Researchers have developed a set of hexagon-shaped robotic components that can be snapped together into larger and larger structures. Each one of the component hexagons is made of rigid plates that serve as its exoskeleton. Driven by electricity, the plates can change their shape, shifting from long and narrow to wide and flat at high speed. The combined structures are capable of jumping four times their own body height, then can shape-shift to roll extremely fast, or use multimodal actuation to crawl through confined spaces.

The robotic components were developed at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS). The modules are made of six lightweight rigid plates made from glass fiber that form a hexagon. Magnets embedded into the plates allows for quick connection to other components as well as providing a shared electrical ground between the modules.

The design team integrated artificial “muscles” into the inner joints of the hexagons, called hydraulically amplified self-healing electrostatic (HASEL) muscles. Applying a high voltage to the module causes the muscle to activate, rotating the joints of the hexagon and changing its shape from long and narrow to wide and flat.

“Combining soft and rigid components in this way enables high strokes and high speeds. By connecting several modules, we can create new robot geometries and repurpose them for changing needs,” said  Ellen Rumley, a visiting researcher from the University of Colorado Boulder, in a press release from MPI-IS. Rumley and Zachary Yoder, who are both Ph.D. students working in the Robotic Materials Department, are co-first authors of a new paper, “Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots,” published in Science Robotics.

The modules are reconfigurable, with an easy process of attaching or detaching the modules. Chains of modules can be rapidly connected and can operate from one voltage source. The modules can each have their own behaviors, which allows for various operations.

The team created a video to show the various configurations and behaviors that can be created with HEXEL modules. The modules can be seen rolling, dancing, jumping, crawling, and many other motions.  

“In general, it makes a lot of sense to develop robots with reconfigurable capabilities,” said Yoder. “It’s a sustainable design option – instead of buying five different robots for five different purposes, we can build many different robots by using the same components. Robots made from reconfigurable modules could be rearranged on demand to provide more versatility than specialized systems, which could be beneficial in resource-limited environments.”

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26-09-2024 om 22:27 geschreven door peter  

We have known that water ice exists on the Moon since 1998. These large deposits are found in the permanently shadowed craters around the polar region. The challenge is how to get it since shadowed craters are not the best place for solar powered vehicles to operate. A team of engineers have identified a design for an ice-mining vehicle powered by americium-241. With a half-life of 432 years, this element is an ideal power source for a vehicle to operate in the dark for several decades. 

Ice in the polar regions of the Moon is of vital importance for our future space explorations, not just lunar visits but as we stretch our legs in the Solar System. Its thought to be ancient material deposited by comets or formed by interactions with solar wind. It is expensive to take materials to the Moon so harvesting on site is far more efficient. Ice on the Moon can provide drinking water, oxygen for breaking and even hydrogen for rocket fuel. Surveys suggest something in the region of 600 billion kilograms of ice deposited at the lunar poles. 

The challenge facing future lunar harvesting missions is that operations in the permanently  shadowed regions (or PSRs as they have been called) cannot be powered by solar panels as is often the case. The environment is cold too, in the region of 40K, that’s -233?C and at those temperatures special power considerations are required. 

A team of researchers have been exploring the use of Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS) to provide thermal and electrical power systems. These power systems have been used before during deep space missions for example Voyager and New Horizons. They work by generating electricity using the heat that is released from the natural decay of a radioactive isotope usually plutonium-238.

The team led by Marzio Mazzotti from the University of Leicester have explored an ice-mining rover using power generated by the radio activate decay fo Americium-241. It has a half-life of 432 years which means it takes 432 years for half of a sample of Americium to decay. During this time, half of the atoms in the substance will transform into a different element. Using this power source will provide a stable power supply for an ice-mining rover in the darkness of the lunar polar craters for decades.

Using a radioisotope power system is not new however the team came upon the idea that the excess heat that is not used can be used to thermally mine ice from samples of lunar material. The rover would be fitted with a sublimation plate that would turn any ice deposits into a gas which would be collected in a cold trap.

The team developed a model of its Thermal Management System and tested it for icy regolith (the fine dusty lunar surface) material with a water ice content of 0-10 vol %. Their simulations showed that it is possible to mine ice using thermal techniques in the PSR of the Moon using an RPS (I had to really concentrate writing that sentence!) powered lunar rover. 

Source : 

• Ice-Mining Lunar Rover using Americium-241 Radioisotope Power Systems

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26-09-2024 om 22:12 geschreven door peter  

Image shows UFO downed by US fighter jet in Canadian airspace days after Chinese spy craft incident

Object shot down over Yukon Territory believed to be 'small metallic balloon with a tethered payload'

 By Louis Casiano Fox News

26-09-2024 om 21:42 geschreven door peter  

• This new map of the Milky Way contains 10 times more objects than ever before 
• It reveals details of our galaxy's core which had been previously hidden 

By Wiliam Hunter

From the violent births of newborn stars to the hidden mysteries of the galactic core, these new images show the Milky Way as you've never seen it before.

After 13 years of observations, scientists have now revealed the most detailed map of our galaxy ever made.

Using infrared light, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) peered through the dust and gas which normally hides the centre of the galaxy.

Their vast survey shows 1.5 billion moons, stars, and planets and covers an area of sky equivalent to 8,600 full moons.

Lead researcher Dante Minniti, of the Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile, says: 'We made so many discoveries, we have changed the view of our Galaxy forever.'

Researchers have created the most detailed map of the Milky Way ever created, capturing stunning images of the 1.5 billion stars, planets, and moons captured by the survey

This latest map covers an area equivalent to 8,600 full moons. This diagram shows the area covered by the latest survey covered by the map. The red regions show areas covered by the previous largest observation project 

Over 420 nights of observation, the ESO's VISTA telescope scanned the same regions of the sky to build up an enormously detailed map of the faintest objects.

The researchers' efforts have resulted in the largest map of our galaxy ever made.

This new map, known as the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea extended (VVVX), is composed of over 200,000 individual images taken between 2010 and 2023.

With 1.5 billion objects recorded, the VVVX contains about 10 times more objects than the previous biggest map released in 2012.

The resulting dataset is so vast that it contains 500 terabytes of data - roughly equivalent to 124,000 high-definition movies.

Images released by the researchers reveal bright glowing nebulas and vast clusters of stars.

Using an infrared telescope, the researchers were able to observe features such formation of new stars. This image shows a stellar nursery called NGC 6357 where hot young stars are formed out of gas 

Since infrared light passes through gas and dust these images reveal more details of galactic processes. This image shows a pair of newly forming stars 22,000 and 9,000 lightyears away from us

In one image, the VVVX captures a pair of stunning nebulas, called NGC 3603 and NGC 3576, which are 22,000 and 9,000 lightyears from Earth respectively.

Inside these distant clouds of gas, researchers can see the intense forces which give birth to new stars.

At the other end of the cosmic spectrum, another image shows Messier 22, a cluster of extremely old stars located 10,000 lightyears from Earth.

These distant groups of stars are among some of the oldest objects in the galaxy.

Dr Minniti told MailOnline that the survey also revealed a number of unknown objects known by the researchers as WIT - standing for 'What is this?'

While these images are beautiful, the depth and detail of this new map also give researchers a window into the inner workings of the Milky Way.

The map also reveals some of the oldest objects in the Galaxy such as the globular cluster Messier 22 (pictured) which is 10,000 lightyears from Earth 

These images are not just pretty but also provide astronomers with the basis for future research into the most difficult-to-observe regions of the Milky Way. Pictured: The NGC 6188 Firebird Nebula 

Dr Minniti says: 'We have a much clearer picture of the inner and far regions of the Milky Way disk now, that help us to understand how our Galaxy was assembled and how it evolved with time.'

The dataset is so large that the researchers have not yet finished inspecting all of the new discoveries.

However, the team hope that their observations will lay the basis for the work of future astronomers.

Co-lead author Dr Philip Lucas, an astronomer at the University of Hertfordshire, told MailOnline: 'The map will become the international standard for studying the southern Milky Way in decades to come.'

The new map's biggest advantage is that it allows astronomers to look into regions of the galaxy normally hidden by most telescopes.

Infrared light lets the researchers look into the core of the galaxy which is normally obscured by gas and dust. Pictured: The Omega Nebula, 5,5000 lightyears from Earth 

This photo compares an image of the Carina Nebula from the new map (top) with an image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope 

Light in the visible spectrum is blocked by the clouds of gas and dust which populate the Milky Way but infrared light passes through these obstructions.

By tracking these objects in the core over such a long time, the researchers were able to chart how they moved and build up a 3D map of the galaxy's innermost regions.

Dr Lucas says that this allows researchers to observe objects such as a new type of elderly giant star nicknamed an 'old smoker' in ways that have not been possible before.

These ancient stars can sit quietly for decades before unexpectedly producing clouds of smoke.

Dr Lucas says: 'Their strange behaviour is a good old fashioned astrophysical mystery.'

However, the infrared imaging from VVVX map can provide new data about these elusive objects.

Infrared imaging also allowed the researchers to spot extremely cold objects like free-floating planets which don't orbit any star or burned-out stars called brown dwarfs.

The researchers are now preparing to upgrade the VISTA telescope with new instruments so they can gather more spectral data about the 1.5 billion objects surveyed.

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26-09-2024 om 21:06 geschreven door peter  

Key takeaways

Wetenschappers hebben onlangs een laboratoriumexperiment uitgevoerd waarbij het gebruik van kernwapens om een asteroïde af te buigen werd gesimuleerd. Ze bombardeerden een kleine “schijnasteroïde” ter grootte van een knikker met röntgenstralen die werden gegenereerd door ’s werelds krachtigste röntgenapparaat in Sandia National Laboratories.

De röntgenstralen verdampten het oppervlak van de nagebouwde asteroïde en stuwden hem de andere kant op, waardoor hij in feite een raketmotor werd. De namaakasteroïde bereikte snelheden van 250 kilometer per uur, vergelijkbaar met een hogesnelheidstrein. Dit experiment was het eerste dat voorspellingen bevestigde over hoe röntgenstraling een asteroïde zou beïnvloeden.

Begrijpen van de afbuiging van een asteroïde

Dit concept bouwt voort op het succes van NASA’s DART-missie in 2022, waarbij een ruimtevaartuig met succes een grote asteroïde uit koers bracht. Voor grotere asteroïden, zoals asteroïden die massale uitsterving kunnen veroorzaken, is het misschien niet voldoende om er gewoon een ruimtevaartuig tegenaan te laten knallen.

De theorie suggereert dat een kernexplosie het oppervlak van een asteroïde zou kunnen verdampen, waardoor het van de baan van de aarde wordt geduwd. Deze methode is gebaseerd op het feit dat een groot deel van de energie van een kernexplosie vrijkomt in de vorm van röntgenstraling, die zeer effectief is in het verdampen van materie in de ruimte.

Uitdagingen en implicaties

Hoewel dit concept veelbelovend is, zijn er nog steeds belangrijke uitdagingen te overwinnen. Wetenschappers moeten de verschillende samenstellingen van asteroïden begrijpen en strategieën ontwikkelen om een kernwapen effectief in te zetten zonder de aarde in gevaar te brengen. Het succes van zo’n missie is afhankelijk van het ruim van tevoren detecteren van potentiële bedreigingen, zodat er voldoende tijd is voor planning en uitvoering.

De onderzoekers schatten dat röntgenstraling van een kernwapen van één megaton een asteroïde tot vier kilometer breed zou kunnen afbuigen, ervan uitgaande dat er voldoende voorbereidingstijd is. Hoewel de schaal van een echte missie met een nucleair apparaat ontmoedigend is, biedt dit onderzoek waardevolle inzichten in de potentiële effectiviteit van het gebruik van kernenergie om de aarde te beschermen tegen verwoestende inslagen van asteroïden.

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26-09-2024 om 17:31 geschreven door peter  

26-09-2024 om 01:45 geschreven door peter  

EXCLUSIVE / Ex-military official reveals what the US Air Force REALLY shot down during UFO encounter over Alaska

• READ MORE: US Senate Armed Services Committee will hold new UFO hearings

By Matthew Phelan Senior Science Reporter For Dailymail.Com

A tantalizing image of a UFO shot down by the US Air Force last year has left public speculation rife over what the horseshoe-shaped white visage actually depicts.

Some have compared it to the silvery, chevron-shaped crafts first reported by pilot Kenneth Arnold in 1947 — the historic sighting that launched the modern era of 'flying saucer' cases.

Others have compared it ominously to the alien 'engineer' spacecraft in the Ridley Scott's 2012 sci-fi horror film 'Prometheus.'

But DailyMail.com has spoken to a former officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), who has discussed the case with three active-duty members of the operational staff directly involved in this February 11, 2023 UFO shootdown.

Canada has released the first-ever image of the UFO shot down during a chase above Alaska and the Yukon initiated during the Chinese spy balloon drama of February 2023 (above)

Some have compared the UFO ominously to the alien 'engineer' spacecraft in the Ridley Scott's 2012 sci-fi horror film 'Prometheus'

According to this source, retired RCAF warrant officer Rocky Swanson, the military officers involved said the object was difficult to track.

But once they got close, they could 'very clearly' see it was a balloon, similar to the Chinese spy craft shot down days before this encounter. 

'I've spoken to three different folks that were involved in that particular event,' Swanson told DailyMail.com, 'and their stories are all the same.'

'For the most part, you're staring at a white object in a white sky, right? And so they are looking for this thing — and it's small — and they're having a hard time tracking it, because there's not a lot to track.'

'They're flying in an extraordinarily remote area,' he continued, 'trying to look for basically a needle in a stack of needles, you know?'

From his conversations with military personnel involved in the case, he believes that the image depicts the underside of a aerial platform not dissimilar from the larger Chinese spy balloon with its intelligence-collecting package hanging beneath it.  

'The round shape that you're seeing, you know, if it was three dimensional, you would see that it's a balloon,' he said. 

The apparent dark regions that give the UFO its 'Pac-Man'-like shape, he said, were caused by this package and its 'shadow.' 

'There's nobody that got excited about that event within the military,' Swanson said. 'It's not thought of as a big deal [...] It's legitimately a balloon.'

Two F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets from US Air Force Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska had been dispatched to intercept the UFO last February.

Pentagon press secretary Brigadier General Pat Ryder said at the time: 'As the object crossed into Canadian airspace, Canadian CF-18 and CP-140 aircraft [joined] the formation to further assess the object.'

The odd pic shows a seemingly circular white object that had been shot down by a US Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter in a joint mission with the Canadian Armed Forces. Above, another USAF F-22 Raptor during an air show over Toronto, Canada on August 31, 2024

At approximately 3:41 pm Eastern time, in the bitterly cold subarctic climate over Mayo, Yukon, one of these F-22 Raptors successfully blasted the UFO out of the sky with an an AIM 9X 'sidewinder' missile.

Curiously, redacted documents released by the Canadian government along with the new UFO image show that it was designated as 'unclassified' within just days of this now 19-month-old UFO incident. 

And yet, Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) did not release it until now.

Swanson believes that Canadian DND officials withheld the grainy images because the UFO it depicted looks more otherworldly than the object really was. 

'I can understand why they wouldn't want to put that out, because I would be like, "Oh, God. What are we going to do with that?"' he said in a telephone interview.

Military aircraft fly towards UFO wreckage that was believed to have landed in remote Alaska in an incident just days before the February 11, 2023 UFO shoot-down over the nearby Yukon territory. All told, four objects were downed during that month's Chinese spy balloon drama

Above, a timeline of the UFO shoot-downs which took place over eight days of February 2023. One unusual feature of the newly released UFO photo, per military records, is that it had already been designated 'unclassified' within just days of these 19-month-old incidents

The episode was one of four UFO shootdowns that occurred in rapid succession that month, beginning with the confirmed downing of an authentic Chinese-government spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina's Myrtle Beach on Feb. 4.

The new image depicts one of the three objects that met the same fate between Feb. 10 and 12 of that year over Alaska, Lake Huron on the border of Michigan, and Canada's Yukon territory.

All three of these objects were reportedly much smaller than the Chinese spy balloon that splashed down near Myrtle Beach days earlier. 

That object, the only confirmed Chinese spy balloon of the four shot down, per Pentagon reports, carried a payload of spy sensors approximately the size of a bus via a balloon that was bigger than Disney's famous geodesic sphere at Epcot Center.

Swanson told DailyMail.com that his three military sources would not come forward publicly: 'These are currently serving members of the military. So, they're not going to be willing to come out. They can't.'

'What I'm willing to say is they're operational staff,' he added. 'They are flight crew is what I'll say.'

A possible reason, as one public affairs official with Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) warned colleagues, was the Canadian military's own internal fears that releasing this UFO image 'may create more questions/confusion'

Above, a US Air Force pilot looks down at the first, alleged Chinese spy balloon as it glided over Montana on February 3, 2023. Unlike the smaller UFOs shot down later that month, this device was massive - its balloon was reportedly bigger than Disney's geodesic sphere at Epcot Center

Some on social media (above) have compared this new 'Pac-Man' UFO photo to the silvery, chevron-shaped crafts first reported by pilot Kenneth Arnold in 1947 - the historic sighting that launched the modern era of 'flying saucers'

But their anonymity will likely do little to dampen the speculation and mistrust of both the Canadian and US government's official account of these UFO intercepts, which continues to pervade the general public. 

The new UFO photo, obtained by CTVNews.ca reporter Daniel Otis via an open records law request, also included efforts by members of Canada's own armed forces to better understand the craft that had been shot down.

Some of the Canadian military's written descriptions of the UFO appear to be at odds with statements suggesting that it was a simple balloon. 

One email from Canadian Brigadier-General Eric Laforest described the UFO as a 'cylindrical object.'

'Top quarter is metallic, remainder white. 20-foot wire hanging below with a package of some sort suspended,' Brig. Gen. Laforest wrote. 'Best description that we have.'

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26-09-2024 om 00:35 geschreven door peter  

The first ever photo of the 'cylindrical UFO' has been released by Canada 19 months after a US Air Force F-22 stealth fighter shot it down, while conspiracy theories blaze

The object was described as 'cylindrical' by military figures 

(Image: Department of National Defence Canada)

Canadian officials have released the first pictures of the “cylindrical” UFO shot down over Alaska in February 2023.

The grainy photo shows what appears to be a circular white object, which was shot down by a US Air Force F-22 stealth fighter while working with the Canadian military last year.

Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) claimed the reason for the lengthy 19-month delay between footage and incident was that releasing the image “may create more questions/confusion”.

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Taylor Paxton, director of e-communications for Canadian DND, said in an email the confusion would be inevitable “given the current public environment and statements related to the object being benign”.

Last year US military shot down the UFO 

(Image: Anadolu via Getty Images)

Obtained by CTVNews.ca, the emails mention descriptions of the UFO from Canada’s armed forces.

“Top quarter is metallic, the remainder white. 20-foot wire hanging below with a package of some sort suspended,” Canadian Brigadier-General Eric Laforest wrote. “Best description that we have.”

Laforest went on to dub the object “cylindrical”.

The original sighting of the UFO came hot off the heels after the US military confirmed the shooting down of a “Chinese spy-balloon” reportedly as big as three buses over the same stretch of land.

US officials said at the time the balloon had almost certainly been flying over sensitive sites to collect information about them.

Iain Boyd, professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado, spoke to CTVNews.ca about the Canadian government’s reluctance to release the image as an issue of national security.

“It comes down to these episodes illustrating a potential vulnerability in the US/Canada defensive system,” Boyd said.

“Certainly the failure to provide more information has fed conspiracy theories but the military will likely accept that outcome over disclosing information that may help an adversary identify defensive weaknesses.”

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25-09-2024 om 23:57 geschreven door peter  

Two Scientists Say That The Human Soul is A Type of Quantum Field

Two scientists propose that the human soul is a type of quantum field that interacts only with certain fields in the physical universe, not directly with matter, and that electromagnetic fields affect the soul and help create memories and self-awareness in a fetus or child during reincarnation.

Fields that interact with the soul field include electromagnetic waves as evidenced by near-death experiences where events that could not have been seen through the eyes of the individual are verified.

Edward W. Kamen of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Roger D. Kamen of Ferris State University propose that, since electric fields and electromagnetic fields both have quanta consisting of photons, electric fields may also interact with the so-called “soul field.”

This interaction could potentially result in the transfer of information, such as working memory content, to the soul via the electric fields generated by neural ensembles in the human brain. Furthermore, the soul field may influence neurons at the molecular level through interactions with electric fields, as well as the recently proposed mechanism of cytoelectric coupling.

The possibility of the existence of realms beyond the physical universe is now accepted by many cosmologists who subscribe to the eternal inflation theory of multiple universes.

However, the existence of the multiverse does not provide an explanation for where souls might reside. The key point is that other domains outside our universe may exist. Although the laws of physics likely vary from universe to universe in the multiverse scenario, it is conceivable that quantum fields and quanta (discrete packets of energy) underlie the existence of every universe in the multiverse, as they do in our own. [Source]

The study says if human souls exist, they come from a different realm and return there after the body dies. In this realm, the usual laws of physics might not apply, but there could be similarities to our physical universe. It introduces the concept of “quasi-fields,” which are similar to quantum fields in our universe but exist in the domain of the soul.

These quasi-fields may give rise to massless particles, similar to how quantum fields produce massless particles like photons in the physical world.

Researchers suggest that if there’s no Higgs-like field in the soul realm, then everything there would be massless. It also notes that while many discussions about the soul view it as a fothe “soul field” is expected to have specific values or strengths related to the energy and particles that make it up. However, these values might be impossible to measure directly with any devices. The soul field’s values would depend on the physical space and time because the soul exists in a body while it’s alive. Additionally, the soul field might also involve different types of space and time when it exists in a separate, non-physical realm. This implies that there is a kind of space in the soul domain, allowing for movement and the passage of time, rather than everything happening instantly of spiritual energy, this idea alone doesn’t fully explain its nature.

Ultimately, it proposes that the human soul can be understood as a type of quantum field (quasi-field) that shares some properties with the quantum fields we know in our universe. This perspective is somewhat different from previous discussions in the literature on the topic.

The “soul field” is expected to have specific values or strengths related to the energy and particles that make it up. However, these values might be impossible to measure directly with any devices.

The soul field’s values would depend on the physical space and time because the soul exists in a body while it’s alive. Additionally, the soul field might also involve different types of space and time when it exists in a separate, non-physical realm. This implies that there is a kind of space in the soul domain, allowing for movement and the passage of time, rather than everything happening instantly.

The interaction between the soul and matter, focusing on ideas from quantum field theory (QFT). It mentions a question raised by physicist Sean Carroll about how the soul interacts with matter, specifically electrons. Carroll suggests that if the soul interacts with electrons, there should be a part in the Dirac equation that describes this interaction, but no evidence supports this. [Source

The conclusion drawn is that either QFT is incorrect or the soul does not exist. To resolve this, the text proposes that the soul does not directly interact with matter like electrons or other particles with mass (like quarks). Instead, the soul interacts with specific fields in the universe, particularly electromagnetic (EM) waves.

Evidence for this interaction comes from near-death experiences (NDEs), where individuals report seeing events that they couldn’t have seen physically, but these events are confirmed by others present. The text suggests that the soul can sense and process EM waves, likely through interactions with photons (light particles) that impact the soul field. This is compared to how humans perceive light through electrons in the eye, but how the soul processes this information to achieve vision remains uncertain.

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A verified account of a near-death experience (NDE) was reported in the case of a female physician Bettina Peyton whose heart stopped during surgery. Despite her eyes being taped shut, she described seeing a white-haired senior doctor in scrubs entering the operating room and working on her. This event was later confirmed to have actually happened. [Source]

Her description of the experience, where she seems to view the situation from outside her body, suggests that the soul might behave like a “floating cortex” after it separates from the physical body. When someone goes through a near-death experience, they report being able to hear conversations around them, which raises questions about how this is possible if their heart has stopped.

One idea is that, even though the heart isn’t beating, the cells responsible for hearing can still work for a short time. These cells can send electrical signals through the auditory nerve to the brain, which the soul can interpret as sounds.

The study describes how electric fields created by brain activity can contain information, including memories. If the soul can pick up on these electric fields, then memories might continue to exist after death, moving with the soul. This suggests that memories don’t just disappear when someone dies.[Source]

Furthermore, the connection between the soul and these electric fields might work both ways. Not only can electric fields affect the soul, but the soul might also influence brain activity. This could play a role in how memories and self-awareness are transferred to a new body during reincarnation.

Scientists know that the brain’s electric fields can affect nearby neurons, which might mean the soul field could impact how neurons work as well. [Source]

However, if the soul does interact with electric fields in the body, it’s tricky to measure this interaction. This means proving the existence of the soul through its effects on these fields might be impossible.

{ https://www.howandwhys.com/ }

25-09-2024 om 23:23 geschreven door peter  

De Aarde had ook zijn planetaire ringen, net als Saturnus: dat stelt een onderzoek

door Janine

Kevin M. Gill/Wikimedia Commons - CC BY 2.0

We kennen allemaal Saturnus, een van de meest iconische planeten in het zonnestelsel vanwege zijn spectaculaire planetaire ringen. Natuurlijk hebben Uranus en Neptunus ook iets dergelijks, en hetzelfde kan gezegd worden van Jupiter, maar deze structuren hebben niet dezelfde charme. Onlangs is er echter een onderzoek gedaan dat suggereert dat ook de aarde zo'n 460 miljoen jaar geleden haar eigen ringenstelsel kan hebben gehad. Laten we eens kijken hoe dit mogelijk is!

Had de Aarde ook planetaire ringen?

Een team onderzoekers van de Monash University in Melbourne stelt deze hypothese voor in een studie die is gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Earth and Planetary Science Letters. De wetenschappers analyseerden inslagkraters die werden gecreëerd door asteroïden tijdens het Ordovicium, tussen 485 en 443 miljoen jaar geleden. Het probleem is dit: er werden 21 kraters geïdentificeerd die zich binnen 30 graden van de evenaar bevonden, maar de verdeling is te afwijkend om in traditionele theorieën te passen. Kortom, waarom zijn alle kraters geconcentreerd in deze gordel als meer dan tweederde van de aardkorst daarbuiten ligt?

Volgens de onderzoekers is het antwoord duidelijk: zo'n 460 miljoen jaar geleden zou een grote asteroïde de aarde hebben benaderd tot hij de limiet van Roche passeerde, waarna hij werd beïnvloed door getijdenkrachten. Als gevolg daarvan zou de asteroïde zijn gaan fragmenteren en deze fragmenten zouden hebben geholpen bij het vormen van een ring van puin rond de aarde. Net als bij Saturnus en andere gasreuzen.

Planeetringen en ijstijden

Oliver Hull/Monash University

Wat is het verband tussen de vorming van planetaire ringen en de concentratie inslagkraters die Australische onderzoekers hebben ontdekt? Simpel: na de vorming zouden de brokstukken die de ring vormden in de loop van miljoenen jaren beetje bij beetje op de aarde zijn gevallen en zo de piek in kraters hebben veroorzaakt. Maar dat is nog niet alles, want de studie probeerde ook bewijs te vinden voor de klimatologische gevolgen die een ringsysteem zeker zou hebben gehad op de aarde.

Vanuit dit perspectief zouden de planetaire ringen een deel van het zonlicht hebben kunnen tegenhouden en hebben bijgedragen aan de wereldwijde afkoeling. En in feite vindt precies aan het einde van het Ordovicium de Hirnatien-ijstijd plaats, die wordt beschouwd als een van de koudste periodes van de afgelopen 500 miljoen jaar. Bovendien is het deze ijstijd die de massa-uitsterving in het Ordovicium veroorzaakte, de eerste van de vijf grote massa-uitstervingen in de geschiedenis van de aarde. Gebeurde dit allemaal door 'onze' planeetringen?

Perspectieven van het onderzoek

De ontdekking door Australische onderzoekers kan veel bredere gevolgen hebben dan verwacht. In de praktijk gaat het niet alleen om het idee dat de Aarde ook een eigen planetair ringenstelsel kan hebben gehad, maar om overwegingen van complexere aard:

•  ten eerste, wat er in het laatste deel van het Ordovicium gebeurde, zou ook gebeurd kunnen zijn in de 4 miljard jaar van de vorige geschiedenis van de Aarde;
• ten tweede kan de vorming en het daaropvolgende verval van een planetaire ring belangrijke gevolgen hebben gehad voor het klimaat op aarde;
• ten slotte spelen astronomische gebeurtenissen, waaronder de vorming van planeetringen, een veel belangrijkere rol in de geschiedenis van een planeet dan verwacht.

Kortom, als de hypothese van het onderzoek gegrond blijkt te zijn, staan we mogelijk aan het begin van een geheel nieuw onderzoeksgebied over de interactie tussen de aarde en de kosmos. Met gevolgen voor de hele evolutionaire geschiedenis van onze planeet.

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25-09-2024 om 22:44 geschreven door peter  

Unveiling Puerto Rico’s Astonishing USOs: Mysteries Beneath the Waves

Puerto Rico, a Caribbean island rich in culture and natural beauty, has long been a focal point for unexplained aerial and underwater phenomena. The island’s unique geographical features, particularly the Puerto Rico Trench—the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean—have made it a hotspot for sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) and Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs). Recent discussions and documentaries have shed light on this intriguing aspect of Puerto Rico, revealing a tapestry of eyewitness accounts, military involvement, and potential extraterrestrial activity.

The Aguadilla 2013 Incident: A Landmark Case

One of the most compelling pieces of evidence comes from the 2013 Aguadilla incident. An object was captured on thermal imaging cameras by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) aircraft near Rafael Hernández Airport in Aguadilla. The footage shows a spherical object exhibiting transmedium capabilities—moving seamlessly between air and water—without any apparent means of propulsion or disturbance to the surrounding environment.

Researchers Darcy Weir and Andy Marcial, in their documentary “Transmedium: Puerto Rico’s UFOs,” delve deep into this case. They secured an exclusive interview with the CBP agent who leaked the footage, providing unprecedented insights into the event. The Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) analyzed the footage extensively, concluding that the object’s behavior defies conventional explanations and showcases technologies beyond current human capabilities.

The Mysterious Puerto Rico Trench

The Puerto Rico Trench, plunging to depths of over 27,000 feet, is speculated to be a potential hub for underwater extraterrestrial bases. Its immense depth and seclusion make it an ideal hiding place for advanced civilizations seeking to observe human activities undetected. Fishermen and locals have reported numerous instances of glowing objects entering and exiting the water near the trench, often without creating ripples or waves.

Eyewitness Accounts and Local Encounters

The island’s fishermen, who spend extensive time on the waters, have been among the most frequent witnesses of USO activity. Reports include:

• Glowing Underwater Lights: Fishermen have observed intense lights moving beneath their boats, sometimes following them or emerging from the depths to ascend into the sky.

• Transmedium Objects: Sightings of objects that transition from underwater to airborne at incredible speeds, exhibiting no signs of traditional propulsion systems.
• Humanoid Figures: Some have reported encounters with beings in or near the water that do not resemble any known marine life or human divers.

One particularly intriguing account comes from André Maldonado, a local fisherman who claims to have had multiple interactions with a non-human entity named Amaron. According to Maldonado, Amaron possesses advanced knowledge and capabilities, including extended longevity and technological prowess. These encounters have profoundly affected Maldonado, reinforcing his belief in the presence of extraterrestrial beings on the island.

Military Presence and Secrecy

Puerto Rico’s strategic location has long attracted military interest, particularly from the United States. Areas like Vieques Island have been used for military exercises and weapons testing. Witnesses have reported increased UAP and USO sightings in these areas, leading to speculation about government knowledge or involvement in these phenomena.

There are accounts of military personnel observing unexplained objects during training missions, as well as reports of restricted areas following alleged crash events. Some locals believe that certain parts of the island, including the El Yunque National Forest, may be sites of clandestine operations involving extraterrestrial technology or entities.

Cultural Impact and Ongoing Research

The frequency of these sightings has woven the phenomena into the fabric of Puerto Rican culture. Many residents accept the existence of UAPs and USOs as part of their reality, often sharing stories passed down through generations.

Researchers like Jorge Martín, a prominent Puerto Rican UFO investigator, have dedicated decades to collecting and analyzing reports from witnesses. His work, along with documentaries like Weir and Marcial’s, aims to bring global attention to the island’s unexplained activities.

VIDEO:

• Puerto Rico’s ASTONISHING USOs – Richard Dolan Show
• https://youtu.be/RxC16IxJY1c

Puerto Rico’s USO phenomena present a compelling case for the existence of advanced, non-human technology operating in our oceans and skies. The combination of credible eyewitness accounts, military-grade footage, and the island’s unique geography creates a rich field for investigation. As interest in UAPs and USOs grows worldwide, Puerto Rico stands out as a key location for understanding these mysterious occurrences. Continued research and open dialogue are essential in unraveling the secrets that lie beneath the waves and beyond our current understanding.

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25-09-2024 om 22:23 geschreven door peter  

Earth will be blasted by a geomagnetic storm TOMORROW - here's what to brace for

• READ MORE: NASA discovers invisible electric field surrounding Earth

By Ellyn Lapointe For Dailymail.Com

A geomagnetic storm is expected to blast Earth tomorrow after the sun fired a plume of plasma and high-energy particles toward our planet.

The incoming coronal mass ejection (CME) was unleashed on Sunday at 5.40pm ET when an enormous sunspot spontaneously erupted.

The spout of solar plasma is currently rocketing toward our planet at over 650,000 miles per hour and expected to reach Earth by midday Eastern Time on Wednesday (5pm UK, 2am AEST).

Earth could experience a minor geomagnetic storm by midday Wednesday

But the CME will only glance off the planet's magnetosphere, or the region of space around a planet dominated by its magnetic field. 

Normally, this slight blow wouldn't trigger a geomagnetic storm. But because it will arrive so close to the fall equinox - which occurred on Sunday - NOAA has forecasted a minor G1 storm for tomorrow.

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center classifies geomagnetic storms on a scale that ranges from G1 to G5 - with G1 being 'minor' and G5 being 'extreme.'

A G5 storm can significantly disrupt infrastructure, causing power and communication blackouts across wide areas.

We won't have to worry about that with this upcoming G1 storm, however. This type of storm only has a slight risk of impacting infrastructure at high latitudes, including cellphone towers and satellites.

But it could trigger dazzling auroras along the horizon of US states on the northern border and upper Midwest states, according to NOAA. 

The G1 storm could trigger dazzling aurora in northern states on Tuesday and Wednesday night

Aurora are typically most active between 10pm and 2am, and you will want to get as far away from light pollution as possible to get a clear view

The fact that this storm is set to occur just days after the fall equinox is no coincidence.

During the weeks before and after Earth's two equinoxes, geomagnetic storms are more common.

That's because during equinoxes, the sun sits directly above Earth's equator and our planet's magnetosphere becomes aligned with the sun's magnetic field. 

During the rest of the year, they are misaligned, which means that CMEs are partially deflected by the magnetosphere and we do not experience their full impact.

But if a CME occurs while the Earth is experiencing equinox, it clashes more directly with the planet's magnetosphere and causes geomagnetic activity, even if the CME is weak or an indirect hit.

Conversely, geomagnetic storms are much less likely around the time of the solstices - when the Earth's vertical tilt toward or away from the sun is at maximum. 

Geomagnetic storms are about twice as likely around the time of equinoxes than they are around the time of solstices. 

Residents of northern states should keep an eye out for aurora Tuesday and Wednesday night. They are typically most active between 10pm and 2am, and you will want to get as far away from light pollution as possible to get a clear view. 

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25-09-2024 om 21:46 geschreven door peter  

Archaeologist uncovers painting that may prove the existence of a mythical horned serpent

•  READ MORE: Scientist cracks case of 'Pharaoh's curse' that killed dozens

By Ellyn Lapointe For Dailymail.Com

An archaeologist has uncovered a 200-year-old rock painting that depicts an ancient, horned serpent roaming across the land. 

This discovery adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests this mythical creature was more than just a legend. 

Julien Benoit, a senior researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand, found the painting at La Belle France, a rock-art site in northern South Africa. 

It appears to show a long-bodied animal with downward-turned tusks that looks unlike any living animal in the region today. 

A rock painting and unidentified fossils discovered in South Africa may confirm the existence of a legendary 'horned serpent'

The paintings are about ten years older than the first formal scientific descriptions of this horned serpent, which were made in 1845

Analysis revealed that they were made between 1821 and 1835 by an indigenous group called the San. 

According to San legend, this creature was a 'rain animal' from the 'spirit realm,' which means it was probably involved in rain-making ceremonies, Benoit told IFLScience. 

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But scientists, including Benoit, believe it's possible that this myth was based on real dicynodont fossils. 

Dicynodontia is an extinct clade of terrestrial herbivores that typically bore a pair of tusks. Hence their name, which means 'two dog tooth.' They roamed the Earth from the Middle Permian through the end of the Triassic periods. 

They likely died out during the end-Permian extinction that wiped out most other therapsids - the larger clade of terrestrial animals that Dicynodontia belongs to. 

An abundance of dicynodont fossils have been found in the Karoo Basin, a sedimentary basin that spans 60,000 square miles across the central and southern South Africa. 

La Belle France, where the painting was uncovered, is located north of the Karoo Basin. But the painting was found in the immediate vicinity of unknown tetrapod (or four-legged vertebrate) fossils.

The Horned Serpent Panel 

Benoit published his findings this month in the journal PLOS ONE.  

He thinks that a fossil discovery could have led the San to paint the horned serpent, guided by an ancient legend in which their ancestors described these creatures as 'great monstrous brutes, exceeding the elephant or hippopotamus in bulk,' he said. 

Together, the painting and nearby fossils 'suggest a case of indigenous paleontology,' Benoit wrote. Perhaps the San weren't painting a fictitious creature, but rather documenting a scientific finding. 

Benoit told IFLScience that 'many cultures explored the world of fossils before Western scientists did.' 

The rock painting was discovered at La Belle France, a rock-art site in northern South Africa

The fossils were found beneath the star in photo A, and fossils were found at the locations shown in photos B, C and D. 

'The Native Americans knew about fossils before colonization and interpreted them in various ways, some implying they knew they belonged to long-gone animals,' he said.

'The San, in southern Africa, also collected fossils, as exemplified by the Bolahla rock shelter, in which they carried a dinosaur phalanx – which may be, by the way, the first time a dinosaur bone was ever discovered,' he added. 

What's more, the painting of a dicynodont by the San would also suggest that they integrated at least some fossils into their belief system, according to the study.

'During rain-making ceremonies, the San enter a state of trance and enter the realm of the dead to catch rain-animals and bring the rain back to the world of the living,' he said.

'By picking a species such as a dicynodont, that they knew was extinct and thus dead, they likely hoped this rain-animal had some increased potency to bridge the two worlds,' he added. 

But this painting alone is not enough to officially confirm that this legendary horned serpent actually existed, or that the unidentified fossils found at La Belle France are its remains.

It will take additional research to determine whether this ancient monster was fact or fiction. 

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25-09-2024 om 21:21 geschreven door peter  

First image released of 'cylindrical' UFO shot down by US fighter jet over Alaska in 2023

• READ MORE: Could a shot-down UFO be the infamous 'Tic Tac' caught on video?

By Matthew Phelan Senior Science Reporter For Dailymail.Com

This is the first image of  UFO shot down by American fighter jets during a chase near Alaska last year.

The photo shows a seemingly glowing horse shoe-shaped object with ill-defined edges over the Yukon territory in northwest Canada in February 2023.

It was shot down by a US Air Force F-22 stealth fighter on a joint mission with the Canadian Armed Forces following the now infamous Chinese spy balloon drama of February 2023.

Redacted documents show the image was designated as 'unclassified' within just days of the now 19-month-old incident, yet Canada's defense department did not release it to the public.

Canada has released the first-ever image of the UFO shot down during a chase above Alaska and the Yukon that followed the Chinese spy balloon drama of February 2023 (above)

The odd pic shows a seemingly circular white object that had been shot down by a US Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter in a joint mission with the Canadian Armed Forces. Above, another USAF F-22 Raptor during an air show over Toronto, Canada on August 31, 2024

A possible reason, as one public affairs official with Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) warned colleagues, was internal fears that releasing this unclassified UFO image 'may create more questions/confusion.'

This official, a director of communications named Taylor Paxton, advised military colleagues that this confusion would be inevitable 'given the current public environment and statements related to the object being benign.' 

Paxton suggested that any move by the Royal Canadian Air Force to publish the photo on social media would likely only raise more inquiries from the general public and the press 'regardless of the text that will accompany the post.' 

The craft was one of three shot down over Alaska, Yukon and Lake Huron between Feb 10 and 12 2023.

The three objects were reportedly much smaller than the Chinese spy balloon that was grounded off the coast of South Carolina days earlier.

The new emails, obtained along with the eerie new UFO photo by CTVNews.ca reporter Daniel Otis via an open records law request, also included efforts by members of Canada's armed forces to better understand the craft that had been shot down.

One email from Canadian Brigadier-General Eric Laforest described the UFO as a 'cylindrical object.'

'Top quarter is metallic, remainder white. 20-foot wire hanging below with a package of some sort suspended,' Brig. Gen. Laforest wrote. 'Best description that we have.'

The suspected spy balloon was one of four airborne objects gunned out of the sky by the US over eight days of February 2023. One unusual feature of the newly released UFO photo is that it had already been designated 'unclassified' within just days of these 19-month-old incidents

A possible reason, as one public affairs official with Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) warned colleagues, was the Canadian military's own internal fears that releasing this UFO image 'may create more questions/confusion'

Dark portions visible along the top center of the UFO in this newly released image may depict either that upper metallic region or the remains of the alleged 'package.' 

But this release only adds more mystery to the wave of espionage-tinted UFO activity that surrounded the confirmed downing of an authentic Chinese-government spy balloon earlier that month off the coast of North Carolina's Myrtle Beach.  

Iain Boyd, a professor of aerospace engineering and director of the Center for National Security Initiatives at the University of Colorado, described the Canadian government's reticence to release the image as an issue of national security — despite the image's 'unclassified' designation. 

'It comes down to these episodes illustrating a potential vulnerability in the U.S./Canada defensive system,' Boyd opined. 

'Certainly the failure to provide more information has fed conspiracy theories,' as he told CTVNews.ca, 'but the military will likely accept that outcome over disclosing information that may help an adversary identify defensive weaknesses.' 

According to the report for CTV News, the network's journalists plan to petition the Canadian military for a higher resolution version of this UFO image.

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25-09-2024 om 20:52 geschreven door peter  

• The last time comet C/2023 A3 passed Earth humans were about to leave Africa
• READ MORE: Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 'came from beyond Jupiter'

By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline 

It was last witnessed by some of the first humans to venture out of Africa 80,000 years ago. 

Now, comet C/2023 A3 – also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS – is finally making its return journey to Earth. 

The comet, which will look like a faint star-like blob with a hazy tail, should be viewable just before dawn on four consecutive mornings, from Friday to Monday.

Comet C/2023 A3 was only discovered early last year, but based on its orbital trajectory scientists estimate that it last passed Earth 80,000 years ago. 

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, who is currently aboard the International Space Station, posted a stunning clip of the comet from his unique vantage point.  

You can see the comet later this week by looking for the moon, which is in its waning crescent phase. The position of the comet varies in relation to the moon depending on the date

The comet not seen by humans for 80,000 years is described as looking like 'a fuzzy star with a misty tail'. It's pictured here (top right) in this stunning snap, posted as NASA's 'Astronomy Picture of the Day' on Monday

The eight-second time-lapse video clip shows the celestial object from the space station's cupola windows. 

'This comet is going to make for some really cool images as it gets closer to the sun,' Dominick said in his X post. 

Stuart Atkinson, a space enthusiast and amateur astronomer based in Cumbria, said the comet will look like 'a fuzzy star with a misty tail'. 

'It will be beneath the moon, very low in the east,' he said in an X post. 

Although it should be seen with the naked eye on both hemispheres, there's no harm having a pair of binoculars handy to increase visibility.  

According to The Sky Live, comet C/2023 A3 is 157.1 million miles away from Earth, as of 12:00 BST Tuesday. 

It is getting closer to us all the time, travelling at about 70km per second (150,000 miles per hour). 

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, who is currently aboard the International Space Station, posted a stunning clip of the comet from his unique vantage point

C/2023 A3 was first documented only last year by telescopes in South Africa, Chile and Hawaii as it came closer and closer to Earth 

It will reach 'perihelion' – its closest point to the sun in its 80,000 year orbit – on Friday, September 27.

Perihelion is when a comet is at its brightest and therefore most visible for Earthlings.

The comet should also be visible on Saturday, Sunday and Monday mornings, although its position in relation to the moon will change slightly. 

The best time to see it on these days is around 40 minutes before dawn, when it's yet to be obscured by the sun's glare.  

In the UK, 40 minutes before dawn is around 06:15 BST, meaning some morning commuters will get a chance to see it before leaving for work. 

Minjae Kim, a space expert at the University of Warwick's astronomy department, told MailOnline: 'The comet will be visible as a pre-dawn object. You can look very low in the east before sunrise.

'C/2023 A3 has an orbital period of approximately 80,000 years, classifying it as a long-period comet. 

'This means its behaviour and appearance can be unpredictable, with potential changes in brightness and tail development as it approaches the sun.

'If predictions hold, it could be visible to the naked eye, appearing as a fuzzy star with a tail stretching across the sky. 

'Otherwise, binoculars or a small telescope may reveal more detail in the comet's structure and tail.' 

For those who miss it this weekend, Dr Kim said the comet should be visible again between October 10 to October 20. 

Images of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) obtained on 2023-02-24 at remote telescopes by amateur astronomer

Comets are large objects made of dust and ice that orbit the sun. NASA describes them as 'leftovers' from the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago (artist's depiction) 

Comets, nicknamed 'dirty snowballs' by astronomers, are balls of ice, dust and rocks that typically come from the ring of icy material called the Oort cloud at our solar system's outer edge. 

Surrounding a comet is a thin, gassy atmosphere filled with more ice and dust called a coma.

As they approach the sun, comets melt, releasing a stream of gas and dust blown from their surface by solar radiation and plasma and forming a cloudy, outward-facing tail.

Comets move toward the inner solar system when various gravitational forces dislodge them from the Oort cloud, becoming more visible as they venture closer to the sun's heat.

And fewer than a dozen comets are discovered each year by observatories worldwide.

Starwalk, an astronomical app for stargazing, describes comet C/2023 A3 as 'most anticipated comet of the year'. 

At the end of November, another comet, called 333P/LINEAR, should be visible with large binoculars or a small telescope. 

But it only has an orbital period of eight years – barely anything compared with comet C/2023 A3, which is truly a once-in-a-lifetime sight. 

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24-09-2024 om 22:37 geschreven door peter  

NASA discovers mysterious 'zebra rock' on Mars that's unlike anything the space agency has seen

• READ MORE:  New map reveals hidden 'structures' below the Martian surface

By Ellyn Lapointe For Dailymail.Com

NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover has spotted a strange 'zebra rock' on the red planet. 

The black-and-white striped rock is unlike any rock seen on Mars before, standing out against the planet's reddish-brown surface - NASA says it could be a sign of exciting discoveries to come.

While the rover was driving across some 'unremarkable pebbly terrain,' a team of NASA scientists noticed a rock in the distance with 'hints of unusual texture,' the space agency said.

'Freya Castle' is an unusual, 'zebra-striped' rock that was recently discovered on the surface of Mars. Scientists still aren't sure exactly what it is or where it came from. 

The rover snapped photos of the rock, now dubbed 'Freya Castle,' and beamed them back to Earth a couple days later. 

'Since Freya Castle is a loose stone that is clearly different from the underlying bedrock, it has likely arrived here from someplace else,' NASA said. 

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Freya Castle measures roughly eight inches across, and early interpretations of its unique texture suggest that igneous and/or metamorphic processes could have created its stripes, NASA wrote in a statement.

Igneous processes are geological activities that are related to the melting, movement and cooling of magma and lava. 

Magma is molten rock that lies below the planetary surface, while lava is molten rock that is above the earth's surface. 

For a billion years, Mars was a highly volcanically active planet, which could have created the conditions necessary for the zebra rock to form.

NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover snapped photos of this strange rock while driving across some 'unremarkable pebbly terrain' (Illustration) 

Metamorphic processes are changes in the composition of rocks due to high heat and pressure. 

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24-09-2024 om 21:54 geschreven door peter  

More than 300 mysterious Nazca glyphs are discovered in Peru - including a Wall-E-style person, alien-like figures, and killer whales with KNIVES

• 303 new geoglyphs are discovered in the soil of Peru's Nazca Desert
• READ MORE: Images reveal remains of 'ghost city' in the Pacific Ocean

By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline

For nearly 100 years, scientists have been perplexed by the famous Nazca geoglyphs – ancient patterns in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. 

Now, with the help of AI, researchers have discovered another 303 drawings – and they're possibly the most bizarre yet. 

Among them are alien-like figures, killer whales holding knives, cats, camels and a figure that looks like Pixar's Wall-E robot. 

Photos show some of the new discoveries, with lines manually added on to the images to emphasise the original lines, which have faded due to erosion. 

The mysterious Nazca glyphs may date back to 400 BC, but scientists are still unsure what their exact purpose was, if any. 

More than 300 mysterious Nazca glyphs are discovered in Peru including a Wall-E-style person (top left) and alien-like figures

The actual purpose of the mysterious Nazca Lines has long puzzled archaeologists.

Pictured: killer whales (orcas) holding knives 

The 303 newly discovered geoglyphs have been detailed by a group of researchers at Yamagata University in Japan and IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center in New York in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 

'It took nearly a century to discover a total of 430 figurative Nazca geoglyphs, which offer significant insights into the ancient cultures at the Nazca Pampa,' says the team in their paper. 

'Here, we report the deployment of an AI system to the entire Nazca region, a UNESCO World Heritage site, leading to the discovery of 303 new figurative geoglyphs within only six months of field survey.' 

The researchers scanned aerial images of the Peruvian site with IBM's AI because it can identify markings in the landscape that the human eye would otherwise miss.

Of the 303 newly discovered geoglyphs, 178 were individually suggested by the AI, which had been trained to search for them in drone photos. 

They predominantly depict wild animals such as orcas and domesticated camels, and human-related motifs, including alien-like humanoids.

There's also what appears to be pairs of primates playing together, including one pair with large tails, holding balls, and a feline with a surprised expression. 

Many are simply uncategorisable, but appear to show various distorted forms of the human figure, including a head with spiky hair and another head on a pair of legs. 

They predominantly depict wild animals and human-related motifs, including humanoids and domesticated camels

Many are simply uncategorisable, but appear to show various distorted forms of the human figure, including a head with spiky hair and another head on a pair of legs

The Nazca lines are a group of geoglyphs - large motifs made in the ground - located in the Nazca Desert of southern Peru

However, the purpose of the mysterious Nazca Lines has long puzzled archaeologists. 

Some believe they were intended to act as a kind of observatory, to point to the places where the sun and other celestial bodies rose or set in the solstices. 

Other theories suggest that they were created to be seen by the gods in the sky, but they may also have just been artistic expressions much like the ones we see today. 

Often, a geoglyph is too big to be appreciated at ground level, so only when one is high enough in the air can they discern the shapes of some of the designs.

For this reason, the intricacies of many of the designs were not fully realised until airplanes were invented and the artwork was seen from the sky.

Photos released show some of the new discoveries, with lines manually added on the images to emphasise the original lines, which have faded due to erosion

Pictured: a Homer Simpson-style human Nazca geoglyph previously found by the researchers 

A spider geoglyph at Nazca. The figure is said to be 150 feet long and made out of one continuous line 

The Nazca lines were apparently first spotted in 1939 when a pilot flew over the Nazca plains of the Peruvian coastal highlands, although it's likely they were seen by locals on hilltops much earlier. 

Contrary to the popular belief that the figures can only be seen from the air, many are actually visible from the surrounding foothills too. 

According to the experts, IBM's AI could lead to even more geoglyphs being discovered – possibly thousands. 

'AI may be at the brink of ushering in a revolution in archaeological discoveries like the revolution aerial imaging has had on the field,' they say in their paper.

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24-09-2024 om 21:30 geschreven door peter  

Legendary Film Director Claimed His Soundman Heard President/CIA Director George Bush Sr. Say Aliens Are Real & He Saw a Dead One

In 2020, filmmaker David Hoffman released a video on his YouTube channel, which now has over 1 million subscribers, where he shared an unusual experience from when he directed a political interview with George Bush during Bush’s vice-presidential campaign alongside Ronald Reagan.

“I am not a documentary filmmaker who believes in conspiracy theories. And I am not a scientist or an astronomer. I made this video for my subscribers because I do believe that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and aliens are real because of what happened to me.” — filmmaker David Hoffman

Before filming began, Nigel suddenly stopped recording and told Hoffman that he had overheard Bush say something startling: “Hey, you know those little green people? They’re real. I saw one dead.” This statement appeared to refer to aliens, specifically the stereotypical “little green men” associated with extraterrestrial life.

Though the moment wasn’t captured on tape, Hoffman and his soundman were both struck by what Bush allegedly said, and they never forgot the incident. Hoffman seems to suggest that it’s possible Bush could have seen a dead alien, although the story remains unverified and relies on the soundman’s word. (Source)

Now I wonder what happened to Jimmy Carter. Former NASA researcher Ed Harris claims that the story of President Carter crying after being briefed on classified UFO information is true. Even Richard Dolan writes about this in his book.

After being repeatedly stonewalled, Carter was given “the talk,” which reportedly left him deeply sobbing and visibly disturbed for weeks. He was told that major religions, including Christianity, were created by extraterrestrials to prevent humans from destroying themselves while they ran experiments on us, and that they made us. Carter, a deeply religious man who had witnessed a UFO with six other people, realized that releasing such information could cause tremendous economic and social upheaval.

Below you can read Ed Harris’ statement on the subject that he wrote on Quora:

Yes, the incident of Jimmy Carter crying after being briefed about classified information regarding UFO’s is largely believed to be true by the serious researchers on the subject. As a forewarning, the following information is very unsettling and will explain why Carter never “kept his promise” of revealing classified UFO information to the public.

According to the story that was corroborated by more than one witness, U.S. presidents are only given a cursory overview of the subject. Apparently, the CIA runs the program, only provide information to the President on a need to know basis, and do not consider presidential curiosity as sufficient need to know. This was implemented after Kennedy, and all presidents after him have been given only summary briefings (some presidents for unknown reasons were given more than others).

Okay on to your question. President Carter is a deeply religious man who had also witnessed a UFO with 6 other people. Everyone thought that he would be the one to f inally release UFO info to the public but as the story goes, he was repeatedly stonewalled. Eventually, the CIA had “the talk” with him, and afterward it was reported that he sunk his head in his hands and not only began to deeply sob, but was visibly disturbed for some weeks afterward.

What was he told and shown?

He was told that the major religions including Christianity were programs created by extraterrestrials to prevent us from destroying ourselves while they ran their experiments on us – and that they made us. At this moment it became clear to Carter that such information could cause tremendous economic and social upheaval. I should add that I am not only a Christian but a clergyman, so I am in no way attempting to promote atheism here. In fact, how God fits into this might be an interesting separate post. Nevertheless, these are the facts as I know them to be.

Author and world’s leading UFO researcher Richard Dolan also writes about this incident in his book “UFOs and the National Security State: The Cover-Up Exposed.” According to his book, there are claims that President Carter was given a UFO briefing at the White House on June 14, 1977, which he was then bound to secrecy about. (Click here to read the full article)

Cordell Hull saw Aliens in Glass Containers, 1939

Roswell UFO crash started a lot of alien conspiracies, but do you know that many years before that incident, dead alien bodies had been stored in a container in the basements of the Capitol Building, Washington DC? (Source)

This story first came into the limelight in 2002, when Willian Jones, a director of the Ohio branch of MUFON received an interesting letter from a woman named Lucile Andrew, the daughter of Reverend Turner Hamilton Holt.

The letter held the top-secret information told by Holt to his daughter about one of his meetings with his cousin Cordell Hull who had been the US Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 and was also elected as US Senator from 1931 to 1937. He had also received the Nobel Peace Prize and was one of the people who established the United Nations

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The letter contained the information that Hull would never want to come out until he was alive but at the same time, he could not stop himself from sharing it with his cousin Holt who served at the Shenandoah Christian Church in Greenwich, Ohio.

According to the letter, one day when Holt was in Washington D.C., he was contacted by Hull who wanted to show him something extremely secret and asked him to never disclose it to anybody. Holt agreed, and Hull took him to a place under the Capitol Building where he showed him an amazing sight. There is no exact information about the time frame of this secret but Hull served under the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt until his resignation in 1944.

It was a huge room with four glass containers. In each container, there were bodies of dead humanoids in a special liquid (presumably formaldehyde), about which Holt and Hull had no idea. According to the description of their body structure, they were clearly not humans. There also was a “wrecked round craft” in the adjoining room.

“My father wanted my sister and I to make this information known long after he and Cordell were dead because he felt it was a very important bit of information,” Lucile wrote. “We have researched your group (MUFON) and feel it is the most reliable group in the country. We hope that you will research and search for this information. The jars with creatures in formaldehyde and the wrecked craft are somewhere!

Cordell said they were afraid that they would start a panic if the public found out about it. Sincerely, Lucile Andrew, Ashland, Ohio.”

The letter said that the incident happened in 1939, years before the stories of UFOs and alien encounters hit the newspapers. There is no doubt that Cordell Hull was one of the greatest politicians in US history and according to his credibility, it is difficult not to believe his story. Holt married a woman named Vina May Clark and they both had three daughters. Two daughters claimed that Holt had told them about the creatures but he had never said where they came from. “He said the color of this material wasn’t a color that he had seen before, but for the lack of a better word he used “silver.” Reverend Holt was not the sort of person to make up such a wild story and, the sisters feel that by telling the story they are following their father’s wishes.”

Below is the video where two sisters from Ohio tell the story of how their father was taken to the sub-basement of the capitol and shown what appears to have been alien bodies and a craft.

Barbara A. Wolanin, the curator U.S. Capitol building said: “She had never heard about these creatures being stored at the Capitol, but she did confirm there was a sub-basement that was divided into storage rooms back then.” When Hull left his job, he wrote his memoirs, but there is no mention of this story in his papers in the Library of Congres

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24-09-2024 om 21:05 geschreven door peter  

EXCLUSIVE - Terrifying link between UFOs and NUKES laid bare

• READ MORE Indian nuclear plant reports strange craft 

By Rob Waugh For Dailymail.Com

They may not come in peace, after all.

Over the decades, dozens of UFOs have been witnessed around nuclear weapons sites.

Former Pentagon investigator Luis Elizondo said earlier this year the encounters could be reconnaissance missions for a potential invasion.

But in his new book, researcher Robert L Hastings, who has devoted decades to interviewing dozens of U.S. military personnel who have seen UFOs near nuclear sites, believes the reality may be more complex.

Were aliens present at the Castle Bravo nuclear test? 

Hastings looks at dozens of cases that have occurred since the United States detonated its first atomic bomb at the Trinity test site in 1945.

But the connection between UFOs and nuclear sites has persisted in India, Russia and elsewhere across the globe.

In fact, UFO reports over America's nuclear arsenal appeared to shift from sites where the bombs were made to missile silos and US air bases as the Cold War arms race grew.

UFO sightings over America's nuclear arsenal appeared to shift their interest from the making of the bombs to silos and bomber bases as the Cold War arms race grew (above)

In his book, UFOs and Nukes, based on interviews with more than 150 veterans, Hastings reveals that investigators are prevented from properly probing the cases because of dubious layers of classification. 

One thing is for sure, however - it is 'obvious' that if there are extraterrestrial visitors, they are 'greatly interested in our nuclear weapons.' 

Hastings writes: 'A public, grassroots effort must be made in the interim to understand—as best as possible, using the data gathered thus far—the nature and intentions of those who pilot the UFOs.' 

As to why they choose to buzz around the world's most dangerous military sites, there are several theories. 

Perhaps the visitors have empathy for humankind and wish to warn us of the dangers of nuclear warfare, Hastings writes.

'Or perhaps they have a use for our planet, let's say for scientific purposes, and know that global nuclear warfare will disrupt their data-gathering and/or experiments.'

The more mundane explanation is that the sightings are simply foreign nations' tech spying on high priority targets. 

Los Alamos

Established in 1943 as the base for the 'Manhattan Project' led by Robert Oppenheimer, Los Alamos was the birthplace of nuclear weapons.

But Hastings says that even at this early stage, there were sightings of unusual craft.

An FBI memorandum, dated January 31, 1949 refers to observations of 'Flying Discs, Flying Saucers, and Balls of Fire'.

The sightings began as early as December 1948, Hastings reveals.

The memo said, 'This matter is considered top secret by Intelligence Officers of both the Army and the Air Forces.'

Hastings said that multiple UFO sightings were also seen at Sandia Base in Albuquerque, where further atomic weapons were tested, and at Oak Ridge Laborabory, a fissile materials production site.

Los Alamos was the birthplace of America's nuclear deterrent

Hastings writes, ' For whatever reason, those piloting the UFOs—whose origin and intentions were unknown—appeared to be very interested in the facilities associated with America's atomic weapons program.

The Castle hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll tested high-yield weapons - and Castle Bravo was the largest nuclear device ever detonated by the United States.

But Hastings says that documents uncovered long after the tests reveal the presence of unknown craft.

The Castle Bravo detonation was preceded by mysterious radio blackouts, Hastings says.

In 1998, Patricia Broudy, the Legislative Director of the National Association of Atomic Veterans, found a reference to UFO sightings during the Castle tests, going through 500 pages of documents relating to logistics.

The document was later removed from official records, Hastings claims.

Atomic Energy Commission's flagship the USS Curtis

In a transcribed ship's deck log from April 7, 1954, sailors and Marines aboard the Atomic Energy Commission's flagship the USS Curtis (which had transported the 'special devices', or hydrogen bombs to the test area), saw a luminous object fly over the ship at high speed.

Marine corporal Joe Stallings said he had been approached by multiple sailors and marines, who had seen the UFO which was 'the talk of the ship'.

The missile 'set to launch'

Hastings says that of all the dozens of interviews he recorded with former Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launch officers ove rthe years, one stands out as 'perhaps the most disturbing'.

In a 2007 interview with David H Schuur, Schuur revealed that a UFO activated the launch sequence of his Minuteman missiles.

A Minuteman launch site at Malmstrom in Montana

Schuur, a Minuteman crew member from 1963 to 1967, said that a 'bright, hovering object' appeared to be sending messages to six or seven of the missiles at the site.

Schuur said 'It was as if the object was scanning each missile, one by one.'

Some of the missiles began to display a 'launch in progress', Schuur said.

'That means the missile has received a launch signal. When that happens, we get an indication in the capsule that a launch command has been received by that missile, Schuur said.

'If that happens, without proper authority, you flip what's called an 'Inhibit' switch, to delay the launch for a given period of time. 

'If an Inhibit command comes in from another launch capsule, that shuts down the launch totally. 

'But if that second command doesn't come in, the missile will wait for a specified period of time and then launch automatically.'

An operational test launch of an Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile

The crew pressed the 'inhibit' switch and the missiles didn't launch - and commanders at the base told him not to mention the incident again.

The Soviet sightings

In 1984, a strange craft was spotted 'quite close' to the Soviet Katta-Kurgan tactical nuclear missile base, located in what is Uzbekistan today.

The site was believed to have multiple mobile tactical missiles.

Missile technician Shamil Yuaihmetov reported seeing a metallic-appearing, cigar-shaped object slowly descending at a 45-degree angle.

As the object descended, it emitted a hissing sound.

A Soviet SS-4 medium-range missile in Red Square

Hastings writes: 'The next day, in a nearby vineyard, three apparent landing-gear marks, in an equilateral triangle pattern, were found within an area of damaged vines measuring 30 by 80 meters. 

'Each depression was a half-meter deep and seemed to be created by a hemispheric or globe-shaped landing pad.'

The Soviet military investigated, but the findings are not available to researchers, Hastings says.

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23-09-2024 om 23:08 geschreven door peter  

• Carpentopod made by Dutch expert has two motors that power 12 crab-like legs
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By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline 

There are few things more annoying than sitting down on the sofa before realizing you left your drink on the table 10 feet away.

But instead of having to get up to retrieve it, what if the table could come to you?

That's a dream turned to reality by one expert in the Netherlands, who has built a 12-legged, remote-controlled walking table.

Like a cross between The Luggage from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels and Theo Jansen's Strandbeest sculptures, Carpentopod has two motors that power 12 legs – six on either side.

Amazing footage shows the table making its way over to the user with a full bottle of beer perched on top, without spilling a drop.  

The remote-controlled Carpentopod has two motors that power 12 legs - six on either side. Amazing video shows it making its way over to the user with a full bottle of beer perched on top

The Luggage from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels (pictured) is a trunk with legs - and has a nasty habit of biting people 

Carpentopod was built by Giliam de Carpentier, a programmer and carpenter based in Amsterdam, who detailed his creation in a lengthy blog.

He said Carpentopod is 'relatively practical and aesthetically pleasing to have' in the home, further describing it as a 'fusion of the robotic with the organic'.  

'Enjoying the fruits of my labor now that I finished my 12-legged "Carpentopod2 table project,' he said.  

'I choose its name by combining old Latin and Greek words – carpentum (being a carriage), and pod (for feet or legged).'

Carpentopod started off as a software design before de Carpentier employed his carpentry skills to bring it to life. 

Just like Theo Jansen's wind-powered Strandbeest sculptures, Carpentopod features a clever internal rotating mechanism that lifts up one leg when the leg directly opposite is on the ground. 

When it needs to change direction, legs on only one side of the table will move – much like rowers' oars in a boat. 

Carpentopod started off as a software design before Giliam de Carpentier employed his carpentry skills to bring it to life

Carpentopod blends into the surroundings - meaning guests could be taken by surprise once it starts moving

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'As each individual leg in the Carpentopod linkage is only a third of the walk cycle on the ground, the table itself therefore would require twelve legs to be stable at all times,' de Carpentier said. 

'Between the six legs on one end and the six on the other, I also left room for a hollow central "belly" to contain the electronics, motors and battery.' 

The programmer can move his table with a remote, but until then it blends into the surroundings – meaning guests could be taken by surprise once it starts approaching. 

He acknowledges its similarity with The Luggage from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels – a trunk with legs that has a nasty habit of biting people. 

'To make this not look all angular, I designed the frame and belly to be curved, like an upside down treasure chest,' de Carpentier said.

Theo Jansen's inspiring Strandbeest sculptures (pictured) are able to move on their own, sometimes propelled by wind

'This probably contributed to some people commenting that it looks likes The Luggage from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. 

'But I promise this similarity is purely coincidental and that a Carpentopod table is far less dangerous.' 

The device seems to have several prospective buyers already, with commentators calling it 'incredible' and 'inspiring'.

One person posted on de Carpentier's blog: 'Oh please, can I buy one? Amazing.' 

Another user said: 'I love every single bit about that.' 

They added: 'The amount of work with regard to the (lack of) usefullness makes it even more fantastic in my views.' 

Someone else posted: 'The clackety clack of its little legs… sublime', adding: 'This is certainly the best thing I've ever seen.' 

Although de Carpentier admitted 'many people have asked if they could get one', he said he's not currently 'making these on demand'. 

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23-09-2024 om 22:40 geschreven door peter