geplande bestorming van de geheimzinnige basis.
Generaal David Goldfein, stafchef van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht, deed deze uitspraak tijdens een conferentie in de staat Maryland toen hij vragen kreeg over het Facebookevenement ‘Bestorm Area 51’.
Miljoenen mensen waren van plan om de basis op vrijdag te bestormen, schrijft de Daily Star.
Koren op de molen
Legerfunctionarissen hebben al gewaarschuwd dat ze de militaire basis zullen verdedigen.
De uitspraak van Goldfein is koren op de molen voor complottheoretici die stellen dat de Amerikaanse overheid geheimen over aliens in Area 51 bewaart.
“We nemen het zeer serieus, ons land heeft geheimen,” zei de generaal tegen journalisten. “En die geheimen moeten beschermd worden.”
Extra beveiliging
Matt Donovan, de baas van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht, voegde toe dat er extra beveiliging is ingezet en dat er barricades zijn opgeworpen.
Naar verwachting zullen duizenden mensen afreizen naar Nevada.
Opgepakt
Afgelopen week nog werden YouTuber Ties Granzier en zijn vriend Govert Sweep opgepakt in de buurt van Area 51.
Het bestaan van de basis is in 2013 officieel erkend door de CIA. Het is niet bekend wat er precies gebeurt.
Apollo-astronauten zagen meerdere grote schepen op de maan. Acteur Dan Aykroyd vertelt in deze podcast ronduit over UFO’s en aliens
Enkele dagen geleden was de Canadese acteur Dan Aykroyd te gast in de podcast van Joe Rogan. Het gesprek ging onder andere over de kristallen schedels, UFO’s en aliens.
Aykroyd stelt dat buitenaards leven bestaat en dat daar intussen genoeg bewijs voor is.
“We zijn inmiddels op een punt aanbeland dat we moeten accepteren dat deze schepen echt zijn en dat ze geavanceerd zijn,” aldus de acteur.
Zeta Reticuli
“Er zijn gewoon zoveel beelden, zoveel getuigenverslagen en zoveel landingsplekken,” vervolgde hij.
“Deze wezens zijn echt,” benadrukte Aykroyd. “Er zijn veel verschillende soorten. Sommige zijn goedaardig. Sommige zijn kwaadaardig.”
Hij verwees onder meer naar Barney en Betty Hill, een stel uit New Hampshire dat in 1961 naar eigen zeggen werd ontvoerd door aliens.
De Hills claimden dat de aliens uit het zonnestelsel Zeta Reticuli afkomstig waren.
Ovaalvormig ruimteschip
Daarnaast werden de broers Jim en Jack Weiner en hun vrienden Charles Foltz en Charles Rak in 1976 ontvoerd door aliens met amandelvormige ogen en vier vingers aan iedere hand.
Ze werden meegenomen aan boord van een cirkelvormige UFO en onderzocht, aldus Aykroyd.
In 1973 werden Charles Hickson en Calvin Parker uit Mississippi meegenomen door aliens toen ze aan het vissen waren.
De buitenaardse wezens namen het tweetal mee aan boord van een 12 meter lang ovaalvormig ruimteschip.
Erg interessant
De mannen konden zich niet bewegen, maar waren wel bij bewustzijn toen ze werden onderzocht in de UFO, zei Aykroyd.
Hij noemde ook nog een aantal bekende UFO-waarnemingen die door de jaren heen zijn gedaan.
Rogan was erg septisch en zei dat mensen die claimen te zijn ontvoerd door aliens lijden aan schizofrenie of om aandacht vragen.
Hij gaf wel toe dat de zaak rond Betty en Barney Hill erg interessant is.
Andere dingen
Aykroyd, die zelf vier keer een UFO heeft gezien, vertelde verder een verhaal over een conferentie in Frankrijk, waar onder meer Apollo-astronaut Neil Armstrong en een voormalig MI6-hoofd bij aanwezig waren.
Het MI6-hoofd hoorde Armstrong praten met een inlichtingenofficier.
“De officier had het over de maanlanding, toen Neil opeens zei: ‘We schakelden over op een andere frequentie om te praten over andere dingen die daar op dat moment gebeurden’,” vertelde de vrouw aan Aykroyd.
Authentiek
“Toen we landden, bevonden zich aan de rand van de krater meerdere grote schepen,” citeerde de vrouw de astronaut.
De acteur stelde bovendien dat de kristallen schedels authentiek zijn gebleken en dat ze in de jaren zestig zijn onderzocht door ingenieurs van Hewlett-Packard.
Die concludeerden dat ze niet zijn gemaakt door moderne machines.
Image Analysis Team: We disclose this information for no reason other than to inform the film crew, pilot and co-pilot of what they really witnessed four decades ago. We hope to draw the interest of those who were involved. The people that were present DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH as the New Zealand Defense Force has restricted access to the original case files till the year 2040 / 2050.
On the 31st of December 1978 a film team went on board of an Argossy airplane for an interview with the crew. On the 20th and 21st of December another aircraft had reported several UFO and this was the reason for the interview by Mr. Fogarty and his crew.
The pilot – and co-pilot were not the ones that had reported the event. Only ten minutes into the flight their was a first UFO encounter. The cameraman quickly changed the lens of his camera to a 100 mm / 240 mm zoom lens and after midnight on the 1st of January 1979 he filmed several UFO that during the entire flight followed and approached the plane. He recorded the UFO from the windows of the cockpit and the presence of these unidentified flying objects were also confirmed by Wellington Radar and Air traffic Control.
This event is commonly known as the Kaikoura UFO Mystery and the journalist, Mr. Quentin Gogarty, wrote a beautiful book about it titled: Let’s Hope They Are Friendly. Interesting fact: Mr. Fogarty saw something with his eyes that the old video does not not show you. He mentioned in the video that the UFO appeared to be “rolling and turning”. So was he right?
No one knew that the original 16 mm film still existed. Fogarty’s crew had some very bad (personal) experiences after their film had been shown in the media. They have been ridiculed and called fantasists. As most of the reactions about their eye-witness report were negative, in some cases hostile, despite its importance this film was never supposed to be published!
Flux, one of our team members, who lives in New-Zealand performed his own in-depth research into the Kaikoura UFO and his good nose led him in 2015 to the original 16 mm film.
Long story short: The 16 mm had been digitized by a top notch film laboratory and our team received 4 High Definition videos of Blue-Ray quality. We almost fainted as they arrived as for the first time we had UFO material of the best possible quality.
After you have watched the presentation you will agree that the bright object can no longer be dismissed with a simple explanation and you will understand why this UFO encounter frightened them and afterwards had such an enormous impact on their lives.
For the passed 40 years these UFO only lived in their memory but they never knew what they really looked like in full close up… until today! Without Flux’s curiosity the world never would have seen what you are about to see.
We dedicate this presentation to all who were present that night and witnessed a UFO encounter. This presentation does not provide any answer to the question what these UFO are!
We only provide undeniable visual evidence that they exist.
They're Here! UFOs Confirmed By US Government!! The Videos However - You Were 'Never Cleared' To See!
They're Here! UFOs Confirmed By US Government!! The Videos However - You Were 'Never Cleared' To See!
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You are all very familiar with the videos; one very commonly known as the tic tac video. That speck of white racing across the ocean being tracked by a US Navy pilot as he screams out in celebration as his radar locked on the tiny spot! Well now, thanks to John Greenwald from Black Vault there is a bit more to that story and it’s connection to To The Stars Academy, the New York Times and Luis Elizondo. John’s FOIA requests will change the way you look at this entire story.
That is the beginning of a much larger journey however that resulted in the US Navy, for the first time, officially acknowledging the existence of UFOs presented in the video. You see my friends, disclosure comes in many forms, sometimes even in denial as they stated the videos were never cleared for release. As LA Marzulli put it, it is like rungs on a ladder…when are we going to take the next step up, onto the next rung of disclosure. At the same time I was researching this article Mr. Steve Quayle sent me an e-mail, and an article. An article I need you to read and have linked below. An article that reinforced everything he spoke about in Branson at his True Legends Conference. His wisdom and knowledge are a springboard to greater understanding that each of us need to achieve before more information is released so that we are prepared for everything to come!
Watch the broadcast for all the information and thank you again for helping to spread the word about my Justus Knight Broadcasts!!
Jesse Ventura: Trump's Space Force & Space Wars and Military Astronauts
Jesse Ventura: Trump's Space Force & Space Wars and Military Astronauts
‘The World According to Jesse’ Jesse Ventura and producer Brigida Santos discuss President Trump’s official creation of the U.S. Space Command
Jesse Ventura and producer Brigida Santos discuss President Trump’s official creation of the U.S. Space Command, the rise of neurocapitalism, and America’s ballooning deficit. Harvard professor and political activist, Lawrence Lessig, talks about the growing problem of corruption in academia.
Jesse Ventura is an American media personality, actor, author, retired professional wrestler, and former politician who served as the Mayor of Brooklyn Park from 1993 to 1995 and as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He was the first and only candidate of the Reform Party to win a major government election.
US Navy confirms leaked ‘UFO videos’ are real and never should have been released to the public
US Navy confirms leaked ‘UFO videos’ are real and never should have been released to the public
Three videos appearing to show encounters between US Navy aircraft and UFOs are real, the Navy’s Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare spokesman Joseph Gradisher admitted.
However, he also insisted that the the videos are genuine – and their contents can’t be explained.and were never cleared for public release.
According to RT: “The Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), Gradisher said, explaining that UAP is used instead of UFO as the “basic descriptor for the sightings/observations of unauthorized/unidentified aircraft/objects that have been observed entering/operating in the airspace of various military-controlled training ranges.”
What I find interesting is why they released the videos but not telling you what it looks like and why they have not released more details. Wouldn't you say that by now they must know what they are up against?
It is pretty difficult to enhance any details from for example the Gimbal UFO video as the craft is located right in the center of an over-bright and high contrast region.
Part of the solution to make the craft visible the Image Analysis Team found in applying a 4 times iteration of CLAHE (Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization).
So what will you see in the final result realized by the Image Analysis Team:
1. The Gimbal UFO is neither saucer shape nor does it resemble a (real) triangle. 2. The UFO appears to have a minimum of three visible and perhaps more indiscernible propulsion systems.
The second video shows the Gimbal UFO as it really is!
Astronomers have spotted a second interstellar object
Astronomers have spotted a second interstellar object
It appears to be a comet from another star system
‘Oumuamua, shown in this artist’s illustration, became the first known interstellar object to visit the solar system when it was spotted in 2017. Now there seems to be a second visitor.
An object that seems to be a comet from around another star is speeding through the solar system. This comet, dubbed C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), marks the second time that astronomers have seen an interstellar visitor on its way past the sun.
Ukrainian amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov spotted the comet on August 30. In the days that followed, other astronomers took enough observations of the comet to show that its orbit is not bound to the sun, a telltale sign that the object is from interstellar space, says astrophysicist Matthew Holman. He is the director of the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., which reported C/2019 Q4’s trajectory September 11 in a public bulletin.
“There have been three or four different groups that have checked the orbit and poked at it from different directions, and everybody reaches the same conclusion,” Holman says. But he cautions that the comet is close to the sun and low on the horizon, which make it difficult to observe.
“This is an unusual thing. You always want to be extra careful when you get an answer that’s not typical,” he says. “That said, I think it will hold up.”
The first known interstellar object, named ‘Oumuamua, was spotted in October 2017 as it sped away from the solar system (SN: 10/27/17). Astronomers could only grab fleeting glimpses of ‘Oumuamua on its way out the door. That left many theories for what the object was — an asteroid, a fluffy ice fractal, a skeleton of a comet, even an alien spaceship. But little data existed to back up any of those ideas (SN: 2/27/19).
C/2019 Q4, on the other hand, is just past the solar system’s doorstep, on a trajectory that will take it between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. It will make its closest approach to Earth (at about twice the distance between Earth and the sun) on December 29.
“It’s going to be a nice Christmas comet,” says astronomer Michele Bannister of Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland. The object will remain in view for several months after that.
In total, “we’ll be able to observe it for probably a year, which is really different from ‘Oumuamua,” Holman says. ‘Oumuamua was tracked for a short 2.5 months before it became too faint to see.
Already, C/2019 Q4 looks different from its predecessor. ‘Oumuamua resembled an asteroid more than a comet, with no obvious cloud of gases. C/2019 Q4 is surrounded by a bright cometlike halo, indicating that it’s sloughing off gas and dust.
That cometlike appearance is more like what astronomers expected from the first interstellar object than ‘Oumuamua was, Bannister says. Comets are a type of leftover planetary building block, called planetesimals, and most planetesimals form far from their stars and are therefore icy. Most stars end up losing their small planetesimals, either while planets are forming or after the star dies. “Almost all the planetesimals that each planetary system makes end up being scattered out to go wander the galaxy,” Banister says.
Further observations will reveal more about C/2019 Q4’s orbit, size and origin. Astronomers will also be able to tease out the comet’s composition and see how different it is from our solar system’s comets.
The dark patches are caused by springtime defrosting.
Sand dunes ripple near Mars' north pole in this image captured by the European/Russian Trace Gas Orbiter. The photo was taken on May 25, 2019, and released on Sept. 16.
Rippling, dark-flecked sand dunes near Mars' north pole look like melting chocolate-chip ice cream in an image captured by the European-RussianTrace Gas Orbiter spacecraft (TGO).
The photo, which TGO snapped with its Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS), shows some effects of springtime warming in the Red Planet's far north.
"During winter in the polar regions, a thin layer of carbon dioxide ice covers the surface and then sublimates — turns directly from ice into vapor — with the first light of spring," European Space Agency (ESA) officials wrote about the image, which was taken May 25 but just released today (Sept. 16).
"In the dune fields, this springtime defrosting occurs from the bottom up, trapping gas between the ice and the sand," they added. "As the ice cracks, this gas is released violently and carries sand with it, forming the dark patches and streaks observed in this CaSSIS image."
The newly released photo depicts U-shaped "barchan dunes," visible at lower right, meeting up and merging into "barchanoid ridges," ESA officials said.
"The curved tips of the barchan dunes point downwind," the officials added in the same statement. "The transition from barchan to barchanoid dunes tells us that secondary winds also play a role in shaping the dune field."
Barchan dunes aren't confined to the Martian poles; NASA's Curiosity rover has also encountered them on the floor of the 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater, which sits just south of the Red Planet's equator.
TGO launched in March 2016 along with a landing demonstrator called Schiaparelli. Together, the two spacecraft comprised the first phase of the two-part ExoMars program, a collaboration between ESA and Roscosmos, Russia's federal space agency.
Schiaparelli crashed during its landing attempt in October 2016, but TGO arrived safely in orbit around the same time. TGO soon began sniffing the Red Planet's atmosphere for methane — which could be a sign of Mars life, if any has ever existed — and other low-abundance gases.
ExoMars' second phase centers on a life-hunting rover called Rosalind Franklin, which is scheduled to launch toward the Red Planet next summer and land in March 2021. NASA is planning to launch a life-hunting rover of its own during the same window — the 2020 Mars rover, which will get a more memorable name of its own soon via a student naming competition.
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Ancient Artists Left Signs For us to Decode. Did they Witness UFOs?
Ancient Artists Left Signs For us to Decode. Did they Witness UFOs?
Did ancient artists leave us clear signs of otherworldly interference in our lives and in our culture?
Art can be considered a record of history, culture, and science as it reveals man in his many aspects, offering a more complete insight and a unique viewpoint. Since the beginning of man, humans have always felt a need to reproduce celestialevents, first on the walls of cavesand then on canvas. It is not the case that history, art, archaeology, and anthropology were rewritten in art, but these interpretations should be viewed in light of new elementswhose existence had not previously been suspected.
Much has been written about the representation of strange objects placed in the sky in works of art from the Renaissance period, but little has been written about some ancient tapestries of the medieval period—and what has been discussed is controversial because it challenges the orthodox perspective.
Mysterious Medieval Tapestries
In eastern France, Cote d’Or department, in the little town of Beaune, (the wine capital of Burgundy), there is the Notre Dame Basilica . The original building was constructed about 1120-1149. Inside, besides frescos of the 15th century, there is a library that houses a set of tapestries from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
Among them, the eyes of an attentive observer are struck by “The Life of the Virgin Mary” and “Magnificat”, two medieval tapestries which are part of a group of five of important moments in the Virgin Mary’s life.
Life of the Virgin Mary, medieval tapestry from Tournai, Belgium.
In both of these tapestries there is one unidentified flying object ‘flitting’ across the sky in the background. Even in “Magnificat”, made in 1330, this black object is depicted in the typical way of many UFO sightings.
But there are many who state they are priest hats. But logic asks why include floating and lonely ecclesiastic hats in the sky?
Therefore, it is reasonable to wonder, considering the historical period, whether personal experiences or popular stories could have influenced an artist to include an odd event in the depths of a sacred image, hoping in this way to increase a halo of mysticality.
There are discs or UFOs which cannot be mistaken for ‘priest hats’ – given they do not fly in ‘religious skies’. A good example is the tapestry “ Summer Triumph ”, depicting allegoric and symbolic images of the season.
This tapestry certainly was part of a series that originally depicted the four seasons. It is not known if any of the other tapestries have survived. This tapestry, (perhaps created in Bruges), is located at the Bayerisches National Museum in Munich, Germany, which unfortunately has little information about it. They do know it was brought to the museum in 1971 by an art dealer. There was no information about the workshop, the designer, the patron, or the circumstances of its production.
The date 1538 is woven into the border on both the right and the left sides of the tapestry. In the upper border, there is an inscription in old Latin saying: “REX GOSCI SIVE GUTSCMIN”. This translates as “King Gosci of Gutscmin”. If this is a hint to the patron who ordered the tapestry to be made, nobody knows for sure.
As usual, almost hidden in the background, there are some black discs or UFOs in the blue sky.
Summers Triumph on display at the Bayerisches National Museum in Munich, Germany.
Dr. Birgitt Borkopp from the Bayerisches Museum, in a letter sent to the author, states that “As the style of the tapestry is rather unusual, even for its period, I would doubt if this is the right object to illustrate the history of art, but of course this is your decision entirely.”
Of course, she wasn’t aware that the link between UFOs and history in art is discussed in many books and articles. It is interesting to note strange or unusual art generally is not considered with curiosity by the ‘experts’ and they seem to prefer to ignore them.
The Tapestry of the Two Crusaders
An interesting example that displays ‘knowledge ahead of its time’ is what was written about the images of the two crusaders in the " Annales Laurissenses " (books about historical and religious events), composed in the beginning of the 8th century.
In 776, during one of the innumerable raids of the Saxons in Frank territory, an odd event happened. While Charlemagne, in a rare moment, was resting from battle and devoting himself to the cause of the Holy Church, the Saxons left their lands with a great army and invaded the Franks.
They reached the chapel at Frisdilar, founded by Saint Bonifacio, preacher and martyr who had predicted the chapel would never be burned. The Saxons surrounded the chapel, entered it and started to set it alight. But at the very last moment, two men dressed in white appeared in the sky. They were seen by the Christians who had taken refuge in the castle and by the pagans who were outside.
The two men were said to have protected the chapel from the fire. The pagans were not able to set fire to it, neither inside nor outside, and this terrified them so much they ran away – even though no one was pursuing them.
But one crusader remained during the hasty escape and was found dead, in flames, in front of the chapel. His dead body was positioned prone on his knees and elbows, with his mouth covered by his hands, showing what seemed to be clear signs of death from asphyxia.
The fire was there and was witnessed. It did not cause any damage to the chapel, but it killed the crusader who remained while the others escaped. This event could be interpreted in a variety of ways and it could be irrelevant if it had not been followed, after a short time, by another strange event.
It was the year 776, and it happened during the siege of the Sigiburg castle. The Saxons besieged and surrounded the Franks but in this circumstance the French garrison snuck out and suddenly attacked the Saxons from the rear. The Saxons were unprotected in that direction, since they were intent on the attack of the castle. In the midst of battle, something appeared in the sky.
Ruin of Hohensyburg castle, on the site of the Sigiburg.
Witnesses saw in the air two flaming shields, one after another. These appeared to hover over the top of the church as though spectral knights were bringing them into battle. Because of this miracle, it seemed the Franks were protected by the sky, and because of the assault the French had launched at their rear, the Saxons became so frightened that they all turned and ran.
For this last event, apart the chronicle of the text, there is pictorial documentation depicting two crusaders. In the miniature it shows the crusader with his arms up and clearly depicts an object in the sky, shaped like a sphere, with little circles like portholes around it. It is interesting to note the representation of light or energy emitting from the object seems to convey movement.
But it is only when observing the image [above, on the left] that it is possible to understand the attempt of the artist to portray the image in artistic perspective – but in those historical times, the concept of artistic perspective did not exist yet. Images were represented only in one dimension, flatly.
Observing the other image [above, right], the one of the crusader with the crown on his head (maybe a noble leader or even Charlemagne, though the chronicles tell us he was not present at this event) riding the horse and pointing to the object in the sky , it is possible to determine that the object inside the burst of light cannot be anything but an unidentified flying object – as we can confirm from the witness tales and from graphic documentation in circulation.
The Mysterious Objects Depicted in the Urbinate Bible
Another unusual flying object is found in a beautiful miniature from the Renaissance period, in the Urbinate Bible. This manuscript is kept in the Vatican museum; it is the most famous document relating to the Holy Scriptures.
The Urbinate Bible (or Urbino Bible) is divided into two books, the Old and New Testament . Hugo de Cominellis (or Hugues de Cominellis de Mazieres) has been identified as the scribe of these volumes which were commissioned by Frederico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. It was written at the studio of Vespasiano da Bisticci, the renowned Florentine bookseller, who was the primary provider of manuscripts for the Urbino library. The manuscript is a transcription of the canonical text of the Vulgate – a famous text translated by Saint Girolamo from Ebraic and Aramaic in 390 AD.
A number of different artists, panel painters, fresco painters, and miniature painters worked together in decorating these volumes. The Urbinate Bible is a rare example of artistic collaboration in Florence at the end of the 15th century.
Among the beautiful images in this Bible is the subject of this text – Saint Geremia’s Contemplation. The image is a perfect example of how mystic representation, the anomalous factor, and daily reality are brought together.
Medieval tapestry - Saint Geremia’s Contemplation.
We have the mountains, the surrounding countryside, the town, and the men and horses as examples of objective reality. We also have the divine mystic element falling into classic patterns of religious iconography. What interests us in this painting is the unusual object in the top right.
It is a round body emitting blazing rays. From the flames surrounding the object we witness a straight yellow beam of light (laser?). There are no perfectly straight lines in nature. In this example, the object is clearly out of the religious context. Straight beams originating from flying objects are no strangers to Ufology.
Medieval tapestry - Saint Geremia’s Contemplation - close up of the right hand top corner.
For this miniature, any analysis cannot state for certain whether the artist had seen or heard something in reality, but one thing is apparent, he wanted to tell us something…
It’s not likely that today someone seeing a flying object at a distance to witness advanced characteristics such as shape, movement, controllability, or luminosity, would think, as the Saxons did, that it’s a sign we are protected by God or by gods. Thanks to our technical knowledge, we might immediately think it is some secret military aircraft or even extraterrestrial. Also, the Franks, although ignorant of aerial technology, didn’t think of it as a simple celestial phenomenon but as something more particular: “as though knights were bringing them into battle”. This presupposes the idea that the two discs were driven by ‘knights’ who seemed to want to take part in the battle.
Was there the deliberate intention to alter the result of that battle? Or was it just by chance the two flaming discs appeared in that moment? After all, these two events as quoted in the chronicles influenced the result of two different assaults/aggressions by the Saxons, (called pagans in that period). Thus, it seems right to wonder if the battles during which these sightings occurred were so critical for the still forming empire of Charlemagne, promoter of Christianity.
How important was it that the Saxons were driven away? How important was it that Charlemagne won? And if the Saxons had won, what kind of civilization would we have today?
Could our civilization, and by consequence, the present/actual social-political structure have been ‘driven’ in its development since remote times ? And why?
Top image: Medieval tapestry in Ecouen Castle, Ecouen, France.
Piri Reis Map - How Could a 16th Century Map Show Antarctica Without Ice?
Piri Reis Map - How Could a 16th Century Map Show Antarctica Without Ice?
On October 9, 1929, a German theologian named Gustav Adolf Deissmann was cataloguing items in the Topkapi Palace library in Istanbul when he happened across a curious parchment located among some disregarded material. On the gazelle skin parchment was a map, now referred to as the Piri Reis map .
The map was drawn and signed by Turkish cartographerHagji Ahmed Muhiddin Piri , aka Piri Reis, and is dated to 1513 AD. Reis was an admiral in the Turkish navy, an experienced sailor, and a cartographer, who claimed to have used 20 source maps and charts to construct the map, including 8 Ptolemaic maps, 4 Portuguese maps, an Arabic map, and a map by Christopher Columbus.
Since its discovery, the Piri Reis map has stirred both intrigue and controversy, mostly due to the presence of what appears to be a representation of Antarctica 300 years before it was discovered. Another—if not even more intriguing facet of the appearance of Antarctica—is that it appears to show the land mass before it was covered in ice, over 6000 years ago.
Evidence of Ancient Technology?
The great debate was sparked by Professor Charles Hapgood when he published his theory on the Piri Reis map in his book Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings in 1965. He and a team of students at the University of New Hampshire studied the map and found many anomalies, such as the use of mercatorial projection and the inclusion of a pre-ice Antarctica.
The Greeks were able to create cylindrical maps based on their knowledge of a spherical earth, though mercatorial projection was not used by Europeans until later in the 16 th century, and were also able to use astronomy and geometry to calculate latitude and longitude, though absolute accuracy was not possible until the invention of the chronometer in 1760. While these two feats—amazing as they are—could be explained by use of Greek source maps and charts from the age of Alexander, nothing could explain the inclusion of Antarctica. As a result, Hapgood proposed that the map was based on materials that pre-date 4000 BC, before any known developed languages or progressive civilizations.
This theory implies that a prehistoric civilization had the technology to navigate major seaways and fairly accurately chart the globe. Hapgood also suggested that the topographic depiction of the interior of the continents required aerial capabilities, implying the prehistoric ‘super’ civilization to be both nautical and aerial masters and leading to the further speculation of either an Atlantean or alien civilization. No evidence has been found to support such theories.
South America vs Antarctica
Skeptics of Hapgood’s theory point out that the map is a representation of the South American coastline, pointing to modern physical features of the coast and interior included on the 16 th century map. Otherwise, argue critics, the image would indicate that Antarctica and South America had once been connected at Uruguay, and that Argentina did not yet exist.
While this argument possibly dismisses the presence of Antarctica on the Piri Reis map, other anomalous maps have been found that are identical to the the ice free continent as only 20 th century satellite technology has been able to identify.
Other theories of Hapgood’s have already been dismissed, such as his polar shift theory in which he claimed a sudden shift in the inclination of the Earth's axis of rotation in 9,500 BC could have resulted in the displacement of Antarctica, sending it hundreds of miles south and resulting in the alteration of its climate from semi-temperate to freezing. All evidence suggests that this shift could not, and did not, occur.
Undiscovered Civilization?
The true question is whether or not Antarctica is the identifiable continent on the Piri Reis map, or any of the other anomalous maps. If it is, could the Piri Reis map have been based on the documents of a yet undiscovered, prehistoric civilization, one that could possess technology enabling them to travel and accurately chart the globe? Regardless of the true origin of the sources, one thing is for certain: this map opens up the debate over how we view our own history and what, if any, of those views are accurate. Perhaps someday the truth will be discovered.
Top image: The Piri Reis Map. Credit: Mehmetilker / Adobe Stock
Last month, rafts of pumice, spewed from an undersea volcano and spanning an area about the size of Washington, D.C., appeared in the South Pacific.
Satellite image of a pumice raft floating near the Kingdom of Tonga.
Image via NASA Earth Observatory.
In early August 2019, an unnamed volcano in the South Pacific Ocean near the Kingdom of Tonga erupted roughly 130 feet (40 meters) underwater. As lava spewed from the volcano, it cooled into pumice — porous rock filled with gas bubbles — and floated to the surface. This volcanic debris, with some fragments tiny and some as large as beach balls, aggregated into pumice rafts spanning an area of about 60 square miles (200 square km) — almost as big as Washington, D.C.
These temporary islands of volcanic rock are shaped and moved by ocean currents, wind, and waves, and provide a literal toehold for marine life, such as barnacles, coral, seaweed and mollusks, say scientists.
Several sailing crews have encountered the rocks. In a video, below, posted on YouTube on August 17, Shannon Lenz said:
On August 9, 2019, we sailed through a pumice field for 6-8 hours, much of the time there was no visible water. It was like plowing through a field. We figured the pumice was at least 6-inches thick.
An Australian couple, Michael Hoult and Larissa Brill, were sailing a catamaran to Fiji, when they encountered the raft on August 16. The couple said in a Facebook post:
We entered a total rock rubble slick made up of pumice stones from marble to basketball size.
Pumice rafts aren’t that common, according to Martin Jutzeler, a volcanologist at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. He told EOS:
We see about two per decade.
Jutzeler told EOS that not all undersea eruptions produce them, but the rafts that do form tend to stick around. They can last for months or years until the pumice abrades itself into dust or finally sinks. And floating pumice can traverse long distances. For example, he said, when the same unnamed volcano near Tonga erupted in 2001, the pumice raft it created eventually arrived in Queensland, Australia.
These transient, movable islands play an important role in marine ecosystems, scientists say, moving barnacles, coral, and seaweed that cling to the pumice to new homes. Some news outlets are reporting that the pumice might make it to Australia to help restore the Great Barrier Reef’s corals , half of which have been killed in recent years as a result of climate change. According to Denison University volcanologist Erik Klemetti, the long-distance journeys of pumice rafts are
… definitely a way to get organisms to disperse widely.
But the idea that the stowaways aboard pumice rafts might replenish the Great Barrier Reef’s corals is wishful thinking, Klemetti told EOS. He said:
That’s probably an oversell.
Researchers are keeping a close watch on how the rafts are moving. Satellite imagery provides nearly daily updates. Ocean currents, wind, and waves sculpt and power the rafts, which now number in the hundreds.
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Bottom line: In August 2019, rafts of pumice, spewed from an undersea volcano and spanning an area about the size of Washington, D.C., appeared in the South Pacific.
Back in 2017, a gravitational wave rang across Earth like the clear tone of a bell. It stretched and squished every person, ant and scientific instrument on the planet as it passed through our region of space. Now, researchers have gone back and studied that wave, and found hidden data in it — data that help confirm a decades-old astrophysics idea.
That 2017 wave was a big deal: For the first time, astronomers had a tool that could detect and record it as it passed, known as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). That first wave was the result, they found, of two black holes crashing together far away in space. And now, a team of astrophysicists has taken another look at the recording and found something others thought would take decades to uncover: precise confirmation of the "no-hair theorem." This essential aspect of black hole theory dates back at least to the 1970s — a theorem that Stephen Hawking famously doubted.
When physicists say black holes don't have "hair," said Maximiliano Isi, a physicist at MIT and lead author of the paper, they mean that astrophysical objects are very simple. Black holes only differ from each other in three ways: rate of spin, mass and electric charge. And in the real world, black holes probably don't differ much in electrical charge, so they really only differ in terms of mass and spin. Physicists call these bald objects "Kerr black holes."
That hairlessness makes black holes very different from just about every other object in the universe, Isi told Live Science. When a real bell rings, for example, it emits sound waves and some undetectable, incredibly faint gravitational waves. But it's a much more complicated object. A bell is made of a material, for example (bronze maybe, or cast iron), while according to the no-hair model, black holes are all uniform singularities. Each bell also has a somewhat unique shape, whereas black holes are all infinitesimal, dimensionless points in space surrounded by spherical event horizons. All those features of a bell can be detected in the sound that a bell makes — at least if you know something about bells and sound waves. If you could somehow sense a bell's gravitational waves, you'd detect those differences in bell composition and shape in them as well, Isi said.
"The secret to this whole business is that the waveform — the pattern of this stretching and squeezing — encodes information on the source, the thing that made this gravitational wave," he told Live Science.
And astronomers studying the 2017 wave learned a great deal about the black hole collision that spawned it, Isi said.
But the recording was faint, and not very detailed. LIGO, the best gravitational wave detector in the world , used a laser to measure the distances between mirrors arranged 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) apart in an L-pattern in Washington state. (Virgo, a similar detector, also picked up the wave in Italy.) As the wave rolled over LIGO, it warped space-time itself and ever so slightly changed that distance. But the details of that graviational wave were not intense enough for the detectors to record, Isi said.
"But it's like we're listening from very far away," Isi said.
At the time, that wave offered a lot of information. The black hole behaved as expected. There was no obvious evidence that it lacked an event horizon (the region beyond which no light can escape) and it didn't dramatically deviate from the no-hair theorem, Isi said.
But researchers couldn't be very certain of many of those points, particularly the no-hair theorem. The simplest part of the waveform to study, Isi said, came after the two black holes merged into one larger black hole. It kept ringing for a while, very much like a struck bell, sending its excess energy into space as gravitational waves — what astrophysicists call the "ringdown" process.
At the time, researchers looking at LIGO data spotted just one waveform in the ringdown. Researchers thought it would take decades to develop instruments sensitive enough to pick up any quieter overtones in the ringdown. But one of Isi's colleagues, Matt Giesler, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology , figured out that there was a brief period right after the collision where the ringdown was intense enough that LIGO recorded more detail than usual. And in those moments the wave was loud enough that LIGO picked up an overtone — a second wave at a different frequency, very much like the faint secondary notes that are carried in the sound of a struck bell.
In musical instruments, overtones carry most of the information that give instruments their distinctive sounds. The same is true of the overtones of a gravitational wave, he said. And this newly uncovered overtone clarified the data on the ringing black hole a great deal, Isi said.
It showed, he said, that the black hole was at least very close to a Kerr black hole. The no-hair theorem can be used to predict what the overtone will look like; Isi and his team showed that the overtone pretty much matched that prediction. However, the recording of the overtone wasn't very clear, so it's still possible that the tone was somewhat different— by about 10% — from what theorem would predict. .
To get beyond that level of precision, he said, you'd need to extract a clearer overtone from the waveform of a black hole collision, or build a more sensitive instrument than LIGO, Isi said.
"Physics is about getting closer and closer," Isi said. "But you can never be sure."
It's even possible that the signal from the overtone isn't real, but occurred by mere chance due to random fluctuations of the data. They reported a "3.6σ confidence" in the overtone's existence. That means there's about a 1-in-6,300 chance that the overtone isn't a true signal from the black hole.
As instruments improve and more gravitational waves are detected all of these numbers should become more confident and precise, Isi said. LIGO has already been through upgrades that have made detecting black hole collisions fairly routine. Another upgrade, planned for mid-2020, should increase its sensitivity tenfold, according to Physics World. Once the space-based Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is launched in the mid-2030s, astronomers should be able to confirm the hairlessness of black holes to degrees of certainty impossible today.
However, Isi said, it's always possible that black holes aren't completely bald — they may have some quantum peach fuzz that's simple too soft and short for our instruments to pick up.
Although the exact cause of ice ages is not known, scientists speculate that they are caused by a combination of the distance of the Earth from the Sun, the position of the continents and solar output. The last ice age happened around 20,000 years ago.
During an ice age, the whole planet is noticeably colder. Ice ages can last for million of years and help to shape continents. Today's climate is actually a warm period between periods of glaciation. The world's climate continues to change and land masses continue to move. This means that the Earth is in the middle of a major cooling period that started more than 3 million years ago.
Over long periods of time, the temperature of the Earth fluctuates between a cold phase (an ice age) and a warmer, interglacial phase.
An ice age is a time where a significant amount of the Earth’s water is locked up on land in continental glaciers. During the last ice age, which finished about 12,000 years ago, enormous ice masses covered huge swathes of land now inhabited by millions of people. Canada and the northern USA were completely covered in ice, as was the whole of northern Europe and northern Asia. In Europe, Britain was connected to the rest of the continent through an area called Doggerland, and on average, the Earth’s average temperature was about 12 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius) colder than it is today.
At the moment the Earth is in an interglacial period — a short warmer period between glacial periods. The Earth has been alternating between long ice ages and shorter interglacial periods for around 2.6 million years. For the last million years or so these have been happening roughly every 100,000 years – around 90,000 years of ice age followed by a roughly 10,000-year interglacial warm period.
Within the ice ages more temperate and more severe periods occur. The colder periods are called glacial periods, the warmer periods interglacials — this is the period in which we are living now.
It should also be said that different disciplines sometimes use some different terminology. In glaciology, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in both northern and southern hemispheres. In most cases, the term “ice age” refers to the geological period called the Pleistocene, which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago. The Pleistocene spanned the world’s most recent period of repeated glaciations — these glaciations are sometimes also called ice ages, though the term is improper.
Why does an ice age happen?
There are many aspects related to ice age onset, but if we want to truly understand this phenomenon, we have to look outside of the Earth itself and onto its orbit.
The main cause of ice ages is connected to something called the Milankovitch cycle. The Milankovitch cycle refers to the collective effects of changes in the Earth’s movements on its climate over thousands of years. Very small changes in the Earth’s orbit shift the angle at which the Sun’s rays hit the Earth. While this may seem like a small thing, it actually has a huge impact.
Even small tilt changes of the Earth can change the planet’s temperature by several degrees. When the tilt is low, ice sheets grow and snow continues to accumulate. When the tilt is high, the ice sheets melt away. Since then the tilt has reached a maximum of 24.2 degrees (10,000 years ago), current the Earth’s tilt measures approximately 23.5 degrees — and as a result, large ice sheets are restricted to the polar areas.
It’s not just the tilt — other factors about the Earth’s orbit can play a role. The three main orbital parameters are:
eccentricity (how circular the Earth’s orbit around the Sun); this varies with periods between 400,000 and 100,000 years.
obliquity (how tilted the Earth is with respect to its orbit); this varies with a period of around 40,000 years.
precession (changes between the distance of the Sun and the Earth in over the same season); this varies with a period of around 23,000 years and is particularly important around the Equator.
Having 3 major factors with different time periods leads to some hard-to-predict interactions, but the ice ages we know about can generally be traced back to these factors. The 100,000-year cycle seems to be the most significant one, and also coincides with interactions between 40,000 and 20,000-year cycles — it’s basically when all the factors “team up” to play their part. However, this is still an area of active research.
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Still, things aren’t really all that simple. It actually takes thousands of years for an ice age to begin, and things are not always neat and clear.
Ice ages are triggered when summer temperatures in the northern hemisphere fail to rise above freezing for years. This triggers a snowball effect: winter snowfall doesn’t melt, builds up, compresses, and over time starts to compact, or glaciate, into ice sheets. This further accentuates the cooling, as snow and ice have a higher albedo, meaning they reflect more of the solar energy and cool down even more.
Over thousands of years, these ice sheets start to build up. They seem to start out in the northern areas like Canada or Russia and then spread out across the northern hemisphere. The onset is, again, related to the Milankovitch cycles — but these changes in the Earth’s tilt and orbit combine are complemented by other geological factors to favor the emergence of ice ages.
When all these factors align so the northern hemisphere gets less solar radiation in summer, you have all the ingredients needed for an ice age.
Glacials are characterized by cooler and drier climates over most of the earth and large land and sea ice masses extending outward from the poles. Mountain glaciers in otherwise unglaciated areas extend to lower elevations due to a lower snow line
Could there be more factors involved?
We have the rough picture pretty well drawn out, but there are still some details missing. For instance, the position of continents, which is affected by plate tectonics, can also influence ice ages, as they control the circulation of the oceans and the atmosphere which in turn, affects how ocean currents carry heat to high latitudes.
The atmospheric composition (which can also shift somewhat in geologic time) is another important parameter.
Scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany have shown that the onsets of past ice ages were triggered mainly by decreases in carbon dioxide and that the dramatic increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, because of human-caused emissions, has likely suppressed the onset of the next ice age for up to 100,000 years.
“Like no other force on the planet, ice ages have shaped the global environment and thereby determined the development of human civilization,” Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, former director of PIK, said. “For instance, we owe our fertile soil to the last ice age that also carved out today’s landscapes, leaving glaciers and rivers behind, forming fjords, moraines, and lakes. However, today it is humankind with its emissions from burning fossil fuels that determines the future development of the planet.”
Nevertheless, while some aspects may be more difficult to assess, the overall processes are pretty well understood.
What impacts have ice ages had on the planet?
Today, less than 10% of our continents are covered by ice, but that figure has been as high as 30% in the past.
Ice ages caused enormous changes to the Earth’s surface. Glaciers are not static — they reshaped the landscape by picking up rocks and soil and eroding hills during their unstoppable push, their sheer weight razoring the Earth’s crust. As temperatures dropped in areas adjacent to these ice cliffs, cold-weather plant life was driven to southern latitudes. These processes tend to create spectacular scenery which can be seen in many parts of Canada, Scandinavia, and the Alps.
Meanwhile, the dramatic drop in sea levels enabled rivers to carve out deeper valleys and produce enormous inland lakes, with previously submerged land bridges appearing between continents. Upon retreating during warmer periods, the glaciers left behind scattered ridges of sediment and filled basins with melted water to create new lakes.
During the last ice age, which ran from about 110,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago, the lower sea levels allowed humans to move out across the entire world. While there was still some water between Asia and Australia it took just a few short canoe trips to bring the first humans to Australasia.
The world’s ecosystems also try to adapt to these climatic changes. Some creatures survive and adapt, others don’t. The extreme glaciation periods put extreme pressure on species, who devise adaptations for the colder or warmer periods.
Scientists have a variety of methods they use. Evidence for the more recent ice ages comes from changing sea levels in the past, which can be seen by looking at coral reefs or modern landscapes, as well as samples conserved in glacial ice over millions of years.
Ice core records provide invaluable information on changes in temperature and greenhouse gases over the last 800,000 years. If we want to go back even further into the past, evidence for ice ages in the last tens of millions of years is predominantly seen in ocean sediments.
And for thedeep time ice ages that occurred tens to hundreds of millions of years ago,scientists use the geological record where the story of sea level and climatecan be unraveled by analyzing rocks of various ages.
How many ice ages have happened so far?
At least five major ice ages took place in Earth’s history. These include the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, Karoo, and the Quaternary ice ages.
The Huronian Ice Age is dated to the early Protezerozoic Eon, roughly 2.4 to 2.1 billion years ago. The Cryogenian Ice Age lasted from roughly 850 to 630 million years ago and was perhaps the most severe in Earth’s history. The Andean-Saharan Ice Age occurred during the Late Ordovician and the Silurian period (roughly 460 to 420 million years ago).
The Karoo Ice Age is attributed to the evolution of land plants during the onset of the Devonian period (ca. 360 to 260 million years ago). The current ice age, known as the Pliocene-Quaternary glaciation, started about 2.58 million years ago during the late Pliocene when the spread of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere began. Since then, the world has experienced several glacial and interglacial periods.
Approximately a dozen major glaciations have occurred over the past one million years, the largest of which peaked 650,000 years ago and lasted for 50,000 years.
The Earth is currently in an interglacial period, and the last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago. What remains of the continental ice sheets that once stretched across the globe are now restricted to Greenland and Antarctic, as well as smaller glaciers
What would happen if a new ice age occurs?
While we may have delayed the onset of the next ice age, for now, a new one would have significant consequences for human civilization. Besides the fact it would be an awful lot colder, huge regions where hundreds of millions of people live would become completely uninhabitable. They’d be covered in thick ice sheets and subject to an inhospitable climate.
There would be a lot less agricultural land available, so it would be very difficult to support the human population. The physical shape of the continents would look completely different across the whole planet. Plus, a huge drop in sea level of up to 120 meters would close down marine channels – the Mediterranean Sea, Torres Strait, Bass Strait, and Bering Strait – and create new areas of land that could be used for habitation or agriculture.
Nevertheless, this is not really a matter of concern. As mentioned, the onset of ice ages is a geological process — it takes a really long time and is very gradual.
Which leads us to our final point.
Don’t blame man-made climate change on natural processes!
The world’s climate is currently heating up. This is not a natural process — there is ample and conclusive evidence that this process is caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
However, although there is a scientific consensus on this issue, disinformation campaigns have been successful in spreading climate change denialism and doubts. “Climate change is natural” is one of the favorite quips of climate change deniers — but this is not the case here.
Climate does change naturally, and ice ages and glaciation periods are excellent examples of that. We are also currently in a warming phase. However, it is a simply incorrect to use this as an argument to suggest that the current climate heating is natural — it’s not.
In December 2017 and March 2018, The New York Times released three allegedly declassified videos showing U.S. Navy pilots trailing some unidentified flying objects. The mystery crafts moved at hypersonic speeds, flying tens of thousands of feet above the Earth with no distinct wings, engines or visible signs of propulsion whatsoever. Were they flying saucers? Incredibly high-tech drones? The pilots had no idea — and, according to a recent statement from Navy intelligence officials, neither does the U.S. government.
In a statement delivered to the intelligence news website The Black Vault, Joseph Gradisher, a spokesperson for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, announced that the Navy officially considers the craft in these three videos "unidentified aerial phenomena." That means that the eerie videos are authentic — and that the objects, which were detected in restricted military training airspaces in 2004 and 2015, were not supposed to be there. The objects still have not been successfully identified as any known type of aircraft.
The UFO footage was also never cleared for public release, Gradisher told The Black Vault — meaning these are three unidentified phenomena you were never supposed to know about.
According to The Black Vault, the videos may have been improperly released by a former Pentagon employee who had applied for permission to share them across several government agencies as part of a database on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) he was allegedly compiling. The man received permission to share the videos for "[US Government] Use Only," paperwork obtained by The Black Vault shows. However, Navy officials never declassified the footage for public release, Gradisher said.
What was the Navy trying to withhold, specifically? Only some very bizarre aerial acrobatics. In one incident filmed in 2004, for example, the unidentified objects "appeared suddenly at 80,000 feet, and then hurtled toward the sea, eventually stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering," The New York Times wrote. "Then they either dropped out of radar range or shot straight back up."
To be clear, nobody is saying that these mystery aircraft have anything to do with alien visitors; they simply can't be identified or explained by current aeronautical knowledge. Comforted? Good — because this sort of thing probably happens way more often than we know.
UFO’s bestaan echt – en je had ze nooit mogen zien, zegt deze militaire functionaris
Foto: YouTube/To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science
UFO’s bestaan echt – en je had ze nooit mogen zien, zegt deze militaire functionaris
Vorig jaar kwamen er uit het niets opeens beelden van UFO’s naar buiten. Ze gingen gelijk viral. De overheid wil nu dat je ze vergeet.
In december 2017 en maart 2018 publiceerde de New York Times geheime beelden van drie onbekende vliegende objecten.
De mysterieuze vliegtuigen bereikten hypersonische snelheden en vlogen tienduizenden meters boven de aarde zonder vleugels, motor of uitlaat.
Geen idee
Waren het vliegende schotels? De piloten die de waarnemingen deden hadden geen idee.
Uit een recente verklaring van inlichtingenfunctionarissen van de Amerikaanse marine blijkt dat de overheid ook geen idee heeft.
In een verklaring zegt woordvoerder Joseph Gradisher tegen nieuwswebsite The Black Vault dat de marine de vaartuigen in de video’s heeft geclassificeerd als ‘ongeïdentificeerde luchtfenomenen’.
Nooit
Dat betekent dat de beelden authentiek zijn en dat de objecten, die in 2004 en 2015 zijn waargenomen in militair luchtruim, daar niet hoorden te zijn.
De UFO-beelden hadden ook nooit naar buiten mogen komen, vertelde Gradisher aan The Black Vault.
Je had dus eigenlijk helemaal niet mogen weten dat de drie onbekende objecten in het luchtruim zijn waargenomen.
Buitengewone manoeuvres
De marine wilde de beelden liever geheimhouden omdat de objecten zeer buitengewone manoeuvres uitvoerden.
Zo vlogen ze het ene moment op 25 kilometer hoogte om vervolgens richting de zee te schieten en op zes kilometer hoogte stil te blijven hangen.
As humans, we believe we evolved from apes and the Rh factor in our blood even derives its name from the Rhesus Macaque. But when it comes to the antigens in our blood there’s a small percentage of the population with a strange anomaly, leading some to question if Rh-negative blood is alien in origin.
Where Does Rh Negative Blood Come From?
There are 35 blood group systems organized by our genetic structure to carry the information that produces antigens. Antigens are molecules that produce an immune response, so when a foreign substance or toxin enters our system, antigens tell our bodies to attack them.
Within the Rh system there are 61 antigens, with the D antigen determining whether one is Rh-positive of Rh-negative. This antigen is a sensitive protein that exists on the surface of red blood cells and can react negatively if it comes in contact with Rh-positive blood.
If a woman with Rh-negative blood becomes pregnant with an Rh-positive baby, her body will produce antigens signaling to her immune system that her fetus is essentially toxic. Oddly, the woman’s body will kill its own fetus, unless given a rare antibody known as Rh-D immunoglobulin. This complication is known as hemolytic disease.
Some believe Rh-negative blood is simply a mutation that came about at some unknown time in our evolution. But, as strange as it sounds, others have speculated at the possibility that it may have come from an alien species that interbred with humans or engineered us in some way, producing a hybrid bloodline.
When we look at hybrid animals in other species, there are similar incompatibilities and sometimes even complete infertility. When a horse and donkey mate, the genetic differences result in a sterile mule. The same goes for a liger – the progeny of a lion and a tiger – the two species chromosomes don’t match, so they produce infertile offspring. Could there be a similar incompatibility between Rh-negative mothers and Rh-positive babies?
Rh Negative Characteristics
About 15 percent of the world’s population has the Rh-negative distinction, with the D-antigen absent in their veins. But this percentage of the population is not spread evenly across all areas of the planet. While humans are thought to all share a common ancestor, originating in sub-Saharan Africa, the number of Rh-negative Africans is disproportionately low compared to others – about three percent. In Asia, that proportion is even lower with only about one percent of the population possessing this rare blood type.
The gene that produces Rh-negative is largely present in Caucasians, with the highest concentration found in a small region on the Iberian Peninsula between France and Spain, known as the Basque region. Here, straddling the Pyrenees mountains, up to 40 percent of the population is Rh-negative, and that’s not the only distinguishing feature of the region.
Those from the Basque are also the only people of Western Europe who continue to speak an indigenous Indo-European language – an isolated tongue not spoken anywhere else in Europe. But this language is not just isolated, it’s completely unrelated to other European languages.
A more mundane explanation for the homogenous traits of people from the Basque region is the idea that early farmers, during the start of the agricultural revolution, mixed with local hunters, before becoming isolated for thousands of years preserving their language and genetics. Others have posited the idea that the Basques could have been the pure descendants of the first modern humans to arrive in Europe.
But another theory that falls in the more ethereal category is that the Nephilim of biblical lore are responsible for Rh-negative blood types. In the Book of Enoch, the Nephilim, also known as the Watchers, descend from the heavens and mate with humans, creating a human-angel hybrid. This group of angels and their offspring were wiped out in the great biblical deluge, though some were said to have survived, leaving the Rh-negative blood distinction.
Another otherworldly theory is that the Anunnaki, the extraterrestrial race that helped establish ancient Mesopotamian civilizations, engineered or crossbred with humans, and that some part of this process created the Rh-negative blood type.
It’s alleged that people with Rh-negative blood have distinct physical features paired with a predilection for psychic phenomena and alien abductions. Some of those features are:
Higher than average IQ
Lower body temperature
Higher blood pressure
Red or reddish hair
Extra vertebrae
Sensitive vision and particular sensitivity to sunlight
Elevated intuition
Could there be any validity behind this, or is it an elitist idea that there might be a small percent of the population that has advanced, extraterrestrial genetics? While there’s not much grounding evidence of these alleged characteristics, some have pointed to instances of red-haired rulers in ancient civilizations throughout the world as potentially having some connection.
In South America, some of the bizarrely-shaped, oblong Paracas skulls were found to have red hair in an area where that hair color isn’t native. The gene for red hair originates in the Middle East and Europe. Breakaway archeologists, like L.A. Marzulli have connected these red-haired skulls to the Nephilim. Could the Rh-negative blood type be another connecting factor?
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Er wordt gezegd dat één bloedgroep een buitenaardse oorsprong heeft. Behoor jij tot deze groep?
Er wordt gezegd dat één bloedgroep een buitenaardse oorsprong heeft. Behoor jij tot deze groep?
Dankzij recente archeologische ontdekkingen hebben we een heel ander beeld gekregen van intelligente mensachtige soorten die vroeger op aarde leefden.
Mensen deelden de planeet met onder andere neanderthalers, de denisovamens en zelfs hobbits. Het doet allemaal een beetje denken aan de Lord of the Rings. Hoe konden deze verschillende soorten zich onafhankelijk van elkaar ontwikkelen op geïsoleerde plekken op aarde?
Waarom zijn er geen fossielen gevonden waaruit blijkt dat alle soorten een gemeenschappelijke voorouder hadden? Volgens sommigen was de aarde ooit een buitenaards laboratorium waarin verschillende menselijke prototypes werden gemaakt en uiteindelijk één soort werd uitgekozen die zou overleven. Is de mens het resultaat van een buitenaards experiment?
Raadsel
De rhesusfactor is een kenmerk van het menselijk bloed dat naast de bloedgroepen A, B, AB en O bepalend is. 85 procent van de mensen heeft de rhesusfactor en is hiermee rhesuspositief. Bij de overige 15 procent van de mensen spreekt men van rhesusnegatief bloed.
Vooral bij zwangere vrouwen is de rhesusfactor van belang. Het groeiende kind in de buik kan namelijk een andere rhesusfactor hebben dan de dragende moeder. Bij vermenging van de twee verschillende bloedsoorten tijdens de bevalling is er een kans dat het kind de rhesusziekte oploopt.
De Basken stellen antropologen en historici al lange tijd voor een raadsel. Wegens de grote verschillen tussen het Baskisch en bekende taalfamilies wordt het als een geïsoleerde taal beschouwd. Daarnaast is maar liefst 35 procent van de Basken rhesusnegatief, het hoogste percentage ter wereld.
Geen idee
“Volgens de enkele-oorspronghypothese is de moderne mens in Afrika ontstaan, maar alle Afrikaanse volkeren waren rhesuspositief. Waar zijn de groepen ontstaan die rhesusnegatief bloed hebben?” klinkt het.
“15 procent van de mensen heeft rhesusnegatief bloed,” zegt presentator van Coast to Coast AM George Noory. “Wetenschappers hebben geen idee waar het vandaan komt. Wat ze wel weten is dat je mogelijk bent voortgekomen uit een andere soort als je het hebt.”
“Is die soort hier naartoe gebracht, genetisch gemanipuleerd of op natuurlijke wijze ontstaan?” vraagt hij zich af. “
Dulce Secret Underground Bases That Go Way Below The Surface of the Earth
Dulce Secret Underground Bases That Go Way Below The Surface of the Earth
Once we go below the crust of the planet past five or six miles, there’s thousand of miles more, and we don’t know or understand exactly what could be down there, he pointed out.
There’ve long been rumors about a secret underground base at Dulce, NM, and that area has had a large number of strange lights seen on the mesas, Strieber noted, adding that the local Jicarilla tribe has a legend they were created inside the mesa.
A media phenomenon, Coast to Coast AM deals with UFOs, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained (and often inexplicable) phenomena.
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