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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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09-03-2021
Tianwen-1 : ses premières images de Mars en haute résolution - Part I
Tianwen-1 : ses premières images de Mars en haute résolution - PART I
Rémy Decourt - Journaliste
[EN VIDÉO] Pourquoi les lancements vers Mars ne peuvent se faire que tous les 26 mois ?Lancer un engin vers Mars, ce n’est pas facile. Il ne suffit pas d’attendre que notre Terre soit au plus près de la Planète rouge... Explications en vidéo !
Découvrez les trois premières images de la surface de Mars acquises par la sonde Tainwen-1. Ces images, rendues publiques par l'Agence spatiale chinoise, ont été acquises seulement quelques jours après l'arrivée de la sonde chinoise autour de Mars.
L'Agence spatiale chinoise a rendu publiques trois images de la surface de Mars acquises par la sonde Tianwen-1, arrivée autour de Mars le 10 février 2021.
Il s'agit de deux images en noir et blanc et une en couleur qui ont pour but de montrer les capacités des caméras embarquées à bord de la sonde. L'image en couleur, de moyenne résolution, montre le pôle nord de la planète et sa calotte polaire très représentative de cette région.
Des images techniquement attrayantes
Quant aux images en noir et blanc, elles ont été acquises avec une caméra ayant une résolution de 70 centimètres le pixel. Dit autrement, les plus petits détails visibles mesurent un peu plus de deux mètres. Une résolution inférieure aux images de la Nasa et néanmoins supérieure à celles obtenues par la sonde Mars Express de l'Agence spatiale européenne mais dont la conception remonte au milieu de la décennie 1990.
Ces deux images ont été acquises alors que la sonde se trouvait à environ 330 à 350 kilomètres au-dessus de la surface martienne. On peut voir des cratères, des crêtes de montagnes et des dunes de sables. L'Agence spatiale chinoise n'a pas fourni d'informations sur la localisation de ces deux sites.
Ces deux images en noir et blanc de la surface de Mars font partie de la première série d'images obtenues par la sonde Tainwen-1. Elles ont été acquises depuis une altitude entre 330 et 350 kilomètres, quelques jours après l'arrivée de la sonde autour de la Planète rouge. La résolution est de 70 centimètres, ce qui signifie que les détails les plus petits visibles mesurent un peu plus de deux mètres.
Après la sonde Hope des Émirats arabes unis, c'est autour de la sonde chinoise Tianwen-1 d'arriver autour de Mars au terme d'un voyage de sept mois. La sonde s'est insérée en orbite vers 14 h 00 (heure française). La Chine devient donc le sixième pays et groupe de pays à rejoindre la Planète rouge, neuf ans après une première tentative ratée (Yinghuo-1).
C'est fait ! Dix ans après l'échec de la mission Yinghuo-1, un petit orbiteur qui devait être amené autour de Mars par la sonde russe Phobos-Grunt, la Chine est en orbite autour de Mars. Oubliez l'échec de Phobos-Grunt, qui n'avait pas réussi à quitter la Terre, la sonde Tianwen-1 s'est mise en orbite autour de la Planète rouge. La sonde serait entrée en orbite autour de Mars un peu avant 14 h, heure française, avec un périgée de seulement 385 kilomètres. L'Agence spatiale chinoise devrait confirmer les paramètres orbitaux de la sonde dans le courant de l'après-midi.
La première image rendue publique de la Mars acquise par la sonde chinoise Tianwen-1, alors distante de quelque 2,2 millions de km de la planète rouge.
Cette mission chinoise est techniquement et scientifiquement très ambitieuse. Elle comprend un orbiteur, un atterrisseur et un rover. Depuis les missions Viking des années 1970, la Nasa a abandonné cette architecture de mission, lui préférant des missions uniques, c'est-à-dire soit un orbiteur, soit un lander, ou soit un atterrisseur avec un rover. La Chine n'a donc pas vraiment choisi la simplicité avec cette mission...
Étonnamment, l'atterrissage du rover est prévu fin avril-début mai. Pour comprendre ce délai de plusieurs mois après l'arrivée de la sonde, il faut savoir que l'Agence spatiale chinoise, contrairement à la Nasa ou l'ESA, ne dispose pas de cartes à haute résolution de la planète Mars. Ainsi, l'orbiter MRO (et sa caméra Hirise) de la Nasa a pu fournir des cartes très détaillées, de seulement quelques dizaines de centimètres de résolution, du site d'atterrissage de Perseverance bien avant son lancement.
Afin de préparer au mieux l'atterrissage du rover chinois, dans la partie sud d'Utopia Planitia, la sonde Tianwen-1 cartographiera la région de façon à tracer des cartes les plus détaillées possible. Le but est de localiser l'endroit le plus propice pour faire atterrir le rover en sécurité dans un environnement pas trop encombré de gros rochers et le plus plat possible. Dès le point d'impact connu et pour réaliser un atterrissage en douceur avec la précision requise, les contrôleurs au sol devront calculer le point d'entrée dans l'atmosphère martienne, qui ne sera évidemment pas choisi au hasard. Un calcul déterminant pour poser en douceur le rover.
Des objectifs ambitieux
Comme pour la sonde Hope des Émirats arabes unis, les objectifs scientifiques de la mission sont annoncés comme élevés et focalisés sur une grande variété thématique (morphologie, géologie, structure interne minéralogie, eau, atmosphère, environnement spatial). Avec ces deux missions, la communauté scientifique s'attend à des avancées.
Parmi ces objectifs, on citera ceux qui font le pari de rechercher des signes de vie possibles ou des processus biologiques qui accréditeraient cette hypothèse. Le rover (240 kilogrammes environ) devrait photographier, étudier la composition du sol et fournir des informations sur l'environnement proche et l'atmosphère. Il recherchera également des traces d'eau à l'état solide, voire gazeux ou liquide, et son radar sondera le sous-sol afin d'obtenir des indices sur le passé de la planète. Quant à l'orbiteur, il se focalisera notamment sur l'atmosphère martienne et le méthane qui peut s'y trouver.
Mars en vue ! La sonde chinoise Tianwen-1 envoie sa première photo
Article de Rémy Decourt publié le 08/02/2021
L'Agence spatiale chinoise (CNSA), dont la sonde Tianwen-1 s'apprête à se mettre en orbite autour de Mars le 10 février, a rendu public un premier cliché de la planète Mars, acquis par la sonde. Et des images de Mars, la CNSA va en avoir besoin pour préparer l'atterrissage de son rover, en mai.
En février, les trois missions martiennes lancées à l'été 2020 devraient arriver autour de la Planète rouge. La sonde Hope des Émirats arabes unis le 9 février, suivie un jour plus tard de la sonde Tianwen-1 de la Chine (10 février) et enfin l'Américaine Perseverance le 18 février.
À quelques jours de la mise en orbite de Tianwen-1, une phase très délicate, l'Agence spatiale chinoise (CNSA) a publié un premier cliché en noir et blanc de la planète Mars. Si peu de détails sont visibles, c'est tout à fait normal. La sonde a pris ce cliché quand elle se situait à quelque 2,2 millions de kilomètres de la planète Mars. D'une masse au lancement de cinq tonnes, Tianwen-1 est une mission de type Viking. C'est-à-dire qu'elle comprend un orbiter, une plateforme d'atterrissage et un rover conçu pour fonctionner et rouler pendant au moins 90 jours.
Atterrir dans la vaste plaine d’Utopia Planitia
Étonnamment, l'atterrissage du rover est prévu au mois de mai. Pour comprendre ce délai de plusieurs mois après l'arrivée de la sonde, il faut savoir que l'Agence spatiale chinoise, contrairement à la Nasa ou l'ESA, ne dispose pas de cartes à haute résolution de la planète Mars. Ainsi, l'orbiter MRO (et sa caméra Hirise) de la Nasa a pu fournir des cartes très détaillées, de seulement quelques dizaines de centimètres de résolution, du site d'atterrissage de Perseverance bien avant son lancement.
Afin de préparer au mieux l'atterrissage du rover chinois, dans la partie sud d'Utopia Planitia, la sonde Tianwen-1 cartographiera la région de façon à tracer des cartes les plus détaillées possible. Le but est de localiser l'endroit le plus propice pour faire atterrir le rover en sécurité dans un environnement pas trop encombré de gros rochers et le plus plat possible. Dès le point d'impact connu et pour réaliser un atterrissage en douceur avec la précision requise, les contrôleurs au sol devront calculer le point d'entrée dans l'atmosphère martienne, qui ne sera évidemment pas choisi au hasard. Un calcul déterminant pour poser en douceur le rover.
Tianwen-1 : lancement réussi de l'ambitieuse mission chinoise vers Mars
Article de Rémy Decourt publié le 23/07/2020
La Chine a lancé ce matin la mission Tianwen-1 à destination de la planète Mars qu'elle atteindra en février 2021.
Tôt ce matin, la sonde chinoise Tianwen-1 a été lancée en direction de la planète Mars pour un voyage long de sept mois. La sonde a décollé à bord d'un lanceur Long March 5 du centre spatial de Wenchang, située sur l'île de Hainan à 06 h 41, heure de France. Tianwen-1 doit arriver autour de Mars en février 2021 et s'installer sur une orbite elliptique avec un périgée à 265 kilomètres et un apogée à quelque 12.000 kilomètres. L'atterrissage du rover est prévu en avril dans d'Utopia Planitia, une vaste plaine de l'hémisphère Nord de Mars où des observations radar ont indiqué la présence de vastes quantités de glace sous la surface.
Cette seconde mission martienne de la Chine est très ambitieuse car elle prévoit l'atterrissage d'un rover et la mise en orbite autour de la planète d'une sonde. Neuf ans plus tôt, la sonde russe Phobos-Grunt, qui embarquait le petit orbiter chinois Yinghuo-1, avait raté son départ de Terre. L'orbiteur, qui embarque sept instruments, est conçu pour fonctionner pendant au moins une année martienne, soit deux ans. Quant au rover, il devrait rouler sur la planète pendant au moins 90 jours et dispose de six instruments.
Une mission scientifique annoncée comme ambitieuse
Tianwen-1 bénéficie de l'héritage technique du programme d'exploration lunaire chinois avec trois sondes et deux rovers sur la Lune, dont un est actuellement en activité sur la face cachée. Cela dit, malgré d'indéniables avancées technologiques et une politique cohérente de rattrapage dans les technologies spatiales, les Chinois ont tout de même été contraints de solliciter une assistance étrangère pour le bon déroulement de la mission et la fourniture d'instruments scientifiques. Il faut se rappeler que sur la quarantaine de missions lancées vers la Planète rouge depuis le début de la conquête spatiale, plus de la moitié ont échoué. Un peu d'aide de spécialistes étrangers n'est donc pas une si mauvaise idée que cela.
Comme pour la sonde Hope des Émirats arabes unis, les objectifs scientifiques de la mission sont annoncés comme élevés et focalisés sur une grande variété thématique (morphologie, géologie, structure interne minéralogie, eau, atmosphère, environnement spatial).
L'été 2020 s'annonce particulièrement propice aux lancements des missions martiennes. Ce jeudi, c'est la mission chinoise Tianwen-1 qui prévoit de quitter le plancher des vaches pour rejoindre la Planète rouge.
Le rover Hope des Émirats arabes unis et celui baptisé Perseverance par la Nasa ne seront pas les seuls à se rendre sur Mars ce mois-ci. La Planète rouge se trouvera en effet en opposition avec la Planète bleue vers la fin de l'année : elle, la Terre et le Soleil seront alors dans le même alignement, et Mars sera au plus proche de la Terre. Leurs positions respectives permettront par ailleurs aux missions de suivre une trajectoire optimale pour se rendre sur place. Les orbites asynchrones de la Terre et de Mars impliquent que les fenêtres de tir avantageuses sont rares, généralement espacées de deux ans. Mais l'année 2020 offre des conditions particulièrement propices pour les agences spatiales, qui ne connaîtront pas de nouvelle chance comme celle-ci avant 2033.
Trajectoire typique d'une mission vers Mars (ici, la mission Insight, lancée en 2018).
C'est pourquoi la première mission martienne entièrement conçue en Chine devrait se joindre au mouvement ce jeudi si tout se déroule comme prévu. Baptisée Tianwen-1 (un nom tiré d'un poème du VIe siècle avant notre ère, et signifiant littéralement « questions adressées au paradis »), elle se compose d'une sonde, d'un atterrisseur et d'un rover. Les appareils devraient se placer en orbite martienne en février 2021, avant que l'atterrisseur et le rover ne soient envoyés à la surface, dans la plaine Utopia Planitia, deux à trois mois plus tard.
L'ESA, le Cnes, et les agences spatiales argentine (Conae) et autrichienne (FFG) ont apporté leur soutien au lancement de la mission Tianwen-1.
La région sélectionnée par l'Agence spatiale chinoise possède plusieurs avantages notables pour le bon fonctionnement de la mission. Premièrement, l'atterrisseur devra traverser une plus grande couche d'atmosphère avant d'atteindre le fond du cratère d'impact formant Utopia Planitia (jusqu'à cinq kilomètres de profondeur), bénéficiant ainsi d'un temps supplémentaire pour ralentir sa chute. Deuxièmement, la zone possédera une exposition au Soleil suffisante pour alimenter les batteries du rover. Enfin, le terrain plat offrira une zone d'exploration idéale au robot, qui sera en opération pendant 90 jours martiens, équivalent chacun à 24 heures et 37 minutes sur Terre. Au programme : étude de la géologie martienne, analyse des sols et de la distribution d'eau glacée, mesure de l'ionosphère et des champs gravitationnels et magnétiques.
La Chine va lancer sa première mission d'exploration de Mars en juillet
Article de l'AFP-Relaxnews, publié le 25 mai 2020
La Chine investit des milliards d'euros dans son programme spatial et vise la Planète rouge avec une première mission baptisée « Tianwen ». Elle prévoit d'envoyer, en juillet, une sonde et un petit robot pour y mener des analyses.
La Chine prévoit de lancer en juillet une sonde et un petit robot téléguidé vers Mars, sa première mission en direction de la Planète rouge, a annoncé le promoteur du projet. Le pays investit des milliards d'euros dans son programme spatial : il lance des satellites, prévoit d'envoyer des Hommes sur la Lune, et vient courant mai de lancer un nouveau vaisseau.
« Notre objectif était d'envoyer la sonde vers Mars courant 2020, a indiqué la China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). Ce grand projet avance comme prévu et nous visons un lancement en juillet », a-t-elle souligné dimanche dans un communiqué.
L'atterrisseur du rover martien de la Chine testé dans des conditions simulant la gravité martienne.
Tianwen, la première mission chinoise à destination de Mars
Il faudrait sept mois pour parcourir la distance Terre-Mars et la sonde chinoise n'arrivera pas à destination avant 2021. La distance change constamment mais est au minimum de 55 millions de kilomètres. Baptisée Tianwen (Questions au ciel), la mission chinoise a trois objectifs : placer en orbite martienne une sonde, la faire atterrir sur la Planète rouge, puis téléguider à la surface un robot pour y mener des analyses. La Chine a déjà réalisé une opération similaire sur la Lune, où elle a déposé dès 2013 un petit « rover » téléguidé à roues (baptisé Lapin de jade), puis son successeur en janvier 2019 (sur la face cachée de l'astre lunaire, une première mondiale).
Le pays asiatique n'est pas le seul sur le créneau des missions martiennes. Les États-Unis, qui ont déjà envoyé quatre véhicules exploratoires sur Mars, doivent lancer entre juin et août leur cinquième (nommé Perseverance). Il devrait arriver vers février 2021. Les Émirats arabes unis vont lancer le 15 juillet la première sonde arabe en direction de la Planète rouge, depuis le Japon. Par contre, la mission russo-européenne ExoMars, victime de difficultés techniques aggravées par l'épidémie de Covid-19 et qui espérait lancer cet été un robot vers Mars, a été reportée à 2022.
La Chine dévoile des informations inédites sur sa mission martienne de 2020
Article de Rémy Decourt, publié le 26 août 2016
Après le lancement d'un satellite qui embarque un système de communication quantique, la Chine a profité de cette exposition médiatique internationale pour lever le voile sur sa première mission martienne. Quelques images de synthèse et une brève présentation d'un des responsables de la mission ont suffi pour susciter un vif intérêt en raison d'objectifs scientifiques passionnants et à la clé une course avec la Nasa qui s'ouvre...
La Chine qui depuis son premier vol habité réalisé en octobre 2003 est devenue une puissance spatiale de premier plan s'éloigne encore plus de la Terre. Après la Lune en 2013, elle met le cap à destination de Mars et vise un atterrissage en 2021. On rappellera que la République populaire de Chine a d'abord tenté de rejoindre la Planète rouge à bord de la sonde russe Phobos-Grunt sur laquelle se trouvait l'orbiteur chinois Yinghuo-1. Malgré un lancement parfait le 8 mars 2011, cette sonde n'a jamais réussi à quitter l'orbite terrestre pour rejoindre Mars. En janvier 2012, elle est retombée dans l'océan Pacifique.
A présent, la Chine vient de publier quelques images de synthèse de cette future mission martienne qu'elle compte lancer en 2020. Ces clichés, au-delà de l'aspect ludique, nous renseignent sur le profil et l'architecture de la mission. À cela s'ajoute qu'en marge de cette publication, Zhang Rongqiao, un des responsables de la mission, a profité de l'occasion pour donner quelques détails intéressants que nous synthétisons ci-dessous.
Pour une première mission à destination de Mars, avec un orbiteur, un atterrisseur et un rover, la première puissance économique mondiale n'a pas vraiment choisi la simplicité. Si la mission ExoMars 2016 de l'Agence spatiale européenne a la même architecture, la Nasa, qui lance une mission à chaque fenêtre de tir a pris le parti de lancer soit un orbiteur, soit un engin de surface (lander ou rover). Bien que la Chine ait réussi à poser avec succès un petit rover sur la Lune (décembre 2013), atterrir sur Mars est autrement plus difficile. Sans surprise, le site d'atterrissage se situera près de l'équateur, là où les conditions atmosphériques pour se poser sont les plus favorables.
Courte vidéo qui résume le voyage du rover chinois, de son départ de la Terre à ses premiers tours de roue sur la planète Mars.
2020, grande année de lancements à destination de Mars
Cette mission martienne sera lancée lors lors de la fenêtre de tir de 2020, à l'été en vue d'un atterrissage au printemps 2021. Cette fenêtre de tir verra également le décollage des rovers Mars 2020 de la Nasa et d'ExoMars 2020 de l’Esa ainsi que de la mission Hope des Émirats arabes unis. Il s'agit d'un orbiteur dédié à la météorologie martienne qui viendra compléter les données de la sonde Maven, de la Nasa.
Compte tenu d'un grand nombre d'instruments, les objectifs scientifiques sont nombreux et variés. Les plus excitants sont ceux qui font le pari de rechercher des signes de vie possibles ou des processus biologiques qui accréditeraient cette hypothèse. Le rover (200 kg environ) emportera 13 instruments qui lui permettront, entres autres, de photographier, d'étudier la composition du sol et de fournir des informations sur l'environnement proche et l'atmosphère. Il recherchera également des traces d'eau à l'état solide, voire gazeux ou liquide et un radar sondera le sous-sol afin d'obtenir des indices sur le passé de la planète. Quant à l'orbiteur, il se focalisera notamment sur l'atmosphère martienne et le méthane qui peut s'y trouver.
Battre la Nasa sur le fil
Alors qu'on doit aux Russes et aux Américains la plupart des grandes premières spatiales, la mission de retour d’échantillons martiens se fait toujours attendre. Et si la Nasa, qui a cet objectif en point de mire depuis plusieurs années, se faisait souffler la vedette ?
Vu la vitesse à laquelle la Chine rattrape son retard technologique, il y a fort à parier que vient de s'engager une course entre ces deux agences spatiales. La Nasa comme la CNSA visent toutes les deux le début de la décennie 2030. Avec sa mission Mars 2020, la Nasa devrait prendre un peu d'avance. En effet, elle prévoit de déposer dans des conteneurs quelques précieux grammes du proche sous-sol martien. Quant aux Chinois, cette première mission martienne leur servira à démontrer un certain nombre de technologies nécessaires à ce retour d'échantillons sur Terre.
MARS CITY DESIGN: 6 SCI-FI CITIES THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND "GET YOUR ASS TO MARS!"
MARS CITY DESIGN: 6 SCI-FI CITIES THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND
AS PERSEVERANCE INSPIRES THE ENTIRE WORLD about the thrill of visiting our nearest solar neighbor, Mars, it's easy to start fantasizing about what it will be like when human beings regularly live on the red planet in the future.
6. BRADBURY CITY - MARS TRILOGY
There are several fictional cities in Kim Stanely Robinson's seminal SF books about the settlement of Mars — Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars — so it's hard to pick just one. But, if you have to choose only one Martian metropolis from his books, Bradbury City is the way to go.
Named for Ray Bradbury, who wrote The Martian Chronicles, Robinson's Bradbury City is designed to recreate a city in Illinois. Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois. The Martian Chronicles features several unlikely Martian cities, some made by humans, some made by Martians. But, in almost all cases, like in "Night Meeting," these towns and cities often have gas stations and pickup trucks.
5. BOWIE BASE ONE - DOCTOR WHO
Not exactly a city per se, but certainly a great Martian settlement in the pantheon of science fiction — if only for its name.
In the 2009 David Tennant-era Doctor Whoone-off, "The Water of Mars," the Doctor battles a type of sentient alien water called "the Flood," that turns people into water zombies. Bowie Base One, in the Who-canon, is the first human colony on Mars, which leads to many, many others. Obviously, it's named for David Bowie and the song "Life on Mars."
4. UTOPIA PLANITIA - STAR TREK
In the 24th Century-era of Trek, most of the best ships in Starfleet are built at the Utopia Planitia Shipyards in orbit of Mars. The Trek franchise rarely visited Mars, although the final episodes of Enterprise Season 4 — "Terra Prime" and "Demons" — had a lot of action on the Martian surface.
Both Star Trek: Picard and its prequel, "Children of Mars," revealed that the shipyards weren't just in orbit of Mars, but also on the ground, which meant that a huge civilization population lived and worked on Mars prior to the Sythn revolt in 2285.
3. LONDRES NOVA - THE EXPANSE
More than any other contemporary science fiction series, The Expanse— both the books and the TV series — have made a convincing projection of what a future Martian colony might be like.
The capital city, Londres Nova, is sometimes called "New London." In the reality of The Expanse, what makes the settlement of Mars so interesting is the way in which it eventually just becomes totally independent from the Earth to the point at which its government is basically in direct competition with Earth for the entire solar system's resources. By the future time period of The Expanse, Mars is basically an alien planet, populated by humans.
2. MARS DOME ONE - BABYLON 5
Somewhat unique among science fiction, Babylon 5 started off with a lead character who was born on Mars, Commander Jeffery Sinclair. In B5, being from Mars isn't that weird, but the politics of Mars are integral to the overall story of the series.
Mars Dome One is the biggest city there, and yes, it's a giant dome. But, Mars Dome One and other cities in Babylon 5 are fascinating because unlike Earth, there's more of an underworld on Mars, including an underground railroad for rogue telepaths.
1. CHYRSE - TOTAL RECALL
The Martian city visited by Arnold Schwarzenegger's Quaid is by far the most memorable Martian city in science fiction, even if it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
In the Philip K. Dick short story upon which Total Recall was based, "We Can Remember It For Your Wholesale," the lead character never actually goes to Mars, at least not in the realtime of the story. The triumph of Chryse in Total Recall is the edgy naturalism of this future city. It's sleazy, dirty, and dangerous.
In Blade Runner, you're told that humans have emigrated to a variety of other planets. Chryse in Total Recall is like the Martian city equivalent of Los Angeles in Blade Runner. You can basically imagine them existing in the same shared universe. Would author Philip K. Dick approve? Maybe!
VIDEO:On Mars They Discovered A New Mystery: The Mysterious Statue Is A Proof Of Intelligent Life.
VIDEO:On Mars They Discovered A New Mystery: The Mysterious Statue Is A Proof Of Intelligent Life.
The Red Planet is a magnet for extraterrestrial survivors. They regularly come up with new information on what strange and mysterious they have been able to find on Mars. This time, it seems to them that aliens from space could even be religious foundations.
UFO lovers have recently been greeted by a NASA snapshot on a soche-like unit to prove the existence of intelligent life on the planet.
When Elon Musk said there’s a “good chance” the first settlers on the Red Planet will die there, at an August 31 conference, the outcome was easy to imagine. It is a dangerous place, after all. But that obscures the ultimate goal of any colony: to have people comfortably die on Mars after a long life of work and play that, we hope, looks at least a little like life on Earth.
Several necessities for achieving this feat are in use or development already. The long-term life-support technology aboard the International Space Station, for example, already recycles air and water. Mars, however, will require life support for the same group of people, not a group that rotates every few months with frequent short trips from Earth.
The key to surviving the desperate conditions that await the first Martian settlers lies in balancing our response to predictable events—limited water, no atmosphere, radiation—and developing a resiliency against unpredictable events, says Jennifer Buz, Ph.D., an areologist (one who studies Mars) at Northern Arizona University. “There’s a lot you can plan for, so you could kind of prolong your life to an extent, but there’s always going to be something that’s not perfectly accounted for.”
What will settlers need to do? “The first thing is figuring out the shelter and sealing it so you’re not losing all your resources,” Buz explains. “Shelter could be like a cave or a subsurface shelter; it doesn’t have to be an external thing. It’s so cold there, and because of the radiation, that’s going to be critical. If you’re in an enclosed place, you can keep your atmosphere.”
Plus, she says, you need “a way to get at the resources that it does have, like soil and water. A 2019 paper described how you could easily melt the subsurface ice and basically cover the planet in aerogel. You could put down a layer of it and it will heat the surface.” That research, started by the University of Colorado Boulder and Northern Arizona University and continued by Harvard and the University of Edinburgh, showed that the silica aerogel layer could block radiation, enable photosynthesis, and heat the ground to a stable point above freezing to create islands of habitability.
“If I can go to Mars and be a human guinea pig, I’m willing to sort of donate my body to science. I feel like it’s worth it for me personally, and it’s kind of a selfish thing, but just to turn around and look and see Earth. That’s a lifelong total dream.”
- Elon Musk
Even with the right structures and technology in place, if one piece fails, it can throw the whole system out of equilibrium. “Then you’re going to have a runaway effect,” says Buz. She cites an example of runaway effect from the science fiction series The Expanse. A carefully balanced space settlement loses its air supply after a single piece of hardware is disabled. “Their sunlight is reduced, so their plants produce less air. Slowly the air becomes harder to breathe and they start losing food,” she says.
Scientists at NASA and under Musk’s SpaceX umbrella can also only prepare so much before they run into the firm limitation of human factors like discipline and interpersonal dynamics, Buz says. “There’s not going to be options for people to interact with, and you have to constantly face your own mortality,” she says. “It will be very easy to die there—lose your atmosphere, lose your water—so you have to live a very rigid lifestyle.”
Humans have done it before. “Polar explorers like [Ernest] Shackleton planned everything well in advance since they couldn’t just eat whatever they wanted,” says Buz. “They had to be very careful because of the temperatures and because it was a very small group. They all had to pull their weight.”
Besides, added Musk at that conference, there’s an upside if you don’t fall to hardship or accident. “It’s going to be tough going,” he said, “but it will be pretty glorious if it works out.”
In the year 1981, Norwegian people started seeing something unusual in the sky. Tinted lights swung silently came into view above the vale.
Prying spectators discovered the strange lights are best seen from a grade at the north of the gorge, eyeing south, and within few years the UFO hunters started congregating on Hessdalen lights.
And there has been one of the longest and the most scientific of all UFO investigations.
It has been given many names; some call them ghost lights, some call them UFOs, whilst some call them Earthlights.
It hasn’t been cleared, yet, what these lights are exactly, however, Hessdalen’s inhabitants don’t look too worried.
Though some are still thinking over the fact- are Hessdalen lights real? The population of this village only consists of a few hundred people.
UFO researcher, Dr Erling Strand, in 1983, started a project and named it Hessdalen as a kind of core agenda for all the information obtained by UFO researcher and other examiners.
Strand was sure that some mysterious division of physics was liable for those strange lights, and he persuaded as many researchers as he could in order to merge with his project.
Project Hessdalen Lights
Project Hessdalen built on mechanized measurement station on the famous hill, with an evident view of the sky pointing south to the valley.
It was loaded with an amazing series of technical gear. It not only incorporated with tons of optical cameras, however, magnetometers, tools for measuring low rate electromagnetic energy.
Interestingly, the station incorporates a number generators that randomly generates numbers, as a part of the Global Consciousness Project, which strives for to prove that combined human awareness foresees crucial occurrences by changing the output of the random number generators.
Seemingly, this is to examine whether the emergence of the Hessdalen lights is some kind of psychic phenomenon.
The automated station discovered that the Hessdalen lights generally appears in the sky at night amid 9 pm and 1 am, especially during winters.
Numerous photographers have taken pictures of the Hessdalen lights and posted on several online websites.
The photos can be seen on the official website of Hessdalen lights at hessdalen.org.
When they emerge out in the sky, each light sustains a persistent color temperature, and its range stays unchanged.
Hessdalen Lights Solved
The researchers dig deep in order to attempt and track down this mysterious new section of physics.
One of the acquaintances of Dr. Strand, Dr. Massimo Teodorani, an astrophysicist and radio astronomer, suggested, out of several theories they studied that the Hessdalen lights might occur due to these possible activities;
solar activity, cosmic rays, ionosphere activity, magnetic monopoles, Rydberg matter, piezoelectricity, mini- black holes, and quantum fluctuation of the vacuum state.
None of these reasons could substantiate the Hessdalen lights, except for some characteristics of piezoelectricity, it was likely to discover some proof.
Teodorani gave a very different explanation. He theorized the whole scenario in a different manner.
He stated that water oozes into cracks in quartz in the gorge, and when the water freezes, it puts pressure on the quartz, triggering a piezoelectric effect that develops an electrical current.
He presumed the presence of a flying ball of plasma, probably fired by the piezoelectric current, and the equilibrium of his intricate theory includes the aspects of the plasma.
It attaches with water vapor, airborne mold microorganisms. It maintains itself in balanced because of complex contracts, and retain its shape due to a supposed ‘cool coat’ of ions and water.
This isn’t a very satisfying explanation; it is more likely an unconventional hypothesis.
It ties together some extreme assumptions, only a few of them are credible or have been paid attention to, ever.
What we have learned so far about the earth’s history is when water freezes inside rock cracks, it breaks the rock.
Not for once has it ever been perceived to leave the stone unharmed and release the energy by bringing into being an electrical current that develops flying plasma balls.
Another thing to look at is that natural quartz does depict the piezoelectric effect; however, there’s very small quartz in Hessdalen. It is almost schist and sandstone.
Even though the schist contains tales of quartz, it easily gets broken by ice and releases any force.
Ultimately, the piezoelectric effect in a few natural rocks exists, however, hardly visible.
Teodorani didn’t look into the root of what’s causing the emergence of lights in the sky; rather, it all started with the hypothesis that the cause is the distinct geophysical method that came out of the ground, drifting.
He came up with another hypothesis supporting this assumption. Beginning with a description, and performing in reverse in order to try and complement the examination, is contradictory to what an actual science does.
Hessdalen Lights Phenomenon
There have been sightings of 53 lightings during the field examination. Dr. Strand organized together with the author, the first international congress of the Hessdalen lights phenomena in the year 1994.
This meeting lured scientists from all over the world and improved scientific research in Hessdalen.
Reports from the Congress signify that descriptions of the occurrence could direct to new theories in physics.
The congress began the partnerships betweenVestfold University in Norway and CNR in Italy.
The author started the EMBLA project with Dr Stelio Montebugnoli, with the intent of researching the electromagnetic radiation and nature of the Hessdalen lights in Norway in 1999.
The Hessdalen lights still lit the skies up; however, their rate has been decreased to 20 observations each year.
The succeeding is the result from more than 25 years of research and when Italian SETI scientists got engaged with much highly technical equipment.
Hessdalen Lights Debunked
The flashy plasmic balls could be as huge as of a car. The scientists now conclude that the Hessdelan lights are the outcome of a natural battery hidden underground, developed by metallic minerals that respond to the sulfurous river running over it.
Some scientists believe that the Hessdelan lights are caused by a kind of plasma. Plasma is cold and could kill the micro-organisms, as well.
However, it’d need an extremely high temperature and a massive amount of energy to be manufactured.
Others think that the Hessdelan lights are some sort of ball lightning since similar ball lightning has been seen and examined in China exhibited they were developed of iron, silicon, and calcium, which are found in Hessdalen lights, along with an extra element called scandium.
However, the Hessdalen lights do not emerge when there is a bolt of lightning, directing Dr Hauge to propose another idea.
He suggested that the valley’s form, geology, and climate produces a huge electric charge and that still electricity on the foothills were beaten by strong winds.
Others consider that the flashing lights are fuelled by radioactivity and the deterioration of radon in the atmosphere.
According to them, the Hessdalen lights were ‘dusty plasma’ comprising ionized dust particles.
Coming back to Teodorani’s theory; he stated that a floating light rose out of the ground due to a unique geophysical process.
Even though this theory received any recognition, it still wouldn’t be a satisfactory one for the Hessdalen observations.
People live through the Hessdalen valley, and not any of the examinations have incorporated lights emerging out of the ground.
To have a sight of the Hessdelan lights, one has to climb the hill at the north end of the vale, and glance at the south.
He believed that the plasma balls are in the gorge and drifting in the air; contradictory to the researches that assert the lights are evident to the south of the watching point.
One local media report quoted the pilot recalling a metal ring wrapped around the object and a brilliant light coming from its centre.
The unidentified flying object was seen over Rahim Yar Khan, a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
The pilots were operating a routine flight from Lahore to Karachi.
The object periodically pulses as it hovers, 1,000ft above the cruising aircraft, as pilots watch it on a flight between Lahore and Karachi
Pakistani journalist Zain Khan, who tweeted the footage, wrote on Twitter: 'It is too early to say for sure what he had actually witnessed.
'It cannot necessarily be a flying saucer.'
Khan said the pilot immediately reported the incident when he saw it last Saturday, adding that authorities were now investigating as to what the object is.
A spokesman for PIA confirmed the captain of the flight saw an 'extraordinary object' flying 1,000ft over his aircraft, which was cruising at 35,000ft, and made a video which is being circulated on social media.
'At this time we don't know what the object was', the spokesman said.
When it comes to UFOs, most people accept the eyewitness accounts of astronauts, military and professional pilots over sightings by the general public. That may explain why a sighting by a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) pilot and crew on a domestic flight over Pakistani airspace is getting intense scrutiny worldwide. It helps that someone in the cockpit captured the UFO on video and the sighting was in bright daylight against a clear blue sky. With that many witnesses, including reports from the ground, Pakistan International Airlines felt obligated to issue a statement. What did all of these people see? What did the airline think?
“The video was shot over Multan-Sialkot region by Captain Faisal Qureshi and his First Officer Captain Talha while piloting the Karachi-Lahore flight at an altitude of 35,000 feet.”
The Express Tribune reports that the UFO was spotted by the crew of domestic flight PIA flight PK304 from Karachi to Lahore. At about 4 pm on January 23 near Rahim Yar Khan, the pilot saw the UFO about 1,000 feet above the Airbus A-320. According to the records, Captain Qureshi immediately reported the sighting back to the control room. After landing in Karachi, the pilot shared the video with officials of Pakistan International Airlines. They were sufficiently concerned that a spokesperson made a statement to the public:
“It is too early to say what that object was. In fact, we might not be able to tell what the object was at all. However, something was spotted and it was reported in accordance with the required protocol.”
Better call the tower on this one.
Somehow, as usual, the 41-second video appeared on social media. (Watch it here.) Speaking in English, the pilot can be heard saying “It’s not a balloon, it’s not an aircraft.” Some of the video was censored due to language, but reports say the pilot was also heard commenting “The UFO was extremely bright despite the presence of sunlight” and speculating that it was not a planet but could be a “space station” or an “artificial planet.” One report also stated the pilot saw what looked like a metal ring surrounding the UFO and a brilliant light coming from its center.
Despite the pilot’s expert opinion that the object was not a balloon, that was the prevailing comment on media posts. The Express Tribune contacted Pakistan Meteorological Department spokesman Khalid Malik, who explained they have some balloons that fly at an altitude of 6,000 to 7,000 feet, and Radiosondes balloons which can reach 70,000 feet. However, private weather station operator Jawad Memon pointed out that Radiosondes, which he claims the Meteorological Department no longer uses, are non-reflective rubber while the UFO was obviously very shiny. Some commenters and media sites referred to the UFO as an alien Foo fighter, but that term – first used during WWII – has been explained to be either electrical discharge from the wings of a plane or reflective ice crystals – both of which follow the plane and are close to it, unlike the Pakistan UFO. And, since it was recorded on video, it’s not a hallucination due to fatigue or stress.
Foo fighter?
“A similar incident was also reported in January 2019 by PIA pilots in Karachi. A UFO was spotted by the flight crew flying 105 feet above the aircraft, while the plane was flying at an altitude of 2,500feet. The flight captain suspected it could be a drone. The incident was immediately reported to the Air Traffic Control (ATC) in Karachi.”
Was this one a drone too? The altitude rules out commercially available drones, but it could be a military drone, although the pilots didn’t make that connection. That puts this object solidly in the “unidentified” category with a slight lean towards “balloon” but a contrary pull towards UFO because of the inability of the pilots to identify it.
As long as the UFO phenomenon has existed there have been those looking to tap into it, shape it, mold it to their wishes, and convince others of their version of the “truth.” This way lies the myriad UFO cults existing out there, which range from the harmless to those that have ended in tragedy. These are some very weird stories of people who have somehow been convinced to believe some very fringe beliefs, often only on the word of one leader who exudes authority and who is respected as being in the know. Rarely have such UFO cults ended up in a good place, and here we will look at another such belief system based on UFOs and an enigmatic leader with some rather strange messages for the world.
The whole strange affair begins with a man named Sheldon Nidle. Born on November 11, 1946, he would later claim that almost from his very birth he had been contacted by alien intelligences from the planet Sirius, who were allegedly part of a larger “Galactic Federation.” These aliens apparently contacted him throughout his entire life, communicating with him telepathically, taking him into their spaceship, and implanting him with what he calls “direct core knowledge inserts.” He would claim that he was a “star seed from Sirius” destined to do great things. Nidle would say that he then ceased contact with the aliens for some time while he attended Ohio University and the University of Southern California, graduating with an M.A. in Southeast Asian government and an M.A. in American politics and international public administration, eventually earning a PhD and pursuing research into alternative energy sources. He is obviously no fool, well-educated and eloquent, but in the 1990s he would get back to talking about aliens again when he claimed that the Galactic Federation had approached him once more, making him their representative on Earth.
Sheldon Nidle
In 1996, Nidle began talking of telepathic communications he had had with the Federation that dealt with some urgent business, indeed. The aliens allegedly told him of an incoming cataclysm that would wipe out Earth as we know it. According to Nidle, the planet would be transformed into a more pristine state by passing into the path of what he called the “Photon Belt,” which was an area of space imbued with strange energy properties that would metamorphize human DNA and give us super powers and the ability to regenerate and live forever, as well as telepathic abilities. Are you with me so far? Sounds pretty awesome so far, but the intelligences also told Nidle that passing through the Photon Belt would destroy much of the surface of the planet, with only those who hid underground or were whisked away on spaceships assured to be safe. Luckily for us, Nidle also claimed that the aliens were drilling out subterranean caverns for us to cower in, as well as calling in a fleet of, wait, let me see if I’m reading this right, yes, 15 million spaceships ready to take many of us away from certain doom to join a “deep space brotherhood.”
At the time, we were running out of time, as the channeled messages stated that Earth would pass through this Photon Belt no later than December 17, 1996, but not to worry, because the fleet was closing in, due to arrive in early December, and most of humanity would be saved and achieve “a paradise of sociological and ecological evolution.” The ships on the way to our planet were said to be coming from numerous far-flung spacefaring races, such as the Pleiadians, Sirians, Cassopeans, and Arcturians, all of them willing to help us out, as well as apparently actual angels. Nidle would give one message that reads of all of this:
Our planet is moving from third dimensional awareness (physical-material reality-what you can see, feel, hear, taste and touch), to a fourth and a fifth-dimensional consciousness. In these dimensions you will be fully conscious, you will exist in a state of love not fear. You will be telepathic and have much more light in your body. You will be able to create anything you want with your mind and the new technology that will be provided for you. This technology will be beyond your wildest imagination. You will be able to live for hundreds or thousands of years. You will be completely healed of anything that is now wrong with you. You could be 85 years old now and manifest a 20-year-old body. Very soon, we will have millions of space ships and visitors from outer space on this planet. Our government knows this is happening but they want you to be afraid so they can keep life as it has been. Our visitors will be joined with angels that you will see coming down with the ships. They are benevolent and loving. They will bring counselors, supplies, teachers and new technology. We are being assisted by all of Creation – the Spiritual Hierarchy, Angelic Realms, the Galactic Federation of Light, Ascended Masters, and our space brothers and sisters.
You are very blessed and very special to be on this planet at this time. Within a short period of time our planet will be receiving the Photon Belt. This belt of light comes around every 25,000 years. This time it will be ushering in the Golden Age. The photon energy is an extremely loving energy that is comprised of Photons, Gamma Rays, and Anti-matter Particles. When the Photon Belt hits we will have three days of darkness and one day of coldness. Then we will have 16 years of light, 24 hours a day. You will become fully conscious within the first hour when the light beam hits your pineal gland. It will activate all 12 strands of your DNA and you will be able to use all of the rest (90%) of your brain that you currently have not been able to use. You will be able to create with your thought, whatever you need, light up a room, warm yourself, whatever you need. There is nothing to fear. A paradise is being created on this planet that is beyond your furthest imagination. We send much blessings of love and light to you.”
Pretty odd, indeed. There were some strict stipulations laid out for all of this awesome weird space stuff to pan out, such as neutralizing all earthly weapons, which were to be beamed up onto these spaceships, and all technology and mechanical devices were to be shut down upon the aliens’ arrival. We also had to agree to shut down all of our earthly government systems and give ourselves over to these beings, letting them take over with a “Spiritual Hierarchy,” which would help us ascend to higher beings. To help facilitate all of this, Nidle got online and began recruiting his “Ground Crew,” all of this almost exclusively done via the Internet, and this crew was given the task of acting as aides and ambassadors for the coming of the aliens, the training for which would be beamed into their heads as they slept through implant technology. They were also tasked with trying to raise spiritual awareness of what was to come, help us reach a “critical mass of spiritual energy,” and to carry out efforts to ecologically help out the planet. Unfortunately, even with all of these efforts, the aliens’ planned landing in December of 1996 never materialized. Many were dejected, but for Nidle this wasn’t a problem.
The leader of the Ground Crew simply blamed the failure of the arrival on numerous setbacks, such as solar storms, unforeseen technical issues, and humanity simply not being ready yet. It is pretty par for the course for any self-proclaimed prophet whose predictions did not come to pass, but he handled it like a pro. Nidle’s followers believed him and anxiously awaited their spiritual revolution. With the approach of the Hale-Bopp comet in February of 1997, Nidle found the perfect way to continue the mythology by working the comet into the lore, and for good measure he increased the number of approaching spacecrafts to 25 million (!). Nidle claimed that the comet was actually one immense starship with a crew of 20,000, that was merely using holographic cloaking technology to camouflage itself, and that it was followed not far behind by the rest of the massive fleet. To make it sound legit, Nidle even concocted a story that Ground Crew members had had a meeting with alien scouts in the Australian desert at Ayers Rock.
Of course, Hale-Bopp came and went with no such alien space force appearing, so Nidle was once again forced to think on his feet. He began spinning stories of “dark forces” seeking to sabotage the plans, forcing the benevolent forces to delay their arrival until “the right divine time.” According to Nidle, in the meantime we were to act as stewards of the planet and seek to help it recover ecologically and spiritually. Behind the scenes there was some turmoil within the organization, with Nidle clashing with his secretary and the Ground Crew’s chief administrator, Valerie Donnell, causing Nidle to break off and form the “Planetary Activation Organization,” still claiming to be the only one in direct contact with the aliens. His rhetoric would change and evolve, now saying that the aliens were placing “Star Gates” in the upper atmosphere and that there was a secret cabal of Earth leaders who were actively trying to stop the coming of the fleet. Somehow, even with the date of the supposed alien force pushed back again and again, Nidle was able to maintain hundreds of thousands of followers in 29 countries. The organization continues to this day, and we are left to wonder, how does this all keep chugging along? Whatever the case may be, it is certainly an entertaining and intriguing look into some far out stuff.
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Nearby “Super Earth” May Have an Atmosphere Worth Studying
Nearby “Super Earth” May Have an Atmosphere Worth Studying
A newly discovered exoplanet called Gliese 486 b may be able to help astronomers understand atmospheres on other rocky worlds. The planet is approximately 1.3 times bigger than Earth with a mass that’s about 2.8 times greater.
It takes Gliese 486 b just 1.47 Earth days to orbit a dim red dwarf star that is approximately 26 light-years away from us. This means that it is the third-closest “transiting” exoplanet that has been found thus far and since the star is around 30% as massive as our own sun, Gliese 486 b is the closest ever world that whips around a red dwarf with a measured mass.
The “super Earth” was discovered with the CARMENES spectrograph instrument on a telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain by Trifon Trifonov (from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, and the lead author of the study) as well as his colleagues. Then they analyzed more data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to find out more information about the planet and its host star (they also studied data collected by a spectrograph called MAROON-X on the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii).
(Not Gliese 486 b)
Based on their data, the experts believe that the exoplanet is made up of iron-silicate which is similar to Earth’s composition. It is tidally locked which means that only one side of the planet faces its host star at all times. The estimated surface temperature on Gliese 486 b is about 800 degrees Fahrenheit (427 degrees Celsius) which means that although it’s very hot on the planet, it is more than likely cool enough to support an atmosphere that can be analyzed from right here on Earth.
Interestingly, the temperature on Gliese 486 b is very similar to Venus where it reaches about 880 degrees Fahrenheit (471 degrees Celsius), but that also means that there probably isn’t any life on the exoplanet.
(Not Gliese 486 b)
Nevertheless, since it is located so close to our planet, we will be able to study it in further detail and hopefully learn more about its potential atmosphere. And with the upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, we should find out even more data in the near future. “Future observations of Gliese 486 b will help us understand how well rocky planets can hold their atmospheres, what they are made of,” Trifonov stated, adding, “Optimistically speaking, in about 2.5 to 3 years from now, we may know if the planet has an atmosphere or not, and, if yes, what is its composition.” Artist impressions of Gliese 486 b can be seen here.
Artist's illustration of the newly discovered exoplanet Gliese 486 b, which lies just 26 light-years from Earth.
(Image credit: RenderArea)
The newfound exoplanet Gliese 486 b orbits a red dwarf star about 30% as massive as Earth's sun.
(Image credit: RenderArea)
Artist's illustration of the surface of the newly discovered exoplanet Gliese 486 b. With a temperature of about 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius), Gliese 486 b possibly has an atmosphere.
(Image credit: RenderArea)
The study was published in the journal Sciencewhere it can be read in full.
On March 7, 2021 the Perseverance mars rover took a remarkable image of the sun, (Sol 16) with its left navigation camera (Navcam) but surprisingly the image also shows an unknown object next to the sun.
Maybe a sungazing comet that passes extremely close to the Sun or... could it be that the rover captured a huge spacecraft?
Suppose the object is not a comet, but artificial, then who designed this unidentified flying object capable of withstanding the extreme heat of the sun
Just a couple of weeks ago I was asked about the famous April 24, 1964 UFO case involving police-officer Lonnie Zamora. My view is that what was seen was a device of the U.S. military. And, I’ll explain why. First, some background on the case for those who may not be fully aware of it all. It was on the afternoon of the day in question that local police-officer Lonnie Zamora broke off from pursuing a teenager in a speeding car and headed to a nearby dynamite shack. The reason? A sudden roaring sound coming roughly from the area where the shack was positioned. Quite naturally, Zamora thought that there may have been an explosion at the site. He was wrong. What Zamora came across – many UFO researchers believe – was nothing less than a landed UFO, piloted by two smallish humanoids dressed in white. A close encounter? For many, yes. For me, too – but I just don’t think the incident had anything to do with aliens. Bear in mind that the location was barely any distance from White Sands, where, for decades, new devices and technologies have been flown. But, there’s another issue. For me, the most important angle.
One of the key things that Zamora said was that the craft spewed flames out of it. That suggests the craft was rocket-powered. As NASA state: “Rocket engines are distinguished b the type of mechanism used to produce exhaust material. The simplest ‘engine’ is a compressed air bottle attached to a nozzle. The exhaust gas is stored in the same form as it appears in the exhaust. Ejection of compressed air, or other gas, from a nozzle is a perfectly satisfactory rocket operation for some purposes. The most common rocket engine is the chemical type in which hot exhaust gases are produced by chemical combustion. The chemicals or propellants, are of two types, fuel and oxidizer corresponding to gasoline and oxygen in an automobile engine. Both are required for combustion. They may be solid or liquid chemicals.”
In light of all the above, I find it very difficult to believe that aliens from a faraway world (or even a far away solar-system or galaxy, even) would be using rocket-powered craft, even in certain stages of their time spent on our world – namely, when landing and taking off. Surely, by 1964, their technology would have been way ahead of ours by then? My line of thinking applies to another famous case, too. The Cash-Landrum incident of December 1980. Now, let’s have a look at that one.
When, shortly before 9:00 p.m., Vickie Landrum, her grandson, Colby, and Betty Cash exited the restaurant where they had just eaten a fine Texan dinner, they couldn’t imagine what was just around the corner. As they headed towards the town of Huffman, they were terrified by the sudden sight of an unknown object in the sky. Worse, it was descending on a flight-path guaranteed to ensure it landed on the road they were on. As they got closer, they could see the aerial thing was giving it out flames and shaped not unlike a diamond.
It reached a perilously low level of around twenty-five feet, something which ensured a screeching of brakes and the car brought to a shuddering standstill. The interior temperature of the car suddenly reached intolerable levels. The three jumped out of the vehicle and could only stare in awe and fear. Then, out of the blue, around two dozen, double-rotor helicopters were on the scene, clearly intent on caroling the UFO. Or, perhaps they were escorting it. Cash was sure they were Boeing CH-47 Chinooks. They watched as both the UFO and the helicopters left the area and were finally lost from sight. Within days, all three fell sick: nausea and vomiting were at the forefront. Betty Cash was the one affected most of all – which may be explainable by the fact that she was the one member of the group who got closest to the object. Her hair started to fall out, her skin was covered with pustules and blisters, and the nausea got worse.
Despite attempts to force the US Government to come clean on what went down, there was nothing but denial after denial from the authorities. The case is a puzzling one, with some UFO researchers believing the three encountered a real UFO, while others suspect they were unfortunate enough to cross paths with a top secret prototype aircraft that was in deep trouble. This makes me think it was not an extraterrestrial craft – because, again, “rocket-ships” would be way too primitive for an alien civilization far ahead of us. I should stress I don’t think the cases were hoaxes at all. I think the witnesses described exactly what they saw. But, that what they saw did not come from another world.
Are you frustrated with the quality of UFO/UAP sightings these days – the lack of details, the blurry photos, etc.? Do you fancy yourself as a Fox Mulder who would like to search for the truth that’s out there … if you only had the time, the training or the financial wherewithal? Good news, friends – you can now take the ‘wanna’ out of your ‘wannabe’ dreams and become part of a worldwide UFO-watching group with do-it-yourself equipment.
“Our mission is straightforward: connect a network of civilian-owned sensor arrays, use machine learning to catalogue anomalous events, and share this data with researchers.”
Sky Hub is the project of Chris Cogswell, host and creator of The Mad Scientist Podcast with a doctorate in chemical engineering and an interest in UFOs, and a team of hardware and software experts with an interest in UFOs. He explained recently to Space.com that Sky Hub’s recommended hardware – three do-it-yourself sensor kits based on the Jetson Nano and Jetson Xavier NX computers designed for running multiple neural networks – is in alpha testing and Sky Hub is looking for early adapters to help test them. The sensor or “tracker” kits – which run from $700 to $1400 — collect high-resolution data and upload it to an eventual worldwide, digital UFO database accessible to the public with Sky Hub’s open-source software.
“There are lots of reports of objects in the sky that we don’t know how to categorize that I think are interesting and worthy of study.”
Sky Hub is not in this for the money – while it sells the enclosure shell and asks for a monthly subscription to maintain the database and software, the rest of the components can be purchased off-the-shelf and it recommends to shop around for the best prices. The Jetson computers are easy to use and Sky Hub’s website has excellent instructions and chat services available for both setup and usage.
“In my opinion, there is something interesting happening here that’s worth investigating. You can’t deny that there are people who still make reports of UFOs every year. If it’s all fake, in my mind, that’s almost more interesting. How did something untrue become such a social phenomenon like this?”
Cogswell’s observation is interesting – there hasn’t been such strong interest in UFOs since the late 1950s and early 1960s — and prescient as well. Space.com points out that there are already a number of projects searching for UFOs, plenty of meteor trackers, astronomers and militaries all searching for UFOs and UAPs with far more sophisticated equipment – and those people have logical explanations like space objects, drones, secret test aircraft and the like. However, Cogswell is right – there are a few UFO/UAPs that have defied all explanation attempts … and coverups are indeed as interesting as actual sightings. That sounds like something one has to go to his podcast to discuss.
If nothing else, the Sky Hub do-it-yourself UFO/UAP kit sounds like a great project for riding out the pandemic lockdown.
Woo Ships – discussion about Mag Drive – Floaty cars – Woo Ships – Magnetic propulsion – How to become incredibly wealthy.
Clif High has a patent on computer-assisted reading technology which allows reading from computer screens at up to 2000 words per minute. Reaching into other areas of hidden potential within language use by humans, he has been developing a system of software internet agents (like search engines use) and other proprietary processing methods to predict future events. The software project, begun in 1997, captures near-real-time changes in language patterns within internet discussions. Then, employing radical linguistic techniques of his own devising, he develops a model which anticipates future events with some seeming accuracy. The processing has, at its core, a method of assigning emotional values to complex content and time carry-values to predict changes in future behavior based on how people are using language now.
Since June 2001 when the work projected a major ‘tipping point’, that is a ‘life-changing event’ with aspects of ‘military and accident’ that would forever change the way we live to occur inside 90 days, the web bot project has continued to give archetype descriptors of future events such as the anthrax attack in Washington, the crash of American 587, the Columbia disaster, the Northeast Power outage, the Banda Aceh earthquake and most recently the flooding of the Red River. As a continuing project, reports are offered from the extracted archetype information at his web site, www.halfpasthuman.com.
Antigravity Technology Hidden for Decades from the Public
Antigravity Technology Hidden for Decades from the Public
Antigravity Technology Hidden for Decades from the Public
Antigravity Technology is Hidden for Decades From the Public We have been indoctrinated to believe that antigravity technologies are not available to us and that most likely we’ll never get more.
Art Bell and Dr. Steven Greer on UFOs & E.T Disclosure Project
Art Bell and Dr. Steven Greer on UFOs & E.T Disclosure Project
Art Bell and Dr. Steven Greer on UFOs & E.T Disclosure Project
COAST TO COAST AM INSIDER Archived Show – Dr. Steven Greer joined Art to talk about ET disclosure. Dr. Greer had just returned from the Disclosure Project Press Conference from the National Press Club in Washington, DC. He mentioned that the BBC was covering the conference but that the US media often ignores this type of information. He discussed a government meeting with Ronald Reagan’s science team about an alleged UFO.
Our pal Dominick may find this tiresome, but it’s pertinent to the UFO discussion…
Why are we seeking to discover the source or essence of UFOs?
It’s not just to satisfy the long-desire to sate our curiosity as to what the phenomenon is.
That is a means to another end surely.
We, as a human species, need to know the purpose of our being, why we exist and to what end. It’s the enduring question of mankind, since the very beginning of human consciousness.
Where UFOs come from, what their essential substance is, who guides them, and all the other ufological questions point to a denouement that tells us the purpose of life.
Grabbing a Big Foot (Sasquatch, Yeti) or finding the Loch Ness “monster” will not answer those pertinent philosophical questions, just as philosophical debate can’t and hasn’t answered them either.
Trapping a ghost might provide the ultimate answer(s) but that probability is as ephemeral as the thing (ghosts) that some pursue relentlessly.
A UFO, on the other hand, can, I believe, tell us what reality truly is.
I keep harping on the matter but it seems to suit the possibility of what surrounds us as a reality.
In a protracted paper I’m working on for my new Substack account, I’m stymied by the origin of the “God idea.” It is surrounded by so many, ifs, ands, or buts, that one can get lost in the web of possibilities, snared by hypotheses or conjectures that intrigue but take us no further than the question “What is the purpose of existence, life?
Yet, a downed or captured UFO could slide us into an answer by telling us what reality is extant elsewhere, and I don’t mean just on another planet somewhere in the Cosmos.
The innards of a UFO – not some leftover debris from a supposedly crash “machine” – but the actual workings, possible entities (organic or machine-created), and other accoutrements can fill us in on what lies beyond our percepted reality.
Dominick and his “don’t muddy the UFO waters with philosophical/theological queries or suggestions” buddies are off-track. UFOs, without those inquiries, are as meaningless as the footprints of Sasquatch or humps on alleged sea monsters.
When I push for UFO sightings where appearances of “beings” show up in what may be windows, I’m trying to establish a possibility of some kind of rationale for reality from those “beings.”
But we don’t need those “entities.” Their “construct” can tell us as much as we need, without back-engineering their supposed crafts, although back-engineering could help.
Again, getting photos of UFOs, examining UFO debris, tracking UFO sightings, are as flimsy as the quest for existential meaning that absorbs philosophers and even scientists.
So, let’s have at UFOs by getting our hands on one or seeing what’s “inside” them. And let’s forget the dumpy idea that just congregating UFO information, by itself, is worthwhile. It isn’t.
[N.B. the picture of Preston Dennett’s book shown above doesn’t mean I’m recommending it as a panacea for my plea. Mr. Dennett’s book is replete with tales from people who are either deranged or foolish, but some who might have actually seen something worthwhile. Readers can decide.)
Images used are from peculiarium.com, magicball.net, and
UFO Sighting Over Hillsboro, Tennessee On 7-26-2020, MUFON News
UFO Sighting Over Hillsboro, Tennessee On 7-26-2020, MUFON News.
Date of sighting: 7-26-2020
Location of sighting: Hillsboro, Tennessee
Source: MUFON 114015
Watch this ten minutes of raw footage of a UFO over Tennessee last year. It happened last year, but was submitted today into MUFON. The footage shows a thick disk with an antenna on its top center and a glowing window around its center. It's actually a classic disk, but is attempting to create a cloud form around it causing it to appear thicker than it really is. The second photo above is proof of this. This is a rare sighting of a real glowing disk at night over Tennessee. The real kicker is that it has an antenna on its top center...just as scientist Bob Lazar who worked in Area S4 inside Area 51 said some disks have and will fly tiling at an angle. The antenna is actually the source of its movement. Not engines...but direction movement. The actual propulsion systems are separate.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Appeared to be a planet like Venus looks in the evening but was in the wrong part of the sky. So I got my telescope out and was amazed at what I saw. Almost jelly fish like with bright blinding lights evenly spaced around the rim.
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