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...
28-04-2020
Should An Alleged Saucer Spotted in Antarctica Get Tic Tac UFO Attention?
Should An Alleged Saucer Spotted in Antarctica Get Tic Tac UFO Attention?
Ever since their unauthorized leaks, the so-called Tic Tac UFO videos have been the darlings of the mainstream media which pretty much ignores almost all other UFO sightings and reports. If they’re covered at all, it’s usually on back pages (for those who still read newspapers) or deep withing their websites. That was the case once again this week as every mainstream media site announced that the Pentagon had “officially” released the three Tic Tac and similar videos of still “unidentified” aerial phenomena. While the mainstream salivates over this old news, let’s attempt to give the same kind of attention to another story this week of an alleged on-the-ground flying saucer-like object spotted in Antarctica using Google Earth. (Photo here.)
“In the images provided by Google Earth we can see a silver circular object that has nothing to do with the rest of the surface.”
The Tic Tac UFO
The Tic Tacs have their Luis Elizondo and Tom DeLonge – this Antarctic UFO has Marcelo Irazusta, a well-known Argentine UFO researcher. It appears he found this one in December 2019 and uploaded it then (watch it here) to the YouTube site Planeta Snakedos, where it languished until this week when a clip from the video was posted by UFOMania. The location is given as “Coordinates: 64 ° 7’2.78 “S 61 ° 40’48.23” W,” which is on Graham Land, a northern piece of portion of the Antarctic Peninsula belonging to Argentina.
“From the International space station, several unknown objects (UFOs) were captured in a video near its limits, NASA estimates to cover them up and continues with its recurring role of censoring the evidence that can support that something happens in space.”
The Tic Tacs were spotted by U.S. military personnel and equipment, so Irazusta points out that Google Earth belongs to NASA. And, like the Tic Tacs, many anomalies that appear on Google Earth or on video feeds from the International Space Station are removed, hidden, filed away and otherwise kept from the public view until they’re leaked or discovered.
“It is clearly an artificial object and very similar to classic flying saucers.”
Here’s where the Antarctic object and the Tic Tacs deviate. The Antarctic object appears to be round and reflective and some commenters estimate its size as about 15 meters in diameter. While it certainly could be a case of pareidolia – after all, Irazuta is a UFO investigator – it definitely looks like something that could be a craft. On the other hand, the Tic Tacs aren’t referred to as Tic Tacs for nothing – they look like little white oval mint candies. That’s true from the videos, the radar images, the descriptions, everything. They don’t look like any conventional or any secret-son-of-conventional aircraft developed by humans and the coverage of them doesn’t give sizes or any further descriptions that help imagine them as alien spacecraft. Yet the Tic Tacs are in The New York Times and the Graham Land object is on Planeta Snakedos.
Ice can fool the eye
“Hello community, referring to the first section of the video about the UFO in Antarctica, to say that it can be very deceptive with a block of ice, I do not discuss it, but from my point of view, totally metallic, not ice.”
Should Marcelo Irazusta send his videos (yes, he has many others) to Tom DeLonge? Or should he find some other celebrity UFO fan to sponsor him? (How about Dan Aykroyd?) Should he narrow his Google Earth searches to the U.S. in order to get a politician like former Senator Harry Reid to champion him? Should he start a GoFundMe page to raise money for his own expedition?
The point of this discussion is not to suggest the media give attention to every UFO or strange anomaly report. Rather, it’s to request that some of the attention given to the Tic Tac UFOs be directed at some other reports. Let’s use some of the energy spent demanding the truth from governments on searching for more anomalies, sightings and possible evidence of our own. Sure, it may turn out to be drones (whatever happened to those strange drones in Colorado anyway?) or shadows or reflections or something else. Don’t wait for the powers that be to give you their data – start giving it to THEM!
The Hollow Earth Science, Recent Experiment Shows it Could Be Real After All
The Hollow Earth Science, Recent Experiment Shows it Could Be Real After All
COAST TO COAST AM – Electrical engineer and physicist Brooks Agnew shared updates on a variety of topics, including his work on a North Pole Inner-Earth expedition, his theory of Earth being made of two planets, and the human consciousness evolution.
In 2007, a hypothesis was proposed that the core of the Earth might be a solid iron crystal that has been there for around four billion years. But the science behind this didn’t work, Agnew said, so a new lab experiment was conducted in 2012, which indicated that the core of the Earth has only been around for less than one billion years.
If this is the case, he continued, that means the crust is thick at the equators and thin at the poles.
'The Most Dangerous Place in the History of Planet Earth' Revealed
'The Most Dangerous Place in the History of Planet Earth' Revealed
Predator paradise – The giant predatory dinosaur Carcharodontosaurus eyes a group of Elosuchus – crocodile-like hunters – near a carcass.
Artwork by Davide Bonadonna
100 million years ago, ferocious predators, including flying reptiles and crocodile-like hunters, made the Sahara the most dangerous place on Earth.
This is according to an international team of scientists, who have published the biggest review in almost 100 years of fossil vertebrates from an area of Cretaceous rock formations in south-eastern Morocco, known as the Kem Kem Group.
The review, published in the journal ZooKeys, “provides a window into Africa’s Age of Dinosaurs” according to lead author Dr Nizar Ibrahim, an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Detroit Mercy and Visiting Researcher from the University of Portsmouth.
About 100 million years ago, the area was home to a vast river system, filled with many different species of aquatic and terrestrial animals. Fossils from the Kem Kem Group include three of the largest predatory dinosaurs ever known, including the sabre-toothed Carcharodontosaurus (over 8m in length with enormous jaws and long, serrated teeth up to eight inches long) and Deltadromeus (around 8m in length, a member of the raptor family with long, unusually slender hind limbs for its size), as well as several predatory flying reptiles (pterosaurs) and crocodile-like hunters. Dr Ibrahim said: “This was arguably the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth, a place where a human time-traveller would not last very long.”
Many of the predators were relying on an abundant supply of fish, according to co-author Professor David Martill from the University of Portsmouth. He said: “This place was filled with absolutely enormous fish, including giant coelacanths and lungfish. The coelacanth, for example, is probably four or even five times large than today’s coelacanth. There is an enormous freshwater saw shark called Onchopristis with the most fearsome of rostral teeth, they are like barbed daggers, but beautifully shiny.”
Researchers from the Universities of Detroit, Chicago, Montana, Portsmouth (UK), Leicester (UK, David Unwin), Casablanca (Morocco), and McGill (Canada), as well as the Paris Museum of Natural History, have produced the first detailed and fully illustrated account of the fossil-rich escarpment, previously known as the “Kem Kem beds”. The researchers now define this sedimentary package as the Kem Kem Group, which consists of two distinct formations, the Gara Sbaa Formation and the Douira Formation.
To assemble the huge datasets and fossil images, which were originally included in his PhD thesis, Dr Ibrahim visited Kem Kem collections on several continents.
Shedding light on Africa’s ancient past is important says Professor Martill, “This is the most comprehensive piece of work on fossil vertebrates from the Sahara in almost a century, since the famous German palaeontologist Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach published his last major work in 1936.”
Contacts and sources:
Kate Daniell University of Portsmouth
Publication:
Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco Nizar Ibrahim, Paul C. Sereno, David J. Varricchio, David M. Martill, Didier B. Dutheil, David M. Unwin, Lahssen Baidder, Hans C. E. Larsson, Samir Zouhri, Abdelhadi Kaoukaya http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.928.47517
In 2019, the Navy confirmed the legitimacy of those videos—which show bizarre encounters between Navy fighter pilots and “unexplained aerial phenomena,” but said they were never intended for public release.
The U.S. Navy has officially published three videos that show UFOs are genuine, several years after the notorious clips first leaked online and properly ushered in the UFO renaissance. Last year, the Navy confirmed the three videos, taken by Navy pilots, indeed show “unexplained aerial phenomena,” but the service also said the footage should have never been released to the public in the first place.
The Navy just dropped the three videos—titled “FLIR.mp4,” “GOFAST.wmv,” and “GIMBAL.wmv”—on its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) page, a repository for documents released under the federal law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of U.S. government information to the public. The clips were first released in 2017 and 2018 by The New York Times and To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a UFO research group from former blink-182 member Tom DeLonge.
In November 2004, Navy fighter pilots with the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group spotted a strange, Tic Tac-shaped UFO—“around 40 feet long and oval in shape”—about 100 miles off the coast of San Diego. “FLIR” shows this encounter. Then, in January 2015, an F/A-18F fighter jet off the East Coast captured additional videos using the aircraft’s onboard Raytheon AN/ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) Pod. “GIMBAL” and “GOFAST” show this encounter. In the videos, air crews loudly debate what the objects are and where they came from.
“The Department of Defense [DOD] has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015, which have been circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017,” Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough says in a statement.
In September 2019, the Navy admitted the clips were legitimate, and the objects shown are “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), the catch-all term for the “sightings/observations of unauthorized/unidentified aircraft/objects that have been observed entering/operating in the airspace of various military-controlled training ranges,” per a spokesperson for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare.
“After a thorough review,” Gough says, “the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.”
Gough says DOD released the videos in order to “clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos.”
“The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified,’” says Gough.
But our reporting suggests there is more to this story. In November 2019, Popular Mechanics interviewed several Nimitz witnesses, who said they saw a longer, better video of the encounter than the one released to the public. One witness, for example, told us he “definitely saw video that was roughly 8 to 10 minutes long and a lot more clear.”
Then, in January, Popular Mechanics published a follow-up feature called “The Tale of the Tape,” a thorough examination of the video’s convoluted history that shed light on exactly how the clip made its way into the mainstream. And one month later, we revealed even more secrets about The Pentagon’s Secret UFO Program.
Navy Releases Video of 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena'
Navy Releases Video of 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena'
The Defense Department has declassified three videos that had previously been unofficially circulating in the public. The clips show three incidents described by the Defense Department as “unidentified aerial phenomena.” One of the videos was recorded in November 2004, and the other two were recorded in January 2015.
US Navy pilot LT. Ryan Graves goes on the record with his firsthand account of a UFO sighting while flying training missions over the Atlantic ocean in this clip from Season 1, “UFO Fleet.”
Asteroid warning: NASA tracks a 4KM asteroid approach - Could end civilisation if it hits
Asteroid warning: NASA tracks a 4KM asteroid approach - Could end civilisation if it hits
CLARIFICATION: This article originally claimed that asteroid 52768 (1998 OR2) will approach our planet in April, and that the rock would be "heading our way". In fact it will pass on close approach at an estimated distance of 3.9 million miles from Earth. The article was also accompanied by a graphic showing a stylised asteroid hitting Earth. The diameter of that stylised asteroid was 1,500km, not the 4.1km which asteroid 52768 (1998OR2) actually measures. That graphic has been removed. In addition, a graphic marked 'asteroid warning' has also been removed.
An asteroid which is big enough to end civilisation should it ever hit will make a close approach to our planet in April, NASA's asteroid trackers have found. Theasteroidis listed by NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies' (CNEOS) in California, US. The asteroid has been officially called 52768 (1998 OR2) and is estimated measure up 2.5 miles (4.1km) across.
An object this big could potentially kill millions of people if it ever hit the planet in the distant future.
Although the asteroid in question, 52768 (1998 OR2), has been deemed safe by NASA there are cosmic processes that could influence an asteroid to change its trajectory onto an Earth-bound one.
NASA has dubbed asteroid 52768 (1998 OR2) “potentially hazardous”, which describes the small possibility of an Earth-bound collision at a later, unspecified date.
According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California: “A relatively small number of near-Earth objects pass close enough to Earth and are large enough in size to warrant close observation.
“That's because the gravitational tug of the planets could, over time, cause an object's orbital path to evolve into an Earth-crossing orbit. This allows for the possibility of a future collision.”
The findings are supported by Dr Bruce Betts of The Planetary Society who said, however unlikely, asteroids can be shifted from their path by the gravitational effects of planets and other bodies in the solar system.
Dr Betts said: “The effects of Mars’ gravity and Jupiter’s gravity can actually dislodge some asteroids from the inner asteroid belt and that is where we think most near Earth asteroids come from.”
Another process by which an asteroid can change paths is known as the Yarkovsky effect and is caused by an asteroid in direct sunlight heating and cooling down to release radiation from its surface.
Asteroid: NASA is tracking the movement of a 4.1km space rock
(Image: GETTY)
NASA said: “This radiation exerts a force on the asteroid, acting as a sort of mini-thruster that can slowly change the asteroid's direction over time.”
There is also a third scenario by which an asteroid could be hit by another object and break into smaller chunks, sending them towards Earth.
Although astronomers have never directly observed such a hit, there is some evidence to suggest the asteroid that struck Earth about 65 million was the result of such a collision.
According to astronomer Deborah Byrd, founder EarthSky, the so-called Chicxulub meteor could have been created by asteroids colliding some 100 million years ago.
She said: “One fragment of that ancient smashup might have struck Earth 65 million years ago, triggering a mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to astronomers.”
But the likelihood of any of these scenarios unfolding in the foreseeable future is extremely low and once astronomers determine a rock's trajectory it is unlikely to change.
NASA said of potential risks: "As more and more observations are used to further improve an object's orbit, we become more and more confident in our knowledge of where the object will be in the future."
As the space agency points out, no human is known to have died from a cosmic impact in the last 1,000 years.
NASA said: “It's likely that we could identify a threatening near-Earth object large enough to potentially cause catastrophic changes in the Earth's environment, and most astronomers believe that a systematic approach to studying asteroids and comets that pass close to the Earth makes good sense.
“It's too late for the dinosaurs, but today astronomers are conducting ever-increasing searches to identify all of the larger objects which pose an impact danger to Earth.”
NASA estimates the rock is travelling at speeds of about 8.7km per second or 19,461mph (31,320kmh).
At this rate, the asteroid will make a close approach to Earth on April 29.
When this happens, NASA said the asteroid will make a “close approach” to our planet.
According to the Planetary Society, an asteroid bigger than 0.6 miles (1km) across is big enough to threaten global destruction.
Astronomers estimate such objects have a one in 50,000 chance of hitting Earth every 100 years.
The Planetary Society lists the following impacts: “A crater of 10km or more: global devastation and possible collapse of civilisation.”
Asteroid facts: What is a close approach?
(Image: EXPRESS/GETTY)
Dr Bruce Betts from the international group of astronomers said: “Small asteroids – few metres – hit frequently and burn up in the atmosphere and do little damage.
“Chelyabinsk size asteroids – about 20m that hit in 2013 – create shock waves that shatter windows and cause injuries.
“Tunguska sized – about 40m that hit Siberia in 1908 – could completely destroy a city or create a tsunami.
“Larger asteroids that hit on average less often could cause regional destruction.
“Even larger asteroids that hit even less frequently could cause a global catastrophe.”
The destructive potential of space rocks this big was also outlined in a 2018 report published by the US National Science and Technology Council.
The National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy reads: “Objects close to and larger than one kilometre can cause damage on a global scale.
“They can trigger earthquakes, tsunamis, and other secondary effects that extend far beyond the immediate impact area.”
For comparison, the asteroid that is believed to have killed the dinosaurs measured about six miles (10km) across.
Asteroid OR2 will drastically cut this down to just 3.9 million miles (6.29 million km) on April 29.
In other words, the space rock is expected to miss us by about 16.36 times the distance from Earth to the Moon.
Dr Betts said: “There are a few asteroids that currently are known to have a low probability of hitting Earth in tens to hundreds of years.
“For example, one of the highest probabilities currently is an approximately 37m diameter asteroid called 2000 SG344 that has a 1 in 1100 chance of impact in 2071.
“But these always are based on asteroid observations that have uncertainties in them.”
Have you heard about an asteroid close-approach happening on April 29? Asteroid 1998 OR2 poses no threat to our planet, but we can still learn a lot by studying it. Don’t miss a special Planetary Defense episode of NASA Science Live on Monday, April 27 at 3:00 p.m. EDT to learn how we find, track and monitor asteroids and near-Earth Objects.
Pentagon Releases Statement On UFO Videos, Because Something Big Is On Its Way To Earth, UFO Sighting News.
Pentagon Releases Statement On UFO Videos, Because Something Big Is On Its Way To Earth, UFO Sighting News.
The Pentagon on Monday released three unclassified videos showing UFOs in an attempt to assure the public that the videos, which have been circulating for years, are real. The videos have been making their rounds ever since 2007. "After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena," the Department of Defense said in a statement Monday. -------------------------------------------------------------- I find this intriguing in the fact that it was the Pentagon that made the official announcement and that they did from the DOD. For the US government to come out and admit that the videos are real means they know that something big is coming soon. For instance...earth got a new moon starting Nov 2019...the same time that Coronavirus began circulating in China. Which means...it came for a purpose...to watch, to learn and to report back all that its seen and heard. And since the probe is known by the US gov and NASA...none of which know what to do about it...the US gov is trying to quickly leak out real info to the public to make any sudden announcement less of a blow. Something big has been notices by the US government...something big enough to scare them. That moon may have friends on its way. And if thats true...then we are in danger. Scott C. Waring
Statue Found On Mars Of Half Goat Half Human Animal, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Statue Found On Mars Of Half Goat Half Human Animal, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: April 23, 2020 Location of discovery: Mars I found this strange artistic statue on Mars today. It has a nose, cheeks and eyes of a human, but ears of a goat, leges like a horse, but the back leg has the hoof reversed pointing the opposite direction. The chiseled face makes me know this is a statue that was created...although the creature looks like it just collapsed in place. Only two of its leges are visible...one front, folded under itself, and a back leg. This is very primitive art compared to human art...but I have seen some art on walls in museums that didn't deserve to be called art...for instance the art on Mars looks like something that Damien Hirst, a UK artist made. Very odd indeed, and yet...its still art. So...everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. Thats why there are artists...to show you the possibilities that exist. Scott C. Waring – Taiwan
I went to the Venus NASA map and it was no longer working. Its ok, I got my own copy of it I downloaded last year. Let me show you why they took this map down. There are many alien cities visible on this map. Some so big...they look like a single structure, but are actually bigger than the city of Los Angeles...my place of birth. Just like LA this wheel structure extends 70 km across. I found that the structure above has a wheel like design and is very similar to descriptions of the ancient city of Atlantis. Can you see the tunnels, the intelligent design? Its just extraordinary to see, let alone to think about. I never expected the US gov to take down the Venus map, but lucky I had a copy of it. I will continue to post structures from it now and then. And a personal message to NASA, you will never be able to hide the existence of other alien species by hitting the delete button. That is so 1980s of you. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Pentagon formally releases 3 Navy videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena"
BY STEFAN BECKET
Washington — The Pentagon on Monday formally released three unclassified videos taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with "unidentified aerial phenomena."
One of the videos shows an incident from 2004, and the other two were recorded in January 2015, according to Sue Gough, a Defense Department spokeswoman. The videos became public after unauthorized leaks in 2007 and 2017, and the Navy previously verified their authenticity.
"After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena," Gough said.
The 2004 incident occurred about 100 miles out in the Pacific, according to The New York Times, which first reported on the video in 2017. Two fighter pilots on a routine training mission were dispatched to investigate unidentified aircraft that a Navy cruiser had been tracking for weeks.
The Navy pilots found an oblong object about 40 feet long hovering about 50 feet above the water, and it began a rapid ascent as the pilots approached before quickly flying away. "It accelerated like nothing I've ever seen," one of the pilots told The Times.
An unidentified object seen in footage captured by the Navy in 2004.DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
The pilots left the area to meet at a rendezvous point a
bout 60 miles away. When they were still about 40 miles out, the ship radioed and said the object was at the rendezvous point, having traversed the distance "in less than a minute," the pilot told The Times.
The two other videos of incidents in 2015 include footage of objects moving rapidly through the air. In one, an object is seen racing through the sky and begins rotating in midair.
Footage released by the Defense Department shows an object rotating in midair in January 2015.DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
"Dude, this is a f--king drone, bro," a pilot exclaims on the video. Another person says "there's a whole fleet of them."
"They're all going against the wind. The wind's 120 knots to the west. Look at that thing, dude!" the first person says. "It's rotating!"
In the other 2015 video, an object is shown from above speeding over the ocean, prompting the pilot to excitedly remark, "What the f--k is that?"
Footage released by the Defense Department shows an object speeding over the ocean in January 2015.DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Five Navy pilots who spotted the objects in 2015 told The Times in 2017 that they had a series of interactions with unidentified aircraft during training missions in 2014 and 2015 along the East Coast from Virginia to Florida. The episodes prompted the Navy to clarify how pilots should report experiences with "unidentified aerial phenomena," which had been studied under a Pentagon program from 2007 to 2012.
Gough, the Pentagon spokeswoman, said the department was formally releasing the videos to address questions about their veracity.
"DOD is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos," Gough said. "The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as 'unidentified.'"
Het Pentagon heeft drie opvallende video’s vrijgegeven waarin te zien is hoe Amerikaanse marinepiloten tijdens trainingsvluchten in contact komen met ‘ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten’ - UFO’s. De korrelige video’s, die volgens het Pentagon ‘onverklaarde luchtfenomenen’ tonen, werden al eerder gelekt. Nu zijn de video’s officieel ‘declassified’ verklaard en gedeeld met het grote publiek. Daarmee wordt meteen ook bevestigd dat het gaat om authentieke beelden.
Pentagon geeft nu zelf drie gelekte UFO-video’s vrij
De grijze, korte, onduidelijke, maar wel ophefmakende beelden begonnen in 2007 en 2017 te circuleren na een ongeautoriseerd lek. Ze tonen wat marinepiloten zagen tijdens trainingsvluchten in 2004 en 2015. Twee video’s werden eerder gepubliceerd door The New York Times, de andere video werd vrijgegeven door een private organisatie. Te zien is hoe ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten pijlsnel door de lucht bewegen, ze worden maar heel kort opgepikt door infraroodcamera’s.
Het gebeurde extreem abrupt, als een pingpongbal die van de muur afketst. Alsof het iets raakte en in de andere richting werd gekatapulteerd
Vooral het commentaar van de betrokken piloten in de twee video’s uit 2015 is fascinerend. Ze zijn duidelijk onder de indruk van de snelheid van de objecten en kunnen hun ogen niet geloven. “My god. Het gaat tegen de wind”, zegt een stem. “Kijk naar dat ding!”, klinkt het. “Het is aan het draaien!” In de andere video juicht een piloot: “Yes, ik heb het”, als hij het in zijn camera kan vastgrijpen. “Kijk hoe het vliegt! Wow.”
In 2017 verklaarde de intussen gepensioneerde marinepiloot David Fravor, die de beelden uit 2004 maakte (zonder geluid), dat het object dat hij had gezien, “bewoog op manieren die hij niet kon uitleggen”.
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Pentagon
Geautoriseerd
Het Pentagon zegt dat het de beelden nu besluit vrij t
e geven “om eventuele misvattingen bij het publiek weg te nemen over het vraagstuk of het circulerende beeldmateriaal wel echt was en of er meer aan de video’s was”, zo luidt het in een statement van het ministerie van Defensie.
“Na een diepgaand onderzoek heeft het ministerie besloten dat een geautoriseerde vrijgave van deze video’s geen enkele gevoelige informatie qua capaciteiten of systemen onthult en ook geen afbreuk doet aan eventuele nog volgende onderzoeken naar ongeïdentificeerde luchtverschijnselen in het militaire luchtruim”, is te lezen. Verder klinkt het dat de fenomenen geobserveerd in de video’s onder de noemer blijven van ‘ongeïdentificeerd’.
Speculaties
Dat het Pentagon de video’s nu zelf vrijgeeft, draagt bij tot de legitimering van de beelden. Het zal ongetwijfeld alleen maar de speculaties voeden dat mensen mogelijk in contact zijn gekomen met buitenaardse wezens.
Het Pentagon bestudeerde eerder opnames van luchtontmoetingen met onbekende objecten als deel van een ‘classified program’ dat in 2007 werd opgezet in opdracht van de toenmalige Amerikaanse Democratische Senaatsfractieleider Harry Reid. Maar in 2012 eindigde het geheime programma - het ‘Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program’ - omdat er werd geoordeeld dat er andere prioriteiten waren die budgetten nodig hadden.
“Eindelijk”
Het voormalige hoofd van het programma, Luis Elizondo, verklaarde in 2017 aan CNN dat hij gelooft dat er “overtuigend bewijs is dat we misschien niet alleen zijn”. “Deze vliegtuigen - laten we het vliegtuigen noemen - hebben kenmerken die niet bekend zijn”, zei hij over de objecten die hij had bestudeerd.
Ex-senator Reid tweette maandag dat hij “blij” is dat het Pentagon “eindelijk” de video’s heeft vrijgegeven, maar dat het “maar het topje van de ijsberg is van het onderzoek en beschikbaar materiaal”.
Senator Harry Reid✔@SenatorReid
I’m glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available. The U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications. The American people deserve to be informed.
HELSINKI — China has named its first independent interplanetary mission Tianwen-1, with the combined Mars orbiter and rover spacecraft apparently proceeding towards launch in July.
The name and mission logo were unveiled at a China National Space Administration online ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of the country’s first satellite. DFH-1 launched on a Long March 1 rocket from Jiuquan April 24, 1970, making China the fifth country to independently launch a satellite.
Tianwen-1, meaning ‘questions to heaven’, is taken from the name of a long-form poem by Qu Yuan, a poet born in the fourth century B.C., according to CNSA chief engineer Ge Xiaochun.
The ‘Lanxingjiutian’ logo includes representations of the Latin letter ‘c’, referring to China, cooperation, and the cosmic velocity required to undertake planetary exploration. Further Chinese planetary missions will also carry the Tianwen name.
China is understood to be planning a Mars sample return mission, a Jupiter orbiter and considering possible missions to icy giants and interstellar space. A joint near-Earth asteroid sample return and comet rendezvous mission has also been proposed.
Spacecraft delivered, rocket engines tested
Few details of the Tianwen-1 mission have been released so far. The Tianwen-1 spacecraft is expected to have a wet mass of around 5 metric tons. Launch on a Long March 5 launcher is expected from Wenchang early in the short launch window to Mars open in late July and early August.
The YF-77 liquid oxygen-liquid hydrogen engines for the Long March 5 passed tests in January. The same engines were the cause of the failure of the second Long March 5 launch in 2017.
Comprehensive software and hardware tests of the spacecraft were completed in March. The spacecraft has apparently been delivered to Wenchang Satellite Launch Center.
The test launch of the Long March 5B—currently expected in early May—will likely need to succeed for the Tianwen-1 mission to proceed. Following that mission, the Yuanwang-21 and -22 cargo vessels will collect the components of the Long March 5 for Tianwen-1 from Tianjin, north China, for delivery to Wenchang on the southern island of Hainan.µ
Tianwen-1 orbiter, lander details
The Tianwen-1 orbiter will be equipped with a high-resolution camera comparable to HiRise on board NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It also carries a medium-resolution camera, subsurface radar, mineralogy spectrometer, neutral and energetic particle analyzers and a magnetometer. The orbiter will also play a relay role for the mission rover.
The roughly 240-kilogram solar-powered rover is nearly twice the mass of China’s Yutu lunar rovers. It will carry a ground-penetrating radar, multispectral camera, a Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy instrument and payloads for detecting the climate and magnetic environment. The rover has a mission design lifetime of three Earth months. The rover will receive a name through a public vote closer to launch.
China has outlined two landing areas, with a candidate landing site in Utopia Planitia. The landing ellipse is understood to be around 100 x 40 kilometers. Site selection was driven by a range of factors including flight system engineering constraints and the challenges of entry, descent and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet, and the science goals of the mission.
The Tianwen-1 spacecraft is expected to reach Mars around February 2021. However, the rover landing attempt may not take place immediately. There are suggestions that the landing segment of the mission will be conducted months later, in April. This would allow mapping and observation of the landing site, despite the availability of high-resolution NASA imagery from HiRise.
The Tianwen-1 mission will join NASA’s Perseverance Mars 2020 rover and the United Arab Emirates’ Hope Mars orbiter, which this week shipped to its launch site in Japan, in launching during the July-August Mars launch window. ESA’s Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has been delayed to the next opportunity in 2022.
Map indicating two preliminary landing areas for China’s 2020 Mars rover presented at the sessions of COPUOS in Vienna, Austria in June 2018. Credit: CNSA
Starship SN4 just took a big step toward a test flight.
The newest prototype of SpaceX's Starship Mars-colonizing spacecraft just passed a crucial pressure test, likely setting the stage for a test flight in the near future.
Starship SN4 survived a "cryo pressure test" late Sunday night (April 26) at SpaceX's South Texas site, near the village of Boca Chica, company founder and CEOElon Musk announced.
"SN4 passed cryo proof!" Musk said via Twitter late Sunday Texas time (early morning on Monday, April 27, EDT), in a post that included a "relieved" emoji. "Great work by SpaceX engineering!" he added in another tweet.
Musk's excitement is understandable, for success was far from guaranteed. This trial, in which the vehicle is filled with frigid liquid nitrogen to simulate the conditions experienced during operational missions, which will use ultracold propellant, felled three previous prototypes over the past five months.
The SN4 can now progress to the next step of the development campaign: engine tests, which will culminate with a static fire of its single Raptor engine on the ground. In yet another late-night tweet, Musk said SpaceX aims to conduct the static fire later this week.
Provided that goes well, the SN4 ("Serial No. 4") will be cleared to fly, on an uncrewed test with a target altitude of 500 feet (150 meters) or so. SN4 would be the first full-size Starship prototype to fly, and the second of any sort; a stubby test vehicle called Starhopper got off the ground briefly last year but was soon retired.
Future Starship prototypes will go higher, powered by more Raptors. For example, the SN5 will sport three of the powerful, next-generation engines, Musk said in another tweet.
The operational Starship, whose design SpaceX is homing in on via rapid prototype iteration, will feature six Raptors. The 165-foot-tall (50 m) spaceship will launch off Earth atop a gigantic rocket known as Super Heavy, which will have room for 37 of the engines, Musk has said.
Both vehicles will be reusable. Super Heavy will come down to Earth for vertical touchdowns shortly after liftoff, just as the first stages of SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets do now. Each Starship, meanwhile, will be able to fly many missions between Earth and Mars, or Earth and the moon, or anywhere else people (or payloads) need to go. (Starship will be powerful enough to launch itself off Mars and the moon, which have relatively weak gravitational pulls. Super Heavy is needed to get the craft off Earth, however
And SpaceX will make many Starships, if all goes according to plan. Musk's long-term vision involves sending a huge fleet of the 100-passenger vehicles off to Mars every 26 months, when the Red Planet and Earth are properly aligned for interplanetary trips. He sees Starship and Super Heavy as potentially slashing the cost of spaceflight enough to make Mars colonization — a driving ambition for the billionaire entrepreneur, and the main reason he founded SpaceX back in 2002 — economically feasible.
A cutting-edge implant has allowed a man to feel and move his hand again after a spinal cord injury left him partially paralyzed,Wired reports.
According to a press release, it’s the first time both motor function and sense of touch have been restored using a brain-computer interface (BCI), as described in a paper published in the journal Cell.
After severing his spinal cord a decade ago, Ian Burkhart had a BCI developed by researchers at Battelle, a private nonprofit specializing in medical tech, implanted in his brain in 2014.
The injury completely disconnected the electrical signals going from Burkhart’s brain to his hands, through the spinal cord. But the researchers figured they could skip the spinal cord to hook up Burkhart’s primary motor cortex to his hands through a relay.
A port in the back of his skull sends signals to a computer. Special software decodes the signals and splits them between signals corresponding to motion and touch respectively. Both of these signals are then sent out to a sleeve of electrodes around Burkhart’s forearm.
But making sense of these signals is extremely difficult.
“We’re separating thoughts that are occurring almost simultaneously and are related to movements and sub-perceptual touch, which is a big challenge,” lead researcher at Battelle Patrick Ganzer told Wired.
The team saw some early successes regarding movement — the initial goal of the BCI — allowing Burkhart to press buttons along the neck of a “Guitar Hero” controller.
But returning touch to his hand was a much more daunting task. By using a simple vibration device or “wearable haptic system,” Burkhart was able to tell if he was touching an object or not without seeing it.
“It’s definitely strange,” Burkhart told Wired. “It’s still not normal, but it’s definitely much better than not having any sensory information going back to my body.”
In the first discovery of its kind, researchers in France have found that 19 asteroids in our solar system – between the planets Jupiter and Neptune – they say are likely of interstellar origin.
Illustration depicting one of the Centhers think originated from interstellar space. It was orbiting the sun in an orbit highly perpendicular to the protoplanetary disk of dust and gas, and still maintains that orbit today.
Image via NASA/ CNRS.aur asteroids, which the researc
You likely heard about ‘Oumuamua, the strange asteroid-like object that entered our solar system from interstellar space in 2017. More recently, astronomers found a second interstellar object – definitely a comet this time, labeled 21/Borisov – in 2019. Both of those objects were only visitors to our solar system, passing through for a time before heading back out into interstellar space. Meanwhile, in 2018, the asteroid 2015 BZ509was also identified as being of interstellar origin. But this asteroid isn’t just passing through. It’s a permanent member of our solar system, orbiting the sun. Now, researchers from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) say they’ve found the first known population of 19 interstellar asteroids, now-permanent members of our solar system that apparently originated from somewhere else in space.
Like 2015 BZ509, they are permanent residents of the solar system, belonging to a group of objects called Centaurs, small rocky bodies orbiting between the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter and the Kuiper Belt objects beyond Neptune.
The 19 new interstellar asteroids are in highly inclined orbits in contrast to other asteroids, comets or planets in our solar system.
The Centaurs (red dots) are small rocky objects generally between the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune (N) and the Trojans near Jupiter (J).
The new peer-reviewed findings were published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) on April 23, 2020. The study was conducted by lead author Fathi Namouni, a CNRS researcher in the Laboratoire Lagrange and Helena Morais, researcher at UNESP in Brazil.
While these asteroids have been orbiting the sun for a long time, they did not originate here, according to the new research. Analysis indicates that they were not part of the original protoplanetary disk of dust and gas that surrounded our sun when it was first born 4.5 billion years ago, where the young planets were forming, so they must have come here from somewhere else. Namouni said in a statement:
The close proximity of the stars meant that they felt each others’ gravity much more strongly in those early days than they do today. This enabled asteroids to be pulled from one star system to another.
2015 BZ509, discovered in 2018, was the first permanent asteroid in the solar system (unlike ‘Oumuamua or 21/Borisov) determined to have originated from interstellar space.
Image via Christian Veillet/ Large Binocular Telescope Observatory/ CNRS.
So how did Namouni and Morais determine the interstellar origin of these asteroids?
They developed a precise computer simulation of the orbits of these asteroids. By doing so, they could “go back in time” to find out what the positions of the asteroids were in the distant past. The simulations showed that, like now, the asteroids were eccentric, orbiting the sun highly perpendicular to the orbits of the young planets and other objects at the time. They were also located far away from the protoplanetary disk itself. These two findings indicate that the asteroids did not form in the protoplanetary disk along with all the other objects in our solar system, but rather they must have originated from somewhere else, perhaps another star, and were caught by the sun’s gravity early in the solar system’s history.
Morais commented:
The discovery of a whole population of asteroids of interstellar origin is an important step in understanding the physical and chemical similarities and differences between solar system-born and interstellar asteroids. This population will give us clues about the sun’s early birth cluster, how interstellar asteroid capture occurred, and the role that interstellar matter had in chemically enriching the solar system and shaping its evolution.
Artist’s concept of ‘Oumuamua, whose actual appearance is unknown. While it was actually the first rocky interstellar visitor identified, in 2017, it didn’t remain in our solar system like the asteroids discussed in the new study have.
These asteroids are similar to 2015 BZ509, which shares an orbit with Jupiter, but is traveling in the opposite direction. In 2018, the same researchers, Namouni and Morais, found that the asteroid has always had that retrograde orbit, going back to the birth of the solar system. This suggested it came from a nearby star system, and was captured by Jupiter’s gravity. 2015 BZ509 was first spotted in the Pan-STARRS survey in 2015.
It’s still possible that there could be another explanation for asteroids like these, but as they explained in a recent Gizmodo article on April 23, 2020, Namouni and Morais seem confident in their conclusions. They’ve faced some skepticism from other scientists, but so far no peer-reviewed papers have been published refuting their results. Only time will tell if their results continue to stand up to scrutiny, but at the moment, it seems that they have established a good case for some Centaurs (and perhaps some other similar objects in the solar system?) having an extraterrestrial origin.
Fathi Namouni of CNRS, lead author of the new study.
Objects like ‘Oumuamua and 21/Borisov were more difficult to study, since they were only in our solar system for a relatively short amount of time. But these other 19 asteroids, although far away from Earth, keep orbiting the sun, making it easier to observe them remotely over long time periods. If they truly are interstellar, then they offer a unique opportunity to examine asteroids that are alien to our solar system, and compare them to asteroids that were already here when the solar system began to form. Additional analysis could show how they differ in appearance or composition to asteroids that formed here, and provide valuable clues as to how asteroids and other rocky bodies form around other stars.
Bottom line: A new study from CNRS reveals that 19 asteroids in our solar system are actually of interstellar origin.
Astronomers have found nineteen interstellar asteroids orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune. These asteroids previously belonged to a distant star system and have been orbiting our sun for approximately 4.5 billion years –the same time as the birth of our solar system.
It is believed that when the universe expanded, these asteroids were grabbed from their original star system and ended up staying in our own solar system because of the gravitational pull from our sun. “The close proximity of the stars meant that they felt each other’s gravity much more strongly in those early days than they do today,” explained Fathi Namouni who is from the Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur in France and is the lead author of the study (which can be read in full here). “This enabled asteroids to be pulled from one star system to another.”
‘Oumuamua
These interstellar asteroids are part of a group called Centaurs which has baffled scientists since the first one called Chiron was identified back in 1977. It has been suggested that these bodies were once part of the Kuiper Belt in the outer part of our solar system prior to travelling to the more interior region.
Dr. Namouni and co-author of the study Maria Helena Morais from the Universidade Estadual Paulista in Brazil performed computer simulations and found that billions of years ago the asteroids were orbiting the sun on a plane perpendicular to planetary motion. During that time when our solar system was forming, there was tons of debris floating around that would eventually form into Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, but the interstellar asteroids were able to avoid the debris as they were orbiting at a further distance.
2I/Borisov
Dr. Morais went into further detail about this significant revelation, “The discovery of a whole population of asteroids of interstellar origin is an important step in understanding the physical and chemical similarities and differences between Solar System-born and interstellar asteroids.” “This population will give us clues about the Sun’s early birth cluster, how interstellar asteroid capture occurred, and the role that interstellar matter had in chemically enriching the Solar System and shaping its evolution.”
This is such an incredible discovery as only two interstellar visitors have been previously discovered – ‘Oumuamua (which was found in October of 2017) and 2I/Borisov (noticed in August of 2019 but is now breaking apart).
With nineteen newly found interstellar asteroids, there are surely a bunch more hidden in our solar system, so the next question is ‘how many more?’
I’m a ghost Living in a ghost town I’m a ghost Living in a ghost town “Living In A Ghost Town” The Rolling Stones
There are many who believe that The Rolling Stones possess some sort of magic elixir or have made a pact with some supernatural being to make them seemingly immortal, because they’ve not only outlived but out-played and out-recorded virtually all of their contemporaries while indulging in the rock star lifestyle (especially Keith Richards) that has ended the careers – fatally or otherwise – of so many others. Yet here they are in 2020, releasing a song that quickly became their first chart-topping hit in decades. “Living in a Ghost Town” is the perfect song for these times, even though it was written long before the coronavirus pandemic turned many places into ghost towns (can they see the future too?). Having avoided becoming ghosts in real life, this writer (full disclosure – a longtime fan of the band) wondered if Mick, Keith and the boys have had their own experiences with real ghosts. Turns out they have … and aliens too!
“Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones stated that his family saw headless ghosts at one of the holiday homes in France which they believe may be the ghosts of the building’s former residents who died during the French Revolution.”
Mick Jagger
The book “Paranormal Case Files of Great Britain (Volume 2)” recounts one of Mick Jagger’s ghostly encounters. According to “Keith Richards: The Biography” by Victor Borkris, Keith lived in a five-story Queen Anne house on the Thames in London in 1969 which his longtime girlfriend Anita Pallenberg turned it into a “hippie’s dream pad.” However, there were some things she couldn’t change.
“A number of people who stayed there claimed the house was haunted.”
That was the same year band co-founder Brian Jones died, and Keith had an eerie encounter with Jones’ ghost many years later while recording “Blue & Lonesome.”
“The last time I ever played ‘Little Rain’ was with Brian Jones. Now, I’m playing ‘Little Rain’ in the studio and suddenly Brian is looming in front of me…”
Keith Richards
Keith probably had more that he can’t remember – after all, this is the guy who snorted his late father’s ashes (“My dad wouldn’t have cared, he didn’t give a shit.”). Drummer Charlie Watts hasn’t reported any ghost encounters, nor has Ronnie Wood, but Wood and his wife Jo have had a number of UFO and alien experiences, which Jo has retold many times in books and lectures.
“A blue-green orb floated alongside my window. My son Tyrone, who was 15 at the time, saw it too. I had the same feeling as I did on the beach in Brazil: that it was not from this planet.”
Jo says Ronnie has seen the UFOs too, but doesn’t talk about it as much. So has Mick Jagger, who claims his first encounter was with a luminous cigar-shaped ship when he went camping in Glastonbury in 1968 with his then girlfriend, singer Marianne Faithful. He also claimed to have seen a UFO during The Rolling Stones’ 1969 Altamont Concert in California and has some sort of UFO detector installed at his British estate. He should have loaned it to Keith, because Richards claimed to have seen UFOs landing at his Redlands estate in West Sussex in 1968.
“I’ve seen a few, but nothing that any of the ministries would believe. I believe they exist – plenty of people have seen them. They are tied up with a lot of things, like the dawn of man, for example. It’s not just a matter of people spotting a flying saucer… I’m not an expert. I’m still trying to understand what’s going on.”
The Stones are not known for burying messages about paranormal experiences in their song lyrics. Is “Living in a Ghost Town” an attempt to tell us something?
Outside of “We’re still alive!” and still recording great music, we’ll have to wait to find out.
“…expeditionary, deployable, reversible offensive space control (OCS) effects applicable across the full spectrum of conflict. It prevents adversary Satellite Communications (SATCOM) in Area of Responsibility (AOR) including Command & Control (C2), Early Warning and Propaganda, and hosts Rapid Reaction Capabilities in response to Urgent Needs.”
As reported in Popular Mechanics, that’s US Space Force-speak for its first weapon, the Counter Communications Systems (CCS) Block 10.2 – a jammer that effectively cuts the electronic cord between ground troops and the satellites they use to communicate with their generals, allies and each other. This is much more effective than trying to know out the transmitter on the ground or the satellite in space, and the latest generation of these jammers covers a greater frequency spectrum than ever before. Needless, to say, Russia is not pleased.
“We also have a lot of questions. We asked them quite a long time ago and want to have an answer after all. A full-fledged meaningful Russian-US dialogue on a wide spectrum of issues of space activities security Russian and US senior diplomats agreed on on January 16 will help resolve mutual concerns.”
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS that her government is not pleased with what it perceives to be a first step towards an arms race in space. She’s right about a “race” because Russia’s military already has a similar satellite jammer that’s believed to be not as robust as the Space Force’s. Of course, this is also a war of words, as Zakharova was responding to criticism by Gen. John Raymond, chief of space operations for the Space Force, about Russia’s alleged testing of an anti-satellite missile.
“Previously, such claims were voiced by US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Ford. We have commented on each and every such anti-Russian attack which are all nothing but the United States’ attempt to divert public attention from real threats in space and to justify its moves to deploy weapons in outer space and obtain extra financing for such causes.”
That’s a diplomatic in-your-face response from Zakharova. This may seem like much ado about nothing since the satellite jammer is ground-based, but anything that’s launched must communicate with satellites to get to space. In fact, it’s becoming clear that nearly everything on Earth depends on satellites. The Space Force is part of the Air Force, so using jets to rapidly deploy the jammers around the world seems like a good idea. Meanwhile, NASA and Elon Musk (the distinction between these two is slowly beginning to blur) are covering space with satellites – perhaps in an attempt to overwhelm Russia’s anti-satellite missiles or its own jammers.
“It is obvious that serious concerns, if any, cannot be resolved by means of such statements, by means of fakes. It is necessary to use the existing channels for expert and political dialogue for that. We do have such channels and it is necessary simply to use them. Unwillingness to do so is rather an evidence of insufficiently grounded position of our American colleagues.”
Sigh. Even space cannot escape from ‘fake news’ and ‘insufficiently grounded positions’. Are we doomed to resume the Cold War’s massive arms race in space? Strategic space command. Lt. Col. Steve Brogan gives Interesting Engineering an answer.
“CCS is the only offensive system in the United States Space Force arsenal. This upgrade puts the ‘force’ in Space Force and is critical for Space as a warfighting domain.”
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