NASA wil robot naar zuidpool van maan sturen om ijswater te zoeken - HLN.be

Bron: belga

WETENSCHAP Het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap NASA wil een “rover” (een rijdende robot) naar de zuidpool van de maan sturen om er water te zoeken. Dat heeft NASA-baas Jim Bridestine vandaag gezegd. Bedoeling is om uit te zoeken of het water dat op de maan aanwezig is, zou kunnen dienen als drinkwater voor astronauten en om er brandstof van te maken.

De mobiele robot VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) zou in 2022 moeten arriveren op de maan. “VIPER gaat rondrijden op de zuidpool van de maan en zal uitzoeken waar het ijswater is”, aldus Bridestine op de laatste dag van het International Austronautical Congress in Washington. “We gaan het water kunnen analyseren en er uiteindelijk naar boren.”

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Met deze nieuwe ruimtepakken vol technologische snufjes wil NASA in 2024 naar de maan

NASA hoopt dat de gegevens over hoeveel water er aanwezig is kunnen helpen om de ambitie van het agentschap waar te maken om een langdurige en duurzame menselijke aanwezigheid op de maan mogelijk te maken. NASA wil tegen 2024 twee astronauten naar de zuidpool van de maan sturen. De bedoeling is dat ze er 6,5 dagen buiten hun maanlander werken. 

De VIPER zal ongeveer honderd dagen aan data verzamelen, die zullen dienen voor de eerste globale watervoorraadkaarten van de maan. De robot heeft instrumenten mee die waterstof en zuurstof kunnen opsporen, de basiscomponenten van water die afgescheiden kunnen worden om er brandstof van te maken voor een toekomstige vloot van commerciële maanlanceringsvoertuigen.

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27-10-2019 om 00:45 geschreven door peter  

EEN DRUKTE VAN BELANG BIJ BUITENAARDSE BASIS IN MEXICO

Al jarenlang duiken er beelden op van ufo's die aankomen of vertrekken bij hun basis in Mexico.

Zo ook nu komt er weer een ruimteschip aan bij de basis die zich volgens ufologen diep onder de Popocatépetl vulkaan bevindt.

Maar, dat is nog niet alles, want:

Onderstaande afbeelding is afkomstig van de weerradar van Intellicast van 27 oktober, de dag dat een Ufo de vulkaan Popocatepetl in vloog. Het beeld bleef de hele dag online tot en met 28 oktober.

Hier zie je heel duidelijk de vorm van de vortex.

Het centrum van de vortex ligt precies op de plaats waar de vulkaan zich bevindt. Dit toeval lijkt ons te groot om geen verband te hebben met de Ufo die op datzelfde moment de vulkaan binnenvloog.

Wetenschappers hebben nog steeds geen idee en een nieuwsbericht van Televisa, het station wat de opname heeft gemaakt, laat weten dat men heeft uitgerekend dat de snelheid waarmee het object naar binnenvloog, groter was dan die van een vliegtuig.

Ufologen wereldwijd zijn van mening dat het óf een basis betreft in de vulkaan, vergelijkbaar met de basis van Marconi in de Andes, óf dat het een ingang betreft naar de Holle Aarde. Een combinatie van beiden zou ook nog een mogelijkheid zijn.

Dit gebeurt allemaal ook op onze planeet en krijgt in de mainstream verslaggeving geen enkele aandacht.

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27-10-2019 om 00:28 geschreven door peter  

Alien Abductee Reveals What Really Happened At Devil's Den State Park

Incident at Devils Den is a true story by former Assistant Attorney General Terry Lovelace, who was taken by Aliens on a camping trip. In 2012 an anomalous bit of metal the size of a fingernail was discovered on a routine x-ray following a fall.

I’ve been a devoted runner for most of my life. I began running in earnest when I left the military in late 1979. I didn’t run marathons, but I was devoted to three or four miles a day. Soon I noticed something odd. At about the two-mile mark in my run a spot on my right leg went completely numb. It was just above my knee and only about an inch in diameter. With a pin I could define its edges as perfectly round. Less than an hour after my run the sensation returned. I mentioned it to my doctor who blew it off and suggested I do the same. I dubbed it my “numb spot” and never gave it a second thought. That was until October 22, 2012 when a fall landed me in an emergency room.

An X-ray of my leg above the knee discovered an anomalous bit of metal. The radiologist was sure it was a manmade object about the size of a fingernail with two wires attached. He pointed out it resembled an “RIFD compute device.” He also noticed a collection of foreign objects below in my calf muscle. He insisted on examining my leg for scar tissue, insisting the only way these objects could become embedded in my leg would have required an incision. He said, “It’s impossible to breach the integrity of the skin without leaving a scar.” There is no scar. I asked, “Doctor, how often do you find a foreign body underneath the skin without a corresponding scar?” He thought for a moment. “Never,” he replied. “I’ve been a radiologist for 23 years and I’ve never seen it before.” He said it was “disturbing.”

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27-10-2019 om 00:14 geschreven door peter  

FAA say mysterious canister that fell from the sky and crashed through the wall of a Kentucky home did NOT come from an airplane, as railway operator and military also deny knowledge of it

• FAA says a mysterious object that damaged a mobile home wasn't from a plane  
• The heavy foot-long canister hit the home of Tommy Woosley in Burgin, Kentucky, 75 miles southeast of Louisville, two weeks ago
• Military, railway and aviation bosses all say the item did not come from them
• The FAA is turning the object over to the Mercer County Sheriff's Office for further investigation 

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Federal Aviation Administration says a mysterious object that seemingly dropped from the sky and damaged a Kentucky man's mobile home didn't come from an airplane.

Tommy Woosley says a heavy, nearly foot-long canister-type object hit his home in Burgin, about 75 miles southeast of Louisville, two weeks ago. 

But the FAA and Norfolk Southern Railway say their transportation units have nothing to do with the object that lodged into the siding of his house.

The FAA says this mysterious object that damaged a mobile home wasn't from a plane

Tommy Woosley says a heavy nearly foot-long canister-type object hit his home two weeks ago

In a statement, a Norfolk Southern spokesperson said the railroad company confirmed that the damage to Woosley's home 'was not caused by part of a Norfolk Southern engine or any (Norfolk Southern) device. Norfolk Southern was not involved.' 

The National Guard and nearby Fort Campbell military base which are some 220 miles away have also denied responsibility.

'We expect to return the object to the Mercer County Sheriff's Office for further investigation and will close our inquiry into this matter,' FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said in a statement to WKYT.  

The home left quite the dent in the side of his home ripping apart some of the metal

Military, railway and aviation bosses all say the item did not come from them

Woosley is completely puzzled as to where the object came from and nobody seems to know

Authorities initially believed the canister may have fallen from a plane, but an FAA spokeswoman told The Courier Journal their investigation has ruled it out and 'determined that the object is not an aviation part.'

She says the agency is turning the object over to the Mercer County Sheriff's Office for further investigation.

'Seems to me that they should be able to trace the bar code on this thing to see where it came from,' Woosley told the Journal. 

Woosley had admitted to the newspaper that he going to be speaking with someone who 'claims to know exactly where the object came from.' 

The speed and impact the object hit the home saw it made a dent in the side of the wall

Some of the paint chipped and the plaster cracked from where the object smashed into the home

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26-10-2019 om 23:41 geschreven door peter  

Unidentified Flying Objects Crashes Into Mobil Home In Kentucky Oct 2019, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Oct 13, 2019
Location of discovery: Burgin, Kentucky
Source: 

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/25/kentucky-home-

damaged-mystery-canister-type-object-owner-says/2459794001/

A mysterious object believed to have fallen from the sky has damaged a persons mobile home. The object found stuck in the wall has unusual writing on it and a bar code. So it may possible be a canister of some kind...maybe compressed air. The object is 2 inches round and 10 inches long and very heavy for its size. The FAA, Railroad company and Fort Cambell all indicated that the foreign object was not theirs. 

Although objects from space like meteorites are unusually heavy due to metal content, this object looks to be an unexploded rocket launcher grenade. The ID of the object is on the side, alone with the tail that looks similar and the nose. Hopefully this object doesn't explode while they are examining it. 

So...until they read that bar code or read that unusual language on it...its still an unknown. Could it be from a UFO...yeah of course it could, since the FAA and others say its nothing to do with them. 
Scott C. Waring

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26-10-2019 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

Moon Size Craft Heading Toward Our Sun, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 24, 2019

Location of sighting : Earths Sun

Source: 

• https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/2019/c2/

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I found this UFO in a photo of our sun and it has three layers. The detail is great. You can clearly see a lot of right angles to the spaceship. Also you see some smaller ships tagging behind for safety. This ship is heading directly toward our sun. So why is it heading there? Probably because aliens found a way to use the interior of the sun itself...hollow sun theory. Or perhaps they are harvesting a ultra rare particle that is created by our sun. This ship is huge. Think moon size. 

Scott C. Waring

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26-10-2019 om 23:15 geschreven door peter  

Ancient City Found On Mars, 100% Proof Of Intelligent Life, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Oct 2019

Location of discovery: Mars

Source: google Mars map   8°45'15.46"N    1° 4'55.38"W

Here are some pyramid like structures on Mars. There are over two dozen of them and it looks like it might have been an ancient city long ago. The edges of the structure are absolutely perfect. This incredible attention to detail could only be attained by intelligent design. These structures are absolute proof that aliens not only lived on Mars, but thrived in bustling cities such as this. 

 

It was found by Sandra Elana Andrade of Youtube. 

Scott C. Waring

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26-10-2019 om 23:00 geschreven door peter  

Aweird glowing UFO emitting pulsating lights has been filmed by a sky-watcher in England. While filming the UFO the camera battery was drained and switched off, and although it is not the first time batteries have switched off during a UFO encounter, there is no explanation for it.

Sky-watcher:

I captured video of this strange glowing object fixed above the moon over SW London England in October, 2019.
As I was filming the object my cameras battery was drained and it switched off.
By the time I got the camera switched back on the object vanished.
To my surprise the camera still had a full battery.

  

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26-10-2019 om 22:52 geschreven door peter  

Guy Says He Can Enter Wormholes and Literally Make It Rain, Which, Hmm

 By David Grossman

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• Australia has been suffering through a major drought for years.
• One man is offering a cure-all, claiming he can enter wormholes and control the weather in the future.
• The weather peddler claims to have found buyers for his technology, although none of have gone on the record with verifiable claims.

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Australia has been suffering through a serious drought since 2017. The entire country has been hit by the lack of rainfall, including the southeastern state of Victoria, Australia's largest agriculture producer with around 77,000 people working in the field. Recently, the state's government has offered $31 million for drought-affected farmers.

"It won't make it rain, no drought package can do that," state Premier Daniel Andrews said at the time.

But that's exactly what a company called Miles Research is promising. The company offers three-month "rain contracts" to farmers for $50,000, or around $33,800 USD.

“It’s preying on people’s desperation,” Australian Competition and Consumer Commission deputy chairman Mick Keogh told ABC Radio, admitting the government can't do much to stop people from hiring the man behind the company, David Miles.

“If you wanted to prosecute, a court requires you to prove essentially that there’s no basis for the claims being made and that is a very difficult thing to do," Keogh said. "By far the very best defense against them is widespread consumer education. It’s up to individuals obviously to make their own mind up. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”

So what kind of technology is Miles peddling? It isn't exactly clear. The company doesn't actually mention on its website what it's doing to create more rain in Victoria; it just claims it's responsible for increased rainfall in a region of the state called Wimmera in July and August 2018. The Australian government notes high rainfall in part of Wimmera in August at the time, but calls the July rainfall average.

Miles Research also claims it would increase rainfall in the state of New South Wales, although no further information is available on that claim. While we don't have many tech specs, we do have an origin story:

It was in the late 1990’s that [Miles] realized that it was possible to incrementally influence weather patterns using a variant of the Einstein - Rosen Bridge hypothesized in the 1930's, to effectively create a bridge between ‘the present’ in the physical space-time continuum, and a near-future event, forecast to exist from one to ten days ahead in time. The necessary targeting profile of the predicted event is created using meteorological forecast data and high-resolution supercomputing.

You're probably wondering ... what?

Einstein-Rosen Bridges, still hypothetical in science, are also commonly known as wormholes. Miles claims he has gained the ability to somehow "configure" a wormhole, enter it, and then alter the weather in the future. Theoretical scientists have speculated about warping space-time in one way or another, but many believe it would take approximately all energy within the known universe to do so.

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Miles Research then goes on to claim credit for secretly ending a variety of droughts in Australia from the 1990s onward.

The company also referenced something called “electromagnetic scalar waves” on its website, but took down the language after ABC Radio contacted University of Melbourne associate professor of physics Martin Sevior, who told them “electromagnetic scalar waves don’t exist. There’s no such thing. He’s taken a few words and put them together and made them sound somewhat scientific but it’s meaningless.”

Miles says he has a “small, private group” of farmer clients. One anonymous client spoke to ABC Radio favorably, saying, “I got involved because it sounded good, the fact you can control weather, because as a farmer rainfall is everything." The anonymous client makes no mention of any actual rain benefits they have received.

There have been many efforts to try and artificially create rainfall over the years, mostly through something called cloud seeding. Though both the South Korean and Chinese governments have tried the technique of seeding clouds with certain chemicals in order to create rain for years, there is little proof that it has actually worked.

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26-10-2019 om 01:18 geschreven door peter  

Here's How We Could Detect a Wormhole

By Mike Wall - Science & Astronomy 

But any finds would probably be tentative, unfortunately.

Diagram of a wormhole.

(Image: © Shutterstock)

Weird star wiggles could betray the presence of wormholes, if these fabled space-time tunnels do indeed exist, a new study suggests.

Wormholes are sci-fi staples; over the years, many stories, books and movies have sent their protagonists zipping between widely separated locales via these cosmic shortcuts. Wormholes are possible, according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, but nobody has ever spotted one.

The new study provides a possible way to make the first tentative detection: look for slight but strange movements of stars.

• Related: Physicists Reveal Step-by-Step Instructions for Building a Wormhole

"If you have two stars, one on each side of the wormhole, the star on our side should feel the gravitational influence of the star that's on the other side," study co-author Dejan Stojkovic, a cosmologist and professor of physics at the University at Buffalo in New York, said in a statement. "The gravitational flux will go through the wormhole."

Wormholes require extreme warping of space-time, which in turn depends on very powerful gravitational forces. So, a good place to hunt for these theoretical tunnel is near the supermassive black holes that lurk at the cores of galaxies — such as Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star), the four-million-solar-mass behemoth in our own Milky Way, Stojkovic said.

"So if you map the expected orbit of a star around Sagittarius A*, you should see deviations from that orbit if there is a wormhole there with a star on the other side," he said.

Current observing techniques likely aren't sensitive enough to make such a detection at the moment, he added. But it may be possible to do so in the next decade or two with advances in instrumentation as well as long-term monitoring of appropriate target stars, such as S2, which circles near Sagittarius A*.

Don't get too excited, however; such a detection, if astronomers ever manage to make one, is unlikely to be a slam dunk.

"When we reach the precision needed in our observations, we may be able to say that a wormhole is the most likely explanation if we detect perturbations in the orbit of S2," Stojkovic said. "But we cannot say that, 'Yes, this is definitely a wormhole.' There could be some other explanation, something else on our side perturbing the motion of this star."

And there's some more bad news on the space-exploration side: Wormhole travel will probably remain a mere sci-fi dream for a very long time, if not forever, Stojkovic said.

"Even if a wormhole is traversable, people and spaceships most likely aren't going to be passing through," he said. "Realistically, you would need a source of negative energy to keep the wormhole open, and we don't know how to do that. To create a huge wormhole that's stable, you need some magic."

The new study, which was led by De-Chang Dai of Yangzhou University in China and Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, was published earlier this month in the journal Physical Review D.

• What Is Wormhole Theory?
• Could Wormholes Really Work? Probably Not
• 'Ask a Spaceman' Reveals Why You Wouldn't Want to Enter a Wormhole

Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), is out now. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook. 

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26-10-2019 om 01:10 geschreven door peter  

Bam! Scientists Watch Distant Exoplanet Collision

By Meghan Bartels 

An artist's depiction of a collision between two exoplanets.

(Image: © NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook)

Astronomers love a hot mess — at least when it can tell them more about how solar systems work.

When scientists studied a star system called BD +20 307 a decade ago, they saw a lot of warm dust. And when they checked in on the neighborhood again using SOFIA, an airplane-based telescope run by NASA and its German counterpart, scientists saw even more warm dust. That could be a sign that astronomers are seeing the residue of a fairly recent dustup.

"This is a rare opportunity to study catastrophic collisions occurring late in a planetary system's history," Alycia Weinberger, a staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., and the lead investigator on the project, said in a NASA statement. "The SOFIA observations show changes in the dusty disk on a timescale of only a few years."

• Related: The Most Fascinating Exoplanets of 2018

Scientists know that giant impacts play an important role in shaping planetary systems. Close to home, astronomers believe that the moon formed during just such an impact. But that collision took place a long, long time ago, and scientists have to piece together the story of what happened from scattered clues.

That's just as well. It's better to watch such dynamics unfold in real time from afar because it would be awfully disruptive to try studying such an event nearby. Although dust isn't necessarily caused by collisions, warm dust should disperse and cool as a solar system ages. This distant solar system, about 300 light-years away, is located in a region full of stars at least a billion years old, which means birth debris should have cooled by now, according to the NASA statement.

And there aren't many events that should cause warm dust over as short a time frame (cosmically) as the scientists' observations of this star. That's why it's likely a planetary collision that's causing the mess, the research team said.

The research is described in a paper published April 12 in The Astrophysical Journal; you can also read a copy posted to the preprint server arXiv.org.

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•  Photographing an Exoplanet: How Hard Can It Be? 
•  The Strangest Alien Planets in Pictures 

Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify the age of the star the solar system surrounds. Email Meghan Bartels at mbartels@space.com or follow her @meghanbartels. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook

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26-10-2019 om 00:57 geschreven door peter  

26-10-2019 om 00:40 geschreven door peter  

Lost Ancient Metropolises Abandoned, Forgotten, or Hidden by the Sands of Time

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26-10-2019 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

The Black Knight Satellite: A Hodgepodge of Alien Conspiracy Theories

By David Crookes - All About Space magazine 

Space Mysteries: For decades different discoveries have been linked to a single possible spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin.

An artist's impression of the Black Knight satellite. The spacecraft has sparked a long-lived conspiracy theory. 

(Image: © Future/Adrian Mann)

Sometimes the introduction of a news report will stop you in your tracks, forcing you to reread in fear you didn't quite grasp its point the first time. That was certainly the case when Mail Online published a story on Mar. 21, 2017: "An alien satellite set up more than 12,000 years ago to spy on humans has been shot down by elite soldiers from the illuminati, UFO hunters claim." 

And with that, the conspiracy surrounding the so-called "Black Knight" satellite appeared to be very much alive.

• Related: 9 Strange, Scientific Excuses for Why Humans Haven't Found Aliens Yet

It's been 120 years since conspiracists believed the existence of the Black Knight was recorded. Those who subscribe to the theory lay claim of an extraterrestrial spacecraft in near-polar orbit of the Earth, although they draw upon evidence so disparate that it's not entirely clear why people link them. What they amount to, however, is an intriguing set of ingredients that, taken together, cause people to scream loud about potential cover-ups by NASA and the government. In that sense, it is a legend that refuses to go away.

The photo evidence that isn't evidence

A lot of the earliest discoveries that have come to be linked to the Black Knight satellite theory relate to radio signals. But a series of images from 1998 emerged that really threw the celestial cat among the pigeons. They were taken during STS-88, which was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). 

There, for all to see, were images released by NASA that showed a black object hovering above the Earth in low orbit. And it wasn't long after the images were thrust in front of a hopeful public before people were performing some conspiratorial sums and sharing them with the wider world.

• Related: Expedition 58: The International Space Station Mission in Pictures

By way of explanation, astronaut Jerry Ross pointed out that the ISS was in the midst of being constructed when the images were taken. The U.S. team, he said, was on its way to attach the American module to the one created by the Russians and, as part of that work, they had taken four trunnion pin thermal covers with them. The task was to wrap these around four bare trunnion pins, these being rods that attached the module to the shuttle while it was being transported. This would act to prevent heat loss from the exposed metal.

(Image credit: NASA)

Unfortunately, during one of the extravehicular activities (EVA) things went a little bit wrong and one of the covers came loose from its tether, causing it to float away along with some other items. "Jerry, one of the thermal covers got away from you," said commander Robert Cabana, and it soon became apparent that they wouldn't be getting it back. 

Subsequently captured on camera, this black object was given the object number 025570 by NASA, and a few days later the object fell from orbit and burned up. Far from being an extraterrestrial object, the black item floating in space was nothing more than a blanket.

• Related: The Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records

Much of this has been placed on the record. Former NASA space engineer James Oberg, who personally knows Ross and the person who took the photos, Sergei Krikalev, has gone to great lengths to show that these supposed images of the Black Knight have less fanciful origins.

(Image credit: NASA)

"Before leaving NASA I led the trajectory design team that produced the mission profile," Oberg told All About Space. "Every step of the way there is consistency with what I learned as a lifelong spaceflight operations specialist: why the blankets were needed, why one of them came loose, why it floated off the way it did. The difference is, for the general public all these features are unearthly to folks who are only familiar with Earthside principles of heating, working, motion and dozens of other never-before-encountered-in-history aspects of outer space." 

Given Oberg's debunking you'd think the matter would have drawn to a close. But no. Since the images were shared far and wide, conspiracy theories have continued. 

"They are probably some of the weirdest-looking 70 mm photos to ever come out of the space shuttle program," Oberg said. “And apparently a NASA website update made the original links inoperative, sparking concerns over a cover-up. All normal journalistic practices — determining the timeline, asking witnesses, searching for the wider context — were skipped."

(Image credit: Future/Adrian Mann)

Historical evidence that also isn't evidence

By absorbing the images into a growing body of "evidence," they were seen as definite proof that the Black Knight alien satellite really was out there. Reaching that conclusion, however, has required greats leaps of faith, and has also needed past discoveries to be forced into the overall story. Firm believers have had no problems going right back to 1899 in pursuit of such "truth" but, just like the photographic records, each piece of supposed evidence brought to the table so far has been explained away without falling back on the Black Knight myth.

So what happened in 1899? That year Nikola Tesla began to record some very odd signals, seemingly from outer space. The accomplished Serbian-American electrical engineer had a passion for wireless technology, and he was in the early throes of an experimental wireless transmission station called Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York. While in his barn-like laboratory in Colorado Springs, he noted the unusual signals and speculated they had come from another planet, a claim greeted with disbelief and scepticism. 

• Related: Fermi Paradox: Where Are the Aliens? 

"The very first source of non-terrestrial radio waves was discovered in the 1930s, and that was from the centre of our galaxy, which is the most powerful radio source in the sky at many frequencies," NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Varoujan Gorjian explained. "It wasn’t until the 1960s that the technology evolved to detect the first pulsars. If what Tesla detected was a real signal and not an artefact of his instrument, it most likely came from Earth."

So why does talk of the Black Knight persist?

People continued to use Tesla's findings to bolster claims for the Black Knight. They also took on board the work of a Norwegian engineer called Jørgen Hals, who found that radio signals he transmitted were being echoed back to him a few seconds later. We now know these as long delayed echoes, and Hals was the first person to observe them.

The fact that we don't have a confirmed explanation of their cause, however, has been seized upon: In 1973, Duncan Lunan wrote an article in Spaceflight magazine suggesting those studying long delayed echoes had overlooked the possibility they were sent by an alien space probe.

• Related: 13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens

Lunan still has faith in an extraterrestrial explanation for the recordings. "The changes in the long distance echo patterns in apparent response to changes in the outgoing signals from Earth really do look like the responses of a Bracewell probe, and there is still no satisfactory natural explanation for the phenomenon," Lunan said. If the long distance echoes were deliberately produced by a probe, there's a problem in that they stopped in 1975.

"If a probe was monitoring Earth, rather than trying to attract attention, perhaps it belatedly discovered from the 1973 to 1974 publicity that it had given away its presence in the 1920s and pulled out in 1975," Lunan said. "That's the only explanation I can see for its apparent departure." 

And yet, for all of that, Lunan said his research has nothing to do with the "Black Knight nonsense." If there is a link between his theory and the Black Knight, it is not one that is being made by him.

Additional resources: 

• Why Is the Pentagon Interested in UFOs?
• Could Elon Musk's Starship Threaten Alien Life?
• New Conspiracy Theory: Children Kidnapped for Mars Slave Colony

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25-10-2019 om 18:32 geschreven door peter  

This Silicon Valley Startup Is Dedicated to Detecting UFOs Off the California Coast

UAP eXpeditions is made up of former military officials, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and academics.

By MJ Banias

With this summer’s revelation that the US Navy considers UFOs and “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAPs) to be real, a team of venture capitalists, university professors, and military veterans are launching a project to track UFOs off the coast of California.

UAP eXpeditions is a non-profit group based in Oregon that will “field a top-notch group of uber-experienced professionals providing the public service of field testing new UAP related technologies.” With some of the Silicon Valley UFO Hunters, UAP eXpeditions will pioneer the ability to predict, find, observe, and document UAP for study and analysis. They will use “classical observation techniques, by trained observers and scientists, while using the latest experimental technologies—in the right places and the right times,” Kevin Day, the group’s founder and CEO, wrote in a Facebook post viewed by Motherboard.

Day, who has appeared on the History Channel’s Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation and Discovery Channel’s Contact, is a retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and radar operator. Day served in the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group on the USS Princeton during the 2004 infamous “Nimitz UFO Incident” which was reported by The New York Times in December of 2017.

He recalls tracking the infamous “Tic Tac” UFOs for several days around Catalina Island off the coast of California using the USS Princeton’s advanced radar system. Now, he believes that these objects continue to operate along the same trajectory and “migrate” from Catalina Island south along the California coast.

The company’s white paper is pretty wild. It asks, “Do fleets of UAP 'migrate' from Catalina Island to Guadalupe Island with a certain frequency? And if so, how well do whale songs correlate, if at all, to UAP appearances?” It’s unclear how whale songs are relevant here, but let’s move along.

Day, who believes that his experience tracking these objects has led to some curious special abilities, such as “advanced cognition” told Motherboard that the organization is hoping to “offer technology developers a way to test their new tech at no direct cost to them.” Using state of the art cameras and other experimental monitoring devices, the idea is to put this high tech gear into the field and attempt to track unknown aerial objects off the coast of California.

Leading the team of scientists is Dr. Kevin Knuth, a former scientist with NASA’s Ames Research Center, now an associate professor of physics at the University of Albany. Knuth specializes in machine learning and the study of exoplanets. While the organization and the project is still in its infancy, Knuth told Motherboard that “the goal of the expedition is to give us some ground truth. We aim to try to observe these objects directly, and record them using multiple imaging modalities.”

Knuth explained that the project has two phases. First, the team “will obtain current satellite imagery of the area (more or less in the area of Catalina Island and southward for ~100 miles) and determine whether these anamolous objects can be observed. We will monitor these satellite images both manually and using machine learning and build up a database of detections, classifications, and any observed patterns of activity.”

If, and it's a big “if,” the satellite imagery does point to a strange concentration of unknown objects, the team will go hunt UFOs. The second step, which is slated for November 2020, is to basically park a large boat off the coast of California loaded with various cameras and sensors to detect and record anomalous aerial activity. The team has already begun negotiations to charter the MV Horizon, a small research vessel.

“We will be using tracking security cameras in the visual to infrared wavelengths with telephoto lenses, human eyes on the water with high power binoculars and spotting scopes, as well as digital SLR cameras with high power telephoto lenses ranging from 400mm - 600+mm,” Knuth told Motherboard. “We plan to have high-quality drones in the air with imaging capabilities. We are looking into IR imaging as well, as well as detectors for x-ray, gamma-ray and custom-built neutron detectors (which are designed to look for dark matter).”

Knuth presented a lecture at the Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Science and Engineering Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Plasmaphysics in Garching Germany on determining the flight characteristics of unidentified anomalous vehicles in July 2019. His paper, which is currently waiting to be peer-reviewed, can be found online.

"This is an effort that I believe is rare and timely given current events"

Knuth explained that much is still unknown about what exactly people are reporting when it comes to UFOs.

“These are always delicate issues in any study relying on people reporting information. This includes studies in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience which rely on subject responses, sociology studies relying on surveys, and even data reported by scientists (all of whom can make mistakes or lie). The key to ensuring consistency is reproducibility and this requires additional study,” Knuth explained.

This is one of the more serious attempts to look for UFOs. It is, admittedly, a bit of a wild goose chase and will cost a boatload of cash. But the team includes some heavy hitters outside of Knuth himself. According to the organization’s white paper, Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and MIT technologist Rizwan Virk and the Toronto-based CEO of the quantum computing company, ReactiveQ, Deep Prasad have both signed on to help with securing investment for the project.

“I am personally very excited no matter the outcome,” Prasad told Motherboard. “This is an effort that I believe is rare and timely given current events, such as the apparent increase in UAP incidents through official military channels.”

Some other individuals on the team include Sean Cahill, the former Chief Master-at-Arms who served aboard the USS Princeton during the 2004 Nimitz Incident, and optical physicist and UFO researcher Bruce Macabee.

Getting the money to pay for all this isn’t going to be easy. While Day’s team is working on grant proposals, they know that the vast majority of funding will have to be private. Renting a research vessel and acquiring the high-tech gear needed to search for UFOs is not cheap. While Day is looking at potentially crowd funding this project, he hopes that the non-profit can secure a few angel investors who are interested in funding scientific research into studying the UFO phenomenon. Day is asking for any interested parties to reach out to him via email as the group’s website is still under development.

Knuth believes it is time to start doing real scientific work on UFOs. While the study is unorthodox (especially the whale bit), so is the very real fact that unidentified aerial vehicles are tracked by the Air Force and Navy, and seem to easily evade the technological weapons apparatus maintained by the most powerful military on the planet.

“The failure to study these phenomena scientifically has resulted in a state of ignorance, which is unacceptable considering the aviation safety issues that have been reported by the US Navy,” stated Knuth.

Update: This article previously noted that Luis Elizondo would be part of this project. Though he is listed on the team's white paper, he has since said he will not participate.

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25-10-2019 om 18:01 geschreven door peter  

Nat Geo Photographer Admits to Encountering Alien Beings Underwater

by Inigo Monzon  

• Luis Lamar, an underwater director of photography for National Geographic and OceanX, says that he has encountered alien beings during his underwater assignments. “[I]n the ocean, I have come across potentially beings from another heavenly body that are more highly advanced than humans,” Lamar says in the OceanX video. 
• Lamar apparently claims that these advanced beings in the ocean depths come in the form of enhanced sea creatures. Says Lamar, “I’ve seen giant deep sea arachnids, venomous sea snakes far offshore with, like bright-yellow heads… Some sort of you know, hyper-advanced aquatic alien creatures inhabiting the shallow waters, which almost look like stingrays.”

A renowned photographer for National Geographic and OceanX claimed that he has encountered alien beings during his underwater assignments. According to the photographer, the beings resembled stingrays and appeared to be more advanced than humans.

The claims about the underwater aliens were made by Luis Lamar, an underwater director of photography for National Geographic and OceanX. He made the revelation through a recent video made by the latter company.

Luis Lamar

The clip, which is only about a minute and a half long, focuses on Lamar’s profile and his remarkable experience working as an underwater photographer. At the beginning of the video, Lamar immediately confessed his encounters with alien lifeforms from other planets.

“I think, in the ocean, I have come across potentially beings from another heavenly body that are more highly advanced than humans,” he said.

In another part of the video, Lamar discussed the various marine lifeforms he came across underwater. While talking about the strange marine organisms he encountered, Lamar also discussed the appearance of some of the underwater aliens that he saw.

“I’ve seen giant deep sea arachnids, venomous sea snakes far offshore with, like bright-yellow heads,” he said.

“Sharks in a frenzy, Orcas swarming all around me,” he continued. “Some sort of you know, hyper-advanced aquatic alien creatures inhabiting the shallow waters, which almost look like stingrays.”

Despite his bizarre and terrifying encounters with deep sea creatures, Lamar still considers the ocean as a very beautiful place to be in.

Claims regarding encounters with underwater aliens are not new. In January, a report was released regarding the encounters of U.S. nuclear submarines with unknown underwater objects. These were referred to as the underwater counterparts of UFOs, which are known as USOs or underwater submerged objects.

The report, which was released by The War Zone, focuses on the encounters of Navy personnel with USOs. In one of the encounters, an attack submarine was patrolling the North Atlantic when its sonar picked up an object moving fast in the water. Although the submarine’s sonar personnel were not able to classify what the object was, they noted that it was moving at a speed of several hundred knots.

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25-10-2019 om 17:51 geschreven door peter  

Where can we expect to find life beyond Earth? A new study has redefined the lower limit in mass for habitable exoworlds. It suggests that low-mass waterworlds might exist and might be a place to look.

The habitable zone as traditionally understood. New findings suggest that rocky planets smaller than Earth might still have liquid water, even if they’re somewhat outside a star’s primary habitable zone.

Image via NASA/Astronomy Now.

What makes a planet potentially habitable? Life as we know it requires liquid water, among other factors. And it makes sense that larger rocky planets, like Earth, can maintain their liquid water – and their atmospheres – more easily than very small planets, whose gravity is weaker. But now, scientists from Harvard University have found that even very small rocky exoplanets, orbiting other stars, might still hold onto their water, boosting their chances for habitability. This finding expands on the traditional view of a star’s habitable zone, the zone around a star where temperatures are just right, allowing liquid water to exist.

The new peer-reviewed results were first published in The Astrophysical Journal on August 13, 2019.

If you don’t mind a bit of jargon, consider it this way. This new research redefines the lower limit in mass for potentially habitable exoplanets. Mass is simply the amount of matter a body contains. This new definition extends what we can think of as a habitable zone for small, low-mass and (because gravity depends on mass) low-gravity exoplanets.

How small is too small? The critical boundary point seems to be about 2.7 percent of the mass of Earth. Any planets less massive than that would lose their atmospheres to space before liquid water could form on their surfaces, and any water that might be present would vaporize or freeze. For comparison, the moon is 1.2 percent of Earth’s mass and Mercury is 5.53 percent.

As astronomer Constantin Arnscheidt, lead author of the paper, explained:

When people think about the inner and outer edges of the habitable zone, they tend to only think about it spatially, meaning how close the planet is to the star. But actually, there are many other variables to habitability, including [a planet’s] mass.

Setting a lower bound for habitability in terms of planet size gives us an important constraint in our ongoing hunt for habitable exoplanets and exomoons.

Robin Wordsworth, a co-author on the study, added:

Low-mass waterworlds are a fascinating possibility in the search for life, and this paper shows just how different their behavior is likely to be compared to that of Earth-like planets. Once observations for this class of objects become possible, it’s going to be exciting to try to test these predictions directly.

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Graphic depicting the new lower size limit for smaller rocky exoplanets. Very small planets – at least larger than only 2.7% of the mass of Earth – could maintain liquid water (depending on other factors), according to this new work, while planets smaller than that limit would have their water escape to space or freeze.

Image via Harvard SEAS/Astrobiology Magazine.

According to traditional thinking about habitable zones, if a planet is too close to its star, a runaway greenhouse effect might occur, resulting in the planet losing all its water. This might happen even at the inner edge of a star’s habitable zone. Venus is often mentioned as an example of this process in our own solar system; it might once have had an ocean, but a runaway greenhouse effect occurred, leaving Venus dry as a bone and hot enough on its surface to melt lead.

According to its authors, the new study:

… sheds light on the important process of atmospheric evolution on small planets.

In other words, their work suggests that – for small exoplanets that are not too small – something interesting occurs as one of these planets, even if it is on the edge of its star’s habitable zone, begins to warm due to the greenhouse effect. In conditions of a warming atmosphere, on a low-mass world with relatively weak gravity the exoplanet’s atmosphere expands outward, becoming larger and larger relative to the size of the planet. This has the effect of increasing both the absorption and radiation of heat from the star, allowing the planet to achieve a kind of balance, maintaining a stable temperature. In this way, the atmospheric expansion might prevent small, low-gravity planets from experiencing a runaway greenhouse effect. Instead, they might be able to maintain their surface liquid water, even on the inner edge of the habitable zone, in relatively close proximity to their stars.

It’s also interesting to note that these findings, according to the researchers, appear to apply to both G-type sun-like stars as well as M-type red dwarf stars.

Smaller, cooler red dwarfs are the most common stars in our galaxy, so that in itself would increase the chances of finding more habitable worlds.

Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa as seen by Galileo in the late 1990s. The researchers wondered if these kinds of small icy moons could be habitable on the surface if they were closer to the sun, but the new study suggests they would be too small.

Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute/Europa Clipper.

The researchers also used their findings to figure out a question regarding certain moons in our solar system. Scientists had wondered if Jupiter’s icy moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto could become habitable on the surface if they were closer to the sun, especially since they all have subsurface oceans beneath their ice crusts. The answer, though, seems to be no, as they are too small.

Although there is still a limit as to how small a planet can be and still be habitable, this new study shows that there could still be many more such worlds – smaller than Earth, but habitable, with liquid water – than previously thought. This bodes well in the search for life beyond our solar system.

Artist’s concept of one of the rocky worlds orbiting the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star, with possible liquid water on the surface. A new study says that smaller rocky planets could have a better chance of holding on to their water than previously thought.

Image via ESO/M. Kornmesser.

• Bottom line: A new study has found that small exoplanets have a better chance of holding on to their water than previously thought, increasing the chances that some of them could be habitable.
• Source: Atmospheric Evolution on Low-gravity Waterworlds
• Via Astrobiology Magazine

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25-10-2019 om 17:15 geschreven door peter  

Eindelijk denken wetenschappers te snappen waarom liefst driekwart van alle soorten op aarde het loodje legde

De Mauna Loa- vulkaan op Hawaï - 

Beeld Reuters

Eindelijk denken wetenschappers te snappen hoe het precies kwam dat 202 miljoen jaar geleden liefst driekwart van alle soorten op aarde het loodje legde. Het leven moet zijn getroffen door een verschrikkelijke apocalyptische cocktail van vulkaanrook en kwikvergiftiging ineen.ikvergiftiging ineen.

Exclusief voor abonnees door MAARTEN KEULEMANS

Destijds, aan het einde van het Trias-tijdperk, scheurden de Amerika’s zich los van Europa en Afrika, waardoor de aardkorst openbarstte en er honderdduizenden jaren achtereen vulkaanrook omhoog wolkte. Dat moet de dampkring hebben verpest, de oceanen hebben vergiftigd en het klimaat op hol hebben gebracht, wisten onderzoekers al. Maar naar nu blijkt was er nog iets: de vulkanen vergiftigden de aarde met kwik, een element dat het DNA beschadigt.

“Dit was niet één klap. Waarschijnlijk ging het in pulsen, waarbij het ecosysteem dreun na dreun kreeg”, vertelt de Utrechtse aardwetenschapper Bas van de Schootbrugge, een van de deelnemers aan het onderzoek. “En bij elke klap krijg je zaden die minder levensvatbaar zijn, individuen die minder nageslacht krijgen, soorten die het zwaar krijgen. Een aanslag op het leven.”

MONSTERS

Het team baseert zich op oude sporen (zaadjes) van varens uit die tijd, opgeboord uit de grond van Denemarken en Noord-Duitsland. Die zijn opvallend vaak misvormd: bewijs dat iets hun ontwikkeling verstoorde. Of er ook letterlijk monsters door de bossen strompelden, zoals je bij een fatsoenlijke apocalyps mag verwachten, is onduidelijk. “We hebben nog veel vragen over de biologie hierachter”, zegt Van de Schootbrugge. Wél is het voor het eerst dat onderzoekers het verband leggen tussen vulkanisme en de aantasting van levende wezens overal op aarde.

ZWAAR GIFTIG

Van de Schootbrugge wijst erop dat kwikvergiftiging ook een nieuw licht werpt op andere prehistorische uitsterframpen. Liefst drie andere massa-extincties vonden plaats tegelijk met extreem vulkanisme. De ergste keer was 251 miljoen jaar geleden, toen een Russische megavulkaan miljoenen jaren lang de boel op stelten zette. In zee verdween toen tot liefst 95 procent van alle soorten. “Ik denk dat kwik ook daarbij heeft meegespeeld”, zegt Van de Schootbrugge.

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25-10-2019 om 16:54 geschreven door peter  

NSA Agent Reveals That Aliens Are Probably Real, UFO Sighting News.

Date of article: Oct 25, 2019
Source of article: 

• https://news.yahoo.com/edward-snowden-says-government-isn-120026020.html
  

Former NSA employee Edward Snowden stated, "there are probably aliens." And then went on to say, “I went looking on the network, right,” he said on Wednesday's episode. “I couldn’t find anything. If it’s hidden, and it could be hidden, it’s hidden really damn well, especially for people on the inside.”

So even a former employee of the NSA believes intelligent aliens to  be real, yet he was never deep enough into the network to actually find such evidence. Its not as if every single NSA and CIA and NASA agent knows about them and have seen the files. I would estimate that 1 out of 1,000 employees have actually worked with or had access to those files. For example as of 2019, NASA employees 17,219 employees. That means 17 people at NASA actually have knowledge and access to information of intelligent alien life. So...yeah...its a bit hard to get to that inner circle. But the day will come, when one of the inner circle will reveal the truth to the public. 
Scott C. Waring

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25-10-2019 om 16:16 geschreven door peter  

300 Meter UFO Recorded On Live Cam Over Mexico Volcano,  Oct 2019, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 24, 2019

Location of sighting: Iztaccihuati, Mexico

 

This UFO was seen on live Internet cam over the mouth of the volcano Iztaccihuati. Mexico volcanos are notorious for its UFO sightings and UFOs are seen around it weekly. This object was only visible for two minutes, but you can easily make out its rectangle shape. The object hovered over the mouth of the volcano to either enter or it had just left the underground base. This volcano hasn't erupted since 1889. The alien base is about 4-6km below the base of the volcano. The mouth of the volcano is about 500 meters across, making this UFO 300 meters long. 

Scott C. Waring

 

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25-10-2019 om 15:55 geschreven door peter