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...
14-03-2023
Gigantic map of fly brain is a first for a complex animal
Gigantic map of fly brain is a first for a complex animal
Fruit fly ‘connectome’ will help researchers to study how the brain works, and could further understanding of neurological diseases.
The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is an important model organism.
Credit: Eye of Science/Science Photo Library
Scientists have generated the first complete map of the brain of a small insect, including all of its neurons and connecting synapses.
The research, published on 9 March in Science1, provides a brain-wiring diagram known as the connectome of a complex animal for the first time — the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The map shows all 3,016 neurons and 548,000 synapses tightly packed in a young Drosophila’s brain, which is smaller than a poppy seed.
The map is a milestone in understanding how the brain processes the flow of sensory information and translates it into action. “Now we have a reference brain,” says Marta Zlatic, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, UK, and co-author of the paper. “We can look at what happens to connectivity in models of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and of any degenerative disease.”
Ideal model
Until now, scientists had mapped the connectomes of only the worms Caenorhabditis elegans and Platynereis dumerilii, and the larva of the sea squirt Ciona intestinalis. Drosophila was an ideal model for connectome studies, because scientists have already sequenced its genome, and the larvae have transparent bodies. Fruit flies also exhibit sophisticated behaviours — including learning, navigating landscapes, processing smells and weighing the risks and benefits of an action. “Its size is manageable for current technology,” says Chung-Chuang Lo, a computational neuroscientist at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
“If you had asked me in the Eighties, when the C. elegans work was being done, about this project in the fruit fly, it would have been impossible,” says Albert Cardona, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge and co-author of the paper.
This diagram depicts connectivity in the fruit fly brain. Each point represents a neuron. Neurons with more-similar connectivity are plotted closer together. Lines show the connections between neurons. The border shows examples of different neuron structures and shapes.
Credit: Benjamin Pedigo
The researchers spent a year and a half capturing images of the brain of a single six-hour-old Drosophila larva with a nanometre-resolution electron microscope. Using a computer-assisted programme, they then pinpointed the neurons and synapses and spent months manually checking them.
The authors identified 3,016 neurons, 93% of which were paired with a partner neuron in the opposite brain hemisphere. Most of the unpaired neurons were Kenyon cells, key neurons in the learning and memory centre.
The researchers then traced each neuron’s twisting connections and annotated 548,000 synapses, which could be grouped into four types. “This is really time-consuming and labour-intensive,” says Kei Ito, a neuroscientist at the University of Cologne, Germany.
Most connectome work has included one type of connection — from the axon of one neuron to the dendrites of another — and ignored axon-to-axon or dendrite-to-dendrite connections. “Now we need to reconsider them: we probably need to think about creating a new computational model of the nervous system,” says Lo.
Multiple pathways
The wiring diagram showed that the insect’s brain was multilayered, with pathways of varying lengths connecting brain inputs and brain outputs.
It is “a nice, nested structure”, says Michael Winding, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge and co-author of the paper. But some of the brain networks have shortcuts, skipping layers. The authors suggest that such shortcuts increase the brain’s computational capacity and compensate for the limited number of neurons.
The team also found that 41% of the brain neurons form ‘recurrent loops’, providing feedback to their upstream partners. These shortcuts and loops resemble state-of-the-art artificial neural networks that are being used in artificial-intelligence research. “It’s interesting that the computer-science field is converging onto what evolution has discovered,” says Cardona.
The current map provides data from a single animal, but the authors say that technological advances will allow mapping of more flies — and eventually of other species. “One can now use it to train machine learning to do it much faster,” says Zlatic.
“It is not the full story,” says Lo. The next step is to map the brain of the adult Drosophila, which is more complex and has more neurons, he adds.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00709-7
UPDATES & CORRECTIONS
Correction 10 March 2023: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the team used machine-learning algorithms to trace each neuron’s connections.
David Wilcock is a professional intuitive consultant who, since reading Richard C. Hoagland’s “The Monuments of Mars” in 1993, has intensively researched ufology, ancient civilizations, consciousness science, and new paradigms of matter and energy. He is the author of a critically acclaimed trilogy of scientific research works, known as the Convergence series, which gives definitive support to the idea that a change in matter, energy and consciousness is now occurring on the Earth and throughout the solar system.
Wilcock has appeared on broadcast television, lectured throughout the United States and Japan, published a variety of magazine articles and appeared on numerous radio talk shows. He is the co-author of the book “The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce,” now available in bookstores nationwide, and a summary of his latest scientific work appears therein, where a breakthrough case for mass, spontaneous DNA evolution on Earth is unveiled. David is also an accomplished musician and composer within a variety of styles, including jazz-fusion, meditative and world music.
David Wilcock explains on March 19, 2020 during the the World Wide Coronavirus lockdown that it is NOT the end of the world. The lockdowns are to ensure the peoples safety during world wide mass arrests in conjunction with Operation Defender Europe 2020.
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US Representative Talks UFO Reverse Engineering, Alien Contacts, Cover-Ups and More
US Representative Talks UFO Reverse Engineering, Alien Contacts, Cover-Ups and More
Paul Seaburn
Ever since the passing of Harry Reid, the United States senator from Nevada, Senate Majority Leader and staunch proponent of the disclosure of secret government files on UFOs and extraterrestrial contact, those interested in the same goals have been waiting patiently for a new vanguard. While Florida Senator Marco Rubio has championed funding for federal and Pentagon organizations to collect the data and make it available on a regular basis, no one has taken to the public airwaves like Harry Reid – who appeared on newscasts, podcasts and in print to talk UFOs. The person to fill Reid’s big space shoes may have finally emerged – he is U.S. Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee. While Burchett has been vocal during and after his appearances at Pentagon UFO briefings, he recently made a statement about the military reverse-engineering crashed UFOs that makes one wonder if he is ready to take the mantle from the late Senator Reid.
Has this already happened?
"Too many people in the know have told me that, and that we had to do something with these multiple craft that have crashed and we do not have the technology ... I just believe it in my heart. I've talked to too many pilots, top, top pilots, our Navy pilots, the best pilots in the world, that have said this is what they've seen."
“That”, according to Burchett, is crashed UFOs of an unknown origin. He made this statement during interviews concerning the recent shooting down of UFOs that were identified as balloons – one from China, others never recovered nor positively identified nor traced to their origin point. While Burchett said at the time that “These objects are likely coming from China or maybe some other country, but probably not extraterrestrial,” he emphasized that all “foreign objects that enter our airspace” need to be dealt with as “potential threats” to the U.S. What about to the entire planet?
“We are not alone. Washington needs to release the un redacted files. Let the people decide.”
“We are not alone.” “Let the people decide.” That tweet from Burchett sounds like something the late Senator Reid would say. While Burchett may be late getting into the UFO game, he is quickly making up for lost time. In an op-ed in the Washington Examiner in late 2022, he criticized the Pentagon’s UFO reports for being far from the “fresh start” on disclosure that the organization had promised. After years of saying nothing about “the many reports of extraordinary UAP sightings from our military personnel” which Burchett says have been “misidentified weather phenomena, aircraft, or balloons,” many more are ”vehicles controlled by an unknown source.” Burchett pointed out that the latest Pentagon briefing revealed that it found 144 unexplained UAP encounters, but only provided data on one.
“Who on Earth wants to read a report that provides information on less than 1% of the encounters it is supposed to address?”
Burchett then starts to reveal what he has found in his own investigations as a U.S. Representative.
“The maddening thing is there are much better witnesses who could, and should, testify before Congress that would be much more helpful. There was a Navy pilot in the hearing room who reported UAP encounters, and he could have personally testified about his experience, but they didn’t let him.”
What kinds of details could that pilot have revealed?
“ … a craft which I believe at some point [...] we have obtained some materials that are not of this world that are being studied by different members of industry I've been told."
In interviews with Newsweek Burchett has alleged that the federal government and the Pentagon are in volved in a "huge cover-up, for whatever reason" which he dismisses as “shenanigans." During on congressional hearing, Burchett was asked specifically if the U.S. has recovered craft "that is not from the planet Earth," and his response was:
"At some point, I believe that has happened."
It is obvious that Representative Burchett is becoming, intentionally or not, the leading political spokesperson for UAP and extraterrestrial disclosure, and strongly states that he has been made aware of evidence of crashed UFOs and extraterrestrials from reliable sources. This past week, he took a big step towards revealing some of that information himself.
"I think that a lot of that's being reverse-engineered right now, but we just don't understand it."
Has a U.S. political representative ever said in public that his country is in possession of materials from extraterrestrial space ships and is in the process of revere-engineering those materials … but is frustrated because our own technology for analysis is too primitive to accomplish the task? Outside of in the movies, this has not been the case. Why doesn’t Representative Burchett take the next step and either force the Pentagon to release the data or gain possession of it and release it himself … becoming the hero of millions, perhaps even billions, of UFO disclosure supporters?
Are there UFOs being reverse-engineered?
“We also need to get rid of the stigma that comes with reporting UAP sightings in our military. Service members who report UAP sightings are patriots who are doing their jobs to the best of their ability, but many of them have not been treated as such. They have been mocked by their colleagues for simply reporting what they saw, and that kind of behavior needs to end.”
A cynical response to this avoidance of personal involvement on Burchett’s part might be that he’s concerned about winning re-election – representatives run every two years, while senators like the late Harry Reid spend six years in office. Burchett could also be concerned about the rights and security of the service members and members of the general public who might be ‘outed’ by these UFO revelations. That could be resolved by getting permission from them, but this is a time-consuming process. However, if Representative Burchett truly believes these are “patriots” doing their jobs, perhaps he should also consider doing his job and push harder for the disclosure of UFO crashes, alien contact and space ship reverse-engineering he so strongly believes is happening and being covered up.
Don’t be a part of the problem, Representative Burchett. As you said, “that kind of behavior needs to end” and you could be the leader of the movement.
This day in UFO history: Phoenix Lights, 26 years ago!
This day in UFO history: Phoenix Lights, 26 years ago!
It has been 26 years since the Phoenix Lights, a mysterious and unexplained phenomenon, captivated Arizonans and the nation. On the evening of March 13, 1997, people across Arizona and in some other states reported seeing a silent, miles-long, V-shaped group of lights gliding quietly overhead. The lights were distinctly red in the northern part of the state.
Dr. Lynne Kitei, a Valley resident who witnessed the lights that evening, has been exploring the phenomenon for decades. She believes that interest in the Phoenix Lights has actually evolved over time rather than fading away. With more information released by the government about UFOs, people are becoming more accustomed to the idea that we are not alone in the universe, and the Phoenix Lights were a sign of that.
The Phoenix Lights remain one of the premier mass sightings of UFOs. Thousands of people saw these massive craft or objects hover right over them, glide right over them, rooftop level. Some people said they could have thrown a stone at it; it was that close.
However, there have been some who sow doubt about the Phoenix Lights. People have come forward to say the lights were more a case of mass hysteria or that they were actually flares or something else entirely. But Dr. Kitei disagrees. It has never been proven to be anything other than mysterious.
Dr. Kitei is not alone in her belief. Many credible people, including PhDs, lawyers, doctors, and engineers, have analyzed the data and are stumped. We don’t know what the Phoenix Lights were. We just know that they were.
The Phoenix Lights continue to fascinate, captivate, and confound us, even after 26 years. While some may doubt their existence, many credible people believe that they were a sign that we are not alone in the universe. The mystery of the Phoenix Lights remains unsolved, and it is a reminder that there are still many unexplained phenomena in our world.
Unveiling the Extraterrestrial Charm of Iinomachi: A Rural Community in Japan Putting Itself on the Intergalactic Map through UFO Sightings
Unveiling the Extraterrestrial Charm of Iinomachi: A Rural Community in Japan Putting Itself on the Intergalactic Map through UFO Sightings
Statue of Alien-Like Figure Captured in Iinomachi, Fukushima, Japan
The small rural community of Iinomachi in northeastern Japan has been making a name for itself as a hotspot for UFO sightings. The town is using its extraterrestrial reputation to boost its local economy and attract visitors interested in the unknown. Once a prosperous town known for its silk production and weaving industries, Iinomachi is now struggling with a dwindling population of only 5,000 people.
According to some local residents, the Senganmori mountain, which is a conical structure that dominates the area, is a suspected UFO hotspot due to the number of sightings of luminous objects in the area over the past four decades.
Senganmori mountain, UFO hotspot
To capitalize on their reputation as a UFO hot spot, Iinomachi has created numerous UFO-themed attractions. Visitors to the town are greeted with UFO-shaped streetlights, bus stops, flags, and even an alien statue. The town’s “UFO Fureaikan” museum, located halfway up the mountain, has been open since 1992 and displays around 3,000 books, photos, and other resources related to aliens and UFOs, some of which were donated by the late UFO researcher Kinichi Arai. Around 30,000 people from in and out of the prefecture visit the museum annually.
In 2021, the International UFO Lab was established in Iinomachi on June 24, which is designated as World UFO Day. The lab collects and disseminates UFO sighting reports to its members around the world. Any UFO believer can become a member of the organization by paying a one-year membership fee of 10,000 yen ($74). Elite members, those who sign on for three years at 20,000 yen or 30,000 yen, are entitled to special T-shirts and locally brewed sake, and all members can attend UFO-related events.
“UFO Fureaikan” museum
In response, the town organized its first UFO festival in December last year. It was held to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the UFO museum. During the event, participants dressed up as extraterrestrials for a parade and a contest. After retiring from his job as a chemical manufacturer, Tetsu Konno decided to join the IUFO Lab, a non-profit organization based in Fukushima.
After the local government selected him to help revitalize the area, he said goodbye to his family and moved to Osaka Prefecture.
UFO-Inspired Bus Stop Spotted in Iinomachi District, Fukushima, Japan
Through the use of extraterrestrial resources, the town hopes to breathe new life into the area by attracting more visitors and residents. It also aims to educate the public about the possibility of alien life. Despite the recent geopolitical tensions caused by the reported sightings of airborne objects, a municipal official in Fukushima said the government is still focused on finding out more about the nature of life in the universe.
The town of Iinomachi has become known for its extraterrestrial reputation. Its various attractions and strange sightings have attracted a wide range of visitors.
China has claimed that it may have received a message from an alien civilisation using its $180 million Sky Eye telescope, according to reports.
Sky Eye, a 1,640-foot-diameter telescope based in China's Guizhou province, has detected unusual electromagnetic signals that scientists claim could have alien origins.
The news was revealed in a report by Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of China's Ministry of Science and Technology, based in Beijing.
But according to Bloomberg, Science and Technology Daily deleted the report shortly after it was posted, although it's uncertain why.
China claims to have received a message from an alien civilisation, mysterious radio signals suggest (file photo)
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, also known as FAST or Sky Eye, is based in a natural basin in Guizhou
The FAST telescope
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, also known as FAST or Sky Eye, is a telescope in Guizhou, China.
With a diameter of 500 meters (1,640 feet), it's the world's largest full dish radio telescope.
It's based in the Dawodang depression, a natural basin in Guizhou.
It was launched in September 2020 specifically to search for alien life and potentially habitable exoplanets – planets outside our solar system.
'Sky Eye telescope may have picked up signs of life beyond Earth, according to a report by the state-backed Science and Technology Daily, which then appeared to have deleted the report and posts about the discovery,' Bloomberg says.
'The news had already started trending on social network Weibo and was picked up by other media outlets, including state-run ones.'
The Science and Technology Daily report cited Zhang Tonjie, chief scientist of an extraterrestrial civilization search team co-founded by Beijing Normal University, the National Astronomical Observatory of China and the University of California, Berkeley.
The team detected two sets of suspicious signals in 2020 while processing data collected in 2019, and found another suspicious signal in 2022 while observing exoplanets – planets outside our solar system.
Zhang said the suspicious signals could also be some kind of radio interference, so further investigation is required.
MailOnline has contacted the National Astronomical Observatory of China for comment.
Currently, no life beyond Earth has ever been found, but this does not mean that the universe is lifeless other than on Earth, according to NASA.
The US space agency says: 'While no clear signs of life have ever been detected, the possibility of extraterrestrial biology – the scientific logic that supports it – has grown increasingly plausible.'
Due to its size, Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, also known as FAST or Sky Eye, has one of the best chances of discovering alien life.
It was launched in September 2020 specifically to search interstellar communication signals that suggest alien life and potentially habitable exoplanets.
As its official name suggests, FAST has a diameter of 500 meters (1,640 feet), making it the world’s largest full dish radio telescope.
The dish-like telescope, as large as 30 football fields, costed 1.2 billion yuan (about $180 million)
Engineers work at the control centre for the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) on February 3, 2021 in Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province of China
It's able to scan twice the sky area covered by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the previous record holder for the largest single-aperture radio telescope in the world.
FAST can deliver readings between three and five times more sensitive than those from Arecibo Observatory, which is why scientists have been hopeful the telescope could lead to a breakthrough in the search for alien life.
A 65-person village was destroyed before construction of FAST began, and more than 9,000 people in the surrounding countryside were forced to relocate to create a three-mile radius around the telescope without any electromagnetic interference.
According to government officials, each person was given the equivalent of $1,800 in compensation for the relocation.
ALIEN LIFE MAY BE TOO SCARED OF 'DANGEROUS' HUMANS, EXPERT CLAIMS
Sci-fi films and TV shows have routinely depicted a brutal race of aliens visiting Earth in their spaceships and enslaving unfortunate Earthlings.
But according to one expert, extraterrestrial life may actually be too scared of 'dangerous' and 'violent' humans to want to come here.
Dr Gordon Gallup, a biopsychologist at the University of Albany, argues that humans are 'dangerous, violent and ceaselessly engage in endless bloody conflicts and war'.
As an example, Dr Gallup cites 'the total destruction of the highly advanced Aztec and Inca civilizations' and the subsequent genocide of the native people, their temples and buildings destroyed and their wealth and natural resources stolen.
For this reason, aliens with the technological capability of making a visit to Earth – if they exist – are likely inclined to stay away for fear of death and genocide, according to Dr Gallup.
Guys I found this like a decade ago, but never made a video of it so here we go. I found these claw-like fingers coming through the left side of the NASA photo. The claw looks like that of fingers from an alien that would have been standing about 2 meters tall. How is such a thing possible? Life is always out there, it doest require our belief to exist, nor our permission. And this is proof that there is an intelligent alien species on Mars and it was inspecting the NASA Mars rover up close. I would bet money that NASA has other photos of this aliens whole body standing nearby. But they would never release those of course. This photo, just happened to slip past them. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
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12-03-2023
Archeologists Discover Another Secret Corridor Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza
Archeologists Discover Another Secret Corridor Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza
Paul Seaburn
It is the only remaining member of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing, but that doesn’t mean the Great Pyramid of Giza still can’t surprise us. As archeologists acquire better tools for penetrating the ancient walls, more chambers and corridors appear that may one day be physically explored with drones or robots. The ScanPyramids project is privy to those latest technologies and announced this week details about a recently discovered corridor inside the North face of the pyramid in the mysterious “Chevron zone.”
What other secrets of the Great Pyramid of Giza is the Sphinx guarding?
"This discovery, in my opinion, is the most important discovery of the 21st Century."
That proclamation was made to reporters by Zahi Hawass, Egypt's former minister of antiquities and a leading archeologist, in announcing new revelations, published in the journal Nature Communications, about a corridor-shaped structure first detected in 2016 and 2017 by a ScanPyramids team. ScanPyramids’ mission since its founding in 2015 is to scan Old Kingdom Egyptian Pyramids - The Great Pyramid (Khufu), Khafre (the middle of the three Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza), the early Bent pyramid and the unusual Red pyramid – in hopes of detecting internal spaces and tunnels without any drilling or other forms of destruction. Techniques include Infrared thermography, 3D simulation and cosmic-ray muon radiography imaging. The last tool was the first to find the latest corridor, which the archeologists then confirmed with images taken through a 6mm-thick endoscope feed through a tiny joint in the pyramid's stones. Since then, the ScanPyramids team went on to take new measurements benefiting from the extreme sensitivity of nuclear emulsion films from Nagoya University and gaseous detectors from CEA Instruments.
“In this paper, we report on the first precise analysis of the void found with cosmic-ray muon radiography behind the North Face Chevron and named the ScanPyramids North Face Corridor (NFC). Its shape and location are accurately evaluated by focusing on the 7 following parameters: its 3 dimensions (width W, height H, length L), its position (North-South position X, East-West position Y, altitude Z) and its slope α. While a potential, future exploration will primarily require a precise determination of Y and Z, most of these parameters are also important to understand the role of the Chevron.”
The “Chevron” refers to the huge inverted V-shaped gabled limestone beams which cover the original entrance to the descending corridor (DC) on the North side of Khufu’s Pyramid. The North side has a number of chevrons, some hidden, which have long baffled researchers. The ‘gable’ is the flat triangular end piece under a conventional pitched roof that is made of wood or stone. Its purpose is to support the sloped roof and protect the interior from the elements. These enormous limestone chevron blocks make no sense on the Great Pyramid because there is no need to relieve the weight above them to protect something below them.
“Khufu’s Pyramid is the first pyramid, in the history, that uses a Chevron technique to cover internal structures and prevent them from collapsing. We can find Chevron on the North Face, in the queen’s chamber ceiling and above the king’s chamber. The construction process of the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world is one of the most important archaeological mysteries. Any discovery of previously unknown internal structures could contribute to the knowledge on the construction of this Pyramid.”
The newly discovered corridor may be the space that is doing the protecting, not the chevron, according to the study. It is approximately 9 meters (29 feet) in length, and has a transverse section of about 2 by 2 meters (6.5 by 6.5 feet). There are many large internal structures or rooms inside the Great Pyramid which are connected by narrow corridors laid out in a north-south direction at a distance of about 7 meters (23 feet) east from the center of the pyramid. You may be familiar with some of them – the queen’s chamber, the grand gallery and the king’s chamber. That last chamber contains a broken sarcophagus thought to have once contained the mummy of King Khufu – it is a room said to have been visited by Napoleon, who may have had the proper small stature to fit into the tiny spaces. (Photos and illustrations can be seen in the study.)
a Subterranean chamber, b queen’s chamber, c grand gallery, d king’s chamber, e descending corridor, f ascending corridor, g al-Ma’mun corridor, h north face Chevron area, i ScanPyramids Big Void with horizontal hypothesis (red hatching) and inclined hypothesis (green hatching) as published in November 20176. All these images were obtained from a 3D modelization using dedicated laser surveys and photogrammetry data.
a The Chevron, which consists of huge gabled limestone beams, covering the original entrance to the DC on the North side of Khufu’s Pyramid. b 3D model and positions of the detectors from Nagoya University, indicated by red dots and of the detectors from CEA, indicated by orange dots, in the DC and in the MC. c–h The detectors. c shows EM3, d shows EM2, e shows EM5, f shows Charpak, g shows Joliot and h shows Degennes.
a The left figure shows the 3D model of Chevron and its origin. Center panels show the definition of the coordinate system and the origin of the rectangular cuboid which was defined as its North extremity along x, its center along y, and its bottom along z. Right panels show the set up of the main structure (MS) and sub-structures designated A (SSA), B (SSB). CH denotes the Chevron. b Two-dimensional angular distribution for EM1 to EM4. From left to right: observed muon flux (tracks/cm2/day/sr), 3D model, ratio of muon flux of the observed data to simulation, with MS, with MS and SSA, with MS and SSB, and path length with difference between the data and simulation. The resolution is tanθ = 0.025. c Histograms of path length with difference between the data and simulation in the range of 0.000 ≦tanθx < 0.025 in the axial direction of tanθy corresponding to the North-South direction. d Region of existence of the NFC based on path length. e χ2 analysis for the evaluation of parameters presenting location and shape of the NFC. The horizontal axis shows the values of evaluated parameters. The vertical axis is the value of reduced χ2 obtained by the comparison of the data and simulation. f Histograms of muon flux in the range of −0.250 ≦tanθy < −0.225 for EM1 and EM2, 0.200 ≦tanθy < 0.225 for EM3 and EM4, respectively. The data with statistical error of 1 σ (standard deviation) are shown in red. The gray dashed line is the simulation without the inner structures, the black solid line is the simulation with the DC and MS, and the blue solid line is the simulation with the DC, MS, and SSA. g Results of the χ2 analysis for the case where the MS and sub-structures are added to known structures. A, B, and C denote the case where MS, MS and SSA, MS and SSB are added, respectively.
aTwo-dimensional angular distribution for EM5 to EM7. From left to right: observed muon flux (tracks/cm2/day/sr), 3D model, ratio of muon flux of the data to simulation, with main structure (MS), with MS and sub-structure A (SSA), with MS and sub-structure B (SSB), and path length with difference between the data and simulation. The resolution istanθ= 0.050. CH denotes the Chevron.bThe area used for normalization.cLeft panels show two dimensional angular distribution with enlarged area including NFC of path length difference between the data and simulation with the resolution oftanθ= 0.025. The black dots are the direction to the center of the NFC, obtained by taking a cross section everytanθ= 0.025 and fitting it (Methods). Center panel shows an example of path length difference obtained by EM5, and the coordinate system is rotated to take the cross section for fitting, which is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction (North-South direction) of the NFC. Right panel shows an example of the fitting to a cross section taken attanθy= −0.1625 after rotation, which is indicated by the white line shown in center panel, where the horizontal axis istanθxafter rotation and the vertical axis is the difference in path length.dLocation of the NFC. Left panel shows the intersection of a vertical plane passing through the central axis of the DC and a line extending towards the plane on the direction of the central value of the histogram fitted starting from the detector position. Right panel shows the result of averaging the projection points obtained by all detectors in the height direction with a width of 2 m in thex(North-South) direction. The error bars are the standard deviations of the averaged projection points in thexandydirections. The red dotted line is the approximate line obtained by linear approximation of the projection results in the range of −2 to −8 m.
The location and shape of the NFC are shown in cross-sectional views of the analysis area including Chevron from the North (a) and East (b) sides. Locations of EM1 to EM4 detectors installed in the DC and obtained results are shown in red, and EM5 to EM7 installed in the MC are shown in black, respectively inb. The red dotted line is the projection of the location and shape of the NFC defined as a rectangular cuboid achieved by EM1 to EM4, on planes. Black dots are the projection points in the height obtained by detectors (EM5 to EM7) on planes and error bars, which is the standard deviations of the averaged projection points in thexandzdirections as shown in Fig. 4d.
"This corridor, it’s protecting or reducing the pressure on something beneath it, Might be chamber, might be something else. Very soon, we can figure out what is the main issue of this corridor."
Mostafa Waziri of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities says he thinks the unfinished corridor may have been placed there to relieve the pressure of the weight of the stones around the main entrance seven meters (23 feet) away from it, or it may be reducing the pressure over another as yet undiscovered corridor or chamber. This has already been observed in other areas inside the Great Pyramid – there five rooms above the king's burial chamber which are believed to be redistributing the weight of the massive pyramid to protect the chamber. While many researchers believe the king’s mummy has been looted from this burial chamber, there is hope that the pharaoh had more than one burial chamber.
“To our knowledge, this study is the first characterization of the position and dimensions of a void detected by cosmic-ray muons with a sensitivity of a few centimeters only. On the archaeological side, the discovery of a void located behind the Chevron and having a larger cross-section than the corridors connecting the inner structures of the pyramid may be decisive in approaching the role of this Chevron. Last but not least, the NFC does not seem to connect to the SP-BV, though a smaller corridor of <1.0 m="" between="" these="" two="" structures="" cannot="" be="" completely="" ruled="" out="" from="" measurements="" span="">
A stairway into a tomb in the center of a pyramid at Giza.
This discovery has both past and future implications for ScanPyramids research. While the team could not come to a conclusive agreement on the purpose of North Face Chevron, it went a long way in showing that the many corridors connecting the inner structures are more than just passageways – they are providing the service of relieving the pressure of the massive weight of the pyramid – an unbelievable achievement in construction that rivals the actual act of building the Great Pyramid itself. This will help archeologists studying Khufu’s pyramid and the others determine where similar pressure-reliving corridors might be located. It will also speed up the process of investigating these pyramids and hopefully locate hidden entrances and corridors which will facilitate better inspections using drones, robots and careful human archeologists.
Is this “the most important discovery of the 21st Century" involving the Great Pyramid of Giza? That remains to be seen. It is definitely impressive and it highlights the achievements of these ancient Egyptians who designed and built these great wonders oof the world without Infrared thermography, 3D simulation and cosmic-ray muon radiography imaging.
A hidden corridor inside the Great Pyramid of Giza that was discovered by researches from the the Scan Pyramids project by the Egyptian Tourism Ministry of Antiquities is seen in Giza, Egypt March 2, 2023.
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An image of a hidden corridor inside the Great Pyramid of Giza that was discovered by researches from the the Scan Pyramids project is displayed during a news conference of the Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Eissa in front of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Giza, Egypt, March 2, 2023.
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Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Issa talks to the media in front of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Cairo, Egypt, March 2, 2023.
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Tourists ride camels in front of the Great Pyramids plateau in Giza, Egypt December 11, 2022.
Every once in a while there is a strange case concerning a person who just seems to appear from the ether, only to die and leave behind nothing but cryptic clues. Such people popuklate history, taunting us with their enigmas and never able to be fully understood. One such case is that of a man who appeared one day in the foggy moors of England, springing out of the mist to then turn up dead and leave behind a compelling unsolved mystery.
At around 2 p.m on December 11th, 2015, an unassuming, smartly drtessed elderly man walked out of a cold, misty day into the Clarence Pub in Greenfield, located at a moorland in North West England called Saddleworth Moor, in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park. Something immediately seemed off about him, with his out-of-place appearance, as he was not dressed like the other hikers who frequented the pub, he kept to himself, had no backpack or bag of any kind, and he did not order a drink, not even a glass of water. His eccentric demeanor was made even stranger when he cryptically told the pub landlord, Mel Robinson, that he wanted to “go to the top of the mountain.” Robinson would say of the odd encounter:
It was cold outside, and going dark already. Overcast. It rained all day the day before, and it rained all day the day after. It being the quiet period after lunch, he was sitting at the end of the bar. He got up, but the stranger didn’t want a drink. He wanted to walk to ‘the top of the mountain’. It was unusual, the way he was dressed. He was wearing just a light mac, normal trousers and shirt, and slip-on shoes. The top of the mountain. That was unusual, too. Walkers often come in for directions, but this isn’t mountain country, and the locals don’t use the noun of even the highest escarpments. He didn’t say Indian’s Head, he didn’t say Dovestone reservoir. He just said ‘the top of the mountain’.
Saddleworth Moor
Seeing as it was already getting relatively late in the day and the mysterious stranger was not dressed or equipped for a hike out there in the moorland, Robinson advised against trying that day to go to the summit of the nearby peak at the Chew reservoir, which is what he assumed the man meant. The stranger said nothing to this, merely thanking him and heading out into the cold rain without another word. At the time it was all a bit weird, but Robinson was used to various slightly off-kilter travelers and hikers coming through his doors from all over the place, so at the time he did not think much of it. Little did he know that he would be one of the last people to see the stranger alive. The stranger was seen by two Royal Society for the Protection of Birds staff climbing up the Wimberry Stones, a rock feature known locally as "Indian's Head" overlooking the reservoir, after which he would walk right off into a strange unsolved mystery that has not really been solved to this day.
The next day, at about 10:50 a.m., a passing cyclist stumbled across the man’s dead body near the Chew reservoir, not far from where he had last been seen. The body was lying on its back, with his arms crossed comfortably over his stomach as if he was cloud watching, and by police estimates it seemed he had walked around 2.5 miles (4 km) from the pub, much of it uphill. In his right trouser pocket was £130 in £10 notes, and his coat pocket held three train tickets from the previous morning: a single from Ealing Broadway to London Euston and a return from Euston to Manchester Piccadilly, although it was not clear how he had travelled the 11 miles (17km) from Manchester to Greenfield. Also found in a pocket was a medicine box made of card, and within this was an empty bottle of thyroxine sodium, a drug for the treatment of hypothyroidism, with a label printed in both English and Urdu. There was no ID, no wallet, and no cards, keys, phone, watch or driving license, no way at all to identify who he was. There was no sign of a struggle, the body was in a peaceful state, with no visible injuries, and it seemed almost as if he were just taking a nap. It was all pretty odd, and although police suspected he had died of a heart attack no one could figure out who he was or why he had been climbing around on that moor. It would later be found that he had actually died of a lethal dose of strychnine, which made it even odder still. What was going on here?
Police began trying to find out who the man, who was given the placeholder name “Neil Dovestone,” was, but this would prove to be easier said than done. Cross-referencing the man’s DNA against the national criminal intelligence and missing persons databases failed to provide a match, his fingerprints were not on record, and appeals to the public for information went unanswered. It was as if he were a ghost. Unable to figure out who he was, authorities began trying to track his movements in the days leading up to his death. The train tickets and CCTV footage tracked his journey from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston to Ealing Broadway, and at Piccadilly he went back and forth between the station shops for approximately 53 minutes, bought a sandwich, and spent about four minutes at the station information counter, although it is not clear what he was talking about there for so long. He left the station at around 1 p.m. and after this, there is no more CCTV footage and his movements are unknown. It wasn’t much help in determining what was going on or how he had come to arrive in Greenfield at that pub. Who was this guy and where did he come from? No one had a clue.
CCTV iumage of the mysterious stranger
Another perplexing mystery was why he had gone all the way out into that moor to turn up dead. One theory doing the rounds at the time was that Dovestone was actually a man named Stephen Evans, who was a survivor of an airplane crash on the moor in 1949 that had killed 24 of the passengers and crew on board. The idea was that he had for whatever reason come to that moor to pay his respects and to ultimately kill himself there, possibly over survivor’s guilt, but it would turn out that he was not, in fact, Evans because Evans would turn out to be very much alive and well. It was then thought he might be another of the only eight survivors of the crash, Michael Prestwich, aged two at the time of the disaster, but he was found to have died decades before. Another intriguing idea was that he was a spy who had gotten in over his head and been assassinated with the poison. However, why do that all the way out there on the moor? Why would he go out there? In the end, this was all pure speculation with nothing to back it up.
It was purely by accident that a big lead would be found. It had been discovered during a secondary postmortem that Dovestone had at some point had hip surgery to install a metal plate, but what had been missed at first was that the particular type of plate in this case was only legal in Pakistan. This, plus the bottle with Urdu printed on it, heavily suggested that Dovestone had come to Britain from Pakistan. With this new information, police were able to track the plate down to a hospital in Lahore, and eventually they finally were able to put a name to the body. It was found that “Neil Dovestone” was actually a David Lytton, who was 67-years-old at the time of his death, and was born to Jewish parents as David Lautenberg in London, and in 2006 he had suddenly gone off to live in Pakistan. Now the body had been identified, but this did little to solve the overall mystery, and indeed it offered up even more questions than answers. For one, there could be found no known connection between Lytton and the Saddleworth Moor, no reason at all for him to be there or to want to go there. Then there was his long trip from Pakistan, and when this was added to the other odd clues such as his inappropriate clothing and mysterious death it begged the question- why come all the way from Pakistan to a moor he had no connection with and turn up dead there?
At this point the main police explanation was that Lytton had committed suicide, and this makes sense in a way because he was found to have been prone to bouts of depression, but there are a lot of problems with this. The most obvious is why would he come all that way to climb up a remote peak in a moor he never been to in clothes completely unsuitable for the environment in order to kill himself? There is also the fact that he died of a fatal dose of strychnine, which is a slow and painful way to die, with death coming by asphyxiation as the muscles spasm and contract uncontrollably, so why would he choose that method of suicide? As a matter of fact, if he had really died an agonizing death by strychnine then why was his body in such a peaceful state as if he had been sleeping? It was also found that he had bought a return ticket to Pakistan while in England, so why do that if you want to off yourself? This was starting to get people talking about the spy theory again, with the idea being that a mission had gone south and he had either been assassinated or had killed himself with what is called an “L-pill,” given to agents to avoid torture or information falling into enemy hands. This could be why he carried no identification and also explain the fact that he had bought a return trip to Lahore, meaning perhaps he was trying to run from someone. Still, why that moor? Indeed, why England at all? If he wanted to kill himself, why not just do it in Pakistan?
In the end there are no real answers. Although we know who "Neil Dovestone" really was, he has truly left a mystery in his wake. What brought him out to that remote moor from faraway Pakistan? How did he end up dead and what is the meaning of all of the weird clues? Just what is going on here? We may never know for sure.
The state of Florida has long been considered a hotbed for sightings of UFOs and unidentified submerged objects (USOs), and the Gulf Breeze region is no exception. In 1980, Ed Walters captured some of the most compelling evidence of UFO sightings in Gulf Breeze, Florida. He took several photographs of a glowing object that appeared to be an acorn-shaped spacecraft, surrounded by lights and emitting a bright light from the bottom.
Although some skeptics have claimed that the photographs were hoaxed using double exposure techniques, many researchers believe that Walters’ story was genuine. In fact, there were a dozen other witnesses who reported seeing the same object, and several hundred more who saw something that could have been related.
So, what exactly is a USO? As explained by Bill Birnes, USOs are “unidentified submerged objects” that are essentially the underwater equivalent of UFOs. The Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean area are both hot spots for USO activity, and there have been countless reports of sightings over the years.
Interestingly, the acorn shape of the spacecraft that Walters photographed is similar to the craft that was hand-drawn by a witness in Cuba. Both objects have a basic acorn shape, are surrounded by lights, and emit a bright light from the bottom. The acorn shape is also similar to what was seen in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, in 1965.
Despite the overwhelming evidence and numerous sightings in the area, Walters was called a hoaxer by some skeptics. However, he never let the critics get the best of him and remained steadfast in his belief that what he saw was real. He even passed two lie detector tests and eight hours of psychological tests that proved his sanity.
So, what do these mysterious alien spacecraft want? That is the million-dollar question. Although there are no definitive answers, many researchers believe that they could be attracted to something in the water or out in the ocean.
The Gulf Breeze region of Florida remains a hot spot for sightings of unidentified flying and submerged objects. Although skeptics continue to cast doubt on the validity of the evidence, many researchers believe that there is something truly mysterious and otherworldly happening in the area. Only time will tell what the truth really is.
NASA volgt asteroïde die Valentijnsdag in 2046 zou kunnen verpesten
Het Europees Ruimteagentschap ontdekte een grote asteroïde die mogelijks op onze aarde kan botsen. Toch hoeven we ons niet te veel zorgen maken, want de kans dat hij de aarde effectief zal treffen is 1 op 600 volgens NASA. Het agentschap voorspelde ook dat de asteroïde op 14 februari 2046 zou kunnen inslaan.
De asteroïde zou de lengte hebben van een Olympisch zwembad, hoewel er nog grote onzekerheid is over de grootte. De ruimterots verplaatst zich ongeveer 25 kilometer per seconde op een afstand van meer dan 18 miljoen kilometer van de aarde en voltooit elke 271 dagen een lus rond de zon.
Wetenschappers hebben 2023 DW, de naam die de asteroïde kreeg, toegevoegd aan de zogenaamde “risicolijst”. Op die lijst staan alle objecten die door de ruimte zweven en die de aarde kunnen treffen. Ze hebben hem voorlopig een 1 gegeven op de Torino-schaal. Deze schaal werd in 1999 ontwikkeld en geeft het risico weer van botsingen tussen ruimteobjecten en de aarde. Een nul op de schaal betekent dat er geen kans is op een inslag, een 10 betekent honderd procent zekerheid van inslag.
Het lage cijfer 1 betekent dat wetenschappers verwachten dat de asteroïde “geen ongewoon gevaar oplevert” en “de kans op een botsing uiterst onwaarschijnlijk is, zonder reden voor publieke aandacht of bezorgdheid”, aldus NASA. Maar toch onderscheidt 2023 DW zich van de andere 1.448 asteroïden op de lijst. Hij is namelijk de enige met een ranking hoger dan 0.
DART-missie
NASA legde bovendien de nadruk op het succes van de DART-missie, of de Double Asteroid Redirection Test. In september 2022 kon een ruimtevaartuig succesvol botsen tegen een asteroïde om zijn baan te veranderen. “Dit is precies de reden waarom we die missie vlogen”, vertelt NASA, “En die missie was een spectaculair succes”.
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Triangle Formation of Black Spheres: Latest UFO Sighting in El Cajon, California
Triangle Formation of Black Spheres: Latest UFO Sighting in El Cajon, California
Latest UFO Sighting over El Cajon, California
On March 9th, 2023, a UFO sighting was reported in El Cajon, California. According to witness reports, three black spheres appeared overhead an apartment complex in the afternoon. The objects were unlike any known flying objects and were rotating around each other in an odd formation.
The witness, who was filming the objects, noted that they seemed unaffected by the wind and were flickering in the sky. This was not like a metallic reflection of a Mylar balloon, which can often be mistaken for a UFO. The objects disappeared shortly after the witness’s girlfriend made him stop filming to go inside. Suddenly, the spheres whipped around about 90 degrees and vanished.
This latest UFO sighting is just one of many reported in recent years. With the advent of smartphones and social media, it is easier than ever to capture footage of unexplained objects in the sky. However, despite the proliferation of UFO sightings, the phenomenon remains shrouded in mystery.
Pentagon says "Alien motherships in our solar system possibly sending probes to earth"
Pentagon says "Alien motherships in our solar system possibly sending probes to earth"
Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, wrote in a research titled “Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” and co-authored by Abraham Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department that there is a possibility that extraterrestrial motherships and smaller probes may be visiting Earth and other planets in our solar system.
The Pentagon is literally talking about the existence of alien motherships that release probes to earth.
“An alien mothership could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth. In their research paper they suggest that 'Oumuamua' is possible such a mothership with probe capabilities.
These tiny probes would reach the Earth as the mothership passes by within a fraction of the Earth-Sun separation, just like ‘Oumuamua’ did,” the authors explained. Astronomers would not be able to notice the spray of mini-probes because they do not reflect enough sunlight for existing survey telescopes to notice them. source.
De gefossiliseerde reuzenmier is gevonden in Canada. Al eerder is dezelfde soort in Duitsland opgegraven. Maar hoe heeft dit insect tussen verschillende continenten kunnen reizen?
Dat er in vervlogen tijden gigantische dieren over de aarde struinden, weten we al langer. Ook de uitgestorven mier Titanomyrma kan in dat lijstje worden geschaard. Deze reuzenmier was werkelijk reusachtig; zo was hij net zo groot als een kolibrie! Onderzoekers hebben nu een nieuw gefossiliseerd exemplaar beschreven, gevonden in Canada. Dat de mier op deze plek is aangetroffen is alleen best gek. Het roept interessante vragen op over hoe dieren, en in het bijzonder dit insect, zich zo’n 50 miljoen jaar geleden over het noordelijk halfrond verplaatsten.
Ontdekking Het nieuwe fossiel werd ontdekt door de toevallige voorbijganger Beverley Burlingame, een inwoner van de Canadese stad Princeton, gelegen in het zuiden van British Columbia. Vervolgens werd het via het museum van de stad beschikbaar gesteld aan wetenschappers.
De gigantische fossiele mier Titanomyrma, onlangs ontdekt in de Allenby Formation nabij de Canadese stad Princeton in British Columbia. Afbeelding: Bruce Archibald
De ontdekking van de reuzenmier in Canada is bijzonder, zo valt er te lezen in het vakblad The Canadian Entomologist. Het is namelijk de eerste Titanomyrma die op Canadese bodem is gevonden.
Andere vondsten Het is overigens niet het eerste Titanomyrma-fossiel dat aan de andere kant van de Atlantische Oceaan is aangetroffen. Zo ontdekten wetenschappers ongeveer tien jaar geleden een exemplaar in de Verenigde Staten. De mier leefde zo’n vijftig miljoen jaar geleden in Wyoming.
De uitgestorven reuzenmier Titanomyrma, die meer dan tien jaar geleden gevonden is in Wyoming. Het gefossiliseerde exemplaar wordt op deze foto vergeleken met een kolibrie, wat de enorme omvang van dit gigantische insect benadrukt. Afbeelding: Bruce Archibald
“Deze mier en het nieuwe fossiel gevonden in Canada zijn van een vergelijkbare leeftijd als andere Titanomyrma-fossielen die al langer geleden in Duitsland en Engeland zijn gevonden,” vertelt onderzoeker Bruce Archibald. “Dit roept de vraag op hoe deze insecten tussen continenten reisden – en bijna tegelijkertijd aan beide zijden van de Atlantische Oceaan verschenen.”
Tropisch klimaat Bekend is dat de enorme mieren in een tropisch klimaat leefden. En dus kwamen ze ook in Europa voor, waar de temperatuur tussen 53 en 34 miljoen jaar geleden een stuk hoger lag. De continenten lagen bovendien dichtbij elkaar en de zeespiegel was laag. Dat verklaart dan ook deels hoe de mieren zowel in Europa als in Amerika konden voorkomen: Europa en Noord-Amerika waren destijds door het Noordpoolgebied over land verbonden.
Noordpool Om dus de continenten over te steken, moesten dieren de noordpool trotseren. Toch was dat niet zo gemakkelijk voor de reuzenmier. Hoewel de Noordpool destijds lang niet zo koud was als nu, was het waarschijnlijk toch te koud voor Titanomyrma, die was aangepast aan tropische temperaturen. En dus staan wetenschappers voor een raadsel. Want hoe kan Titanomyrma dan aan beide zijden van de Atlantische Oceaan zijn aangetroffen, terwijl het op de Noordpool lang niet warm genoeg was naar de zin van de reuzenmier?
Korte, warmere periodes Al in 2011 stelden de onderzoekers een mogelijke verklaring voor. Zo is het bekend dat de Noordpool gedurende korte perioden opeens opwarmde, als gevolg van koolstofdioxide dat vrijkwam uit sedimenten. De mieren maakten mogelijk van die warme periodes gebruik om de lange wandeling te maken, zo opperden de onderzoekers. Dit zou alleen wel betekenen dat Titanomyrma niet in de oude, gematigde Canadese hooglanden voorkwam, omdat het daar waarschijnlijk tevens te koud was. Maar de huidige vondst bewijst nu het tegendeel.
Mysterie Het verhaal van Titanomyrma is dus met de ontdekking van het nieuwe fossiel wederom een tikkie mysterieuzer geworden. Wat het ook niet makkelijker maakt, is dat het Canadese fossiel tijdens de fossilisatie door geologische druk vervormd is. Hierdoor is het onmogelijk geworden om de ware levensgrootte vast te stellen. Hoewel dus bekend is dat Titanomyrma een gigantische omvang moet hebben gehad, kan er niet met zekerheid worden gesteld hoe groot het Canadese exemplaar precies was. “Misschien was het een kleinere soort en door zijn geringere omvang aangepast aan koelere klimaten,” oppert Archibald. “Maar het kan ook zijn dat hij wel gigantisch was. In dit geval is misschien onze theorie over hun klimatologische tolerantie – en dus hoe ze het Noordpoolgebied overstaken – verkeerd.”
Het raadsel van Titanomyrma is dus nog lang niet opgelost. Door verschillende fossielen met elkaar te vergelijken, hopen de onderzoekers meer te weten te komen. “We zullen meer fossielen moeten vinden,” zegt Archibald. De vraag is of onze ideeën over de ecologie van Titanomyrma, en dus over hun verspreiding, moeten worden herzien. Voorlopig blijft het een mysterie.”
EXCLUSIVE: 'Our planet is not unique!' UFO experts admit alien 'motherships' could be flying through our solar system with the ability to launch their own smaller probes to visit planets they pass – including Earth
EXCLUSIVE: 'Our planet is not unique!' UFO experts admit alien 'motherships' could be flying through our solar system with the ability to launch their own smaller probes to visit planets they pass – including Earth
Director of the Pentagon's UFO unit and former Harvard Astronomy Department Chair have co-authored paper saying alien 'motherships' could be flying through our solar system
'An artificial interstellar object could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth,' the authors write
They wrote that current sky-scanning telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope would miss such small objects
The head of the government's UFO office says alien 'motherships' could be flying through our solar system and sending probes to Earth in a new science paper.
The draft paper, published last week DailyMail.com has learned, has also sparked a row with the UFO chief's predecessor over the physics of strange craft seen in our skies.
The six-page article, titled 'Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena', was co-written by Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the Pentagon's UFO unit called the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and former Harvard Astronomy Department Chair, Professor Avi Loeb.
Loeb is also the founder of the Galileo Project, which aims to use high-resolution telescopes and artificial intelligence algorithms to spot and photograph UFOs around Earth.
He gained national attention for his theory that an interstellar comet that passed through our solar system in 2017, dubbed 'Oumuamua, could in fact be an alien probe, and has written books on the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
The head of the government's UFO office says alien 'motherships' could be flying through our solar system and sending probes to Earth. Harvard Astronomy Department Chair Professor Avi Loeb believes that an interstellar comet that passed through our solar system in 2017, dubbed 'Oumuamua (pictured in an artist's rendering), could in fact be an alien probe
The six-page article, written by the director of the Pentagon's UFO unit Sean Kirkpatrick (left) and former Harvard Astronomy Department Chair Avi Loeb (right), was released last week
His new paper with Kirkpatrick was published on Loeb's website on March 1.
In the article, the scientist and the top intelligence official hypothesized that aliens may have long ago sent a 'mothership' craft across the galaxy, with the ability to launch its own smaller probes to visit interesting planets it passes – including Earth.
In an exclusive interview, Loeb told DailyMail.com that his team at Harvard is currently using a large campus telescope to scan the skies for such probes or other UFOs
'An artificial interstellar object could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth, an operational construct not too dissimilar from NASA missions,' Loeb and Kirkpatrick wrote.
They wrote that current sky-scanning telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope would miss such small objects, whereas 'our deep space radars and space fence' could pick up meter-long incoming UFOs up to 36,000 km in the air – and we therefore should keep an eye out for them.
'Such objects could also become optically detectable as they get close to Earth, especially if they create a fireball as a result of their friction with air,' they wrote.
In an exclusive interview, Loeb told DailyMail.com that his team at Harvard, where he now serves as Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation, is currently using a large campus telescope to scan the skies for such probes or other UFOs, and are planning to set up a second telescope in the coming months as part of his Galileo Project.
'We are just hypothetically raising possibilities,' he said. 'NASA is now designing things that will land on Mars with a parachute shape. These are things that we are planning, and we should consider them as possibilities for other civilizations.
'Our planet is not unique. There are billions of planets like the Earth in the Milky Way galaxy. So why would we think that this is unusual?
'I have not seen data that supports any of these. It's just a possibility. But with the Galileo Project we are starting to collect data now and we will analyze it, but it's too early to say anything.'
Loeb and Kirkpatrick's draft paper also discusses 'physics-based constraints' for the kind of signs we should look for from UFOs – or as the government prefers to call them, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
Kirkpatrick and Loeb's stance is at odds with the famous descriptions given by some Navy pilots of 'tic tac'-shaped objects videoed off the West Coast in 2004. The footage above captured what pilots recorded on their video sensors during training flights in 2004 and 2015
The two men argue that it is impossible for an object to travel faster than the speed of sound in Earth's atmosphere without creating a sonic boom, and that very fast moving objects always create a 'fireball' or a fiery tail in the air as friction with air molecules causes them to burn up.
They say that as a result, any footage that appears to show objects traveling at supersonic speeds without such characteristics, must be a misidentification – and is likely showing a smaller, slower object closer to the camera, or some other explanation.
'If you're claiming very fast moving objects, you'd better verify you can calculate the distance, so that you are sure about it,' Loeb told DailyMail.com.
'If indeed it's moving so fast, it should have left an imprint. You can't just say an object moves fast while at the same time you don't see any of these signatures.
'Someone who has crappy data, fuzzy images, or something without triangulation: you can't claim 'new physics' without actually proving beyond any reasonable doubt that you measured the distances correctly.
'If you're seeing them [UFOs], it means they interact with light, it means they interact with electric and magnetic fields, because that's what light is. And it means they must interact with the atoms and molecules of air, because air molecules interact with the electric and magnetic forces.'
In the article, the scientist and the top intelligence official hypothesized that aliens may have long ago sent a 'mothership' craft across the galaxy, with the ability to launch its own smaller probes to visit interesting planets it passes – including Earth
Kirkpatrick and Loeb's stance is at odds with the famous descriptions given by some Navy pilots of 'tic tac'-shaped objects videoed off the West Coast in 2004, described as flying over the ocean with no visible means of propulsion, then zipping 40 miles in less than a minute – at least three times the speed of sound – with no sonic boom or fiery trail.
The 'tic tac' and another object encountered by Navy pilots in 2015 were videoed on their F-18 jets' infrared camera, called 'FLIR', and the videos leaked to the New York Times in 2017, sending shockwaves around the world and reigniting popular interest in the UFO topic.
But the UFO office chief Kirkpatrick and Loeb appeared to pour cold water on cases of strange objects caught on FLIR, suggesting that alleged supersonic craft may in fact be slower moving objects closer to the camera.
'One of the most common sets of data within the military holdings comes from FLIR (forward looking infrared) pods,' the authors wrote.
'These sensors provide an accurate resolved image of relative thermal measurements across the scene. Typical UAP sightings are too far away to get a highly resolved image of the object and determination of the object's motion is limited by the lack of range data.
'The range is usually estimated using the flight dynamics of the platform and some fixed points in the scene - if either are available. The error in estimating the range gives rise to a significant variation in the calculated velocity and is subject to human bias and error.'
The comments in the paper drew a fiery reaction from Dr. Travis Taylor, a physicist who in 2019 served as the chief scientist for the government's UFO office.
The comments in the paper drew a fiery reaction from Dr. Travis Taylor (left), a physicist who in 2019 served as the chief scientist for the government's UFO office. 'That is so uncreative and typical of a Harvard physicist. That's so ridiculous,' Taylor told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview this weekend
Loeb revealed that he will be going on an expedition in May to salvage a roughly three-foot comet that crashed to Earth on March 9, 2017 – hoping to recover pieces of the 'first interstellar material' on our planet
'That is so uncreative and typical of a Harvard physicist. That's so ridiculous,' Taylor told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview this weekend. 'Two equations does not a science paper make.
Taylor was referring to a theory that some UFOs seen flying in extraordinary ways are using a kind of 'warp drive' that bends space-time around the alleged craft, freeing it from the effects of gravity and allowing it to travel at extreme speeds without interacting with air or water molecules around it.
'There's some sort of physics there that we don't understand,' Taylor said.
'It's either magically frictionless – which would be an amazing technology – or it's in sort of a pocket universe, which fits with the Chris Van Der Broeck paper, being a warp bubble that doesn't interact with the things in this universe.'
Taylor made his comments in an interview with DailyMail.com at AlienCon, a UFO conference in Los Angeles, California this weekend where he was a guest speaker.
The combative comments show a widening divide between the ex heads of the UFO office, formerly called the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, and the current leadership under Kirkpatrick, on how to characterize weird objects seen in the sky, space and under water.
An image obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com of what appears to be a metallic-looking orb flying over Mosul, Iraq in April 2016, was included in a classified briefing video on UFOs shown to multiple US government agencies. The 'Mosul Orb' is an example of objects flying without visible means of propulsion
Loeb also revealed that he will be going on an expedition in May to salvage a roughly three-foot comet that crashed to Earth on March 9, 2017 – hoping to recover pieces of the 'first interstellar material' on our planet.
He told DailyMail.com he wants to retrieve pieces of the comet from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea, and look at its material for signs it was artificially made rather than natural.
'Six months before 'Oumuamua's closest approach to Earth, a meter-size interstellar meteor (IM2) collided with Earth,' Kirkpatrick and Loeb's paper said.
'The coincidences between some orbital parameters of 'Oumuamua and IM2 inspires us to consider the possibility that an artificial interstellar object could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth.'
'I will be going in a couple of months to find the fragments of the first interstellar material,' Loeb told DailyMail.com in his interview this weekend. 'The task is to see what the composition was. Is it natural like a rock, or was it artificial in origin, like stainless steel or some alloy?
'It's not a cheap expedition, it will cost $1.5million. We have the boat and an exceptional team with the best people in the expedition game. We will do our best. And I will be on the boat.'
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Pentagon UFO Chief’s Report Suggests Possibility of Alien Mothership in Our Solar System
Pentagon UFO Chief’s Report Suggests Possibility of Alien Mothership in Our Solar System
The possibility of an extraterrestrial mothership and smaller probes visiting planets in our solar system is not a new idea, but it has gained new attention following a report by the head of the Pentagon’s unidentified aerial phenomena research office. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and Abraham Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department, co-authored a research report titled “Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” which suggests that an artificial interstellar object could be a parent craft releasing many small probes during its close passage to Earth.
Kirkpatrick, who previously served as the chief scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Missile and Space Intelligence Center, was appointed as director of the AARO when it was founded in July 2022. The AARO was established to investigate unidentified “objects of interest” around military installations, according to a Pentagon press release. Loeb gained notoriety when he proposed in October 2017 that our galaxy had been traversed by its first visitor from outer space.
Sean Kirkpatrick
The authors suggest that these tiny probes could reach Earth or other solar system planets for exploration, as the parent craft passes by within a fraction of the Earth-Sun separation, just like the object “Oumuamua” did. “Oumuamua” was detected in October 2017 by the PanSTARRS telescope in Hawaii, and its orbit hinted at other forces besides the sun’s gravitational pull influencing its movement. The object was dubbed “Oumuamua,” the Hawaiian term for “scout.” Find out more at Wikipedia.
The authors further explained that astronomers would not be able to notice the spray of mini-probes because they do not reflect enough sunlight for existing survey telescopes to notice them. This possibility has gained attention following a month of intense scrutiny of unidentified flying objects, a trend ignited when a Chinese spy balloon captivated the nation by drifting across U.S. airspace. Three additional unidentified objects were subsequently found.
On Feb. 16, Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and 12 other senators sent a letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks and Deputy Director of National Intelligence Stacey Dixon calling for full funding for the AARO. The Biden administration’s previous funding request for fiscal year 2023 failed to fund anything beyond the office’s basic operating expenses, the lawmakers argued.
In support of the establishment of the AARO, the senators noted that it could help resolve various threats to the US and reduce the stigma surrounding the subject of alien encounters. The funding for the project will depend on the cooperation between the intelligence community and the Department of Defense.
A report presented by the head of a Pentagon research office that claimed that small alien ships could travel to distant planets has gained widespread attention. According to the report, an artificial object could launch several small probes as it approaches Earth.
According to the authors of the report, the lack of sunlight reflected by the mini-probes could prevent astronomers from detecting the objects. The senators noted that the AARO should be funded to address various hazards and threats to the US.
Recovered UFO Technology May Be “Being Reverse-Engineered Right Now,” According to U.S. Representative
Recovered UFO Technology May Be “Being Reverse-Engineered Right Now,” According to U.S. Representative
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Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the possibility of the existence of extraterrestrial life and unidentified flying objects. While some people are skeptical, others believe that these phenomena are real and that we need to take them seriously. In February 2023, four objects were shot down over North America in quick succession, prompting fresh speculation about what UFOs may be, what kind of risk they could pose, and what may come next. Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett told Newsweek that he believed “we have recovered a craft at some point, and possible beings.”
“I think that a lot of that’s being reverse-engineered right now, but we just don’t understand it,” he continued. In other words, Burchett believes that the U.S. government has recovered UFO technology and is trying to understand how it works. However, it is not clear whether this technology is of extraterrestrial origin or if it is the result of advanced technology developed by another country.
The Defense Department has not confirmed the nature of the three remaining objects, which were targeted by U.S. fighter jet missiles over Alaska, Canada, and Lake Huron, Michigan. On February 14, the White House said intelligence officials were “considering as a leading explanation that these could be tied to commercial or research entities and benign.” President Biden added on February 16 that “these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation, or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research.”
Despite these statements, there is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding the nature of UFOs and their potential implications for national security. In fact, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy said, following a classified briefing on the objects last month, it was “clear to me this is not a recent phenomenon.” “Lock your doors tonight,” he then told gathered reporters.
To address these concerns, US President Biden has ordered an “interagency team” to investigate the “broader policy implications for detection, analysis, and disposition of unidentified aerial objects that pose either safety or security risks.” The team will be tasked with coming up with sharper rules for how to deal with unidentified objects moving forward, distinguishing between those that are likely to pose safety and security risks that necessitate action and those that do not.
5 Key Moments From Biden’s UFO Speech
In mid-January, the Office for the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) published a report on UFO, or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), sightings. There had been a total of 510 UAP sightings recorded in the 2022 report, and overall sightings had jumped by 366 since the previously published report. It included new sightings since the previous report, as well as ones that were “either discovered or reported late.” Just over half of the new sightings were deemed “unremarkable,” but of the 171 remaining sightings, some “appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities, and require further analysis,” according to the report.
It is important to note that despite these findings, U.S. intelligence has not come across anything “that would lead us to believe that any of the objects that we have seen are of alien origin,” according to Ronald Moultrie, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. However, the fact that there is a team dedicated to investigating UFOs suggests that the U.S. government is taking this issue seriously and wants to ensure that we are prepared for any potential threat that may arise.
In conclusion, while the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life remains a topic of debate, recent events suggest that we need to take this issue seriously. The fact that the U.S. government has recovered UFO technology and is trying to understand how it works highlights the potential threat
Rare Smiling Sphinx Statue Found in Egypt and it May Depict Emperor Claudius
Rare Smiling Sphinx Statue Found in Egypt and it May Depict Emperor Claudius
Archaeologists in southern Egypt have uncovered a remarkable miniature sphinx statue, sporting a rare feature of a smiling face with two dimples. The artifact was found near the Hathor Templein a tomb with two levels and is believed to potentially represent the Roman Emperor Claudius, making it a significant find. The unusual smiling expression on thesphinx is not typically found in ancient Egyptian art, adding to the intrigue and mystery surrounding the discovery.
In addition, researchers also found a Roman stele (stone slab) written in demotic and hieroglyphic scripts next to the sphinx. Once fully deciphered, the stele may reveal the identity of the sculpted ruler, according to a press release by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. They also discovered a two-layer platform and a mud-brick basin from the Byzantine era. Emperor Claudius is a likely option as he extended Rome’s rule into North Africa between 41 and 54 AD, which coincides with the dating of these finds.
The smiling sphinx in situ, near the Temple of Dendera in Egypt.
The Hathor Temple, which is within the Dendera Temple Complex in Qena province, located about 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Cairo, is one of Egypt's best-preserved ancient sites. The smiling sphinx and artifacts were discovered within the walls of the complex.
The Hathor temple was constructed during the Ptolemaic dynasty, which ruled Egypt from 305 BC to 30 BC. It was an important pilgrimage site in ancient Egypt, and many visitors would come to the temple to seek the goddess's blessings and perform rituals. Hathor was a complex deity, worshipped as the goddess of love, beauty, fertility, music, and dance. She was also associated with motherhood, childbirth, and the sky.
The temple is home to the Dendera Zodiac , a celestial map that has been on display at the Louvre in Paris since 1922. The Dendera Zodiac is one of the earliest known representations of the constellations and is considered to be an important document in the history of astronomy. It shows the twelve zodiac signs, as well as other astronomical features such as the planets, the Milky Way, and the constellations of Orion and Sirius.
Egypt has been unveiling major archaeological finds in recent months, primarily in the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, but also in Giza and Luxor. Just last week, the antiquities ministry announced the discovery of a hidden nine-meter passage inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, which could lead to the burial chamber of pharaoh Khufu.
In January, archaeologists in Luxor uncovered an 1,800-year-old complete residential city from the Roman era. These discoveries have been seen by some experts as having more political and economic significance than scientific, reports the Associated Press .
Egypt is relying on tourism to revive its vital tourism industry, which has suffered a severe economic crisis, severely dependent on foreign tourism. The government aims to draw in 30 million tourists per year by 2028, up from 13 million before the pandemic.
The discovery of the sphinx statue near the Hathor Temple is another significant find for Egyptian archaeologists. With ongoing excavations in various parts of the country, Egypt's rich history continues to be uncovered. These archaeological finds not only have scientific importance but also economic significance for the country's vital tourism industry.
DR. JENNIFER NUZZO: H5N1 is deadlier than COVID-19 and it's spreading. Humans are not easily infected YET - but the NEXT pandemic may just be a few mutations away
DR. JENNIFER NUZZO: H5N1 is deadlier than COVID-19 and it's spreading. Humans are not easily infected YET - but the NEXT pandemic may just be a few mutations away
What's the cause of all these recent unusual events?
A highly pathogenic virus known as H5N1 - avian influenza.
Thankfully, H5N1 is not yet capable of spreading between people like the flu viruses we're used to battling in North America during the fall and winter.
Though the operable word is 'yet'.
Waterfowl are natural carriers of these dangerous viral strains. And most of the time, they don't pose a threat to humans, unless there is direct contact with infected animals or their waste.
Avian influenza viruses don't bind easily to human respiratory cells. Therefore, the disease is not readily transmitted from one person to another through coughing, sneezing or droplets in the breath.
But the increasing ability of H5N1 to spread among animals and directly infect people is stoking fears that the world may be just a few genetic mutations away from another pandemic.
And there are good reasons to worry.
Since 2022, in the United States alone, a record-breaking 58 million farm birds, like chickens and turkeys, have been killed or culled after exposure to the virus.
Tens of thousands of birds suddenly die in coastal Peru and throughout the Americas. (Above) Municipal workers collect dead pelicans on Santa Maria beach in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2022
Then hundreds of sea lions turn up dead. And tragically, an 11 year old girl in Cambodia loses her life. (Above) Bean Narong died of the bird flu on February 22 after falling sick a week earlier
The virus has also jumped to red foxes, mink, racoons, skunks and other non-human mammals across the northwest, midwest and northeast.
In fact, various forms of H5N1 have been spreading in wildlife populations for more than 20 years and they are nasty.
H5N1 has wiped out entire flocks and devastated wildlife populations. Hundreds of people have gotten sick since the virus was first identified in 1997. And among those known to have gotten the virus, about half have died.
That makes H5N1 far more lethal than COVID-19.
What we don't know is how deadly the virus would be if it were to gain the ability to easily infect and transmit between humans.
Everytime a virus invades a cell, it makes copies of itself. Sometimes in the process it makes a mistake – a mutation. Mutations may not result in any changes in how the virus can infect or sicken. But as we've seen with the Delta and Omicron variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, sometimes these mutations can make the virus more transmissible.
And we do know enough to want to act swiftly to prevent that from happening.
H5N1 is hardly the first zoonotic virus – a pathogen that originates in wildlife and spills over into human populations - to pose a serious threat.
Human immunodeficiency virus or HIV, which has killed upwards of 40 million people and counting, first emerged in wildlife. The virus likely infected human populations multiple times before it gained the ability to spread and move around the world.
Since the emergence of HIV, there have been many more animal viruses that gained the ability to infect humans.
In the last twenty or so years, the list of zoonotic disease outbreaks that have occurred is staggering. The list includes Ebola, West Nile Virus, Mpox, pandemic influenza in 2009, and two new coronaviruses that predate the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Zoonotic diseases are thought to kill more than 2.7 million people across the globe each year.
That's astonishing.
And if that's not concerning enough, we're likely not ready for the next one.
The virus has also jumped to red foxes, mink, racoons, skunks and other non-human mammals across the northwest, midwest and northeast.
The steady drumbeat of these events signals to us that the accelerating emergence of new zoonotic diseases is the new normal.
Since the 1940s and 1950s when HIV may have first jumped from chimpanzees to humans, the frequency of zoonotic disease outbreaks has been steadily increasing.
By the end of the 20th century, the number of outbreaks of new infectious disease was more than five times greater than what was occurring in the 1940s - not all are zoonotic, but most are.
And stunningly, more than two thirds of all human outbreaks of new diseases have been caused by zoonotic pathogens
There are many possible reasons for this.
In North America and around the world, human land use is constantly expanding. We're putting new stresses on wildlife populations, increasing their likelihood of getting sick and becoming infected with new illnesses. Climate change is altering natural environments adding to the strain.
The animals themselves are migrating to new regions, creating new opportunities for them to come in contact with people, thus spreading new viruses. And repeated exposure to humans creates more opportunities for the diseases to mutate.
While all viruses are different, it would be folly to ignore that conditions which may have led to the HIV epidemic are magnified today.
If these viruses do become easily transmissible between humans, our modern behavior aids their spread. We are more mobile than ever before – any destination on the planet is reachable within 48 hours.
Finally, as bad as H5N1 avian influenza is, it may not be the worst zoonotic disease threat that we could face.
The U.S. has been preparing for a possible H5N1 pandemic for about 20 years. It has labs that can detect avian influenza and has stockpiled millions of doses of H5N1 vaccines.
Thanks to a seasonal influenza vaccine market, a global infrastructure to make vaccines for new influenza viruses already exists. The U.S. even has a secret supply of eggs to grow new influenza vaccines, if needed.
But as COVID-19 has shown us, when a completely new virus emerges and spreads, it is much harder to respond to it. If a new zoonotic disease emerges, we would not have ready access to the same tools we now employ to combat influenza or COVID-19.
Without vaccines or medicines to prevent or treat infections, we are left with masks and social distancing to contain the spread.
The U.S. has been preparing for a possible H5N1 pandemic for about 20 years. It has labs that can detect avian influenza and has stockpiled millions of doses of H5N1 vaccines.
Since 2022, in the United States alone, a record-breaking 58 million farm birds, like chickens and turkeys, have been killed or culled after exposure to the virus.
We need new tools and strategies to protect ourselves from contagious, zoonotic pathogens that don't just rely on our willingness to lockdown society and lock ourselves inside our homes. Forcing businesses and schools to close represents a failure to prepare.
We can't let zoonotic diseases like H5N1 spread unchecked or else they could mutate to become a bigger threat to humans.
The Biden Administration is right to consider vaccinating U.S. poultry against H5N1, but it's not enough.
That may protect U.S. agricultural interests, but it won't prevent the virus from infecting wildlife or mutating to more easily infect humans.
We need to do more.
Ensuring our schools and businesses are well-ventilated will not only reduce our vulnerability to future zoonotic threats, but will make us safer from other viruses, like seasonal influenza.
We shouldn't wait until our worst case scenario comes true to jump start research and development of new vaccines, rapid tests and medicines.
The World Health Organization recently called on governments to invest in developing prototype vaccines for every animal influenza strain so that they can be more rapidly evaluated and manufactured.
We need better surveillance of emerging wildlife viruses and of people who have high risk exposure to animals.
After three years of responding to COVID-19, the public and, crucially, politicians may have little willingness to do what it takes to prevent a new virus from upending our lives.
Funding for the response to COVID-19 has lapsed. Millions of healthcare workers have left their positions, leaving our fragmented and weakened pandemic healthcare entities further depleted. Efforts to develop new and improved vaccines for COVID-19 are stalled.
None of this bodes well for our readiness for the next pandemic.
We don't know when it may occur or what disease it will be, but we have lots of reasons to count on it being a zoonotic disease, and possibly one we've not yet seen before.
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