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...
15-08-2020
Massive Event!! Asteroid Impact November Worries Worldwide!! - Must See Video
Massive Event!! Asteroid Impact November Worries Worldwide!! - Must See Video
Way 2020 has been going wouldn’t surprise me!
Yeah , there is a whole asteroid belt on its way. And nobody is talking about it. Oh and how about the movie that comes out tomorrow…called “green land” based on earth killer asteroids. Hmmm interesting
1:01 Nope, in September they’ve prepared aliens for us… the asteroid event is reserved for the 2020 season finale in December!
3 incoming asteroids– september 1, 22, nov 2 2020
September 1st must be the demonic elites letting us know that’s when they plan on a fake asteroid IMPACT causing an emp or something along those lines. All I know is that Jesus Christ is coming back soon before all hell breaks loose & America is overthrown by a coalition of nations.
You can’t eat gold. You can’t eat silver. You can’t eat Bitcoin. You can’t eat crypto currency.
The good book says we would see things never before seen and never to be seen again!
I think the focus should be to bring down the private banking families, or at least stop consenting to the tyranny and indoctrination regarding the PLANDEMIC!
There’s no asteroid impact coming. The collapse won’t happen all at once. It’s happening right now, as we speak.
UFO Shoots Over The Roof Tops Of Cambridge, UK Aug 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Shoots Over The Roof Tops Of Cambridge, UK Aug 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 14, 2020 Location of sighting: Cambridge, UK To say this is fake would be jumping to conclusions. I really believe this video to authentic. The UFO that passes over the rooftops is seen for a mere few seconds and its blended in with though overcast sky. This UFO may have been taking advantage of covid19 lockdowns and the weather. UFOs are often attracted to lighting, possibly using the powerful strikes as added energy. This craft is rotating as it moves. The rotation apparent right before it leaves the video on the right side. Also there is a fuzziness around it...this blur is often seen around real UFO and its assumed the population systems are the cause. Cambridge...a city famous for being home to some of the greatest minds in history...like Stephan Hawking, Charles Darwin, Sir Isaac Newton...it makes me wonder...was this UFO part of a bigger plan to find a pregnant woman and change her baby to be the next great mind? Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Was trying to record the heavy lightning that was happening after these stupidly hot days in the UK. Ended up with this instead! Erm...ideas? I thought it was a flock of birds at first lol. Looks sectioned?
Here is an interesting structure in a crater on Mercury. According to the map ruler, the structure is 5 km wide and 10 km tall. The crater it sits in must be about 12km deep because the structure does not exit the crater ceiling area. Why oh why would aliens want to build a structure directly in the middle of a crater where it obviously stands out? With a species able to construct a 10km tall structure...its just absolute proof of intelligent beings out there. Even with less gravity on Mercury...still an incredible achievement.
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Mysterious UFO filmed during thunderstorm over Cambridge, UK
Mysterious UFO filmed during thunderstorm over Cambridge, UK
Paul Bryan was recording the heavy lightning over Cambridge, UK on August 13, 2020 when suddenly a strange object came into view flying at low-altitude.
At first, Paul thought it was a flock of birds, but after a closer look it seems the object is sectioned and there are no visible propulsion characteristics.
Despite the object being similar to a so-called Fastwalker, could it be that he has captured a new type high tech (military) drone or was it something not of this earth?
This UFO video was filmed back in September 2019 but it was just published on MUFON’s website today. This happened over Washoe Valley in Nevada.
Witness report:
I noticed two glowing spheres out my breakfast nook window. I was eating lunch in our breakfast nook and noticed something shiny in the distance to the north, in the sky. At first i thought helicopter or plane or glider/ultralight (people fly those in this region), but the light did not move. I noticed it looked like actually two circular metallic objects. The were fixed in space, between my location on Aspen Creek and Slide Mountain, southwest of Reno NV. I took my phone and started recording video. I walked to the window to get a closer look and the objects remained in place. Moving closer I could not see any additional detail. I did not notice the pulsating while watching, but it came out on the video. The objects remained in the exact same position for a while so and stopped the recording. About a minute later I looked up again and they were gone, so I do not know if and how they moved.
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The mysterious bright spots on Ceres caused a sensation when the Dawn spacecraft first spied them in 2015. Now, they’re known to be salt deposits from a recent or ongoing percolation of briny water from a large reservoir in Ceres’ interior.
Images of Occator Crater on Ceres, which is the biggest dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The white areas in the crater are salt deposits. Numerous images – seen in false-color – were pieced together here to create this animated view.
As the Dawn spacecraft was approaching Ceres in 2015, it spied some mysterious bright spots on the surface of this dwarf planet.Something on Ceres was so highly reflective that, for a time, onlookers joked about alien lights. Scientists were puzzled at first, wondering what was causing the reflectivity. It turned out there are multiple bright spots on Ceres, and they’re now known to be salt deposits on this little world’s surface, mostly composed of sodium carbonate. Scientists said the spots likely came from liquid that had percolated up to Ceres’ surface and evaporated, leaving behind a salt crust. But percolated up from where? In October 2018, as Dawn’s mission was ending, the spacecraft dipped to less than 22 miles (35 km) above Ceres’ surface. The craft saw new details in the bright areas that have now enabled scientists to explain the bright spots’ origins.
Dawn scientists now say that the salty liquid on Ceres’ surface came from a reservoir of brine, or salt-enriched water, deep in Ceres’ interior. Scientists say this brine reservoir is about 25 miles (40 km) deep and hundreds of miles wide. Ceres itself is less than 600 miles across (1,000 km) across. So, in other words, Ceres is now understood to have a relatively vast interior reservoir of briny water.
The findings, which also reveal the extent of geologic activity in Occator Crater – home of Ceres’ most famous bright spots – appear in a special collection of papers published by Nature Astronomy, Nature Geoscience, and Nature Communications on August 10, 2020.
In 2015, as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft approached dwarf planet Ceres, it saw 2 strange bright spots on Ceres’ surface. Onlookers joked about “alien headlights,” but couldn’t explain the spots yet. Now they’re known to be relatively recent salt deposits. This image is from February 19, 2015, acquired from a distance of nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 km). It revealed that the brightest spot on Ceres has a dimmer companion, which lies in the same crater, now called Occator Crater.
Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ UCLA/ MPS/ DLR/ IDA.
Ceres’ bright spots from just 240 miles (385 km) above its surface (lower than the International Space Station is above Earth).
Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ UCLA/ MPS/ DLR/ IDA.
An image of Occator Crater – and the bright spots – draped over a digital terrain model, providing a 3-D-like perspective view.
Ceres – reclassified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2006, at the same time Pluto was demoted from full planet status – was formerly called asteroid Ceres and was the first asteroid to have been discovered in 1801.
There were hints of bright regions on Ceres long before Dawn’s arrival in 2015. Peering through telescopes, scientists had noticed diffuse bright areas of an unknown nature on the dwarf planets. The scientists’ statement said they:
… knew that micrometeorites frequently pelt the surface of Ceres, roughing it up and leaving debris. Over time, that sort of action should darken these bright areas. So their brightness indicates that they likely are young. Trying to understand the source of the areas, and how the material could be so new, was a main focus of Dawn’s final extended mission, from 2017 to 2018.
The research not only confirmed that the bright regions are young, some less than 2 million years old. It also found that the geologic activity driving these deposits could be ongoing. This conclusion depended on scientists making a key discovery: salt compounds (sodium chloride chemically bound with water and ammonium chloride) concentrated in Cerealia Facula. The scientists explained:
On Ceres’ surface, salts bearing water quickly dehydrate, within hundreds of years. But Dawn’s measurements show they still have water, so the fluids must have reached the surface very recently. This is evidence both for the presence of liquid below the region of Occator Crater and ongoing transfer of material from the deep interior to the surface.
In our solar system, icy geologic activity happens mainly on icy moons, where it’s driven by their gravitational interactions with their larger planets. But that’s not the case with the movement of brines to the surface of Ceres, because this little world isn’t particularly near any large bodies in space that might be pulling on it. Instead, the scientists found two main pathways that allow liquids from Ceres’ interior to reach its surface. Dawn principal investigator Carol Raymond said:
For the large deposit at Cerealia Facula, the bulk of the salts were supplied from a slushy area just beneath the surface that was melted by the heat of the impact that formed the crater about 20 million years ago. The impact heat subsided after a few million years; however, the impact also created large fractures that could reach the deep, long-lived reservoir, allowing brine to continue percolating to the surface.
The discovery of this presumably ongoing activity on Ceres – this movement of briny water from its interior to its surface – suggests that other large ice-rich bodies in our solar system that are not moons might also be active.
This mosaic image uses false color to highlight the recently exposed brine, or salty liquids, that were pushed up from a deep reservoir under Ceres’ crust. In this view of a region of Occator Crater, they appear reddish.
Dawn is the only spacecraft ever to orbit two extraterrestrial destinations: Ceres and the giant asteroid Vesta. This dual mission was made possible by Dawn’s ion propulsion system. The scientists’ statement explained:
When Dawn used the last of a key fuel, hydrazine, for a system that controls its orientation, it was neither able to point to Earth for communications nor to point its solar arrays at the sun to produce electrical power. Because Ceres was found to have organic materials on its surface and liquid below the surface, planetary protection rules required Dawn to be placed in a long-duration orbit that will prevent it from impacting the dwarf planet for decades.
Dawn accomplished far more than we hoped when it embarked on its extraordinary extraterrestrial expedition. These exciting new discoveries from the end of its long and productive mission are a wonderful tribute to this remarkable interplanetary explorer.
This mosaic of Ceres’ Occator Crater is composed of images NASA’s Dawn mission captured on its second extended mission, in 2018. Bright pits and mounds (foreground) were formed by salty liquid released as Occator’s water-rich floor froze after the crater-forming impact about 20 million years ago.
Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ UCLA/ MPS/ DLR/ IDA/ USRA/ LPI.
Bottom line: Scientists studying data from spacecraft Dawn now say that the salt deposits on Ceres’ surface came from a reservoir of brine, or salt-enriched water, deep in the dwarf planet’s interior. This brine reservoir is estimated to be about 25 miles (40 km) deep and hundreds of miles wide … remarkable on a little world less than 600 miles (1,000 km) across.
Mystery as assailants torture, mutilate and kill horses in spate of gruesome attacks that have stunned France and left baffled police probing possible satanic links
Mystery as assailants torture, mutilate and kill horses in spate of gruesome attacks that have stunned France and left baffled police probing possible satanic links
In the most recent case, a young filly had its ear cut off and eyes gouged out
Police are struggling to find the culprits, or a motivation behind the killings
There have been around 10 similar cases in France since the start of the year
French police are investigating a spate of mysterious 'barbaric' killings of horses involving mutilation of the animals' bodies that have stunned rural France.
The latest in Cortambert, a village in the Saone-et-Loire region, occurred overnight on Friday.
The one-year-old filly's right ear was cut off, one of its eyes was gouged out, its neck slashed and its genitals had been cut away.
But police are struggling to identify the perpetrators or find a motivation behind the cruel killings, and are probing possible satanic links.
A woman discovered the body of a horse over the weekend that had been mutilated, and was the latest in a string of similar cases in France that have shocked the rural community. Pictured: Horses in pasture, Guillestre, France (file photo)
A woman discovered the horse over the weekend in a secluded meadow while walking near the village in the Burgandy region.
A Paris police spokeswoman said there had been about 10 similar cases across France since the start of the year, most in the north and many taking place in secluded meadows.
Jessica Martin, a police captain, said: 'Everything leads us to conclude that the horse was tortured. It's utterly barbaric.'
She said there were also cases between 2014 and 2016 and that similar killings and mutilations of horses had been reported in the past in Belgium and Germany.
But the high number in France was unprecedented over such a short period.
'We do not understand the motivation. Is it a satanic rite, insurance fraud, some macabre trophy hunt or an internet challenge? We don't know. It is very traumatising,' she said.
She said several different breeds of horses had fallen victim, as well as one donkey, and that mutilation of an ear was a common factor. No meat had been taken from the carcases.
The latest series of killings began of February 12 of this year, when a staff member at the agricultural college in Moselle, near France's eastern border with Germany, found the corpse of a horse lying in its paddock.
Thee days later, the son of a racehorse trainer found the body of Démon du Médoc, with an ear removed.
The trainer, Philippe Boutin, said 'I think they made him gallop and he died of heart failure, and then they cut off his ear.'
French police said there have been around 10 similar attacks on horses since the beginning of the year, but are struggling to find any suspects or motivation behind them
Mr Boutin said that he has known some cases of horses being shot and killed illegally for their meat, but noted that this motive had been ruled out in the recent cases.
In one instance, a horse had been electrocuted, believed to be with a portable generator, while others appeared to have been stunned or killed by a blow with a large stone before then being mutilated.
In April, a two-year-old horse was found dead by the daughter of a woman who breaks in horses.
Stéphanie Gachelin said: 'At first we thought it was a natural death, then we discovered traces of wounds, and one of her ears was missing.'
Two other horses were found with wounds - on on the head and the other on the haunch, according to The Daily Telegraph.
National police are assisting local investigations of cases, and France has sent alerts to other European countries' forces, police captain Martin said.
In France, those who commit 'acts of cruelty or mistreatment of an animal' face up to two years in prison and a fine of €30,000 (£26,973).
The vast majority of unexplained animal mutilation cases in the U.S. are cattle, with many centered along an infamous corridor across Middle America that coincides with many UFO incidents. Cattle mutilations are also the norm in other countries where animal mutilations occur, unless the area is known for Chupacabras or other alleged bloodsucking creatures. That’s why a new rash of attacks is so unusual – they’re centered in France and the target animals are horses.
“French police are investigating a series of mysterious “barbaric” horse murders involving the mutilation of the bodies of animals that have stunned rural France. The last one in Cortambert, a village in the Saône-et-Loire region, occurred on Friday night. The one-year-old filly’s right ear was cut off, one of her eyes was gouged out, her neck was cut, and her genitals were cut. But the police are struggling to identify the perpetrators or find any motivation behind the cruel killings, and probe for possible satanic links.”
The killings generally occur at night.
Fr24news.com and other French media sites are using words like barbaric, torture and unprecedented to describe a recent dramatic increase in strange horse killings that appear at first glance to be the work or a cult. The latest was a horse belonging to Jean-Michel and Virginie Martinot, owners of a riding school. The fact that the right wing was cut off has brought this to the attention of the French National Gendarmerie (police force) because the large number of killings since February 2020 (at least 10) have all had that in common. The incidents include a racehorse that the owner believes was run until it had a heart attack before it was killed. Others showed signs of being electrocuted with a portable generator, hit on the head with a large stone or held with a nose twist. All had one ear cut off and many were said to be “sociable” animals with no fear of humans.
“Hello, The ever more abundant news of violent attacks of all kinds of equines for about 2 years, is at the origin of the creation of this group. Here, the goal is to rescind at the National, all the attacks to which our horses, donkeys and other equines can be victims. This is to make it possible to give the alert in all the regions, to follow the evolution and perhaps also to help the investigations in progress by collecting information which could allow cross-checking between the various cases.”
A Facebook page has been set up for people to register killings or suspicious activities in order to help the national police solve the cases. The killings include donkeys and ponies but no other forms of livestock, and have spread from northern France (Moselle, Yvelines, Aisne, Somme, Seine-Maritime, Oise) to other areas as well as Germany and Belgium, as Franceinfo reports.
Why would anyone risk being convicted of “acts of cruelty or mistreatment of an animal” which carries a sentence of up to two years in prison and a fine of € 30,000 ($35,500 US)? The speculation centers on a Satanic or other cult, but has gravitated towards a possible Internet challenge.
One thing that sets these cases apart from large animal mutilations in the U.S. is that no reports suggest it might be extraterrestrials. Do the French not believe as strongly in UFOs and aliens as Americans do? There have certainly been plenty of UFO encounters and abduction cases in that country. One difference is that, although some of the horses have had organs other than an ear removed, none of the reports say anything about blood being drained – another hallmark of US cattle mutilations.
The cause of these mysterious French horse mutilations has yet to be determined and the stress level – particularly among horse owners – is increasing. Is it a cult? An Internet challenge? Aliens? Or just more cruelty courtesy of the year 2020?
Throughout history there have been various mysterious texts, scrolls, and manuscripts claiming to have secret or even forbidden knowledge that lies beyond our ability to comprehend it. These manuscripts come creeping up upon us through the mists of time, wreathed in mysteries that we may never understand, and they have served to propel the imagination since time unremembered. One such text must surely be an ancient Indian manuscript, which purportedly hold the secrets to amazing, fantastical flying machines well before their time, and the veracity of which has been debated right up into the present.
In 1952, a G.R. Josyer, founder of the “International Academy of Sanskrit Research,” came forward to unveil a previously unknown text at an event exhibition of rare Sanskrit manuscripts. The text was called the Vaimānika Śāstra, meaning “The Science of Aeronautics,” supposedly dictated between the years of 1918 to 1923 to a G. Venkatachala Sharma by the mystic Pandit Subbaraya Shastry, who said the information had come to him in flashes and dreams, and considered himself the earthly conduit of the information from the real author, the ancient sage Maharshi Bharadwaja, itself claimed to be thousands of years old and put out there freely for “the benefit of all of mankind.” The mysterious text itself was devoted to the vimānas, which were the fantastical flying chariots, thrones, carts, and palaces, vehicles of the gods mentioned in ancient Sanskrit epics, but which according to this manuscript were actually advanced flying machines far predating any known airplanes. A news publication would say of the unveiling of this mysterious manuscript
Mr. G. R. Josyer, Director of the International Academy of Sanskrit Research in Mysore, in the course of an interview recently, showed some very ancient manuscripts which the Academy had collected. He claimed that the manuscripts were several thousands of years old, compiled by ancient rishis, Bharadwaja, Narada and others, dealing, not with the mysticism of ancient Hindu philosophy of Atman or Brahman, but with more mundane things vital for the existence of man and progress of nations both in times of peace and war. One manuscript dealt with Aeronautics, construction of various types of aircraft for civil aviation and for warfare. Mr. Josyer showed some types of designs and drawing of a helicopter-type cargo-loading plane, specially meant for carrying combustibles and ammunition, passenger aircraft carrying 400 to 500 persons, double and treble-decked aircraft. Each of these types had been fully described.
The text styles itself as sort of a treatise on ancient Indian flying machines, giving exhaustive descriptions, diagrams, and illustrations of aerodynamics, propulsive devices, materials, and metallurgy, as well as definition of an airplane, a pilot, aerial routes, food, clothing, metals, metal production, mirrors and their uses in wars, varieties of machinery, and others. The text goes into great depth on a variety of different flying vehicles. For instance, there is the Shakuna Vimana, which is shaped like a bird, measures 80 by 56 feet in dimension, and is crafted from a super-light, advanced alloy called raja loha. There is the Sundara Vimana, a giant cylindrical cone that utilizes steam and vaporized oil for energy production and is equipped with five gas engines, electrical tube wheels, and lifting fans. The Rukma Vimana is a massive, 5-tiered construct that has a 100 or 1000-foot base dimension, a 20-foot height, and an 80-foot cone height and operates on solar power. Another is the Tripura Vimana, which can move in air, on land, or through water, and which is fashioned of a fire-resistant alloy.
Every single one of these outlandish contraptions is explained in great technical detail, with elaborate illustrations of their inner workings and designs, meticulous recipes for their fuels and alloys, and it all really boggles the mind that any of this could come from thousands of years ago, as claimed. Yet theVaimānika Śāstrabecame very popular immediately upon release, being translated into Hindi in 1959 and then English in 1973. Of course, considering that this information and the bizarre designs were claimed to be thousands of years old, its public reveal immediately drew the attention of UFOlogists and ancient astronaut theorists, who studied the Vaimānika Śāstrawith great interest and fascination. However, the work has also drawn its share of criticism. One of the main problems with all of this is that, although the information is claimed to be from mystic ancient sources and a great sage, it was more or less released in modern times by the self-professed medium Pandit Subbaraya Shastry, who then left it to his son, Shri Venkatrama Shastry, after which it found its way into the collection of Josyer. However, Shastry has been claimed to have been a humble, honest man who never intended for his work to get out into the public eye, and he never took personal credit for any of it. It doesn’t seem as if is was an intentional hoax perpetrated by Shastry, although it might have been by his son. However, this is probably the least of the worries the veracity of this text has.
Some of the designs
Even more damning are the findings made by scientists who actually went and checked out the viability of the designs contained within the text. For instance, researchers from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore checked it out in 1974, and it did not take them very long at all to come to the conclusion that, in reality, most of the designs in the Vaimānika Śāstra simply would never actually be able to practically fly. The team found that not only are the aeronautics and geometries of the craft all wrong, but that the proposed methods of propulsion are also not viable. They even went as far as to say that the designs offended the laws of physics, that the author of the manuscript had a poor understanding of aeronautics, and stated, “If the craft is taken to mean what the drawing and the text say, it can be stated that the craft is a decided impossibility.” The study would not mince words at all when it says;
Any reader by now would have concluded the obvious – that the planes described above are the best poor concoctions, rather than expressions of something real. None of the planes has properties or capabilities of being flown; the geometries are unimaginably horrendous from the point of view of flying; and the principles of propulsion make them resist rather than assist flying. The text and the drawings do not correlate with each other even thematically. The drawings definitely point to a knowledge of modern machinery. This can be explained on the basis of the fact that Shri Ellappa who made the drawings was in a local engineering college and was thus familiar with names and details of some machinery. Of course the text retains a structure in language and content from which its ‘recent nature’ cannot be asserted. We must hasten to point out that this does not imply an oriental nature of the text at all. All that may be said is that thematically the drawings ought to be ruled out of discussion. And the text, as it stands, is incomplete and ambiguous by itself and incorrect at many places.
Ouch. There was also the researcher J. B. Hare of the Internet Sacred Text Archive, who also is blunt and harsh when he says of the origin of the manuscript and its contents:
You just have to buy into the assumption that ‘channeling’ works. … there is no exposition of the theory of aviation (let alone antigravity). In plain terms, the VS. never directly explains how Vimanas get up in the air. The text is top-heavy with long lists of often bizarre ingredients used to construct various subsystems. … There is nothing here which Jules Verne couldn’t have dreamed up, no mention of exotic elements or advanced construction techniques. The 1923 technical illustration based on the text … are absurdly un-aerodynamic. They look like brutalist wedding cakes, with minarets, huge ornithopter wings and dinky propellers. In other words, they look like typical early 20th century fantasy flying machines with an Indian twist.
The proponents for the veracity of the texts will point out that the Vaimānika Śāstra is incomplete, and that these missing parts might fill in the blanks, as well as that these would be highly advanced machines beyond our understanding. We are left with these supposed ancient texts, given to us by a seer and medium, unleashed upon the world to try and explain these mysterious machines of the gods but coming up lacking by modern scientific standards. Whatever one makes of them, they add to the rich history of texts purporting to have secret ancient knowledge, which will always have a particular allure and effect on the imagination, whether they are real or not.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft was launched in 2011 and since its arrival at Jupiter it has taken some spectacular photos. One photo in particular that’s been recently shared shows red cyclones circling the Gas Giant’s North Pole area and it looks just like a pepperoni pizza.
What’s even more interesting is that when the infrared photos of the “lava-like” storms are observed under visible light, the clouds have more of a bluish glow. Scott Bolton, who is the principal investigator for the Juno spacecraft, went into further details in a statement, “It’s bluer in color up there than other parts of the planet, and there are a lot of storms,” adding, “There is no sign of the latitudinal bands or zone and belts that we are used to — this image is hardly recognizable as Jupiter.” “We’re seeing signs that the clouds have shadows, possibly indicating that the clouds are at a higher altitude than other features.”
Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter.
When NASA released the photo to their Instagram account, they received a lot of comments, such as “Forbidden pizza” and “Pizza Planet”. Several people commented with nothing more than a pizza emoji while another user suggested that the photo looked like a burnt pie. The photograph that has many people calling the planet a “pepperoni pizza” can be seen on NASA’s Instagram page as well as on their official website.
The Juno spacecraft has done a phenomenal job studying Jupiter but NASA is hoping to get even more detailed analysis of the Gas Giant when the James Webb Space Telescope is launched next year. According to NASA’s website, the telescope will be the “largest, most powerful and complex space telescope ever built and launched into space. It will fundamentally alter our understanding of the universe”. One of its projects will be to study Jupiter in much greater detail, such as measuring the wind speed, particles in the clouds, temperatures, the gas composition, and much more.
Is anyone else now craving a pepperoni pizza?
Imke de Pater from the University of California, Berkeley and Thierry Fouchet of the Observatory de Paris stated, “It will be a really challenging experiment,” adding, “Jupiter is so bright, and Webb’s instruments are so sensitive, that observing both the bright planet and its fainter rings and moons will be an excellent test of how to get the most out of Webb’s innovative technology.”
I know that I’m personally excited to find out what kind of new information the telescope will provide regarding Jupiter.
NASA shared a detailed image of Jupiter, but viewers said it looks more like ‘a pepperoni pizza.’ The Juno spacecraft has been probing the massive planet since 2011 and recently sent back a picture red swirling cyclones in the North Pole region
The American space agency shared the image on Instagram and users responded by comparing the features to the popular food. One user called it the ‘Pizza Planet,’ while another said it looked like a burnt pie
The infrared photo highlights ‘lava-like’ storms on Jupiter’s poles and when viewed under visible light, the clouds appear as a blue glow
The vast telescope, which has already cost more than $7 billion (£5 billion), is considered a successor to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope
UFO sightings observed by many witnesses are typically the best, most noteworthy cases, as the multiple witnesses’ testimony provides corroborating evidence. Although most sightings are not mass sightings, there are several high-quality cases involving many credible witnesses, and some of these mass sightings paint the best picture showing the mysterious reality of UFOs. One such sighting occurred in 1976 in the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of Africa.
The Canary Islands
(Credit: Oona Räisänen/Wikimedia Commons)
In the mid-1990s, philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller financed a report that provided an overview of major UFO events and the evidence surrounding the UFO phenomenon. This report was intended to educate government officials about UFOs, and as such, it was sent to the White House and members of the U.S. Congress. The report, titled “Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence,” was drafted by Don Berliner, an aviation journalist and long-time ufologist. UFO journalist Antonio Huneeus and Marie Galbraith, the wife of investment banker Evan Galbraith (who was the U.S. ambassador to France during the Reagan administration, the Republican candidate for New York governor in 1994, and the chairman of William Buckley’s political magazine, National Review) also participated in the creation of this document. One of the incredible cases presented in the document is the mass UFO sighting that took place in the Canary Islands.
According to newspaper headlines, thousands of residents of the Canary Islands observed an unidentified luminous phenomenon on the night of June 22, 1976. The event was reported by witnesses on at least three different islands. The Spanish Air Force thoroughly investigated the incident. Although the files associated with this investigation were declassified in 1994, they had already been leaked back in 1976. For whatever reason, the classified air force reports were given to journalist Juan José Benítez in October 1976 by an air force general. Benítez included these in his book, UFOs: Official Documents of the Spanish Government.
Laurance Rockefeller
Records indicate that the commanding general of the Spanish Air Force’s Canary Islands Air Zone assigned an investigative adjutant to the case on June 25, 1976. Depositions were taken of at least fourteen witnesses. The air force divided these witnesses into four categories, ranking them from most credible to least credible. People found to be mentally challenged, illiterate, or under the influence of drugs or alcohol were put into the very unreliable category, while people like astronomers, pilots, and aeronautical engineers were placed in the most credible category. The sighting reports, like the witnesses, were grouped into four levels to evaluate the quality and quantity of evidence for each.
The witness depositions and a review of the evidence allowed the investigative adjutant to piece together what transpired on June 22, 1976. Based on his report, the first UFO sighting of the night occurred at 9:27 p.m. The unidentified object was observed by the entire crew of the Spanish Navy vessel, the Atrevida, which at the time, was located near the coast of Fuerteventura. According to the Atrevida’s captain, he and his crew observed “an intense yellowish-blue light” moving from the island’s shore towards the ship. They initially assumed the object was an aircraft with active landing lights, but the UFO stopped and hovered in the sky. The captain further described that the light “went out and a luminous beam from it began to rotate. It remained like this for approximately two minutes. Then an intense great halo of yellowish and bluish light developed, and remained in the same position for 40 minutes, even though the original phenomenon was no longer visible.”
The Spanish navy vessel Atrevida.
(Credit: José Juan Medina Cobacho/Wikimedia Commons)
The captain explained that, minutes after this “halo” of light appeared, he observed the following:
[T]he light split into two parts, the smaller part being beneath, in the center of the luminous halo, where a blue cloud appeared and the part from which the bluish nucleus had come, vanished. The upper part began to climb in a spiral, rapid and irregular, and finally vanished. None of these movements affected the initial circular halo in any way, which remained just the same the whole time, its glow lighting up parts of the land and the ocean, from which we could deduce that the phenomenon was not very far away from us, but was close.
The ship’s first officer echoed the captain’s statements. And the officers also confirmed that the ship’s surface radar detected nothing at the time of the sighting.
The depositions of the naval officers were considered to be some of the most-credible testimony regarding the UFO sighting. The deposition of a physician, however, was among the more strange accounts collected during the investigation. Dr. Francisco Padrón León was in a taxi on his way to see a patient in the town of Las Rosas on Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands. He explained that, when he had almost arrived at his destination, the taxi’s lights hit a luminous sphere hovering motionless just off the ground. He described that the sphere was electric blue in color and constructed of a “transparent and crystalline-like material.” He estimated that the UFO had a radius of approximately one hundred feet. Inside the sphere, Dr. Padrón saw a platform that looked like it was made of metal, and what appeared to be three control consoles. He also claimed to have seen two tall humanoid figures inside the sphere, whom he estimated were between eight and a half feet and ten feet tall. They wore brilliant red outfits and some type of head gear.
When the taxi arrived at the patient’s home, Dr. Padrón continued watching the sphere. He described it as follows:
I [then] observed that some kind of bluish smoke was coming out from a semi-transparent central tube in the sphere, covering the periphery of the sphere’s interior without leaking outside at any moment. Then the sphere began to grow and grow until it became huge like a 20-story house, but the platform and the crew remained the same size; it rose slowly and majestically and it seems I heard a very tenuous whistling.
The doctor raced into the patient’s house to inform the residents about the mysterious sphere. Everyone came outside to see the object that had ascended high in the sky. The UFO quickly accelerated, shooting away at an incredible speed. The doctor described that it “dissolved into a bluish spindle-shape with red underneath.” Similar to the description provided by the navy officers, Dr. Padrón said “a brilliant white halo was formed close to the object, which bit by bit was forming another very brilliant blue halo.”
A sketch of the sphere and its occupants as described by Dr. Francisco Padrón León.
(Credit: Spanish Air Force/Antonio Huneeus)
Although bizarre, the doctor’s testimony was corroborated by the taxi driver, as well as by witnesses at the patient’s house. But the investigative adjutant reportedly still debated whether he should accept the doctor’s deposition. It was his belief that the witnesses of the humanoid figures in the sphere, “facing the presence of an unusual phenomenon in the sky, narrated what their ‘minds’ made them see, mutually influencing each other.” He goes on to say in the records that he “doesn’t have the slightest doubt about their seriousness and sincerity. They told what they unquestionably ‘believed’ to have seen.”
Notably, there are other reports from the 1970s of sphere-like objects containing occupants. In 1970, a boy in East Aurora, New York reportedly witnessed a silent yellowish sphere moving slowly through the sky. According to his report, he clearly saw two occupants at the craft’s control panel. In 1973, a witness in Manchester, New Hampshire reported seeing an orange and gold globe that was “not totally opaque but had a peculiar translucent quality about it.” She claims that she saw a humanoid figure standing at the controls of this UFO. In 1978, a witness in San Antonio, Texas reported seeing a strange, “globular,” amber-colored object with a transparent section through which the witness claims to have seen two “creatures.”
In addition to the witness depositions, the Spanish Air Force’s file related to this case contains more than one hundred pages of questionnaires, illustrations, and other documents. The file also includes a color photograph of the UFO that was taken by a tourist. According to the lab where this photo was developed, “no trickery or modification of any kind was added.”
Photograph of the phenomenon over the Canary Islands on June 22, 1976.
(Credit: Spanish Air Force/Antonio Huneeus)
Following the investigation, and after reviewing all the available information, the investigative adjutant concluded that there was no aerial traffic or military exercises at the time of the incident that could account for the phenomenon, and that what witnesses observed on June 22, 1976 was, indeed, an “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.”
Similar phenomena were witnessed in the Canary Islands around the same time period. One of these other sightings occurred in November 1976 and was witnessed by the commanding general of the Spanish Air Force’s Canary Islands Air Zone while he was aboard a transport aircraft. Interestingly, a large halo also accompanied this sighting. Personnel at an air base on the island of Gran Canaria and the crew of a Spanish navy ship also witnessed this phenomenon.
The investigative adjutant assigned to the November 1976 sighting in the Canary Islands concluded that, after looking at all of the similar cases around the islands from that time period, “we should have to think seriously of the necessity of considering the possibility of accepting the hypothesis that a craft of unknown origin, propelled by an equally unknown energy, is moving freely over the skies in the Canaries.”
This article originally appeared in Open Minds Magazine Issue 26 June/July 2014.
Crew Of A Navy Ship Witnessed An Alien Craft Over The Canary Islands
Crew Of A Navy Ship Witnessed An Alien Craft Over The Canary Islands
JUNE 22, 1976 ………CANARY ISLAND
One of the most bizarre reports of unusual phenomena occurred in 1976 in the Spanish Canary Islands. Although the case features a most extraordinary description of aliens and their craft, the occurrence is extremely reliable in that it includes multiple witness reports which agreed in all aspects of the case.
The phenomenon began on the night of June 22, 1976, as residents of Tenerife, La Palma, and La Gomera began reporting the sighting of unusual lights in the sky.
These lights and their maneuvers were different from anything residents of the area had seen before. Newspaper headlines the next morning proclaimed that “thousands of people” had witnessed a “spectacular phenomena” which lasted “twenty minutes.” The most sensational aspect was the sighting of the aforementioned “sphere” occupied by strange alien beings.
Three days later, the Commanding General of the Canary Island Air Zone named an “Investigative Adjutant” to make sense of the events. His findings were forwarded by a Spanish Air Force General to journalist J. J. Benitez in 1976, and the details of the case quickly reached beyond the scope of the Islands to the outside world. Benitez’s investigation would be the basis of his book, “UFOs: Official Documents of the Spanish Government.”
The case would regain momentum in 1994, when files of the investigation were released as part of the unveiling of Spanish records, a type of “Freedom of Information” act. The 1976 report was massive, containing over one hundred pages of testimony, evaluations, drawings, and more.
The official Air Force report of the incident was headlined by depositions of fourteen witnesses. A type of standard was established with witness reliability based on social status. A doctor’s report was considered a high priority, whereas a common laborer’s report was given little, if any, weight.
In this particular case, this unfair standard did not take away from the acceptance of the facts, since all involved were in full agreement as to what they saw. The report was very detailed, and presented chronologically.
The initial report of the Canary Island UFO came from the Navy’s armed escort ship, the “Atrevida.” The ship was located off the coast of Fuerteventura Island. The ship’s captain gave a detailed report of what he and his crew observed at 9:27 P.M. on June 22.
The entire crew saw an extremely bright yellow-blue light moving from the shore in the direction of the ship, located three and a half miles at sea. Several of the crewmen at first thought they were seeing a conventional aircraft with its landing lights on. The lights soon faded, and a type of beam began to rotate, similar to a lighthouse effect.
Afterwards, an intense halo of yellow and blue could be seen from the fantastic craft. Amazingly, the crew watched the craft for a full forty minutes. The craft seemed to be playing tricks with its lights, as they constantly changed from one form to another. Even though the light show was observed for a long period of time, no signature was evident on the ship’s radar of any flying craft.
Actual transcript-Captain of Atrevida.
“At 21:27 (Z) hrs. on 22 June, we saw an intense yellowish-bluish light moving out from the shore towards our position. At first we thought it was an aircraft with its landing lights on. Then, when the light had attained a certain elevation (15 – 18 degrees), it became stationary.
The original light went out and a luminous beam from it began to rotate. It remained like this for approximately two minutes. Then an intense great halo of yellowish and bluish light developed, and remained in the same position for 40 minutes, even though the original phenomenon was no longer visible.
“Two minutes after the great halo, the light split into two parts, the smaller part being beneath, in the center of the luminous halo, where a blue cloud appeared and the part from which the bluish nucleus had come, vanished. The upper part began to climb in a spiral, rapid and irregular, and finally vanished.
None of these movements affected the initial circular halo in any way, which remained just the same the whole time, its glow lighting up parts of the land and the ocean, from which we could deduce that the phenomenon was not very far away from us, but was close.”
Only a few minutes later, this same object was seen by residents of Canary Island proper. The bulk of the sightings were by citizens of three villages; Galdar, Las Rosas, and Agaete. A cross section of professions were involved; medical doctor, schoolteacher, farmer, taxi driver, and housewife, among others.
A thorough search of records by the Investigator Adjutant determined that there were no reports of “aerial traffic or military exercises at the time of the reports” that could possibly account for the sightings of the unknown object . The Adjutant, for the sake of clarity, divided the investigation into two different categories.
One was the larger craft observed by ship crewmen and others, and the second the smaller globe with the aliens aboard. By his own admission, and consistent with human nature, the Adjutant had no problem believing the reports of the larger craft, but had reservations accepting the orb since occupants were observed which were not consistent with human beings.
The Investigator General’s last word on the subject was: “The fact that a very strange and peculiar aerial phenomena occurred on the night of 22 June is a true and proven fact, as incredible as its behavior and conditions may seem.”
The incredible account of the sphere was submitted by Doctor Francisco Padron Leon, who lived in the city of Guia. His report is the most voluminous of the entire investigation. His background was thoroughly investigated, and he was found to be an upstanding, sane professional, whose word was considered truthful.
Padron had been summoned to make a house call, and commissioned a cab to take him to the location; the town of Las Rosas. As they rode along, the doctor and cab driver were engaged in light conversation. Suddenly, the car lights pointed out a slightly luminous object in the shape of a sphere.
The object was either landed, or hovering just above the ground. The object was made of a totally transparent and crystalline-like material. The doctor and driver both observed stars through the sphere. The object was bluish in color, with a radius of about 100 feet. The lower part of the orb contained a platform of aluminum-like material with three consoles. At each side of the center there were two huge figures from eight to ten feet tall. They were dressed in red, and always faced each other.
The beings were humanoid in shape, with large heads covered with a type of helmet. The doctor, hardly believing his own eyes, asked for confirmation from his cab driver.
“Are you seeing what I am?” he asked.
The driver exclaimed, “My God! What is that?”
The cab was only a short distance from the patient’s house, and upon arriving, the doctor observed a type of bluish smoke coming from a tube rising through the center of the object.
The doctor stated:
“We were talking about hunting… as we entered the last part of the road, the car lights pointed at a slightly luminous sphere that was stationary and very close to the ground, although I can’t say for sure if it was touching it.
It was made of a totally transparent and crystalline-like material, since it was possible to see through it the stars in the sky; it had an electric blue color but tenuous, without dazzling; it had a radius of about 30 m. [100 ft.], and in the lower third of the sphere you could see a platform of aluminum-like color as if made of metal, and three large consoles.
At each side of the center there were two huge figures of 2.50 to 3 m. [8.5 to 10 ft.] tall, but no taller than 3 m. [10 ft.], dressed entirely in red and facing each other in such a way that I always saw their profile.”
“Then I observed that some kind of bluish smoke was coming out from a semi-transparent central tube in the sphere, covering the periphery of the sphere’s interior without leaking outside at any moment.
Then the sphere began to grow and grow until it became huge like a 20-story house, but the platform and the crew remained the same size; it rose slowly and majestically and it seems I heard a very tenuous whistling.”
The sphere grew to an enormous size as it began to ascend into the sky. The doctor ran into the house, and told the family about what he had seen. Running outside, they observed the orb, which was now extremely high in the sky. It reached an enormous speed, accelerating toward Tenerfie.
Finally it dissolved into a smaller size, and disappeared. Another witness, a lady who was a relative of the patient, was watching television when suddenly the screen went blank, and her dogs began to bark outside. Running to a window, she saw the doctor’s cab, and the blue sphere above it. She also noted that the sphere was transparent, with two beings inside. Shocked, she closed the windows and doors, and began to pray.
There were several other sightings of a similar nature throughout the year of 1976 on the Island. The final “official” report was ambiguous at best.
The observance of the craft by all who saw it was accepted as genuine, although no “earthly” explanation was offered for its unique look and behavior.
On the other hand, although the witnesses of the smaller orb with aliens were classified as totally reliable, the actual presence of the beings was questioned. In other words, the witnesses were telling the truth, but what they saw was too far fetched to believe.
No other explanation was forthcoming on an official level, and the Canary Island phenomenon remains today as an authentic, well documented sighting of an unidentified flying craft with occupants.
The Incredible Fight To Reveal the Presence of Extraterrestrials on Earth!
The Incredible Fight To Reveal the Presence of Extraterrestrials on Earth!
Dr. James E. McDonald’s research into the UFO phenomenon was a significant push forward in regards technology and a science we know very little about. McDonald’s long and important battle to uncover the truth of the alien presence on Earth has distinguished him as one of the greatest pioneers of Ufology.
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Egyptian American Artifacts In The Burial Mounds of North America
Egyptian American Artifacts In The Burial Mounds of North America
Historian Glenn Kimball provided updates of his research into ancient manuscripts as well as artifacts found in burial mounds in Southern Illinois (known as “Little Egypt”) that may show North America was visited by overseas travelers thousands of years before Columbus set sail.
According to Kimball, the Mississippi Valley is home to over 10,000 burial mounds, which contrary to widely held academic opinion were not all left behind by Native Americans. Black market relics found in the region, he explained, depict pharaohs, Moorish sailors, Christ on the cross, Jewish warriors, and Roman military imagery. Further, runes from artifacts found in Illinois, Michigan, California and Utah talk about migrations of people from the Middle East, Kimball said.
Kimball also discussed Atlantis, modern-day Mayans, 9 1/2 foot tall giants of the Yucatan, and the Bee Bible, which he reported has been used by the Chinese for 2,000 years.
The moon...which goes by the ancient Greek name of Selene, an goddess that rides her moon chariot around the earth. I was searching the LROC moon map and came across this unique and rare find. A structure sits in this crater, but it looks more like a ship. A ship could move from place to place easily, where a building would be more permanent and less useful in other location. Not to say there are no buildings on the moon, but there are...entire cities...but most have been covered up by NASA photo shop. So I search for smaller structures and ships that NASA overlooked. This...is what I found today. At a mere 100 meters long, its comparable in size to a cruise ship here on earth. I hope you like it. Scott C. Waring
Expert Says UFOs Mapping the Surface of the Earth to Make Chart of Universe
Expert Says UFOs Mapping the Surface of the Earth to Make Chart of Universe
Christopher Mellon, the former military intelligence adviser, claims thousands of the same sightings worldwide suggest extra-terrestrial craft are on a reconnaissance mission by making a map on the Earth’s surface to create a Google Map-style chart of the universe.
Mellon, who served as US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Intelligence under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, makes his shocking claim in a new TV documentary due to air sometime next month in the UK.
Mellon doesn’t think UFOs are ours, and his hopeful we can finally make progress in finding where they might be coming and how they work.
The former Pentagon boss stresses that if these UFOs are not ours, we have a lot to worry about. He believes they could spell a new and uncertain security threat.
He talks about his recent research in an upcoming episode of Sky History series Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation. The research features multiple massive objects shaped like equilateral triangles that have lights on each of their corners and seem capable of slowly drifting and departing with incredible bursts of speed.
These triangular UFOs have now been spotted above more than 50 American military installations, including Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, which is a strategic command center. Still, its high-tech equipment failed even to register the intruder.
Mellon said this type of craft bears zero resemblance to any advanced terrestrial air technology, such as stealth bombers, but has been spotted around the world for over 40 years. He believes that these UFOs would be capable of mapping in detail the surface below.
In 2016, when researchers were looking into the most effective waysto clean ocean oil spills. They were experimenting with fire whirlwinds when they accidentally generated a whirling, blue, soot-free flame that consumes all the fuel it encounters.
This elusive type of flame has puzzled researchers ever since, until now, when its mystery may have finally been cracked.
“The blue whirl is a small, stable, spinning blue flame that evolved spontaneously in recent laboratory experiments while studying turbulent, sooty fire whirls. It burns a range of different liquid hydrocarbon fuels cleanly with no soot production, presenting a previously unknown potential way for low-emission combustion,” the researchers describe the phenomenon in a new study.
Although fire whirls are dangerous, violent, and turbulent, they can be created in (relatively) safe conditions for laboratory study. What’s more, because the whirl burns without soot in a seemingly clean combustion, it might indeed be used for ocean clean-ups.
But even with lab experiments, researchers still couldn’t tell exactly what was going on with the flame.
Flames generally fall into two categories: premixed and diffusion flames. Premixed flames occur in homogeneous mixtures where the fuel and the oxidant are already mixed prior to the reaction (think of a Bunsen burner); premixed flames can in turn be rich or lean, depending on whether they have an excess or dearth of fuel relative to the oxidizer. Meanwhile, in diffusion flames, the fuel and the oxidant are initially separate, which limits how fast the fire can burn. The blue whirl seems to be neither, or rather, a bit of both.
Image credits: Chung et al (2020)/ Science Advances.
To crack the mystery, Joseph Chung and Xiao Zhang at the University of Maryland, College Park, and their colleagues created computer simulations of the flame.
They tweaked the model parameters more and more, until it finally started behaving like what they observed in experiments, and that’s when they finally understood what was going on.
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According to these simulations, the blue whirl consists of three different flames: a diffusion flame, a premixed rich, and a premixed lean flame. When they all meet together, they form a fourth structure — a triple flame forming a blue ring.
“The results also show that the flow structure emerges as the result of vortex breakdown, a fluid instability that occurs in swirling flows. These simulations are a critical step forward in understanding how to use this previously unknown form of clean combustion,” the researchers explain.
Image credits: Chung et al (2020) / Science Advances.
Aside from helping explain an interesting phenomenon, the study could also help researchers learn to harness the power of the blue whirl for a cleaner, more efficient combustion, for instance reducing emissions from burning hydrocarbons in power plants or stoves.
While burning hydrocarbons is far from ideal and we will hopefully transition to renewable energy as quickly as possible, it won’t happen overnight and any tool that could help us is more than welcome.
Cupid and his arrows gets all of the press but Greek mythology experts know the whole story about Cupid and his wife Psyche from the 2nd century CE novel Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass) by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis. Psyche was the most beautiful woman in the world who was tricked by a jealous Venus, only to be saved by Cupid (it’s more complicated than that, but this is a story about a different Psyche). Today’s space news concerns a different Psyche – the largest metallic asteroid in the Main Belt between Jupiter and Mars that is the target of the upcoming “Mission to a Metal World” scheduled for a 2022 SpaceX launch date. While its metallic content has long been known (and makes far uglier asteroidly-speaking than its namesake), the reason why hasn’t … until now.
“Psyche is an interesting body to study because it is likely the remnant of a planetary core that was disrupted during the accretion stage, and we can learn a lot about planetary formation from Psyche if it is indeed primarily metallic.”
Cupid and Psyche
Wendy K. Caldwell, Los Alamos National Laboratory Chick Keller Postdoctoral Fellow, is the lead author of a paper published in the journal Icarus about 2D and 3D computer simulations of possible causes of Psyche’s metallic composition. The models paid special attention to telescopic images of the craters on Psyche, which are far different than those on rocky or icy asteroids. A Los Alamos press release gives the big reveal that Psyche was most likely a young planet on the path to formation when it was battered by other space objects during its core formation phase, stopping its growth and leaving the metallic core exposed.
“Our ability to model the impact through the modification stage is essential to understanding how craters form on metallic bodies. In early stages of crater formation, the target material behaves like a fluid. In the modification stage, however, the strength of the target material plays a key role in how material that isn’t ejected ‘settles’ into the crater.”
(NASA simulation)
Then the Psyche mission – four shrinking orbits around the asteroid – will determine its metallic content, which many scientists believe is Monel, a strong nickel alloy based on ore found in the Sudbury impact crater in Ontario. A match would indicate that Monel is extraterrestrial in origin and the two current and former space rocks could possibly be related.
The Psyche mission won’t arrive at the asteroid until 2026, but this modeling emphasizes its importance in the study of how planets form, especially during their core phase. Unfortunately, it won’t help the other Psyche pass Cupid on the popularity list – Cupid still has Valentine’s Day and all that chocolate going for him.
Artist's conception of asteroid Psyche, whose composition has been proposed as
(Feature image is an artist’s conception of the Psyche mission, courtesy of NASA)
AFPESO maakte gebruik te maken van een nabijgelegen sterrenstelsel dat als een krachtig vergrootglas fungeert om SPT0418-47 te observeren, ook gekend als het zwaartekrachtlenseffect. SPT0418-47 toont zich als een bijna volmaakte ring van licht rond het lensstelsel, omdat de twee stelsels bijna precies op één lijn staan.
WETENSCHAPAstronomen hebben een extreem ver en dus zeer jong sterrenstelsel ontdekt dat verrassend veel op onze Melkweg lijkt, zo heeft de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht ESO vandaag bekendgemaakt. Het stelsel is zo ver weg dat zijn licht er meer dan 12 miljard jaar over heeft gedaan om ons te bereiken: we zien het zoals het was toen het heelal nog maar 1,4 miljard jaar oud was. Het is ook verrassend ordelijk, wat in strijd is met de theorie dat alle sterrenstelsels in het vroege heelal turbulent en instabiel waren.
Het gaat om sterrenstelsel SPT0418-47 dat zich met de ALMA-radiotelescoop in Chili liet verschalken. Hoewel het geen spiraalarmen lijkt te hebben, heeft het minstens twee kenmerken die karakteristiek zijn voor onze Melkweg: een roterende schijf en een centrale verdikking of ‘bulge’, een grote groep sterren die zich rond het centrum van het stelsel hebben verzameld. Het is voor het eerst dat zo’n bulge zo vroeg in de geschiedenis van het heelal is waargenomen, beklemtoont de ESO waarvan België stichtend lid is. Het maakt SPT0418-47 tot de verste dubbelganger van de Melkweg.
“De grote verrassing was dat dit stelsel, anders dan op grond van modelberekeningen en eerdere, minder nauwkeurige waarnemingen was verwacht, nogal veel op nabije sterrenstelsels lijkt”, zegt Filippo Fraternali van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. De jonge sterrenstelsels in het vroege heelal waren nog niet volgroeid. Daarom verwachtten astronomen dat ze chaotisch zouden zijn en niet de onmiskenbare structuren zouden vertonen die kenmerkend zijn voor volwassen stelsels zoals de Melkweg.
Het onderzoek van verre sterrenstelsels zoals SPT0418-47 is volgens de ESO essentieel voor ons begrip van hoe sterrenstelsels zijn ontstaan en zich hebben ontwikkeld. Het levert nieuwe inzichten op over het verleden van ons heelal.
Licht 12 miljard jaar onderweg
Dit sterrenstelsel is zo ver weg dat we het zien toen het heelal nog maar tien procent van zijn huidige leeftijd had. Zijn licht heeft er namelijk 12 miljard jaar over gedaan om de Aarde te bereiken. Door dit stelsel te bestuderen, gaan we terug naar een tijd dat de ontwikkeling van deze babystelsels nog maar net op gang was gekomen.
Omdat deze sterrenstelsels zo ver weg zijn, zijn gedetailleerde waarnemingen met zelfs de krachtigste telescopen bijna onmogelijk: de stelsels vertonen zich normaal gesproken als kleine, zwakke vlekjes. Het team kon dit obstakel overwinnen door gebruik te maken van een nabij sterrenstelsel dat als een krachtig vergrootglas fungeert - een verschijnsel dat het zwaartekrachtlenseffect wordt genoemd. Bij dit effect wordt het licht van het verre stelsel vervormd en afgebogen door de zwaartekrachtaantrekking van het lensstelsel.
Ver verleden
Met hulp van dit ‘lensstelsel’ kon ALMA ongekend gedetailleerd in het verre verleden kijken. Daardoor ziet het verre stelsel er veel groter uit en lijkt het misvormd. In dit geval vertoont SPT0418-47 zich als een bijna volmaakte ring van licht rond het lensstelsel. Dat komt doordat de twee stelsels bijna precies op één lijn staan.
Het onderzoek stond onder leiding van Francesca Rizzovan van het Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik in Duitsland. De resultaten staan in het jongste nummer van het vakblad Nature.
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