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...
18-10-2020
NASA’S CHIEF SCIENTIST IS ODDLY TERRIFIED BY FINDING LIFE ON MARS
NASA’S CHIEF SCIENTIST IS ODDLY TERRIFIED BY FINDING LIFE ON MARS
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VICTOR TANGERMANN
Life On Mars
Chief scientist at NASA Jim Green believes we’re just years away from finding life on Mars — thanks to the agency’s Mars rover and the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Rover, both scheduled to launch in 2020.
If the missions find life, Green is terrified of the implications.
“It will start a whole new line of thinking,” he told The Telegraph. “I don’t think we’re prepared for the results. I’ve been worried about that because I think we’re close to finding it and making some announcements.”
Finding ET
Both rovers are planning to drill into the Martian surface to take rock samples and analyze them for organic matter — something that could indicate the presence of living organisms on the Red Planet. If all goes well, the Mars 2020 rover will eventually send tiny test-tubes of samples back to Earth.
Green’s remarks come after ESA researchers announced the first -ever evidence of a “planet-wide groundwater system” on Mars back in February — water that could have allowed the planet to harbor life.
Big Questions
Evidence of organisms on Mars would raise a host of new questions about life beyond Earth, according to Green. Does life on Mars resemble life on Earth in any way? Could it have jumped from planet to planet?
“There is no reason to think that there isn’t civilizations elsewhere, because we are finding exoplanets all over the place,” told the paper.
Researchers at Caltech in the US have figured out how to record videos of light moving in three dimensions for the first time. The camera is capable of shooting videos at up to 100 billion frames per second.
To put that into perspective, the average smartphone is limited to just 60.
Researcher Lihon Wang had previously developed technology that can reach blistering speeds of 70 trillion frames per second — fast enough to see light traveling by. But there was a problem with that. Just like the camera in a cell phone, it could only produce flat images.
Now, he decided to take it a step further and move into 3D.
The new device uses the technology that Wang has been exploring for years, and is fast enough to take 100 billion pictures in a single second. If the entire world took as many photos as possible in a single second, we still wouldn’t reach this performance. Wang calls this “single-shot stereo-polarimetric compressed ultrafast photography,” or SP-CUP.
With the CUP technology, all the frames of a video are captured in one action without repeating the event. This makes a CUP camera extremely quick. Now, Wang has added a third dimension to this ultrafast imagery, essentially making the camera “see” just as humans do.
When we look at our surroundings, we perceive that some objects are closer and others are farther away. This is possible because of our two eyes, as each sees objects and their surroundings from a different angle. The information from these two images is combined by the brain into a single 3-D image. The SP-CUP camera works in essentially the same way, Wang added in a press release.
A couple of days ago, I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe on the Second World War-era controversy surrounding Shingle Street. It’s a small village in Suffolk, England that has a high degree of notoriety attached to it. Stephanie Cross at Country File Magazine says of this strange affair: “In May 1940, when a German invasion was thought to be imminent, the civilian population of Shingle Street was evacuated and minefields laid on the beach. And it was then that the rumours began: that a small German invasion force had landed at Shingle Street, a battle had broken out as defenders beat the invaders back to the water, and that the Germans had been burned alive with oil and petrol pumped on to the surface of the sea using special pipelines. Rumours of German invasion were rife along the south and east coast in the war, but such was the pitch of speculation on this incident that it led to questions in the House of Commons and, in 1993, the early release of classified documents. These revealed the ‘invasion’ was just a rumour – although the bodies of four dead German airmen had washed up on the beach, after their plane crashed into the North Sea.”
There’s another reason why I make mention of Shingle Street today. Specifically, it’s the location of the village. You’ll soon see what I mean. Ether Wave Propaganda says: “The Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence (CSSAD, a.k.a. the ‘Tizard Committee’) was instituted by the British Air Ministry in late 1934 to consider new technologies that the Royal Air Force might use to defend its territory against attack by bombers. The committee was initially comprised of its chair, scientist and longstanding government research administrator and Imperial College rector Sir Henry Tizard, the Air Ministry’s Director of Scientific Research Harry Wimperis, academic experimental physicist Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize-winning physiologist A. V. Hill (who had been the head of a World War I research group responsible for improving anti-aircraft gunnery), and Wimperis’ assistant A. P. Rowe, who served as secretary.”
Moving on: Pan Macmillan provides the following words: “In 1936 Winston Churchill asked the physicist Sir Robert Watson-Watt to develop a ‘death beam’ or a ‘magic eye’ to counter the growing threat of German airborne aggression. Under the cloak of utmost secrecy, he and a small team of brilliant scientists moved into the manor. Stables and outbuildings were converted into workshops and the first receiver and transmitter towers were built. Just eighteen months later, RAF Bawdsey became the first fully operational radar station in the world.”
Now, there’s something called Cobra Mist, of which Wikimapia states: “Cobra Mist was the codename for an Anglo-American experimental over-the-horizon radar station at Orford Ness, Suffolk, England. It was known technically as AN/FPS-95, and sometimes referred to as System 441a, a reference to the project as a whole. The project was plagued by noise problems that could not be identified, and the project was shut down in 1973. The site and buildings are now occupied by a BBC broadcast transmitter.” Now, we come to an even more controversial story.
From the early 1970s to the early 1990s, more than a few employees of Marconi were found dead under dubious and disturbing ways. One of them was Jonathan Wash. At the time of his death, Wash was working for British Telecom – that had deep connections to Marconi. In 1985, Wash died after falling, or having been pushed, from a window in a hotel room in Ivory Coast, West Africa. It’s notable that Wash had suspicions leading up to his death that he was being spied on: watched and followed in a clandestine way. He shared his concerns with his family and friends, but it was all too late. Notably, the British Telecom facility that Wash worked at was a top secret research facility at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk. So, with all of the above stated, you may be wondering what the connection is between the Shingle Street controversy, the top secret Tizard Committee, the equally highly classified Cobra Mist project, and Marconi. Well, here’s the answer:
Geographically speaking, let me put all of the above into a shocking perspective for you: the distance from Martlesham Heath to Rendlesham Forest is only 11.3 miles. The journey from Shingle Street to the forest is, at its shortest, only 7.6 miles. A trip from those infamous woods to Bawdsey amounts to less than ten miles. How far might Orford Ness be from Rendlesham Forest? I’ll tell you: just 7.1 miles. In my book, The Rendlesham Forest UFO Conspiracy, I suggest that the famous series of events of December 1980 had nothing to do with aliens, but everything to do with secret military/government experiments involving holograms. As all of the above makes very clear, the whole area surrounding Rendlesham Forest has been steeped in ongoing secrecy since the 1930s. So, we’re talking about almost a century of classified activity. I suggest – given the close proximity to the forest and the extensive top secret programs that we know existed in the area – that the 1980 “UFO landing” was just yet another military experiment, and not a UFO event.
Scientists have discovered a ground-breaking bio-synthetic material that they claim can be used to merge artificial intelligence with the human brain.
The breakthrough, presented today at the American Chemical Society Fall 2020 virtual expo, is a major step towards integrating electronics with the body to create part human, part robotic "cyborg" beings.
Connecting electronics to human tissue has been a major challenge due to traditional materials like gold, silicon and steel causing scarring when implanted.
Scars not only cause damage but also interrupt electrical signals flowing between computers and muscle or brain tissue. The researchers from the University of Delaware were able to overcome this after various types of polymers.
"We got the idea for this project because we were trying to interface rigid organic microelectrodes with the brain, but brains are made out of organic, salty, live materials," said Dr David Martin, who led the study.
"It wasn't working well, so we thought there must be a better way. We started looking at organic electronic materials like conjugated polymers that were being used in non-biological devices. We found a chemically stable example that was sold commercially as an antistatic coating for electronic displays."
The polymer, known as a Pedot, has exactly the properties needed to interface electronic hardware with human tissue without causing scarring while also dramatically improving the performance of medical implants.
The versatile Pedot polymer was also recently discovered to be capable of transforming standard house bricks into energy storage units, due to its ability to penetrate porous materials and conduct electricity.
The latest research used a Pedot film with an antibody that stimulates blood vessel growth after injury and could be used to detect early stages of tumour growth in the body.
Pedot polymers could also be used to help sense or treat brain or nervous system disorders, while versions could theoretically attach peptides, antibodies and DNA.
"Name your favourite biomolecule, and you can in principle make a Pedot film that has whatever biofunctional group you might be interested in," Dr Martin said.
The researchers made a polymer with dopamine, which plays a role in addictive behaviours.
Several companies and research institutions are already working on technology to connect brains to computers, with Elon Musk's Neuralink perhaps the closest to achieving a commercial product.
The startup plans to reveal more details about its brain chips later this month, which could one day provide "full-bandwidth data streaming" to the brain through a USB-C cable.
Mr Musk has made several claims about Neuralink's technology, stating earlier this year that it "could extend range of hearing beyond normal frequencies" and even allow people to stream music directly to their brains.
Such technology is essential for humans to compete with advanced artificial intelligence, according to Mr Musk. Last month he warned that humans risk being overtaken by AI within the next five years.
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17-10-2020
DEW Disclosure! Experimental Military Hypersonic Aircraft Deploy High Powered Lasers To Super-Heat the Atmosphere
DEW Disclosure! Experimental Military Hypersonic Aircraft Deploy High Powered Lasers To Super-Heat the Atmosphere
DEW Disclosure! Experimental Military Hypersonic Aircraft Deploy High Powered Lasers To Super-Heat the Atmosphere
Directed energy weapons (DEWs) are defined as electromagnetic systems capable of converting chemical or electrical energy to radiated energy and focusing it on a target, resulting in physical damage that degrades, neutralizes, defeats, or destroys an adversarial capability. Navy DEWs include systems that use High Energy Lasers (HEL) that emit photons, and High Power Microwaves (HPM) that release radiofrequency waves.
The U.S. Navy uses DEWs for power projection and integrated defense missions. The ability to focus the radiated energy reliably and repeatedly at range, with precision and controllable effects, while producing measured physical damage, is the measure of DEW system effectiveness. Conversely, capabilities to increase the resilience or survivability of platforms or Sailors from DEW threats are part of the Counter Directed Energy Weapons (CDEW) program.
Moon Anomalies Documentary! Most Astonishing Lunar Discoveries Ever Made
Moon Anomalies Documentary! Most Astonishing Lunar Discoveries Ever Made
There are some genuinely strange anomalies on the Moon that have yet to be fully explained. Lunar bases have been reported by astronauts, there are many other people who have pointed out numerous highly strange and irregular things about the moon. NASA has photographs revealing a large complex on the lunar surface that included numerous structures– towers, spherical buildings and mushroom-shaped buildings these have never been made public.
Remote viewers even found something astounding on the dark side on the moon. Watch thought provoking, educational, eye opening, extraordinary, awesome documentaries by subscribing and of course hit the bell button twice at the top tight of the screen. We will make each film expand the horizons of the viewers open to learning more about the world.
We hope you will become aware of many facts you may have been previously unaware of in this Moon Documentary.
BA Lakers Win Party Gets Fly Over By UFOs, Venice Beach, Oct 12, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
BA Lakers Win Party Gets Fly Over By UFOs, Venice Beach, Oct 12, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 12, 2020
Location of sighting: Venice Beach, California, USA
Watch this new video of people on Venice beach celebrating the Los Angeles Lakers NBA win. You will soon notice many glowing objects in the sky. The objects are not lanterns because lanterns fly much higher and have an opening on the bottom that is very bright and visible. I believe these UFOs came from the ocean. Since 75% of the earth is covered in water, it also makes sense if 75% of the alien bases are also located below the ocean floor. UFOs love celebrations of all kinds, because its a chance to see humans when they are relaxed and their true selves.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
October, 12, 2020 Venice Beach ca, typical Sunday funday, led up to an unusual display of lights in the sky, some say lanterns others say ufos what we do know is "we are not alone"🖖🏽👽
Project Camelot: The Reptilian Agenda via Cyrus Parsa
Project Camelot: The Reptilian Agenda via Cyrus Parsa
Project Camelot: The Reptilian Agenda via Cyrus Parsa
Parsa, is the Founder and CEO of The AI Organization, where he is also Director of Creative Analysis & Defensive Innovations. He has researched and investigated more than 1,000 AI, Robotics, 5G, Cybernetic and Big Tech companies.
White Oval UFO Confuses Eyewitness Over Australia, Oct 16, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
White Oval UFO Confuses Eyewitness Over Australia, Oct 16, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 16, 2020
Location of sighting: Parramatta, Australia
This eyewitness noticed a white oval object in the Australian sky this week. The UFO moves radically and unpredictably changes directions. He is right about it not being a plane, certainly no plane I have ever seen before. This is a white oval UFO and it seems to be trying to evade the person watching it. Meaning the object knows its being watched. This is further proof that there are alien bases somewhere in the Australian outback, 6km below the ground.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Saw this silvery pulsing oblect in the sky over Parramatta, No plane during the day has lights this bright! this was 1 of 4 objects that were flying in formation then broke up and went off in different directions.
100 Meter UFO Over Australia Lights Up At Night, Oct 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
100 Meter UFO Over Australia Lights Up At Night, Oct 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 16, 2020 Location of sighting: Australia
The eyewitness was looking out over the horizon at night in Australia when they suddenly noticed a long glowing object moving slowly in the distance. They recorded the event well showing us the object, but when I took a screenshot and enlarged it, its was clearly a alien ship. Its long and ha two teirs on it in the back, but the front is thiner and has an open mouth area. The front has a higher third tier on it for the command bridge. This is fantastic. I have often heard of the UFOs in Australia, but usually its just lights. Here we have a ultra rare close up of one. It looks big, about the size of a football field in length. Often aliens prefer desert warm locations due to lack of human contact out there. This one probably just exited an underground base 6km below the surface.
THE MOON MAY HAVE ACTED AS A PROTECTIVE SHIELD FOR A YOUNG EARTH
THE MOON MAY HAVE ACTED AS A PROTECTIVE SHIELD FOR A YOUNG EARTH
A shared magnetic field could have been key to supporting the origins of life on Earth.
AROUND 4 BILLION YEARS AGO, a massive object the size of Mars collided with a young, developing Earth.
The collision tossed vaporized particles from the Earth into space, which were then bound together through gravity to form the Moon.
This is just one theory of how the Moon formed. Since then, our planet and its only natural satellite have been inseparable since. A new study suggests that the Earth and Moon's relationship runs even deeper, and that the Moon may have shielded the Earth from losing all its atmosphere — allowing life to flourish on our planet.
The findings are detailed in a study published this week in the journal Science Advances.
When it first formed, the Moon was three times closer to Earth than it is today — some 80,000 miles away, For context, it is now 238,000 miles from Earth.
Lunar samples returned by astronauts during the Apollo missions revealed the Moon once had a magnetic field like Earth's, which acted as a shield from electrical charges.
An illustration of the Moon's magnetic field, which acts as a shield from charged particles in outer space.
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In the new study, scientists simulated how the Earth's and the Moon's magnetic fields would have interacted some 4 billion years ago, when the pair were much closer to one another. What they found suggests the Moon was not merely Earth's close companion — it was our planet's protector.
“The Moon seems to have presented a substantial protective barrier against the solar wind for the Earth, which was critical to Earth’s ability to maintain its atmosphere during this time,” Jim Green, NASA’s chief scientist and lead author of the new study, said in a statement accompanying the research.
The magnetosphere of the Moon and Earth, the region of space that surrounds an object where charged particles are affected by that object's magnetic field, would have been magnetically connected at each of their polar regions.
As a result, the charged particles emitted by the Sun as solar wind would not have been able to penetrate the pair's shared magnetic field.
Without the Moon, Earth may not have been able to withstand the Sun's powerful radiation emissions, which constantly bombarded the young planet at the time. If these emissions had made it through the shield, it would have made it impossible for life to thrive on our planet.
Over time, however, the Moon slowly lost its magnetic field and its atmosphere.
Understanding the Moon's effect on the Earth's habitability helps scientists in their hunt for signs of life on other worlds. This study suggests an exoplanet's moon could affect the potential for life on that world.
The scientists behind this study plan to further validate their findings using data collected during NASA's upcoming Artemis mission to the Moon. One of the mission's goals is to return the first lunar samples from the Moon's South Pole, where it is believed that the Moon and Earth's magnetic field were most strongly connected.
“We look forward to following up on these findings when NASA sends astronauts to the Moon through the Artemis program," Green said.
"Significant samples from these permanently shadowed regions will be critical for us to be able to untangle this early evolution of the Earth’s volatiles, testing our model assumptions," he noted.
Abstract:
Apollo lunar samples reveal that the Moon generated its own global magnetosphere, lasting from ~4.25 to ~2.5 billion years (Ga) ago. At peak lunar magnetic intensity (4 Ga ago), the Moon was volcanically active, likely generating a very tenuous atmosphere, and, it is believed, was at a geocentric distance of ~18 Earth radii (RE). Solar storms strip a planet’s atmosphere over time, and only a strong magnetosphere would be able to provide maximum protection. We present simplified magnetic dipole field modeling confined within a paraboloidal-shaped magnetopause to show how the expected Earth-Moon coupled magnetospheres provide a substantial buffer from the expected intense solar wind, reducing Earth’s atmospheric loss to space.
Black V-shaped UFO flying at an incredible speed over Waupun, Wisconsin
Black V-shaped UFO flying at an incredible speed over Waupun, Wisconsin
Ablack V-shaped UFO too fast to see with the human eye and no sound has been recorded over Waupun, Wisconsin by a hiker who did not see the object until going back and looking at the video on October 9, 2020.
The UFO comes from behind the tree line and increase its angle to almost straight up.
The hiker ruled out a fly or a bug because it comes from directly behind the tree line and exits behind the tree line and it appears to be as wide as the pine trees.
Besides, something strange happened when he took the video. According to the hiker he had a very euphoric feeling when he was taking the video, like he almost knew something was with him.
What could this object have been? Military-designed antigravity craft or was it of alien origin?
Did UFOs Drain 2 Billion Gallons Of Water From A Lake In Chile?
Did UFOs Drain 2 Billion Gallons Of Water From A Lake In Chile?
Strange things have happened in Lago Colbún, Chile. The lake is known for constant UFO sightings and even the mayor of one of the closest cities in the area says that he has seen a UFO draining water from the lake.
AI PILOT THOROUGHLY BEATS HUMAN IN F-16 DOGFIGHT, MARKING MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI PILOT THOROUGHLY BEATS HUMAN IN F-16 DOGFIGHT, MARKING MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Artificial intelligence defeated US fighter pilot in a clean sweep of simulated battles
Anthony Cuthbertson @ADCuthbertson
An AI pilot has defeated a US Air Force pilot in a virtual F-16 dogfight in a "coming of age" moment for artificial intelligence.
The US military's AlphaDogfight Trials was organised by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) - a secretive branch of the US Department of Defense responsible for the development of futuristic technologies.
It sought to demonstrate the "feasibility of developing effective, intelligent autonomous agents capable of defeating adversary aircraft in a dogfight."
The winning AI pilot, developed by Heron Systems, defeated other AI adversaries before going on to beat a human pilot wearing a VR helmet by a score of 5 - 0 in the final.
"We've gotten an opportunity to watch AI come of age [against] a very credible adversary in the human pilot," said Col. Dan Javorsek, program manager in Darpa's Strategic Technology Office.
"The AlphaDogfight Trials is all about increasing trust in AI. If the champion AI earns the respect of an F-16 pilot, we'll have come one step closer to achieving effective human-machine teaming in air combat."
The human pilot, who went by the name 'Banger', said that he was unable to match twisting techniques adopted by the AI pilot that he had not witnessed in human-to-human air combat.
"Standard things we do as fighter pilots are not working," he said during a live broadcast.
AI pilots have a significant advantage over human pilots, as they are not affected by the extreme G forces that occur when manoeuvring at high speeds.
They are also able to aim and fire to a superhuman level, though until now artificial intelligence has lacked the tactical thinking that humans are capable of.
The AI system was developed through deep reinforcement learning in order to overcome this and defeat the human pilot.
Darpa said the AlphaDogfight Trials is a precursor to its ACE program, which ultimately aims to use AI algorithms to fly real aircraft.
Creating art is an intensive and time-consuming process. It’s not just envisioning and designing the piece that’s challenging — the labor of painting also takes a lot of time. But what if robots could help with this, and maybe even expand an artist’s repertoire?
It may seem far-fetched, but in a new study, researchers paved the way for exactly this: they trained a swarm of robots to be used in producing art.
María Santos was always fascinated by the intersection of engineering and arts. A musician herself, she loves to explore this overlap of seemingly different worlds, she tells ZME Science.
“During my PhD at the School of Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech, I was given the opportunity of combining my research on control theory and multi-robot systems with different forms of art,” she says.
It all started in a previous study with her doctoral advisor, Professor Magnus Egersted. The two first studied the expressive capabilities of robot swarms to convey basic emotions and then moved on to look at the individual trajectories executed by the swarm of robots.
Is there some artistic merit to this, or could this approach be applied in an artistic setting as a tool? Santos believes so.
“In this study we explore how the integration of such trajectories over time can lead to artistic paintings by making the robots leave physical trails as they move,” Santos explains in an email.
“We envisioned the multi-robot system as an extension of an artist’s creative palette. The presented painting swarm along with all its control knobs embody new means of interaction between artists and the piece of art, whereby artists can explore new creative directions, intuitively interacting with a robotic system while not having to concern themselves with aspects such as individual robot control or available paints to each robot.”
At first glance, using robots for art seems like a weird idea, but it makes sense once you look at it. Painting is typically labor-intensive, and despite the world around us becoming more and more automated, painting has remained exclusively a manual endeavor. The idea is not to have the robots create art, but rather for artists to use the robots as a tool to ease their workload or explore new artistic directions.
The robots in the project move about a canvas leaving color trails, and the artist can select the areas of the canvas to be painted in a certain color — the robots will oblige in real time. It’s a bit like applying digital techniques into the real-life analog world and can serve as an interesting tool for artists.
The way Santos envisions the approach, the artist would control the swarm behavior, but not necessarily every individual robot.
“In this approach, the robotic swarm can be thought of as an “active” brush for the human artist to paint with, where the individual robots (active bristles) move over the canvas according to the color specifications given by the human at each point in time. Thus, the artist can control the collective behavior of the swarm and potentially some other general parameters (how much paint to release, how sharp the trajectories of the robots may be), but not the individual movements of each robot.”
This leaves a wide array of parameters the artist can influence to produce the desired effect, and explore different variations. It’s akin to how a composer writes variations on a theme, Santos tells me.
In the experiments, the researchers used a projector to simulate the colored paint trail with a digital input, although they will soon replace this with a robot that handles actual paint. They found that even when the robot doesn’t have access to the desired color, it is capable to collaborate with other robots and approximate the color. This means the artist doesn’t need to worry whether the robots have access to all the possible colors.
Now, the researchers hope to collaborate with artists to see how this approach could be best tweaked to make it work in real life. The current pandemic, however, has proven to be quite a hurdle.
“We would love to get feedback from artists! In fact, when we started this project, our idea was to get artists to come to the lab and interact with the robotic swarm. This way we could see what they could come up with creatively in terms of generated paints, but also to get their input about which features would be most interesting to develop as the project progresses further.”
“However, due to COVID19, this part was infeasible during the last months, so we focus on studying the characteristics of the paintings as a function of different parameters in the swarm.”
Ultimately, the team hopes to develop this into a full-scale artistic project and allow artists and the public to experiment with it
“As of now, the artworks were created to evaluate the operation of the system, but we would love to exhibit them! Once we can get people back in the lab to try the system, we would love to see what people would come up with.”
Journal Reference:
Interactive Multi-Robot Painting Through Colored Motion Trails, Frontiers in Robotics and AI(2020). DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2020.580415
In a little more than two months from now, I predict, there will be a great deal of controversy surrounding the infamous Rendlesham Forest “UFO landing” of December 1980. The reason? It will be the 40th anniversary of the notorious affair. And, I’m sure that while most people in Ufology will be flying the flag of E.T., I’ll be explaining why the real story is one of highly-classified, military experiments of a down to earth nature. With that said, there may be a very good reason that prompted the people behind the experiments to choose that particular area of woods for their tests. Rendlesham Forest has a long history of ghostly encounters. Witchcraft and occult-based rites and rituals have been performed late at night in those dark woods. So-called “Alien Big Cats,” or “black panthers,” as they are mostly named, have been seen roaming through the woods on more than a few times. One of the earliest, credible cases on record is that of Jimmy Freeman, whose close encounter with a big cat occurred while driving past Rendlesham Forest late one night in the mid-1970s. While the precise date has been lost to the inevitable fog of time, the details are as fresh in the mind of Freeman today as they were on the night the incident occurred.
Given the fact that the encounter had occurred around 11:15 to 11:30 on what was a dark, cloudy and slightly misty night, Freeman was driving slowly and had his lights on full-beam as he negotiated the dark and winding roads. As a result, when something large and shadowy charged across the road in front of him, Freeman could not fail to see the creature for what it was. Long, sleek and black in color, Freeman is in no doubt that for a split second or two he had a brief sighting of a huge cat. Today, he says firmly: “If I live to be a hundred, I will tell the same: Rendlesham Forest has big cats.” Moving on…
On a cold winter’s afternoon in 1983, the then-soon-to-be-married Paul and Jane Jennings were blissfully strolling through those woods when they were terrified by the sudden manifestation in front of them of what Jane would describe succinctly as “a big black dog.” She elaborated that the pair had been walking along a pathway when, on rounding a bend, they came face to face with the phantom beast – something that prompted Jane to intriguingly add: “It was almost like it was waiting for us.” Far more shocking, however, was what happened next. Suddenly, the beast began to flicker on and off for four or five times, then finally vanished, literally, before the Jennings’ eyes amid an overwhelming smell that reminded the pair of burning metal. Not surprisingly, the terrified couple fled for the safety of their car and fled the area. The U.K.’s “phantom black dogs,” as they are popularly known, prompted none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – the creator of Sherlock Holmes – to write his classic novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Rendlesham Forest, as well as the Suffolk locales of West Wratting and Balsham, is reportedly home to an even more diabolical beast than the phantom black dog. It is a creature that has come to be known locally as the Shug-Monkey. Described as being a bizarre combination of giant dog and large ape, the creature is said to strike deep terror into the hearts of those souls unfortunate enough to cross its path. And you thought that UFOs were the strangest things to be found in Rendlesham Forest, right? Wrong. It’s a magnet for strange phenomena – and it has been for a long, long time. It is, however, Rendlesham Forest’s UFO connection that has made those woods world-famous. In many respects, it doesn’t really matter if you are a believer or a disbeliever in supernatural phenomena, such as large and mysterious cats, ghostly hounds and a weird ape-like beast. The most important thing to note is this:
Rendlesham Forest has a reputation of being distinctly creepy for reasons that go far beyond UFOs and aliens, as you have just seen. If you wanted to run a secret military project in an area of English woodland, then what better place could there be than Rendlesham Forest? The answer is simple: there is no better location. Here’s why: Those who do believe in the paranormal will likely say that tales of mysterious creatures seen in the woods only serve to reinforce the idea that aliens landed at Rendlesham – which is almost certainly what the people that concocted the experiments were counting on. Using an area of woods – for nefarious reasons – that already had a reputation for being drenched in unearthly phenomena, would amount to perfect planning. When the “UFOs” put in their appearances at Christmas 1980, it was just another addition to the already-bulging collection of tales of the unknown that came from within Rendlesham Forest. And, because of the eerie reputation that the woods had (and still have), no-one was thinking about secret experiments of government agencies. But, they should have been.
Giant UFO Object Interacted With the Sun - Who Is Out There?
Giant UFO Object Interacted With the Sun - Who Is Out There?
Ufologists are rarely shocked when it comes to new discoveries as most of what’s being discovered or reported these days is pretty standard stuff. But, when the announcement comes from NASA themselves, needless to say, it gets pretty hard to maintain your composure past this point.
So, when they went out in front of all the cameras to declare that a huge extraterrestrial UFO interacted with the sun to avoid a big solar storm we are all listening closely, to say the least. According to them, when it was first spotted the team figured that the spacecraft was heading towards them with ill intents so they were extremely scared as they were caught by surprise, but it quickly became clear that they were not the target at this time around.
As you can see from the pictures, the event took place somewhere between the Sun and Earth, with the images being taken and saved by the space probes around Earth…
US Big Panic: China tests swarm of ‘suicide drones’ launched from a truck and helicopters
China tests swarm of ‘suicide drones’ launched from a truck and helicopters
China has developed a new low-cost “suicide drone” that is despatched in a swarm to attack a target, according to mainland media reports.
It was commissioned as part of the government’s military-civilian fusion strategy, a People’s Liberation Army insider who requested anonymity told the South China Morning Post. The policy seeks to boost military development with civilian and private sector support.
A swarm of the fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles was tested last month by the developer, a research institute under state-owned China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, according to a video released by the company.
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It shows kamikaze drones being launched from a light tactical vehicle and from helicopters.
The company has carried out similar tests before. In November 2017 its research institute, the China Academy of Electronics and Information Technology, carried out what is believed to be the biggest such experiment, involving 200 of the small fixed-wing aircraft.
In the video, multiple drones are seen being fired from a launcher mounted on the back of a modified version of the PLA’s Dongfeng Mengshi light tactical vehicle, as well as at least two from helicopters.
The unmanned aircraft appear to be similar to the CH-901, China’s first tactical attack drone and part of a series developed by state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
The CH-901 is small – just 1.2 metres (3.9 feet) long and weighing 9kg (20lbs) – but it can spend up to 120 minutes in the air and head towards a target at a speed of 150km/h (93 miles per hour) before detonating.
While the military insider would not give any details on which type of drones were put to the test last month, he said China had improved drone technologies developed in 2012 and was now trying to integrate them with other new hardware.
The short video clip shows how a swarm of suicide drones could be rapidly deployed to a war zone, launched from both land and air, to attack a target. They are seen flying in formation, with their movement directed remotely from a tablet-like device.
Both Chinese and US media reports have suggested the PLA may already be using suicide drones, but the military insider said that it was still grappling with technical issues.
“They’re still in the early development stage and the technical problems are yet to be resolved,” he said. “One of the key concerns is the communications system and how to stop it from getting jammed. The military has found that the artificial intelligence it uses is too slow to react.”
Drone warfare is becoming more important, and China is one of many countries racing to develop the technology. The US has deployed drones for decapitation strikes in the Middle East, including to kill top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in January.
Witness REC's 70 ft.Tic-Tac slowly moving under the cover of Mt.San Jacinto in California, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Witness REC's 70 ft.Tic-Tac slowly moving under the cover of Mt.San Jacinto in California, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 2020
Location of sighting: Highway 62, Palm Springs, California, USA
This is an interesting video of a white tic tac shaped UFO. The UFO was seen as a person was heading to work along Highway 62 near Palm Springs. The wind farm is located in Palm Spring outskirts.
The eyewitness at first believes it to be a cloud and then soon realized it was probably a UFO. UFOs do have a high interest in human technology and wind farms are the newest in free energy harvesting to make a cleaner planet. UFOs have been seen before around wind farms and one even crashed into a windmill many years back. This white tic tac...thats an alien craft caught very close to Area 51, Nellis AFB and the famous Extraterrestrial Highway. A UFO hotspot.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitnesses states:
I always wonder how with modern technology we get all these horrible recordings of UFOs until today when I witnessed my own, sorry for the quality was driving at high speed. Saw this on a route that I take to work very often I’ve seen clouds around the mountains very often but never like this.
Metallic Disk Seen Landed In mountain Top In Mexico, Oct 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Metallic Disk Seen Landed In mountain Top In Mexico, Oct 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 2020 Location of sighting: Mountain in Mexico
I have to admit, at first I thought this was fake, but its not. As I watched on, I realized the people there were seriously trying hard to focus the camera on the hillside. Even stoping to take a moment to adjust the lens looking down, then back at the UFO on the hilltop. The conversation is in Spanish, but you can hear the seriousness in the tone. This is real. This is absolutely amazing and I wish we had more footage of it. I have heard for decades about the Mexican UFOs and even reported over 50 different reports of them over the last decade, but this is the best close up I have ever seen of one. This is a classic disk shape. This is metallic with a hump in the upper middle. This made my day. This is 100% proof of an ancient intelligent species living in Mexico. Probably waiting for the ground to open up so it could go to an underground base 4-6km below the surface.
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